[3.5] Say_Ten's Melee Shadow - Murder Everything Cheaply

Nice, thanks to share your current gear.. My last question about the BoR... It is good enough to sacrifice chest armor?

Can anyone tell me how to improve my gear? I find it hard to get things that give me more dmg. Everyone talks about melting boss but i am at 6.5k hp and 212k dps in tooltip at hideout and guardians and shaper seems to last forever compared to other boss killing builds after so many exalts spent.

"

"

He1gich wrote:

Thank You. Now I saw my mistake. This is a really crazy build, huge damage at minimum cost. A pleasure to play.

Damn right!

"

xerxis_esp wrote:

Nice, thanks to share your current gear.. My last question about the BoR... It is good enough to sacrifice chest armor?

yes, this is covered in the build description and the FAQ a bit...but to keep the build cheap, it's useful. otherwise to keep up with the damage AND make your defenses better, you need a decent 6L armor, which isn't cheap.

you can match or beat the damage using a 6L armor that provides excellent defense (belly of the beast) and a unique helm that increases damage (starkonja's hood, rat's nest, etc)...but i like the simplicity of the BoR

"

sUstOdKa wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to improve my gear? I find it hard to get things that give me more dmg. Everyone talks about melting boss but i am at 6.5k hp and 212k dps in tooltip at hideout and guardians and shaper seems to last forever compared to other boss killing builds after so many exalts spent.

"

what is your base crit chance %? what is your dps with full charges/blood rage/atziris and taste of hate up?

you could have more flat phys on your rings but i think they are fine really. you could also have a much better jewel in your belt.

are you running maps with cancer mods? shaper just has a ton of life. guardians really shouldn't be that bad. not sure what you are comparing it to or if it's based of an expectation, but if you give me a little more information and comment on what i'm typing here, i might be able to help.

"

Say_Ten wrote:

"

sUstOdKa wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to improve my gear? I find it hard to get things that give me more dmg. Everyone talks about melting boss but i am at 6.5k hp and 212k dps in tooltip at hideout and guardians and shaper seems to last forever compared to other boss killing builds after so many exalts spent.

"

what is your base crit chance %? what is your dps with full charges/blood rage/atziris and taste of hate up?

you could have more flat phys on your rings but i think they are fine really. you could also have a much better jewel in your belt.

are you running maps with cancer mods? shaper just has a ton of life. guardians really shouldn't be that bad. not sure what you are comparing it to or if it's based of an expectation, but if you give me a little more information and comment on what i'm typing here, i might be able to help.

These are my stats with everything up.



The build for mapping works really fine and thanks to the gloves i have with the gem setup it is probably one of the best in term of speed i have ever played. I do most map mods and only chaos the ones with reflect. Guardians are easy but still feel like i lack the dmg to burst them down without eventually being killed one or two times.

The thing is, I can do everything and only die to shaper and guardians (haven't tried uber atziri) but i still feel like i lack a lot of dmg for the exalted orbs i have spent in this build.

That being said, the build is fun and this is the first time i get a third character to lvl 90 since perandus.

It is also really annoying to not be able to sustain powercharges for a whole shaper fight because crit chance is too high. Usually when shapre goes to the next phase, i am still at 1-2 power charge from the maximum four but i guess that "broken ascendancy" feel is due to assassin being in a bad spot or something like that, but i get a lot of ppl who says i should have gone ascendant for some reason.

Hi, Say_Ten !

Reached level 90 with your build (which is not something I achieve with all builds, as I'm quite a bad player). Upon seeing Mathil's Blade flurry / Reave build, I decided to give it a try with the same character.

Most of the gear gear remains the same and the tree is the same as your build (just one respec to get a 30 intelligence and a bad jewel to get the missing 9). My DPS jumped from around 700K to 1 Million DPS on releasing BF after 6 stages.

The gameplay is obviously very different from your build (BF is a strange skill indeed) and the leech can feel a little bit squishy (even with 6k Life) but most monsters up to tier 13 maps simply melt, including many bosses. Thanks a lot, because I would never have achieved this without you and this very cheap and efficient in the first place. Could map up to 14 with it, even though I was not melting monsters as fast as now. Have not tried tier 15, due to lack of fundings to do so.


My gear, if anybody is interested.





The sceptre is just a monster... The DPS tool cannot calculate the DPS it generates (it says my BF is at 13K) but it is simply incredible.

"

sUstOdKa wrote:

The build for mapping works really fine and thanks to the gloves i have with the gem setup it is probably one of the best in term of speed i have ever played. I do most map mods and only chaos the ones with reflect. Guardians are easy but still feel like i lack the dmg to burst them down without eventually being killed one or two times.

The thing is, I can do everything and only die to shaper and guardians (haven't tried uber atziri) but i still feel like i lack a lot of dmg for the exalted orbs i have spent in this build.

That being said, the build is fun and this is the first time i get a third character to lvl 90 since perandus.

I've been lazy to follow other builds. Which ones are bursting the guardians and shaper down that fast? At least with the guardians, if you play intelligently and safely, you don't have to die. Shaper is tough due to life pool, all the shit all over the place and needing to get close to him.

Say_Ten : though I haven't been able to test it yet (only tier 14 maps dropping right now), Mathil seemed to say his build with blade flurry and the scepter was really strong vs endgame. Which is why I'm giving it a try (that and the fact the scepter was still affordable then).