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

Anyone mind taking a look at my profile? Ive just feel I'm lacking a bit of damage. Should I craft awakener chest first? I have a 6l regalia in stash, or should I just save to upgrade to 7l helm?

Very nice. The 3.15 nerfs caused a lot of innovation, which is what I thought would happen and part of the reason I wasn't feeling down about the nerfs at all.

Good to see you guys are still working on the build. I sold my woke spell cascade for 8ex when the price jumped and have been plowing all my efforts into my SST Raider. I may come back to this build and whip it into proper shape so it can be my boss killer.

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But why would you save 15c when it's such a cheap and efficient upgrade? It'll probably be the biggest mapping speed boost you can get for <1ex.

A 6Link with explode + frenzy on hit + open prefix + high life chest will be pretty costly, however, I can easily craft a 6link frenzy on hit high life open prefix chest piece. That's why I was asking the question :)

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arda820 wrote:

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But why would you save 15c when it's such a cheap and efficient upgrade? It'll probably be the biggest mapping speed boost you can get for <1ex.

A 6Link with explode + frenzy on hit + open prefix + high life chest will be pretty costly, however, I can easily craft a 6link frenzy on hit high life open prefix chest piece. That's why I was asking the question :)

Frenzy on Hit is an endgame luxury, just buy an unlinked explodey chest for literally 3c here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Expedition/mGadamJI6

Money is better spent on the helmet or Woke Spell Cascade or other suffix before wandering into Frenzy + Explode territory. And in the first place, it doesn't have to be 6L, I was using a 4L/5L and even 3L forever (with the 5L on the staff).

Are there changes to best large cluster notables?

Figure out my dps problem... dont forget to fix your str and int when you swap gear!

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hipposcottamus wrote:

Figure out my dps problem... dont forget to fix your str and int when you swap gear!

Ahaha yes, this got me a couple times, I forgot to bless my belt. I would suggest using a heavy belt for cheaper Str adjustment until you are confident enough in all other slots to lock it in with a godlike Sygian Belt.

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Miggaletoe wrote:

Are there changes to best large cluster notables?

I would highly recommend these for pure DPS:

CLUSTER #1:

Cremator - we don't ignite, so it won't affect corpse generation any worse than Explodey already does.

Smoking Ruins - Massive 35% increased and blind on large packs *cough logbooks* *Feared* cough*

Widespread Destruction - because it's the only decent suffix imo.

If you have the cash money: Doryani's Lesson is pretty huge, since we don't have neck slot to gain leech from.

Doryani is massive since we have so many ways to mitigate small hits to 'tide' your build over till leech instances can kick in and pick up.

CLUSTER 2 - Elemental.

Widespread Destruction: Same reason, good suffix.

Prismatic Heart - 30% damage with Allres is never too bad to pass up - that's 30% resist, which affords you a suffix damage mod somewhere else.

Corrosive Elements - now that WoC got nerfed to 15%, it's not really worth spending a slot on it, especially when we have geniuses like SoulGambit dropping big brain utlity ideas like Phantasmal Sigil of Power for -Manacost and a whopping 19% less damage if boss is in your "arena" (this is dope for facetanking everything, I tried Sirus and Maven, easy game!!)

Corrosive elements can be dropped if you ever get a Blizzard Crown perfect helm going - I do think Bone Helmets are a good tradeoff though. 20% increased damage implicit vs -10% allres for the same result - and Corrosive Elements is 15% damage, which is halfway decent. Exception: You play lots of builds and want to flex your Blizzard Crown between characters.

Again - Doryani's if you have the dollar, for another safety valve on this already tanky build.

Here is pob as discussed, thank you :)

https://pastebin.com/nHhcZRd1

Appreciate it. Think I have everything at this point minus the Cane. Fire damage/Spell damage + Double Damage + Crit Multi when rare is the BIS?