Help pls!

Hi,

I would appreciate any help and advice. Below is my build for Smith of Kitava.. I have just been building out my own path based on what it seems like i need and also the never ending quest for more dps numbers/survivability.

https://pobb.in/-Mwq-a7tCJba

I am now at the 3rd and 4th level of pinaccle boss content and suddenly none of my attacks do anything. I feel like i am squeezing every bit of life i can from items/ jewels.

Do you have to make a whole different build for bosses? I know often people do but i did not think that was the way the game had to be played.

Am i supposed to only use that one charge attack skill? is it not possible to use any other warrior ability effectivly? I quite liked the rolling slam to build stun and then drop hammer of the gods but this move is pretty useless now as there is no way of building up stun to drop.

Played with my friend who is level 94 huntress and he deletes everything on the screen before my guy has even raised his mace.

Also I am currently at like 87% res and still just getting melted randomly on maps.

Is my build broken or is this just the end of my journey in current season?

The vision has broken me and my squish of kitava!

Thanks in advance for any help or comments,

Matt

Sorry I didn't look closely at your build so edited below, I'm using onehand mace with Deepest Tower, HOT, and lightning warp on block with Svalinn, detonate dead with fire spell on hit, and wind dancer. Works for mapping but not great for bosses.

Xoph's blood +18% hp and fire exposure.

I really think deepest tower, but this will require a huge respec from your current build. You can increase your presence with jewels etc. Or maybe The Vertex helm will work for you.

You could try wind dancer and drop herald of ash, wind dancer is really strong.

For bosses yes you probably need to use that one charge skill.

Thank you for the reply!

Wind Dancer could be fun so I will check that out. I know with Smith you should really do the armour thing but fire spell on hit and the anvil thing are fun and they are options so should be somewhat viable!

I am going to check all your recommended items and jewel tech things out and see how things look after the latest patch. If i cannot get further with what im doing then i guess am free to do a huge respec! otherwise do a new char.

Does presence increase the stun i can apply? or is it just that pinnacle bosses do not stun/have an incredible stun threshold?

Has anyone found any other good combos for fire spell on hit?. I had dreams of stacking like 5 ember fusilade and shotgunning everything but they do so little damage. Other spells I find tend to steal my stun build up so you cant do the uppercut area of effect move.

Thanks so much again for taking time to give your advice. This game is so great but also so unnecessarily mean to its players. I really burnt myself out grinding this char just to find out there is a ceiling on what content each class can do which kind of sucks.

Damn that one charge skill! I may aswell just respec to energy shield and lightning if I can only play a certain way to succeed!

Buff everything pls GGG