[3.5] (This is a bad league starter) Lancing Steel + Shattering Steel - Deadeye - League Starter

Been playing something similar to your Shattering Steel build. Feels like I would have been way better off just taking Molten Strike instead, but meh.

Cast when Damage Taken + Immortal Call & Molten Shell has been helping a lot for covering up mistakes.

At around LV70, I had to give up. SS had decent single target DPS but clear speed was terrible. I honestly dont recommend the build as a league starter. I played pure phys double strike for a while, which was a very easy switch. (all u really need is just the main links switched to: Vaal double strike - Ancestral Cal - Melee splash - Melee Phys - Brutality - Maim, in this order of priority)

Now, I respecced into Cast-on-crit Lancing ice spear. Its really fun but it is a completely different build. Basically, the lancing steel causes a critical strike, and ice spear/freeze pulse shoots out. This can happen every .150 seconds because that is the cooldown on the Cast-on-Crit gem. Lancing is nice because it has range and also some projectiles that shoot out with a delay. This delay works together nicely with the .150 sec cool down. 1 use of Lancing can trigger multiple COCs. Lancing can get mana on hit, which is on my jewels. The every ice spear can hit the same enemy. Ice spear is doing the most damage. Freeze pulse is nice for clearing quickly.

The reason Deadeye is nice is because you get a ton of proj damage, atk speed, accuracy, crit chance, and crit multi, all of which are necessary for this build. Also, the 30 life on hit is insanely good because it works for every hit, including spells. On the tree, I'm primarily taking life, proj damage, atk speed, global/atk/spell crit chance, crit multi, and proj speed. Since ice spear already has 600% increased crit chance at baseline, you dont need much spell crit chance. Focus more on atk crit chance instead.

It's not MinMaxed at all. From here on, I need more levels, gem levels, more life, diamond rings, and dodge chance. Notice the spell damage crafted on the sword. This used to not be possible previously.

POB: https://pastebin.com/CpCQMMeC

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO0dF4mKyYQ

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kamabullet1 escribió:

Why do you have a completely different tree in your profile?

see the top of my guide. updated

with CoC ice spear - will cospri's malice be BIS for you?

Been thinking of Cospri's Malice too but idk if the build can get that much int for it and if it also works with CoC.

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Dyvz escribió:

with CoC ice spear - will cospri's malice be BIS for you?

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Majad escribió:

Been thinking of Cospri's Malice too but idk if the build can get that much int for it and if it also works with CoC.

cospris is still expensive. also, cospris requires a MELEE crit. lancing is not melee.

Ice spear has damage bonus from range, so if youre gonna do cospris ice spear, you probably want a ranged melee attack that attacks multiple times fast. maybe lacerate is the only candidate, but it's probably not that good.

BTW, something like the proj from lightning stirke will not work with cospris

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Hollyphantom escribió:

Now, I respecced into Cast-on-crit Lancing ice spear.

Will you be updating this topic as CoC lancing steel ice spear?
Or you will be doing new?

I am curious about items/stats priority on this kind of stuff.

Have any of you tried scaling Lancing Steel with a 2h? Or do you just stick with dual wielding call it bad and quit.

It's all about the impale. Dual wielding with it sucks.

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DamageIncorporated escribió:

Have any of you tried scaling Lancing Steel with a 2h? Or do you just stick with dual wielding call it bad and quit.

It's all about the impale. Dual wielding with it sucks.

Mathil is doing a duelist 2h Lancing Steel. You can check it out if you google it.

No idea if he has any guides about it up, though.

After having tried both pure phys SS and CoC ice spear, i felt way better on the phys SS build. Currently at T9 without any troubles. Only good stuff i have is my weapons, so still a lot of room for improvement. I'm currently working on getting a 6L Lioneye's Vision.