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Ok 9 regrets later i've eliminated most of the differences ( and actually the passives are now in my favor)
The total differences at the moment are :

He has:
2 max flat physical damage
1% more melee attack speed
1% increased melee physical damage
1% increased fire damage


I have extra:
4 min flat physical damage
+7% increased physical damage
12% MORE unarmed physical damage
+4% increased attack speed

But for my surprise the damage differences persist ... the difference was cut down to 25k .. but it is still there .. and it's not like 25k is some small difference .. it's pretty huge one.
My DPS:



His DPS:



I guess i'll contact him .. maybe he .. forgot ... to mention something like having a shrine buff at the moment maybe a different gear piece at the moment when the screenshot was taken .. i don't know.

Btw IF i wear the Great old one's ward ( again he does not ) i'm getting close to the 180k dps - i reach 172k .. but the remaining difference ( + the fact that at this point i have more damage from the tree/jewels + better facebreakers etc. ) is still big enough to make me think that that's not it ( or at least not only that )
P.S. I've just PMed him and i'm waiting for a response ^^

Well HernanCCS wrote me back.
He actually has 4 frenzy charges ( not 3 ) and he uses Rallying Cry. Also probably i've missed to calculate a jewel or maybe i've made a calculation error. So a little thing here and there surely can add up to the difference of 20-25k when we are dealing with numbers like 180k dps.

Mystery solved as far as i'm concerned!

Thanks for writing here too HernanCCS! :)

Hey guys!
I know that it's early but i'm hyped for the new upcoming support gem called [https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1475604]Blasphemy[/url].
It opens many possibilities and i'm always excited when that happens! But what do you guys think? Does it have a place in your facebreaker build ? For my personal setup i'm considering the follow possible implementation:
1. Using temp chains or enfeeble aura and Herald of Ash instead of hatred ( loosing some damage, gaining more survivability )
2. Using temp chains or enfeeble aura and Herald of Ash instead of determination ( gaining some damage, loosing a lot of armour but gaining survivability from the curse )
3. Maybe getting Whispers of Doom OR wearing Windscream boots and using both temp chains and enfeeble instead of one of the auras?
4. And of course not using it at all since cwdt + curse works good enough and because i don't want to loose either one of my auras.
Again, i know that it's early to talk about this, many things will probably change ... but still i'm curious about your thoughts on this matter guys :)

+1 curse amulet of course would be the best choice ( if one decides to use double curse-auras in the future ) ... but ... good luck finding a good T1 phys damage + T1 life + needed attributes and resists AND +1 curses for a reasonable price.

Some people use hypothermia and arctic armour and say that it works well. Personally i find the huge damage per hit combined with hatred to be enough to chill everything without arctic armour... and well ... you need to sacrifice one of the 2 main auras ... which is something that i would not do. So in the end ( as i see it ) you might gain more damage ( with hatred + AA + HoA and hypothermia for your cyclone ) but you sacrifice survivability... and i don't want to go on again for the whole survivability vs. defense philosophy because i've talked about it dozens of times just in this thread.

But hey i'll say the same thing that i always say - go ahead and test it! It might suit your desires and playstyle better than the alternatives. In my opinion as long as you sticks to the facebreaker basics and know what you're doing and how things work you can create many different variations of a FB build and they'll all work well ... in the end it depends on your personal playstyle and preferences. Some prefer one thing others - another thing ... and there is no "right way" ( again - as long as you sticks to the facebreaker basics and know what you're doing and how things work).

As for the aura-curses ... i don't about their use here ( will of course test it ... a lot ) but damn i'll surely revive my RF marauder! Bye-bye 6L curse on hit cyclone, hello triple curse-aura and IIR+IIQ 6L RF setup, while using cyclone only for procing EE and gaining some life on hit!

EDIT:
You can't chill with arctic armour before you actual pass through the monster, so your first couple of hits ( probably 2-3 ) won't hit chilled by arctic armour enemies.
Yeah, unarmed attacks have the lowest melee radius ( though warlord's reach helps a bit.. and of course there things that are not unarmed only that also improve your AoE radius significantly )