[Outdated] Lancing Steel Raider | SoftCore | Not league starter viable anymore

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lankis wrote:

Just got to A5 Sirus and the build feels like its zdps, dont even think getting a 6 link lioneyes will help much. Gonna have to sell the gear while its worth something and look for another build it seems like. Damn shame as the build looked fun

I was also finding the build build too fragile so I swapped Avatar of the Chase for Avatar of the Veil. This gives huge defensive boost and I found the loss in dps to be small compared to the increased QoL. The extra 15% dodge, plus 50% ailment avoidance and 20% less enemy accuracy really helps.

I also recommend speccing crystal skin to get 100% ailment avoidance. Try swap blade master for hematophagy.

If you can get a cheap thread of hope, this will be worth getting so you can spec bravery, fury bolts, disciple of yielding and disciple of slaughter.

Try the POB build pasted below for a good mix of dps and qol;

https://pastebin.com/mUGKU16M

For anyone who is still in early stages of this build, I found that using lancing steel even with the +1 proj enchant just feels much worse for clearing than splitting/shattering steel.
Unless you are casting sniper's mark on every single pack, clear doesn't feel too good without Saviour.

I guess this is probably because this is only my second league, but I bought a Saviour with resolute technique on it, not knowing it removed all critical hits. Feel like the guide should include a warning for the idiots like me. Also would damage percentage be better for the saviour or global accuracy?

Unfortunately I have to reroll a character for the first time ever. I gave this one several tries because I wanted it to work. Map clear is working but single target dps is so very bad. I don't think a 6-link Lioneye's (which would be the next upgrade) is solving the problem. I'm up for ideas though.

To make things worse I almost crash on every boss or large group of mobs if there are too many projectiles on the screen (when saviour procs on call of steel).

As I can see Leckarion stopped playing the build as well.

This build is crap sry man, but u cant even lv with it, it does ZDPS, had to switch to frostblade, not even worth

I see there are some people that are disappointed with the build, so I decided to post my thanks.

This is 2nd league I go with this build and despite the nerfs and gear worse than last league (I'm around 10m Sirus DPS with clones) it's still great.
I die more often than I'd like to, but there is stil a lot of room for upgrades.

Once again thanks for the build!

Here's my PoB for anyone interested:
https://pastebin.com/us9cJqr5

In fact, most of the builds here have become "zdps", thank GGG for that....

I played this through Awakener 5 as a raider frenzy stacking with darkray vectors. I also ended up moving to the phasing tree for ailment immunity, although with the flask un-nerf that might not be necessary. It is definitely not a dead build and zooms through low red maps with a ~20ex build, but it just does not sit well economically in the current meta and getting enough gear to make t16 bosses comfortable will require significantly more investment.

A good Paradoxica is 25ex+
There is heavy competition with meta (mostly various SST) builds for pride watchers eyes, +1 frenzy corruptions, cluster jewels, lioneye's chest, and the awakened gems you need to scale the build.

In minor good news, Ryslatha's Coil is cheap because of gambling (but resists are so tight I think the Nomad is better).

The playstyle of the build is very binary: either you are strong enough to blow things up in the duration of vaal grace or it's very rough. Importantly due to steel shard charge/spend mechanics this build does nowhere near the pob dps in reality.

I think the build is still workable but would not recommend it unless you are an experienced player comfortable with tuning the build and able to generate significant currency. The raider version will likely be slaughtered by nerfs next league, so probably play it now if you have interest.

Can someone look up my POB and check if there are some obvious mistakes, i cant do A4 emperors, and generally all t14+ content seems hard

https://pastebin.com/us9cJqr5

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ningensekai wrote:

Can someone look up my POB and check if there are some obvious mistakes, i cant do A4 emperors, and generally all t14+ content seems hard

https://pastebin.com/us9cJqr5

i think you pasted the pob of the guy above you, paste it again lol.

The build is definitely end game viable in 3.15 but i spent like 40-50ex to reach 20mil dps so im sure there's smoother and cheaper builds. My pob for comparison: https://pastebin.com/6fSwqXcc