I would like to know if anyone has experince with this kind of playstyle.
Is it possible to refill your LF Pool during 10 sec of DS cooldown ?
Life Blast is almost at 100% crit and gives might—-> Is the Dmg good ? or still to low because of downtime when not in DS and the slow castspeed of LifeBlast.
Would you recomend changes in the Trait lines ?
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(7,8 utility strongly depends on a fight, same goes for food/utility)
I play similar build from the begining of the game becouse I like high numbers. I’ve started the fractals with this build and I loved it. Before the pach 5 days ago the “rotation” or “skill priory” (or what’s it called) was different. The build itself changed a lot it became more… mid range, but more aoe and an incredible aoe burst.
I use Axe/Dagger and Focus. I take staff only for Maw’s tantacles becouse 600 range is not too good there. Also I change traits so marks do more damage and gain life force so I can play more in DS.
With focus both handed I stack precision, with food I have a nice 51% (You can buy the 80 prec, 8% crit dmg wich is cheaper na You will have 50% no problem) but when with 1-2 warriors in a party I rather take 100 power 10% crit damage food for the exra power. For dredge/shaman/svanit fractals I take +10% more damage consumable.
It was possible to refill half of DS life force (when my DS was on 5s cooldown traited) – before the pach under 50% life force your DS attack drasticly failed, also there is a minor trait that You have extra 5% dmg when Life Force is 50%+ so You shoot until LF pool was nearly 50%, got out Axe 2 or dagger auto attack, if focus 4 bounces all 5 times you get a high amount of LF also Spectral Gasp on champions for soft cc with chill and more Life Force (You also gain LF from nerby deaths so on dredge You can keep it up every 7 or 10 seconds if the die nicely).
Life Blast with food itself is at 100% and it hits like a truck – it strongly depens on your team voulnerability conditioning warriors or grenade engi are perfect for this, also it depends on your might stacks – but without “perfect” conditions I hit for 5k-6k fom DS 1 (with stron might voulner team even 10k), and on spamming 1 when I don’t get damage I can even have up to 10 might stacs from Reaper’s Might only, alo every hit pierces and gives 2 stacks of voulnerability so yeah
I change traits and utility often depending on the fight. On harpy for example I go with Near to Death (so I can go in DS every 7 seconds) and Foot In The Grave (so after going in DS I get 5 seconds of stability with those I don’t fall off becouse of the knockback as much as before the pach. In more AoE like fights (dredge or so) I take -15% cooldown on DS skills so I can AoE more with 4,5 + piercing shoots, the -15% cooldown is also great underwater fights for spamming DS 2 (AOE BLIND YEAH).
On grawl shaman I take my racial Charr hidden pistol for that extra evade becouse we don’t have vigor
it’s short on cooldown and can save You from that kitten arrow or when you lack dodge.
But the best change is when You put down Well of Suffering and go quickly DS for 100% crit chance, so that every well aoe hit is a crit it hits like 2200+ 7x = ~ 15k + DS 4 6-9k and DS 5 that “hit” at end of the 3rd torment does also 2.1k+
For single targets I like the lich form, You also have over 100% crit chance and do like 5-7k+ auto attack “1” for 30 secodnds wich is nice the attack also pierces all targets in it’s way!
So I find the biuld fun to play, I really like it
Edit:
Small comment why not curses. Well that kitten minor pasive has a chance to bleed while crit I don’t like this becouse in a power base gear my bleeds do even 60% less damage than full condi gear. There are also only 25 slots so I would take some of it while some other necro or condi thief could benefit much more from any extra bleed slot.
Also with my full zerker armor any healing is nice and I don’t benefit from condi damage at all in Curses. Regen while under 90% hp every 30 sec and siphon health on crits can counter some small conditions on us. Also any extra vitality boosts our Life Force amount so I find that more usefull.
Cheers.