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AlphaRage wrote:
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Quizzlemanizzle wrote:
you dont even get the burning damage, herald is useless
you should use Grace (and Iron Reflexes node) + blasphemy/vulnerability or another curse such as Warlords thats gives you leech and endurance charges and you should be able to drop Blood Magic from your Cyclone because that is a HUGE DPS loss.
If you are using Physical only you should be using Brutality gem and full physical obviously.
Look at my post before, check out these path of building strings, they might give you some ideas.
Useful pastebin, thanks. After analyzing it I get the following ideas:
I cannot replicate your tree as I'm playing Juggernaut. Nodes on your tree match mine most of the time though (except for the right side of the tree, which I cannot access).
If I get Razor's Edge passive, Voidheart can be swapped, right? I see you're using Bloodlust on Cyclone and Bleed on Ancestral Warchief. If I don't have a 6-Link chest can I skip using Bloodlust and in turn skip using Bleed on Ancestral Warchief?
Your Ancestral Warchief has Maim-Faster Attacks-Bleed. I'm thinking about a 5-Link with Maim-Faster Attacks-Concentrated Effect-Melee Physical. The reason for 5-Linking Ancestral Warchief is that I don't have Enlighten for a 5-Link aura setup right now. I would still 4-Link Blasphemy-Vulnerability/Warlord's Mark-Grace-Blood Rage paying 85% Mana then.
Why use Vengeance on Leap Slam instead of Faster Attacks and why not use Faster Attacks on Cyclone?
I'm not surprised to hear that using Blood Magic makes me lose DPS but in turn I thought it was a better using it still since the OP stated that "Running 100% of your mana into auras the best thing to do overall and will require you to run your utility skills off bloodmagic."
The OP does not play a brutality build so generally different gems and auras.
Vengeance on my build is there because it is the only way I can fit it really and Leap Slam is ok enough since i Am so fast I only use leap slam to engage or jump over obstacles.
Actually right now I am playing without leap slam at all and have the cwdt-immortal cal-duration-molten shell setup instead since I am still squishy.
Faster Attacks on cyclone is bad if you are full physical. All the gems in my build synergize and dropping one of them is a huge loss. Faster Attacks is not nearly as effective. It would be the 9th strongest gem or so.
Concentrated effect reduces your cyclone radius and really does not even add dps unless a 7 link was possible then it would be the best option for just dps.
You dont need a 5 link for auras a 4 link will do.
You need a 6 link for cyclone thats all. The only thing you gain in my build from another 6 link would be to have enhance link with your auras in addition to blood rage which makes you aura range a little better. Overall if you prefer faster attacks on leap slam you can drop the enhance and put vengeance there, it is not a huge loss.
I can't really help you more than that the rest you need to figure out. Keep in mind my build I posted is theoretically with the best gear I can imagine the only improvement would be insane boots with the best uber lab enchantment I think.
The main thing for a full phys build you need to know is that 6 linking cyclone is huge. If you don't believe in bloodlust gem and want to keep bleeds go cyclone-brutality-meleedmg-dmgonfulllife-maim-ruthless and link warchief with faster attacks and whatever offers the best dmg or aoe.
In that case I guess the new bleed node would be worth.
From playing the biggest annoyance for me is to keep the boss in the ancestral warchief totem as lion roar knockback is great but you need to push the boss in a corner to keep him in range. Also dont stop attacking melee range to recast the totem that can easily be fatal if you are not tanky.
You should not use Voidheart with Starforge imo. You cant poison with brutality and if you use bloodlust like I do you don't get bleeds from cyclone a nice ring with phys dmg, attack speed, life, res, int would be a big upgrade.
