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Necro and VD was using Cyclone, no? You'll have to have a ton of attack speed to get 0.15s on all three spells in your PP. How much mana reserve does the BB eat?

Archmage versions are going necro for Essense Glutton. What's the appeal of Necro if you aren't spending lots of mana? Bone Offering? I played a LL BF/BB last league with poet's pen and Elementalist(full convert to cold). Damage was great, defenses was not. I wouldn't mind playing the build...

Poacher's Mark can be 10% more dps over Vulnerability on a Shaper target. I would not use Witchfire Brew for any ranged build. The coverage on that blasphemy is pathetic.

Easy double implicit corruption, that's all. Extra curse is nice too. No one seems to like using Poacher's Mark for some reason.

Does feel a bit like ED but with some major QoL improvements. Imagine doing ED in Ultimatum but your ED chaining gets stuck on the multiple fat rares. So you're wildly running around trying to spread ED onto the white mobs and those stupid gorillas keep eating it. With Exsanguinate, just jizz...

Where was that said? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'd like some more context. 10% of players in maps?

I'm playing pseudo SSF in trade. The lack of dps affixes that affects Exsanguinate makes most map-starting gear just EHP and resists, so it's been fun picking up rares that the strict loot filter says to pick up and actually have upgrades. I don't plan to buy stuff until an upgrade is...

This is a good thing. You get one ultimatum per map and as far as we know, its rewards are not effected by map juice. With fractured deli maps, a large percentage of the currency in the economy was influenced by map juice. YOU are getting more currency because you aren't some faggot that...

no fractured deli maps, hoping there will not be much currency inflation.

You can fix BF/BB to not operate that way.

You said you weren't going to play that build.

Ultimatums can be difficult, they spawn a ton of monsters. Mobile builds are much better. I've been liking Exsanguinate Spellslinger so far.

I don't think Garukhan's Flight was content-restricted.

Wait, he's ruining this game too!?!?

Who's Ion?

There are streamers with fewer subs that don't seemingly do anything else to make money. Socialism? I wonder if GGG considers these kind of headaches when considering economy vs SSF.

Holy shit, wtf is this? A day of days. Empyrian banned for exploiting, Bubbles having an actual conversation, what else might happen? Bex said they will look into the tainted currency after getting some sleep. How much of Empy's income is RMT vs Twitch subscribers?

Ha, fuck that faggot. It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on the economy, or if it's just "perceived" as GGG purports. I wish I could be buy a supporter pack with the explicit intent it was for this.

You wouldn't reserve any life for auras. The Shavs is just there to prevent chaos damage from bypassing ES.

Thinking some more on the build, getting the reservation to just over 50% is probably best. Maybe just over 33% in really good gear. As in, you have a ton of energy shield to compensate for 66% of your life reserved. MoM might be a requirement too, depending on what PoB says for damage...

I hope the item gets added to PoB soon. I suspect the yoyo of that much ES would be ultimately undesirable. Given how fast you reserve and unreserve, I don't see a point to relying on any life recovery to refill your life in between releases unless it's pre-nerf Zerphi's Last Breath levels of...

Ivory Tower would be a weird one since it grants max energy shield based on reserved life. Also, since you're using mana as EHP, you'd have no auras. I bet a regular LL Shavs setup would work better.

Some dev at GGG didn't like that Dark Pact was nerfed.

Anyone having success maintaining Corrupting Fever while clearing with a Spellslinger build? The fixed cost on Frenzy is actually a downside here! Perhaps not necessary while clearing, but I really don't want to have to remember to press it during boss fights, nor pay that life cost then.

Always fun to see Xevy fight fire with stupid. People can have different reasons for caring about willful favoritism. That someone doesn't care about racing or the economy doesn't mean it's not important to others. And none of that is justification to marginalize their complaints. GGG had a...

Feel the weight of the login queue.

It's fucked up even without ladders. Either way, they need to be public about the preferential treatment so players can decide whether or not to support it.

Reddit says they are letting streamers skip queue. Glad I took today off.

I'm not sure that a cron job is better, but lazy migrations seems wrong.

I would agree if there was a vaal sunder. I'm betting stragglers and occluded monsters forcing switching occasionally to regular ground slam will be annoying. Or, maybe I place really high importance on one button skills. I hate switching unless the signalling is quite clear.

Sure, I get that, but doesn't soul prevention time mean you can't use it to clear?

BB got a love tap. I don't get the hype for Vaal Ground Slam. You aren't going to be able to spam it.

They haven't been meta-relevant in a while. That is, they haven't received any changes that would highlight them and boost popularity. But they are still quite viable. I think @dizzie played one last league. He said the Maven fight was all sorts of fun.

Rory said that some Ultimatum mods are going to be similar to vaaling into no leech or reflect. Your build simply just can't do them.

I think this actually highlights reliance on explodey chest. IIRC, you were using Spell Echo. The repeat doesn't spend mana, so it can't trigger Kitava's Thirst. So, at a minimum, you will have to stand in place for 3/6th of a second to get your first real proc because if it procs on the...

The inconsistency on triggering Kitava's Thirst is anti-synergy with the one-button playstyle it tries to promote. Depending on how badly explodey chest got hit, you can no longer rely completely on BF and chain explosions for clear. Waiting for blades to fall and then Kitava's Thirst to proc...

1M would be ok starter for shaper if you're doing a dot build. If you have to actively maintain it, I shoot for 2M.

Kinda hard to tell without the gems in PoB yet. Though, supposedly, if you're so motivated, you can switch your PoB to a branch that has the Reap gem. Still wouldn't be surprised if the gems turn out to be shit. My investigations into Corrupting Fever has me doubting it's even worth it...

It doesn't. I was thinking of building a hit/bleed build, but I can't get the numbers to work that make Cruelty worthy it. Napkin math on Corrupting Fever doesn't look great either.

Was Blade Blast the last good main skill the league it was introduced? And then before that?