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

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primaeva wrote:

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IceColdPorkSoda wrote:

https://pastebin.com/L7B19phx

Here's my take on the build. Single brand set-up. EB/MoM. I need to improve my gear a lot but I like the way it feels to play more than I did when descerate and VD were on separate brands. It makes mapping way smoother when I'm not lagging incredibly hard.

Hey! GeForce Now actually launched yesterday in my country! While it actually performed worse for me because I have a relatively up-to-date rig, my friends actually got it to hold at 50FPS on a TABLET.

I'm not sure if that's a solution for you (be silly to pay a sub just to play PoE) but I'm thinking it's not a bad interim patch till you save up for a next big upgrade.

P.S. On single brands - it will do fine for mapping, but, how do I put this - you will be DPSing at 1/2 damage on bosses / single target, just by the nature of the fact that


Brand 1: Desecrate - VD1 - Desecrate - VD1 - Desecrate - VD1

Brand 2: ... Desecrate - VD2 - Desecrate - VD2 - Desecrate - VD2

Do you see - there are times where there is a max of 12 corpses on the floor, then VD 1 eats all 12. VD 2 casts, but nothing happens. The only way around this is to drop brands at a frame within 33ms (server tick rate IIRC) so VD1 sits RIGHT atop Desecrate 2.

... On top of dropping a link for a single brand setup, you're actually doing about 33% of the damage of a double-brand setup. Now, that could feel fine because the build with Leadership absolutely wrecks some other builds even at a third the power, but it's still not the maxmimum you can squeeze from the build!!

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Diacred wrote:

Do you use MoM with it? Because when using MoM I am permanently out of energy shield, but without it practically never goes down which just solves all the mana problems, but I lose quite a bit of survavibility (1800 ES)

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IceColdPorkSoda wrote:

Okay so the big difference was my single brand setup. Now that I’ve switched to the dual brand setup it’s tough to maintain my ES.

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Diacred wrote:

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IceColdPorkSoda wrote:

Okay so the big difference was my single brand setup. Now that I’ve switched to the dual brand setup it’s tough to maintain my ES.

That explains it, but with the boot enchant + mana reduced on flask + ES leech it might be fine with EB.
I farmed the lab a few hours yesterday to get the reduced mana boots enchant and I can safely say that I have no more mana issue, it feels so much smoother. But I am not using EB so I have my enduring mana flask + 300 mana regen as well

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ducminh1712 wrote:

Actually I've bought all the gear and will start leveling a necro tomorrow. I just need some explain about the tankiness of the build. We do have 50% spell block and attack block capped, however in POB, effective HP against phys is only 15k which IMO kind of low. Is it lying number on POB or am I missing something?

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primaeva wrote:

Oh my god, a few hours of lab *gagging* it took that mana runs??

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Manadrained wrote:

life gain and es gain on hit combined with rapid hits from ball lightning.
edit: also have an uber atziri kill and a sloppy maven I can share later too, idk if we need more boss footage since its just faceroll after a certain point tbh but gonna get a feared soon at least.

uber atziri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiU30un-0A&t=1s
scuffed maven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QXBmuqIfBo