EPTMultiple totems seems to be the "non-hierophants can finally be totem characters too" gem, which i'm fine with. I absolutely HATE HATE HATE how ggg are adding skill-specific buffs to ascendancy classes. Not only does it make the class feel bad if you aren't that one pigeonholed skill, but also it makes the skill feel bad if you aren't that one pigeonholed class. It feels bad in so many scenarios for this weird upside of helping people with no brain figure out how to play a skill. This gem alleviates that issue in the case of totems at least.
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
Multiple totems seems to be the "non-hierophants can finally be totem characters too" gem, which i'm fine with. I absolutely HATE HATE HATE how ggg are adding skill-specific buffs to ascendancy classes. Not only does it make the class feel bad if you aren't that one pigeonholed skill, but also it makes the skill feel bad if you aren't that one pigeonholed class. It feels bad in so many scenarios for this weird upside of helping people with no brain figure out how to play a skill. This gem alleviates that issue in the case of totems at least. | ||
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ASoo
2865 Posts
Pretty sure cold DoT Occultist is gonna be good. Time to dick around in PoB. | ||
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
If it is when being placed, does it last the full banner duration or only the fortify 0.05 per stage duration? I guess it just has to be tested but the wording seems confusing. On another note, what do you guys think is a good frost blades ascendency? | ||
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ASoo
2865 Posts
Not sure about the Dread Banner fortify effect, you're right that it's confusingly worded. | ||
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LagLovah
Canada552 Posts
I really want to try armageddon brand but, is heiro going to be required? because i want to do it as elementalist if anything. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22088 Posts
On December 06 2018 10:01 EchelonTee wrote: Question about Dread Banner - do you only get the "2% increased fortify effect per stage" when you place the banner? Or at all times? It doesn't explicitly say "after being placed" but the placement of the text is confusing. If it is when being placed, does it last the full banner duration or only the fortify 0.05 per stage duration? I guess it just has to be tested but the wording seems confusing. It doesn't have 'when placed' after it so going purely off the wording it works all the time, but it could very well be an unclear tooltip. No way to know without testing or GGG clarifying. | ||
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Duka08
3391 Posts
On December 06 2018 10:10 LagLovah wrote: I really want to try armageddon brand but, is heiro going to be required? because i want to do it as elementalist if anything. Hiero only has one node related to brands. It lets you place an additional one, but the extra effects other than that don't seem game-changing, just quality of life. Hard to say right now without actually playing with them. Though worth considering Templar is going to have easier access to the Runebinder keystone as well (I guess Witch isn't too bad tbh). | ||
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
How important is slayer overleech for survivability? Assassin or Raider are quite tempting for frost blades tbh On a side note I kind of wanted to try out the new impale skills, but the numbers just don't seem great. Scaling pure phys still seems kind of poor when you consider all the mods you can get that improve conversion builds | ||
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LagLovah
Canada552 Posts
Seems alright I guess. Will try it out anyways. | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14080 Posts
...the whole Ice stuff is really tempting. Icespear can shotgun apparently and has free pierce attached, Vortex, Arctic Breath and Ice Nova (130% effectiveness!) also have pretty nice numbers. Something something CwC Winter Orb Ice Spear? | ||
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hunts
United States2113 Posts
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Duka08
3391 Posts
On December 06 2018 13:01 r.Evo wrote: Hiero has the whole "Enemies take 10% increased damage per brand" going on which seems pretty bonkers for singletarget. Yeah but you can only apply one brand to each target, so on single target its just a flat 10% more (ish). Fights with adds running around could be different though. | ||
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
On December 06 2018 13:01 r.Evo wrote: Hiero has the whole "Enemies take 10% increased damage per brand" going on which seems pretty bonkers for singletarget. ...the whole Ice stuff is really tempting. Icespear can shotgun apparently and has free pierce attached, Vortex, Arctic Breath and Ice Nova (130% effectiveness!) also have pretty nice numbers. Something something CwC Winter Orb Ice Spear? Arctic Breath and Vortex seem kind of meh to me. The damage is quite good, so you could use it in some boss spec, but the clear seemed pretty bad. Even with GMP in that vid the arctic breath seemed slow. Vortex likewise you'd have to use it alongside frostbolt since it has a cooldown now CwC winter orb + ice spear or Ice nova does seem pretty good to me tho. Solo winter orb seems like it'd be too little damage, but together you can take advantage of the winter orb chilling for the CwC skill | ||
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LagLovah
Canada552 Posts
On December 06 2018 13:07 Duka08 wrote: Yeah but you can only apply one brand to each target, so on single target its just a flat 10% more (ish). Fights with adds running around could be different though. Well runebinder lets you have 2 brands on it. The easy ignite on elementalist with the 180% more on the gem makes it seem pretty good. | ||
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Duka08
3391 Posts
On December 06 2018 13:23 LagLovah wrote: Well runebinder lets you have 2 brands on it. The easy ignite on elementalist with the 180% more on the gem makes it seem pretty good. Oh I actually misread that, thought that let you have +1 BRANDS, not specifically multiple on the same enemy. Yeah that hiero node ain't bad for a single Brand node then. Still don't think it makes Hiero the only brand spec though | ||
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hunts
United States2113 Posts
just tested on standard and it does work. I wonder if that can be a build, use ngamahu's flame and use CoC in the weapon and another CoC in chest? | ||
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
Personally if I was going CoC I would do cospri's or some sort of Vagan dagger setup, since it sounds like it will be craftable or a veiled mod or something | ||
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bo1b
Australia12814 Posts
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Duvon
Sweden2360 Posts
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Sapaio
Denmark2037 Posts
I think the multiple totem could be very good if you want to freeze something with totems and then have more primary damage against frozen enemy, or maybe good with Cheftain and its reflect damage and taunt. | ||
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