Build variety my ass. Game has too many arbitrary and unnecessary restrictions.

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MadSheo#0280 wrote:

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

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MadSheo#0280 wrote:

You're saying you're defaulting back to deadeye, more than implying that's the op meta right now, which someone else figuered out.

Look at the build forum. More than enough working builds.

I`d like to build my own. And my build wasnt going for something crazy or OP. Lore friendly even.

G'luck with that. I've seen a "few" people come here and blast their heart out "it's too hard".

Nobody said it was gonna be easy. Otherwise we all would do that.

Anyhoo, g'luck.

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

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MadSheo#0280 wrote:

Decidet to make a fun lore friendly build. Kinda off meta. Yeah, good luck with that. Game has so many restrictions that you will go insane before you make it work or rather realise in GGG head it wasnt meant to work ever.

I had an idea to make an Abyssal Lich that uses Kulemaks items. Because it fits with the league and the RPG elements. I wanted to use Apparition node on the ascendancy that copies spells and use His Winnoving Flame as my main skill. I would sacrifice very good wand+foci synergy but whatever, it sounds interesting and fun.

Here's how it went:

- His Winnowing Flame (HWF) can't ignite, and needs to consume ignite to summon it's toranadoes. Fair enough, lets get some fire spells.

- Lets do Flame Skulls that nobody uses with Cast on Minion Death to cast some fire spell and maybe add Fire Flower amulet so skulls die fast. Oh sorry, can't do that, Aparrition doesnt work with triggered spells.

- Can't take Blackflame because you need to go for Chaos Damage nodes to scale FIRE spells now. What is the point of conversion?

- Can't go and make Death Knight with Armor+ES because you won't have enough points for damage.

- Oh damn, you need power charges to actually use your Ascendancy node. So more actions before you can fight.

- Alright, lets make it simple, just throw some fire spells, cast some profane ritual for charges just to use HWF once.

- Oh, forgot to tell you, you can't use HWF for apparition because it can't replicate spells from items. It can't replicate bunch of other spells too. Here goes your HWF build.

- And yeah, and when it replicates a spell it deals 60% LESS damage for some reason.


And this is something i encountered with almost everything i tried to play. I WANT to choose something that is not meta but very often i can't even try. I don't care if its bad, i just want to play it. But i guess better play deadeye.

I'm playing a fire sorc and blasting through maps. I went from fire, to fire-ice, to elemental infusions and ended up back at fire-only, because I didn't find a way to make all 3 elements work.

Just because you can't figure out how to make your build work, doesn't mean there's only one build.

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Jitter912#4278 wrote:

No but before you post ... you should look at the stats ... cause there is only one build

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stecheese1#0850 wrote:

Not only should toxic domain work for any player projectiles, it should also work on melee hits within the area and it should also work for minions attacks, that's how arpgs are supposed to work.

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Kerchunk#7797 wrote:

Personally I'm playing Tactician and I have higher survivability, clear speed, and raw DPS than I have on any character since 0.1.

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tinmei#3775 wrote:

So you're just mad at the game because you don't know how to make good builds? Or do you expect every random build slapped together without any rhyme or reason to be top tier? There are tons of very strong builds besides deadeye, you just need to swallow your pride and start off the base build of someone who know what he's doing then tweak things to your preferences.