dzurel, you seem to be missing the point of this forum. You are getting angry and defensive if someone even suggests something different from your build. These threads are discussions. An alternative build or comment isn't a personal attack on you.
I am a big fan of seeing what builds others are doing, including yours, so it is very disappointing to see you attacking and insulting anyone who mentions a 2her or another build.
I ran some more tests and played around with my build. I am now confident that this is a winning strategy.
I now run with 3% life steal in my fire wand, 1.5% from blood magic weapon, and healing blades. With 35% to spectral blades and conflag and cold blooded affecting them, they do some very serious damage.
I tested this on mp 7 and I can tank and kill easily with a mere 60k dps. The reason this works so well is my new build (tried many other variations with less success) :
You can swap storm armor with energy armor for higher mp.
This build buffs your spectral blades damage ALOT while providing mobility with teleport. (conflag 10%, cold-blooded 20%, ica nova 15%, 35% spectral blade damage is equal to 338% weapon damage spectral blade. This is combination with 9.5% life steal (3% life steal + 1.5% life steal + 5% life steal for blades) makes for an astounding tank. Once I up my damage to a respectable point, I will make a new post detailing this interesting build.
It is quite fun and powerful, while being very unique. currently with only 60k dps, I get 4-6k life back every single time i click spectral blades. I also think that character sheet dps is deceptive with this build. with 60k shown, I am doing around 80-100k damage per blade hit (keep in mind every cast has 3 blade hits), so my normal attack is hitting for an average of 240-300k. (300*.02[life steal after inferno reduction] = 6k life back)
I can stand in arcane beams and desecrations on mp 5 or less without dying (though not a recommended strategy).
Well, normally I'd agree with you, but if you see one of my earlier posts, my current build apparently allows for 313% weapon damage spectral blade, so if it really is equal to 5% life steal on a weap of that, it could be very worth it.
Mouth balls?
Butt with back dimples?
Fancy Mustache?
It's a mystery.
It represents ": for eyes," "3 for curled mouth."
:3 represents a supposedly cute animal pet thingie smile, such as that of a cat, puppy, hamster, and the like.
Not sure if you were being serious, but there you go.
Well, I was having fun, but was also halfway serious. I actually didn't know that was supposed to be a squirrel creature. Learn something new everyday!
I'm a big fan of both skills that you don't like (especially tempest rush), so I'll have to throw my vote in for SSS as third best alternative. Having a good escape mechanism has saved my life many many times.
Been doing some more research on spectral blades and their viability.
A patch or two ago, I know deep cuts was vastly superior to other blade abilities due to the proc, but recently, I found this chart with all co-efficients:
It looks like the only advantage of deep cuts now is an extra LoH proc, but not CM. Does this mean that healing blades or any other blade ability (besides thrown) is viable now?
I'd also like to know how healing blades work. Is it really a straight up 5% Life steal on the spell's damage? (I know about 80% inferno cutback for all lifesteal, I mean before the reduction from inferno, so i can relate it to LS items.)
It makes sense to me : the higher you want your dps to be, the more you MUST (it's not a choice) sacrifice in terms of survivability. I think the top dps players just want to top the charts (and I'm sure it's a lot of fun to play with a really high dps), it does not mean it is the most efficient way to gear your character (it reminds me Gearscore in WoW).
Thats not true you can achive max dps while having max defensive stats (ok not max cause u could get several res on ur gear but stil) it's a matter of perfect rolls though.
With exception of a few legendaries
If you want to get technical, and since you ARE getting technical: This is false. When an item is rolled, there is an Item budget. You cannot have "max" dps while rolling resistances and armor on your items except for the few top damage legendaries that automatically have resistances baked in.
That doesn't mean that you can't have amazing DPS and defense, but since you are arguing for "max", it isn't possible.
I use exalted soul, guardian's path, a 2her, and spirit only from my helm and inna's set. You don't need crazy amounts of spirit to make tempest rush work. This setup won't get you infinite rush, but it allows you to move between packs without running out of spirit. For infinite, I'd suggest using a stone of jordan and circular breathing aura as well.
I have the exact opposite problem as you do. I've worked my damage up to 150k but my resistances are at 350. I cannot survive past mp 6 regularly, even with 1200 LoH. So be careful not to go overboard with throwing away resistances. My suggestion is to buy those high dmg legendaries with 50+ of your chosen element so that you can maintain a decent resistance without sacrificing damage.
I was browsing on the AH and found a top rolled fragment of destiny. Does anyone know how the +25% fire/cold/lightning damage works on that wand? I've heard from some post that it was broken but I haven't found any other evidence or info on the thing.
If my spectral blades are being used with a fire wand, does that make them do +25% fire skill damage?
