Elemental Buzzsaw & Static Strike - Solo the entire game, quickly and cheaply 1.1.0 update

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Great build! Just started it last night, was able to reach 61 today. I'm at roughly 3,000 DPS for ST. How decent is this weapon? I sniped it for 4c, I think it was a great steal.

Amazing for 4c. It's a very good weapon but those extra resists really help out to ease the pressure of finding resists on your gear. Should be able to focus more on life/damage with that ^^

Hello, I am doing a similar build but utilizing oro's sword for the 700 edps and frenzy charge procs so i can ST as well as perma flicker. The issue is my dps is only 10 000 even with somewhat better ele gear and even crit.

Subbing my current helm for alphas and using wrath/anger/haste is an unnoticeable dps increase.
I am not sure how you are able to achieve 16k dps with this set up and with a mere 1 handed no less. Is the APS scaling whats allowing you to almost double your predicted edps?

The ingame damage formula has always been a blockbox but i honestly can not wrap my head around how a 700 edps weapon would lose to a 300 edps weapon.

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Nephalim wrote:

I am not sure how you are able to achieve 16k dps with this set up and with a mere 1 handed no less. Is the APS scaling whats allowing you to almost double your predicted edps?

The ingame damage formula has always been a blockbox but i honestly can not wrap my head around how a 700 edps weapon would lose to a 300 edps weapon.

Yea unfortunately APS is how elemental damage based builds get most of their damage in this game. It scales incredibly well. I tried the sword you're using on for fun when I found it and lost 1k dps. (I'm at 14k no 16k) Wearing the sword dropped me to 13k. While my fire damage pretty well doubled the fact that I was attacked at maybe half the rate means I was doing far less dps.

Meaning for an ele build like this wearing a 1h/shield is a no brainer because you may be able to get comparable damage with the best ele 2her out there but I'll have the advantage of a shield and everything that brings.

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Mathil wrote:

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Nephalim wrote:

I am not sure how you are able to achieve 16k dps with this set up and with a mere 1 handed no less. Is the APS scaling whats allowing you to almost double your predicted edps?

The ingame damage formula has always been a blockbox but i honestly can not wrap my head around how a 700 edps weapon would lose to a 300 edps weapon.

Yea unfortunately APS is how elemental damage based builds get most of their damage in this game. It scales incredibly well. I tried the sword you're using on for fun when I found it and lost 1k dps. (I'm at 14k no 16k) Wearing the sword dropped me to 13k. While my fire damage pretty well doubled the fact that I was attacked at maybe half the rate means I was doing far less dps.

Meaning for an ele build like this wearing a 1h/shield is a no brainer because you may be able to get comparable damage with the best ele 2her out there but I'll have the advantage of a shield and everything that brings.

One of the most insightful and interesting conversations ive had in a while. Thank you.

I sent a message but I figure I'd ask here to.

Is there any way you can give me the first 40 levels to head towards on the tree? It's been forever since I've played and I need a little hand holding at this time >_<

I typically don't like doing this but whatever, tis the season:

19 pts -

27 pts -

44 pts -
68 pts -

81 pts -

99 pts -

That's probably how I'd level, something along those lines. It's really up to you what you want to prioritize and when. Enjoy.

Lol that's the only Christmas gift I got today so I'll take it.

Thank You!

@Mathil: Your point about the lightning coil is a good one. It is likely superior to cloak of defiance due to the added life and higher armor compared to cloak of defiance. However, regarding your point about not being able to constantly attack while using EB...you are just wrong here. Will EB you will have around around 3000 mana (and that is on the low end), plus you will be running clarity. End game your mana regen will be near 250-300 per second. That is more than enough to run Mind over matter and arctic armor and still run all skills off of mana. However, I concede that using a lightning coil is superior compared to using cloak of defiance. That way you do not have to worry about keeping around 700 mana free for tanking big hits and you can essentially run the auras exactly as you have minus maybe one 40% aura. In all honesty I would like replace that one 40% aura with tempest shield for an extra 4% block chance. Still would be able to run arctic armor and run skills completely off of mana.

I know you think you wouldn't be able to run skills off of mana, but trust me, I have built 3 EB builds and also ran arctic armor on all of them. I could even run a 6L cyclone build off mana only without having any mana leech. The only problem would be half regen/no regen maps regarding the mana issue and that could be solved with having a small amount of mana leech on gear or using mana leech gem.

Kudos on pointing out the lightning coil though. I agree it is vastly superior to cloak of defiance.

First off, thanks for the great guide.

Just wanted to chime in with my experience with this build. I wanted a change of pace from my RF/EK build (and tired of rerolling maps with vuln/-max res/etc... things that make RF not work), found this guide and really liked the feel of it. I'm sitting at lv81 now, and greatly enjoying it. Still reminds me of the ele speed builds I ran in cb.

Recently got a great deal on a 5l Hyrri, and respec'd the 5 nodes spent getting acro accordingly (including one point into lit res until I find an upgrade or two).

Btw, wouldn't haste from the shadow start be more beneficial than finesse from ranger? It's one more point, but 4% more aspd and access to the 16bhp/8%/12% nodes behind it.



At the moment, I'm pushing out 6900 tooltip dps with mostly nq lv18 gems (9% ST, 8% WED) and decent but not fantastic gear. Life is a bit low at 3500, but hasn't really been an issue. Pretty much every skillpoint from here out will be going into life anyways.


Any suggestions on what needs upgrading first?

Do you think its worthwhile to use crest of perandus in conjunction with block nodes to reach 56% block and pair it up with rainbowstrides for those who want to go into the tankier path? (also taking unwavering/IR in this variation). Is it possible to get good block while still maintaining the same amount of EHP and 14k ish dps?

Also, Is perandus basically the best non aegis block shield in the game with the exception of an amazing rare shield with high defenses , life, and block chance?