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

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AzureLeMoon wrote:

one other question i have is that even if my skills cost 0 mana , i will still get the crit chance and ele dmg from inspiration as long as i have inspiration charges right ?

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TsuDhoNim wrote:

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AzureLeMoon wrote:

one other question i have is that even if my skills cost 0 mana , i will still get the crit chance and ele dmg from inspiration as long as i have inspiration charges right ?

Yeah, no problems there.

Once you spend mana on an inspiration linked skill and get the charges and they'll apply to all inspiration linked skills you have. Was pretty common to use movement skills or old EE triggers to generate charges for stuff with no direct costs.

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TsuDhoNim wrote:

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lillbrorsan wrote:

As for the Annihilation notable; it gives 32% Increased Spell Damage and 38% Increased Crit for spells.

Yeah, drop that branch.

It looks good when you see VD had a 'spell' tag, but the damage comes in two parts. A non spell corpse explosion this does nothing for and the spell part, the balls, that this scales. The majority of our damage is the corpse explosions so we want to aim for scaling both parts of the damage (fire/ele scaling) or even just the explosions (corpse life) and seldom the spell part alone.

The other two sound great, sounds like a pretty nice seed on the Vanity. Be sure to compare the point efficiency of each versus what you might get from other nodes at various times, but at ~11% increased Fire per node on EI along with the ES and Res together with ~12% increased Fire per node on FW you shouldn't be too bad holding them. Can be hard to compare increased fire vs. more multipliers or crit chance/crit multi off the top of your head though, I certainly can't, so be sure to check in POB every now and then how they're doing (with a full config setup and all nodes correctly applied).

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lillbrorsan wrote:

I have at least 3 points to spare when changing to a staff, question is where do I spend them? Should I try to go for the cluster jewel? Watchers eye?

The question there would be how does the build feel?

Watcher's Eye can free up boots and a belt affix making gearing much easier. Opens you up to options like Onslaught on kill and 30% MS which both feel great, along with going bossing setup with stuff like Prima's double damage on soul gain prevention for a Vaal Detonate Dead boss setup.

Various ways to improve sustain by pushing more block and dropping Glancing, pushing one shot protection scaling more life and mitigation or scaling more damage. No single 'right' option there and mostly comes down to your current gearing and even a little your playstyle.

If in doubt running over to Trickery, Assassination and Blood Siphon all offer a nice efficient cluster of points to grab.

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iLeenDover wrote:

Hello, I know it's not perfect and I'm still working on improving it but can you give me some advice on what to improve or how? Plus I feel I am lacking in DPS a bit but I'm not sure why, can you give some insight on this? Here's my pob https://pastebin.com/g6vUYC5Y

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primaeva wrote:

Not sure if you saw this - Thanks Tsu, you've been really nailing the replies and giving me some precious pockets time to play :))

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klaymored wrote:

Got this Cane, not sure if I picked the right mods since no PoB yet :(

Crit multi works well for us right?

Spoiler

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primaeva wrote:

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klaymored wrote:

Got this Cane, not sure if I picked the right mods since no PoB yet :(

Crit multi works well for us right?

Spoiler

Yes, this is the BiS cane for Single-Target damage! (not super consistent for mapping but you hardly need the extra mult on non-unique/rare targets anyway).

Grats, hope you landed it cheap, I saw one for 88c the other day. xD

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klaymored wrote:

Apologize in advance if this was already asked.