[3.4] Teleports Behind You - Poet's Pen Lightning Warp & Arc, MF / Facetank t16 / Shaper / U. Elder

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Hello, i'm having huge problems against bosses =( . They kill me too fast, and i feel that even if i had a kaom's heart equipped that would makes no difference. I feel that my single target damage seems a very low but i compared with some other people on this thread and it seems ok. I saw your video face tanking minotaur and i can't even facetank some corrupted t12 bosses. I made some calculations on PoB with 21/20 gems, better jewels and other things but that would be too expensive for too little damage boost. I got a blood of the karui and a vessel of vinktar and that increased my survival a lot! but when the flask ends i get killed and sometimes even with flasks i got killed. Can you help me? i really liked this build and but i can't kill bosses.

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g490368 wrote:

https://pastebin.com/SwRtnNJH

Hello, i'm having huge problems against bosses =( . They kill me too fast, and i feel that even if i had a kaom's heart equipped that would makes no difference. I feel that my single target damage seems a very low but i compared with some other people on this thread and it seems ok. I saw your video face tanking minotaur and i can't even facetank some corrupted t12 bosses. I made some calculations on PoB with 21/20 gems, better jewels and other things but that would be too expensive for too little damage boost. I got a blood of the karui and a vessel of vinktar and that increased my survival a lot! but when the flask ends i get killed and sometimes even with flasks i got killed. Can you help me? i really liked this build and but i can't kill bosses.

Hey,

One quick fix would be to get a Stibnite Flask to replace your Silver flask. Once you start upgrading your gear a bit more you can also get an abyss jewel with %chance to blind enemies on hit. It cuts enemies chance to hit you by 50%, which is a large boost to defenses.

Another issue is that your mana pool is too low to effectively cover your life pool against one-shots. 70% of damage goes to life and 30% of damage goes to mana. Therefore, mana should equal 3/7 of your life pool, or ~ 43%. You have a life pool of 4024 and mana pool of 1263. Therefore I would actually recommend getting some + Mana on your gear ; you can craft it on your Soul Gyre ring and Vengeance Hoof boots. After that, you should also consider grabbing some mana nodes such as the Deep Thoughts node. Those additions would bring you closer to 5.5k effective HP pool. For endgame you should aim for >6k effective HP pool, that is when I started feeling comfortable surviving in red maps.

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g490368 wrote:

https://pastebin.com/SwRtnNJH

Hello, i'm having huge problems against bosses =( . They kill me too fast, and i feel that even if i had a kaom's heart equipped that would makes no difference. I feel that my single target damage seems a very low but i compared with some other people on this thread and it seems ok. I saw your video face tanking minotaur and i can't even facetank some corrupted t12 bosses. I made some calculations on PoB with 21/20 gems, better jewels and other things but that would be too expensive for too little damage boost. I got a blood of the karui and a vessel of vinktar and that increased my survival a lot! but when the flask ends i get killed and sometimes even with flasks i got killed. Can you help me? i really liked this build and but i can't kill bosses.

I am in the same spot, made a Witch and a Scion version of the build and some red beast just explode-me, the build is a lot fun, but I am not even near the tankness the OP show in the videos, and Iam talking about yellow tier maps :(

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dariidar wrote:

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ArkanePanda wrote:

Hey, I was looking for a MF build to farm T16 elder maps and I came across this beauty of a build. I'm going to give this a try but is there a reason why you're not using goldwyrm for more IIQ? and will I be able to do T16 maps just fine with MF gear?

Hey,

One quick fix would be to get a Stibnite Flask to replace your Silver flask. Once you start upgrading your gear a bit more you can also get an abyss jewel with %chance to blind enemies on hit. It cuts enemies chance to hit you by 50%, which is a large boost to defenses.

Another issue is that your mana pool is too low to effectively cover your life pool against one-shots. 70% of damage goes to life and 30% of damage goes to mana. Therefore, mana should equal 3/7 of your life pool, or ~ 43%. You have a life pool of 4024 and mana pool of 1263. Therefore I would actually recommend getting some + Mana on your gear ; you can craft it on your Soul Gyre ring and Vengeance Hoof boots. After that, you should also consider grabbing some mana nodes such as the Deep Thoughts node. Those additions would bring you closer to 5.5k effective HP pool. For endgame you should aim for >6k effective HP pool, that is when I started feeling comfortable surviving in red maps.

