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sny83 wrote:

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kubicka wrote:

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Geshemancer wrote:

First of all, thanks you for the clarification and help.
I just bought a watcher's eye and gloves with mine fixes.
Plus crafted my flasks.
My current setup is as follows:

I had no trouble running tier 15 maps even prior to the changes i just made.
I killed red elder easily. but when it came to the bosses of higher tier maps, did did kill me very easily and very often, that made my experience feel like i'm playing a glass canon type of character and it wasn't my impression from the build when i first saw it, so maybe i'm doing something wrong.
BTW i didn't try T16 yet, so i have nothing to say about the difficulty of those maps.

But after i changed my gloves to the new trap/mine thingy, i had to relocate my Whirling Blades gem to somewhere, that being my dagger.
But that means i lost all of my supporting gem to Whirling Blades.
So what am i supposed to do with my gem setup now?

And where do i go from here?

As jackieh917 said, readd the support gems to Whirling Blades, they make a big difference. I don't quite agree with dropping Enfeeble from the build to do it, though.

I know this thread loves Lightning Spire trap, and for good reason: it's super strong for single target damage. But surrendering one of the few defensive options the build has to get it isn't going to help new players survive longer all of a sudden. If you're a more defensive-minded player (like me), what you can do instead is modify your Storm Brand 4-link to use Curse on Hit + lvl20 Enfeeble and either Culling Strike or Blind, depending on whether you want to stack more offense or more defense. This turns your Storm Brand into one big debuff button for your enemies and a buff button for yo
urself, which even at 60% reduced curse effectiveness on Syndicate members reduces their damage, crit chance and crit multiplier by 13% and their accuracy by 16%, assuming your gems are qualitied. With Blind as the fourth link, it gets even better at mitigating incoming damage.

Sure, I don't melt Shaper guardians in 3 seconds with this setup, but I'm fine with killing them in 10-15, when the benefit is me never once having died to either them or T15-T16 Syndicate, despite never skipping them, I'm okay with this trade-off. My only two Syndicate deaths were to Mastermind and those were due to not knowing the mechanics.

As for Arcane Surge, you still get to keep it in the build by linking it and an Increased Duration support to Flame Dash in one of your daggers, which allows you to add two levels to it, making it an even bigger damage buff. If you got lucky and got a nice dagger with "Socketed gems are supported by lvl## Faster Casting", you can even use a lvl10 AS and enjoy lightning fast Flame Dashes that help you keep the buff up safely all the time.

How can i link my whirling blades with this setup though. I don't see a way to do that.

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Geshemancer wrote:

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How can i link my whirling blades with this setup though. I don't see a way to do that.

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Les_Onardo wrote:

Anyone interested in some multi-craft-ready daggers?

EDIT: Both platinum kris daggers have been sold

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mali_medo wrote:

anyone interested in 5 linking my inpulsa because i can't seem to do it. I have 33 chaos and i'll give it all just so I can continue to play this build.

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mali_medo wrote:

but i already have maximum number of sockets.

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Folcwalda wrote:

Sorry for the basic question but I am a true noob and I can't for the life of me figure out how to craft a wand as instructed in the directions for Act 1. I thought maybe I had to wait to get a crafting bench in act 2. I have the crafting bench and still can't figure it out. I've tried looking up youtube videos but they have not helped either.

Can anyone please help me out?