[3.26] ShakCentral's Cold DoT Witch For Everyone

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roselan escribió:

How? I see that plenty people use void sphere, sometime linked to increased aoe support.

I tried and got mine to lv 18, but I don't see/feel how it helps.

What am I missing?

It helps remove the exploding corpses. Like the cockroaches in endless delve.

What is the best skill gem to slot into rime gaze?

Thanks!

nevermind, found the answer in the POB. Thanks for this great build by the way!

So, for the fun I min-maxed a bit the build in Standard.

It reaches 18m dps. 19m with skitterbots instead of flesh and stone (but I hate skitterbots), and 24m dps with a +4 shavronne.


Note: it has no block, only 9k ES, no true stun immunity (I should get that boot's enchant), no ailment avoidance, or recharge perks. With various ES on kill mechanic, it's surprisingly tanky.

With my "over the top" gear, dps is truely bonkers. I "phased" shaper, minotaur, t16 vaal temple 3 bosses. I didn't test it much but the 3 4 maps I did were easy, vaal temple popped delirium.

I could optimize further (by example a crown of the inward eye could allow me to anoint Growth and Decay or charisma).

I have like 24% mana free atm, and I'm not sure what to get, plus my gem slot are full. I could optimize the gear a bit to get more str and dex and not use 2 bench crafts. So I could get an Elder unset ring with dex and stre as last finishing touch.

All in all, the build is pretty bonkers, and it was a fun project to set up.

https://pastebin.com/dzWyw0sa

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roselan escribió:

So, for the fun I min-maxed a bit the build in Standard.

It reaches 18m dps. 19m with skitterbots instead of flesh and stone (but I hate skitterbots), and 24m dps with a +4 shavronne.


Note: it has no block, only 9k ES, no true stun immunity (I should get that boot's enchant), no ailment avoidance, or recharge perks. With various ES on kill mechanic, it's surprisingly tanky.

With my "over the top" gear, dps is truely bonkers. I "phased" shaper, minotaur, t16 vaal temple 3 bosses. I didn't test it much but the 3 4 maps I did were easy, vaal temple popped delirium.

I could optimize further (by example a crown of the inward eye could allow me to anoint Growth and Decay or charisma).

I have like 24% mana free atm, and I'm not sure what to get, plus my gem slot are full. I could optimize the gear a bit to get more str and dex and not use 2 bench crafts. So I could get an Elder unset ring with dex and stre as last finishing touch.

All in all, the build is pretty bonkers, and it was a fun project to set up.

https://pastebin.com/dzWyw0sa

Pretty cool setup I never would of thought of using cyclone to proc curses to save on mana.

As far as what to do with your extra mana I would get a lvl 20 Vaal Clarity and swap out Void Sphere. This should give you around 150 mana regen and I love using Vaal Clarity when I have 3 Frenzy charges its free Cold Snap for around 17 seconds. Plus if you get the trifecta of Watcher's Eye with the Clarity Mod you could push this to 10K ES :)


I could be wrong but all last league I dropped my staunching flask when I had a corrupted blood jewel and bleed didn't kill me So I would also drop the staunching for a Rumi's to get more Block.

My new favorite setup for 2nd curse and stun immunity is Vile bastion + Whispers of Doom. I made really good amulet in Flashback

Proc curses, hits with lightning for EE (when CI without anger), helps for element overload, procs fortify and... Ah, until last league, cyclone did get you stun immunity. But not anymore :( A phantasmal cyclone gives 20% stun immunity thou.

It slows you to crawl too. It's better with Trickster and the elusive node, No Witness. But honestly, it's ok. And I didn't gear this Occultist to be clear demon.

Void sphere lingers from the delve event, I'm just testing stuff around. In truth by the time I plant it, everything is dead already, so it's not really useful. I will get a vaal clarity.

But a triple watcher eye... well, how to say that? no?

There is one in Standard for 2 mirrors and one in Heist for "only" 1 mirror.

Finally, I never thought it would be possible to push the build so far and I wouldn't have geared this character without you and your genius inspiration to scale auras with clusters. So 98% of the praise goes to you, no question.

Btw, I uploaded some video on youtube, like a sirus fight were even I manage to die once (boo to me) if you are interested.

https://youtu.be/C8G2Aw6LB3M


Edit: I wonder if taking Vile Bastion and using Vitality instead of Clarity is worth it.

