[1.1.5.2] Plasmo's & spanks' Spite PB Blademaster: Mortred the Phantom Assassin (3:55 buffed/beacon clear; 5:43 naked clear)

[mad_lee]

The most broken build I have ever played!

[thejabrixone]

PB build always a monster to see.
Have you tried this as a witch Hunter, spanks?

BTW, softcap that fighting spirit. It essentially is the same as deadly aims.

[x1x1x1x2]

As I said before - PB is a different damage type. You can only compare one PB build to another PB build.

[sir_spanksalot]

Call me a dum dum, but how is fighting spirit like deadly aim? The uptime on FS is literally half that of DA

[thejabrixone]

The cooldown is kinda different than deadly aims IIRC. It starts right after the skill is activated.

[sir_spanksalot]

It doesn’t. I’m pretty certain about this

[Ceno]

Correct. Fighting Spirit and Deadly Aim both begin their cooldowns when the buff ends. This gives FS a 33% uptime and DA a 50% uptime (at best).

[sir_spanksalot]

@thejabrixone: I can get on board with moving the excess points from anatomy to FS, but casting speed is too valuable imo.

[thejabrixone]

It doesn’t. I’m pretty certain about this

Correct. Fighting Spirit and Deadly Aim both begin their cooldowns when the buff ends. This gives FS a 33% uptime and DA a 50% uptime (at best).

Damn. Just realized.
Anyway, I definitely feels the improvement of softcapping FS in most of my soldier build. So might as well try if you interested.

[sir_spanksalot]

Wilco. you, Lee, and x1 are all suggesting this same change based on empirical knowledge. I ain’t dum dum enough to not try it.

[sir_spanksalot]

Tremor requires a two handed weapon to work unfortunately.

Just saw this. What is tremor, and can’t FW be used with a shield?

[thejabrixone]

What is tremor

It’s the name of FW transmuter.

can’t FW be used with a shield?

It can, but not spamable

[sir_spanksalot]

Damn.

Thanks for that clarification.

[sir_spanksalot]

Easy way to think about it - ignore base damage on first node of PB, imagine damage on heartseeker and nether edge is 100% pierce damage.

+35 Chaos damage on conduit = +35 pierce damage to PB

Also, stacking flat pierce damage is worthless on this build because it’ll get converted to vit. Stacking elemental, vitality, physical, or chaos damage on the other hand will become pierce.

So it becomes a spam PB (i assume the 100% CDR on the transmuter will remove added CD from mods) with the total damage modifier from Rancor nullifying the total damage penalty from the Frenetic Throw. Interesting.

@jawa - a summary of the mechanics behind the build

@gibe965

[lordthai]

do you think stack flat dmg worthy?
because i see we only have 45% weapon dmg, right?

[Nery]

All of these conversions and modifiers are interacting in ways I have never thought and… I’m gonna need to read this again tomorrow to even have a chance of understanding fully. I always assumed (wrongly) that cooldown mods came after stuff like frenetic throw. My brain is melting. I probably got confused between mods and conversions order of operations.

This is some next-level building. Wonderful work.

Frenetic throw is basically nullifying the added CD and also total damage modifier compensates for damage penalty by PB transmuter. So you have PB spamming with no downsides.

Ofc other than your base pierce damage being converted to vitality but that’s water off ducks’ back.

[xOMOCHIx]

A wonderfully creative PB build. I love it.

[RxJunkie]

Absolutely beautiful build here @sir_spanksalot - masterful use of the conversions and skill mechanics.

[Norzan]

So you have PB spamming with no downsides.

There’s also the loss of 55% weapon damage because of the transmuter. Still, creative use of PB.

[sir_spanksalot]

So you have PB spamming with no downsides.

There’s also the loss of 55% weapon damage because of the transmuter. Still, creative use of PB.

Honestly, reduced %WD amage isn’t a biggie with this build because Rancor’s base damage is the lowest of any 2H, and the only other real source of flat damage this build can utilize is Ulzaad’s decree.

I have a lot more to say about rancor, but will refrain for now until I’ve finished testing it more, lest anyone walks away with any misconceptions.