[3.20] ❄️❄️ Velyna's Hollow Palm Ice Crash ❄️ ❄️ Leaguestart Section | Hidden and Feared Viable

Adding some new findings: my character is currently at 22m dps, 5616 hp, 95% evade chance (after being hit), has endurance charges, smashes all, and I mean all content.

https://pastebin.com/0quqWUHx

My pastebin for reference:

Some changes, tree decisions and math that may help guide your decisions: please note, there's no 1 right answer, tweaks here and there, gear choices and availability of items/enchants and your timeless jewel will dictate a lot of what you should spec into. (My Forces of nature gives +20 dex, otherwise I wouldn't spec into it)

Biggest change from yesterday: I put a fluid motion back in and spec'd into proficiency. I go no further in the tree to the left side than that. I still find soul of steel to be an inefficient use of points, as is bloodless. I'd recommend trying to limit yourself to one big cluster jewel node, as expending 5 points to reach a jewel socket for another is... a lot

Freeze: It barely ever comes up. Even with flash freeze, I have a 13% chance to freeze, if I hit a monsters ailment threshhold, and don't kill it first: ie; this comes up on bosses, and not much else. As such I've decided to drop both blast freeze (cluster jewel node) and flash freeze nodes entirely. It's so irrelevant

Jewels in this league are INCREDIBLY easy to get good for our build. Any jewel with all res, and a dual res can be divined and harvest divined, give it some life, randomise (harvest divine) to 7%, slam it with phys, and you have a jewel giving 7% life, 54 resist, 2.2% or so damage. If you need resists, seek out jewel sockets.

For reference, cloth and chain is 48 resist, 36% evasion / armor. Armor is completely worthless: we have absolutely none on our gear, and we only get 3000 from potions, additions and multiplication on top of that are near irrelevant. (+300?)

Cluster jewel nodes I've found worth it:
(mostly the same as Velyna's)
Vengeful commander is great.
Disorienting display is fantastic for survivability and damage
Corrosive elements is a huge damage gain

Wish for death is excellent! Gives you cull
Evil eye pairs well with it, but realistically is just "ok" for 1 passive point though, its a good chunk of damage

Cold conduction is great


I get a lot of questions both in game and private messages, but figured this should help clarify some of my choices


Lastly, I created another brutal restraint under bravery, which provides 5% dex on bravery, dervish and golems blood, and 5% chance to blind on master of the arena and savagery. As it's not as good as my current jewel, I do have it for sale if anyone's looking for a pretty solid jewel (15% dex, 10% chance to blind) and uses only 100% mandatory notables

this is my gear so and jewels at my tree if u can check it out i should go for wha update now ?

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Velyna wrote:

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Finally got my rings swapped to dex rings. Currently saving ex for awakened supp/double hatred watchers eye, as well as going to spend some on Twice enchanted prophecies and try to get boot/helm enchant. Aside from that is there anything else I can aim for, or improve to get my damage up?

https://pastebin.com/CgxF28Cp

If you get a resist corrupted belt and replace your diamond ring with topaz/two stone you would save one point on the tree and allow some suffixes for DEX/attack speed/%damage on jewels.

The freed up node would only go towards life though, no? I have been looking for a topaz for about a week now with frostbite and dex on it without luck, and plan to continue crafting the diamond ring to get ele attack/attack speed, and cold damage on it, and then replacing it's implicits with synthesized implicits.

I do agree though I don't want to have to use the small passive for lightning res so will continue to keep an eye out

Also looking to get cold damage instead of cold crit, that was just an unlucky augment.

Anything else that would be big? Still only at 7.6m for boss dps, unsure if awakened/double hatred have that big of multipliers

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Slottm wrote:

Adding some new findings: my character is currently at 22m dps, 5616 hp, 95% evade chance (after being hit), has endurance charges, smashes all, and I mean all content.

https://pastebin.com/0quqWUHx

These ideas are fantastic thanks for the updates, I pretty much agree about soul of steel although it hurts to admit it. The DPS potential really is insane if you ignore left side and commit to one large cluster. Will probably use some of these ideas and give you credit in the guide since you pointed them out. :)

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The freed up node would only go towards life though, no? I have been looking for a topaz for about a week now with frostbite and dex on it without luck, and plan to continue crafting the diamond ring to get ele attack/attack speed, and cold damage on it, and then replacing it's implicits with synthesized implicits.

I do agree though I don't want to have to use the small passive for lightning res so will continue to keep an eye out

Also looking to get cold damage instead of cold crit, that was just an unlucky augment.

Anything else that would be big? Still only at 7.6m for boss dps, unsure if awakened/double hatred have that big of multipliers

Yea the point probably goes in life, jewel suffixes are big for DPS though. Awakened gems are massive for sure and I recommend starting with melee phys for the Intimidate.

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Velyna wrote:

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Slottm wrote:

Adding some new findings: my character is currently at 22m dps, 5616 hp, 95% evade chance (after being hit), has endurance charges, smashes all, and I mean all content.

https://pastebin.com/0quqWUHx

These ideas are fantastic thanks for the updates, I pretty much agree about soul of steel although it hurts to admit it. The DPS potential really is insane if you ignore left side and commit to one large cluster. Will probably use some of these ideas and give you credit in the guide since you pointed them out. :)

Thanks Vel - you know I'm not here to step on toes, I just love the theory crafting aspect, and pushing as far as I can :)

I can spend hours staring at pob and coming out worse than I was before, until I was speaking with Mishrak yesterday and finally had a light go off pushing another 10% damage, while not losing much life at all =)

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Velyna wrote:

Yea the point probably goes in life, jewel suffixes are big for DPS though. Awakened gems are massive for sure and I recommend starting with melee phys for the Intimidate.

Understandable, and makes sense, ill make sure to go for melee phys first then

So I was lucky enough to roll a hunter influence on a stygian and alt rolled this. . Unsure if worth to keep rolling for t1 attributes or be thankful I got % life and % attributes

Really enjoying the build so far. Working on some items to make them GG.



Really proud of the belt. Gonna work on getting the fire/lightning resists on the tree/jewels and then I can drop that for flat dex which will be a big DPS boost.

Working on making a lvl 8 frostbite ring with essence dex
That might take a bit to do, however.

I have a hunter stygian with T1 %attributes and completely harvest craftable mods, but I'm not sue if it'd be worth it over the belt I have currently. It kinda feels like its a GG belt.

Was really hoping for % attributes on the amulet, but it didn't happen (initially came with +int and +attributes flat on awakener orb). Did double remove non-influence/add influence and hit lvl22 haste and the block. I suppose its not the worst mod, but I can't safely remove it so RIP. Still working to get T1 life and WED on it.

Question: How much more worth is Corrosive Elements over Sadist? I have Vengeful Commander, Sadist, Disorienting Display jewel, and wasn't able to get Corrosive Elements at all. Is it that much more worth?

What piece of gear should I focus on upgrading right now? I'm at 3.2m DPS right now.

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So I was lucky enough to roll a hunter influence on a stygian and alt rolled this.

. Unsure if worth to keep rolling for t1 attributes or be thankful I got % life and % attributes

It's quite hard to beat a cyclopean coil, don't think I would move forward without T1 personally.