I just bought a supporter pack
Figured they've earned it lately with the massive waves of content.
I mean just look at the whopping offers you get in D3 these days:
I just bought a supporter pack
Figured they've earned it lately with the massive waves of content.
I mean just look at the whopping offers you get in D3 these days:
Show me the beta skill tree changes
Thats not the only thing that got changed.
Every damage interaction is either buffed or unchanged. It simply cannot be a nerf. Impossible.
Yes I know spell damage scales it, but so it did old version. What do you still not understand about my question?
I did all that for Bladefall, still not good enough.
No, elemental/cold affect it at 60% of value unless you can get that 60% phy to cold to turn into 100% phy to cold.
So you ignore all the other things that got their scaling massively improved, focus on the one that STILL got increased by 20%, and were unable to read the last line.
I've leveled plenty of builds through up to T10 maps before respeccing, most of them I was using Bladefall myself. With zero investment into damage, since I was preparing the tree for the actual build, I had no issues whatsoever. Bladefall is perfectly fine as a poison-mine build for Guardians/Shaper/Atziri, and clears reasonably well (one-shotting packs, not as fast as Vaal-builds) even in T15 maps with decent investment, either selfcast, totem-based or mines/traps. Not sure what the fuck you're doing quite honestly. Mind linking your Bladefall character so we can see what the possible issues might be?
Ok sorry, didn't notice you said at bottom you converted it to 100%. I guess that is required for it and I didn't know about those two nodes. It is almost like they made them for Glacial Cascade :D
I didn't use it as a leveling build but as a Trapper. Poison Bladefall Saboteur, non crit based. Got him to about lvl 85 or something, he was Life/Acrobatics based. Good enough character, fun but I felt like the damage was still too low although he one shot many things (by one shot, I needed to use just one clustered bladefall trap). But when I watched some videos of others, they would kill map bosses and Atziri faster than I could. Maybe the build was nerfed in the meantime and that is why damage seemed weaker than I expected. To boost damage I took all Physical and chaos damage passives I could and even used two Obliteration wands and that ring that also gives extra chaos damage based on your physical damage.
There's very few non-crit trapper/miner builds, go crit.
Both assassin and occultist are better when you want more dps. CI occultist works fine since profane bloom/wicked ward trigger when enemies die to poison (since the source of the damage no longer exists on-kill effects default to the player). Low-life assassin while expensive easily puts out 3-5times the damage a saboteur does, probably more.
Both are noob-traps and show that you have a very limited understanding of how damage increases aswell as poison-scaling work in general. You did not scale the base-damage of the bladefall, losing out on multiple double-dipping possibilities, and thus your damage was low. When you apply poison with physical damage, you do not get chaos/poison damage. You get trap/physical/area/spell damage since it double-dips. You do not get physical->chaos conversion items, since they do absolutely nothing to increase the base-damage, and the increase to poison-damage is minimal. Get spelldamage wands/daggers for starters, switch to a woe-crafted bow and soulstrike for CI or a life/crit/critmulti quiver. Void Batteries are fine too.
Builds I was researching didn't go critical as well. Also the at the time I didn't know how good were some of the trap jewels and wanted to have that saboteur ability that activates all traps. Also Saboteur gets 60% trap cooldown which is very important. It is very quality of life stuff that lets you clear maps faster. Assassin would need to use a slot for trap cooldown support. And I don't like to fuck around with crits if I also need to use diamond flask to achieve dependable crit chances. Crits do give most damage but management is sometimes too irritating (upkeeping power charges included)
Everything I read and researched said that poison damage is always chaos damage and that only physical and chaos damage can apply poison damage (beyond special items like that unique dagger that makes fire damage work with poison). So I found as much physical and chaos damage bonuses I could. And trap of course, I know trap passives double dip. Physical does not double dip and spell damage does not double dip, I don't know where you got that from (spell damage double dips only with special spells like Vortex and Essence Drain). I got obliteration wands because they give extra chaos damage on top of physical damage which then double dips with my bonus chaos damage nodes. Same for the ring. Obliteration wands also give bonus spell damage so it scales base Bladefall damage and gives 15% extra chaos damage per wand.
You don't need a slot for trap cooldown, one trap per pack is all you need. Since it is so easy to keep up power-charges as a trapper with just a weapon-swapped Jaws of Agony, there's no reason to not go crit and benefit from the huge increase to the initial hit of the spell. Most of the QoL of Saboteur is unnecessary, which is why most trap/mine builds currently don't even use the dedicated trap/mine ascendancy. Sunblast+2 Cheap Construction jewels provide the same instant-trigger, you can also just use rapid decay if you don't have the jewels/sockets yet. The smaller nodes only increase elemental damage, which doesn't help you at all. Offensively Saboteur is way worse than assassin, defensively it is way worse than occultist. Both also provide the opportunity to just play self-cast instead, as saboteur you are locked into traps.
Are we talking about this http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Obliteration wand? Because I am.
Actually it was less of a problem with second build, I had a secondary Ice Nova Trap. Bladefall trapper had no alternative to help with trap cooldowns as no other skill was similar enough to bladefall. It also showed me that without saboteur that build would have been in a bigger trouble as well.
