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[2.4.2] Tal Rashas Archon Burst GR95+ Solo

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Skills

  • Electrocute Chain Lightning
  • Black Hole Absolute Zero
  • Explosive Blast Chain Reaction
  • Archon Slow Time
  • Teleport Calamity
  • Ice Armor Crystallize
  • Illusionist
  • Unstable Anomaly
  • Evocation
  • Audacity

Items

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  • Legendary Gems

    • Bane of the Trapped
    • Bane of the Stricken
    • Gogok of Swiftness

Kanai's Cube

  • Orb of Infinite Depth
  • The Swami
  • Ring of Royal Grandeur

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Vitality
Maximum Resource

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Damage
Critical Hit Chance
Attack Speed

Defense

Armor
Life
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Life on Hit
Resource Cost Reduction
Gold Find

Build Guide

Tal Rashas DD Build for Patch 2.4.2 focusing on short-timed Burst Damage.


Howto:

  • Have Archon Stacks from The Swami overlapping
  • Build up 15 Gogok Stacks (if not already built up)
  • Build up 4 Tal Rashas 6pc Stacks
  • Build up 4 Explosion Stacks
  • Build up 20 Chantodo's Stacks
  • Hit Black Hole 4 Seconds before Cold CoE
  • Hit Archon at the Moment CoE goes to Cold
  • Spam Archon Abilities for 8 Seconds (until Tal Rasha 6pc Stacks run out)
  • Move on
  • Spend the remaining time in Archon to gather density for the next burst.
  • When you are outside of Archon, keep jumping into density to perma proc your APD's


Setting up the first Burst:


Goal here is to get in sync with CoE for all following Bursts, this is very important and its all about timing.

  • Enter the Rift on beginning of Arcane CoE and immediately hit Ice Armor and Archon
  • Now you have 20 seconds to build up Gogok Stacks and mob density, preferably a decent group of white mobs
  • When Archon is off cooldown the next time, CoE should be right before Cold with all Stacks fully built up.
  • You are ready to rock

You don't have to use that strategy, you can also gather mobs and build up stacks outside of Archon at the beginning of the rift.

I found it more consistent to do it that way mostly in terms of survivability and getting Archon Stacks. You are sacrificing a little bit of time at the start though.


Notes:

  • Since Obsidian Ring cannot be used, this Build is extremely CDR heavy, you need to roll CDR on every piece possible, including Amulet. The Breakpoint to hit is 63,5% Sheet CDR minimum! Its absolutely mandatory to get this CDR and to always have max Gogok stacks before you go in Archon. Otherwise your CoE will not be in sync with every Burst, which is the key to this build.
  • I tried to get this to work without CDR rolled on the Amulet, but the max Breakpoint you can hit this way is 62,6% which i found is just barely not enough to function properly. It may be possible to play it with 62,6%, personally i think its not worth it. Its much harder to play and you lose DPS from going into Archon late too often.
  • Area Damage is not super important here, since your strongest Bursts will come from Chantodo's. However, your Archon Skills do benefit from it, so i recommend having at least 2-3 Area Damage rolls on your Gear.

I've tested this Build on PTR in GR 85-90 with unoptimized Gear, 5 non-ancients, 80ish augments and Para 1600.

Fully optimized/augmented and with enough Paragon, i think this build is capable of going into the 100s.


Any Thoughts/Suggestions for Improvement are always welcome!


This is the Solo GR Variant, for the Group Play Version click here: