[3.11] Powerful Earthquake Slayer (beginner friendly, leaguestarter, FAST, all content)

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kamiru0 escribió:

Yeah, the build slows down a lot around lvl 90 as it needs a ton of investment. Explode is necessary for rare/blue mob packs or you'll need to swing your axe twice or three times to get them down. Got my atziri's and belly's 6-links and the tree is around 10 regrets away from a swap into cyclone so the gameplay might get hella smoother if i eventually decide to do so.

Compared to my friends running golems, spectre/spiders or actually any projectile-based builds, it seems that Earthquake still needs some tweaking. I also hope that Prycro removes that General's Cry from the base build as it does nothing for us (and he doesn't use it aswell, looking at his profile).

Steelskin on movement (basically - left mouse button) instead of CWDT is pretty neat (2k hp for free every 3s). There are a lot of passive points variants, yet getting all these nodes for warcries seem to be a little waste. Crucial one is to take Combat Control. I feel like trying Measured Fury but it doesn't provide anything to clearing speed, only some dmg at bosses (or you'd have to warcry constantly, which is hella clunky without Call to Arms - then you have to go for warcry cooldowns or link it with Second Windgem. Either way, it's a ton of passive points to spend. Endgame viability seems to be just "okay" - as long as you don't get oneshot, you'll leech it back, but at this point it would need at least 15 exalts to make it work at t16+.

Anyway, I will try to upgrade my eq and see how it works but the whole league-starter thing is totally right - feels great at the beginning :D

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kamiru0 escribió:

Yeah, the build slows down a lot around lvl 90 as it needs a ton of investment. Explode is necessary for rare/blue mob packs or you'll need to swing your axe twice or three times to get them down. Got my atziri's and belly's 6-links and the tree is around 10 regrets away from a swap into cyclone so the gameplay might get hella smoother if i eventually decide to do so.

Compared to my friends running golems, spectre/spiders or actually any projectile-based builds, it seems that Earthquake still needs some tweaking. I also hope that Prycro removes that General's Cry from the base build as it does nothing for us (and he doesn't use it aswell, looking at his profile).

Steelskin on movement (basically - left mouse button) instead of CWDT is pretty neat (2k hp for free every 3s). There are a lot of passive points variants, yet getting all these nodes for warcries seem to be a little waste. Crucial one is to take Combat Control. I feel like trying Measured Fury but it doesn't provide anything to clearing speed, only some dmg at bosses (or you'd have to warcry constantly, which is hella clunky without Call to Arms - then you have to go for warcry cooldowns or link it with Second Windgem. Either way, it's a ton of passive points to spend. Endgame viability seems to be just "okay" - as long as you don't get oneshot, you'll leech it back, but at this point it would need at least 15 exalts to make it work at t16+.

Anyway, I will try to upgrade my eq and see how it works but the whole league-starter thing is totally right - feels great at the beginning :D

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NeedBlackupYo escribió:

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kamiru0 escribió:

Yeah, the build slows down a lot around lvl 90 as it needs a ton of investment. Explode is necessary for rare/blue mob packs or you'll need to swing your axe twice or three times to get them down. Got my atziri's and belly's 6-links and the tree is around 10 regrets away from a swap into cyclone so the gameplay might get hella smoother if i eventually decide to do so.

Compared to my friends running golems, spectre/spiders or actually any projectile-based builds, it seems that Earthquake still needs some tweaking. I also hope that Prycro removes that General's Cry from the base build as it does nothing for us (and he doesn't use it aswell, looking at his profile).

Steelskin on movement (basically - left mouse button) instead of CWDT is pretty neat (2k hp for free every 3s). There are a lot of passive points variants, yet getting all these nodes for warcries seem to be a little waste. Crucial one is to take Combat Control. I feel like trying Measured Fury but it doesn't provide anything to clearing speed, only some dmg at bosses (or you'd have to warcry constantly, which is hella clunky without Call to Arms - then you have to go for warcry cooldowns or link it with Second Windgem. Either way, it's a ton of passive points to spend. Endgame viability seems to be just "okay" - as long as you don't get oneshot, you'll leech it back, but at this point it would need at least 15 exalts to make it work at t16+.

Anyway, I will try to upgrade my eq and see how it works but the whole league-starter thing is totally right - feels great at the beginning :D

I'm also starting to see this potential problem, I'm thinking we somewhere need another layer of defense.

There's a lot of things to keep pressing in the build (Flasks/Totems/Warcries/Buffs). Which isn't so much of a problem when you are 1-2-3 shotting Bosses and you have that setup time, but if they can survive the initial damage (seeing this now in T14+ Conquerors) we've got a lot of stuff to set back up to finish off the bosses.

I guess unless you have a crazy Life Pool where the high Ex investment comes in I find myself running around trying to set the 2nd set of damage up and inevitably die here due to either using Flask Charges due to eating damage when setting up Warcries/Totems/Buffs.

I was leveling fairly well until 90 but starting to hit an EXP wall just before Sirius in that last wave of Conquerors as I keep getting 1 shot.