Elemental Buzzsaw & Static Strike - Solo the entire game, quickly and cheaply 1.1.0 update

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Jurnlok escribió:

I am still relatively new and am sorry if this has been answered already, its hard to shift through 160 pages. I am mid 40's and just at act 1 of Cruel. I have lesser projectiles and spectral throw but have blood magic sitting in my bank as I haven't found any quality 3L pieces with 2 green/1 red. During leveling is it worth while to use grey or blue quality gear with terrible stats simply to shove a 4L-6L worth of gems in to get a full setup? Right now I have to run clarity to push out any kind of consistent attacks.

If it is worthwhile to use subpar armor to max out gem linkages, is it worth it to buy the gems I am short? I am on ambush league and have noticed a few people selling various gems I need for lower then others over trade and I do have a bit of a extra currency(I level slowly and kinda horde stuff...the new portal gem probably gets far more use then it should by me) I know I will likely get more gems as quest rewards as I level but I have had an increasingly harder time killing since I am still only running wrath aura as I don't have a decrease mana gem yet.

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Chundadragon escribió:

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hunTShoo escribió:

Lets talk about arctic armor

When you actually do this build properly.. you will end up reserving around 99% of your mana. Even with CwDT, AA will instantly deactivate and be essentially worthless.

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hunTShoo escribió:

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Chundadragon escribió:

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hunTShoo escribió:

Lets talk about arctic armor

When you actually do this build properly.. you will end up reserving around 99% of your mana. Even with CwDT, AA will instantly deactivate and be essentially worthless.

i got 32mana left over, which is enough for like 15s of AA can just say that it works for me so far. however im still gearing up and just past lvl70 thou...

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Madcow1120 escribió:

@Mathil

someone a couple pages pointed out before removing the life cluster above Mind Drinker (1 int and 3 8% life nodes for 4 passives) and using them on the life+mana nodes when climbing the tree nets the exact same life but also 32% more mana.

more mana doesn't seem huge but it's bigger than +10 int :)

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Chundadragon escribió:

Quality has nothing to do with anything at your level, +100 evasion/armour will do absolutely nothing. Get a 4L gloves/boots/helm pronto... RRGG, so easy to find.

Get the gems you need to level them, "use subpar armor to max out gem linkages" smells of noob, what's wrong with alching linked items?

At your level, you should level with 2H ST... Once you can get Blood Magic and 2 auras at level 40-ish that's when you should transition.

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Jurnlok escribió:

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Chundadragon escribió:

Quality has nothing to do with anything at your level, +100 evasion/armour will do absolutely nothing. Get a 4L gloves/boots/helm pronto... RRGG, so easy to find.

Get the gems you need to level them, "use subpar armor to max out gem linkages" smells of noob, what's wrong with alching linked items?

At your level, you should level with 2H ST... Once you can get Blood Magic and 2 auras at level 40-ish that's when you should transition.

I am a noob. 48 is my highest character which is a minion witch, pretty much easy mode stomping through the game, I don't have to worry about face tanking a superior speed rare that hits like a truck like I do with this one. I have opted mostly for armor/evasion gear with elemental damage and health/IIR mods on this char. How often do you alchy gear when leveling? 5 levels, 10?. I've had bad luck alchying gear only to find a piece of gear better and with the proper linkages in the next area, and that's happened three times now so I have found it increasingly difficult to do that again. So how much do I spend to get a piece gear more tailored to me while I'm leveling? Get grey, alchy to blue, deal with whatever stats it gives me?