[RIP Best build of 3.9]

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limonenovecento wrote:

I feel like exchanging volatile dead for bodyswap would be the better option, sacrificing a bit attack speed but keeping the insane es regeneration. But again, this jumping through the map while still trying to aim at the mobs is not my prefered playstyle. (If you are crazy enough, you can also think about some cwdt action (eye of innocnece/heartbound loop) for even more trigger action, since we can easily outregen the damage taken and e.g. ignite a lot.)

How much energy shield & life do you gain/loose with skin of the lords. Since the chest armour is our biggest energy shield & life pool I doubt that it's worth loosing that for the additional damage. With my gear I sit at 3.5k life and 5.5k energy shield and still get one-shot by t16 metamorphs or legion generals at times.
Hardened scars should definitely be a very good (and expensive) defensive upgrade.

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Med1umentor wrote:

That were my thought at first too, but while testing it, offering showed not really that good results. While volatile dead provide good clearing of random trash that didn't get caught in explosion, it's indeed unnecessary. But what i need from it is the spell that consuming corpses and get supported by spell cascade too.
But well, i tested it long before when i got some of my gear, so might as well test again.

I definitely didn't treat skin of the loyal as endgame gear, it's just... 10c, you know :)
For 10c, pretty much the same price as tabula, i got 6 link with 10% more damage, 100% increased es and +2 skillpoints. I think it was quite a steal for that price :)
I sit at 3.1k life and 5.2k ES. With your chest would be for about 1k total more, yeah, but it is much more expensive... and 10% less damage, and -2 skillpoint :) So for now, i'm upgrading my other gear.

P.S. Also, quite a news. At some point, my damage become abysmal. I thought that it was because i'm lazy and didn't make myself setups for wave of conviction, curses, etc
And after that i noticed that sometimes damage is absolutely great, and obliterate metamorphs in less than in second, and sometimes it barely scratching it, and i need to stand and shoot at it 10 seconds straight.

So, turned out that EA is bugged right now. I don't know exactly what part, ammount of arrows or ammount of resulting damage... nevertheless, if you stacked too much damage - ignite will not occur. My "no damage" situations were exactly that, and i just keep scratching bosses with the sheer power of explosions without ignite lol
I lost cassia event on some shallow t10, everything just overwhelmed me, i was shocked. Now i know why. And that's not only about totems with additional arrows, i didn't used them in cassia event, and still got that bug, so everyone should be carefull.

Now i pretty much never precast ea before metamorph, only summon a totems and start shooting right before he appear.
Oh, also, check this out - got an awakener's orb from my first awakener. Pretty sweet result :)

With that thing, flying through the map became even more cool :)

Edit: Apparently, the reason for the "no ignite damage" bug is too high dps, not the ammount of arrows. But well, obviously they are correlate with each others :)
It just means that even if we cut down on aspd or don't use totems, and use other means to boost ignite - we will encounter the same issue :(
Some dude straight out removed gems from the main link to make it viable.
It sucks :(

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limonenovecento wrote:

Oh, that's new to me. I realized that some metamorphs took a bit longer but didn't really pay attention, since they don't scratch me anyways and a couple of more seconds didn't matter to me (and they still die relatively quickly). Thought it might just be extra fire resist or something, but now that I think about it, it's likely bugged. However, the conquerers (and also various metamorphs, etc.) still die in a couple of seconds. I will try to observe this a bit more. Could you point me to your sources on this, especially the edited part?

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quiet18121989 wrote:

means other class no need this helm ?