Wrong quote sir =(

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ArkanePanda wrote:

Wrong quote sir =(

Woops, fixed

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vempire_ghost wrote:

I am in the same spot, made a Witch and a Scion version of the build and some red beast just explode-me, the build is a lot fun, but I am not even near the tankness the OP show in the videos, and Iam talking about yellow tier maps :(

Will take a look at your characters in a bit!

I'm really interested in trying this build out - just want to fully understand how it functions. So you just use Barrage, which itself has negligible dmg or effect, and that triggers warp and arc simultaneously? And then for bosses you switch to Poet's Pen #3 and 4 for Ball Lightning and Shock Nova spam?

Is 6L worth it in the Inpulsa's, or would it just be a complete waste of currency? I have up to 40ex to spend atm, which I hope is enough to make this character a map destroyer. It only needs to be able to comfortably clear and kill bosses in up to T15 maps, since I have a BF character for the other endgame bosses.

And lastly, for leveling do you recommend using double Poet's Pen as well?

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vempire_ghost wrote:

I am in the same spot, made a Witch and a Scion version of the build and some red beast just explode-me, the build is a lot fun, but I am not even near the tankness the OP show in the videos, and Iam talking about yellow tier maps :(

Alright, I took a look at miss_vempire first. You are missing Acro + Phase Acro and Mind over Matter, and you are also missing a Stibnite flask or a source of Blind. If using Mind over Matter, your mana pool needs to be a lot higher as well. Overall there are a lot of very simple adjustments you can make which will greatly increase your defenses.

I'm interested in seeing the gear you had on for Charustica, since it seems like that character followed the recomended skilltree very closely. Were you using Mind of the Council for mana sustain? Were you using Vitality aura with Watcher's Eye? The former is core to the build, while the latter would hurt your mana pool / defenses quite a bit.

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Drexl27 wrote:

I'm really interested in trying this build out - just want to fully understand how it functions. So you just use Barrage, which itself has negligible dmg or effect, and that triggers warp and arc simultaneously? And then for bosses you switch to Poet's Pen #3 and 4 for Ball Lightning and Shock Nova spam?

Is 6L worth it in the Inpulsa's, or would it just be a complete waste of currency? I have up to 40ex to spend atm, which I hope is enough to make this character a map destroyer. It only needs to be able to comfortably clear and kill bosses in up to T15 maps, since I have a BF character for the other endgame bosses.

And lastly, for leveling do you recommend using double Poet's Pen as well?

You got most of it right. I use Frenzy attack until I reach maximum Frenzy charges, then I switch to using Barrage. The Frenzy/Barrage will trigger the spells just as you mentioned. The reason I use Barrage is because it is extremely strong with the Life Gain on Hit support gem; you can get >1600 life/sec with Barrage.

6L is not worth it in Inpulsa's until EVERY other gear slot is perfect. The only other gems you can really add to Barrage are Volley, LMP, Culling Strike, or Blind support, none of which will give you a significant boost to your build until the very endgame. Instead, invest into 4-property damage jewels, these make a huge difference and the good ones can often go for >4ex (Example jewel search is included in the Items section of this guide).

For leveling you can definitely use Poet's Pen. Lightning Warp will probably feel very clunky until you get to level 68 and equip the Inpulsa's. Until then, you can use something like Firestorm in one wand, and the Arc setup in the other wand. Feel free to experiment.

Awesome, thanks. So Frenzy and Barrage to trigger, with Frenzy until max charges. One other thing I noticed with your gear: how do you get to max resistances? Almost all of the recommended items are uniques without any resistances? Is it just through Alira, or also through a lot of passives?

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Drexl27 wrote:

Awesome, thanks. So Frenzy and Barrage to trigger, with Frenzy until max charges. One other thing I noticed with your gear: how do you get to max resistances? Almost all of the recommended items are uniques without any resistances? Is it just through Alira, or also through a lot of passives?

I have 2 jewels with some resistances on them, Alira, and the rest comes from glove/ring/boots. If you have difficulty capping res, a Stygian Vise is almost as good as Darkness Enthroned. You might lose like 5% of dps by dropping Darkness Enthroned, but a high res Stygian Vise might also allow you to get a stronger ring or something.