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

Is this build HC viable?

Hi there. Love the build, certainly something else than the meta VD/BS setup. One thing I don't get: you mention instant life leech, but I can find that on the gear or the jewel or the passives. How does that work?

Currently level 75, with 4 PPs, an Inpulsa's, the mask and the mobs just die in blue clouds. LOVE IT!

Is there a reason why we use Darkness Enthroned Stygian Vise and not Stygian Vise when we can get 80+ life, 35+ double or even triple single resistance and increased lighting damage and Abyss jewel. This way we can cap our resistance much easier and focus on getting more offensive stats on other jewels?

Why u use loreweave in pob?

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SwitchBL8 wrote:

Hi there. Love the build, certainly something else than the meta VD/BS setup. One thing I don't get: you mention instant life leech, but I can find that on the gear or the jewel or the passives. How does that work?

Currently level 75, with 4 PPs, an Inpulsa's, the mask and the mobs just die in blue clouds. LOVE IT!

The instant leech comes from health gain on hit I believe.

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tona91 wrote:

Is there a reason why we use Darkness Enthroned Stygian Vise and not Stygian Vise when we can get 80+ life, 35+ double or even triple single resistance and increased lighting damage and Abyss jewel. This way we can cap our resistance much easier and focus on getting more offensive stats on other jewels?

For MF, I use stygian for exactly that reason. Ez res and some life. Biscos leash is fairly meh when you dont have oodles of currency to cap res elsewhere.

For boss killer, you can find res easily enough on 1 ring, boots, and gloves. The darkness enthroned gives you (with decent jewels) ~90 life, ~90 mana, ~33 crit multi which is pretty nice as we are life and mana starved.

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Aevaris wrote:

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SwitchBL8 wrote:

Hi there. Love the build, certainly something else than the meta VD/BS setup. One thing I don't get: you mention instant life leech, but I can find that on the gear or the jewel or the passives. How does that work?

Currently level 75, with 4 PPs, an Inpulsa's, the mask and the mobs just die in blue clouds. LOVE IT!

The instant leech comes from health gain on hit I believe.

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tona91 wrote:

Is there a reason why we use Darkness Enthroned Stygian Vise and not Stygian Vise when we can get 80+ life, 35+ double or even triple single resistance and increased lighting damage and Abyss jewel. This way we can cap our resistance much easier and focus on getting more offensive stats on other jewels?

For MF, I use stygian for exactly that reason. Ez res and some life. Biscos leash is fairly meh when you dont have oodles of currency to cap res elsewhere.

For boss killer, you can find res easily enough on 1 ring, boots, and gloves. The darkness enthroned gives you (with decent jewels) ~90 life, ~90 mana, ~33 crit multi which is pretty nice as we are life and mana starved.

I am going the route of using elder Berek's Grip paired with Mark of The Shaper so my resistances are going to be lower. The belt i am looking at has 2x 40+ single res, 85+ HP, 30 Light dmg, + flask mods and on top of that i am adding life/mana + crit multi abyss jewel. This way if my calculations are ok i will be able to go for straight dmg jewels on my passive tree.

Hi man! What's better boss setup skills? Arc/Ball Lightning or Shock Nova/Ball Lightning? Where higher dps?

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Aevaris wrote:

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SwitchBL8 wrote:

Hi there. Love the build, certainly something else than the meta VD/BS setup. One thing I don't get: you mention instant life leech, but I can find that on the gear or the jewel or the passives. How does that work?

Currently level 75, with 4 PPs, an Inpulsa's, the mask and the mobs just die in blue clouds. LOVE IT!

The instant leech comes from health gain on hit I believe.

That's not instant leech. And it's WAY too low, but it helps. Used to a Bloodseeker. That's instant leech, and a lot of it too.

Just got to level 80. Tier 9 is no problem, not even with Temporal Chains or Enfeeble or something shitty like that. Don't have much tier 9 maps yet, so running tier 7 and 8, but most of that is a joke. And I haven't even done merciless (or uber) lab yet. Maps with separate boss arena's are the most convenient for the weapon swap setup, but it works nice with Null Portals too, you just need to be a bit more careful in the swap-timing.

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Aevaris wrote:

For boss killer, you can find res easily enough on 1 ring, boots, and gloves. The darkness enthroned gives you (with decent jewels) ~90 life, ~90 mana, ~33 crit multi which is pretty nice as we are life and mana starved.

I was wondering about this too. It seems like with a fossil crafted stygian vise you could get something with some combination of:
90-99 life
20-30% increased lightning damage
25-30% elemental damage
some amount of resistances

And then you still have one jewel socket to give you 45 more life, mana, and some crit multi.

Is the extra mana and the 15% crit worth more than 20-60% increased damage and more life?

I am generally not sure how to prioritize crit chance/multi vs flat damage vs increased damage. I am new to this build and just figuring it out.

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Aevaris wrote:

I could also use some advice. I die a lot with most of the listed items on fairly low content (e.g. yellow maps).

I just opened up 2 jewel slots, so I know they're open. Beyond that, I could really use some advice. Thanks!

You're rocking MF gear, it's the nature of the beast, you will occasionally explode while Mfing. I don't see any major issues on your PoB unless you didn't take alira, then your res isn't capped. Get more levels, 78 is low

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shadowns wrote:

Hi man! What's better boss setup skills? Arc/Ball Lightning or Shock Nova/Ball Lightning? Where higher dps?

Arc since the changes, his videos are pre Arc change.

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mudcat wrote:

I was wondering about this too. It seems like with a fossil crafted stygian vise you could get something with some combination of:
90-99 life
20-30% increased lightning damage
25-30% elemental damage
some amount of resistances

And then you still have one jewel socket to give you 45 more life, mana, and some crit multi.

Is the extra mana and the 15% crit worth more than 20-60% increased damage and more life?

I am generally not sure how to prioritize crit chance/multi vs flat damage vs increased damage. I am new to this build and just figuring it out.

My profile is currently geared for MF, but my boss killing gear uses darkness enthroned out of convenience. I haven't done a search but the belt you just listed above sounds insanely expensive. For me darkness enthroned does plenty. I also run with atzri's acuity and bubonic trail so basically all of my resistances are on jewels.

I think if you got the belt above, then yea 45-60% increased damage is probably better than 15% multi, which if going for pure dps is what you're essentially trading by switching from darkness to the hypothetical stygian, but probably not worth the cost.