3.9|Stress-Free PoE- ENDURING FIRE (RF) |SSF the Atlas w/ 1Button & Any Gear|Dungeon Crawl PoE!

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

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Caligula_Exile wrote:

That sounds great. And the Marauder looks awesome in Kaom's. What do you think about "cast while channeling" instead of "curse on hit"? I don't know if our hit chance is good enough to constantly trigger the curse...

I have yet another question concerning a sceptre I found... I understood that fire/cold damage added to attacks would interfer negatively with our Elemental Equilibrium. Do we hace the same problem with fire/cold damage added to spells? I found this beautiful sceptre but I don't know if it would ruin the concept of Elemental Equlibrium:

Otherwise, the damage would be really nice. There is even a suffix slot open to add some minor fire damage using the crafting bench.

Hey Caligula_Exile!

You could totally do the link setup you want. Just make sure you have the correct gear. Keep in mind you still want to ensure you're doing Lightning damage all the time to get the constant benefits of EE.

Because we have spells that cast from us via CwDT, adding Fire damage to Spells also gives us the negative effects EE. It'd be a nice sceptre otherwise.

If you have the gear to make the changes you suggested, let me know how it goes! Good thinking!

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Caligula_Exile wrote:

Thank you very much! The Elemental Equilibrium is so powerful, but also quite challenging for my poor little head :)

There is still one thing I do not understand: Two of our spells also deal fire damage (partly), purifying flame and wave of conviction. Don't they give the negative effect of EE?

I tried "cast while chanelling" and I am 100 % content with it. The only downside of it: If you do not like the sound of the curse you will get mad very soon. Because you will hear it a lot :)

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Xitomzz wrote:

Even tho i like the build playstyle i think you should clarify in the guide that this build can't do T16 consistently. Not because of the blues or yellows, but because of the bosses. You can't sustain most bosses DPS, plus they take AGES to die. Not a bad concept as a build, i do like it and will probably play it often to relax from the typical button spamming builds, but this isn't gonna get anyone to big DPS by any means.

Anyways thank you for the guide, it's well written and i think the idea is really good :D

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

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Caligula_Exile wrote:

Thank you very much! The Elemental Equilibrium is so powerful, but also quite challenging for my poor little head :)

There is still one thing I do not understand: Two of our spells also deal fire damage (partly), purifying flame and wave of conviction. Don't they give the negative effect of EE?

I tried "cast while chanelling" and I am 100 % content with it. The only downside of it: If you do not like the sound of the curse you will get mad very soon. Because you will hear it a lot :)

Hey Caligula_Exile!

We do have fire spells casting often with a medium level CwDT. But we have Ball Lightning being cast even faster and added lightning to Cyclone...all of which override the negative impact of our CwDT fire spells.

I'm glad you're liking your changes! (I may be adding a channelling skill to this build next league instead of Cyclone...maybe.)

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Xitomzz wrote:

Even tho i like the build playstyle i think you should clarify in the guide that this build can't do T16 consistently. Not because of the blues or yellows, but because of the bosses. You can't sustain most bosses DPS, plus they take AGES to die. Not a bad concept as a build, i do like it and will probably play it often to relax from the typical button spamming builds, but this isn't gonna get anyone to big DPS by any means.

Anyways thank you for the guide, it's well written and i think the idea is really good :D

Hey Xitomzz!

I'm glad you liked the build. I'm sorry it capped for you. The difficult thing about guide writing is that we don't experience the new content prior to its release. So guide writers have to assume the success of their builds. This league GGG added a completely new endgame (bosses) and increased all enemy defences.

I did need to be honest about one of my guides. I had to cut my Scion EH guide as it couldn't make the cut in the new endgame. Even though some have said that this build lacks offence (which I agree it isn't the strongest), there are many ways to increase its damage. Spectres and Opal Rings have Elemental Damage implicits. Get a Sceptre with over 100% increased damage to Fire/Elemental Damage along with a Fire Damage Over Time mod. You could dual wield that too if that isn't enough of an increase. Enfeeble can be switched for Flammability. You could even use a Staff with great rolls on it.

That all being said, those are little things that will improve the damage of the current build. I do get that boss battles, like the late stages of Drox, take too long.

IF you're interested, here's what I'm thinking for 3.10 (if GGG doesn't change too much. It a Pastebin for Path of Building: https://pastebin.com/GSB1sw5y.

I appreciate your honest feedback. If the changes I suggested don't increase your damage enough for you (or if you're kinda done with the build), no worries at all. I appreciate the kind words and encouragement. Now that I too have experienced the new monster defences and endgame, all four of my 3.10 guides will be modified accordingly.

(If you try the Pastbin out, let me know what you think. I'm going to start levelling it tonight.

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Rex_Urhole wrote:

Finally getting into the groove of this build and enjoying it.

Could of questions for the group:

Any tricks for mana regen in the early going (lvl55)? all my accessories are full up and I haven't unveiled the recipes for mana regen yet. Swapping out rings or amulets currently hurts my ability to run all gem skills so....plus I got a Koams sign drop early on so I'm keeping it.

I'm maintaining RF with flask use, mechanics aren't bad but should I look for more "life on hit" OR "life on kill" mods for stuff? Since my dexterity is lame, cyclone doesn't "hit" as often as necessary to fully maintain.

Also, am I missing something with my CWDT set up or do ball lightning and wave of conviction just not trigger that often? I took from the guide that they'd both activate pretty regularly if you kept your gem levels down as per the guide. I'm just not seeing it so want to know if I was doing something wrong.

Thanx!