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Miragee
8659 Posts
 A bit frustrated I did the merciless lab in standard which I wanted to do at lvl 90 (so sure it was going to be 90 this time but I guess I will never have lvl 90 char in HC, lol). Worked out although the last Izaro fight had me sweating. Figuring out what to do next. Any suggestions for a fun spell build, a fun tanky-melee build? Also found a Voltaxic Rift the other day so I might go with that one. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
Earthquake is pretty strong, but as with all melee it suffers from having to get close to stuff and is more limited in map mods. You can go gladiator for 75/75 block which is pretty good though. Varunasutra or w/e it's called makes gearing pretty trivial. Not sure what other melee are super great this time around. Merc lab isn't that bad... you could probably have done it at 70-80 with no real problems. I waited a long time to do it and I ended up facerolling it completely (to be fair I did map argus with no problems before I did merc lab soooo~). | ||
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
But I wouldn't really recommend CI, it's not fun for the lab. Even though it works pretty fine with Darkscorn + Soulstrike in weapon switch for traps. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
Not sure how to approach the trio, is it just running around and spamming spark? I could get to 6k hp ezpz if I upgraded gear I think, still no jewels and eke out ~200 more hp on armor. Could probably pick up Atziri's step. | ||
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
On April 05 2016 03:06 ticklishmusic wrote: What movement skill are you using? I'm running blink arrow right now. Not sure how to approach the trio, is it just running around and spamming spark? I could get to 6k hp ezpz if I upgraded gear I think, still no jewels and eke out ~200 more hp on armor. Could probably pick up Atziri's step. Yup, I got 15k dps Spark (idk how much with Elemental Overload which I also have) and in that trio room I just cast Spark until everything dies without worrying about the order. I got both 5L Spark and Vaal Spark though, and with both of them everything melts. I'm just using Blink Arrow as well, not often needing it though. Mostly for faster movement when my Quicksilver is empty. | ||
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Kickstart
United States1941 Posts
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Miragee
8659 Posts
- Piercing: Dead Eye + Piercing Shots Wheel seems obvious to me to achieve 100 % but what do you do if you go towards templar as ticklishmusic suggested? - Poison: I did some research and some people seemed to use this in 2.1. Would you recommend this? - Berserker: Not sure whether I wanna go Berserker on HC. I guess I'll need the leech though? - Support Gems: Does Void Manipulation reduce your damage as well? Would you use GMP/LMP or are the spark enough already? Increased Duration/Faster Projectiles? Added Lightning Dmg/Controlled Destruction? This is the tree I have thrown together really quick: https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAAAALfW8pfbWZtdLaiomrGQvoBaUnvDgwlKyG-ebqrKSvGztfJfsEtXNZKbtcDj_o_YvcM6hMVN4_4KieAZiio4Iuoki6ZX8kXmWMgjlwbo1g-rOuGTHwWTxKIFtW1sFr9JE7vjwuy1SOaBJpX-uipb62PLvWHiefYRLwMeVUtDNh9BjDZS7LTF2-dHBtDQj_pcQIfLp5t1ns8V8NVJUZUuBx5irGyMnaoM8qXLe26XIcF8hwcAwYRT7_0QYo2_1CMwcd2oS3g6QlFHMHyNfSP2TZI-z73mmyYyAbIZz3ph63pTbAjxig== Any suggestions? I wouldn't mind looking at your trees as well but I can understand if you don't want to show them. | ||
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Tenks
United States3104 Posts
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
-I use poison, it does a ton of deeps, makes a lot of sense if you to the right b/c you get chaos dmg nodes which double dip. -Berserker is for the leech, yah. 10% more damage is also good. As Holy mentioned, Vaal Pact with spark is absolutely insane though I personally don't use it. None of the other masteries seem very good to me honestly. -I use spark-spell echo-void manipulation-poison-pierce. tooltip is ~15K without frenzy charges (I have 6, I took the merc kraityn one), it feels a lot stronger since your sparks are bouncing around and hitting enemies multiple times -You can easily break 100k actual dps if you cast a couple times. I melted chateau boss in about 5 seconds with regular old spark, vaal spark is probably a 1HKO on pretty much anything that's not a red map boss/ has big chaos res this is my current tree, though I might spec out of the upper increased duration cluster (don't think I need) to get points to get a jewel slots + frenzy charge. Other: -The one holy grail item is the helmet enchant that gives +2 sparks but it's insanely rare -Winds of change gauntlets are pretty good, but not required. Cheapish I think? The downside is you could get more life, res, castspeed with rare gloves OR consider some other unique gloves with whatever benefits and it has a movement reduction modifier, though I run a ton of frenzy charges which offsets that. -Victario's acuity is pretty good, ez frenzy + power charges and the other stats aren't awful -Atziri's step is an option -You can vaal drillneck if you feel lucky -Quality spark w/ increased proj speed is really good -I run clarity + warlords blasphemy + HoT usually, you can play around w/ what auras you want. I used to run grace but it was kinda meh. -Chaos or flame golem are both good options. | ||
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
The leech is better than any concerns about 5% increased damage taken Technically you do suffer from void manipulation "reduced dmg" but the double-dipping more multiplier (assuming you use poison) is more than good enough to compensate if you have the links No GMP/LMP as there are enough sparks already. There are like a billion guides for this build up i think. I know ziggyd posted a video calling it the best build he'd ever played. scooped by 8 fucking seconds xd | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
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solidbebe
Netherlands4921 Posts
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Lachrymose
Australia1928 Posts
It's awesome. How am I supposed to loot at 11 attacks per second? | ||
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Kickstart
United States1941 Posts
Things I can think of: - self cast spark (level with orb of storms + spark and scales up to lategame quite easily). - traps - sunder -> earthquake - support style builds with tri-curse and/or auras (requires a dedicated party to pay off though). - ca always performs decently well but i think it performs better for solo play than an actual party race scenario. Any other things to consider? :o | ||
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Lachrymose
Australia1928 Posts
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matiK23
United States963 Posts
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pahndah
1193 Posts
Melee you have to continuously craft weapons and hope you find correct 3 links and I didn't bother learning that. | ||
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AsmodeusXI
United States15536 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45765 Posts
On April 05 2016 12:00 AsmodeusXI wrote: Woo hooo~! Cleared Act 1! #NoobAchievements Yay congrats!  Act 2 Cruel for me now... and on my way out of Act 1, I randomly stumbled across the whole Hideout thing o.O I got really confused when that happened lol. Which masters should I be keeping in my hideout for daily missions and other stuff? What other stuff exactly is there? Who crafts "the best"? | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14080 Posts
Scion Deadeye is cute for saving 4 points and the far shot and Berserker is cute for free leech and a bit more damage but the leech can be covered with a boots enchant for most situations and the rest combined doesn't keep up with "You take 24% less damage". Mayyybe a super tanky BM version with Wrath on Essence Worm but apart from that, for HC, Scion has nothing on Duelist imo. | ||
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