Hey guys, today I show a very low gear requirement speed farm build using Norvald's + Akkhan. Check it out if you want to clear rifts at 175% movement speed indefinitely along with insta-killing elite packs. Enjoy & discuss!
Laws of Hope (Wings of Angels) - pop it before you mount for additional movement speed
Avarice Band in cube - more gold for empowered rifts
Hoarder over Powerful - trading additive damage for speed to further support Avarice
You kind of need powerful for this, otherwise it doesn't hit the T10 damage threshold. Trash clear is not as good as LoN Bomb, but that's also why it's easier to gear for. I use it currently while I gather gear for other builds.
Laws of Hope (Wings of Angels) - pop it before you mount for additional movement speed
Avarice Band in cube - more gold for empowered rifts
Hoarder over Powerful - trading additive damage for speed to further support Avarice
You kind of need powerful for this, otherwise it doesn't hit the T10 damage threshold. Trash clear is not as good as LoN Bomb, but that's also why it's easier to gear for. I use it currently while I gather gear for other builds.
This was one of the builds I tested on the PTR and I agree with you completely that at the current gear and paragon level shown in your video that TX would likely require the additional damage Powerful provides. Avarice + Hoarder would require more ancients/paragon to pull off.
I do not recommend anyone giving up the power for speed until the power is overkill. When you reach that point Avarice combined with Hoarder is a good way to make your speed clears even more efficient. This can be applied to just about any build that do not lock you in to 2 specific rings + cubed jewelry.
By that point you'll switch to LoN Bomb most likely though (or some speed version of LoN Blessed Shield), both of which should be faster due to better AoE clear. As I mentioned this is an easy-in build. I ran about 50 TX rifts with it before switching to LoN Bomb (once I got the gear for it).
according to reddit thorns interactions thread there is a curious one with the horse, if you equip (or cube) envious blade that gives 100% crit chance when mob has full health it makes the first tick of horse crit, it uses regular crit damage, if you were to stack it, you could potentially quadruple your first damage tick power, probably enough to one shot all t10 whites save for the really tough ones (i have tested this myself and it is working)
It is working with Thorns horse, or with the fire horse?
By that point you'll switch to LoN Bomb most likely though (or some speed version of LoN Blessed Shield), both of which should be faster due to better AoE clear. As I mentioned this is an easy-in build. I ran about 50 TX rifts with it before switching to LoN Bomb (once I got the gear for it).
RNG for the set weapon was not friendly to me. I happened to complete a TX capable LoN Bomb set before the weapon dropped, so I went from Invoker straight to LoN Bomb. At that point on I cubed Swiftmount, Broken Crown, and Avarice Band (BotH, BotT, and Chip for gems). Early on I find it efficient to spread out my total intake while keeping clear times as low as possible (3-4 min avg).
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I think I will try In-geom in the cube tonight for key farming. I find Swiftmount to be really strong when I do bounties since I spend 90% of the bounty getting to a designated location.
Interesting about Envious Blade, is it just with horse or does it work with Bombardment as well? I don't have one yet in the season and have switched to LoN Bomb just the other day as I finally put the gear together, but realistically you can make normal Invoker and this Norvald's build work in TX just cube In-geom.
Interesting about Envious Blade, is it just with horse or does it work with Bombardment as well?
Just tested this and I can confirm yes to both. Belt of the Trove also seems to be interacting with it as well.
The numbers below were tested with no belt in my belt slot to cut down on clutter for more accurate results. There were no damage buffs or modifiers active. The only gems I was using were rank 63 BotT & Chip. Only had base crit values of 5% CHC and 50% CHD. No paragon points were put in to CHC or CHD
Too bad the AoE clear on Norvald's isn't the best and you have to drop In-geom for it. Don't think it's usable for speed farming. Same with LoN Bomb, you really benefit more from In-geom for speed farming than a crit of sorts. But you could probably use it until then.
thanks for testing. One of the things I do enjoy about this game is theory crafting with numbers.
If you cube the mortal drama weapon and use the envious blade, do all the Bombardments crit or just the original one?
I think if doubling the bombardments apply the crit for all, think it will be a viable build.
Envious Blade only crits a mob once, and only if it has full HP. Therefore, this is at best relegated to speed farming, but there's already a better option - In-geom. High GR the first crit wouldn't matter at all, and even less so considering you'd be tempted to spec CHD on gear which would be useless for everything else.
Hey guys, today I show a very low gear requirement speed farm build using Norvald's + Akkhan. Check it out if you want to clear rifts at 175% movement speed indefinitely along with insta-killing elite packs. Enjoy & discuss!
Build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#OgXVTQ!afTS!aZaaZY
https://youtu.be/OvHpizJYg_Y
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A few tweaks to consider:
Laws of Hope (Wings of Angels) - pop it before you mount for additional movement speed
Avarice Band in cube - more gold for empowered rifts
Hoarder over Powerful - trading additive damage for speed to further support Avarice
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I do not recommend anyone giving up the power for speed until the power is overkill. When you reach that point Avarice combined with Hoarder is a good way to make your speed clears even more efficient. This can be applied to just about any build that do not lock you in to 2 specific rings + cubed jewelry.
By that point you'll switch to LoN Bomb most likely though (or some speed version of LoN Blessed Shield), both of which should be faster due to better AoE clear. As I mentioned this is an easy-in build. I ran about 50 TX rifts with it before switching to LoN Bomb (once I got the gear for it).
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RNG for the set weapon was not friendly to me. I happened to complete a TX capable LoN Bomb set before the weapon dropped, so I went from Invoker straight to LoN Bomb. At that point on I cubed Swiftmount, Broken Crown, and Avarice Band (BotH, BotT, and Chip for gems). Early on I find it efficient to spread out my total intake while keeping clear times as low as possible (3-4 min avg).
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I think I will try In-geom in the cube tonight for key farming. I find Swiftmount to be really strong when I do bounties since I spend 90% of the bounty getting to a designated location.
Interesting about Envious Blade, is it just with horse or does it work with Bombardment as well? I don't have one yet in the season and have switched to LoN Bomb just the other day as I finally put the gear together, but realistically you can make normal Invoker and this Norvald's build work in TX just cube In-geom.
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The numbers below were tested with no belt in my belt slot to cut down on clutter for more accurate results. There were no damage buffs or modifiers active. The only gems I was using were rank 63 BotT & Chip. Only had base crit values of 5% CHC and 50% CHD. No paragon points were put in to CHC or CHD
Spiked Barding
704M - non crit
1056M - crit
Barrel of Spikes
998M - non crit
1495M - crit
Reflective Skin + Spiked Barding
2815M - non crit
4223M - crit
Reflective Skin + Barrel of Spikes
3893M - non crit
5845M - crit
One shotting TX trash was happening fully equipped. Even without stacking additional multipliers.
Too bad the AoE clear on Norvald's isn't the best and you have to drop In-geom for it. Don't think it's usable for speed farming. Same with LoN Bomb, you really benefit more from In-geom for speed farming than a crit of sorts. But you could probably use it until then.
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thanks for testing. One of the things I do enjoy about this game is theory crafting with numbers.
If you cube the mortal drama weapon and use the envious blade, do all the Bombardments crit or just the original one?
I think if doubling the bombardments apply the crit for all, think it will be a viable build.
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