[Outdated] Ultimate EDTrickster [2M dps - UNKILLABLE]
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Hey Darkxellmc, great build, thanks for writing it!
I am pretty sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it, so here it goes: why not go CI? |
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" Are we talking about just ci with a bow, or Maxblock glancing blow CI with ES gain on block? These are completely different. Glancing blows+rare shield is the more popular approach to CI tricksters, but the damage is really lacking. On a hardcore scenario where you wouldn't want to do t16 maps for some reason it's viable, but otherwise it's just kinda slow. Sure, you can reach 15k es and have insane defences with ED's regen, but we're talking about 600k shaper dps with good gear here. It just takes forever to kill the new bosses with it. Big nope since metamorph imo. Ci with a bow is interesting. You keep the upsides of using both a bow and having 2 6l setups for good damage, and you also have better ehp, able to reach 12-13k es without too much trouble. But CI lacks the ability to stack dodge chance. Dodge chance allows us to get the most out of ghost shrouds. In normal conditions it takes 4 hits to be hit once and not have shrouds mitigating the hit. With 75% dodge it takes 16 hits on average. Also dodge enables us the use of wind dancer, which is effectively 25% more ehp on endgame bosses. Lastly, you don't need zealot's oath. It's really far from the trickster start, and there's nothing good next to it. We're already starved for points and 3.10 isn't going to improve the situation ^^ So while CI has more EHP on paper, dodge and smoother pathing makes this hybrid version more viable imo, and we have pretty much the same ehp on isolated endgame hits (I can tank shaper slams). |
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Hi,
I am trying to play this build since long time, however can't kill any serious boss with it. Small arenas are impossible to manage, elder guardians, even black core boss, are easily oneshotting me on sight. If mobs dont dodge or block I can kill them easily, ED projectile is slow af and cant pierce. I am stressed every time I go to arena to face a boss because it takes minutes to kill them or I run out of portals. Probably I am doing something wrong or its not suitable for my playstyle. |
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" Damn, that's a lot of currency spent on poor gear, sorry ^^' Not gonna lie, you look like you obtained currency in questionnable ways. I don't know how you can have a lvl 19 ED ith a level 4 empower, a 10ex bow with a trash pair of gloves, and a 50ex jewel with gear that shows you don't understand fundamentals of the game yet. Ok so, first, you need to be rescapped on any build. The game is balanced around you having 75% all elemental resistances. Get 75% allresistances. Anything that deals cold damage currently deals tripple damage to you because you're at 37% cold res. You should aim at 80+ total res on rings, 70+ total res on gloves, boots and amulet, and 90+ on belt. Get 75% to all 3 elemental res, chaos doesn't matter as much. Then, you have 3600hp with 1800es. This is very very low. You want at LEAST 4k hp and 2k es, that's a bare bare minimum you should have for ~t10 maps. Get at least 60 life fomr rings and amulet (they need to have both life and resistances), 80 on boots, gloves and belt. Upgrade your jewels. Why are you using emperor's mastery? It's like 50ex, how tf did you obtain this when you don't know how resistances even work? Get a watcher's eye with malevolence DoT multi if you can afford it, and rare jewels with 5-7% life and at least 2 damage stats that affect you. Get a level 21/20q Essence drain gem, and as soon as your support gems hit level 20, vendor them with a GCP to get 20%quality support gems. Also, buy a level 21/20 vaal blight, level 14 isn't gonna cut it. Your belt should be a stygian vise with an abyss jewel with 30+life and onslaught on it, not a heavy belt. And please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrLmzo6pSxo Peace out... |
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Hey I was just curious if farming a tab in BA would be able to last me until a hyrri? Assuming I get vertex enlighten / empower and a 6l cane first. (Specifically talking abt league start)
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" Just saying this is pretty funny to read :D |
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" Why would you do that? Farming a tab in BA sounds really painful, just map instead imo. I killed sirus with a kintsugi, it's "fine". You mainly want the 6l cane, and that's about 3ex early league. You'll get the money by the time you get to red maps usually... |
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Never played ED/Cont and not sure if im going to next league.. but this is an absolutely great written guide. The explanations und your patience in answering questions here is exceptional.
Maybe i should give this build a go for next league... Could be a great league starter until the end. |
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" Well, you are right about most things. It will look weird to anyone looking at it. I bought Emperor's mastery 2 leagues ago, because it is better than 'brawn'. Maybe was 5-6 ex at most, then I don't know why it tenfolded. I have emperor's might too, again because it is better than brawn. While I already have mastery, I don't want to buy inertia, so I use it. I only play standard and look for a build I can enjoy. That's simple like that for me. I don't hurry to finish it in 3 months and start a new league with a new build. I should be more careful about resistances, but gem levels is something else. Even with 21/20 gems boss killing will be slow and we need to run around dodging manually. Character progress very fast, cleans very fast. I leveled up so fast, that I had to go back to playing another build to be able to finance this one, because at some point this build cant benefit from low tier content and can't succeed at high level content. I bought the bow for damage, ehh without enough damage there is no meaning how tanky you are. For watcher's eye I am waiting to find one with discipline in addition to malevolence. I changed from cwdt to blight yesterday for obvious reasons, didn't start to use it yet. However that doesn't solve problems about mobs blocking or dodging projectiles. My main problem is that the build is not flexible. To be all content safe gameplay, all the equipment has to be as specified. If I want to use another amulet or belt vs. something will be missing. If I am curious about a mechanic, another thing will cause a problem. Its fast, tanky and fun only if u build and keep as it is. Thanks for the video, I like killing mobs and kill them, even t15 mobs, easily with this build, unfortunately I lose all exp in arena phase. |
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" That's pretty much the point of a build guide. I'm putting gear pieces that synergises between each other and explain why they form a good character able to take on all content in the game smoothly. " Yes, that's... the point. Again, that's exactly the point of me making a build guide. All gear pieces should have life and resistances. This is not about this build, but about PoE in general. I understand that you wanna play with different mechanics, but first you should know that when you integrate a mechanic into a build, your character must be rescapped and not loost too much ehp for it to be worth it. Toying with different uniques and mechanics requires base knowledge of the game, and making full builds able to clear the most endgame content available necessitate good understanding of the available mechanics. Currently, a good EHP amount given by the community to survive t15+ maps is around 6k. You're running around with about 1.5k ehp against elemental damage. Of course you'll die all the time. Your level 95 necro is sitting at 3k ehp too... So, I don't know if you bought this account or if your temporary russian friend "gave" you 20ex, if you dropped a headhunter or if you farmed mud flats for 420 hours. What I know: you need to learn the basics of this game if you want to create your builds. These concepts are things you should have learned while leveling your first character. To reiterate, they are: - Have 75% elemental res by act 4. - Have about 200 life per act (~2000 when killing kitava), and at least 4500 to clear red maps reliably. - Killing things quickly is a good way to not die. Your ED offence is fine. Almost 2M combined dps, it's really not bad. But you can't be running around with 1.5k ehp and expect to not die. It's not a "I can't customise builds how I want???" problem, it's a "I die on endgame bosses with as much life as I had at level 30" problem. So remove your rings, belt and gloves and equip items with life and enough resistances to get you to 75%. Magic, you're dying 10 times less. Also, use a bubbling divine life flask, so you can get life back when you take damage and don't have ED up regening you for some reason. You should probably do the same on your necro. I don't really know what else to tell you. PoE is a complex game, and its main appeal is the build diversity made possible by the sandbox created by its item system. Maybe diablo3 would be a better suited game for you. |
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