It seems you trying to play with both grenado/canister bomb AND auto attack. It will not work if you try to go hybrid like that.
Your auto taccks will have poor damage if the skill tree is not maxed and geared accordingly.
You should give up fire strike, and WPS on inquisitor. Max deadly aim, word of renewal, and flashbang instead (not thr modifier, only 3 points here).
There are items that modifies grenado dmg from physical to fire, you should try. You could benefit from casting speed as well.
One point in BWC and its modifier could mitigate physical damage by 18% which is uge for 2 points.
And finally > arcanist is probably the best combo for what you want to do ; cast speed, mana, survability, HUGE FIRE RR.
Yeah going Sorcerer would be a good idea but then i totally forget pistol attacks and focus in just rotating CB-Grenado-OFF-TMines-BWC?
Which items transmute Grenado’s dmg to fire? keep in mind that i want to keep the pistol set it gives huge things to CB and grenado but also i got so many ranged WPS, i dont know…
I guess i have to address class combination seriously too apart from itemization…
Sorc is indeed better, but linked build wont work, unfortunately. http://www.grimtools.com/calc/p256DJGV something like this, perhaps? But even then im not sure. Mana PITA with grenade spam is real and i dunno where to find enough to sustain it, considering 36% chanse of 100% CDR and 40% cdr from gear you will run out of mana in 10-12 seconds .
Opportunity cost. I dont have anything against scaled hide on heavy armor build with 2k+ armor, but on casters it doest almost nothing. With %healing i d rather stack more HP . :eek:
Youre missing 24 Spirit to wear off-hand :roll: You realy should max Ulzuin chosen, as it give increasing returns on CDR chanse. You are below DA level of uncrittability by 120 DA points. And you have 2k less HP .And you trade all of above for what? 300 flat phyz reduction? Do you realy think its a good trade? Ofc not you wont even notice that 300 flat reduction, cause Notched IM would catapult you in stratosphere with one lucky crit, and you armor wont help you at all against IT, bleeding, Alexandre meteor, Grava hp reduction, Chuppa breth etc.
Yeah, I need to pay attention to stat investment a little more when theorycrafting :eek: I made similar mistakes on GT links on my build threads. Took me a good 30 minutes to track down each error and rectify each link
My DA is 40 pts behind yours :p. Neither of us are exactly uncrittable. I did loose 2k HP but gained 6% Physical resists
I have yet to face a Notched enemy, I feel one of these days I’ll get jinxed and Maiden would spawn with that darn axe :eek:
I can see what you mean about crits and stuff but we also have OA reduction from BWC (If I shift some more points into it I can get it upto level 14 simultaneously increasing Burn output)
I know we discussed about scaled hide’s importance in thrasheur’s thread. And I can see your perspective but practically it feels like I am getting hit a lot harder than before. I agree HP is survivability and nothing tops that but it is a fact that 80% of the game is physical damage woudln’t it be better to mitigate that?
Right, fixed http://www.grimtools.com/calc/qNYzJ8A2 , should be uncrittable :roll:
Its nice to have armor, but i prefer something that help against oneshots :roll:
A little extra points in BWC would’ve done the trick with OA reduction though
I have yet to encounter a one shot situation even with low paper DA, I still prefer to run with OA reduction sources going so far as to use Gaze of Beronath on nemeses if the need arises.
Very nice man, although i got some questions on your gear and skill choices, if you can be so kind and answer
GEAR
Why Elemental Harmony rings? Is that BiS for the particular build?
Why the specific offhand? I really thing there are better offhands for fire based casters, unless you want that only for the stun resist.
Why Really Great Pants? wouldnt it be better to have a nice MI boosting health and defenses?
Why Fateweavers Rainment? I m sure there are better chests with more HP and dmg.
SKILLS
Why not OFF? The HUGE fire res debuff stacks with all the other, is it not?
Why not more points to Mental Alacrity for energy conservation?
Why do you max out Grenado itself? Does the extra burn dmg from gloves of ignaffar scale up with Grenado skill lvl? I aks this because Grenado does phys and pierce dmgm and the only phys to fire cinversion i see is from the pistol and its low. I agree maxing High Impact and Shattering Blast ofc.
I just altered Chton build, so its not optimised. :roll:
Gear:
1)Nice AoE skill and okaysh stats. Not a bad choise:roll: Grenade/CB lack good legendary options, so we stick with some generic stuff.
2)This is one of the best offhands in the game. It is realy good unless you want Consumption of Agrivix for burning build or Codex of lies for skill disruption protection.
3)These pants let us meet requirements for gun/offhand without spending points on useless stats, aka spirit/cunning.
4)Just a okaysh chest . Nice one =)
Skills
1)Off dosent work, so i never pick it.
2)I didnt tryed this build, so perhaps some sacrifices must be made to reduce energy strain. Personaly, i prefer to change cool hat for Clayvoient and forget about mana PITA.
3) Even with ~50% conversion it is a good investment.
I think the build must be redone from scratch to be good.
It’s a theorycrafted version
So haven’t tested it yet and hence isn’t optimized
For Elemental Balance I usually pick them first while theorycrafting anything then usually end up dropping them during testing:rolleyes:
For CDR build like this though, procs like that are always welcome, at the end of the day min-maxing is impossible w/o field testing
The helm is one of the spots i dont want to change as it boosts CB a lot with -cd and dmg.
What would you change from scratch if you could do it?
I mean i would love to see your take on the build, considering its a CB/Grenado build and it has to be viable (not faceroll) for crucible gladiator.
I am sorry man i didnt notice it was your version, should have asked you the questions and give you the credits
How would the gameplay of this build be? Like spamming CB/Grenado/BWC but when at bosses/nemesis would it be facetank + kite?
What do you mean? Discussion with Ptirodatkill helped me improve it. So he also deserves credit here
I theorycrafted with minimizing CD on Canister Bomb in mind. That might not be essentially best thing for build performance but since I wanted to focus solely on Canister Bomb and Grenado this setup is what came to my mind immediately
If I had to guess the playstyle then burn DoTs would allow kiting, on medium/large hitboxes Canister Bomb should deal good amounts of damage
On the topic of Gladiator Crucible, I should mention if you know what you’re doing then even AAR Warlock in vanilla could do it
As for this build, I can’t say. The CD playstyle means you can kite but I also want to deal damage while kiting, this is where Burn DoTs come into play. Question is how powerful are they in practice. This can’t be determined w/o testing
For a Burn Focus ring might get changed to Hellfire rings (emphasis on the word “might”)
But I’d personally hate to touch anything that reduces Canister CD