Why low life? Build and thoughts.

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Why low life?

What benefit do you recieve from low life builds over Chaos Innoculation builds or just having lots of health and ES. The answer seems pretty simple. Auras and Uniques. Low life builds get to run LOTS of auras. 8 or 9 sometimes. They also get to play with some uniques that others don't get to use.

I like to get tanky, so lets use every defensive aura.

Determination + Grace + Discipline + Purity + Vitality + Tempest Shield.

Sounds great but what kind of build would benefit from this? I need shield block and armor and evasion and energy shield.

Evasion I can get from grace and modify through passives. Armor I can get from Surgeon's Granites if I have enough crit. Purty and Discipline are good by themselves. Shield block needs to come from passives. And we need to find a use for vitality(or not). Here's the build I came up with that probably won't work =P

I decided to start with a build that could use all of these things (except vitality):


This puts me around 60% block, over 17k armor with a granite on (and 0 without), and about 3500 evasion. Preferably your granites would have 100% evasion while active, putting you at over 8k. This also gives me tons of energy shield passives. If I had the same gear as I do on my lvl 63 shadow(which is mediocre) I would run around 6k ES.

Some uniques would be required for this build. Shavronne's Wrappings obviously, but there are others that make you very tanky too. Daresso's Courage has 120% of shield block applied to spells while on low life. There's also Rainbowstride boots that give you another 25%, and I have a passive giving me 12%. That's a total of 157% of shield block applied to spells. I would have 60% shield block with Daresso's courage and this build + tempest shield giving me a total of 94.2% chance to block spells.

The passive tree here has 70% resist all, purity will give around 35%, the boots with shield block for spells has 20% and daresso's can have 20%. This is a whopping 145% resist all with only 3 items equipped. This caps your resistances at 85% with no other resist gear(sweet!).

Vitality is possible to use in the build. I had some thoughts of using the 1% health regen in the templar tree, Araku tiki amulet (1% health regen on low life) and vitality aura to run Blood Rage in addition to the auras. This is assuming you want to melee, which I haven't determined if this is even melee or caster the. And this brings me to my question for any readers that got this far.

How do you do damage with this?

I've picked up a couple power charges, there's tons of crit nearby this path, so maybe power charge on critical on something??



TL:DR

Running Discipline + Grace + Determination + Tempest Shield + Purity + The above build with Daresso's Courage + Shavronne's Wrapping + Rainbowstride and using several Surgeons Granite Flask of Reflexes nets you 17k armor 8k evasion 60% shield block 94.2% spell block 145% all resists and tons of ES passives. What skills should I use to do damage and what passives should I pick up to support those skills?

get ancestral bound and use duble portal totems

I forgot to factor in the armor and evasion from daresso's courage. It has a high base and all those shield mastery passives give it a % bonus then it gets modified by all the passives etc. Maybe i should just go EK? I can run lvl 20 clarity to try and keep up with the mana cost. I'll keep people updated when I get higher level. I'm only lvl 32 right now and I'm just a basic freeze pulser.

Low life is just a bonus of running an RF build.

And the reason you run RF is because you do twice as much DPS as any other caster build :D

Isn't a Shavronne Low life build the most stupidly overpowered build that ever existed in this game? Like they could have just put some other pasives on shavronne, like "Hoy bro u kno u can run 4 more free auras" and "hey BTW u also deal 200% more spell damage".

Just asking.


And to help this topic, you can't get more than 75% block and block for spell, and also evasion is calculated before block so it make it prety bad combinaison with tempest shield.

has anyone of you guys actually TRIED the shavronne lowlife build?

always hear newer players(noobs) complain about how op it is and what not but in reality it sucks hard.
the reduced lightradius debuff from having lowlife is so strong that you cant do indoor dungeons, its just not possible. you wont be able to see ANYTHING at all. you are limited to outdoor maps only, thats retarded imho.

I immediatly sold my shavronne after I played some maps with that piece of garbage called armor.

GGG could even increase the spelldmg on RF, this build would still be shit.


but whatever, keep raging.

Redbeaks are overrated. They give 100% increased damage but a really good wand gives much much more than that. I have seen wands with 90% spell damage but also increased cast speed and crit chance and crit multiplier and still has more stats on it. Thanks for the info about the spell block by the way =)

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Toki213 escribió:

has anyone of you guys actually TRIED the shavronne lowlife build?

always hear newer players(noobs) complain about how op it is and what not but in reality it sucks hard.
the reduced lightradius debuff from having lowlife is so strong that you cant do indoor dungeons, its just not possible. you wont be able to see ANYTHING at all. you are limited to outdoor maps only, thats retarded imho.

I immediatly sold my shavronne after I played some maps with that piece of garbage called armor.

GGG could even increase the spelldmg on RF, this build would still be shit.


but whatever, keep raging.

It's not nearly as bad as everyone says it is. I run indoor maps all the time.

You also don't NEED Shavronnes to run a low life build. They did exist before that unique you know.

Why low life? Cuz shavronne's + righteous fire + pain attunement + ES regen that offsets righteous fire damage.


2.4 times the damage of other caster builds nbd

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SL4Y3R escribió:

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Toki213 escribió:

has anyone of you guys actually TRIED the shavronne lowlife build?

always hear newer players(noobs) complain about how op it is and what not but in reality it sucks hard.
the reduced lightradius debuff from having lowlife is so strong that you cant do indoor dungeons, its just not possible. you wont be able to see ANYTHING at all. you are limited to outdoor maps only, thats retarded imho.

I immediatly sold my shavronne after I played some maps with that piece of garbage called armor.

GGG could even increase the spelldmg on RF, this build would still be shit.


but whatever, keep raging.

It's not nearly as bad as everyone says it is. I run indoor maps all the time.

You also don't NEED Shavronnes to run a low life build. They did exist before that unique you know.

True but now they dont get 1 hit by chaos damage anymore. Before Shavronnes it was situational due to this. Now its just free triple damage (ignoring the minor inconvenience of getting chaos res) thats only limited by your budget.