Transfigured Gems Part 4

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AxiomOfAnarchy wrote:

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

just curious why no trans RF? nobody will play regular RF because its only viable for late end game now with big investment and there are much better builds for late end game. people played RF as a leaguestarter

That big investment build, the ivory tower build, is not just absurdly expensive, it also depends on 100% uptime on a coruscating elixir flask (with RF on left-click to turn it back on every time the flask triggers), because otherwise if any chaos damage so much as even looks in that build's general direction, it falls over and dies. And it's worth remembering that the "of Drought" modifier exists, so aside from magic flasks (which coruscating elixir is not) in a mageblood, no build can ever count on having 100% uptime on a flask.

It's a fucking meme build. GGG might as well have made late game RF viable only in a ward loop setup.

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AxiomOfAnarchy wrote:

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hyyyben wrote:

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JimBeamm wrote:

when RF...

Hopefully not ! we are going back to the good old days..where an rf char actually stacked life and regen..and made an effort to get % fire dmg / multi/ fire multi on its weapon...
RF was solid before it got the flat dmg - it will still be solid.

Pick either inquisitor or juggernaut, it will work just fine :)

Perhaps you should try actually playing a RF character before attempting to educate those of us who have played it as to what does and doesn't work, particularly in the current state of the game.

I played RF back then and the game was in a totally different state, and those builds can't be recreated now. They didn't do anywhere near enough damage to keep up with the current state of the game, the available items and passives back then were totally different, the available modifiers and how they interact were different back then, and the defensive investments required for a viable build back then were totally different.

It is not the same game, many of those builds predate PoB, and even for the builds that don't predate PoB, it wouldn't be possible to load them into the current version of PoB because they're so old and so little about them has anything in common with the current state of the game.