Are Shatter Chuck builds still viable at the present?

I'm a player returning having last played in 2014 with a little in 2015. Much of the game has passed me by obviously and I'm learning the new mechanics. In 2014, there was a build called "Shatter Chuck" which (at the time) basically broke the game, and I thought it was genius. It looks like a lot of fun to run that build. (The build depended on the Atziri's Acuity gloves with instant leech, cast on critical, and power charge on critical skills.)

With all of the changes and such over the last five years, do any experts or historians of witch builds know if Shatter Chuck is still viable or still a build that destroys monsters? Before configuring my witch to try it, I'm curious if there is some sort of consensus that, yes, the build is still viable, or no, the build is nerfed or broken, and it would be pointless to try running it.

Thanks for any expertise offered. The game is so different now than 2014!

sadly no its not viable because they took out shotgunning from the game.

Thanks for the reply, appreciated.

When you say that shotgunning got taken out, could I trouble you and ask what precisely this means. My understanding of Shatter Chuck was that you basically walked up close to stuff, cast barrage, which shot out many projectiles per second, and one of them would surely crit, causing power charges to increase and your spells to be cast on crit. What part of this mechanic got changed for the worse?

Thanks again.

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bluddshedd wrote:

Thanks for the reply, appreciated.

When you say that shotgunning got taken out, could I trouble you and ask what precisely this means. My understanding of Shatter Chuck was that you basically walked up close to stuff, cast barrage, which shot out many projectiles per second, and one of them would surely crit, causing power charges to increase and your spells to be cast on crit. What part of this mechanic got changed for the worse?

Thanks again.

Shotgunning was the old way on how COC was played/ Shattered Chuck.

Literally, on the word value.

It means the damage from the multiple projectile is only count as one.

EG: u shoot 5 ball lightning out from your COC only one ball damage is counted, the rest is not. Therefore, killing shattered chuck.

Though the fundamental damage core factor of Shatter Chuck has been butchered, buried and sprinkled with salt, cast on crit build is still among the best and top damage dealer builds in current meta.

Even barrage as main skill for CoC still works for bow CoC builds. However, the fatest, most satisfying boom-boom CoC builds now are CoC assassin (a subclass of shadow, if it's easier for you to understand) among which, the most popular one is this build (or its variant): https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2733675