[3.12] Dejuvenate's Best Starter Build for Chieftain/Trickster bar none - Unethical FlameSlinger

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xMustard wrote:

actually trying this a bit and it is pretty insane.

i have a trickster base build that i like rolling into a few ways of play, and to level this way would easily be the fastest, i'd just have to tinker around with the tree from normal planned breakpoints.

leveling, the clear is nutso, but the single target damage not so much. its tolerable, i guess, and you can get through, but its pretty rough in comparison. and thats with EE, EO, wave of convic and combustion all proc'd.

PS, conc effect doesn't work for flamewalls secondary damage effect. PoB is wrong when it says it adds damage. it does not. do not use conc effect its useless


my build essentially rushes MoM and agnostic and is extremely defensive through leveling. spellslinger does cut the mana pool by a bunch but its still defensive and good, very easily able to run HC and even SSFHC with no threat of deaths (i still get deaths cause i afk all the time). i only run it on a 4l even tho i've found a tabula, or else it cuts the mana too much. right now its sitting at 42%. flamewall, spellslinger, ele focus, burning dmg

for comparison sakes my current guy is lvl 65 at the start of a10 with 2,483 hp and 1,108 available mana. my current unbuffed tooltip on flamewall is 15,443 and with available buffs active PoB states the dmg is 47,903.

one thing i've noticed is a bit of a hindrance is accuracy. you can socket additional accuracy but another thing you could do for early maps is, once you get cassia a couple times, is anoint Weathered Hunter. gives +100 accuracy, 15% accuracy rating, +10% all ele res, and +20 dex for just a sepia,amber,teal oil. very cheap for those stats.

again im tinkering around with the leveling tree for my build but i imagine this setup could easily take me to lvl 80 before swapping to my fully planned build.
should be a great early map farmer for currency and levels.

could be an incredible SSFHC farming build as well

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xMustard wrote:

best way to scale flamewall damage is by fire damage over time multiplier. i mean you could add more links but it would make it reserve all mana, which would be worth overall for the clear speed.

but overall low life and clusters are the biggest boosters to FW dmg by a mile.
but 800k dps isn't terrible in the slightest for a DoT build and clear. most CA builds don't do much over 1-1.5 mil.

if you got to a place where you're sitting with 2m dps-ish then you could easily make a full build out of this. otherwise i think it does a fine roll in just steamrolling content as a start so you can gather xp/currency for whatever comes next

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Vehs wrote:

What can you say about Winter orb or Freezing pulse as a deliverer spells?

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Ruderatus wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong but we can't use ball lightning or freezing pulse with spellslinger, right? It requires wand attack skill like power siphon or kinetic blast.
Also why not use kinetic bolt? it can chain without the support gem.