(3.14) Toxic Rain + Caustic Arrow | 5-10m Sirus DPS | Fast + Durable | 50c Budget/SSF Uber Elder

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Fraktal_ เขียน:

This build is rippin hard in uber lab, scared to even try again lol

broke as a joke sub 20c to my name

4 link quill rain

fml

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chapppy เขียน:

What's the pro/con in using Swift Afflictions/Efficacy?

It seems both do similar damage, but SwiftAff is a bit better for mobs since the damage ramps up faster. Efficacy is probably better for bosses, but has a high INT requirement.

That's it right?

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Someone posted an ammy that says "Allocates Corruption"
What does that do?

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ivanfromukraine เขียน:

3600 HP / 880 ES (no Discipline activated because it leaves me at 2 mana...)

Kinda unhappy with the build tbh. What could I improve and where am I lacking in gear?
Feels like casting TR only once doesn't kill most rares when mapping so you have to stand there and cast it a couple of times. Is this intended? Doesn't make it very smooth.
Should you manually use Frenzy and Despair on mob packs or just on bosses?
Also when do you ever need Blink Arrow? Why is it in the build?

Feels like this build isn't doing enough DMG and also is too squishy to facetank most Metamorph encounters. On bosses it does average damage aswell even when you manually apply Frenzy/Despair and Wither totems.

I'm also using 2x Quicksilver + Phase Run and even with that mapping is way slower than the other meta builds out there (and more keys to press). What's the issue?

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ivanfromukraine เขียน:

3600 HP / 880 ES (no Discipline activated because it leaves me at 2 mana...)

Kinda unhappy with the build tbh. What could I improve and where am I lacking in gear?
Feels like casting TR only once doesn't kill most rares when mapping so you have to stand there and cast it a couple of times. Is this intended? Doesn't make it very smooth.
Should you manually use Frenzy and Despair on mob packs or just on bosses?
Also when do you ever need Blink Arrow? Why is it in the build?

Feels like this build isn't doing enough DMG and also is too squishy to facetank most Metamorph encounters. On bosses it does average damage aswell even when you manually apply Frenzy/Despair and Wither totems.

I'm also using 2x Quicksilver + Phase Run and even with that mapping is way slower than the other meta builds out there (and more keys to press). What's the issue?

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Kadamose เขียน:

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ivanfromukraine เขียน:

3600 HP / 880 ES (no Discipline activated because it leaves me at 2 mana...)

Kinda unhappy with the build tbh. What could I improve and where am I lacking in gear?
Feels like casting TR only once doesn't kill most rares when mapping so you have to stand there and cast it a couple of times. Is this intended? Doesn't make it very smooth.
Should you manually use Frenzy and Despair on mob packs or just on bosses?
Also when do you ever need Blink Arrow? Why is it in the build?

Feels like this build isn't doing enough DMG and also is too squishy to facetank most Metamorph encounters. On bosses it does average damage aswell even when you manually apply Frenzy/Despair and Wither totems.

I'm also using 2x Quicksilver + Phase Run and even with that mapping is way slower than the other meta builds out there (and more keys to press). What's the issue?

Definitely agree. But this build is only meant to take you to about T12 before it starts crapping out - it doesn't scale like ED does. I'm quite disappointed myself, but the main reason it feels so bad is because of the ascendency.

I'm going to switch to a Tremor Rod and see if the saboteur is salvageable.

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grimjack68 เขียน:

Err... no. I ran this last league, and had zero problems with high end content.

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Viktranka เขียน:

I would add that apparently there are new damage over time mods for quivers, you can aim for that.

If you don't like self casting despair, you can use witchfire brew. I think there are curse on hit rings with despair nowadays as well? You could also link your frenzy with curse on hit and apply both at the same time.

If you feel too squishy I would ditch Queen of the Forest for now and get some more defensive oriented chest.

Blink arrow is good to get across chasms / ledges. Otherwise I'd consider using withering step just for the speed up. Haven't used phase run myself, so not sure how they compare.

Anyway I dunno how "meta builds" are 1-tapping rares or face tanking metamorphs, I've seen a lot of complains about various bow builds (ice shot, lightning arrow, explosive arrow etc.) that they lack bossing / single target damage since everything got massive buffs to hp. Well I guess necros are still doing fine? And saboteurs but their builds are even more spammy than toxic rain.

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grimjack68 เขียน:

Err... no. I ran this last league, and had zero problems with high end content.

Well this patch was meant to up the difficulty of red maps and also massively buffed boss hp pools (some 4-5 times more), and metamorphs are often bosses on steroids, a lot of people came in for a nasty surprise when they can't speed clear all content for 50c anymore.

Like literally a lot of popular builds are getting complains about "zero damage" or "can't kill metamorphs". Melee builds are getting punched in the gut. The only people still doing semi ok are minion builds and miners, rest requires much more investment to reach the same results as we were used to.