we dont have enough -flat resist to make the amplification very helpful from % reduce resist. -> we already have viper’s 20% reduced elemental which is more or less the same as this one and its 100% chance to proc.
so i don’t think its really necessary to get , its not terrible since there isn’t super great alternatives, but not really necessary.
Im defo hurting from that last update, any chance u cna post ur armour augs?
My augs are very low compared to my other level 85 self made and self built chracter.
Bear in mind only items i have same as yours are the swords, boots, head gear and running 2 rings of elemental balance.
Happy to trade for the others if anyone is willing. I got alot of stuff
PS: Pneumatic burst is meant to be +12% total speed, but movement speed never change? (135)
Move speed is capped at 135.
Thought this may be the case, has it been capped for awhile? I swear my poison girl a month ago ran faster than this.
Post for 3 needed
Switched to the Mark of Dreeg/Necrosis/Arcane Bomb combo jajaja mentioned earlier and I’m finding that I’m doing a lot more dps but my resistances are just completely screwed now and I’m dying constantly. I guess I’ll have to move around some components and augments to compensate but it’s a bit of a mess right now and I can’t be bothered with it until I’m sure nothing else is going to drastically change anytime soon.
I’m not saying the build is bad right now, but my attempt at it isn’t in good shape.
Don’t underestimate %-based reductions to all resistances, they debuff life leech as well, making you tankier in the process. Combined with Black star of deceit, they make the core of almost any melee build imo. Besides, unless you’re farming Anesteria, you don’t need any other augment since Anatomy of murder gives you enough damage to humans to beat up Fabius/Maiden in 25-30 sec. The Homestead augments won’t make this process significantly faster.
Btw, have you tried DW-ing Nex? The proc is absolutely amazing, and seems to have been untouched by the nerfhammer. After some testing on my Witch hunter, i realised that Necrosis + 2x Nex + Black star + Eye of the guardian absolutely destroys everything, and I’m making a saboteur now because Fire strike seems to do a lot more damage than Solael’s witchfire.
off-topic: Can’t believe Fire strike wasn’t touched by the nerfs. Compare just the base damage on FS + Brimstone + Flame touched vs Solael’s + Second rite + Blood of dreeg. It would make some sense if Vulnerability debuffed chaos resistance or if Demo didn’t have access to his own res debuffs… Was there a silent nerf I’m not aware of? My gunslinger sorc seems to do the same amount of chart dps as before, so I’m guessing no.
hot damn that 'd work well with so many legendaries I have, deathmarked, and others. NOM
Damn, both of them look good together. http://gracefuldusk.appspot.com/items/search sacred balance
Nah, Ortus is quite crap.
FS does like 6x dmg of solaels.
anyhow, i’m not running any lifesteal on saboteur, not necessary. i dont take much steady damage from bosses due to the massive slows+evasion. i take occasional bursts, which is healed up from 5s cd pneumatic burst.
i currently dont use blackstar, since blood sigil is just too good.
maledition nerfed again, will probably go to necrosis+dreeg, or ulzuin+dreeg+arcane bomb.
Why not put at least 1 point in Thermite mine for the resist reduction to both lightning and fire. Unless I’m totally off and it doesn’t stack, but based on the information you posted in your 1-hand pyro guide, this seems to be one of the sources that can stack with others.
Speaking of resists reduction, could somebody that have the gear to test it out in PvP re-test mechanics? The last few pages of the 1.0.0.2 update seems to imply that some things that used to stack no longer do.
Someone was claiming and Nine confirmed in the hotfix thready that necrosis and dreeg no longer stack.
No not at all, I was talking about Maledictions buff and flat resist reduction on gear (e.g. MoD).
Necrosis is something else entirely and will always stack. Nine did not elaborate but maybe something like plaguebearer and MoD will not stack anymore even if they are applied in one instance.
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tried thermite and it’s really obnoxious to aim
casting it in melee range will usually make it miss your target (at least for smaller guys like fabius, maybe huge stuff like sharzul will still get hit)
also, some thoughts on newest patch
haven’t modified devotion setup yet but fabius feels really hard, he can actually kill me now. got taken to like 2k health, was pretty terrifying.
boss resistance to slow seems to have gone up dramatically, he no longer attacks like he’s in slow motion (note that i didn’t even use malediction since the slow from nidalla’s/nights chill/flashbang was enough for me before), and as a result i’m taking a ton more damage.
also, it just doesn’t feel like nemesis farming offers the highest number of legends per hour anymore, i’m getting one legendary per like 3-4 fabius kills, and each run takes me almost as long as a BoC run (not to mention the fact that i actually have to pay attention to fabius now). BoC not only gives more legends per hour at a flat rate but, even with the cost of 1 blood per, still offers enough bloods per hour for another legendary or two with the new smith.
Almost done leveling my Saboteur now and I was trying to change some stuff in the devotion tree.
Any opinions or maybe improvements on my current setup?
http://grimcalc.com/build/lNMfBq
I dropped a bunch of the now nerfed defensive devotions losing a bunch of health and some armor in the process and picked up a nice amount of offensive stats (attack speed, lightning damage, crit, tons of OA) and some resists which will allow me to use offensive or health augments on weapons.
Not really convinced by the Spear of Heavens ability, could maybe change that to another hp node but the stun could be somewhat useful.
Other than that, Turtle and Ullos can be freely exchanged but I wanted to give Ullos a shot anyway for farming Cronley and the resists seem pretty nice compared to the nerfed turtle.
After all the patches, do you guys think this build is superior to a blademaster? I’m torn between the two right now and can’t decide. :eek:
working on a new build atm, ill get to modifying dev and redoing fabius asap.
I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but Aegis might be worth using over Malediction at this point. After switching, fighting Fabius is a lot less nerve-wracking. The 200+ DA took his chance to hit down from 93% to 88% and crit chance down from 3.3% to a beautiful 0% and it seems to be working really well.