[3.16 UPDATED] Bergerbrush's Budget & Beginner Divine Ire Totem Hierophant

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Chubbypuppy wrote:

So far nothing in the patch notes kills the build but it will take a big damage nerf, like most other builds, but the build is still fine.

- spell totem support is a bit less damage and cast speed
- You can't use infused channeling with divine ire totem anymore, so need to replace that.
- losing diamond flask is a huge loss of DPS, but for the budget the build still does good damage.
- Blade blast not applying unnerve anymore is another damage loss.
- no increased crit chance for mobs on consecrated ground is a damage loss.
- arcane surge cast speed loss

yes it all sounds bad, but at least the build is still the same just weaker. Some other builds are not even functional anymore.

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DjRiff wrote:

Been messing around with this in POB since the manifesto. Once Patch notes hit, I did some tests in POB and a quick dry run in game with similar level gems post nerf.

I found that elemental focus is good if you have a 5L while leveling. Other than that, it gets beat by Increased Critical Damage. I replaced infused channeling with Increased Critical Strikes, this was netting far more DPS than any other option. For the min/max build, Woke Added Lightning Damage beats out Increased Critical Strikes by a fair margin.

Diamond flask is still decent for us, not sure about Atziri's Promise just yet.

Here's an updated POB with a few added things. The damage this build can do on a 4L at lvl 60 with absolute trash gear is insane.

https://pastebin.com/jAan0Pex

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MrSparkle001 wrote:

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DjRiff wrote:

Been messing around with this in POB since the manifesto. Once Patch notes hit, I did some tests in POB and a quick dry run in game with similar level gems post nerf.

I found that elemental focus is good if you have a 5L while leveling. Other than that, it gets beat by Increased Critical Damage. I replaced infused channeling with Increased Critical Strikes, this was netting far more DPS than any other option. For the min/max build, Woke Added Lightning Damage beats out Increased Critical Strikes by a fair margin.

Diamond flask is still decent for us, not sure about Atziri's Promise just yet.

Here's an updated POB with a few added things. The damage this build can do on a 4L at lvl 60 with absolute trash gear is insane.

https://pastebin.com/jAan0Pex

So Added Lightning Damage is even better than Increased Critical Strikes?

I don't have POB until I get home from work, and when I do it's time to start not theorycraft. Seems like you're saying Increased Critical Strikes is better than Increased Critical Damage, and Added Lightning Damage is better than both?

Unless "Woke Added Lightning Damage" is a different skill? Lol I don't know what it could be.

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MrSparkle001 wrote:

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DjRiff wrote:

Been messing around with this in POB since the manifesto. Once Patch notes hit, I did some tests in POB and a quick dry run in game with similar level gems post nerf.

I found that elemental focus is good if you have a 5L while leveling. Other than that, it gets beat by Increased Critical Damage. I replaced infused channeling with Increased Critical Strikes, this was netting far more DPS than any other option. For the min/max build, Woke Added Lightning Damage beats out Increased Critical Strikes by a fair margin.

Diamond flask is still decent for us, not sure about Atziri's Promise just yet.

Here's an updated POB with a few added things. The damage this build can do on a 4L at lvl 60 with absolute trash gear is insane.

https://pastebin.com/jAan0Pex

So Added Lightning Damage is even better than Increased Critical Strikes?

I don't have POB until I get home from work, and when I do it's time to start not theorycraft. Seems like you're saying Increased Critical Strikes is better than Increased Critical Damage, and Added Lightning Damage is better than both?

Unless "Woke Added Lightning Damage" is a different skill? Lol I don't know what it could be.

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First of all I wanna say that the damage has been nerfed quite heavily for the endgame. As expected with 3.15 absolutely butchering almost all builds.

This build will stay relatively the same overall though in terms of gameplay and items, the only thing is that we will now use "Increased Critical Damage Support" instead of Infused Channeling.

And we will remove Blade Blast alltogether since it doesn't unnerve anymore its rendered useless.

Thats basicly it.

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DjRiff wrote:

Let me clarify sorry.

Elemental focus doesn't let us shock. With it's damage multiplier heavily nerfed, it's worth dropping it for shock. With the reduction to bosses ailment threshold, and the fact that even at 5% shock effect the nerfed elemental focus loses, it's just not worth taking any more.

Gems give you more DPS in this order:

Divine Ire -> Multiple Totems -> Concentrated Effect -> Lightning Penetration -> Increased Critical Damage -> Increased Critical Strikes

Increased Critical Strikes falls behind Awakened Added Lightning Damage once we're in the stage 3 gearing/tree setup. My guess is this is due to the +1 Lightning Gems and the extra stats.

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First of all I wanna say that the damage has been nerfed quite heavily for the endgame. As expected with 3.15 absolutely butchering almost all builds.

This build will stay relatively the same overall though in terms of gameplay and items, the only thing is that we will now use "Increased Critical Damage Support" instead of Infused Channeling.

And we will remove Blade Blast alltogether since it doesn't unnerve anymore its rendered useless.

Thats basicly it.

I swapped out Blade Blast for Wave of Conviction. With our still insane mana regen, paying the cost of the trigger is negligible and we get even more lightning damage from it's debuff.

Damage is still absolutely bonkers for a league starter.