[3.0] How to Flicker. Two Handed Weapon Edition!

Don't forget that the 15% AoE of Doomsower is ONLY for the gems socketed in it! Meaning that if you have your flicker strike in nay other item it won't get that 15% aoe.

In your case The doomsower has a nice roll opposed to the terrible roll of the kaom ( btw eDPS means nothing for this build ), though the culling strike is pretty nice. So idk .. i've always prefered kaom's primacy ( a better rolled one ofc ). And just a reminder - you can buy a perfectly rolled ( in terms of physical damage ) Kaom's Primacy for 1 ( yes ONE ) chaos orb in standard.

Hmm interesting idea. I've completely forgot about the culling strike buff. To be honest it does look pretty sexy now ( and not just for this build ). Hmm actually ... are you sure that it got buffed ? After some research it doesn't seem to be changed at all! In any case .... that just shows how used we are to some certain previous knowledge ( this is good, this is bad ) and how revisiting some gems, items, idea can be extremely beneficial !


EDIT: Ok so after a couple of quick tests and some thinking about it here is my opinion on 20/20% Culling Strike compared to added fire damage and faster attacks.

Both faster attacks and added fire damage add more tooltip DPS .. no tooltip is not the right word ... more dps on papper. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they are better .. let me break down what each of those 3 gems gives so i can explain better.

Added Fire damage
+ Gives a pretty big damage boost ( fire )
- the damage it gives is elemental and that leads to 2 cons. - monsters have fire resistance ( and bosses have a lot of it ) so even if the damage numbers on paper are very high the actual damage is not that high. ANd of course you can't leech from that extra fire damage that you get from this support gem

Faster Attacks
+ It gives you a lot of attack speed
- That can be a problem if you can't kill things with low amount of hits ... ah .. this needs more explaining. If you must decide between more attack speed or more damage (with this build) you must consider the following - you won't to kill things with as few hits as possible in order to have a steady flow of frenzy charges so that you can be with max frenzy charges 24/7. Frenzy charges = damage = attack speed. So when you consider using faster attacks over a damage boosting support gem you should test and see if it's ok for you to miss on that potential damage boost in favor of the attack speed.

Culling Strike
+ It gives some damage ( physical )
+ It gives some attack speed ( if 20/20% gem )
+ It gives culling strike
The culling strike is great because with it you will insta-kill things that otherwise would survive at 10% or less life. Also it is great for Bosses.
Now you look at all the pros. of this gem and the lack of cons. but the cons. here are hidden. The cons. are that yes it gives physical damage and yes it gives attack speed but the problem is that it gives rather small amounts of it. Should you consider using it? Absolutely ! Should you actually use it? Perhaps ... more testing is required in my opinion.

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KorgothBG wrote:

some play it in hc and say its ok but personally I wouldn't recommend it.

It's hard to get the information needed for the pre-2.0.0 culling strike. It used to give penalty to your attack/cast speed but that penalty was reduced up to level 20 when it was completely gone now it just gives no penalty at all levels that much i remember. What i couldn't remember was the difference in the damage increase at level 20. So after some searching i think i used to be 20% and now it's 38% which is not bad, though i personally think that further buffs for culling strike are in order.