a few things to note:
1) the dps is painfully low. by dropping a few of the less efficient life nodes (like the juggernaut life nodes, the barbarism life nodes, the 4% life nodes in the purity of flesh wheel) I can pick up 3 frenzy charges for great damage and quality of life
This build was originally made by UberDan for Hardcore and ended up doing all content and reaching level 100, including a sub-2-minute Uber Elder kill. Any +%Life and +Life also increases the effectiveness of Hematophagy and Vitality Void, making you extremely (EXTREMELY) difficult to kill.
2) the vaal cold snap is pointless when you are raider ascendancy
Vaal Cold Snap is useful anyway because it serves a double-purpose: the CWDT Cold Snap chills and slows enemies down + self-cast Vaal Cold Snap to have the ability to chill on-demand.
4) you recommended unwavering stance (from kaom's roots)(no evasion) and combined it with acrobatics (half armor) for a lot of wasted value. you could drop the acrobatics and phase acrobatics for straight up more life, or take the iron reflexes major node for taking big hits more reliably
The build doesn't actually get much Armor at all so the negative effect of Acro is negligible. The bonus from Acro+Phase Acro, combined with the bonus from Quartz+Stibnite and something like Vaal Grace can easily keep you at the cap for Dodge+Spell Dodge
5) dont mention alira or crit if you arent going to provide a crit version of this tree (i tried, it's painfully hard to go crit when you're pathing all the way from ranger to avatar of fire)
Deadeye crit version of this build can get around 3mil Shaper DPS, here's a guide
6) slower projectiles is straight up tons more damage than mirage archer in the single target setup (you're overleeching as slayer, so it's not like attack speed is going to provide a stable leech rate)
Apart from the mentions of wrong calculations, let's not forget that Mirage keeps dealing damage and leeching while you're kiting.
8) you recommended taste of hate (scales with physical) on an elemental hit build (barely any physical to scale off).
He doesn't actually recommend Taste of Hate, where did you see that? The Flasks section recommends Life flask, Quicksilver, Wise Oak and whatever 2 other Flasks of your choice.
9) blood rage in a cwdt setup
blood rage is now instant cast, so why do you need to automate it?
This is a super janky setup that is horrible for boss fighting.
blood rage has three things:
a) PHYSICAL attack damage leech on a pure ELEMENTAL build
b) Frenzy charges on kill. once again, overkill with the raider ascendancy
c) attack speed1
why are you using blood rage at all, one might ask. 4% life per second doesnt sound worth it for the attack speed.
CWDT->BR->IC causes Soul of Arakaali to proc and increase our Leech rate by 50% if Arachnoxia's soul was captured in Toxic Sewers
a few things to note:
1) the dps is painfully low. by dropping a few of the less efficient life nodes (like the juggernaut life nodes, the barbarism life nodes, the 4% life nodes in the purity of flesh wheel) I can pick up 3 frenzy charges for great damage and quality of life
This build was originally made by UberDan for Hardcore and ended up doing all content and reaching level 100, including a sub-2-minute Uber Elder kill. Any +%Life and +Life also increases the effectiveness of Hematophagy and Vitality Void, making you extremely (EXTREMELY) difficult to kill.
2) the vaal cold snap is pointless when you are raider ascendancy
Vaal Cold Snap is useful anyway because it serves a double-purpose: the CWDT Cold Snap chills and slows enemies down + self-cast Vaal Cold Snap to have the ability to chill on-demand.
4) you recommended unwavering stance (from kaom's roots)(no evasion) and combined it with acrobatics (half armor) for a lot of wasted value. you could drop the acrobatics and phase acrobatics for straight up more life, or take the iron reflexes major node for taking big hits more reliably
The build doesn't actually get much Armor at all so the negative effect of Acro is negligible. The bonus from Acro+Phase Acro, combined with the bonus from Quartz+Stibnite and something like Vaal Grace can easily keep you at the cap for Dodge+Spell Dodge
5) dont mention alira or crit if you arent going to provide a crit version of this tree (i tried, it's painfully hard to go crit when you're pathing all the way from ranger to avatar of fire)
Deadeye crit version of this build can get around 3mil Shaper DPS, here's a guide
6) slower projectiles is straight up tons more damage than mirage archer in the single target setup (you're overleeching as slayer, so it's not like attack speed is going to provide a stable leech rate)
Apart from the mentions of wrong calculations, let's not forget that Mirage keeps dealing damage and leeching while you're kiting.
