[3.10] 🐉 Dragon's Breath Elementalist - Incinerate

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SuddenBear1 wrote:

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

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MemberLight wrote:

Also, mind checking the path between Trickery and Blood Drinker? There are a lot of mediocre nodes there. Technically you can connect Coordination with Blood Drinker with only 2 dex nodes, so 5 extra points. Do you think it is worth to use them on any of the following - arsonist, herbalism or maybe more channeling nodes instead? Seems that it can be better but I can't quite see it

You are right! Tnx for noticing that. Ill update the PoB.

Actually, I was trying to min-max this build at lvl 100 and I think the original path through Elemental Focus/Lethal Assault is still the best. The thing is that these skills may be mediocre, but almost every one adds substantial dps, while reaching other skills that seem better at first (e.g. Singular Focus, Explosive Impact) requires going through at least a few +10 INT skills, which makes your overall DPS lower.

The original path also allows you to add an additional Jewel near Mind Drinker for only 2 points. If you get a good Jewel (e.g. +7-8% cast speed and +6-7% max life), that's unbeatable.

I've tried adding Breath of Flame, Prodigal Perfection, Explosive Impact, some +cast speed skills around Precision/Coordination, and nothing results in higher DPS (at least with my items).

Here is my final build.
3100k+ DPS / 8200+ HP at level 100.
The main change is that I replaced Tireless with +life Jewels and -3 mana cost mod, and added Singular Focus instead.

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CyberMike13 wrote:

What do I take out for a 5-link? Inspiration?

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Sanfear wrote:

Hi all!

I never played before with Skitterbots... Why are included in this build, Whats their function?

Ty!!

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SuddenBear1 wrote:

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

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MemberLight wrote:

Also, mind checking the path between Trickery and Blood Drinker? There are a lot of mediocre nodes there. Technically you can connect Coordination with Blood Drinker with only 2 dex nodes, so 5 extra points. Do you think it is worth to use them on any of the following - arsonist, herbalism or maybe more channeling nodes instead? Seems that it can be better but I can't quite see it

You are right! Tnx for noticing that. Ill update the PoB.

Actually, I was trying to min-max this build at lvl 100 and I think the original path through Elemental Focus/Lethal Assault is still the best. The thing is that these skills may be mediocre, but almost every one adds substantial dps, while reaching other skills that seem better at first (e.g. Singular Focus, Explosive Impact) requires going through at least a few +10 INT skills, which makes your overall DPS lower.

The original path also allows you to add an additional Jewel near Mind Drinker for only 2 points. If you get a good Jewel (e.g. +7-8% cast speed and +6-7% max life), that's unbeatable.

I've tried adding Breath of Flame, Prodigal Perfection, Explosive Impact, some +cast speed skills around Precision/Coordination, and nothing results in higher DPS (at least with my items).

Here is my final build.
3100k+ DPS / 8200+ HP at level 100.
The main change is that I replaced Tireless with +life Jewels and -3 mana cost mod, and added Singular Focus instead.

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GermanosKaraflas wrote:

Actually this variation (https://pastebin.com/iWRC0MYd) of your tree following Memberlight's suggestion gives you 8754 life/+20% chaos res/3222k dps vs 8200 life/3480k dps as in your PoB. And in case one can't afford a super good 5th jewel as yours, the 3 points for the dexterity socket above blood drinker can be easily replaced by the (buffed in 3.10) Explosive Impact cluster.

Moreover, even though you lose some mana regeneration (new mana reg is 56.5) you are still more than fine with mana cost 2 and cast rate 15.95, because 56.5/15.95=3.542. So you can even afford mana cost 3 in your particular case for incinerate. Not much of a difference in this instance though because you would just still need the -2 mana cost craft.

Memberlight's suggestion seems pretty worth it if you ask me.

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GermanosKaraflas wrote:

Actually this variation (https://pastebin.com/iWRC0MYd) of your tree following Memberlight's suggestion gives you 8754 life/+20% chaos res/3222k dps vs 8200 life/3480k dps as in your PoB.

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SuddenBear1 wrote:

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GermanosKaraflas wrote:

Actually this variation (https://pastebin.com/iWRC0MYd) of your tree following Memberlight's suggestion gives you 8754 life/+20% chaos res/3222k dps vs 8200 life/3480k dps as in your PoB.

Just out of curiosity, how do you get these numbers? I loaded your build into PoB and it shows 8754 life/2887k dps, not 3222k. For my build it's also lower - 3124k instead of 3480k.

But anyway, I think it's just about HP vs DPS. You either get ~7% more HP or ~8% more DPS with these 2 builds. If you try to optimize for DPS, the original path through Elemental Focus/Lethal Assault still gives you more, right?

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

Btw how's the league start going for you boys and girls? :)