Path of Exile - Page 1495

On December 22 2018 03:52 ASoo wrote:
Does anybody understand the mechanics of brands well enough to explain the details of them to me? I'm trying to figure things out from the wiki, announcement posts, and reddit threads, but it's a bit confusing.

Specific questions:

• My understanding is that brands have an "activation delay" (i.e., a pause after casting but before they hit for the first time; mentioned in this announcement), and that this time is longer for Armageddon Brand than for Storm Brand, but I can't find details. How long exactly is this delay? Is it scaled by cast speed the way the activation frequency is?
  
• When a branded enemy dies, do you have to wait out the activation delay again as it attaches to the next enemy, or does it keep firing the whole time?
  
• If you keep casting brands fast enough that you replace them before their activation delay is up, what happens? Do they just never hit because they're always stuck in activation delay?
  
• People talk about Brand Recall feeling really good and wanting to get its cooldown as low as possible, but I don't understand why it's worthwhile. Brands activate multiple times per second; isn't getting one extra activation every ~2s a negligible DPS increase? Is the increased attachment range the good part? Or does the spell allow unattached brands to activate, increasing single-target DPS?
  
• Is the "increased brand activation frequency" stat additive or multiplicative with cast speed?

On December 22 2018 06:24 travis wrote:
I was theorycrafting a bit, and thought

what if someone went jugg with undeniable - gain accuracy rating equal to your strength // 1% IAS per 200 accuracy
then stack attributes (of course, primarily strength) and get some flat damage and of course whatever other goodies
then use pillar of the caged god cyclone

these days aren't there some insane +attributes gear? 3 years ago people were easily theorycrafting 2000+ strength builds... id imagine you can get 3000+ str with other attributes in a decent spot, too nowadays

does this sound viable at all?

On December 21 2018 23:21 WaveofShadow wrote:
Yeah I was thinking of running CoC as a second character this league because I want to fill the screen with all sorts of crazy crap. Is cyclone the usual proc skill?

On December 23 2018 03:53 Jealous wrote:

Thank you!

I'm guessing it doesn't make sense to pursue those (or really any) specific maps when you're still filling out your atlas and have just hit yellow maps, but in the future I should run the marked maps over non-marked?

On December 23 2018 04:02 Jealous wrote:

I figured as much, but I thought they would move to a different map right away and I could just keep doing Zana for example. They don't come back until the next day cycle?

On December 21 2018 23:55 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:


It is a matter of balance. If there is one leveling skill that gives you more mobility than anything that also clears then there is no point leveling with anything else. Do you buff flame dash or lightning warp to be on the same power level so that all characters can level and clear that quickly or do you force people to level slower as casters or respec after leveling with leap slam?

If every build is using the same skill or ability you have a design problem.