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Laserrobotics wrote:

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Hey Wrecker,

Just wanted to stop by and thank you for another super fun build. It was a little tough going in early maps until I realized I could get an ok (but not great) 6 link chest for like 7 chaos. Still felt a little squishy, mainly because I haven't had great opportunities to upgrade my gear to get good life rolls.

However! Yesterday I had Prism Guardian drop, and today I finally managed to get a Poet's Pen that I'd been deferring for a while. I've made some changes - they may not be super optimal, but it seems more effective and is definitely sillier.

* I stuck the blasphemy-temporal chains in Prism Guardian, since that's not tooooo much life to give away and Blasphemy gets the level boost. I also picked up an Awakened Blasphemy support, since they're real cheap.
* With the extra mana open, I dropped in Discipline (I know, not a lot of investment in energy shield, but also not a lot of options)
* I put Spirit Offering, Bladefall, and Desecrate into Poet's Pen, which let me drop one of the Spellslinger auras. This means Spirit Offering is up basically all the time, and also I can level it and Desecrate to 20.
* I dropped Purifying Flame (and the CwDT from it), since I wasn't standing around long enough to really benefit from the consecrated ground.
* The aforementioned Discipline and now also Blood and Sand and Phase Run went in my boots, along with an Enlighten to squeeze them into my remaining mana.



@divbrown1969 - I believe what it means is your minion AI will be as if neither is equipped, so just standard behavior, but any stat changes and such will be applied from both gems.

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wmbirdsall wrote:

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Just wanted to thank you for the build. It really didn't start coming together for me until I hit Level 75 or so, but it's been smooth and easy as advertised from there.

Quick question about Cluster Jewels and this build. I have no real concept of Cluster Jewels yet but ended up having this Medium Cluster Jewel drop.



I dropped it in my public stash and immediately started receiving offers for 50 Chaos for it, but don't want to sell it off if it would be beneficial at all to this build. It's iLevel 52.

I've been trying to read up on the Clusters to better understand, but in the meantime, just want to determine if I should sell it off to upgrade other gear or hold onto it. My best guess is that since we are running Curse Auras that I'd likely be better off selling it.

Thanks again for all the help.

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

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zolly90 wrote:

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I think it's done, I just unchecked the "Hide Character Tab" from privacy settings

Awesome! Thanks zolly90!

You're missing one little mana reservation node in the top right of the screen. Under Whispers of Doom it looks like you accidentally missed the mana reservation node. After checking out things, that looks to be the only thing out of place. Let me know if there's anything else!

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dlvbrown1969 wrote:

I hope this helped a little. Good luck

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

It doesn't suit this build so feel free to sell it or save it for a future endeavour.

Does that make sense?

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

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dlvbrown1969 wrote:

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Thanks again for taking the time to educate me.

After reading and rereading the tool tip for phase run, I decided to go with withered step. Unless I'm grossly mistaken, the phase run buff immediately ends if any other skill is used. Another less helpful skill then is added. Often I cannot see ny character on screen nevertheless see that the PR buff has proc'd and then immediately stop casting anything. Withered step on the other hand might not be as good of a buff, but it lasts longer and is easier to maintain.

I ended up using scouring orbs on both my CWDT and Steel Skin in order to bring them down to lvl 15. This is roughly 2k damage threshold. Like you so aptly pointed out, it's s double edge sword. You want it to proc at a lower threshold and more often, but at the same time you want the higher benefits from the gems that are proc'd. I may lower it down more to around 1500 threshold later - not sure.

I'm still a little foggy on the whole "what if" scenario in regards to linking feeding frenzy with meat shield. Sorry. Your reply states that it will act as if neither are equipped ... but then you also state they will receive benefits and buffs. Let me try this ...

If I use the Hungry Loop unique unset ring and "teach" that ring both feeding frenzy and meat shield,

Will my AW be aggressive?

Will my AW have feeding frenzy?

Will I have feeding frenzy?

Will my golem have feeding frenzy?

Will my AW taunt from meat shield?

Will my golem taunt from meat shield?

Will my AW have increased movement speed from meat shield?

Will my golem have increased movement from meat shield?

Will my AW be defensive from meat shield?

Will my golem be defensive from meat shield?

Sorry to ask so much, but it is going to be quite a bit if work to create this hungry loop ring and I want to do it right the first time.

Thx

It's no problem at all.

Now, I don't remember which of your minions will be going where, so I'll have to keep it general.

- If Meat Shield is linked to a minion, only that minion gem will have a defensive behaviour.
- If Feeding Frenzy Support is linked to a minion, only the linked minion gem will have the aggressive behaviour.

Feeding Frenzy - Keep in mind, the behaviour is the only part of the gem that is link-specific. Feeding Frenzy Support does only two things: makes the linked minion gem aggressive, and gives YOU the Feeding Frenzy buff. When you have the Feeding Frenzy buff, ALL your minions have the benefits of Feeding Frenzy (Feeding Frenzy grants 10% more Minion Damage, 10% increased Minion Movement Speed and 10% increased Minion Attack, and Cast Speed). The behaviour change is limited to the linked minion.) So all minions will get the Feeding Frenzy buff, but only the linked minions will be aggressive.

So if you have a minion gem linked to both Meat Shield and Feeding Frenzy, the behaviour changes cancel each other out. So they will have the normal behaviour that they normally would have without the gems. BUT they still get the rest of each supported skill. So Feeding Frenzy Support will still give the linked skill the ability to give us the Feeding Frenzy Buff. Meat Shield will still have the linked minions take less damage, have increased movement speed, a chance to taunt on hit (unless the gem says the minion can't taunt), and grants them more damage against enemies near you.

Does that help?

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zolly90 wrote:

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Oh wow it's so easy to miss those passives, I thought I had everything, thank you very much, solving this now!

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dlvbrown1969 wrote:

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Yes, tyvm for additional clarification

Edit: I have decided not to link the FF and MSS together as I think that is "a waste".

What I am planning on doing is filling my Hunger Loop with:

Meat Shield
Minion Life
Elemental Army
Minion Speed or possibly Minion Damage

This is for my Chaos Golem.

Now the question becomes...do I keep Vile Toxin as the 6th link in my chest OR do I replace VT with Feeding Frenzy? Which do you feel would provide the most benefit to the build?

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McDuda wrote:

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Is Triad Grip with 4 white sockets good for this build?