STR Chronomancer Hammer of the gods

Get a giant health pool, get 100% recoup health, get Timesnap, and swing with 1600% weapon damage way more often than anyone else.


That said, the tree isn't super friendly here. Best idea I have is grab the recoup clusters around the top of the tree, and then swing over to that 150% attack damage claw on the left.

Recoup just for defenses or does it somehow also scale damage?

As far as I am aware there is no way to turn recoup into damage.

Literally just meme build idea, though I am trying to play the thing.

Currently I'm in Act 2, maining Molten blast, since fire damage is relatively easy to find in the top of the tree.

Beat ultimatum and got the second recoup ascendancy, and it is incredibly strong now.
So much so that I wonder if the calculation is correct, I only have 50% recoup (+15% ele/phys) and I'm regularly getting brought right back up to 100%.

Still pure str, starting to have some accuracy issues, but I'm 10 levels from resolute technique and Avatar of fire, so things should be solved on that front soon.

Damage is fine with just the fire res pierce beside the start and the outer part of the fire circle at the top.

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Duodecimus#3798 wrote:

Beat ultimatum and got the second recoup ascendancy, and it is incredibly strong now.
So much so that I wonder if the calculation is correct, I only have 50% recoup (+15% ele/phys) and I'm regularly getting brought right back up to 100%.

Still pure str, starting to have some accuracy issues, but I'm 10 levels from resolute technique and Avatar of fire, so things should be solved on that front soon.

Damage is fine with just the fire res pierce beside the start and the outer part of the fire circle at the top.

Do you have your build somewhere? Does it use fire hammer?

Keep in mind I'm not in maps or anything.
Heck, I haven't even used HotG yet.

but basically:

Step 1: play as a real sorcerer for the first couple areas, get the fire res- from beside the start and at the top of the tree. Keep an eye on the NPC shops and drops for a high armor shield. swap to shield charge+boneshatter, and use your first spirit gem on Magma Barrier.
You'll either be using shield charge or molten blast to kill stuff, depending on if your hammer or shield is better. Don't sleep on Magma Barrier either, it's very good for fighting single rares.

Step 2: Get the recoup at the top of the tree and beside the start. Get Ascendacy recoup around now.

Step 3: Go all the way around the tree to the left, to get Avatar of Fire and Resolute Technique.

Step 4: Get the recoup circle to the right of start with pliable flesh.

Step 5: You now have 80%ish recoup that fills up in 3s or so. The tree touches a bunch of skills you can use, so put points into more fire/attack damage and armor/block as you see fit.

You can go a couple ways from here. Stack up attack to make the hit bigger, stack up fire damage and ignite to put out massive HotG ignites, try to get enough strength to use giant's blood...
Heck, if you really want to go crazy, you've passed by half the thorns nodes on the tree. Extremely strong recoup is a good start for a thorns build, and Avatar of fire will let you scale those thorns with fire damage.