Since your damage comes from autoattacks and 22/12 Brimstone gives 185 fire damage (which you increase by over 10x and reduce resistance to), saying it’s a “slight” increase in DPS is nonsense. I’m not even counting Chaos damage here, which is not insignificant.
Don’t judge the performance of Brimstone in BoC, it’s an area with huge fire and chaos resistances. Hit a nemesis or two.
or going for Dual Wield with Dire Wolf Medal but sacrifices alot of Survivability.
It’s not about survivability, since you don’t invest anything into shield stats. The difference is max Static strike + faster attacks vs max Brimstone + higher base damage.
For Devotions i dont think that there is a better combination than mine,
I may not know what the best devotion setup is, but I know that any combination involving Chariot is not it.
going for full Behemoth + Spear of Heaven and 4 points in Dying God is utter shit and i would never take it. Full Behemoth isnt worth if you dont go heavy invest into Healthregeneration,
You do, it’s the most effective way to boost survivability with an Elementalist. Lifesteal is awful since you do such low weapon damage. Wendigo totem is awesome, but it slows you down if you have to use it on every mob.
Spear of Heaven is such a small aoe that it isnt even worth looking at and going for
You take SotH for the massive OA and lightning damage boost, the skill is just there because it’s free. You can always drop the skill, I find it’s a non-negligible boost for killing big bosses and nemesis.
Dying God would mean u have to sacrifice way to much.
No if you already go SotH, Dying god is the best OA-boosting constellation for this char, and OA is extremely important for you since you have more than +100% crit damage.
And if you think your version of the Build does more damage than mine you are allowed to believe that but im satisfied with my damage and i would never sacrifice more damage for survivability in Hardcore.
It’s not about survivability, survivability comes from Flashbang + Wendigo + Blast shield + massive health + massive regeneration. Elementalist does not die, ever.
My highest crit with one Stormheart and a Shield is 79k by the way and im mentioning it not to be arrogant but to give you an idear of how much damage my build does.
No idea what this number is supposed to indicate. There are bleeding builds that crit for 150k, but they are slow as fuck.
I’m perfectly aware that melee Fire strike does a lot of damage and that Shamans with Stormcaller’s do big crits. Your point?
Another thin if you would go for Brimstone and stuff you would literaly have to skip the armor reduction from Blackwater Cocktail and some other stuff in order to get Brimstone.
I use Mark of Dreeg for additional res reduction, not because I can’t get BWC, but because casting it slows me down so much that it’s not worth the extra 10 resistance reduction. Amor reduction is completely useless since you do next to no physical damage.
And at the end of my Build post i already mentioned that you can go for the Warcry augment from Kymons Chosen next time please read the whole thing before pointing that out
I know, and i said there is never any reason not to use it. You put Kymon’s augment as an alternative, when in fact it is so god it should not only be the main choice, but that it should have no alternative.
Not to mention you harp on about how much you need survivability in HC, but then not use the single best survivability boost in the game.
http://grimcalc.com/build/qMTxwU
It’s a standard setup for any lightning-based Shaman, the last few points depend on your preferences.