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

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lordchopf wrote:

Thanks for your insights!

Currently leveling as CoC because i somehow managed to link my martyr of innocence... which i can not use because the mana cost on trigger stuff is insane :/

I got the fenumus combo for ES and i am thinking of buying a glorious vanity and maybe an inpulsa and was wondering if there is anything else that might be more important to make the build work? (i worry about mana cost a lot)

I would highly recommend the Inpulsa and access to the -mana cost ring craft (should be 15c or less by now, search "Elreon's Veiled" in trade and buy one).

You have the ES combo which will sail you into T14s. A LGoH ring or two will cover you into T16s.

As for emphasis on Duskdawn, I'm hearing so many reports that damage is low on a Duskdawn. I just got out of hospital early today so I'm going to do a deep dive to troubleshoot all these!

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Fancymanjm13 wrote:

Mind taking a look at my gear and telling me why my damage feels so little. I know I am level 80 but it shouldn't be this little no?

I've got a lot of decent gear and gems are all leveled and quality.

https://pastebin.com/947BfHWx

Im waiting for your final upgrade item

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Fancymanjm13 wrote:

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Fancymanjm13 wrote:

Mind taking a look at my gear and telling me why my damage feels so little. I know I am level 80 but it shouldn't be this little no?

I've got a lot of decent gear and gems are all leveled and quality.

https://pastebin.com/947BfHWx

Hmmm everything seems in order. The PoB had a lot of unrealistic stuff checked off from the original PoB (for example, you don't run War Banner or have a Frenzy on Hit chest, nor a source of onslaught) but regardless you should be able to do A8 Conqs with little difficulty.

I will have to ask you to record a video of what you feels like slow DPS. In 90% of the cases I've seen, the players are attaching 2 Desecrate Brands or 2 VD brands to a boss - which does absolutely nothing to him aside from the Desecrate chaos damage. In other cases, they're simply OOMing without realising it.

There are ways to easily rectify either situation, but do let me have a look at the video. You can use streamable.com for a quick and easy, account-less video host.

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thib112 wrote:

Hey!

Thanks for the build and to be that available to help us :)

I am running the build, currently only lvl 85 but still.

I feel like i'm struggling a bit with dmg.

Here is my PoB: https://pastebin.com/0Y0JbXXX

If you could let me know if i did some big mistakes or if i missed smth important :D

Thanks, keep up the good work.

Maybe I just lack some Frenzy generation?
From what I saw on your replies

To the guy who just PMed me: here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txaz5Cqwv74

rest for context: software stopped capping because my captures folder hit 100GB D: still have Exped / tutorial content in there.

still died though, lost a portal to leap slam recovery vs Die. Always use flame dash!!

FOR CONTEXT: THIS IS THE BEGINNERS VERSION WITH DORYANI'S CATALYST/ELEMENTAL OVERLOAD. IT HAS NO AWAKENED SPELL CASCADE, NO DUSKDAWN, LEADERSHIP'S PRICE, I FORGOT MY ROTGUT, ETC.

It is about literally about 1/30th of the endgame build, but just going to show what it can do with, well, 3-5c items, a 20c chest, a 25c helm, 1alch weapon, 5c belt, 8c boots, etc.

The mana cost on rings craft cost 20c to buy though, and the chest one 15c, so add that in there if you will.

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primaeva wrote:

To the guy who just PMed me: here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txaz5Cqwv74

rest for context: software stopped capping because my captures folder hit 100GB D: still have Exped / tutorial content in there.

still died though, lost a portal to leap slam recovery vs Die. Always use flame dash!!

That was me. Thanks so much for this!
Eagerly waiting for the endgame scaling of this build.

EDIT 1 :After watching this i am so happy.
This is the most comfortable bosser i have ever seen.

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ImDarkslayer wrote:

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primaeva wrote:

To the guy who just PMed me: here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txaz5Cqwv74

rest for context: software stopped capping because my captures folder hit 100GB D: still have Exped / tutorial content in there.

still died though, lost a portal to leap slam recovery vs Die. Always use flame dash!!

That was me. Thanks so much for this!
Eagerly waiting for the endgame scaling of this build.

EDIT 1 :After watching this i am so happy.
This is the most comfortable bosser i have ever seen.

Haha it really is. Tutorial video REALLY drops tomorrow. You will see that the #1 worry is you, the player, killing yourself because there is absolutely productive to do but run around leapslamming, but you feel that's not enough so you do more actions than necessary on the boss.

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primaeva wrote:

In 90% of the cases I've seen, the players are attaching 2 Desecrate Brands or 2 VD brands to a boss - which does absolutely nothing to him aside from the Desecrate chaos damage. In other cases, they're simply OOMing without realising it.

Amen to this. It's taken me a while to become comfortable with brand and mana management, and the better I get at those tasks, the better I'm doing both in boss fights and clearing.

In my case, I still have Sovereignty instead of Written in Blood allocated from my leveling build and was running with very low unreserved mana due to a misguided attempt to stack auras for Commander of Darkness. I didn't realize that mana was bottlenecking my dps until I turned off an aura and saw how much mana I was burning once the brands got up and running.

Now I'm down to discipline, determination, and precision with 444/1,371 unreserved mana. Still a deviation from the proper build, but it's serving me well in low-reds with an enduring mana flasks and two mana cost rings.

PSA it is very easy to get comfortable curse reduction in this build since the rings we are looking for with the +life gain on spell hit very often comes with 35-40 reduced effect of curses on you. this new mod has a caster tag and is very easily rolled with harvest caster reforge, and the rings that come for sale will sometimes have these two mods together.

This + the pantheon of Yugul upgraded gives us 65-70% curse reduction thats is very comfortable, and when you have your sulphur flask running it is curse immunity