[On Hold] Elemental Hit Ascendant [All Content]

Oh I missed the BM question. I went BM right after taking Vitality Void, it worked out great for me.

By the way, I have been thinking about the build and think I figured a way to improve it. I'll start with saying that I'm using Phase Run which is why I didn't care to take any Frenzy nodes on the tree.

goes near the Shadow start to get Blood Drinker and a slightly inefficient Jewel node with 20 Intelligence on its path.

I can also get rid of Survivalist and take better nodes.

The trade off is
-1% max cold
-5% life
-8% proj damage
-20 int

+12% all res
+22% attack speed
+5% movement speed

I think it's worth it. I'll look at it in PoB when I get home.

Thinking of making a variation of this build in HC Betrayal (Slayer/Elementalist) and had a couple of questions.

1. Instead of taking Blood Magic, would it be viable to run some auras like Grace/Haste + Enfeeble for defensive utility?

2. Instead of going Vaal Pact, would it be viable to run a stone golem (as 1 of the 2 elementalist golems) and invest in some regen on the tree?

Having difficulty deciding over these two areas of the build at the moment, thanks.

The whole point of Slayer is stacking overleech by having a lot of Life (Blood Magic) and leech+leech rate (Vaal Pact).

The build is HC-viable if you know what you're doing, Dan took it to level 100 and farmed Uber Elder with it in 3.4, but if you're not mechanically gifted or lack knowledge, you'll end up dying miserably.

Had a great time leveling/ getting into red maps! Single target is starting to be an issue. Can anyone help me figure out what I should work on next? I know I need to get a second bow for single target/ a better bow in general. Can anyone spell out exactly how to craft a bow, if it is possible to craft a bow that can improve my DPS for less than an ex or so. (only have an exalt +30 chaos ATM). Any help or tips is extremely appreciated.

The character on my profile is gordonelehit, here is my pastebin if anyone wants to look - https://pastebin.com/cmafWYw6

Thanks in advance!

Just killed 4x Guardians and Mr. Shaper, pretty easy with under 400K Shaper DPS according to my PoB.

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The whole point of Slayer is stacking overleech by having a lot of Life (Blood Magic) and leech+leech rate (Vaal Pact).

The build is HC-viable if you know what you're doing, Dan took it to level 100 and farmed Uber Elder with it in 3.4, but if you're not mechanically gifted or lack knowledge, you'll end up dying miserably.

Thanks for the reply. I understand the concept of the build but just asking for the viability of a variation.

The Blood Magic life nodes total to 35% increased maximum life which feels negligible to me in the big picture if you have defensive curses/auras. Vaal Pact is another story though.

I think I'll still give it a shot with my variation and switch over if it doesn't work out.

Do you guys bother balancing wise oak resistances for people that use wise oak?

I have them balanced for my aoe bow, but can't manage to get them balanced for the weapon swap.

My gear is still mostly terrible, and I'm actually short on resistances when I swap to my single target bow, but part of that comes from having a lot of resistances on my main quiver, and no resistances on boots/gloves currently.

I can probably just get some decent boots and a different ring and cap out for both sets of weapons if I don't bother with balancing wise oak resistances.

So how about that level 4 empower in a +3 bow

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GhostyGhost wrote:

Do you guys bother balancing wise oak resistances for people that use wise oak?

It's good to have but don't waste too much time/currency/energy figuring it out, especially while your gear is still not perfect and you're replacing pieces on a daily basis...

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broseidon07 wrote:

So how about that level 4 empower in a +3 bow

When we're talking about +3 bows for ele hit it includes +2 to bow gems. Empower isn't a bow gem and won't get +3. I've never PoB'd a level 4 empower getting +1.

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mattheafy1 wrote:

Had a great time leveling/ getting into red maps! Single target is starting to be an issue. Can anyone help me figure out what I should work on next? I know I need to get a second bow for single target/ a better bow in general. Can anyone spell out exactly how to craft a bow, if it is possible to craft a bow that can improve my DPS for less than an ex or so. (only have an exalt +30 chaos ATM). Any help or tips is extremely appreciated.

The character on my profile is gordonelehit, here is my pastebin if anyone wants to look - https://pastebin.com/cmafWYw6

Thanks in advance!

If you look on page 47 you can see my gear with some bow crafting advice and I have another post after that critiquing someone elses gear (page 49) and you would need basically the same improvements. The cheapest way to craft a good bow is get an imperial/highborn/royal bow or thicket bow with iLvl 64-82. Then use a serrated, corroded, metallic and prismatic fossil in a 4 socket resonator on it until you get something good. It will cost more than an exalt - the base will probably cost about that. I would guess it would take at least 2 exalt to get something useful.