[3.3] Unstoppable Gladiator 78% Max Block/Spells. Best Low Budget League Starter

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gibtuck escreveu:

Hi Mariano:

How does this build fare against a fully buffed Izaro? Argus? Do you have any recordings of an Uberlab run? Thanks!

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Some things I consider important against Izaro:

- Sometimes exchanging Atziri's with Basalt could be useful. You get additional chance to reduce physical damage taken.
- A good use of Jade + Granite is really important. With them, you have almost cap physical reduction and sometimes against uber Izaro is mandatory to use them.
- Most important, there's a particular attack from him that could totally destroy you. He turns to his side for 1/2 seconds and then release a pulse that travels towards the screen. That pulse seems a physical damage that works the opposite than Freezing Pulse. As the pulse travels towards the screen, makes a lot more damage. So, against common sense, what I choose to do is to ALWAYS stay in front of Izaro without moving. I run three times merci lab and one time uber, and doing this I never get hit by his pulse. If you run away and pulse hit you, you're dead.

Of course, I can't confirm this, but I'm pretty sure of it. So I do what usually do against bosses. Just facetank him :D (and if he teleports me on third stage, I just run like a mad men and get in front of him immediately).

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spartacusbringerofrain escreveu:

TO THE TOPIC AUTHOR: I know that you prefer SS but no matter how hard i tried and no matter what gem combinations i tested for SS, i found Cleave much better skill overall. Also, attack speed with Cleave is higher, so your map movement is also faster. I tried following combos for SS:
SS + PtL + WED + MS = top dps, extremely rippy with ele ref maps
SS + AFD + WED + MS
SS + WED + LD + MS = for me this combo might be the best one, Less Duration is probably the most useful gem for SS and you can run ele ref maps without a problem. The only drawback is that requires RRRR sockets so if you don't intend to run cleave and just play SS this one is probably for you. You can also use LL if you want more defensive approach.

I was testing running T16 with Cleave + SS swap (Cleave + IAOE + MS + AFD is by far the quickest map clear), then switching to SS + PtL + WED + MS for top DPS and both setups require RRRB sockets. But since i don't like SS that much (even though i have perf SS dmg enchant on my BoR) i found Cleave much much better.

Also, Inc Dura doesn't work with Fortify so you are wasting the gem socket.

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mas_mariano escreveu:

Less Duration support gem doesn't work with SS. Just reduce the delay of explosions, which is useless, but doesn't give any DPS improvement. And I run RRRR because of AFD.

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birdis0n escreveu:

How do you handle ele reflect maps with the SS-Setup? Do you change something in the Setup?
I switched now also to SS because I dont want to take care of INT anylonger..

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squ1shed escreveu:

I'm debating if Warchief or Protector is the better totem. Is there a break point at which one is better than the other for DPS? Or is "more damage" just strait up better in every case?

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Kaktuskiller escreveu:

Which one is actually better? The Varunastra or the Soul Taker version?