[3.10] Gryph's Volatile Dead Necromancer || Fun, Medium Budget, Tanky, Millions of DPS
" Hmm, can be done easily on self-cast mode, no funny aegis block guys or rf gm issues, they cannot survive balls with that much dmg & penetration. Completed HOGM bost on blight and this season. I think i got killed by dot from that scorching ray guy after he died on blight, and this time got killed once by mirrored ts bow guy at one of chests since volatiles decided to go after other gms first. So _completion_ is not an issue, and you should have a self-cast config until high investment anyway, it's just 2 gems swap mostly But farming HOGM is waste of time for this build since it can do harder content. Farming lab is a definite nope, agree completely there. " Stampede is definitely a net clearspeed loss item with it's fixed 50% ms at _end_ of day. True, Cyclone MS penalty is _brutal_, and stampede negates that. With 20% ms boots + onslaught + tailwinds + elusive MS is only like 17% while cycloning with everything procced, but alchemist's of adrenaline QS flask _drastically_ changes this, with cyclone MS on all buffs procced being ~80% and normal MS ~ 160%. Shouldn't be cycloning all the time, so you can use that normal ms too. And on simpler content or when you don't care about exp anymore you can use flesh offering instead of bone offering for even higher clearspeed. All of that is denied by using stampede. Although small grace about it is it frees up a flask slot (as QS is useless) for atziri's flask. Fun fact : it's a blight league unique, so can hold a full annoint, don't forget to get battle rouse or crystal skin or smth... Too bad we can't run hardened scars. That would've made this boots much better option for early bossing.. " If you're "letting the balls fly from afar" you're also losing corpse explosion dps and likely missing out on ES on hit, combustion procs etc and also subject to some random off-screen oneshot. I found even with Sirus 8 it's best to be in his face/moving behind him almost all the time(which kind of negates benefits of CWC tbh / brings question "why not CoC" again). And all the balls over limit don't go to waste. --- @Gryph, wdyt about +2 gems amus ? https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Metamorph/Wvng0pZTm Got Auls, but keep thiking mb that ones would've been better : cheaper on lower end, much more flexible regarding resists, and can craft mana gained on it instead of on second ring. Seems like +2 gems would've given 19% more dps, which is even more than zealotry gives at 16%. And having "mana gained" craft on amu would open up possibility of second ring being circle of anguish for for another 12% more over zealotry auls. With enlighten 4 + 90% mana mult scold + sovereignity should mb be possible to fit aspect of spider, worst case with reduced HoA reservation CoA instead of fire dmg one. Last edited by WrongBlight#4433 on Jan 26, 2020, 1:40:03 PM
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" They look fine and good on lower budget. Aul's (when I was looking at this) was giving more damage AND has 70 Life + 20% Max ES as well. You lose a lot HP when using a +2 amulet as the gem levels are both prefixes. I would just use a Fire Leech amulet with lots of HP and crit multiplier instead. Or a +1 gem level with better stats. That's my opinion. |
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@Gryphenprey
In light of recent events, which one would you recommend? (I have a i9 9900K and 1080Ti, so my PC can handle the Spell Cascade even - although I'm having fps drops like crazy... but that happens anyways.) Cast While Channeling | Cyclone | Volatile Dead | Elemental Focus | Concentrated Effect | Awakened Fire Penetration OR Controlled Destruction OR Spell Cascade Is there a reliable way to calculate these? |
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Hey, i am dying a lot and i don't have too much dmg, but i wouldn't complain about the damage if i weren't dying so much, so it's not so much of a problem
Those are my itens I'm using aspect of the spider, so i'm using herald of ash and discipline with it, don't have mana to zealotry (1737 mana, 3555 life, 4200 energy shield with discipline and cyclone working) What can i do to improve it? I've got smthg like 3 EX right now Thanks Last edited by ZerefStark#1280 on Jan 26, 2020, 5:54:28 PM
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" Your iron ring looks like a good place to upgrade to me. Get life, resists, life on hit, or a curse on hit there (as many of those as possible). That ring basically only gives you a bit of es, so that can definitely be improved a bunch. Also an offering chest would be good but that's more pricy. Also your amulet has no life on it, and your belt has very low resist stats. Are you even resist capped? Last edited by 5argan#1859 on Jan 26, 2020, 6:24:28 PM
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" Ok... I'm gonna upgrade the acessories than. I am resist capped. I just bought my chest, one with offering is too much expensive for me rn I changed for this build yesterday, so i'm rlly lost with my skills, i just followed the video guidie, but i think that's not the best way, but there are so many option that i don't know what to use. Is my gem combination good? |
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" Your body 6l seems a bit weird to me but hard to tell atm because I'm on mobile. And you don't need specters anymore, at least that's what the guide seems to say. So you can change that + meat shield to something more useful. If I remember I will check on my pc tomorrow and tell you my thoughts. |
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Hey guys, picked up the game this league, this is my 2nd character ever, so i'm still stuck in noobland :-)
That said, i am loving this build, thanks for all the info and continuing support to the community. Currently on T12 maps, build is holding up well so far. 1- Noob question: is there any issue with putting the cyclone/VD in chest rather than staff (obviously I don't have a CwC staff yet)? Doesn't seem to me, but I saw a comment in passing somewhere that made me doubt. 2- When I compare my PoB to others, my calculated damage for VD is completely abysmal (44k vs 760k), but not sure what I'm missing that would explain such a difference... 3- I just sniped a decent Watcher's Eye for relatively cheap, but now I'm kinda stuck on my progression: what next for my gear/setup? I just unlocked the final Lab so I'll be running that asap, but gear-wise, I'd love direction on what to try to go for next... Probably better survivability (chaos resist, life, es), but what do you think would provide the best upgrade? Edit: linked gear. Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/RiH9mdL6 Last edited by JiminiJ#7663 on Jan 26, 2020, 10:54:47 PM
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" At first glance: 1) You need leash of oblation in order to be able to use 2 offerings. Remove Bone offering (until you have both a 21%+ offering effect body armour & leash) 2) Get a body armour with 21%+ offering effect. Huge boost. Ideally with an empty prefix for 10% of life as extra ES. 3) How do you sustain mana? 4) Boot enchant is really bad for this built. 5) You have no chaos resistance 6) No ES on hit (either aspect of spider + fenumu's or watchers eye) 7) Swap combustion for ele focus in you CwC set up. Much more damage and you will have plenty of ignites from the combustion set up in your chest. 8) I would guess Anger would give you a lot more DPS than Zealotry 9) You can probably remove some damage from your tree and pick up the shadow life nodes as well as Arcane will "Fixing the endgame was hard - No matter how hard we buffed red maps, people would keep spamming Gorges. So we turned Gorge into a red map" Last edited by qwertz#1626 on Jan 27, 2020, 12:26:43 AM
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So i tried sirus...
Never even understood WTF was going on, got him to half and used all my portals. He basically 1-shots me through 40% chaos resist (75 with flask), 4.7k ES and 4.2K HP WTF am i doing wrong, seems like cycloning through this fight is DEATH, if i even slightly touch anything i die. Any tips ? I feel like this league is dead. The elderslayers take AGES to spawn and Sirus is way overtuned. |
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