[3.11] Shaper = Stunned, Tidebreaker Heavy Strike Stunner Build

Thanks for the advice, I implemented what I could with your advice and have significantly raised the dps and completely reworked the tree to use crit and the Jugg ascendancy Undeniable.

Before making these changes I was able to stunlock Chimera and deal with him easily so I am hoping with these changes I can stunlock a T15 Elder...

I managed to get up to 910k shaper dps with heavy strike but it required losing a lot of the damage and aoe from tectonic strike.

Here is the new tree in case anyone wants to see the changes:

https://pastebin.com/EfAL3Lc6

I notice in your builds you seem to get a lot more jewel nodes than I am getting; are the jewel nodes more efficient than just speccing into damage or life?

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Quackas wrote:

Thanks for the advice, I implemented what I could with your advice and have significantly raised the dps and completely reworked the tree to use crit and the Jugg ascendancy Undeniable.

Before making these changes I was able to stunlock Chimera and deal with him easily so I am hoping with these changes I can stunlock a T15 Elder...

I managed to get up to 910k shaper dps with heavy strike but it required losing a lot of the damage and aoe from tectonic strike.

Here is the new tree in case anyone wants to see the changes:

https://pastebin.com/EfAL3Lc6

I notice in your builds you seem to get a lot more jewel nodes than I am getting; are the jewel nodes more efficient than just speccing into damage or life?

Perfectly rolled jewels are much more powerful than just getting damage or life passive nodes. If you can get the 2 good prefixes (7% life and 8% atk spd w/ mace), the prefixes alone are already almost good enough for 3 passive points you invest into the jewel socket.

As long as you can find a semi-decent jewel (at least 2 good prefixes and 1 useful suffix) it's well worth it. If not, you can save some currency by ignoring these jewel sockets, it won't hurt much.

Currently trying a variation of this in HC. Wish me luck

Do we really need the 2 nodes up in the upper right corner for int and the gem slot i honestly prefer elemental resist and hp nodes over flat stats myself unless its absolutely necessary. Will it hurt the build if i take those out?

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sumowow wrote:

Do we really need the 2 nodes up in the upper right corner for int and the gem slot i honestly prefer elemental resist and hp nodes over flat stats myself unless its absolutely necessary. Will it hurt the build if i take those out?

Generally, spending 3 passive points for a jewel socket is worth it. Especially if you can afford a 4 affix jewel with good stats, then nothing surpasses its value. If you're on a small budget, it can be a good idea to pick other nodes (5% life nodes, for example) instead.

I do see you mentioning elemental resist. Usually it's not very efficient to force yourself getting more elemental resist in the tree. Which node are you considering picking?

Since jewels can also provide life and ele resist, we can do a comparison here. You can get a 3 affix jewel with 6% life and 2 resist affixes (+11% to cold and lightning res and +12% to fire and cold res, for example; giving a total of 46% resists) fairly easily, which offers a good combination of life and resists if you're desperate to cap your resists. I don't actually think with 3 passive points one can get as much value as 6% life, 46% resists (and 20 int, which you may or may not need).

I was just considering getting maybe Diamond skin around where we start off our build in the tree and maybe working my way down towards soul of steel but im not sure i'd like to do that if it'll change this entire build just for a couple of nodes.

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sumowow wrote:

I was just considering getting maybe Diamond skin around where we start off our build in the tree and maybe working my way down towards soul of steel but im not sure i'd like to do that if it'll change this entire build just for a couple of nodes.

Diamond Skin is a mediocre node and I think it should only be considered when you really need those extra resists. Soul of Steel should not be considered in most cases, in my opinion. This build doesn’t really need more physical mitigation, and Soul of Steel just doesn’t sound appealing to me at all.

So personally, I wouldn’t suggest picking these instead of the jewel socket.

That being said, the concept of this build is very very simple - we get damage and life and some resists and stun related stuff and that’s it. So feel free to make any changes to the tree - there would never be any seriously negative result. If you really like Diamond Skin, for example, go for it.

Very interested in this build, can it stun uber elder? I mean the one you are attacking, obviously you have to swap but it sounds fun enough that I kind of want to try this out.

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bitbite11 wrote:

Very interested in this build, can it stun uber elder? I mean the one you are attacking, obviously you have to swap but it sounds fun enough that I kind of want to try this out.

In theory? Yes. I've done till t15 elder using the berserker variant of this. But i suggest trying the uber elder encounter AFTER getting the stun wheel.

This is my current pastebin for the zerker variant im using. Slightly more HC geared but should be good https://pastebin.com/LRievb2s