[3.1] Poet's Pen Volatile Dead - all content - HC/SC

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Xanthochroid schrieb:

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FinnaDieFam schrieb:

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Xanthochroid schrieb:

Here's the actual spell rotations:

Volatile Dead and Unearth(5 Corpses Placed) (VD doesn't go off, no corpses yet, normal)
Cooldown Period (Currently 5 corpses)
Volatile Dead and Cremation(4 Corpses used for VD, 1 corpse used for Cremation)
Cooldown Period (Currently 0 corpses)
Volatile Dead and Unearth (VD doesn't activate due to no corpses, 5 corpses placed by Unearth)
Cooldown Period (Currently 5 corpses)
Volatile Dead and Cremation(4 Corpses used for VD, 1 corpse used for Cremation)
Cooldown Period(Currently 0 corpses)
Volatile Dead and Unearth (VD doesn't activate due to no corpses, 5 corpses placed)


Easiest way to explain is that since Volatile is by its lonesome in Pen 1, it activates every attack, but corpses are only being generated every other attack because the Unearth is alternating with Cremation.

You would need 10 APS rathern than 5 to get the same rate of volatile spawns, or only Unearth in spell 2 to avoid spell alternation.

Ah I see what you're saying, is there a better support for unearth then? I've taken to projectile speed for now for the slight extra damage and speed on the unearths

I mainly use Culling Strike, but you could also use Empower. Empower will increase the level of the corpses generated, which will be a boost to the corpse explosion part of your Volatile Dead.

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il_douchey schrieb:

Ascendant changes just got posted, is Slayer/Assassin still the way to go? I was looking at this build for 3.2, but I don't really have any scion experience previous to this. Slayer keeps overleech, gains culling strike, buff to non-rare/unique damage, nerf to unique damage, and culling strike baseline. Assassin gets a 33% nerf to crit strike chance and no crit multiplier, power charge generation that works on bossing, decent move speed buff, and a meaningless poison on hit. Reflection immunity on crits seems good, but I doubt is enough to do elemental reflect maps on its own. Elementalist seems to me like it could be a decent alternative but I don't really know. Assuming Slayer is your first subclass, you could free up culling strike support, and run Arc (or something like that) plus Herald of Ice and easily incorporate Elemental Equilibrium.

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il_douchey schrieb:

Ascendant changes just got posted, is Slayer/Assassin still the way to go? I was looking at this build for 3.2, but I don't really have any scion experience previous to this. Slayer keeps overleech, gains culling strike, buff to non-rare/unique damage, nerf to unique damage, and culling strike baseline. Assassin gets a 33% nerf to crit strike chance and no crit multiplier, power charge generation that works on bossing, decent move speed buff, and a meaningless poison on hit. Reflection immunity on crits seems good, but I doubt is enough to do elemental reflect maps on its own. Elementalist seems to me like it could be a decent alternative but I don't really know. Assuming Slayer is your first subclass, you could free up culling strike support, and run Arc (or something like that) plus Herald of Ice and easily incorporate Elemental Equilibrium.

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LeFizz schrieb:

Why no elemental equilibrium?

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Nekhebet schrieb:

How important are area nodes for this build?