[2.1] SuperNova - 200k+ AoE dps ! Insane clear speed - Super fun - Atziri viable | Featured by GGG!

First off... great build... once you realise what the important bits are (v important), it really is fun to play this build and even if you dont have the cash or 6l perf rolls, you can clear the game (pre 2.1 obviously) with a little careful play (and maybe a few deaths). even without 6ls, a perfectly copied passive tree, maxed charges or 4k life.. I feel tanky and unbuffed 15k damage is great and every so often it jumps to 25k on non-crits and you get a nice warm fuzzy feeling..

Secondly.. apologies if you have answered the following questions already.. looking through 18 pages is a little tough...

Question 1 regarding party play.... specifically cursing... Obviously in single play, you double curse and everything is great and you are a force to behold... However in party play - especially where there are curse on hit type players... you are toast - especially against bosses or mobs where the cursing player gets there after you or fires from range and overwrites your cursing just when you need that life boost..

How do you handle this? Or is this Supa nova just not meant to play with friends...?

;-)


Question 2 regarding flame surge... its really wimpy or am I missing something... I am only using a 4l PoH - for my ice nova and a 5l for my lightning but the flame surge seems so seriously underpowered when I try to swap it out for a single boss type fight... I read that other than Atziri, the nova is usually good enough.. but what do you do in instances like the Daresso boss where the ice nova barely tickles him and a battle seems to go on and on and on and on....


Thanks again for posting this build... been a pleasure to do something other than a ranger these last few hundred hours... ;-)

Hey...

Ok.. so its a question of a little more DPS that helps solve the re-curse issue by clearing faster - i.e. mobs already dead by the time the curses are reset...I feel like a jackrabbit doing the repeated warps already so its just a question of gearing... probably getting my PoH to 5l at least.. lol

Flame surge.. ok.. same DPS issue..

From my gear below, you will see that I am not yet running the good stuff and from your comments it seems that i have reached the inevitable step where I really need to get the end-game gear to take the next step in the char... e.g. I have the carcass jack but getting it 5l (and the PoH) has proven to be a futile gambling exercise right now...

I am level 85 right now... Passive tree is almost the same as yours.. I like to mess around with 5 points on my own just to see how much of a dif a combination might make based on what gear or problems I experience.. cant just copy all the time - where is the fun in that ;-)




Things like the Aursize I mess around with by swapping in Voidbringer and comparing how fast I loose mana vs dps etc.. I do the same with things like Astramentis and Ungils Harmony..Same with the gems while something is leveling up on alt weapons I will mess with another combination. Its just something to make it more fun especially while levelling or while I dont have your recommended gear.. I just mess around and see what works for that moment in time...

I do tend to err on the side of defence and maybe that is exactly what is happening with my build right now - time to do a little more glass cannon... ;-)