So I had a postwhere I asked that why Shadow Strike has been nerfed (and kinda ruined my spec), now before I make another kinda shitty spec for end game and spend a ton of time, I would like to ask how good is a “standard” Albrechts Aether Ray spec? Viable for end game? How good is the single target dmg?
Its possible to push AAR effective Dps to 180k/sec.
Is that very good? Or just okay ish? Meh? What? I have zero clue what 180k dps means sorry.
It’s one of the worst skills in my opinion, at least the aether version. No sustain, energy hungry, you become stationary when you use it and you don’t have the high damage to compensate for those drawbacks.
Chaos AAR with Black Flame set does sound cool, even with the drawbacks listed above.
It means Damage per Second. While AAR has a nice single target damage output, it is a bit uncomfortable when facing large groups of monsters. In this case you need some crowd control options.
Builds with AAR usually tend to be glascannon builds which deal a good amount of damage, but also die easily… And you need a lot of energy.
AAR sucks. Thats all you should know about it.
I see someone here didn’t played AAR build 
KopiG
AAR is underperforming spell. You expect it to do a lot of dmg if you look at scary tooltip values that show 300K+ DPS . In fact, it does half to quater of listed dmg and only affect single target.
You can run with it as onepointer to proc Fied, but focusing entire build around it is not the best idea. It work, but inferior to any other spammable spell - PB, Ignafarr, drain essence etc.
He’s avoided big disappointment
Thank you all for the replies, stopping my char at 20 now. Hmm now what?
You can continue it, it’s fun skill and gameplay anyway, just don’t expect too much performance.
If it’s Mage Hunter or Warlock, don’t stop it, there are plenty of fun builds you can play with besides AAR.
Off tangent - so I apologize in advance - but doesn’t FoI suck?
I’m given to understand that the DoT ticks are continusly refreshed as long as you channel the spell. And because it hits about 10 times per second, you don’t get ANY of the listed DoT damage.
Off tangent - so I apologize in advance - but doesn’t FoI suck?
Ahaha, I`m aware of one magehunter that can do 1 million ticks on dummy
Link me please!
Currently FoI is better than AAR
I tried several builds with FoI
Aura of Censure recents buff highly support FoI Builds
AAR needs buff, currently it needs backup from other spells for more dps
I’ve made 2 spellbinders, each was built focusing on either Drain Essense or AAR.
Drain Essense is much more superior in my opinion,
I’ve not yet seen a single AAR focused built that could clear 170 crucible yet
(but it maybe because I don’t look around the forum often enough) 
Yeah I dont want to end with this char like I ended with my Shadow Strike Pierce Infiltrator, 190 deaths and counting 
Such a disappointment due to the nerfs. Its okay that it is kinda squishy by nature, but the nerf on Shadow Strike took its damage as well making the build kinda pointless.
So no, hes gonna sit at lvl 20 till its good.
People gave a lot of advice in that thread and it seems you just chose to ignore it. Because they shown pierce Shadow Strike does work, even nerfed.
In this particular case your opinion is fact. AAR happens to be the worst class skill in the game at the moment save for maybe Horn of Gandalf
Chaos Ignaffar with the same set is still better
You didn’t read a single advice there did you?
What the shit?!
Aether FoI wasn’t that powerful last time I checked
Haven’t tried Lightning FoI yet but Aether, Chaos, Fire are very good imo. Cold variant was posted by Fluff and it craps on Gargabol, I never played it but it looks strong
Ptiro is madly in love with this skill, I’d eat my hat if he doesn’t have a 170 AAR build yet
Thats not true. I did respec as suggested, still it sux with Green gear. But thats offtopic now, that char is finished.