[3.17] For Slayer / Champion - Ngamahu Cyclone / Consecrated Path / Tectonic Slam

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Freez3r wrote:

very impressive gear for SSF !

do you think that bronn's is a viable endgame chest for this build ?

it gives a huge dmg boost but has 0 life.

On my ngamahu builds i tried the kintsugi chest, the "20% less Damage taken if you have not been Hit Recently" works for reflected dmg aswell!

I remember that reflect was the only thing that caused trouble for me

Thank you. :)

Yes. Bronn is definitely an endgame chest for this build. At my current level, I have 6150+ life which is sufficient for all content (except probably Hall of Grandmasters Promenade Map).

Sibyl is a must have to handle reflect. With Ruby flask, you will be able to tank through single elemental reflect mob.

Thanks a lot Enzymaticc and kira1414 for your enlightening responses :).

One more thing that came to me. Assuming that i never get Xorph's Blood, how vital is the avatar of fire keystone to the build? The way i understand it (which i am pretty sure i am missing something) we get 50% of all the phys dmg that we would have done and make it fire, then toss the rest. It seems to my inexperienced eyes as a dmg loss. Can you please shed some light on this?

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tsapadim wrote:

Thanks a lot Enzymaticc and kira1414 for your enlightening responses :).

One more thing that came to me. Assuming that i never get Xorph's Blood, how vital is the avatar of fire keystone to the build? The way i understand it (which i am pretty sure i am missing something) we get 50% of all the phys dmg that we would have done and make it fire, then toss the rest. It seems to my inexperienced eyes as a dmg loss. Can you please shed some light on this?

Good question. Avatar of Fire provides at least 30% more damage (huge) to the build.

In the past (before SSF), I would say you can skip Avatar of Fire keystone till you can afford Xoph's Blood. But after playing SSF (and without Xoph's for extended period of time), I would certainly recommend you to pick up Avatar of Fire from the skill tree. The damage provided is just too good to pass up.

Let me give you an example, though I was able to do full key runs for uber lab in SSF without Xoph, the time to kill Uber Izaro is significantly longer without Avatar of Fire.

The reason being, Ngamahu convert 50% physical damage to fire and Avatar of Fire converts the other 50%, making you deal 100% fire damage. With Fire Penetration on the axe + Flammability curse, monsters are taking more damage from your fire attacks.

I've never played with Ngamahu so decided to try it out in the beta and all I can say is I'm loving it.

Nice to see a Blood Rage in your SSF setup, I found that to be a nice addition.

Unless they change reflect in 3.0 I don't think there will need to be as much defense against it.

Ended up leveling another duelist for the bandits and gonna do tanky on one and yolo glasscannon on the other, btw i just noticed i wasn't using Cyclone properly at all, it's really hard to keep it fast paced doing Leap slam at max range then move cursor close to me for a short cyclone, feeling way better now though, definitely the best/fastest lab runner i have, love it!

Got some cool stuff for 1c as well, more move/resists/damage and a ton of int, though still missing the neck feelsbad

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/154201194

Clench hydra run from earlier.

Map Mods: Enfeeble (F#$% enfeeble), -10% Max Resists, 30% Monster movement speed, 41% Monster attack speed, 42% Cast speed, 20% chance to cause status ailments. #Meleeboys

what's a good alternative to xoph's blood if you don't have enough chaos/ex to buy it? will an amulet with increased fire/elemental damage do any good?

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VladimirPutin12 wrote:

what's a good alternative to xoph's blood if you don't have enough chaos/ex to buy it? will an amulet with increased fire/elemental damage do any good?

A decently-rolled Carnage Heart amulet is reallyyyy good. (and you take avatar of fire on the tree).

Did 1 Shaper run the other day and both of these dropped from it. Belt-dropped as-is, just tossed the enchant on it.

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Uber Atziri down, wasn't too bad once you get the hang of vaal lightning trap (which isn't even required at all, just makes it easier). Vessels of the vaal are really simple. Trio is pretty faceroll if you just Zerg down the ranged add while not standing in the aoe rain of arrow thing, then kill the reflect guy next and just kite/run while he's enraged and reflecting, then zerg him down once he stops. Last one from there is easy. Did first 2 minibosses deathless, died twice on atziri due to fail, but I'm confident next go I can do it from here with 0 deaths or maybe 1 tops.

Next time I do uber atziri I'll record it so vid is available.

Can you tell us the appropriate time to use the new vaal lightning skill suggestion?