3.14 Toxic Rain - Leaguestart guide with in depth crafting and gearing section - updated
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Welp, time to look for a new league starter..
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Waiting for numbers, hardened scars nerf is a total wtf moment, a lot of people didn't even opt to run it because of the tradeoff of using a flask slot + annoint
Chainbreaker nerf is unclear, it's either better than before or unusable, cluster jewels will be nerfed After seeing the numbers I'll decide if i even want to update the build at all, because losing defence was bad but i had a plan to compensate by just switching to raider and going full avoidance but if the damage loss is bad it wouldn't be worth playing We will see tomorrow IGN JustifiedF
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All things considered it's still a fantastic league starter
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" Do you think there will be any issues flawlessly level to act 10 with this build? Or are you rather concerned with the nerfs with regards to the end game? |
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"I don't think you should have problem levelling really, you can still stack the mines and deal with the bosses easier than with non-mine builds. More likely it will turn TR into another essence drain, good for levelling / early mapping, too weak to keep up at end game (it already caps damage much earlier than other builds). |
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Toxic rain will still be the best ranger leveling skill, so far the nerfs have been on the higher end of gear, they'd need to nuke the early damage by more than like 30% for somethign else to overtake it
I'm reserved until i see the actual numbers for everything I can tell you now that the build can take a pretty significant numbers hit and still be one of the best leaguestarters, i'm only scared of mechanical changes to the skill IGN JustifiedF
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" i think a numerical damage change is least likely. i think its highly likely they'll hit it in terms of additional projectiles. probably making it have 4 base projectiles and maybe even remove the helmet enchant. i can imagine they'll nerf the debuff as well, since TR works as such a great defensive buffer. GGG hates defense, obviously i hope they don't make TR scale AoE like rain of arrows does, because that would IMO ruin the skill for bossing completely. changes to cluster jewels will gimp TRs top end enough already. exactly like it did once delirium ended. i can imagine the benchcraft changes will hit TR too with the CDoTM craft getting hit we'll get confirmation today, but i am fully anticipating that the best option for TR now will be quill rain deadeye much like how i have it built in 3.13, just with less total increased area of effect Last edited by xMustard#3403 on Apr 13, 2021, 10:46:13 AM
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Quill rain is not and cannot be a better way to build it
Removing projectiles would do almost nothing to the build Removing enchant would do literally nothing to the build Either they nerf the base damage by 5-10%(best case scenario), they nerf the damage significantly more, which could be bad depending on the number but would just slightly raise the gear threshold to do endgame stuff Or they change how projectiles overlapping or the pods stacking affect the single target, these are changes that would kill the build and push it into caustic arrow territory, good for leveling up to yellow maps and then terrible IGN JustifiedF
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From 3.14 patch notes
" This seems to be gutting the build. :( |
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Or use concentrated effect...indeed you can effectively reduce aoe ^^
Last edited by aeri0r#1856 on Apr 13, 2021, 8:28:25 PM
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