Is there a Puncture build?

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Dreath написал:

idk if this's death topic or not, but i personally think puncture is totally viable for a full build now, here're some points:

- Pure physical of course, and crit build would be much better of course.
- Single target is simple, there're nothing to argue.
- Curse is obviously vulnerability - more phys dmg and DOT, but best would be double curse, with crit weakness.
- For AOE: Puncture + lmp(gmp, but i think lmp is better) + pierce + life leech + crit dmg for 5L, 6th is phys proj dmg, but 5 is ok for crit puncture aoe.
- Must have unique: Drillneck quiver - the new unique quiver with pierce chance apply to dmg increase :D

GMP is a really bad idea with Puncture. Even LMP is problematic: the issue is that Puncture is affected twice by bonuses/penalties to projectile damage (both the initial hit and the bleed power is affected). So with LMP, your bleed damage goes down to 0.7^2 = 0.49 of what it would be on the unmodified skill, and with GMP, your bleed damage goes down to 0.5^2 = 0.25 of what it would be. Unless the mobs are really weak, it might be better to drop LMP and just adjust your aim so that you tag everyone in a few shots. That way you have a version of the skill that can work well as a general-purpose skill (with weak monsters: tag once and move on, and with stronger monsters, shoot until you crit).

For the same reason, Drillneck is great - the modifier on it says 'Projectile Damage', so you get a double benefit. Definitely a must have for this approach. Ideally you want to be able to run Projectile Weakness on top of Vulnerability for maximum piercing (plus the monsters get hit even harder).

AFAIK, Shock causes monsters to take increased damage from the initial hit *and* suffer more bleeding, so triple-shocking a mob before you Puncture it could be incredibly powerful.

Life leech gem is hopefully unnecessary - you're doing physical attack damage, so you can just get leech on gear instead of using up a support slot.

You also need some sort of trick to get ranged mobs to move around. Maybe have a Lightning Arrow totem with GMP and chance to flee in order to shock and scare the mobs?

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Peterlerock написал:

And you want to play it as a bow user, because monsters will be running around (towards you), while as melee they are standing still (around you).

It's certainly easier to do it with a bow - obviously, as a melee user you need to use tactics to make sure the mobs do not just stand still around you. On the other hand, 2h sword Puncture build has the advantage of hitting really hard on the initial strike. Maybe follow it up with Spectral Throw + GMP + Knockback + Chance to Flee?

Puncture is the most OP single target skill in the game. Do not put it on a AoE skill, focus it on a single(with a crit physical build).

You will notice that you're unmatched in pvp even against people with mirrored items. You'll be able to onehit the new nerfed exiles which is pretty funny and even many endgame bosses(like onehitting labyrinth boss is quite nice).

I've used puncture with a bow for a while,I've always linked it with Chanche to Flee,great synergy! Watch them run away from you and to their death ;-)
At max I had it in a 5L with also IncrCritChanche-IncrCritDmg-PhysProjDmg, was my single target skill up to Merciless A3.