[Outdated] Lancing Steel Raider | SoftCore | Not league starter viable anymore

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Privetiki schrieb:

Hi! Many thanks for the guide, gonna start and try to min-max it in 3.14 :)
One question: I watched your videos and your steel shards are refreshing from time to time, but you aren't using Call of Steel (for example Simulacrum video, I even watched it in 0.25 speed lol). Do we have another source of shards or I'm missing something?

Heya! Thanks for replying! Hope you liked the build! Actually Call of Steel is the only source of steel shards in the build. I'm always using Call Of Steel whenever I gain shards, you simply don't see it in the hotkeys because I set it in the last quick access slot which is set to space bar.
Also, I use it really fast because of the Lord of Steel jewel that, as mentioned in the basic build mechanics section, makes CoS basically a instant cast.

By the way, thanks for asking, you gave me the idea to put that info into the guide.

Great guide! I think I'm going to league start this!! Do you think leveling as Raider will be difficult or do you think Deadeye is the play? This will be my second league start so I'm still a noob:)

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kpelkey151 schrieb:

Great guide! I think I'm going to league start this!! Do you think leveling as Raider will be difficult or do you think Deadeye is the play? This will be my second league start so I'm still a noob:)

Heya, thanks for the reply! Glad you liked the guide! I recommend Deadeye because of the free chain she gets and tailwind you can get early, since it will improve your clear speed in the campaign. Raider is viable for leveling, but a bit less effective. If you opt for leveling as Raider, you can allocate the ascendacies the same way I mention in the guide since that is the most damage efficient order to allocate the points.

Have fun on Ultimatum!

Quick question on the dread banner and Fortify. Do you ever place it for Fort or would it make sense to try to old school move skill with Fortify on whirling blades?

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BlackMagicRites schrieb:

Quick question on the dread banner and Fortify. Do you ever place it for Fort or would it make sense to try to old school move skill with Fortify on whirling blades?

Yo! I use Dread Banner for fortify when needed, most of the times in the high-end it's unecessary since you'll either gain more life on hit than you lose or kill things before they can kill you. If something is going to one-shot you, you probably should be avoiding that anyways instead of trying to tank it with fortify. I don't use attacks to trigger fortify because they can and will trigger the mirage saviours resulting in a huge dps and clear speed loss. You definitively don't want to see a mirage jumping and bonking on the head of your enemies.

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Leckarion schrieb:

Yo! I use Dread Banner for fortify when needed, most of the times in the high-end it's unecessary since you'll either gain more life on hit than you lose or kill things before they can kill you. If something is going to one-shot you, you probably should be avoiding that anyways instead of trying to tank it with fortify. I don't use attacks to trigger fortify because they can and will trigger the mirage saviours resulting in a huge dps and clear speed loss. You definitively don't want to see a mirage jumping and bonking on the head of your enemies.

Oh that totally makes sense, I didn't think about the Saviors. Thanks!

Been looking for a raider build to try since the 3.13 changes, this one looks fun... will be trying it as my league starter! Thanks for the guide!

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Khaidu schrieb:

Been looking for a raider build to try since the 3.13 changes, this one looks fun... will be trying it as my league starter! Thanks for the guide!

Heya! Thanks for replying! I'm glad you liked the guide and the build. Good luck with the drops and have fun this next season!

Hi! I'm starting a private league with 15 other people and I'm very interested in your build :)

How viable do you think your build would be in this semi-ssf situation? I'd not have the Lord of Steel jewel and the Savior sword right away so that might be annoying. Do you think the build would be unplayable without these two items? (at least until I'm able to get them probably in early red maps). Am I going to suffer too much? lol.

Thanks!

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guidulove schrieb:

Hi! I'm starting a private league with 15 other people and I'm very interested in your build :)

How viable do you think your build would be in this semi-ssf situation? I'd not have the Lord of Steel jewel and the Savior sword right away so that might be annoying. Do you think the build would be unplayable without these two items? (at least until I'm able to get them probably in early red maps). Am I going to suffer too much? lol.

Thanks!

Heya! Thanks for replying! The build is viable in SSF without The Saviour and Beltimber Blade. The Saviour simply increases your clearspeed and almost doubles your single target dps, but you can do just fine without it if you go with Deadeye, her free chain really helps with the clear. The real problem is getting the large clusters, but you can actually build the character without clusters it will just be less effective and have less base jewels sockets.

I went ahead and realocated the points in a good way for a no clusters version(still using Thread of Hope and Raider, but you can easily adapt it).

Most important of all, have fun with the build! ANd thanks for the interest:)