Build of the Week: Season 2 Episode 4 (Two-week Race Build)

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komlosi wrote:

Self-found gear looks like this, for example:

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This is the gear my incinerate scion uses in Ambush, and I could rarely improve it from time to time during mapping, there's just soooo much stuff that's so worthless I don't even pick them up sometimes ...

I can hardly believe that the items in the OP were found while Chris played his character to lvl 72 in two weeks. It's not that easy, especially in a hardcore league. (Even with the stronboxes everywhere, they mostly drop shit, and you'd need to use up most of your currency to roll a decent box with a self-found playstyle.)

That being said, I'll definately play during the two-week race, just to see what gear can I find. No trading and cheesy stuff, pure SF.

For anyone new to racing or the whole self-found playstyle, do not fool yourselves. This is not a real picture of a fresh SF character. 90 life, 900 armour multi-res gear pieces? Chris may have been extremely lucky, or just grinded 18 hours a day (but I suppose not, since he has waay more important things to do), but most of us won't get this kind of equipment in two weeks.

... but we can never know. RNG is RNG. Chris is the God of RNG, sooo... I'll just stfu now. We'll see.

I don't think it's luck if I'm honest.

It's not just that the gear is that good. Your gloves and helmet, for example are very good, not quite as good but still very nice I'd say. But notice one thing, the majority of your pieces don't have 6 affixes. Your best pieces don't have 6 affixes.

Every single rare in the OP has 6 affixes. Every single one. No exceptions. Look at every character you have, look at every build thread in the forums, look at every player streaming PoE. How many of them have 6 affixes on every single rare?

The best thing I'd buy is that all pieces were self-found, then a bunch of exalts were spawned with dev tools and consequently used on said pieces. I don't see any other way, even with insane luck, to get 6 affixes on every single piece.

just want to drop a reminder that you can also get glassblower baubles for 8 whetstones from act 3 vendor if you are not having luck/cant be assed with finding superior flasks

For the love of god...this build has several GLARING issues!

1) Melee Physical support gem affects ONLY the initial hit and does not scale the projectiles
2) Point Blank/Irong Grip aren't taken and are the best DPS node on the tree for this
3) Melee Splash...really?!

While I appreciate the idea behind the video, and the awesome presentation/guide layout, the proposed build here simply isn't very efficient.

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Mivo wrote:

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LostForm wrote:

self-found all three over the last few days, with no IIR, from 66-70 maps. Less QQ more pew pew, you can self find gear.

I found an Alpha's Howl, too, also on a relatively low level map (71, I think). However, it was the only one I found in nearly 1000 hours of playing (counting since release). There is no "pew pew" when it comes to drops like that, it's just random. You may get one in 100 hours, or you may not see one in 10,000 hours.

I'll play my BM FT build (the one in my signature), because I know first-hand that it works with the kind of drops I get when I play self-found. Won't even need a 5L chest, which is also not trivial when playing self-found. It can't do Atziri, but that doesn't matter for this race. :p

you might not find the alphas howl, but you will find something comparable/better in overall strength for general use, though you need alphas specifically for snap shotting niche, which isnt really what we are talking about.

oh please. people there with 1000s hours spent call BS on the OP items and suddenly you show up 2 evasion/ar helmets (not everyone uses IR you know) and call all these voices refuted?

OP gear is at least 'free exalted' with spawned exalts or - more probably - spawned directly

that char is 72 right? so all that gear had to be found before around 65 and 72 (affixes are mostly from 65+ pool) - this is how long? 4 hours?

HOW MANY RARE BELTS you can find during 4 hours?!? two? five? the same applies to rings and especially amulets. and all these pieces - every single one of these - has desired stats (inteligence, life, resists and other bonuses)?

anyone believes that?

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maxkardinal wrote:

When even in movies made by devs we see how boss is skipped... well it says alot.

No bosses were skipped.

I don't really want to keep commenting on the items but I think it's just a misconception made by Chris.
A prime example is those flasks. There is no way he got perfect flasks in such a short duration. There is a reason near perfect granites can go for many dozen chaos. The 900 armor helm is something I never found after playing for a year and a half. I actually think selffound solo is fine in PoE but that doesn't mean you're going to find such a helmet.

Of course the build is feasible with selffound gear but this is just a comment for future build of the weeks. They should have more realistic gear. It looks like lots of the gear was made using exas(hence all 6 mods).

Chris, you suggest newbies to link melee splash with molten strike? It is TERRIBRU idea...

also... iron grip/point blank nodes are (as people mentioned before) MUST HAVE.

also... conc effect is really good; so throw that in instead of garbage melee splash.

Thank you Chris for taking the time and effort to create and post the video.

this build is not about efficiency guys its about building it without trading for gems or gear (second part i still doubt but its not about me here) and using the gems he got from quest he choose melee physical at that quest over the others thats all about it.

he doesnt have a conc effect cause he did choose cwdt or multistrike on that quest on merciless and the other one dropped during the leveling process. thats all....

we all know that he made faults - not getting point blank and iron grip from tree - and using melee splash on a skill that already has something close to that implemented.

but if you read properly you will see that he - beside that one "drop on accident" from either multi or cwdt - uses the skillgems he got on quests during gameplay.

ofc conc. effect+faster attacks+molten strike+weapon ele+multistrike+lgoh(added fire/ll/bm or lmp/gmp) makes more sense but well you cannot have all.:)

its just something like compendium on a possible molten strike build -> build of the week doesnt mean its a strict guide and if you dont follow you get slapped by rngesus.:)

i always like the idea of playing a new skill and theorycrafting around it although i might make a searing bond char in the next 2 week race cause its simply superefficient and needs even less gear or gems.

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In previous BOTW Chris has fiddled with players gear, would not be surprised if Chris typed in a exalt code or something lol.Some of that gear is crazy I highly doubt 2 weeks, all the gear has average 70+ life ,duo resists and the flasks,ha!, good one Chris, yet another BOTW build built by devs with fairly uber gear.:(

Cool build glad to see a NON ST Build, starting to think its the only build.

cheers

Skill tree is not optimal, gem combination is bad and gear is cheated.