[3.16 - RETIRING BUILD] VD Brands: S-Tier Bosser, A-Tier Map! -- MURDERED BY GGG_INTERN SOMEWHERE--

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TsuDhoNim wrote:

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wastestime wrote:

I still havent found/made a good staff yet and I think I'm lacking in damage for lack of crit multipliers.

You're splitting your tree a bit too much between the EO setup and the crit setup. There's a big line in the sand there, one or the other. Both doesn't work as any of the multi you currently have is wasted with EO.

The dual wield setup is enough for T16 scourges and AW8. Don't worry about lack of damage on that setup once it's built out right (Prima's budget tree is solid). It wouldn't have the block, sustain and Determination phys reduction so plays a chunk squishier than the crit version, along with not doing the same damage at the high end, but it's still enough to do all the endgame (even with scuffed self found gearing).

- The pathing over to Cruel Prep is burning passives and adding a chunk of int for you to have to balance against. Hard to make a straight switch there that keeps the exact attribute balancing you have, but in reality you wouldn't really want to keep that. Pathing from below saves a chunk of passives you could then throw at grabbing a +30 strength node and perhaps upgrade your Sapphire ring with lower attribute needs given the lower int nodes used.

- The 4 nodes to Throatseeker are adding a bit of int to need to balance against and doing nothing for damage while EO is there.

- The cast speed at Explosive Impact is a lot more valuable than the AOE, worth switching that.

- AOE quality enchants on weapons would be a nice upgrade as Ele Damage (no idea what harvests are going for on trade, if expensive ignore and just hope to hit one yourself).

- I haven't checked to see how well +1 fire gems scales the corpse explosions (I've been messing with crafting a nice +3 staff but haven't got it to the point I've dropped it into POB yet). If you feel you're struggling for damage it might be worth comparing how that mod compares to a decent fire% scepter instead.

- Personally I'd drop the LGOH support for Cyclone. We don't have enough accuracy for that to be meaningful and we really don't want to be in a position to be using that often enough for it to be a solid choice. I'd probably look at recolouring the socket blue (so 1G5B chest) and drop bone offering in there so I could remove the trigger craft requirement on the scepter and upgrade to a chunk more damage. Can also look at options like Sigil of Power or even just inspiration to lower mana draining.

- It isn't a damage boost, but no way I'd feel comfy playing without at least one LGOH Shaper ring. That's a huge sustain boost. I contemplated giving up one for a decent Flammability on hit ring.... decided against it until I get a much better one.

- With double ring crafts I'd have assumed your mana sustain would be fine with just the flask up. I'd think about switching the Nexus gloves over to a pair of Shaped blind gloves.

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2222222222 wrote:

landed T1 int on chest, im doom 💀

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primaeva wrote:

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2222222222 wrote:

landed T1 int on chest, im doom 💀

Ahahaha I know that feel m8!! It's so similar to landing mana rolls on the old ex slams..

Try to sell the chest when you're not mapping, a lot of players would actually prize T1 int, you can definitely recoup and profit and go again :)


EDIT: Research question: Why are some of the corpses we find actually ignited? We should be unable to ignite. If there is a weird exception to the rule somewhere (I suspect range/offscreening?) It could enable Sadist again.

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Cryotron9000 wrote:

I finally added Determination to my build and...wow. The difference is like night and day. Especially with a Rumi's Concoction. I went from dying pretty frequently (mostly in 150+ Scourge) to only dying once from leveling from 94 to 95 (because I accidentally pathed back into a Sirus maze meteor, lol).

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primaeva wrote:

I would love to have Herald of Ash back just for the visuals though I'm sure they're not really relevant anymore.

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Cryotron9000 wrote:

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primaeva wrote:

I would love to have Herald of Ash back just for the visuals though I'm sure they're not really relevant anymore.

For sure. I love Herald of Ash explosions especially with the Automaton MTX :)

Been thinking about even more defensive layers here...any thoughts on Divine Shield? Our Armour should always be higher than our max ES, so with around 8000 Armour, let's say you took 10 hits of 1600 damage each. Your Armour would prevent 800 of each hit, so 8000 damage prevented total. 3% of that would be 240 ES/sec regen. In comparison, the ES regen mastery on the tree would be 80 ES/sec regen if you have 4000 max ES.

I'm not sure if it's quite enough regen to be worth it. I think that node is intended for characters that stack more Armour than we have with just Determination + a Granite flask. I might try playing with it a bit though to see how it feels.

Also, Elusive on Crit boots is a nice, albeit somewhat luxury, item. There's certainly no downside to having it. These were 11ex, good stats (lol rarity) + bossing enchant.