[3.19] Devon's Hexblaster Occultist | Most Content Viable | Reflect Immune

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Diablocbovine escribió:

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Cyanogen101 escribió:

How is (Despair + Imp Doom + Increased AoE) + (Hexblast + Supporting Dmg Buffs)

vs (Bane + Despair + Frostbite) + (Hexblast + Supporting Dmg Buffs)

Basically seems like two ways to play the new hexes but with PoB not having the capability for calculating the hexes on an enemy and such, has anyone done the math to compare how these to stack up?

Only self cast curses trigger the doom mechanic. So because bane is the actual casted skill that triggers linked curses, it won't trigger the doom mechanics. Which in turn makes hex blast weak. So You'd be better off doing Bane and Soulrend/Essence Drain/Blight. I believe the Blasphemy linked curse(s) are just there to provide their debuffs for a self casted Despair/Frostbite to trigger the doom mechanic to trigger Hexblast.

Now I don't know the math but at least bane feels a lot more league start friendly since its pretty much link curses and go. Hexblast really wants Doomsday to get rolling and then after that you need to decide between going chaos spam or adding in an ailment. Plus to me since Hexblast can crit and the Witch Tree and Occult has easy access to Power Charges, Hexblast wants to go with a crit set up.

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Diablocbovine escribió:

Hexblast wants to go with a crit set up.

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devon752 escribió:

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Diablocbovine escribió:

Hexblast wants to go with a crit set up.

I'd have to disagree with that since the base crit of Hexblast is 4% and you cast it every other second. So if you go full crit and don't crit on that Doomsday proc it's gonna feel mega bad. Which will happen since you will have like 60% crit chance MAX and that's with power charges, all of the nodes taken AND the critical strike chance gem. Maybe with assassin slightly more? Maybe around 80% max. Still really bad if you don't crit.

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RichRamp escribió:

Hey! From start wanted to play hexblast but was waiting for build.
You think with gear we can do sirius and other endgame stuff without problems?

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Diablocbovine escribió:

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devon752 escribió:

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Diablocbovine escribió:

Hexblast wants to go with a crit set up.

I'd have to disagree with that since the base crit of Hexblast is 4% and you cast it every other second. So if you go full crit and don't crit on that Doomsday proc it's gonna feel mega bad. Which will happen since you will have like 60% crit chance MAX and that's with power charges, all of the nodes taken AND the critical strike chance gem. Maybe with assassin slightly more? Maybe around 80% max. Still really bad if you don't crit.

Would a bow/quiver help with that? It'll be stupid expensive but that might help close the gap.

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devon752 escribió:

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Diablocbovine escribió:

Hexblast wants to go with a crit set up.

I'd have to disagree with that since the base crit of Hexblast is 4% and you cast it every other second. So if you go full crit and don't crit on that Doomsday proc it's gonna feel mega bad. Which will happen since you will have like 60% crit chance MAX and that's with power charges, all of the nodes taken AND the critical strike chance gem. Maybe with assassin slightly more? Maybe around 80% max. Still really bad if you don't crit.

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MajorCalabresa escribió:

Are you sure that Cold Penetration will work with Hex Blast? The gem says that the damage resist the lowest resistance, not penetrates enemies resistance.
Thanks