[1.2.1.3] (Caster) Silver Grenade - Pierce Rimetongue Sabo [4:30 naked ex] [SR30-31] [Ravager, Crate]

Foreword

oh man, I surely love power creeping things. I think I first made this build about 2 or 3 years ago and it was a total dumpster fire (partly probably cuz BS mod on Gildor wasn’t working up til now). And you know what? Now it’s one of my favourite builds for this patch at least.

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_Rimetongue Sabo.zip (3.0 MB)

Crucible

average runs are about 4:30 naked ex. didn’t try buffalo since it’s pretty pointless.

4:15 naked

4:16 naked

Shattered Realm

SR30-31 sub4 run

SR30-31 average

Superbosses

Ravager of Flesh - takes around 2 minutes of hit-n-run playstyle since you can’t really facetank him.

Crate of Entertainment - very hard and very dependant on luck.

Summary and thoughts

This is one of my favourite builds so far - high damage, easy and fun to play (cuz trapping things with BT and then blowing 'em up with Grenado is fun as hell). Main downsides are that the build is pretty expensive (though gloves could be replaced with epic ones and some Shrewd with Aggressive etc) and somewhat lacks solo-sustain.

Feel free to download the build, play it and share your impressions. Hoots!

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This looks like a fun build thank you for sharing!

Silly question: How would you go about leveling this? Seems like you’d need to level as something and swap right?

Chosen shoulders convert some ele into pierce and chosen repeater convert more ele to pierce but I don’t know of a way to convert phys to pierce anymore?

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With the new patch, all weapons that do Pierce damage now have 100% Armor Piercing. As such, if you’re using Messenger’s Repeater, you have no problems converting Physical to Pierce, at least with skills that use weapon damage.

I assume it’s much less painful leveling as a Cold build and then transferring to Pierce once you get Gildor’s. Rimetongue also has Cold damage baked into the set, so if you get the set but not the weapon, you can continue playing as Cold Saboteur without worrying about having to start completely from scratch.

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I think it’s safe to lvl up as cold dw, since it’s pretty easy and also has mighty strong builds at the top end, and then switch to caster once you get Rimetongue.

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The phys to pierce would be for the grenado skill, as I believe it does phys damage primarily? Or does holding a 100% armor piercing weapon convert that?

as you don’t have any %WD on Grenado, it can only be converted by mod in this case

Holding the weapon willl not convert your characters damage. It will if the skill has Weapon Damage.

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Yeah, just noticed that, too.
So apart from a handful of item skill modifiers, there is no way of converting non-wd-skills from physical to piercing.
Isn’t that a huge gap, needed to be closed…?

it’s either mods or adding bits and pieces of WD, like for pierce vines

but from the top of my head I can’t really remember any skill aside from Grenado and Vines that might have this issue.