[3.16 - RETIRING BUILD] VD Brands: S-Tier Bosser, A-Tier Map! -- MURDERED BY GGG_INTERN SOMEWHERE--

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alt0172 escreveu:

less recovery map was a pain...
are there any tricks to make this mapmod less annoying?

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alt0172 escreveu:

less recovery map was a pain...
are there any tricks to make this mapmod less annoying?

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kinbord escreveu:

Hello again,
I was one of the "I die too much" people and I'll try to upload a video if my computer manage to record without too much lag.
However I did some improvements on many levels and I die way less than before and here's what I learned if that can help some fellow players:
1-Standing still is deadly. Too much things can kill us if we stand still so running around is always better than standing still;
2-Linked to 1, lags are deadly because they make us stand still. I lowered my resolution in game, I did the sound trick to disable sound effects. It helped a lot, especially the sound trick. I now lag only on insanely huge packs of mobs like Valdo's Harbinger;
3-Momentum is key, as said previously by other people. You need to get the thing going to be able to zoom zoom, you can't start zoom zooming on the first packs of a map. Same goes for bosses, if you die during a boss, you will need to play smart and slow when entering the arena again because you're entering without leech, without overleech, without ES and most likely without brands. Play slow, put the brands, run around, channel incinerate to get offering, and you'll get back to being safe and strong, but if you just rush into it, you'll must likely get destroyed;
4-As for brands, 1-1 is the way to go on bosses, don't to like me and do 2-2 and then wonder why the VD brand isn't working, even in cases where you have only 2 bosses I still prefer 1-1 to 2-2 to avoid being in a case where I don't do damages and I loose momentum;
5-You want to ramp up that HP/ES pool. Get as much as you feel you need. As primaeva said, the build can go up to 10K EHP and even with a more offensive option, pushing 7-8K is quite easy so don't slack at 5-6K;
6-The more damage, the more leech, the more sustain, the quickest the fights. I bought awakened spell cascade yesterday and it helped both my cleaning speed, my boss DPS and my capacity to stay alive. Best 12ex spent ever.

Hoping it will be able to help some people, I'll try to film some of my gameplay to put here to see if some videos can help see what I'm still doing wrong and dying to here and there.

As a conclusion I'd like to really insist on the lag point: Reducing my lag made me enjoy the build more and reduced by a huge amount my death counter. It's a shame PoE is in a state where some builds need you to actually use all the tricks you can to be played but I guess PoE2 will change that. In the meantime I advise the ones that are lagging too much to disable sounds effects.

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alt0172 escreveu:

less recovery map was a pain...
are there any tricks to make this mapmod less annoying?

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kinbord escreveu:

Hello again,
I was one of the "I die too much" people and I'll try to upload a video if my computer manage to record without too much lag.
However I did some improvements on many levels and I die way less than before and here's what I learned if that can help some fellow players:
1-Standing still is deadly. Too much things can kill us if we stand still so running around is always better than standing still;
2-Linked to 1, lags are deadly because they make us stand still. I lowered my resolution in game, I did the sound trick to disable sound effects. It helped a lot, especially the sound trick. I now lag only on insanely huge packs of mobs like Valdo's Harbinger;
3-Momentum is key, as said previously by other people. You need to get the thing going to be able to zoom zoom, you can't start zoom zooming on the first packs of a map. Same goes for bosses, if you die during a boss, you will need to play smart and slow when entering the arena again because you're entering without leech, without overleech, without ES and most likely without brands. Play slow, put the brands, run around, channel incinerate to get offering, and you'll get back to being safe and strong, but if you just rush into it, you'll must likely get destroyed;
4-As for brands, 1-1 is the way to go on bosses, don't to like me and do 2-2 and then wonder why the VD brand isn't working, even in cases where you have only 2 bosses I still prefer 1-1 to 2-2 to avoid being in a case where I don't do damages and I loose momentum;
5-You want to ramp up that HP/ES pool. Get as much as you feel you need. As primaeva said, the build can go up to 10K EHP and even with a more offensive option, pushing 7-8K is quite easy so don't slack at 5-6K;
6-The more damage, the more leech, the more sustain, the quickest the fights. I bought awakened spell cascade yesterday and it helped both my cleaning speed, my boss DPS and my capacity to stay alive. Best 12ex spent ever.

Hoping it will be able to help some people, I'll try to film some of my gameplay to put here to see if some videos can help see what I'm still doing wrong and dying to here and there.

As a conclusion I'd like to really insist on the lag point: Reducing my lag made me enjoy the build more and reduced by a huge amount my death counter. It's a shame PoE is in a state where some builds need you to actually use all the tricks you can to be played but I guess PoE2 will change that. In the meantime I advise the ones that are lagging too much to disable sounds effects.