[3.6 Video Guide] Volatile Dead Inquisitor (or Elementalist) [HC/SC/Uber Izaro/Shaper]

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Ghazzy wrote:

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eskeemoo wrote:

Hi @Ghazzy,

First off, I'm a n00b. And have been waiting for your guide to come out. :P

When I saw the new gems, I was pretty hyped because base damage looks so awesome, but I didn't see any VD builds until recently, and not many has the same concept as what I had in mind. (use of Totems to be a little safer?)

Now, I've imported your PoB link, and I've compared with my mock-up that I played around with (Chieftain - for Totem Taunt mostly, but also +Fire Dmg, +Life Regen and Leech), but my numbers seems outrageous. Did I key in something wrong?

I'm not sure if you have the time, but could you comment on my theorybuild?

https://pastebin.com/w4sVajaJ


Edit: I just remembered your PoB showed some gems not max levelled, is that why?

Also, for clarity, I'm not trying to push my build. I'm a noob and takes me a few weeks to level, especially without a guide.

If you think it's worthwhile, it would be awesome if you could flesh it out and write a build for it. I'd be really happy to try it out

Hey,

The underlvld gems in PoB is a miss from my end, though lvl 19 vs lvl 20 on a few gems doesn't matter. The PoB is to show the general setup & some alrightish gear.


Using both Spell Echo & Spell Cascade on your VD is rather wasted, even more so with Faster Casting as well. Spell Echo means you consume up to 6 balls (1-3 * 2), Cascade uses the spell 2 more times which means 3 consecutive hits, which is 6 * 3 = 12 balls without helmet enchant, this means that you will very rarely have that many corpses available and therefor are losing effective DPS from your VDs. Since you decided on using a Pledge, I'd recommend not using Cascade, and remove faster casting as it is completely useless with a lvl 30 Spell Echo (even a normal Spell Echo would prompt the removal of faster casting due to diminishing returns at higher cast (or atk) speed).
The next problem you'll encounter here is the fact that you want to ignite thanks to your ascendancy choice, at the same time as Elemental Focus being one of the best dmg modifying support gems for the build.

Since you're not going crit it causes problems in deciding which support gem would actually fit the best which means you are most likely falling back on the faster casting which means there's a fundamental problem in the build from the start, however, removing Pledge of Hands going with another option would allow for spell echo to be linked, though that causes problems on your eHP front.
Choice is yours :P

With the specific uniques you've listed & the tree I reckon you can reach around 6k actual life which means that you'll have a 30% MoM effect + potential additional 3% "recently" after being hit which means you need these mana numbers eventually:

30% MoM => 6000 * 0.428 = 2568 (eHP = 8568)
33% MoM => 6000 * 0.492 = 2952 (eHP = 8952)
These numbers are good numbers imo.


Personally I don't think the class is right for VD, I see a lot of problems when lacking corpses since you need to summon a totem that then summons corpses and that takes time from the process of you summoning balls from the generated corpses before your dmg is actually applied when the summoned balls hits the enemies.

The main reason this & the elementalist version I made feels squishy is because of the delayed application of your actual DMG which is why I have solutions to counter that issue, your version does not.

I'm all for testing out new things, and honestly you should test your version out and tweak accordingly when you run in to issues, that's how I do most of my builds! But you asked for my opinion, there it is :)

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Ghazzy wrote:

Noted from another comment as well, this was fixed as of this response!
My bad!

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atok823 wrote:

Heya.. I've been following the build and i'm loving it so far. Just a small question. Is it posibble to use carcass jack or any other uniques/rares instead of cloak? im playing in sc btw.. thanks in advance

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zz9za wrote:

On Abyss gloves with the warlord's mark are currently about 40c. While leveling would it be better to run like a blasphemy-WM instead of twin heralds?

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atok823 wrote:

Heya.. I've been following the build and i'm loving it so far. Just a small question. Is it posibble to use carcass jack or any other uniques/rares instead of cloak? im playing in sc btw.. thanks in advance

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najo wrote:

What are the gem priorities for a 5L? Remove critical damage or controlled destruction?

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cryptarch wrote:

Hi everyone and thanks for an awesome build Ghazzy!

I have a budget of 130 c and I have Nycta's lantern ready. Should I buy a 6l with life + resists (around 85-100 c) or should I buy a cloak of defiance + the managems and just use the Nycta's?

br.

Crypt

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cryptarch wrote:

Thanks a lot for the speedy answer! Will buy a CoD and go damage later on!

br.

Crypt