[3.9][HC/SC] Soulrend Trickster - Fast mapper with great defenses (League starter/All content)

I came to a point that it will be really hard for me to improve gear moving forward:

With the aura nodes, zealotry is 21.3% more dmg, and frequent consecrated ground (6% life regen). Clarity level 1 fits as long as you have a tiny bit of mana and an open socket, and it lets you run a damage taken from mana before life watcher's eye, which are cheap. So instead of a 70/30 life/ES, I'm taking damage at a 61/39 ratio. That's about at 15% effective life boost against all incoming damage so long as I have the ES to keep it up.

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Jolo0213 wrote:

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HoschiBro wrote:

I am thinking about multicraft a wand with a Citaqualotl mod. Up to 95% minion dmg means 95% more damage on my crafting base. Any thoughts about that?

It's only 95% increased, which is still good and equal to T1 spell damage + some of the spell damage/mana hybrid. It would not be a bad idea to craft around that one if you do not want to roll for T1 NACDOT. But to be safe, "craft" these items in POB to see what gives you the damaage you want. You should still be able to craft NACDOT and either Spell Damage or Chaos Damage/Duration hybrid as additional prefixes as well.

You can CTRL+C the item in game then paste it right into POB if you're having trouble finding the mod.

It seems, my craft is quite similar to T1 NACDOT. I tried to get NACDOT t1 for the last two weeks, nearly 2k+ alts and i got T2 once...
Have to check the essence craft as alternative to my minion-craft.

Pretty happy with my gear so far.
I'm just wondering what the next "big upgrade" could be. I can't select the malevolence watchers eye in pob, so I don't really know if that would be the biggest damage boost.
Could anyone have a look please?
I think it should be either Impresence for the dot damage or a watcher's eye.

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NEPHAN wrote:

I came to a point that it will be really hard for me to improve gear moving forward.

Why do you say that? You could shuffle resists onto the jewelry only and shift to double wand setup. I'm guessing if you've multicrafted one you would know the process to do a second. You can also get more DPS with a NACDOT Malevolence Watcher's Eye

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jbmcarth wrote:

With the aura nodes, zealotry is 21.3% more dmg, and frequent consecrated ground (6% life regen). Clarity level 1 fits as long as you have a tiny bit of mana and an open socket, and it lets you run a damage taken from mana before life watcher's eye, which are cheap. So instead of a 70/30 life/ES, I'm taking damage at a 61/39 ratio. That's about at 15% effective life boost against all incoming damage so long as I have the ES to keep it up.

Didn't consider the mana before life with Clarity WE. That's a good defensive suggestion.

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Snoukz wrote:

Pretty happy with my gear so far.
I'm just wondering what the next "big upgrade" could be. I can't select the malevolence watchers eye in pob, so I don't really know if that would be the biggest damage boost.
Could anyone have a look please?
I think it should be either Impresence for the dot damage or a watcher's eye.

If you search one of the Malevolence ones on the trade site you can copy it into POB. Biggest damage boosts would be (in no particular order): Malevolence Watcher's Eye, swapping to dual wield with a multimodded T1 NACDOT wand, swapping Empower to Swift Affliction. I've said it in multiple responses already, but Empower 4 only beats Swift Affliction if your 6l has some sort of source for +gems/+support gems. Unless you have the currency for it, Impresence is really only a filler. A rare Elder amulet with some combination or all of Chaos/Spell/NACDOT and potentially life or other resists will far outdamage it.

Thanks for your help here!
Swapped to swift affliction, ingame sheet dps went from 198k to 244k (19/0 gem).

What do you think of a crafted bow? I've seen people with level 29 soulrend...

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Jolo0213 wrote:

I've said it in multiple responses already, but Empower 4 only beats Swift Affliction if your 6l has some sort of source for +gems/+support gems.

Eh, imo it's not that clear-cut, at least for the actually important fights where you can't facetank the boss. Swift Affliction also reduces skill effect duration. In my case it's 0.06s less duration (0.74s to 0.68s), which is actually a bigger DPS loss (assuming one Soulrend cast per second).

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Snoukz wrote:

Thanks for your help here!
Swapped to swift affliction, ingame sheet dps went from 198k to 244k (19/0 gem).

What do you think of a crafted bow? I've seen people with level 29 soulrend...

There was some analysis here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/b8l6y4/lvl_33_spell_damage_vs_lvl_21/
Basically, going past gem level 30 is still good but is less effective if you were to push to 33. You remove some of the things you can get on wands or a shield but you also get a quiver.

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obliviousBC wrote:

Eh, imo it's not that clear-cut, at least for the actually important fights where you can't facetank the boss. Swift Affliction also reduces skill effect duration. In my case it's 0.06s less duration (0.74s to 0.68s), which is actually a bigger DPS loss (assuming one Soulrend cast per second).

Of course it's going to be gear and playstyle dependent.

How are you calculating your DPS loss? POB Shaper DPS * Duration as the damage within each second if you only cast once per second.

Based on that, I do 8k less Shaper DPS. 5ex for 8k more Shaper DPS, that currency is definitely better spent elsewhere.

Should I get Kintsugi or Zodiac Leather?

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Jolo0213 wrote:

How are you calculating your DPS loss? POB Shaper DPS * Duration as the damage within each second if you only cast once per second.

Based on that, I do 8k less Shaper DPS. 5ex for 8k more Shaper DPS, that currency is definitely better spent elsewhere.

Yeah, like that. I think it was somewhere around 20k for me, so not totally insignificant, but definitely only relevant if you're trying to min-max everything.