[3.6] Soulrend: LowLife+Bow for max damage!

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PeopleReady เขียน:

I'm running into an issue with the LL variant where I run out of mana to cast Soulrend fairly frequently - has anyone else had this issue, or am I simply attempting to squeeze in too many auras? Or, do I need to beef up maximum mana/regen?

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dado_hd เขียน:

can you post a leveling section? thank you so much <3

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Communismo เขียน:

Hey, nice guide.

I am also playing a soulrend trickster using the "deterministically craftable bow of OPness", in the synthesis flashback event. One issue I have with your build is your logic for using essence drain instead of bane, for a few reasons.

First of all, bane is just straight up more damage than essence drain. You mention not wanting to spec into a second curse to run temp chains, but it has been determined that for min-maxing DPS, 1 curse is the optimal number of curses to run with bane. Partially this is due to the diminishing returns of the 2nd and 3rd curses etc with regards to the "more" multiplier, but more importantly because despair is the only real offensive curse we have that directly augments our damage in of itself as well as the bonus duration / damage to bane.

Anyone who is running bane with more than 1 curse either, doesn't understand math, or is choosing to accept a loss of dps to have more utility i.e from temp chains etc..

You are saying that you like getting despair on hit from you gloves, but i think you aren't considering the enormous difference between the lvl 10 despair your gloves is applying and a 20/20 despair gem. Most importantly, the gem quality on despair reads :Cursed enemies take 0.5% increased Damage from Damage Over Time effects. This is HUGE, like what you were saying about the max DPS being the zealotry mod watchers eye, despair (gem) already has that built into it.

To fully illustrate this point very simply and plainly, i took your pastebin without touching anything noted the total DOT dps from consistent application of soulrend + essence drain which was 818k shaper dps

Then i took out essence drain for bane, and took out empower for 20/20 despair. With no other changes, the sum of your dot is now 894k shaper dps. This is a 10% dps increase (huge).

Next lets talk about duration. You state that you would have to "cast bane 3 times as much as essence drain"

This is a gross over-exaggeration. Doing the same comparison by simply plugging in the bane 6link into your pastebin, we can see that bane has a duration of 4.8s in your build, and essence drain has 7.33s. So actually, you are casting bane 1.5 times as often as essence drain, not 3x.

Finally lets just talk about the skills in general. Bane is an instantaneous application of dot and curse in a giant AoE, there is no projectile travel time, or hitboxes etc.. which affect the consistent that dot or despair is applied. you click, and boom its done.

Anyways, these are all my observations and opinions from doing my own attempts at min-maxing the lowlife version of the build thus far. Let me know what you think.