8) you recommended taste of hate (scales with physical) on an elemental hit build (barely any physical to scale off).
He doesn't actually recommend Taste of Hate, where did you see that? The Flasks section recommends Life flask, Quicksilver, Wise Oak and whatever 2 other Flasks of your choice.
9) blood rage in a cwdt setup
blood rage is now instant cast, so why do you need to automate it?
This is a super janky setup that is horrible for boss fighting.
blood rage has three things:
a) PHYSICAL attack damage leech on a pure ELEMENTAL build
b) Frenzy charges on kill. once again, overkill with the raider ascendancy
c) attack speed1
why are you using blood rage at all, one might ask. 4% life per second doesnt sound worth it for the attack speed.
CWDT->BR->IC causes Soul of Arakaali to proc and increase our Leech rate by 50% if Arachnoxia's soul was captured in Toxic Sewers
Does br need to be in that setup for that to work. Can I just be using br in a different socket?
You can self-cast Blood Rage, it'll work just as well.
As long as you're taking damage from Blood Rage, the moment Immortal Call procs, you receive the Arakaali buff.
Here's how I plan to set up my links:
* 4L: CWDT + IC + Vaal Cold Snap + Enfeeble
CWDT procs 3 powerful defensive skills and gives me the ability to self-cast Vaal Cold Snap when needed
* 4L: Inc Dura + Vaal Grace + Phase Run + Blood Rage
With Inc Duration, it's easier to keep BR up and sprint between packs with Phase Run for longer distances as well as a fat 9ish seconds Vaal Grace that brings my Spell+Attack Dodge to cap
I'm not using Ele Weakness/Proj Weakness/Flamability in my setup because everything dies way too fast. When bossing I rather have Enfeeble or Temp Chains anyway.
Map clear is pretty sick with this build. I bought some decent gear and at level 70 I was slam dunking red maps. Single target feels very lacking though. Is there a trick I'm missing? Do I need that Chin Sol item? I don't have that expensive amulet yet so that'll probably help, but I'm new and making money is difficult for me other than spamming maps and picking it up.
Map clear is pretty sick with this build. I bought some decent gear and at level 70 I was slam dunking red maps. Single target feels very lacking though. Is there a trick I'm missing? Do I need that Chin Sol item? I don't have that expensive amulet yet so that'll probably help, but I'm new and making money is difficult for me other than spamming maps and picking it up.
Get a 2nd bow in your offhand for single target in which you use Damage on Full Life instead of GMP. You can craft a 6L Shortbow with 6 Porcupine div cards and then make it +2 fire gems with a Shrieking Essence of Rage. Very cheap, 20-25c investment and a few more for chroming the right socket colors.
Map clear is pretty sick with this build. I bought some decent gear and at level 70 I was slam dunking red maps. Single target feels very lacking though. Is there a trick I'm missing? Do I need that Chin Sol item? I don't have that expensive amulet yet so that'll probably help, but I'm new and making money is difficult for me other than spamming maps and picking it up.
Get a 2nd bow in your offhand for single target in which you use Damage on Full Life instead of GMP. You can craft a 6L Shortbow with 6 Porcupine div cards and then make it +2 fire gems with a Shrieking Essence of Rage. Very cheap, 20-25c investment and a few more for chroming the right socket colors.
Or get Vorici in the research safe house for a possible 1-3 white sockets without corrupting the bow and swap the gems before boss fights (at least that’s what us xbox users gotta do as weapon swaps are terrible)
Last edited by xl_AlbaTr0ss_lx on Dec 25, 2018, 4:30:35 PM