Good to hear. I'm trying to build a spectral blade wizard (i doubt it is the most efficient, but hey, lets try something interesting) and I've been stacking +% to spectral blade damage as well. I do have a few questions on how it works thus far.
My character [ http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/SolusCoda-1302/hero/1197627 ]
I currently have stacked 44% spectral blade damage. (9% + 11% rings, 14% source, 10% amulet) and I'm curious how the math works.
base for blades is 165% weapon damage. So, does my extra damage add to 209% or is it (165 * 1.44) 237%.
Then, after that, does my 10% from conflag and 20% from cold blooded add to (209 * 1.3) 271% or (308.1%)?
I feel like there are some cool hidden builds in these skill modifier combos on items. Just need to figure them out.
my question may already have been answered, but I can't seem to find it.
I have a fire damage wand, and a + cold damage % SoJ.
Does this mean that since spectral blades takes the element damage of the weapon, and since the cold damage chills, that both conflagration and cold blooded will add damage to it?
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I am a big fan of seeing what builds others are doing, including yours, so it is very disappointing to see you attacking and insulting anyone who mentions a 2her or another build.
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I now run with 3% life steal in my fire wand, 1.5% from blood magic weapon, and healing blades. With 35% to spectral blades and conflag and cold blooded affecting them, they do some very serious damage.
I tested this on mp 7 and I can tank and kill easily with a mere 60k dps. The reason this works so well is my new build (tried many other variations with less success) :
http://us.battle.net...XYTS!Weg!YYcccc
You can swap storm armor with energy armor for higher mp.
This build buffs your spectral blades damage ALOT while providing mobility with teleport. (conflag 10%, cold-blooded 20%, ica nova 15%, 35% spectral blade damage is equal to 338% weapon damage spectral blade. This is combination with 9.5% life steal (3% life steal + 1.5% life steal + 5% life steal for blades) makes for an astounding tank. Once I up my damage to a respectable point, I will make a new post detailing this interesting build.
It is quite fun and powerful, while being very unique. currently with only 60k dps, I get 4-6k life back every single time i click spectral blades. I also think that character sheet dps is deceptive with this build. with 60k shown, I am doing around 80-100k damage per blade hit (keep in mind every cast has 3 blade hits), so my normal attack is hitting for an average of 240-300k. (300*.02[life steal after inferno reduction] = 6k life back)
I can stand in arcane beams and desecrations on mp 5 or less without dying (though not a recommended strategy).
I think I'll call it the Blood Blade build.
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Well, I was having fun, but was also halfway serious. I actually didn't know that was supposed to be a squirrel creature. Learn something new everyday!
:3) <--big squirrel nose.
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Mouth balls?
Butt with back dimples?
Fancy Mustache?
It's a mystery.
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A patch or two ago, I know deep cuts was vastly superior to other blade abilities due to the proc, but recently, I found this chart with all co-efficients:
https://docs.google....ZJcHdkN0E#gid=4
(credit to someone else, can't remember, was on www.reddit.com/r/diablo)
It looks like the only advantage of deep cuts now is an extra LoH proc, but not CM. Does this mean that healing blades or any other blade ability (besides thrown) is viable now?
I'd also like to know how healing blades work. Is it really a straight up 5% Life steal on the spell's damage? (I know about 80% inferno cutback for all lifesteal, I mean before the reduction from inferno, so i can relate it to LS items.)
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If you want to get technical, and since you ARE getting technical: This is false. When an item is rolled, there is an Item budget. You cannot have "max" dps while rolling resistances and armor on your items except for the few top damage legendaries that automatically have resistances baked in.
That doesn't mean that you can't have amazing DPS and defense, but since you are arguing for "max", it isn't possible.
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I was browsing on the AH and found a top rolled fragment of destiny. Does anyone know how the +25% fire/cold/lightning damage works on that wand? I've heard from some post that it was broken but I haven't found any other evidence or info on the thing.
If my spectral blades are being used with a fire wand, does that make them do +25% fire skill damage?
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It is hard to gauge if that's accurate in-game.
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My character [ http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/SolusCoda-1302/hero/1197627 ]
I currently have stacked 44% spectral blade damage. (9% + 11% rings, 14% source, 10% amulet) and I'm curious how the math works.
base for blades is 165% weapon damage. So, does my extra damage add to 209% or is it (165 * 1.44) 237%.
Then, after that, does my 10% from conflag and 20% from cold blooded add to (209 * 1.3) 271% or (308.1%)?
I feel like there are some cool hidden builds in these skill modifier combos on items. Just need to figure them out.
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my question may already have been answered, but I can't seem to find it.
I have a fire damage wand, and a + cold damage % SoJ.
Does this mean that since spectral blades takes the element damage of the weapon, and since the cold damage chills, that both conflagration and cold blooded will add damage to it?
Thanks
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