[3.5] Soul Mantle Dark Pact Totems - League Starter - All Content

Do you think this build can still clear all content after the dp nerf in 3.1, I wanted to play this but not sure now what are your thoughts

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tommy_2679 wrote:

Do you think this build can still clear all content after the dp nerf in 3.1, I wanted to play this but not sure now what are your thoughts

Yes.

The guide is now up updated on everything except the skill tree on the website. The PoB link has the new tree.

Can you tell me where the 10% damage nerf and 14% aoe nerf come from?
I thought only self cast dp was affected by the changes?

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troala wrote:

Can you tell me where the 10% damage nerf and 14% aoe nerf come from?
I thought only self cast dp was affected by the changes?

It's confusing wording, but if there are no skeletons, totems cast DP themselves, which is why they got the bonus from self-cast.

This has been wrong on the wiki for a long time, but has changed a few weeks ago after I had a discussion (It's also with source).

10% less damage?

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Dark Pact no longer gains bonus radius when using your life. The damage bonus from using your life grows less quickly as the gem levels up, dealing 76% more damage at level 20 (down from 95%).

95 - 76 = 19

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

10% less damage?

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Dark Pact no longer gains bonus radius when using your life. The damage bonus from using your life grows less quickly as the gem levels up, dealing 76% more damage at level 20 (down from 95%).

95 - 76 = 19

Base damage is 100%, multiplier for selfcast was 1.95 and is now 1.76.
That means the damage went from 195% to 176%.
176 / 195 = 0.9025 or: 10% less damage.

Thank you for the 3.1-write-up (and the entire guide in general).

Still going to stick with this one as a starter.

I so wanna use Bubonic Trail. Surely, we'll see some pretty good abyssal jewels in the abyss. Wanted to play DP totems in Harbinger, but havent. I just hope nerfs arent too harsh. If the build works out fine, maybe i'll chase my first lvl 100.

New Despair Curse is pretty good

Really good guide. I will try it as my Abyss league starter.

In PoB i tried to took off all gear (only put tabula rasa) set gems to lvl 17-18 (0 quality), changed inc. crit for spell totem gem, and changed lvl + tree to lvl 80 - and DP dmg numbers really suprised me - with that setup still 90k dmg per totem - so maps and uber lab no problem i think :D