[3.5] The Blinding Blizzard - Whispering Ice CI Elequisitor - Viable For Everything

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ichbinwerichbi escribió:

Hi Kel

why you have fire penetration in case of life leach. is the watchers eye enought to leech and why more fire penetration ?

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iamgrimnemesis escribió:

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- jewel sockets to the left and up from the start (rares or Izaro's; see Gear-Jewels)

Where exactly is this? Sure I saw un-allocated socket nearby the Scion starting point but I didn't remember touching any nodes to the left and up from the start.

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Sykar escribió:

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Kelvynn escribió:

Tried the new Incinerate for clearing. It's trash. It does too little DPS of its own and takes too long to power up (about 2 sec to reach stage 8). If I were to spend 2 sec casting on 1 pack of mobs, that would result in 5 Icestorm casts - a massive overkill/wasted time. Rares might need 2 sec of casting, but on rares SR is better because it applies extra resist debuff. So much for that idea.

Incinerate is fine. You do not have to channel the full duration to get that final 500% more damage/more ignite wave. It synergizes well with Ice Storm, Combustion and Ignite nodes for basically 100% ignite chance which means with Combusion you almost instantly have 19% fire resistance reduced.

Also it does profit from all of your fire penetration since it is a spell that hits unlike Scorching Ray. Since it is a hit it can also leech which Scorching Ray cannot do. To top it all off it also has a base crit chance which helps keeping EO going.

If you go at least partially for Ignite then Incinerate will out-damage Scorching Ray which cannot Ignite at all. Use an Emberwake Ring and you can keep up two of those monster ignites if you can brainlessly channel if you have no duration nodes or Temp Chains.
In fact my level 17 Incinerate has double the base DPS of my Scorching Ray which is level 19.

There is also the fact that it Incinerate scales off AoE gems and nodes, which means better synergy between Ice Storm and Incinerate if you use AoE nodes and gems. It makes a 5 link actually valuable on WI.

Lastly Incinerate scales greatly with quality, gaining 1% increased fire damage per 1% quality. Scorching Ray gets an almost inconsequential range increase.

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fabricardo escribió:

Noob question, but why both Golems at level 12 only?

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NoImagination escribió:

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Med1umentor escribió:

If you have that kind of watcher's eye - it definitely worth to drop herald. I mean, if by droping herald we can get 1.5% of leech, then we can put something instead of life leech gem, which basically around 50% more damage (instead of about 17% or so)

Ah: I meant if it's worth dropping Herald instead of AA. I dropped the latter & replaced LL with Fire Pen.

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Med1umentor escribió:

8 stacks of SR would be only on bosses, and made our elemental overlord trigger worse, so consider it just as "thinking aloud" :)

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Kelvynn escribió:

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Med1umentor escribió:

8 stacks of SR would be only on bosses, and made our elemental overlord trigger worse, so consider it just as "thinking aloud" :)

That's exactly why I chose FP. In the Incursions you can't wait for SR to power up fully, and you start hitting most packs before they hit you, i.e. Combustion is not on yet.

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Med1umentor escribió:

By the way, about flasks... Can anyone tell me why everybody using basalt flask instead of granite?

I mean, sure, it's obvious on normal armor character, because it adds 15% of reduction regardless of our armor stat. When armor is already high - 3000 from granite flask isn't really high.

BUT... we use ES gear. Our armor stat is nonexistent. It's 0! Granite flask alone give us 25% reduction, which already almost twice as effective if compared to basalt. But also, now that we have an armor from flask, we can actually roll up to 100% increase armor on flask which will boost our flask to 40% or so, can't remember exactly.

Not even need to say that granite flask is 30/60 charges, therefore can be used twice without any additions, but basalt is 40/60.

Am i missing something, or entire forum just forgot that granite flask exist?

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lilianmarius escribió:

Use whatever flask suits you better , I'm using Granite with anti bleeding and increased duration instead of Basalt one for normal mapping