[3.4] Teleports Behind You - Poet's Pen Lightning Warp & Arc, MF / Facetank t16 / Shaper / U. Elder

I decided to start leveling a new character with your build and its really great so far, i dont think that i ever played a funnier build then this - Thank you!

My Char so far:

Level 78




I whish i got the lightning warp mtx, this build would be even better with it :D

One question, would be blade vortex with conc. effect and inc. duration any good with this build instead of shock nova for single target?

Hey.
I am leveling this currently. It is funny. I have one question though, somewhere in this thread you said the faster attacks is needed for frenzy to get enough aps with it.
If I understand everything correctly you are attacking mostly with barrage anyways, so why is the faster attack enchant exactly needed? Is it because you are alternating from time to time and this is a huge dps loss?

Regards

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Ogrenci wrote:

The build is so much easy to play. Thank you very much. And I would appriciate if you can give some advices on improving my char. Still can't facetank mino... Thank you!

Hmm your build looks quite good, what is the issue with minotaur? Is he one-shotting you? The only problem I see is that your mana pool is too low, you want close to 2100 unreserved mana. I would consider dropping the Elemental Focus node and grabbing Deep Thoughts instead, and try to fit in mana on your gear.

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ufreshbro wrote:

Hey.
why is the faster attack enchant exactly needed? Is it because you are alternating from time to time and this is a huge dps loss?

Yes, it's because you're alternating attacks from time to time - without FA support, Frenzy only hits about 2 attacks per second. But this glove affix is not needed until you have perfect gear and run out of sockets for your gems - you can improvise with just Frenzy - FA socketed somewhere else in your gear until later in the game.

Ok.
Thank you for your fast reply. A good glove with fa enchantment is currently out of my budget (sitting at 5ex / 350c to spend on this).
Have a nice day :)


Edit: Good luck with uber elder

Edit2: Just equipped Inpulsas. HOLY FUCK IS THIS AWESOME :D

What about using blood rage for mapping, would make frenzy charge generation easier. With a level 1 0% quality blood rage and 3 frenzys i would have excalty 0.25 attacktime with barrage and frenzy.

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Scarraner wrote:

One question, would be blade vortex with conc. effect and inc. duration any good with this build instead of shock nova for single target?

A lot of jewels / skillpoints I use are related to lightning damage (%increased crit multiplier with lightning skills / elemental skills, etc). Even with Phys to Lightning support, blade vortex ends up worse than shock nova.

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What about using blood rage for mapping, would make frenzy charge generation easier.

Sure you can try that, but against bosses you don't really want blood rage active, and that messes up your barrage aps a little bit.

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dariidar wrote:

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What about using blood rage for mapping, would make frenzy charge generation easier.

Sure you can try that, but against bosses you don't really want blood rage active, and that messes up your barrage aps a little bit.

Isnt it optimal to have 0.25 aps with barrage?

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Scarraner wrote:

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dariidar wrote:

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What about using blood rage for mapping, would make frenzy charge generation easier.

Sure you can try that, but against bosses you don't really want blood rage active, and that messes up your barrage aps a little bit.

Isnt it optimal to have 0.25 aps with barrage?

Optimal aps is closer to 0.24 because of server latency or something, I can't explain it myself but that's what others have found.

Against bosses you probably want to deactivate blood rage , which means you lose 5-15% attack speed from not having the buff. Which means you'll have even lower aps against bosses.

How important is Beacon of Ruin if I have a Poet Pen with Elemental Proliferation corruption? I cannot do the uber lab now on my Witch.

This night i will try to change my skill tree of my scion for something more close your tree to see if she has better survival than my witch when using Mind of Matter.

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vempire_ghost wrote:

How important is Beacon of Ruin if I have a Poet Pen with Elemental Proliferation corruption? I cannot do the uber lab now on my Witch.

This night i will try to change my skill tree of my scion for something more close your tree to see if she has better survival than my witch when using Mind of Matter.

Beacon of ruin adds a lot of damage against bosses because it changes the minimum shock. For mapping it is ok to have the ele prolif wand though.