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Morkonan wrote:

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Nhmrath wrote:

Hi from another xbox player as well, at least you have an inpulsa as I haven't but have to admit that I play SSF this league.
On Inpulsa's that most important attribute we are looking for is increased effect of shock max roll you could get is 40% here. Explosions is good for mapping so not bad to have between 8 and 10%. The rest is to ignore I mean life is still good even with 65 life.

It is max roll on Lightning and a few points from max on the other two meaningful stats. It cost me 6 ex. But, I tried for two weeks to buy other Inpulsa's with no success. Either they didn't accept my bids, wanted far too much for a badly rolled Inpulsas, or just didn't log in.

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Next point is Ahn's Heritage. This shield is the best u can use no matter if you have to sacrifice to other jewels in the passive tree. Even if you lose damage which I doubt as onslaught is way too mighty u still take the silver pot out and swap it with a sulfur flask (40% increased damage). Every crimson jewel you can corrupt no matter if they are magic or rare, at least those fragility jewels I do have. At least something.

I'll try it out, today. I'll have to do some "figurin'" to decide what other jewels to drop, though.

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Wondering you said 19k on arc which level your gems do have. Admit I am lvl 92 but still without inpulsa unbuffed town damage is already close to 30k.

DPS is now showing to be 21k, after an upgraded neck with spell/lighting/cast speed on it. (I was very happy when that dropped!)

Also, I don't have a 6 link, yet. None of the Inpulsa six links were worth what they were asking for them, since they were terribly rolled and just out of reach on price. (12+ex or so) So, I am running without Hypothermia. I know it isn't taken into account in the calcs, though.

All gems are just now dinging on 20 and I am starting the upgrade process. I didn't level all of the necessary ones in my alternate weapon slots, so it's going a bit slow. That's probably a good reason why my XBox Sheet dps is a bit lower than it should be. (I was having so much fun that I forgot. :) )

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You mentioned 45% chance to shock without golem, 145% with. It's not your golem that's our conflux Ascendancy which switching the different elemental alignments every 4 seconds.

Gotcha. I'm used to the golem running about in my Hideout and changing my sheet stats as it moves back in range. That's likely the instinctive reasoning I used for that, having forgot to take into account the bonus from cycling elements.

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Cheers.

Thanks much for the reply!

I'll incorporate the Ahn's today (Have two in my stash) and rework around that setup. That's likely a big boost, so I'll post back the results for a light comparison.

One thing about this build that's a bit different than others:

Once the player has a decent 5+ linked Inpulsa's, the build enables them to put all the mid and high-mid, maybe even more, Maps on "Farm" status.

There are a goodly number, even of SSF, builds out there that depend on uber gear to really shine. They can get "grindy" in mapping, struggling to clear the really good maps, just to have a chance to find "something" to give them that final key item so they can then "do the thing and get their build-completing gear."

This build just does not give a darn about that. The Inpulsa's is key, of course. But, after that, it's all gravy and being able to quickly clear rich maps is easily in reach, even with sub-standard gear, at least compared to the end-game gear.

I've played several SSF builds on Xbox, trying to compensate for the somewhat less than optimal Trade market it has. It has been better, this league, IMO, likely due to Delve and the influx of gear and currency from that. But, still, optimized items are hard to come by and it's not as easy as "Just search for it" on XBox as it may be on PC.

Thanks again for the advice!

PS - Some help, here: For comparison, what's your +elemental dmg, +spell dmg, +elemental Penetration and Cast speed? (And, any straight +% all damage you might have?) I'm trying to get an idea of where I stand on those variables. I should probably check the damage formula and manually experiment by plugging in some numbers to see what effects it the most.

Edit Add: I haven't completed my Uber lab, yet. That's 10% dmg, right there, so that helps to explain some differences. (Tried it twice, but made the mistake of doing it on a Saturday. I prob picked the wrong one boss mod to do it on, too. Anyway, fighting lag and worrying about crashes and disconnects is often more worrisome than boss encounters... :) )

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..Cast Speed is useful until you reach 5 casts per second with Arcane Surge up, this also includes the Onslaught from Ahn's. After that it's best to stack as much lightning / elemental damage% as possible, spell damage only if there's no better damage prefix, such as on amulets. All three stats give the same damage increase, however only the first two boost Inpulsa explosion damage so they should have priority...

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Nhmrath wrote:

Hi, about the crashes you are right do have bad struggles while entering the delves. Last time even 2 crashes, it's quite annoying.

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Yes the last Ascendancy will be the flame golem, it's a nice damage booster too. Had my über lab done at lvl 90, (sorry would have it done way earlier, but the trials arsed me so badly) and was easy, way too easy to be honest, there I fear Argus more :))

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Sure my damage was first of all focused on cast speed so in town its 4.87, 5 golem buffed in hideout without Ahn's Heritage. As enky already said keep it at five and stack elemental/lightning damage, as it helps us more than spell damage.