[3.22] - the definitive Chieftain Torchoak Step reflect galvanic arrow ballistas guide

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Kyskythyn wrote:

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Stoyicker wrote:

now that small ignites are not discarded, can't we just take avatar of fire or some minimal conversion to fire somewhere and open up the stormfire slot to a rare ring?

Just a side note on this point: there is a minimum amount of damage the ignite has to do or it will still be discarded (maybe 1 damage per second?). I am playing a similar build with blast rain and I notice that mobs with high fire resistance and damage reduction fail to get ignited. Adding some flat fire damage mostly fixed the issue, and for those that remain, I momentarily move my awakened fire pen gem into the ballista link.

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Xanthochroid wrote:

Can confirm this build is going strong in 3.24, but I've made some key changes that make it quite a bit stronger. For one I've dropped Infernal Cry because it's nowhere near as powerful as an 18 stack of Stormblast Mines. With a +1 Gems Torchoak Step and a level 3 Enhance I get 5% damage taken per mine, and can get to 18 (20/20 Minefield) pretty quickly for a total of 90% increased damage taken, versus the 20% of Infernal Cry. I also throw Blood Rage in this 4-link for some additional attack speed from an effectively level 4 Enhance.

I've also dropped Sniper's Mark and Returning Proj (Swapped in GMP) because of the Sniper's Mark nerf. Mark on Hit would reduce Sniper's Mark from 2 splits to 1, which just isn't worth it for a curse slot. I've opted for an additional curse corrupted Eye of Innocence, a Flammability on Hit ring, and a +2 AoE/Aura (for your Determ and PoF) + Elemental Weakness on hit pair of Empire's Grasp.

Also dropped Vitality because the Recoup seems to be more than enough and went with a level 20 Clarity because mana sustain is a little difficult with the removal of the reduced mana cost craft on flasks.

I also don't think War Bringer is the play; the attack speed gained is sort of negligible, and I'd rather be a lot tankier, so I went with Jugg's Unbreakable for my Forbidden Jewels to get a ton of extra elemental mitigation considering we have such a high amount of armour. Basically gives 30% higher elemental max hits, which is pretty considerable.

I manged to get a Level 35 Ballista Totem/Level 5 Multiple Totems Forbidden Shako, so I'm crusing along great in my leveling process. If anyone wants to switch early before level 80 they can always use a Three Dragons helmet and simply a 20/20 Ballista Totem setup in their 6l Quill Rain and still do more than enough damage for leveling before hitting 80.

I've played this build on about 4 or 5 different occasions going back years and years, and this framework is the best I've seen, with a few tweaks of my own of course to squeeze out a fair bit of extra damage and survivability.