Sab669 posted:

Dumb question; can I Craft a mod onto a ring and then use an Orb to upgrade it's quality and still retain the Crafted mod?

Jinnigan posted:

For Vortex, is there a significant dps difference between pyre+southbound vs hrimburn?

It just means you'd spec fire damage for pyre but cold damage for hrimburn right?

Is the benefit of pyre that you'd Never get frozen enemies, so you'd Always ignite?

Jinnigan posted:

For Vortex, is there a significant dps difference between pyre+southbound vs hrimburn?

It just means you'd spec fire damage for pyre but cold damage for hrimburn right?

Is the benefit of pyre that you'd Never get frozen enemies, so you'd Always ignite?

Awesome! posted:

why would you need southbound with pyre?

i think its really pyre vs hrimburn. give up a glove slot vs a ring.

Phobophilia posted:

My instincts say pyre + southbound for life, hrimburn for CI

Rurutia posted:

Still need reliable enough to not run Chance to Ignite IMO, but my ignite does shittons of dmg. And I will run with conc effect even for clearing and depend on ignite to clear.


Only difference between our specs/gear is that I take the flask nodes and I have flask mods on my belt. So I have 2 less jewels and I think my amulet doesn't give me as much dmg as yours.

I think the flask nodes makes a lot of difference? Because I disagree with a lot of this. I run reduced regen and vuln maps fine even if my regen doesn't cover the degen fully without a ruby flask, since I can reliability hit near 100% flask uptime and just toggle off when I hit a dry patch (rare). I do this while carrying 3 man health, (as in the MFer and the boss killer inquisitor are usually trying to just stay apace of me with movement skills and I'm still usually a screen ahead). I never run -max resists or no regen though, you're right on that one, but they don't come up often enough to make a big enough dent in my chaos pool.

For reflect, my RF kills most white mobs, so I don't cast very often but usually by the time I cast with ruby flask up, I barely take any damage because there aren't very many mobs left. I did a fast t14 ele reflect map a couple days ago.

I run with a MFer in my 4man group that has a pathfinder bv main that killed shaper a couple weeks ago and basically only has mirror worthy gear left to upgrade to. He thought the clear speed was insane, and like I said, usually in the groups I run in, everyone just spams movement skills to keep up with me.

I really should just record a video cause I don't know why my experience is so different than yours.

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

I've been trying things a bit more similar to you, I didn't think Alchemist would be very noticeable but boy was I wrong, it immediately jumps out how much better the flasks get and turns 6% max res on a flask to 7%.

Soothing Vapors posted:

edit: get a goddamn avatar I never know it's you when I'm replying

Awesome! posted:

is that necessary with the prolif from elementalist? seems like a waste of a slot to me.

nearly killed em! posted:

and there is no prolif without a corpse.

Awesome! posted:

i feel like i am missing something here.

MMF Freeway posted:

Basically if an enemy walks into prolif range of a corpse that is still burning than the burn will stick to them. If the enemy shatters than the burn essentially just ends, stopping the proliferation.

Ultima66 posted:

Bonus tip: the mechanic for proliferation is the same as the mechanic for those loving Porcupine Goliaths, meaning no corpse = no spike explosion. If you want something any character can use to mitigate those fuckers, Abyssal Cry will stop them from blowing up in your face.

Peewi posted:

I'm level 62 and partway through Act 3 on Merciless and appear to be somewhat underleveled. Is there a good and/or safe way to get some levels? I'm getting tired of dying and losing all my XP.

Gejimayu posted:

So my doom fletch tornado shot ranger is lvl 42 now and is squishy a.f. she hits super hard but Izaro just 1shot me in labs normal and normal doerdre did the same. I'm following neversinks general guide. Am I missing something? I'm wearing some lower level uniques for the bonuses but it doesn't seem like I should be getting 1shotted by normal bosses even without super up to date, tanky gear, right?

Jinnigan posted:

Could you get +80% fire damage using liege of the primordial, cold+fire golems, and pyre?

Ultima66 posted:

To be totally clear here, only living enemies and corpses can proliferate. Any effect that removes a corpse stops proliferation. Shattering from freeze, exploding the corpse from Pyre/Obliteration/That Occultist Passive/Abyssal Cry that's like Obliteration means the corpse is gone and can not proliferate. A proliferating corpse stops proliferating if removed by Animate Zombie/Animate Spectre/Detonate Dead/Any Offering.

This is why Freeze Proliferation isn't really a thing and Elemental Conflux only gives Chill instead of Freeze. Pyre has a quirk where the corpse exploding effect only works if your hit actually kills the enemy, where ignite will not remove the corpse. So if you wear Southbound, your hits can never kill the enemy and the corpse will always stick around.

Bonus tip: the mechanic for proliferation is the same as the mechanic for those loving Porcupine Goliaths, meaning no corpse = no spike explosion. If you want something any character can use to mitigate those fuckers, Abyssal Cry will stop them from blowing up in your face.

Jinnigan posted:

If I put my Vortex in a 30% more ele damage helmet, what'd be a good skill to put in a 5 or 6link in my chest?

Gejimayu posted:

Can anyone give me a breakdown of what the endgame progression/landmarks look like? I've been screwing around on maps and am almost level 80 without any real direction. I'm a bit over 4k hp, have the entry level stuff for my build, but am nowhere near being able to solo like uber labs and stuff. What should my goals be, aside from "more hp"?

Phobophilia posted:

freeze proliferation used to totally be a thing, a single mob that was frozen would lock down the entire pack. and if you had herald of ice, when one frozen mob died, it would explode dealing ice-nova level damage, which would in turn chain explode entire packs

gently caress i missed my three dragons lightning tendrils freeze proliferator back in the day, it was so cool to hard counter devourer packs that popped up on you

Jinnigan posted:

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

Did you consider the hrimburn instead of pyre+southbound gloves, you don't really need 16% life if your going CI, and you need a ring slot for that moonstone unique.