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" Is there any cheap and powerful uniques for early maps except Rime Gaze and Bated Breath? Spine of the First Claimant 1 - 5 chaos, maybe a bit more for Ritual as it looks like this build will be mighty popular. " Bekse wrote: How is the boss killing with this build guys? I know almost every guidebuilder says its great but now for real: not having endgame gear yet, does it take long or is it really a good boss killer? It takes time to kill end game bosses until you have serious investment. Before that you kill slowly but safely. You are allowed to do mistake and actually learn the fight (well, a shaper slam will still probably kill you, but still...). If you look for starters build that kill Shaper or sirus rapidly (which is a defense too), you will prefer poison bv or bf/bb. Last edited by roselan on Jan 14, 2021, 12:57:40 PM	Posted by roselan on Jan 14, 2021, 12:55:17 PM Quote this Post
What about glancing blows? It is mentioned in the guide, but not in the 3.13 POB, any reason for that?	Posted by VitorLabes on Jan 14, 2021, 1:15:10 PM Quote this Post
" VitorLabes wrote: What about glancing blows? It is mentioned in the guide, but not in the 3.13 POB, any reason for that? It was removed in 3.12 I think (noted near the beginning). Personally, I still use it because I find my incoming damage is smoother, but a lot of people don't like it.	Posted by KirenaStern on Jan 14, 2021, 1:18:24 PM Quote this Post
" dwaters wrote: " Roselan wrote: " dwaters wrote: another dumb question, is the CI version actually using discipline as an active or just the vaal version of it for a defensive? I always have it active, keeping vaal discipline for hairy situation as "panic" button (it rocks with Wicked Ward) i'm just not understanding his aura setups in regards to mana. in his CI setup he has blasph+frostbite and malev with an enlighten 3 plus an unlinked discipline. obviously that's too much reserved mana so subbing out malev for skitters as he suggests puts b+frost, skitters, and enlighten 3 + unlinked disc at 1% unreserved mana. adding the 3% from the node near Influence does give us 4% unreserved and the mana to cast one vortex at a time. is that enough mana? i'm guessing that just using malev+disc is the right call (certainly as a starter), leaving 15% unreserved without any extra reductions, but i'm not sure how important the frostbite setup is to the build or if that's just a little extra damage. maybe just use it selfcasted for bossing? I think you confusion comes from PoB itself. I assume you use his latest pob: https://pastebin.com/Xrryj0gx Inside they are 4 tree and 4 set of items and skills. When you open PoB, the active tree is "Leveling", but the set of skills is for the final LL tree. For skills it's worse as you have to manually activate/deactivate each group. Last edited by roselan on Jan 14, 2021, 1:37:55 PM	Posted by roselan on Jan 14, 2021, 1:37:44 PM Quote this Post
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Don't wanna quote you and fill up the page but thank you for taking the time to go in to such detail with me, roselan. I do have the correct tree and gear set (CI) and have unticked all of the skills for the low-life links. In the CI links section with curse aura, skitters, and enlighten 3 we are left with 36% unreserved (100-35-35+6) and unlinked discipline being active aura (another 35) leaves us with 1% unreserved. that's why my initial question was if he uses discipline as an active aura or only for the vaal variant panic button. For your own setup which curses/auras do you use?	Posted by dwaters on Jan 14, 2021, 2:01:42 PM Quote this Post
" donbrawler wrote: " Bekse wrote: How is the boss killing with this build guys? I know almost every guidebuilder says its great but now for real: not having endgame gear yet, does it take long or is it really a good boss killer? On of the best boss killers. Here is a Reedemer kill. https://youtu.be/A2XlM3t5D5c Don't pay attention to the dislike. It was my Ex Wife lol Thanks for reactions. Convinced now it's a safe but slow killer. Of course you can dodge mechanics more easy with this build, but if you know the fight, you can dodge with every build. Loved the build as a starter last league but bossing felt a bit slow.	Posted by Bekse on Jan 14, 2021, 2:57:16 PM Quote this Post
@Bekse 2 min map Clear and Conqueror is slow to you? I had no movement speed boots in my video example and 4-5 second kill for a Awakener 8 Conqueror is slow?	Posted by donbrawler on Jan 14, 2021, 3:15:04 PM Quote this Post
" donbrawler wrote: @Bekse 2 min map Clear and Conqueror is slow to you? I had no movement speed boots in my video example and 4-5 second kill for a Awakener 8 Conqueror is slow? It's a safe boss killer, not per se a fast boss killer :) I'm not talking about endgame gear in red maps. I'm also talking about getting there.	Posted by Bekse on Jan 14, 2021, 3:18:01 PM Quote this Post
" Bekse wrote: " donbrawler wrote: @Bekse 2 min map Clear and Conqueror is slow to you? I had no movement speed boots in my video example and 4-5 second kill for a Awakener 8 Conqueror is slow? It's a safe boss killer, not per se a fast boss killer :) I'm not talking about endgame gear in red maps. I'm also talking about getting there. Haha, Its pretty easy to get to endgame gear. Their is plenty crafting advice and gearing choices in this thread and build hasn't changed in 3 leagues but since you only have 1 character and not even a vortex character I will just consider your a troll.	Posted by donbrawler on Jan 14, 2021, 3:24:53 PM Quote this Post