[3.17] Wallach's Hierophant Freezing Pulse Totems (No Further Updates)
" It should be the DPS per totem, assuming normal in-combat buffs (like 5 curses, debuffs on enemy, and flasks up). " Reflection is still great, yeah. The two setups wind up nearly the same at the high end of things, it's just easier to get into the Viridi's Veil so it will make more sense most of the time. If it falls into your lap though, you may as well use it. |
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This build is pretty fun. Thanks for the guide. I decided to [try] to stick to one build this league and I chose this one. I was just wondering what takes priority between getting the large cluster jewel and the awakened gems?
This is my main wand atm. It seems good for now, but might not be enough later on |
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Because i am old and a bit slow i have decided to use Frostbite as a permanent curse using an Impresence ammy to help with mana cost.
I do realize that by dropping Pandemonius ammy i am probably sacrificing a fair chunk of DPS, thoughts on this? Is there anything lacking from my build that should be improved on? Thanks. |
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" What would that gem setup look like? Linked to an attack totem? Or maybe just a wide AoE attack skill? |
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Man... Watched your stream and it seems the dps this build can pump out seems insane...? Looks like we have huge boss damage and really crazy clear with the full screen spam.
I deeply regret going ele hit totem, then ditching that for archmage BL.. I should have just gone with this build from the start! I'm going to run this, how far will 15ex get me do you think? |
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You can easily start the build with 15ex.
Get yourself a 6l Soul Mantle (6ex or so) and Viridi's Veil (20c), a decent sceptre or wand with ~80% spell damage, 80% Spell Crit, and +1 cold spell gems (1ex or so). You can find a pretty good amulet aside from Pandemonious for like 40c. Resists, life, and either cast speed and/or spell damage and/or crit multi. You want a Magic Vermillion Ring. Use fossils on it to get 80 Life, having used Fertile Catalysts beforehand to get improved rolls. Then, using the crafting bench add a resist if you need. Gloves with Life/Resist and "increased damage with hits against chilled enemies" I got mine for 80c, might have gone up since then I'm not sure. Cowards Legacy belt is around 1.5-2ex, it's not mandatory to start out at all but it is a very substantial boost in damage. Decent cluster jewels can be expensive, can get gg ones for 2ex a piece and never have to replace them. Since I'm a cheapskate, I just bought "decent enough" ones. Here is my character so far - https://pastebin.com/K2wqPm8k I've not spend much on this build and it absolutely shits on everything. The only thing I haven't been able to do was the Uber Breachlord encounter through the Maven Invitation thing, they would just ignore my totems and 1 shot me back to back, very annoying. Dealing about 350k shaper dps per totem, with 7 totems, so that's math amount of dps. The fastest scaling return on investment of any build I've played so far. By dropping the shield and getting another weapon the dps per totem would push 550k+, but I like the defense it provides and don't really need the damage. ~ Seph Last edited by sephrinx#7591 on Feb 3, 2021, 9:43:34 PM
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Any help for an old man?
Refer about 4 posts back. |
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" If you want to limit the number of button you have to press while playing, I would recommend getting another trigger weapon with frost bomb + something else. You can also get Frostbite or Sniper's Mark on your ring, or get a pair of gloves with Elemental Weakness on hit corruption. You definitely want to use Pandemonium, you're losing around 20% of your DPS if you're not using it. Other than that, the rest of your gear is decent. You might want to grind for a 10% pen boots enchant during a good lab day. Also, Awakened Added Cold Damage Lv5 is pretty big. Your flask need to be rolled with useful mod, anti-bleed, ignite, shock, etc. Your life flask should have an Bubbling or Seething. Also, you definitely want to use a Quicksilver flask of Adrenaline and a Silver flask for movement speed. Flask rotation is a pain in the ass but flask are just too powerful in this game, you can easily get 40% increased DPS from a Bottled Faith + Wise Oak or Cinderswallow Crit Urn. You wasting a point in your tree to get Frost Walker, you can grab that node from lower. Also you could use a better Watcher's Eyes and Awakened Hextouch Lv5 with two Hex's curse + a spell of your choice (I use Hydrosphere), but then that's another key to press while playing. So yea if you get a curse on hit and another trigger, the only spell left you should be using while playing is Flame Dash and your FP Totem. Flame Dash should be linked with a low level Arcane Surge for a big DPS increased too, you don't seem to be using that. It's a bit hard to minimalize the build more than that, playability-wise. |
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" Fossil crafting the ring? You mean alt spamming, right? |
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So finally completed all content yesterday. By all content, I mean MAVEN GLAVEN! (who gets that reference?)
For anyone still looking to develop, do see my gear. Wands were bought for like 20c 2 weeks ago, really old wands and not that great. Tried some Harvest craft but wasnt that lucky. Oddly the lightning res is quite vital for me. Boots were bought as soon as I reached maps only 4 days after league start Gloves were bought for 20c at same time as boots and the life was harvest crafted from 22 to 89! (so lucky). Harvest craft was used to reroll values on all rare items so they are top end rolls. Build progression Most important milestone was obtaining the 6l. I was incredibly lucky in doing that myself with less than 150 fusings. 2nd step was obtaining the helmet. 3rd was obtaining the blanket snow cluster jewel - was around 15c at the time Beat shaper, elder and uber elder - quite used to those fights from previous leagues. Managed to beat Shaper guardian and elder guardian maven fights - took 3 portals for elder but shaper was deathless. 4th was obtaining the Sleepless Sentries medium cluster jewel. This was a game changer. Can not quite remember the price but it was not prohibitive. Able to kill Breachlord Maven fight at white map level Killed Maven 5th bottled faith flask (from cortex map drop which was obtained) Replaced 20/20 gems with awakened gems and used experience lenses stored from Harvest to boost 3 levels. Killed Synthesis bosses maven fight Killed Cortex, Uber shaper/elder and Atziri maven fight (surprisingly easy - it is essentially two separate back to back fights - the Uber Elder fight and then Atziri, Cortex and Cyhulea fight Hopefully this helps people understand the intermediate milestones that they can aim for in order to complete content fairly trouble free. I still need to get 3 gold oils to change my anointment to Wishpers of Doom to enable double curse. At the moment the ring is slightly redundant. Still need to obtain a helmet enchantment (most likely ain't happening) and amending my boot/glove enchantment Still need to upgrade cluster jewel (10-12ex is a challenge to raise) Still need to upgrade wands though I think they are fine going forward Still need to max level awakened gems Still need to get + 1 corrupted soul mantle (probably wont happen) For wands I focused Cold or Spell damage 100%+ Critical chance for spells 100%+ Cast speed (stuck to profane wands for that) Didn't bother with any other mods, they were either available on sold wands or crafted on. |
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