[3.4] The Plague Archer - Assassin Crit/Poison based Toxic Rain!

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nasty69 написал:

Toxic rain feels so damn satisfying to play, and i’m following this build closely. Is there a consensus on what the optimal set up is for clearing trash? So far I found that linking GMP probably doubles your clear speed. I swap GMP for Vile Toxins for single target. Also, maybe Death’s Opus is something to consider, as an alternative to Lioneye’s glare, not sure what you guys think.

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CommanderZ написал:

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nasty69 написал:

Toxic rain feels so damn satisfying to play, and i’m following this build closely. Is there a consensus on what the optimal set up is for clearing trash? So far I found that linking GMP probably doubles your clear speed. I swap GMP for Vile Toxins for single target. Also, maybe Death’s Opus is something to consider, as an alternative to Lioneye’s glare, not sure what you guys think.

Why not Reach of the Council then (I assume the crit multi does not outweigh the extra PDPS)? It is cheaper too.

I also started running Herald of Purity yesterday. It gives me ~10% DPS bump in PoB, at 20/20. And the little guys it summons are a nice obstruction and let me truly unload at bosses at maximum DPS.

My mana reservation is HoA + HoP + Despair right now, leaving only 5% mana unreserved (that seems enough, until I run into a no-mana-regen map).

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reciprocate написал:

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CommanderZ написал:

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nasty69 написал:

Toxic rain feels so damn satisfying to play, and i’m following this build closely. Is there a consensus on what the optimal set up is for clearing trash? So far I found that linking GMP probably doubles your clear speed. I swap GMP for Vile Toxins for single target. Also, maybe Death’s Opus is something to consider, as an alternative to Lioneye’s glare, not sure what you guys think.

Why not Reach of the Council then (I assume the crit multi does not outweigh the extra PDPS)? It is cheaper too.

I also started running Herald of Purity yesterday. It gives me ~10% DPS bump in PoB, at 20/20. And the little guys it summons are a nice obstruction and let me truly unload at bosses at maximum DPS.

My mana reservation is HoA + HoP + Despair right now, leaving only 5% mana unreserved (that seems enough, until I run into a no-mana-regen map).

Heralds + Curse on Hit and Despair? That's not a bad idea if that's what you're doing. Me personally although I'm still in act4 atm, was thinking of doing Heralds+Faster Attacks+Withering Touch, while it's not as effective as a Wither totem, it sorta feeds into helping their damage and buffing our own by applying wither stacks. Was thinking of just doing CWDT+IC+Despair although it wouldn't be leveled as much.

Probably it's just more efficient to do Heralds+CoH+Despair, and a standard Wither Totem.
Also an alternate amulet that could probably match if not beat out the expensive chaos version of Impresence is Marylene's Fallacy. The massive crit multi it gives when perfect agony is up (via Coralito's Flask) translates to a nice chunk of overall poison/dot dps.

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nasty69 написал:

Why not just use Witchfire Brew for the Despair curse? It’s much cheaper than Impressence, also saves gem slots.

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CommanderZ написал:

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nasty69 написал:

Why not just use Witchfire Brew for the Despair curse? It’s much cheaper than Impressence, also saves gem slots.

Flask slots are tight too, there is a whole lot of DPS flasks you could play and there are only so many you can wear at once (Coralito's, Sin's Rebirth, Atziri's Promise, Dying Sun all fit into the build, and that's just uniques).

Impresence is good outside of the mana reservation thing too, so I think it makes sense to make it the second exalt-class item to get (after a six link armor or bow).