[3.5] Death by a Thousand Cuts - Frost Blades & Blade Flurry Raider

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Shomix wrote:

Can anyone more with more knowledge take a look at my character and tell me what i need to swap/upgrade first, as i am kinda stuck at t6-9 maps. I get one-shotted frequently by bosses, and single target damage is not spectacular, so i use totem dude to help out.

Thankful in advance.

A lot of your gear doesn't have good life on it, and your Belly has almost min rolls. You're also not using a defensive flask, nor a diamond flask, nor the Constitution nodes.

I suggest you follow the guide more, as a first step.

Constitution = big bulky max HP nodes on left side of the tree? I don't have enough points to get to them. Or are they a priority? aka remove damage stuff from right side and get those?

Anyone smarter than me explain why multistrike is better than elemental focus? In path of building my DPS on magma balls goes from 305 000 to 660 000 using elemental focus. I get that multistrike attacks 2 more times but is that in the same time it takes to hit once without it? Just curious on how the numbers work.

I downloaded Path of Building just so I could figure this out.

Pure elemental claws, even at 350-400 edps don't seem to be very effective.

However, phys claws with

-Adds X-X Phys
-Increased phys
-increased critical strike chance

are the ones that make all the difference. Unfortunately, these are many exalts.


I managed to find this and according to PoB it gives me a 20K boost to my buffed DPS.

sorry i have to ask: what i your chance to hit? 75%? u have 0 accuracy....i am a bit baffled...otherwise nice build pushing fb to engame.

It's at 85%. I don't know if I can get it much higher. I am having trouble with resists every time I change any gear. haha.

For a while I had Elder gloves that also at Additional Accuracy support which put it at 90. I dropped them for gloves with resist. I totally forgot to add more to make up for it.

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Shomix wrote:

Constitution = big bulky max HP nodes on left side of the tree? I don't have enough points to get to them. Or are they a priority? aka remove damage stuff from right side and get those?

If you're dying a lot, then yes they are a priority.

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RainingTears wrote:

sorry i have to ask: what i your chance to hit? 75%? u have 0 accuracy....i am a bit baffled...otherwise nice build pushing fb to engame.

My chance to hit is bad (85%). Yes I don't have any accuracy. It's more because I'm poor though.

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evenson wrote:

Anyone smarter than me explain why multistrike is better than elemental focus? In path of building my DPS on magma balls goes from 305 000 to 660 000 using elemental focus. I get that multistrike attacks 2 more times but is that in the same time it takes to hit once without it? Just curious on how the numbers work.

You use both.

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CynthiaCrescent wrote:

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evenson wrote:

Anyone smarter than me explain why multistrike is better than elemental focus? In path of building my DPS on magma balls goes from 305 000 to 660 000 using elemental focus. I get that multistrike attacks 2 more times but is that in the same time it takes to hit once without it? Just curious on how the numbers work.

You use both.

Not sure it's worth losing ancestral call over. Might be though, guess I'll have to try.

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evenson wrote:

Anyone smarter than me explain why multistrike is better than elemental focus? In path of building my DPS on magma balls goes from 305 000 to 660 000 using elemental focus. I get that multistrike attacks 2 more times but is that in the same time it takes to hit once without it? Just curious on how the numbers work.

If I'm not wrong :
- Multistrike is a 0.7*1.94=1.358 multiplier, with the downside of being forced to execute 3 attacks in a row
- Elemental focus is a 1.49 multiplier, with the downside of not being able to apply elemental ailments

So yeah it seems that elemental focus is stronger than Multistrike ! However I'm not taking into account various advantages of attacking faster and I'm not sure on how Multistrike attack speed multiplier interact with other sources of increased attack speed. I don't know either how PoB is calculating it, but I guess you can trust it.