[3.0] Boom Box (Self cast molten shell)

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Kwitch wrote:

All of your additional life from gear, strength, and passives equate out to 571. For a build that emphasized being highly survivable, and picked up 247% increased maximum life, I feel like you're not contributing enough HP to make use of your pathing. In the video specifically, I saw several moments where you had taken considerable damage and if any spell caster had bothered to look your way, you would have been in real problems. Also, How does Uber Izaro feel like when he cleave/slams you?

You have very reasonable armour, I give you that, however I see no special consideration for all of the fire damage that you are doing from reflected sources. You went elementalist, but failed to pick up Paragon of Calamity. You also only have 0.4% of fire damage leech from sources, How is that enough to mitigate fire reflect K.O. scenarios? I see you have a weapon swap of 2 Catalysts... but 0.6% is still really low, no?

I recognize that in your video montage, you showcased several bosses that you simply mitigated all threat of their mechanics by ending the fight within 4-6 seconds. There are bosses in the game that have hard restrictions to prevent this (immunity timers, transitions, twinned, etc.) Do you have any thoughts for those?

I noticed you crafted % reduction in Degen damage, which I assume is for the Righteous Fire you have socketed in your catalyst. Yet no where in the guide do I see any explanation of how that will be used, or when you would want to use it. You don't use it in the video, and you only have 9.4% HP regen. Considering that you are causing damage to yourself constantly with the application of Scolds (Admittedly a portion is prevented via armour) and monsters do hit you... How are you ever choosing to turn on RF and lose your primary sustain in the process? I feel like RF was meant to be part of the guide and was forgotten about during the write-up. (Yes I see the lab enchant on the boots, but 11.4% hp regen is far below where most RF builds feel comfortable.)

Animated Guardians helm enchant? What would you have put there instead? I assume Molten Shell damage?

In the build guide you listed as inspiration, the author uses a Zerphi's. Would you consider it, or care to explain your thought process for leaving it out?

Cheers

p.s. a scolds bridle build without vaal molten shell looks funny to me. I don't know why. Also, what's added chaos damage doing on your flame dash/cwdt setup anywho? >_>

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Would double consuming dark + hungry abyss jewel work if you wanted to do massive poison DPS + ignites? This would also negate reflect.

Also, if you went with Berserker (with the above mentioned item setup) how do you think it would match against elementalist for single target? Obviously, without the free proliferation it would be bad for map clearing.

edit : on second thought, map clearing would still be good if you used abyssal cry to pop mobs.

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Would double consuming dark + hungry abyss jewel work if you wanted to do massive poison DPS + ignites? This would also negate reflect.

Also, if you went with Berserker (with the above mentioned item setup) how do you think it would match against elementalist for single target? Obviously, without the free proliferation it would be bad for map clearing.

edit : on second thought, map clearing would still be good if you used abyssal cry to pop mobs.