[3.2] Hierophant/Scion GC Totems - Fully Optimized COMPLETE Uber Elder down

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magicrectangle wrote:

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BeerLeague wrote:

New decent stat stick crafted, double fail slam, but still decent. Resists balanced, still working on boot enchant. I believe I am pretty much done with the gear for this guy at the moment other than a better amulet. Going to keep pushing and grinding though, I think this setup will work a bit better on uber elder as well.

Nice dagger, condolences on the double exalt fail.

I know there aren't really any good master suffixes you had left to choose from (crit multi and spell crit already being on it), but local crit chance does nothing. Might as well do attack speed, for whirling blades.

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magicrectangle wrote:

Yeah it is a good item, I chaos spammed something similar yesterday:

Yours is better for sure though (unless I get frisky and decide to exalt it and get lucky).

I'm sort of ambivalent about chaos spamming. I'd rather be misery crafting, but buying up 100+ misery essences is soul crushingly tedious. On the plus side, one of my "almost" results will probably sell and pay for most of the crafting process:

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magicrectangle wrote:

Shrug. Those two daggers represent about 200 chaos of spamming. If I sold both I'd make that back easy. Selling just the one, maybe not, but it didn't turn out too badly.

I burned through all my alts crafting my offhand scepter, but when it comes time to upgrade weapons again I may go the alt-aug-regal-annul-multimod route. Or, I may tolerate the tedium of buying up mass misery essences.

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BeerLeague wrote:

Oh right, I did want to make an extra point as well. Even though I did fail slam this thing twice:

For this build, it is still about the same as something like:

When shopping for these types of items, make sure that you take Path of Building into consideration. We get huge boosts from the Extra damage as cold and spell crit. An item like that off, while amazing for builds like Reeve and Blade Flurry, isn't BiS for this build (although it is still very good).

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magicrectangle wrote:

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BeerLeague wrote:

Oh right, I did want to make an extra point as well. Even though I did fail slam this thing twice:

For this build, it is still about the same as something like:

When shopping for these types of items, make sure that you take Path of Building into consideration. We get huge boosts from the Extra damage as cold and spell crit. An item like that off, while amazing for builds like Reeve and Blade Flurry, isn't BiS for this build (although it is still very good).

Make sure you test different support gems in PoB when you evaluate items like that. Items that take you off cold damage may not look so hot, until you swap cold pen for a different support and see your numbers jump.

Also since it is phys as random element, don't forget PoB doesn't understand that, and you need to break it out.

Importing you into PoB, and manually creating that scepter:

PoB item code

Brood Song (manual)
Sambar Sceptre
Shaper Item
Quality: 20
Sockets: R-R-R
LevelReq: 70
Implicits: 1
Damage Penetrates 6% Elemental Resistances
Adds 17 to 33 Physical Damage
Gain 32% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage
Gain 13% of Elemental Damage as Extra Chaos Damage
Gain 6.34% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage
Gain 6.33% of Physical Damage as Extra Cold Damage
Gain 6.33% of Physical Damage as Extra LIghtning Damage
Damage Penetrates 9% Elemental Resistances
{crafted}{range:1}+(22-27)% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier

I see the damage with your current gem setup jump from 260k DPS with foe skewer to 278k DPS with brood song.

Changing cold penetration for hypothermia ups that further to 318k DPS.

Here's the full paste:
https://pastebin.com/48jUvz4r

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punkdb_ wrote:

Many thanks for this amazing build, got my first ever shaper kill with it!

My gear so far