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anyone have some syndicate operators i could raise from?

Does the "Word of Grave" glove enchant mess up Elemental Equilibrium? Wiki says it deals cold damage, but its also a minion so I'm not sure how that interaction would work. Is it even worth having it?

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ZeroCloud wrote:

Why is Glancing Blows not used in the 2 cluster setup?

How good is the life on block truly? It seems that when we are at risk we are either getting 1shot or quickly burst down and in both scenarios I don't see how the small amount of life recovery would keep up.

It's a lot better than it looks because the heal applies instantly and therefore it pretty much negate any attacks below a certain threshold. This threshold can be calculated with this formula



Given block amount of 5% of your health, a 75% block chance, and the 35% reduced damage from glancing blows this simplifies down to 7.3% of you life pool.

For my character, this means that any attacks that average less than ~550 won't usually kill me. In fact, if they are smaller hits then they will heal me instead.

I don't even have increased life recovery from my belt or fortify. Those two upgrades would make it so that I can ignore attacks that are less than ~800 damage.

This is particularly good for situations like Heist or Delirium where large number of enemies are very dangerous and you don't just need to worry about individual large attacks. In the end, this is something you will need to try for yourself and see if you prefer this defensive layer or the extra damage.

Here is a comparison of the health regeneration of max block Glancing Blows compared to Glancing Blows at different block amounts. As you can see, Glancing Blows is easily worth it between 37%-50% block rate.

Block gets even better as you get higher, eventually turning you nearly invulnerable to non-boss characters. Unfortunately it's really difficult to reach those block amounts, particularly for spellblock.





One last thing is that this build does not have good access to life regeneration. With it's large health pool it can be hard to keep it full. Most life flasks can only go so far.

There are a variety of ways to mitigate this, such as the Devouring Diadem or unique flasks that can fully heal you. A life on block setup pretty much solves the problem of chip damage. Even if you are regularly taking stray hits you will still stay near full health.

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Malarkuss wrote:

Does the "Word of Grave" glove enchant mess up Elemental Equilibrium? Wiki says it deals cold damage, but its also a minion so I'm not sure how that interaction would work. Is it even worth having it?

No, it does not trigger EE since it's a minion. It doesn't deal good damage and isn't worth scaling. On the other hand, there are not any really good options for the glove enchant slot so it's not a bad option.

One interesting use case would be to put your Hextouch - Curse - Brand links in your gloves. This way the Hextouch - Curse part would apply to the generated minions as a secondary way to apply it without manually casting the brand. This would also apply to Feeding Frenzy or Elemental Army.

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crazypearce wrote:

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ZeroCloud wrote:

Do you have a video showing this in action? It would be nice to see this in a T19 delirium and against Sirus. I'm most interested to see how the clear is in the delirium based on you saying it is quicker.

can try and record one later. but things like sirus literally insta phase. last phase he dies before he even gets to cast anything

https://pastebin.com/iw7ukkdu

there's my pob if you wanna have a look. 10.1m dps per golem times 4 with vaal haste up, 8.6m without. awoke multi takes it to 11.5m/9m

I'm super interested in this - please make! Played spectres many times but have yet to do a carrion golem build!

Can i ask, for Animate Guardian -

which option would i i have more surivablity if i choose the

a - Garb of the Ephemeral
b - A chest piec with max life, and nearby enemies are blinded

So here is my two cents about this build. It went pretty smooth until red maps with 4 Syndicate Operatives until I fought Sirus.
Damage is pretty good however I found myself getting one-shotted way too much recently, even with 6.5k EHP. I guess I need more phys resistance (sitting at 50% w/ flasks on).

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crazypearce wrote:

for those complaining about being squishy that's just how it is. you really shouldn't be having problems up until juiced t16s though. if you are then you just need to practice and get better at the playstyle and learn to avoid one shots.

there are plenty of people pushing this build into level 100 so there is definitely nothing wrong with it. personally for me it just wasn't laid back enough. you have to convocate a lot and also dodge a lot of things which is why i moved into lowlife carrion golem. you can afk farm a lot easier, it's a bit quicker at clear and has amazing defense with 87% all res and almost 40m sirus dps right now.

Which build are you using for the carrion golem build? Does it cost a lot to do end game stuff or at least T16 maps?

I dont have triad groves yet, so my SO is doing pure physical damage i think, what is the best link for it? I am currently running spec + minion damage + viscious + volley + echo + brutality and skitterbot aura, any inputs for improvement? thx

How big is the difference in damage if you replace regular gem with Awakened?

Hello,

first of all: Can someone please give me a hint where to invest first to improve my char? I can spend about 200 chaos now.

https://pastebin.com/qSbN0Bw2

I followed the basic build but used Syndicate Operatives. I'm quite unsure if the gems are correct as they are.
@Kay: could you please add recommendations to use alternative spectres with the basic build and not only for the pure build?

I anointed my amulett and got Death Attunement without following the path. Where should i invest the points.

Why am inot changing to spiders or pure? I can't afford the best items for AG and with the cheap items they die ever so often. Even if i would have the money i think i would be to much of a coward to invest it in AG ;-)
So i basically look for a forgiving (tanky) build without AG.

And of course a big thanks to kay for the perfectly maintained builds

Thanks