[3.0] How to Flicker. Terminus Est Edition!

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pampersas escribió:

Could somebody help me and suggest budget gear? (no more than 10 chaos)

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SoulTouched escribió:

There are builds that can do content all the way up to Shaper on cheaper gear (have a look at some of the Cyclone+Slayer builds in this forum), which can then be optimized even further. It is better to take a build like that, and once you can afford Atziri's Acuity/Kaom's Heart, you can try out something like Terminus Est flicker.

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Kobayashi escribió:

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pampersas escribió:

Could somebody help me and suggest budget gear? (no more than 10 chaos)

this is not going to happen.
you should not cheap out on your Terminus/Oro's (weapon) or you will have major issues with bosses that don't spawn adds

for clearing alone blood rage should be more than enough to keep you going.
otherwise no uniques are "needed" per se. grab a good weapon and standard gear. do chaos recipe and grind out for your weapon. atzirie's promise is very cheap. you can easily grab that flask for 1c

my weapon did cost me just 11c. it is not perfect, but cheap lucky find (sockets and links are crafted by myself)

Spoiler

i used that weapon as soon as i could and leveled with it (some bosses are not fun though because of missing crit chance)

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SoulTouched escribió:

There are builds that can do content all the way up to Shaper on cheaper gear (have a look at some of the Cyclone+Slayer builds in this forum), which can then be optimized even further. It is better to take a build like that, and once you can afford Atziri's Acuity/Kaom's Heart, you can try out something like Terminus Est flicker.

i don't have those gloves and can do red maps, sure some bosses are nasty but that is why i run a 4 link warchief totem, which does around 80-100k dps depending on buffs, maybe 60-80k realistically

sure other builds are cheaper AND safer, but they are not Flicker Strike
btw i use a belly and kaom's roots instead. w/o AA and acrobatics i can do the gorge boss... barely.

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StephenskyS escribió:

How did you get 6 frenzy charges ?

I have only 5

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SoulTouched escribió:

Spoiler

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Molochmane escribió:

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gardian90 escribió:

I'm done with terminus est, damage is too low. Swapping to Kitava's feast and speccing out of melee splash slayer ascendancy.

Too low as in? mob clear or boss fights? or sustainability?

Sustainability for perma-flicker is fine with one or two mana leech nodes. Mob clear is great. Boss fight is trash, not because of sustainability, but because of lack of defenses to cope with major hits which you will inevitably eat because of flickering uncontrollably, if you are using flicker, and which you will definitely eat if you are switching to Viper Strike for a bit. Note that I am not even talking about ONE shots. I am simply talking about major hits. That's why Atziri's Acuity is so crucial: we don't have Vaal Pact, so we desperately need something to help offset big hits right away since we don't have any other major defenses.

We don't do SO MUCH damage that a boss dies right away, so that indirect form of "defense" (even though that's a pretty weak defense), is not available.

Our life leech is okay but not enough (even with brutal fervour) because it isn't supported by the tree, so it just isn't speedy enough. Again, that's why Atziri's Acuity is needed so badly for the insta-leech. Same with evasion --- not supported by the tree. Armour is trash in general, so I don't care about that. 30% dodge due to Phase Acrobatics is not really that significant, since the probability of eating a big shot is still significant (at least around 60%, assuming you have some bonuses from gear), and some bosses have decently high attack speed (e.g. T12 Chateau corrupted bosses).

One reason why mob clear is fine is because it is VERY easy to re-fill flasks; for boss fights, sometimes there are no trash mobs to eat while killing the boss, and you can often run into issues as your life flask runs out.

There is some damage mitigation due to Fortify/Arctic Armour/(sometimes some Pantheon powers), but once you are getting to T12 and stuff, that mitigation isn't enough unless you have a big enough life pool. This is where Kaom's Heart (and Atziri's Acuity) starts to become absolutely crucial. Note that because damage starts to become shit at around T11/T12 bosses, Abyssus becomes very important, and Abyssus makes you take at least 40% extra physical damage, which basically nullifies any bonus from Fortiy/Arctic Armour.

There are builds that can do content all the way up to Shaper on cheaper gear (have a look at some of the Cyclone+Slayer builds in this forum), which can then be optimized even further. It is better to take a build like that, and once you can afford Atziri's Acuity/Kaom's Heart, you can try out something like Terminus Est flicker.

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pampersas escribió:

Yeah, I agree with you that it is impossible to get the end game gear for 10c, but is there any kind of budget gear which would help me to farm? I mean with the same budget (10c, weapon excluded). Because as of this time I'm level 70 and I can't even complete T2 maps