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Jadran 님이 작성:

Some very interesting points, Serleth.
BTW, did you get the news where GGG discovered a loot filter bug that has been present in the engine since loot filters were introduced? Apparently this bug could cut your DPS down massively, as the filter was parsed every frame, instead of every time something drops. This is huge news, I'm really happy they found it.

OMG. I use a bloody massive loot filter...

Hi Serleth, you mentioned that you might be rolling a Cyclone Raider, any extra details or thoughts since your post on the previous page?

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maxwolfie 님이 작성:

Hi Serleth, you mentioned that you might be rolling a Cyclone Raider, any ideas for a build?

This is what I have planned for now but it's probably changing. Doubt I'm going to have the life totals I want without heading to Scion, but we'll see. If I can hit 5k life ~91-93 then I might keep the setup as is.

I should probably do the math on it.

Eugh-edit. I'll be 4,870 unless I can get some sick rolls on gloves and helmet. Or alternately top-end life rolls on GOWW and QOTF.

That number's with a min 75 on each ring and amulet, 80 on the helm and low rolls for both QOTF and GOWW. So I could squeeze out an extra 30 or so flat on the uniques, and say 20 on the helmet and hit an additional 50 total flat (139.5 after the tree) to just barely break 5k.

So yeah, probably gonna modify it to go for Scion life. :P Would much prefer that number to be 5.5k+

Anyway.

Nothing fancy, not gonna bother with Voidheart or anything for now, want to try a strictly physical premise. Usual suspects for gearing to start, Bino's, Rat's Nest, rare accessories, probably Meginord's for a belt unless I'm struggling with res, hopefully fit GOWW in there somewhere and QoTF on the chest slot.

Finished the day @ 61 about an hour ago. Been using Blade Flurry to level because it was better at single target but I think Cyclone might be eclipsing it now as it's sitting at 2.8k dps without anything at all linked to it. Problem is mana (of course), which is one of the reasons why I opted for that particular tree: I figured I'd need Duelist leech for Blood Magic temporarily before being able to switch to mana once my dps got high enough.

Great, thanks for that.

Probably a silly question, but why use a short range weapon such as a dagger for a Cyclone build?

Not a silly question at all.

Few reasons:

* I want to see how it handles with the additional range all melee weapons got as per the patch notes:

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Increased the range of all melee weapons. This is also a significant buff to the radius of Cyclone.

* I'm also going to be swapping skills around between Blade Flurry and Reave in order to get a good cross comparison, so daggers make sense for both the latter skills if I find Cyclone isn't cutting it. I've planned for support sockets to be identical for all the skills (Skill, Faster Attacks, Melee Phys, Crit Multi, AoE / Conc swap, Fortify) so it allows me to switch at will and get a feel.
* Lastly, the tree itself is fairly flexible. I can move to claws or swords fairly easily if want to putz around with it, but going daggers makes the most sense for switching skills around.

Hey guys... dunno if anyone is still around to remember me... I was pretty active in here back in February thru April... 2.1 thru 2.2...

Stumbled onto Breach release yesterday and am thinking about returning for another league or 2... was wondering if this build has changed much in the last 2-3 leagues

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Piros 님이 작성:

Hey guys... dunno if anyone is still around to remember me... I was pretty active in here back in February thru April... 2.1 thru 2.2...

Stumbled onto Breach release yesterday and am thinking about returning for another league or 2... was wondering if this build has changed much in the last 2-3 leagues

Greetings, and welcome back. The build has not changed much in the last few updates. And as always if you have specific questions as you are leveling or playing the build just ask, and someone will get back to you.

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Serleth 님이 작성:

Not a silly question at all.

Few reasons:

* I want to see how it handles with the additional range all melee weapons got as per the patch notes:

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Increased the range of all melee weapons. This is also a significant buff to the radius of Cyclone.

* I'm also going to be swapping skills around between Blade Flurry and Reave in order to get a good cross comparison, so daggers make sense for both the latter skills if I find Cyclone isn't cutting it. I've planned for support sockets to be identical for all the skills (Skill, Faster Attacks, Melee Phys, Crit Multi, AoE / Conc swap, Fortify) so it allows me to switch at will and get a feel.
* Lastly, the tree itself is fairly flexible. I can move to claws or swords fairly easily if want to putz around with it, but going daggers makes the most sense for switching skills around.

Do you think a CI build is viable for Cyclone Raider?

Pathfinders were doing it for BV, no reason you couldn't as Raider, but you'll be doing it at the cost of the duelist frenzy charge.

Hi! I got a weird inkling to try out a Scion bow build and was originally going to do a homebrew Deadeye/Chieftan until I saw this thread. Since I love me some Chaos DoT damage, this seemed like a fun thing to try.

I've read the past 15 pages or so but couldn't find the answers to some questions I had about this build (mostly modifying it away from MF and toward full content clears). Apologies if these have been asked before.

-Chaos Inoculation instead of Life. Is it viable? The ES passive a from Occulist seem like they're going to waste if I'm not touching ES at all.
-Working Barrage in. A Delirium weapon and quiver + Barrage + Poison Support and then the usual chaos support suspects sounds devastating on paper. Anyone tried something like that to handle the big bads?

Thanks!