[3.15] Elemental Hit Ballista Totem Hiero | Budget Friendly | League Start to Endgame
" Do you want to play fire ele hit with blizzard crown ? If yes, it really makes a difference, if you use a normal helmet with ele hit enchant or blizzard crown without ele hit enchant. You better check this out, if you cant get a blizzard crown with ele hit enchant. |
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" This is a bad comparision. 10% reduced mana reserved or You and nearby Allies deal 2% increased Damage is a very minor Min Max thing. So this completely fine. Use whatever you need/like. " Well this is a fail. You said it: useful affixes. There is nothing to discuss about this. Anti-Shock or some other affix, if not allready on another flask, is important. There are players in softcore, who also care about not dying much ;) " I have to disagree on this and i will exactly explain why. 1. You have a different playstyle for ele hit totems. We talked about this ingame like 2-4 leagues ago. 2. In Heist league, i have played Tricker ED/contagion and Chieftain Tectonic Slam. So you could say, i forgot totally what the exact range of Ballista Totem support is. Now in Ritual i play Siege Ballista and 2-3 hours after playing it the first time, ive allready noticed how much bigger the range is and how nice this is. I have been expecting it to be the same range as ballista totem support(normal quality). The Ballista Totem placing direct near you was a nerf and was really bad for clear speed. So getting some range back is nice. 3. Even with Point Blank you can play close for red beasts, map bosses, big bosses and for all the rest you can mix ranged or closed play as you like in maps. More range means, you cover a bigger area, so it clearly helps to place less totems per map(normal, magic, rare monsters). The range helps to kill stragglers or almost dead monsters at edge of screen, while you are allready moving forward. Last edited by Kharadas#5625 on Mar 23, 2021, 10:19:33 PM
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" Ok, here we go again: Point 1 just make nonsense , its not a matter of playstyle. You take Point Blank - Normal Ballista support is better You dont take Point Blank - Divergent is arguably better You have Farshot - diverget ballista is clearly better. In all cases normal also have the advantage of being cheaper and you also gain a little placement speed so it can be argued against divergent because of that but if you arent taking Point Blank is a sign you dont want to get close to enemies so it 100% make sense you use divergent. Point 2 You werent playing this build when you first tried Divergent and somehow you extrapolated that experience to this build which is not correct. Point 3 Here is why your point 2 is not correct. The stragglers point make no sense , maybe in that other build it did , not in this. This build have 100% or very close to 100% chance to ignite , maybe that doenst helps on map with mods that make you cant or have a less chance to ignite? what about the built in aoe of EH? what about the extra arrows coverage and the extra pierce is adviced to get? You know how long a projectile goes after it pierces and the difference compared to the extra range activation you get from Divergent ballista is HUGE , piercing arrows usually kill thing that are one screen away from the pack it hit first, we shouldnt even be talking about this. That comparation isnt really valid anyway because the extra activation is not extra range actually. If the pierce arrows didnt killed a pack that is behind the pack your totems are aiming that pack wont die no matter if using normal or divergent , you will have to place totems again. But thats 2 totems placement were you will keep walking sooner using normal ballista. Already say "how many totems you place per map?/session/league", it seems you ignored that point. And wanting to be closer for beast etc, like why arent you using normal ballista instead? you will place your totems faster, start to deal damage faster , keep walking faster after job is done. For general map clear is not that you will obsess to place totems right on top of enemies if you have Point Blank , you dont have to since extra arrows + pierce will blast all packs anyway .Same as you wont place your totems right on the edge of the activation limit if you are using divergent, you just place totems and go. The benefits of Divergent are real but is real too that is not that great and using both divergent ballista + Point Blank makes absolutely nonsense. In practice it doesnt make a big difference using one or the other (at least on this build) but one is worse and doesnt make sense that you use a more expensive support when its worse. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2844110
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" That is a fair point. And I do have one now actually! I went with Ele Hit damage, though attack speed would also have been nice enchant. :) Not totally happy with it yet, but not all bad. The first one was mostly an experiemnt for fun, but turned out alright: Finally hit chaos res on my damage ring as well: Last edited by aaOzymandias#1218 on Mar 24, 2021, 2:54:38 PM
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As i was bored, I went for SSF with this build.
20hr playtime so far. Could be faster, but was experimenting with different totem spells. So far i have only 1 item that is needed for the build: Quill Rain. Rest are just random rare items dropped from the game. so far working on the atlass running T8/T9 alched maps. Biggest issue will be Combat Focus jewels and Legion Jewel. We'll see how it goes over next couple of days. Still nice though. Last edited by bartpio#3927 on Mar 25, 2021, 9:16:48 AM
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Just want to echo the other people that mentioned headhunter. Gave it a spin today, it is amazing for this build for just clearing maps. And so cheap this league.
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" Pretty though challenge that, but the build is solid regardless! One tip is to focus on Einhar missions, and hope for lots of red beasts with the random unique jewel beast :) Last edited by aaOzymandias#1218 on Mar 25, 2021, 1:12:47 PM
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" Combat Focus Jewels are the main problem in SSF. The jewels just drop very very rarely. Your best chance to get them quicker is farming Heist unique reward chests. You can use level 67 contracts for this, which you buy from the NPC(shop refreshes every level up). Last edited by Kharadas#5625 on Mar 26, 2021, 1:20:40 AM
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thx for hints.
I'll see how it goes. For now i must say i am surprised. Without jewels or anything from the build i do easily T10's. I also managed to do alched T14, but it requires to be very carefull. I already got my heatshiver, so only thing missing is prophecy :) |
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" Remember that you can craft a better helm than Frostferno with a Shaper helm , an Essence of Horror , a couple of crafts from harvest and benchcrafting any +1 to gems. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2844110
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Ths's nice hint. Indeed without corruption it trumps frostferno :)
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