How is ssf going for u guys/girls? ^^

At the moment I'm trying out Bog Shaman with cold DOT. I was trying the herald ascendancy with all heralds and replica alpha's howl, but seemed like I would need to focus on just herald of agony, so I'm giving the cold DOT ago. Seems to be working pretty well, although a bit slow to start with since I had no gems levelled. I guess if the character last until the migration I might be able to switch it over to Occultist. Also thinking of trying Chaos DOT. I'm using 2 extra curses on top of Pacify. Seems like a pretty good slow play style for HC with the malediction.

Also making a COC cyclone/rolling magma CI Polytheist. Started my league with a Balista totem Wildspeaker which is still going and helping me do some of the tougher content, like verusium ore.

RIP, probably due to player error but not sure, could also be one of those weird desyncs/lags/whatever I have had recently.



Tree:

What content were you doing? Looks like with that gear you would of been mega tanky.

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

What content were you doing? Looks like with that gear you would of been mega tanky.

T17 map. The build has the weakness that it needs "The Immortal Will" to be up. Not sure what exactly happened but my most likely guess is that it wasnt up at the time due to not enough channeling before that. "Player error" == not enough channeling before engaging mobs.

Edit: Its also quite possible to RIP in T16 with such builds, just needs a few hard mods and clicking the wrong Altar. Remeber taking dangerous damage to a "boss gains extra & penetrates resists" Altar in Toxic Sewers in Necro Settlers.

I see. How was the harbinger ascendancy? I was going to try it out, but was a bit worried about that sort of thing and trying Polytheist instead.

My build is also cyclone CI, but no where near as powerful as what you had going. Looks like it was a cool build.

I'm also using ghost dance, is that what you are talking about with the alters? Anything else I need to watch out for with that? Other than map mods. My base evasion comes almost entirely from Grace. So im wondering if there is anything else that can drastically reduce my evasion or interrupt my aura.

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

How was the harbinger ascendancy?

My impression is that it is very "niche". Some nodes (the extra ES and Channeling one esp) are strong but only for those builds leveraging them.

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

My build is also cyclone CI, but no where near as powerful as what you had going. Looks like it was a cool build.

It played much better than my EE CI Necro Settlers Blade Trap build. Unfortunately it didnt have good DPS though. Not sure if that (DPS low) would have been fixable, I yoloed it without proper planning.

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

I'm also using ghost dance, is that what you are talking about with the alters? Anything else I need to watch out for with that? Other than map mods. My base evasion comes almost entirely from Grace. So im wondering if there is anything else that can drastically reduce my evasion or interrupt my aura.

Only things I am aware of:
1) Misclick on aura icon, weapon swap, removing gear, that kind of thing.
2) Reduced effect of auras map/area mod, especially with inc effect of map mods.
3) "Reduced defenses per Frenzy" (sp?) Altar mod.
Theres also "Less Defenses" T17 mod but it will lessen ES also.

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Only things I am aware of:
1) Misclick on aura icon, weapon swap, removing gear, that kind of thing.
2) Reduced effect of auras map/area mod, especially with inc effect of map mods.
3) "Reduced defenses per Frenzy" (sp?) Altar mod.
Theres also "Less Defenses" T17 mod but it will lessen ES also.

Yep that aura misclick one is a good point. Did not think of that, cheers.

Are you going to make a new build now, or taking a break?

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

Yep that aura misclick one is a good point. Did not think of that, cheers.

You can disable the Aura icons under Options.

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

Are you going to make a new build now, or taking a break?

Maybe a little leveling experiment next week or so, would need a good build idea for it though.

So I checked my Idols and dont have enough good Abyss XP idols. And there is some bad bugginess with Abyss that often they dont appear, if I do 1 Abyss from Idols and 2 from Kirac then on average I only get 2 per map, this isnt limited to a single layout either. So the leveling experiment doesnt look good.

Just "burned" all my 4 Lightning Coils trying for a double corrupt:


Guess its time for end-of-league gambling:

Edit: Poofed along with ~10k juice.