[3.26][STD]Pinnacle DOT capped Lacerate Bleed Gladiator

This is a build showcase, mainly because I use a lot of legacy/hard to acquire/expensive/self-crafted gear. However, some of the strategies I employed to scale bleed could be replicated to a lesser extent in league.

Keep in mind: Bleed is one of the hardest damage types to effectively scale. Do not expect to be able to copy this build easily.

POB: https://pobb.in/NvjKC8uJSCpb

Pinnacle DPS:


T17 Boss showcase:


Gear:


Pros:
All pinnacle bosses, memory bosses, and T17 bosses melt. Clear is decent with ascendancy explode as we scale phys %.

Cons:
Not the tankiest build, but not the worst.

Noob mistakes:

Mechanisms used to scale Bleed:


I can provide more of a showcase upon request.

Uber Eater:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7r9DWK2hg

Sorry, but this is not a good setup. You have do dig into completely unattainable and extremely expensive gear to barely outperform my current setup damage-wise with only like 40 % of the survivability.

Here you can see my setup with a costs of roughly 0.8 mirrors, 1.5mio EHP, 32k phys max hit, and 23mio uber boss dps which is absolutely enough for everything in the game:

https://pobb.in/lr4LO8Ok4737

Also, stating ryslathas and volatiliy as a mistake is also kind of funny. Bleed Duration is roughly 3 seconds, so if you just attack ONCE per second (not counting the fact that lacerate already attacks twice) you theoretically always end up in the top 20% of phys rolls. You can´t attack that often because you´re busy doing warcrys all the time to stack the helmet, but that is far inferior to the ease-of-play other variants provide.

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Vennto#1610 schrieb:

Sorry, but this is not a good setup. You have do dig into completely unattainable and extremely expensive gear to barely outperform my current setup damage-wise with only like 40 % of the survivability.

Here you can see my setup with a costs of roughly 0.8 mirrors, 1.5mio EHP, 32k phys max hit, and 23mio uber boss dps which is absolutely enough for everything in the game:

https://pobb.in/lr4LO8Ok4737

Also, stating ryslathas and volatiliy as a mistake is also kind of funny. Bleed Duration is roughly 3 seconds, so if you just attack ONCE per second (not counting the fact that lacerate already attacks twice) you theoretically always end up in the top 20% of phys rolls. You can´t attack that often because you´re busy doing warcrys all the time to stack the helmet, but that is far inferior to the ease-of-play other variants provide.

First, you don't have 23m bleed DPS, you have 20m bleed DPS with culling. And this is with tincture active, which is not realistic. Without tincture you drop to 15.5m DPS. Even if you consider you have 23m DPS, my build has 60% MORE DOT DPS. I'm not sure what content you're tackling, but this isn't enough for beefed up T17s or deep delve.

Second, your build is the prime reason I said volatility is a noob trap. You attack 2.3 attacks per second and the damage range is 1.5m to 25m. Your build must feel like the T17 mod where you do no damage 3 out of every 10 seconds. i.e., awful. My bleed DOT DPS range is 18.5m to 52.m without tincture. It's 27.3m to 75.1m with tincture. In other words, it's much smoother to play as I hit max DOT much easier and every hit is guaranteed to do a LOT of damage.

Third, you have virtually 0 life regen and no means to recoup life except a paltry amount of life on block from your shield (190) and a life flask lol. Who still uses life flasks? With Aegis, I get 500 ES on block. I also have 1,600+ life regen, which goes to over 3k every 4 seconds. Your EHP is massively inflated by molten shell because you have high armour. I have much more survivability.

Fourth, you don't even have capped chaos res.

Fifth, you rely on killing or being hit to refill flasks. Yuck. You likely struggle with a lot of uber bosses.

Sixth, you have 79/78/79 resists vs my 90/90/90.

No offense, but my build outperforms yours by a mile and has significantly more damage, but nice try :).

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I'm not sure what content you're tackling, but this isn't enough for beefed up T17s or deep delve

You did not show the build for deep delve. And I am doing more than fine with massive-stacked T17s, even titanic or risk scarabs.

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In other words, it's much smoother to play as I hit max DOT much easier and every hit is guaranteed to do a LOT of damage.

While casting 3 warcrys before you can attack once? That is everything, but not the definition of smooth.

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Third, you have virtually 0 life regen and no means to recoup life except a paltry amount of life on block from your shield (190) and a life flask lol. Who still uses life flasks? With Aegis, I get 500 ES on block. I also have 1,600+ life regen, which goes to over 3k every 4 seconds. Your EHP is massively inflated by molten shell because you have high armour. I have much more survivability.

I can stand in a t17 map or in high sim waves just afk. Why would I need to care about the "small amount" of life I get on block when out of 10 hits only 1 passes through and 9 gets blocked on average? Aside from oneshots and heavy dots im immortal, why would I need to add life-regen to it other than reduced-block modifiers?

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Fifth, you rely on killing or being hit to refill flasks. Yuck. You likely struggle with a lot of uber bosses.

I demolish all uber content :D The flasks are from mapping and I don´t even bother to change them because the setup doesn´t need any boss-specific stuff. I survive shaper balls and shaper slams.

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No offense, but my build outperforms yours by a mile and has significantly more damage, but nice try :)

Yeah, with gear worth tens of mirrors in standard and a setup that does not work in league-environment vs. not even 1 mirr of mine. Terrible value for your currency.

The point of theorycrafting a good build is to make a skill or interaction exceed expectations. The point was to hit pinnacle DOT cap, which I have never seen any other bleed character using mageblood achieve.

I did not spend 10s of mirrors, but I did spend several mirrors over time. It's standard, what do you expect?

By the way, Warcries are cast automatically with Automation.

Like I said, it seems doubtful that you can kill all ubers. I'm still not sure I believe it, unless you're using 5 portals.

Lastly, I upgraded my ring and now my damage is significantly higher:

https://pobb.in/zYvH4KOEvPdn

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Like I said, it seems doubtful that you can kill all ubers. I'm still not sure I believe it, unless you're using 5 portals.

Well, I guess I just show you proof then.

Here is a video of me taking down uber shaper in less than 4min 25, tanking a shaper slam, tanking chaos-ball hits, deathless: https://youtu.be/IT0AusI6OvA

Here is a video of an uber exarch kill, less than 1 minute: https://youtu.be/MtK8b6xULvg

Sirus and Venarius look exactly the same, Exarch I cant tank more than 3 fire-balls, but did deathless as well if I move well. Maven is the only one I haven´t tried with this setup as I personally do not feel like paying 7 divs just to prove anything to you that the current videos already showing very clearly.