[3.17] Wallach's Hierophant Freezing Pulse Totems (No Further Updates)

So i've got 2 kikazaru rings and the passive "Sanctum of Thought" yet i still get the curse effects on me, if i watch your video i see the curses blacked out. what am i doing wrong ? (also got self-flageration)

Well, 417k hideout DPS is pretty hard to turn down, I think I'm stuck on Breathstealer for a while now. Semi-bricked my ring in the process, better get fertile catalysts & a big pile of alts again...

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sneakys wrote:

So i've got 2 kikazaru rings and the passive "Sanctum of Thought" yet i still get the curse effects on me, if i watch your video i see the curses blacked out. what am i doing wrong ? (also got self-flageration)

You're not doing anything wrong in that regard. The black locks above our heads comes from Viridi's Veil, the replacement for Kikazaru.

What you ARE doing wrong is keeping avatar of fire & divine fury after switching to FP.

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NoImagination wrote:

Well, 417k hideout DPS is pretty hard to turn down, I think I'm stuck on Breathstealer for a while now. Semi-bricked my ring in the process, better get fertile catalysts & a big pile of alts again...

Awesome! I found elemental reflect maps annoying before hitting a damage breakpoint. With a good enough damage output per volley of FP, it doesn't matter that the totems kill themselves instantly anymore, since their targets also die in a single hit. It's great you're enjoying Breathstealer. I wonder what other items like these are out there waiting to be incorporated.

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rahuls wrote:

@noimagination; do you have a rough outline on how to craft the cluster jewwel you mentioned with blanket snow, prismatic heart, blizzard caller? cheers mate.

I didn't, I bought mine.

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faytte wrote:

Re-allocated some points (cant believe I missed Arcane Potency) but still only around 700K damage per totem.

What's your hideout DPS, auras on, nothing else?

Without any temporary buffs, curses for self flagellations, i.e nothing active other than aura I'm at 138K, which seems very low to me given my gear. Something just feels off.

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faytte wrote:

Without any temporary buffs, curses for self flagellations, i.e nothing active other than aura I'm at 138K, which seems very low to me given my gear. Something just feels off.

I have very similar gear to you, and spell links are almost the same too. I am at 125k hideout dps right now. The differences between us are in passive tree (including Large Cluster jewel and your Brutal Restraint - I have neither and have those points in other parts of the tree instead).

This must mean that your cluster jewels aren't bringing that much to the table yet. And I think you'll get a lot more damage leveling your awakened gems from 1 to 5. It must be the small things adding up that are pushing these guys up to 300k+ hideout dps (All awakened level 5+, phat cluster jewels, phat cobalt jewels, corrupted implicit on chest, awakened Hextouch so you can anoint amulet w/ a damage anoint).

Also, check in PoB but you should get a big DPS increase if you swap your 6 passives at the beginning of your skill tree from the Life/Mana Nodes thru Sanctity up Damage/Mana side (saves 2 passives) then get Dex on your gloves and remove the 2 points to Precision and the 1 point on Coordination for a total of 5 passive points saved, and buy your way up to Throatseeker. It should be an improvement. And check to see if your Brutal Restraint is actually more dps than a Clear Mind in PoB. I have no idea.

May I know what is the better corruption for chest piece?

Is +1 to socketed gems better than +2 to projectiles?

Thank you.

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faytte wrote:

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NoImagination wrote:

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rahuls wrote:

@noimagination; do you have a rough outline on how to craft the cluster jewwel you mentioned with blanket snow, prismatic heart, blizzard caller? cheers mate.

I didn't, I bought mine.

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faytte wrote:

Re-allocated some points (cant believe I missed Arcane Potency) but still only around 700K damage per totem.

What's your hideout DPS, auras on, nothing else?

Without any temporary buffs, curses for self flagellations, i.e nothing active other than aura I'm at 138K, which seems very low to me given my gear. Something just feels off.

I wouldn't be too worried about hideout DPS. It's a quick but very basic way to check if something huge is missing (support gem/aura) but it really doesn't consider a lot of critical factors.



For example, here are how things look in hideout, with only auras on. Having a little over 300k "hideout" DPS doesn't come close to suggesting 5M shaper DPS. It is clear from the red boxes how penetration and resistance reduction (more than a 4x multiplier) has a huge impact in damage that isn't otherwise available from the tooltip.

When in doubt, just load your character up in POB and you can have a way better picture of how strong your character really is.

In the same boat. I dont have lots of woke gems or hextouch, but I do have pretty much everything else and im only at 94k hideout.

Even in PoB it only shows around 500k.

Oh well, playing it feels pretty good, so I should not worry I guess.

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limevan wrote:

I wouldn't be too worried about hideout DPS. It's a quick but very basic way to check if something huge is missing (support gem/aura) but it really doesn't consider a lot of critical factors.

Yes, obviously. But the point is that it lets us compare between ourselves without worrying about what POB settings everyone has set. People often have wildly unrealistic settings that makes it impossible to compare.

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twobit wrote:

May I know what is the better corruption for chest piece?

Is +1 to socketed gems better than +2 to projectiles?

Every time I've checked for a character, it's been +1 all gems. But you should check with POB to make sure.

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Baldrick wrote:

In the same boat. I dont have lots of woke gems or hextouch, but I do have pretty much everything else and im only at 94k hideout.

I don't mean to single you out, as a few people have said stuff like this lately. But the reason I have 3 or 4x the DPS of them is that they just don't have pretty much everything that I do.

I normally have a different tree to them, two large clusters compared to their 1 (or none), four mediums, four cobalts compared to their Clear Mind, corrupted Soul Mantle, +2 gem amulet vs Pandemonius, better wands, double mod eye compared to their no eye, and so on and so forth.

You reach 400k hideout DPS by getting upgrades. And you can get to 180k or something by just following the guide.