Molten Shell - The build

I'm working on a PvE variant (wha!? y u no pvp?) that doesnt use Zerphi's at all. So far its pretty neat. At the very least, I have been doing practical tests of phys armor + endurance charges/phys reduction methods.


With 27k armor, 5 endurance charges, chaos golem, and 4% phys reduction from skill tree, molten shell explodes every time. With Endurance Charges up, I do not require any flasks to activate molten shell.


Here's my gear (elementalist):


My stats:


Skill Tree:



Why Elementalist?
Proliferate, 25% fire pen, AoE, status ailments.

-Also tried on marauder (Juggernaut) - great for reaching max endurance charges, doesnt require Determination aura, may be a viable option for someone who wants to pvp without a zerphi's



Lastly, regarding the math you have with armor, I tested out 52k armor + the 4% phys reduction node on the skill tree and that provides 85% physical reduction. With 1 Endurance charge I am exploding a level 20 Molten shell every cast

So just saw this:

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Qarl wrote:

Also, if there is something your strongly feel is severely problematic, the best way to get the message across is to abuse it in PVP.

Some complaints we think we will resolve as the meta of PVP shifts to accommodate certain strategies, and some things are issues there may be less of an answer to.

Thanks everyone for playing, and please let us know what you think of the experience!

here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/55447/page/1#p694193

Turns out we were providing excellently all this time :P

Keep up the good work Zerphi players!

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Posted by Quarl
on Nov 2, 2012 1:31:25 PM

And they did an excellent job fixing all of this during those 4 years...

Wich is another excellent occasion to quote my favorite post of all time again

they nerfed cwdt trigger on bm right ......

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Márkusz wrote:

So just saw this:

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Qarl wrote:

Also, if there is something your strongly feel is severely problematic, the best way to get the message across is to abuse it in PVP.

Some complaints we think we will resolve as the meta of PVP shifts to accommodate certain strategies, and some things are issues there may be less of an answer to.

Thanks everyone for playing, and please let us know what you think of the experience!

here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/55447/page/1#p694193

Turns out we were providing excellently all this time :P

Keep up the good work Zerphi players!

Damn, is that why they shit all over the hair trigger jewels?

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Simplesim45 wrote:

Damn, is that why they shit all over the hair trigger jewels?

Try something else, its not nice enough of a meme, it got compensated well enough, doubled numbers. Some AoE bonuses didn't get any, double the number is still a lucky one.

Base trigger radius is 10 units
  with old 220% trap trigger radius = 32 units
  with new 210% trap trigger area from tree + 5 Hair Trigger (60%) = 24.7 (25?) units

it still within cluster trap spread area, nothing changed.

Would there be a way for this to work Mind over Matter?

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max_tompo wrote:

Would there be a way for this to work Mind over Matter?

Get 30% mana gain through praxis rings, drop BM, get more mana and mana regen.

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a_z0_9 wrote:

Base trigger radius is 10 units
  with old 220% trap trigger radius = 32 units
  with new 210% trap trigger area from tree + 5 Hair Trigger (60%) = 24.7 (25?) units

it still within cluster trap spread area, nothing changed.

Have you guys not seen the drastic difference between before & after?

With 11 updated jewels, the trigger radius is about half of what it used to be.