*Updated for 3.2* Volkuur's poison! millions of dps (7.5 mil shaper - 20 mil shaper GG gear)

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engharat wrote:

Ice bite would be nice just for the frenzy charges, the added damage is not that much in comparisong with vile toxins
Anyway, I think it is the moment to chill a little our mind and our souls - having levelled with this build from the beginning (poison build at lvl 10!) and reached 90 now, I can tell you that this is not a magical build that thanks to volkuur will let you kill Shaper in 20c gear. It needs a serious investment on it before killing guardians and shaper; I have already put 20ex on it and still I cannot afford killing guardians.
The main issues are:
- You need a bunch of jewels with 2xT1 flat lightning dmg and T1 life/ES, occasionally with increased attack speed also, to do a reasonable damage on high tier maps.
- This is a squishy build that will always be squishier than a corresponding wander/bower with the same jewels and skill tree; the issue is not in the low ehp - you can reach 6.7k ehp giving up some damage as OP said - the issue is that our poison DPS is reached when on full poison stacks. If our poison last 3 secs, it means that at 1.5 sec we are at half of our full DPS. at 0.75sec we are at 1/4. What this means in practice is that when clearing trash mobs you are more vulnerable than a wander because a wander istantly kills the monsters, while with this build the monsters stay alive a fraction of time enough to hit and potentially kill you. I'm sitting at 6.5k ehp and still happen me to die randomly, esp. on abyss . I imagine this issue is share with any poison build atm; still, I will NEVER be able to carry a group on a poorjoy rota, just to say the first thing that come in my mind.

SO...I invested 20 ex of gear, preparing to spend another 6 ex for dying sun, and still I do not reach damage of OP setup, that has some marvellous 4 bonus jewels. I suppose a wander with 20 ex of gear can kill the same stuffs of me, but more reliable.
And THEN...you now have to pay 6 ex for volkuur?!
Well guys, I love this hipster build and I'll continue to develop it, but I suggest any of you that does not still have volkuur to wait for lower prices because the investement now is too high for the return.

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fx324 wrote:

Cool build. I have a gc miner that one shots shaper and atziri, but wanted a LOLCATZ build and this is it.

Had some currency so have been going to town snapping up lightning/life abyssals. Still have a long way to go in optimizing the gear. Any thoughts?

This is mainly for T13-T16 mapping and bosses. GC Miner for shaper/atziri/hotg/elder etc

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Sacr0 wrote:

your attack speed is a bit low. you dont have uber-lab yet and there's some room to improve your jewels.
try to get one jewel with %chance to blind on hit to get the 60% inc dmg from the quiver. attack speed (and as if crit recently) on jewels is great to have as 3. roll.
your char is only lvl 71 so there's a lot of room to improve it even if you skilled most dmg already.

your gems are not fully leveled and have no quality. quality on support gems will greatly boost the dmg.
i recommend using ice shot in your 5l setup for leveling, will greatly boost clearspeed.

you are missing boots+helmet enchant.