The trifecta Watcher's Eye on standard has the old values before the nerf and totally worth the two mirrors. I just hope who ever buys it doesn't use a divine or it will loose the old value. They would be super bummed.

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roselan escribió:

Edit: I wonder if taking Vile Bastion and using Vitality instead of Clarity is worth it.

Like using Zealots Oath to get high ES regen? I prefer the mana regen because I have Vortex on Left click/Move. But since your self casting Vortex you should try it let me know how good it is.

I totally meant to write Zealot's Oath. Brainfart.

I have 361 es regen as is. 904 with Zealot's oath and 1372 with a lv17 vitality. It's tempting!

I use cyclone on q and vortex on w (on a qwertz keyboard). I keep both key pressed down most of the way. I don't use left click, I just point somewhere on screen and cyclone there slowly.

If you look at my helm bench craft, you will see that's it's the old es too, I have seen 40/20 rumis too. I just miss the mirrors :)

After testing and balancing DPS and defense with my current gear I am ranked #2 On Poe.Ninja at 8.9mil. Poe.ninja doesn't calculate frenzy charges or EE so its not 100% correct currently around 15mil DPS.


Since harvest is coming back I came up with four trees with ultimate end game goals for next season.

Highest DPS (Requires Perfect rolls and a +4 shavs)
26mil Shaper DPS, 8.7k ES, with Vile Bastion for extra defense = https://pastebin.com/7neBuqr1

Balanced DPS with High ES
15mil Shaper DPS , 10k ES with High Chaos Res = https://pastebin.com/1FqhU0Wd

Moderate DPS with Elusive
13.4 mil Shaper DPS, 10.6k ES, Higher Movement Speed and Elusive = https://pastebin.com/YE4HkBYz

Full Defensive Block Version
12mil Shaper DPS, 9.5k ES, 75% Block and 56% Spell Block = https://pastebin.com/PsEkSphZ

Wow. That you achieved that in league is unreal. You have all my respect, what you have done is truly amazing.

It should be the new basis for Shakcentral endgame build.

BIG optimizations:
* Snowforged is now strictly superior to Heart of Ice (in my opinion). With your dps, even Light Eater might be superior to Heart of ice, but that debatable (overall without Ghost Reaver).
* Penetration does not affect cdot, so you can link Divine Judgement through the top node for a whoopy 4% increased dps ^^


On my side, I went full apeshit on auras. With the help of a friend explaining things slowly to me, I got 4 i84 medium aura clusters, and rolled them with 35% inc effect. At 40ex apiece plus 10ex for each roll it's absolutely not worth it XD. But it's standard so who cares right? right?

I nuked the full right part of the tree for them. When you dive in the aura stacking rabbit hole there is no going back. By example dread banner: I have it a lv 9 atm due to str limitation. This gives "Nearby enemy have 18% less accuracy rating". With my 220% increased aura effect, they now have 57% less accuracy. It's a full other ballpark. A true aura stacker would max out evasion with zero evasion on her. Crazy. It's to the point that I wonder if replacing my gear with full aura stacking is worth it. Without 3 nodes voices, I doubt it. Plus it would denature the build to much imo.

Anyway, I speced in Vile Bastion (the stun immune part is too good to pass) and took Whispers of Doom on the tree. I have 1354 es regen with Bottled Faith and Vitality lv14. This is main visible difference between our builds. With the 4 aura clusters, I'm back to 20m dps.

I did try some juicy (140q+ 4 scarabs) t16 delirium maps. It was pretty smooth and I never felt any real sense of danger. Conquerors even drox rarely have time to use their first ability. Sirus last phase gets properly obliterated. Only in Delve lv 600+ I found the build more frail than the block version, but I killed Aul at lv900+ pretty easily (with some mods, but not the worst ones).

Next step would be to reroll two of my cluster jewels to spec out the str node and get enough resists to use a proper second dps ring.

This min-maxing project is way more entertaining than I thought it would. I truly enjoy playing the build in maps and "one shot" conquerors. I didn't think it would ever be possible with vortex. But now I have to resist the urge to reproduce this build as league starter. I have been there and it's an exercise in frustration...

Actual pastbin: https://pastebin.com/2jXUxQxV

Donbrwaler, I can't thank you enough for the inspiration for this build. I had more or less given up on vortex and now I'm again enjoying this build immensely.