[3.14] Tectonic Slam+Earthshatter 2H Chieftain, 20mil Damage slam, Screen-wide AoE, 2.5k HP/s regen

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Kharadas wrote:

Hello,
I am interested in starting the build, but need to know a few things before hand.

1. You write "- 1000/s life leech". Where is the life leech in this build ? I didnt find it in the guide. You are using Soul raker on amulet right now, but nothing is in guide. I know it one shots everything, but that is not answer. There is alot ranged damage in this game.

2. Ive played some EQ build very long ago with Marohi Erqi and it was simply no fun due to the low attack speed. How is it with this build ?

3. Is there any special reason, that you dont use tectonic slam this league ?

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9v1d0 wrote:

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Kharadas wrote:

Hello,
I am interested in starting the build, but need to know a few things before hand.

1. You write "- 1000/s life leech". Where is the life leech in this build ? I didnt find it in the guide. You are using Soul raker on amulet right now, but nothing is in guide. I know it one shots everything, but that is not answer. There is alot ranged damage in this game.

2. Ive played some EQ build very long ago with Marohi Erqi and it was simply no fun due to the low attack speed. How is it with this build ?

3. Is there any special reason, that you dont use tectonic slam this league ?

Hey, Kharadas

1. Anoint, cluster jewels, Vitality watcher's eye, Elemental damage with attacks alternative quality gem, Timeless jewels and probably some other places you can get it.

2. We don't really have a lot of attack speed as well. It's nice to have but overall it's not very useful. I have been getting good feedback where people are really enjoying the build. You can read some previous comments here.

3. I use both - Tectonic slam and Earthshatter. I have not bought a second mace and I switch gems manually for now.

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Kharadas wrote:

Thanks for the answer.
I was asking about life leech and nothing expensive like watcher's eye. So it has to be an anoint then, ok.

How many endurance charges are ok damage(from your own experience) with this weapon, if you lets say just want to map until T13-T15 for start ?

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hogscraper wrote:

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Kharadas wrote:

Thanks for the answer.
I was asking about life leech and nothing expensive like watcher's eye. So it has to be an anoint then, ok.

How many endurance charges are ok damage(from your own experience) with this weapon, if you lets say just want to map until T13-T15 for start ?

I jumped straight into red maps at level 71 and didn't have much trouble even with 5, (using earthshatter and multiple warcries to detonate), but now, with 9 endurance charges even tectonic slam is working fine with lvl 18 support gems. That is, unless you run up against a lot of ranged mobs and especially if they have multi proj map mod.
In heists, those ranged mobs can be deadly to this build. I have 6200+ life, 85% phys dam reduction and capped resists and still get destroyed in heists that are 5 levels below my level. That has made me stop using this guy in heists because it sucks attacking them from across the screen, slowly whittling down the numbers. I wasn't even dying all the time but green lightning guys, the brown orb guys or packs of ranged blues can almost instantly kill me so I stopped using this guy outside of maps.

I ended up needing soul raker as well for the mana leech. But your concerns are valid, this build is painfully slow to play. Even sacrificing some health for something like Devoto's still only gets the attack time down to .93 for me. It's cool to blast an entire screen but more like attack then do nothing for several seconds as you traverse to the next screen of mobs. The build is solid but if you want something even "normal" speed I would say ditch the endurance charge rings/Tidebreaker and try to find a high end axe. I ran earthshatter last league with an axe and it felt way better to play just because of the attack speed.

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Dimath wrote:

Hi, what do you think about alternate quality gems in this build? They can give really good bonuses

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Yendis wrote:

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hogscraper wrote:

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Kharadas wrote:

Thanks for the answer.
I was asking about life leech and nothing expensive like watcher's eye. So it has to be an anoint then, ok.

How many endurance charges are ok damage(from your own experience) with this weapon, if you lets say just want to map until T13-T15 for start ?

I jumped straight into red maps at level 71 and didn't have much trouble even with 5, (using earthshatter and multiple warcries to detonate), but now, with 9 endurance charges even tectonic slam is working fine with lvl 18 support gems. That is, unless you run up against a lot of ranged mobs and especially if they have multi proj map mod.
In heists, those ranged mobs can be deadly to this build. I have 6200+ life, 85% phys dam reduction and capped resists and still get destroyed in heists that are 5 levels below my level. That has made me stop using this guy in heists because it sucks attacking them from across the screen, slowly whittling down the numbers. I wasn't even dying all the time but green lightning guys, the brown orb guys or packs of ranged blues can almost instantly kill me so I stopped using this guy outside of maps.

I ended up needing soul raker as well for the mana leech. But your concerns are valid, this build is painfully slow to play. Even sacrificing some health for something like Devoto's still only gets the attack time down to .93 for me. It's cool to blast an entire screen but more like attack then do nothing for several seconds as you traverse to the next screen of mobs. The build is solid but if you want something even "normal" speed I would say ditch the endurance charge rings/Tidebreaker and try to find a high end axe. I ran earthshatter last league with an axe and it felt way better to play just because of the attack speed.

I can see where you're coming from, it's not a zoom-zoom build per se.

But I find that with devoto's you kind of get into a rythm where you oneshot a screen with chaining explosions, and while that's going on you dash along with the wave of tectonic slam to the next screen.

With clever use of your dash/speed flasks I'm actually finding the clear speed to be very decent.

The only thing I'm still trying to figure out is the earthshatter mechanic.
Sometimes it feels like I am oneshotting bosses, and other times eartshatter seems to do very little damage.

I suppose earthshatter is a rotaion-based thing where you pop all warcries, slam 3 times, pop flasks and then detonate?

Or are you supposed to weave earthshatter slams in between cries?