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The travel time and close-range aiming has always bothered me about ST. That instant you throw your weapon and you aren't leeching can be very lethal. Some mobs get on your sides outside of the cone, you can miss them easily. But, that aside, I don't think anyone has said ST isn't a tier 1 skill when geared and specced properly.
You might be right about RF. I'm still having doubts as to whether it IS slow, or just feels slow because you aren't doing any of the direct killing. I might just switch anyway, I miss me shatters. And that new gore herald looks fucking sweet.
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Here is my profile. Nothing crazy but I'm able to do most content so far. I think I'm gonna work on a Doomfletch Prism build.
EDIT: Holy shit hall of the grandmasters is dumb as fuck. Kept getting offscreen one shot.
Here is my profile. Nothing crazy but I'm able to do most content so far. I think I'm gonna work on a Doomfletch Prism build.
EDIT: Holy shit hall of the grandmasters is dumb as fuck. Kept getting offscreen one shot.
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Lifesprig is pretty good until you get your build going. I think there is a better wand as well but I can't remember the name of it.
Can't Shield Charge with wands. I'd just look for a good Rare mace with a bunch of spell power.
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I don't even know what to try for an alt. Can't think of anything that would be strictly superior to ST for any particular role, at least without spending massive amounts of currency that I still don't have. More than anything I wish there was a way to equip my Bisco's Collar onto my current build and still keep resists capped and clear speed roughly the same. Seems like a tall order though, and my rare amulet isn't even that great.
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Do the old "craft a +1 quartz scepter for leveling" trick? As long as you can dig up a decent shield it should be ok. Or just buy a rare dagger instead. I assume it's all pretty temporary anyway, since most people would switch to a TR as soon as they have 4-5 support gems worth using.
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Do the old "craft a +1 quartz scepter for leveling" trick? As long as you can dig up a decent shield it should be ok. Or just buy a rare dagger instead. I assume it's all pretty temporary anyway, since most people would switch to a TR as soon as they have 4-5 support gems worth using.
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Also, my favourite part about Dark Pact is you can do literally every map mod except no leech.
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That would be nice. I end up saving big pack size/super high quantity maps that have ele reflect until one of my sextants rolls players cannot take reflected damage. I'm not even sure why I can't do ele reflect, I can clear like a couple dozen packs or even harbingers with my leech vastly exceeding the amount of reflect damage I take ... and then I roll up on another one and just fall over dead for no apparent reason.
And no leech is right out too. Fortunately I haven't seen it roll on a single map this league. I was wondering if it was one of the ones that got removed from the pool.
And no leech is right out too. Fortunately I haven't seen it roll on a single map this league. I was wondering if it was one of the ones that got removed from the pool.
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My friend has been killing it with DP. It's a pretty insane skill.
And WTF is with no regen rolling all the fucking time but I still haven't seen a no leech map. Vaal Pact considered dev meta obviously.
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Yeah with Dark Pact, it took me about 30 hours played and about 14 ex of gear(which isn't as much as you think since exalts are 40c) to have shaper on deathless farm status. Granted I'm very familiar and comfortable with the shaper fight and can probably do it deathless on any type of char with decent DPS. Other perks of Dark Pact:
- Pretty much designed for the Beachhead map.
- Damage is scaled from being tankier.
- There are other variations of the build that are just as good if not better, such as the Pledge/Kaom's chest, mine(Covenant/Rippling Thoughts+MoM), Carcass Jack+1h, dual apep's, crit/non-crit, totem dark pact, skele dark pact, totem skele dark pact, probably more.
Some cons:
- Smoke phase on Chimera really really really sucks with MoM.
- Bosses that don't *hit* you are pretty annoying(such as the Plaza boss). Granted with enough DPS you can out-leech her damage even without cloaked in savagery.
- Can't really level with it at all, as you don't do enough damage to outleech the 6% health cost except on very large packs.
- Life meta to the max, so shit is expensive when you're at end game gearing phase.
- Pretty much designed for the Beachhead map.
- Damage is scaled from being tankier.
- There are other variations of the build that are just as good if not better, such as the Pledge/Kaom's chest, mine(Covenant/Rippling Thoughts+MoM), Carcass Jack+1h, dual apep's, crit/non-crit, totem dark pact, skele dark pact, totem skele dark pact, probably more.
Some cons:
- Smoke phase on Chimera really really really sucks with MoM.
- Bosses that don't *hit* you are pretty annoying(such as the Plaza boss). Granted with enough DPS you can out-leech her damage even without cloaked in savagery.
- Can't really level with it at all, as you don't do enough damage to outleech the 6% health cost except on very large packs.
- Life meta to the max, so shit is expensive when you're at end game gearing phase.