[3.5] Oni-Goroshi Wild Strike/Molten Strike: (Slayer/Jugg, 7K+ HP, 5k+ Leech) ~ Uber Elder Down!

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KooperT wrote:

Glad you are enjoying!
I spent 3 leagues working on this build (BSC, Flashback, and Incursion), and I agree it is quite strong for the budget. I've played tons of builds over the past few leagues, and consider myself quite an experienced player - there are a ton of builds out there that may do more DPS, but balancing high DPS/Tankiness is more difficult. I really like Oni-Goroshi, as it's provided an excellent budget league-starter (not having to worry about fusings/6-link in early league is a godsend).

Grats on the double-anger Eye - I'm still only using a single-anger eye!

You probably should have tried for a +3MS helm though, before the eye; it's definitely a MUCH bigger DPS upgrade (single target.) Also as other poster mentioned, a corrupted Tombfist with a Curse on Hit is a good upgrade, but not critical, and nowhere near as potent as the helm enchant.

Also, consider dropping your Quicksilver flask for a Dying Sun. Get used to just using whirling blades/leap slam. The added DPS and survivability (Maximum fire resist) is no joke; you get 4 Icy Waves projectiles (instead of 2, effectively doubling it) from your Wild Strike, and more balls from Molten Strikes. If not for the DPS aspect, it's awesome just from a visual perspective.

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I've been avoiding the +3 proj because all my gear is pretty tightly linked. Changing helms would mean redoing several pieces of gear... It's hard to sim the dps benefits of additional MS projectiles considering we never know how many are hitting the actual target... I felt like the constant +23% more dps from the Eye was a sure thing.

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can you check my character.. what should i get to improve in the short term.

or any suggestions on what to do?

running trials still hurt like mad... no monster to hit to leach or refill flasks

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KooperT wrote:

I understand; I had to redo all my gear 3 times this league. But it feels so good once everything is "perfectly" set up.

I had to search for days for the correct rings/boot/belt to fill in resists, and I also have exactly 77% Fire, 77% Cold and 77% Lightning resists for my Wise Oak, meaning I take 10% reduced damage from all elemental, which is a big deal. (Used a lot of divine orbs!)

The +3 molten strike enchant is actually ludicrous in terms of DPS increase.

For actual calculating, I suggest you use the Molten Strike DPS calculator that many consider quite viable:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1903956

Note that additional projectiles for Molten Strike don't increase the "spread" at all, so if 60% of your balls hit before increasing projectiles, 60% will hit afterwards. So more balls is always good.

(TLDR: The +3 helm enchant provides something like 30-40% MORE damage... it's a lot)

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and ele weakness is 4k dps more per ball than ass mark thats the min max things but if u ran out of upgrades than u have nothing left besides min maxing and on the topic with the to socket tombfists sure maim is just a gimmick but the 2nd abyss jewel adds quite abit of dps if u can afford good jewels in general your jewels arent that good u could replace them aswell

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Xeerad wrote:

Hey, first off, nice guide. Took a while to get the 2 oni-goroshi (decided to farm them myself) but it's smooth going after that.
I am currently doing t8-t10 maps and I did my first t11 map where I died, 4 times. I am working towards my Xoph's Blood (taking a long time).

My pastebin https://pastebin.com/kfxr43sN. Can you please have a look and tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!

Current Items:

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your gear and tree looks fine maybe hard mapmods?