I’d like to join in more properly, but I’m on mobile already, gotta get up early. The 80% aka ~4% more dmg is kinda huge, but deadly aim gives you 100 more OA while active, so ~50 more on average and some minor % all damage aswell on top of elemental balance giving you the 9% more crit… It’s hard to say which one is really better (at least for me right now without proper calculation tools), but I have a better feeling with the softcap on deadly aim and elemental balance.
it probably is on your build. But in general, on builds with “low” +%dmg and big crit damage on the skill they are using, getting more +%damage is usually better than getting more +%crit damage.
Hello. i really enjoy using your builds. My first character is based off this build. Are there any changes you would make for current game? And how viable do you think it is overall, especially compared to other AAR builds. I am contemplating converting to a fire AAR (AFR I guess).
Codex of Lies is aether ray specific, Inashkor’s Head enabled physical ray.
The nerfs to the base aether damage scaling and mythical aetherreach affect pretty much all ray builds alike. I don’t see the need for a change though, I think pretty much all items are still BiS.
Overall I think fire, lightning, aether and chaos are pretty close to each other performance wise. I haven’t played any other versions other than lightning myself though. Feel free to try out AFR and post some feedback
Wow, thank you for the fast response.
Just FYI, this is the AFR build I am looking at, but it is a little old as well. Based on your comments though it may not need updating. https://www.grimtools.com/calc/1NXmJoB2
And lastly, i took 1 point from Ultos (far left, + health and Chaos resistance) and put 1 point into Tempest for +40% lightning damage. Any thoughts?
hey guys
my first character is a mage hunter and i am trying to build AAR aether damage based but i have some survival issues. using this setup https://www.grimtools.com/calc/YZedyk0V
can anyone help me balance it?
(its my only character so i dont have super good items and cant farm them cuz i die to bosses)
wow looks nice, i’ll give it a try
thx alot
would it make a big diffrence if i wont use storm box of elgoloth?
i just dont want to add another activatable ability (not in favor of piano builds)
Well it’s needed with these devotions, so if you don’t wanna use it you’d have to bind one of the devos to inquisitor’s seal instead, which isn’t as good, but ok I guess.
is there a way to switch some points in the attributes beside the tonic of reshaping?
also, im missing some skill points, how is it possible? i dont see you changed any gear…
yep you are right, but i stil miss 3 points that you put into the inquisitor mastery bar, i see its level 47
thats weird because i didnt even put a point in storm box
FG bosses (Kymon and Korvaak) are probably the hardest bosses of the main story line, but you should be able to facetank them most of the time while standing inside inquisitor’s seal and only reposition from seal to seal. What exactly do you struggle with when fighting him? Burst hits? The build’s weak spot right now is definitely single high damage physical hits.
Edit: note that you will probably have to level the new active devotions.
Updated the build for 1.1.8.0, nothing really changed, just made a dummy kill time and three crucible runs to see if performance is still good enough and imo for HC, it is.
