Just an idea but wouldn't it be good if i found the spectre with the highest life as possible because of the 3% fire damage when it dies? ( higher the life, higher the damage )
Also, correct me if i'm wrong but some of my cluster jewels are kinda pointless because the fire damage increase does NOT apply to Volatile Dead, just the other skills?
Yup, i ask a lot of questions, but it's a learning curve
Yes to the Spectre question. We ideally want Spectres with the high life pool so their corpses become part of the group that is cast when we use Desecrate. When they explode we get the percentage of their life, so bigger life means bigger bangs for us :)
I'm using Kitava's Heralds for the high life pool but also because they actually stay alive through a lot of the content and they help out in map clearing either through direct damage or drawing peripheral enemies into my kill zone.
I'm not sure which cluster jewels you're using. If they are increased Spell damage, then no they won't improve VD damage. If they increase fire damage though, the should work (I could be wrong on this, I do not claim to know all the ridiculous interactions that POE has and then doesn't explain properly).
Quick question - how can I run 3 auras? Determination, Crab + Spellslinger want to reserve more than 100%....
Determination = 50% mana
Crab = 25% mana
Spellslinger = 28% mana (because of spell cascade multiplier)
Total = 103% mana
So to overcome this you have two options:
1. Socket Enlighten lvl 3 with Determination which then lowers the mana reserved amount there to 46% so then our total becomes 99% reserved.
2. Take two skill points in the Sovereignty wheel and you get 4% reduced mana reserved so then our total becomes 99% reserved.
You then need the rings Eag1e posted about to reduce our mana cost for barrage to either zero or very close to it. My barrage costs 2 mana but as my overall mana pool is high, my mana regen outpaces the 2 mana cost so I can fire barrage indefinitely and not run out. Even 60% reduced regen doesn't phase it.
Just an idea but wouldn't it be good if i found the spectre with the highest life as possible because of the 3% fire damage when it dies? ( higher the life, higher the damage )
Also, correct me if i'm wrong but some of my cluster jewels are kinda pointless because the fire damage increase does NOT apply to Volatile Dead, just the other skills?
Yup, i ask a lot of questions, but it's a learning curve
Fire damage increase(but not "fire damage over time") ofc apply to VD, why wouldn't it?
About spectres - you need spectres of mobs with high life multiplier, such as Kitava's Herald. Spectre itself doesn't explode(or, well, do anything else useful), it just add corpses of that type to the pool of corpses deesecrate can create. And corpse life depend on corpse type, so, say, kitava's herald corpse will have more life than arcmage corpse. It's best to have 2-3 different spectres.(to add more types of high life corpses to desecrate pool).
Overall a solid build. Not fast. Not zoom zoom. But tanky AF and the damage is there to slowly grind out end game bosses while you chill. Also, don't need to get crazy high levelling for the build to work, after level 90 or so all you're really getting is a little more life each level, but the build already has tons of defense so IDK if it's really necessary to have 8k life. 7.4k life is doing just fine for me.
Well, thx for good words about the build :)
(and more life will never hurt! :) )
Peace amidst chaos gives 8% life, but does the 25% increase make it become 10%? i checked, it just gives 25% inc for the small nodes
as for antivenom on other jewel, i used that until i got the Soul of Sharaki patheon for poison immune
Peace Amidst Chaos gives 2% physical resist and 2% life regen while also giving 8%, that's much better than any other notable or small node mod.
Soul of Shakari actually is an interesting choice. The damage reduction partially applies to elemental damage but 5% seems very weak compared to Tukohama. On the bright side, you don't lose it when you move.
Peace amidst chaos gives 8% life, but does the 25% increase make it become 10%? i checked, it just gives 25% inc for the small nodes
as for antivenom on other jewel, i used that until i got the Soul of Sharaki patheon for poison immune
Peace Amidst Chaos gives 2% physical resist and 2% life regen while also giving 8%, that's much better than any other notable or small node mod.
Soul of Shakari actually is an interesting choice. The damage reduction partially applies to elemental damage but 5% seems very weak compared to Tukohama. On the bright side, you don't lose it when you move.
I see your point. I swapped Born to chaos for antivenom, and now using Tukohama with Soul of Solaris so i'll see how it pans out
Ok, was bored so thought i would roll my chaos res jewels
