working on a template, based around some insane aether items i found for melee, but DPS seems insanely low. any basic tips to get me started appreciated
Look at Most’s CT thread
CT itself is never crazy damage wise itself, getting it past the cap helps a lot especially when you get in the 20+/16 range. A lot of your damage is gonna come from agrivix and procs too on top of devastation
Look to convert all your chaos damage or most of it with clairvoyant shoulder/chest + albretch’s duality ring if you have it. Only -chaos res you will have is -20 from black star if you even have it so converting as much as we can to aether is very good. Iskandra set is good too for super tankage, never used it myself, but can probably drop tree of life if you use it?
If you have good gear you can go really tanky on devos and still dish out the damage. Viper/Widow for OA/resist reduction then take behemoth, tree of life, solemn watcher, and 2-3 points in obelisk. That will give you tons of health, fuck ton of regen, and a lot of DA making you unkillable unless you go full retard. You can fuck around a fair bit with devotions though
i was thinking it does present unique tankiness, bulwark + maiven’s both toggled on is like 33% flat damage absorb, + a good shield should be pretty epic.
i do have full iskandra set maybe i should try that. but what would attack be? cadence? aether doesn’t seem to have many decent left click options, ranged or melee
Damage absorb stacks multiplicatively, not additively. It’d be 29(.6)% damage absorb.
ah good to know
I misread or maybe just assumed we were talking about a callidor battlmage. Honestly I tried many times to make aether sword and board work…it just sucks. The best I came up with was aether blade arc + stacking on block procs. Sounds cool but it doesn’t cut it