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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
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Glacierz
United States1245 Posts
On October 05 2017 05:07 Sn0_Man wrote: The baron isn't that spicy for spectre builds though since none of the key benefits apply in any meaningful manner to any of your spectres. Melee physical damage? You really don't want melee attack spectres. Minions getting HP from your strength? the amount of HP you can share just isn't relevant. Minions have like 10K base HP, another 500 from 1k strength is meaningless. Leeching minion damage? the good spectres right now are DoT based (wicker man RF and tukohama's vanguard scorching ray totem) so you can't leech. Apparently this helm is pretty popular for spectre builds. Ran into someone using it in a Beachhead rota, looks fun. | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
They never release challenge league details this far in advance but it's a safe bet to say that they will have put more work into the upcoming league than they did into harbinger. When there's a big content release, the corresponding challenge league gets very little dev time just because of priorities. The smaller patches generally feature more involved challenge leagues. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On October 05 2017 05:31 Glacierz wrote: Apparently this helm is pretty popular for spectre builds. Ran into someone using it in a Beachhead rota, looks fun. how does that work, you're not killing stuff, your minions are? also i never even realized they changed the mods on that in 2.6, lol. | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On October 05 2017 10:21 ticklishmusic wrote: how does that work, you're not killing stuff, your minions are? also i never even realized they changed the mods on that in 2.6, lol. I would guess you probably need to use some CoH setup that also has culling strike. | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
Maybe I should do a Spectre/SRS mix or something. Or Spectre/Zombie mix or Spectre/Skeleton one (that one would be closest to D2 Necro) | ||
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Glacierz
United States1245 Posts
On October 05 2017 10:21 ticklishmusic wrote: how does that work, you're not killing stuff, your minions are? also i never even realized they changed the mods on that in 2.6, lol. Not really sure since I'm no expert in builds like these, but here is the profile of one. | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On October 05 2017 22:59 Glacierz wrote: Not really sure since I'm no expert in builds like these, but here is the profile of one. I cannot see any reliable way for that build to kill enemies. He only has one attack skill - Ball Lightning that is used for cursing and to apply EE. No idea how he gets the shrine effects except from normal shrines. | ||
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
I'd prefer using Solar Guards though, for tough bosses they are decent as well but you also can use Cannibal Fire-Eaters which I think have the highest ST potential and use pretty similar gems. | ||
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Croatia7457 Posts
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On October 06 2017 01:34 Sn0_Man wrote: I know ailment kills are awarded to the player not his minions (ignite/poison), it's possible that all DoT kills are (which would count the scorching ray and RF spectres commonly used) huh, that seems spaghetti-ish (maybe the code just checks for minion kills to see if you get a charge?), but good to know. | ||
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
It used to be that DoT kills wouldn't have your rarity modifiers for example because when mobs died they checked the killing blow and DoTs didn't have a killing blow. In order to fix that, now they award the kill to the owner of the DoT, but minions don't "own" their DoT's (probably because you don't want a minion to have a DoT and disappear and the DoT also disappear) so the DoT owner is you. This gets annoying sometimes (my friend used to run knitted horror spectres and he'd get CB stacks from the blue mobs from time to time, presumably when they died to the puncture). Interestingly, this probably means that if you link rarity to your spectres they won't get the benefit on DoT kills even though the rarity gem works on YOUR DoT skills (Caustic Arrow MF was a big thing for a while). But I can't promise that and it's somewhat awkward to check. | ||
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
the Skullhead if you need more tankiness on the spectre. The Bone Helmet gives up to 40% minion damage and can roll +2 to minions | ||
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Glacierz
United States1245 Posts
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Joni_
Germany355 Posts
On October 06 2017 23:15 Glacierz wrote: Any wander experts here? Why do a lot of the builds I see use point blank? I don't understand since I can't facetank anything... You're not supposed to facetank anything, you're supposed to use your movesped (mostly qotf/PF-builds, I guess) to avoid being hit and get close to deal insane damage with Barrage. Quite similar to how qotf-snakebite Bow-shadow played in 2.6, I think. At least the builds that I know work that way. The idea is that because Barrage DPS drops quite significantly when you're far away from the enemy because of the spread, you want to be close anyway. So getting a bit closer for a big increase in damage is desirable. | ||
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Duka08
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Glacierz
United States1245 Posts
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