[3.17] Hybrid's Molten Strike Jugg - Hold right click to TANK anything |MELT the Atlas|Divine Flesh|

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Rex_Urhole wrote:

Thanks, sorry I missed the POB

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2. I've been looking for a elemental melee build, kind of. And I'm still thinking between 2h Ice Crash Jugg and this Molten Strike Jugg. Can someone give me a quick overview and pros/cons between these two build? Thank in advance

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HybridBoy wrote:

Another look at 'Petrified Blood' new aura for the build, without knowing the gem stats at level 20..

assuming that the portion of damage taken as DOT is 50% at level 20, this aura wont be good for just slapping it on the build.

say you have 10k life and getting hit for 9999 damage after all mitigations, this will leave you at 1 hp and you stop taking damage after this hit, then you are left to recover with regen and leech.

with 'Petrified Blood' you will be running around at 5k life all the time (because you have to reserve your life in order yo use this aura with the build and probably wont spam life flasks all the time), when you receive the same 9999 damage hit, 4999 damage is lost instantly leaving you at 1 hp too, BUT now you also have a 4999 degen to worry about for 4 seconds, which is ~1250 life lost per second.

in this case there is no advantage to use the aura.

at 60% damage taken as DOT, it might be more interesting as you are left with more life and a degen that although pretty big, still manageable with out regen and leech.



having said all of that, if you have 9-10k life with all of our defenses up, nothing really hits you for that much and having 'Petrified Blood' in a no regen no leech map might be even more dangerous than normal as you are "collecting" damage and making the degen bigger and bigger.
i mean, if the Shaper's slam and Sirus' die beam cant one-shot you why would you want to use the aura?


i will test the aura once the patch is out and see how it feels and perform for adding it "as is" to the build.
its not really worth to rework the build just for this aura.

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pvb32978 wrote:

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2. I've been looking for a elemental melee build, kind of. And I'm still thinking between 2h Ice Crash Jugg and this Molten Strike Jugg. Can someone give me a quick overview and pros/cons between these two build? Thank in advance

Having played both, the short answer is the Molten Strike Juggernaut is tankier, but has less dps. Ice crash has more dps, and is less tanky. Ice crash also has better clear.

I would also say there is a breakpoint with Molten Strike...it felt very underwhelming, and then you reach a certain point in gear and its effectiveness sky rockets. Ice crash just starts out feeling good and keeps going up.

I guess it just comes down to which playstyle you want...leaping around and spewing molten balls of fire, or running around shouting angrily before you one shot packs.

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IXTISNIKA wrote:

Do you have any plans to upgrade this build for the 3.14 version of the game? This was my first build i played long time ago. It looks much faster now...