It’s impossible to stack flat pierce damage because of the conversion. And It’s impossible to stack flat vitality/elemental/physical/chaos damage without giving up %pierce.
And for PB builds, relevant %damage is almost always more valuable.
Your best bet to add flat damage is to use the conduit.
I’ll talk more about item alternatives when I finish the guide.
@jawa: Flat CD modifiers to skills do come before %CDR. But that’s inconsequential when the %CDR is 100%.
Simple af. Equip Rancor and don’t worry. It converts shit.
Ok. Conversion happens once so so all raw flat pierce is lost to the void (50% vit, 50% chaos). But all the other stuff (chaos and vit that is not a result of any conversion as well as elemental) becomes pierce. That converted pierce is untouchable by any further conversion.
My steam name before I quit dota was I SPAM PHOENIX. Haven’t changed it ever since and it felt weird playing dota underlords having that name cause the birb still isn’t in the game. Yet.
No i didn’t main phoenix. I hated the entire notion of spamming heroes and would just pick anything. Except that one time with phoenix cause I wanted to learn how to control the lasers.
IIRC my most played in dota 2 were nature’s prophet and clockwerk, when both of those things were still offlane.