Pretty much the title. I started character on own, then found a guide that suggested the Shard some time ago. The Shard appears to have been nerfed since, but that’s just a subjective thing, I’m not 100% sure since I haven’t played this character in a while. I’m using Blight for my relic and Shard on my main hand. Would it be better to revert to the Troll relic (forget the exact name, but similar skill to Beronath’s Fury)?
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You don’t like ABB?
ABB isn’t an attack replacer. It is a wasted attack used to activate a fantastic buff.
That said I don’t know if Shard of B. is worth it. But it most definitely would not be worth reverting from a Blight relic to Mistborn.
Never tried it. Not sure if mixing it in with Fury would be worth it just for Lethal Assault.
Also not sure if it interrupts the building up of Fury.
I’m using AAB on my Witch Hunter and it is awesome. I keep it at 10/16. If you are a pure melee poison/acid character like me - AAB is the best choice. But if you are planning to spend some skill points for spells like Dreeg’s Eye and to be a semi-caster then maybe Shard would be better as it saves you points. CC (via freezing) from AAB is nice too btw.
What does AAB stand for?
Amarasta’s Blade Burst: ABB, not AAB. The modifier, Lethal Assault, is very potent for builds with fast attack speed as it adds a lot of flat damage to every attack.
Yeah, my bad. ABB sure. As for ‘fast attack speed’ it is not mandatory since the Lethal Assaul buff lasts 4 seconds more than enough to keep it up all the time.
Going back to the OP’s question: Shard of Beronath does elemental conversion and damage which has no synergy with a poison/acid build. Neither Beronath’s Fury nor Troll Rage is a good LMB skill for a witch hunter.
Which doesn’t really matter if you don’t have more than 90% Acid conversion, which is impossible anyways.
Yeah, but the point becomes is it better to get an extra 10% phys -> acid, some flat psn/acid, and some % bonuses to same, or better to get the extra weapon damage. It isn’t a super easy question. Especially as weaving in ABB every 4 secs kinda breaks the flow from using Shard of B anyways.
Although if you are okay with weaving in one ABB / 4 secs and using Shard the rest of the time, then it would likely be better than any other component.
A Mark of Dreeg would be a much, much better component for most builds.
Not really, the resistance reduction won’t stack with any similar source of flat reduction and the other passive bonuses on the component are only so-so for acid melee. The skill is good, but moreso for a poison cooldown type character. The best reason I can come up with not to take Shard of B is because of not wanting to bother weaving it would ABB, not so much that a good poison component is better.
Even if you do need the resistance reduction you can still use one Dreeg + a Shard.
Well if you have a suggestion for another default attack replacer I’m all ears. ABB is not one. Better those than nothing right?
Just FYI, Dreeg and Shard have been my components for this toon.
Why do you need attack replacer in the first place? Lots of builds don’t have one and do fine. If you put ABB on your LMB you have 100% proc of on attack or similar skills / stats like life leech.
Much of this build is based on the original “Handmaiden of Dreeg” build. Mistborn/Shard were suggested, and ABB was generally dissed. Basically it was “why not?” when it came to using an attack replacer. I don’t know what I’d replace Shard with if I switched up.
Since the last patch the survivability of this toon has gone way down, subjectively. For example Moosiluke used to be easy, now he kills me.
Attached is the tooltip for Shard. I don’t understand how the charge builders work at all. 110% of what? 110% of the 114% Main Hand/Offhand shown on the skill?
Anyway, other than that the only benefit for this character I can see is +20% of all damage. Doesn’t suck considering this toon has 4 damage types (Acid/Poison/Chaos/Vitality), but I don’t have the deep knowledge of mechanics to evaluate the tradeoff with somelike like Mutagenic Ichor (that is the one with Poison Bomb, iirc?), for example.
Albrecht’s Aether Bonanza, the original name of AAR. [spoilers]that’s my headcanon.[/spoiler]