I noticed that Death's Bargain (http://www.diablohub.com/database/item/deaths-bargain/information/) deals 750 to 1000 percent of your LPS to enemies within 20 yards. One might think that this means to wear these pants you want to stack tons of LPS, but I'm wondering if firestarter procs off of these. If so then a single point into LPH in paragon would cause 1 tick per second within 20 yard when you have firestarter up (which with a 6pc akhans bonus = all the time). Has anyone tested this? I was thinking about trying this out but didn't want to take the time to farm it if it doesn't proc it. Gear setup I was thinking 5 pc akhans (shoulders, head, chest, gloves, boots), death's bargain pants, ring of royal grandeur, bul kathos (if I can find one), reaper's wrap w/ element of choice and neck / weapon / shield of choice. The idea being that firestarters only real weakness is it takes a little bit of time to ramp up, though not much, and with these items it would ramp quicker. With a Bul Kathos and Death's Bargain both ticking 1 time per second you get 2 applications per second plus each attack. I attack 1.81 times per second assuming infinite wrath in a perfect vacuum world.
This would mean in the 3 second stacking window (yeah I know it rolls over and doesn't really work like that--but for arguements sake) I would have
6 applications through Bul Kathos and Deaths bargain within an area of effect
2 applications from main hit of fire starter
5 to 6 applications through dot and tempest
13 to 14 applications of the 460 percent fire dot per second seems like it would ramp up very very quickly with these two items added into the mix almost twice as fast? So anyway back to the main question can anyone confirm that Death's Bargain works with fire starter? How did it work for you was it worth it or not?
No clue. But I just don't understand this bulkathos fad. When a ring of jordan can single handedly contribute another ~15% damage to all your damage over any other ring. You would rather have a melee ranged aura :?.
I've tested out BK before, it was ok... just very small aura. To me the benefit of the pants is a larger radius of aoe, not that 20yds is particularly huge either.
But yes it's always about the opportunity cost of Cindercoat vs extra ring vs pants etc..
Anyhoo firestarter does not proc from absolutely everything.. for instance Charged Up did not proc it the several times I tested it :). And not all weapon effects either, eg Hack does not work with it from what I've read. So you would actually need to test the pants to see
Stuff like that is easy to test yourself, but for sake of public education: no on thorns. That is also probably the reason Hack does not proc it.
IDK if thunderfury and the like procs it, actually rather curious about that if anyone knows. I have poked at builds doing things that hit more frequently like consecrate (which is great for firestarter, and used by many players) and bombardment w mines glyph (since you get x10 mines, but alas they are a bit spread around, still seems useful - tho haven't really studied it to see if the mines are also proc-ing fire starter).
Nor did I extensively test BK ring to see if it ticks x2 a second for firestarter (I am told it procs x2 a second for the life drain), I mainly went and looked at the firestarter damage and then said "meh other options are better" (in a non perma-akharat situation).
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This would mean in the 3 second stacking window (yeah I know it rolls over and doesn't really work like that--but for arguements sake) I would have
6 applications through Bul Kathos and Deaths bargain within an area of effect
2 applications from main hit of fire starter
5 to 6 applications through dot and tempest
13 to 14 applications of the 460 percent fire dot per second seems like it would ramp up very very quickly with these two items added into the mix almost twice as fast? So anyway back to the main question can anyone confirm that Death's Bargain works with fire starter? How did it work for you was it worth it or not?
The pants might be great though
But yes it's always about the opportunity cost of Cindercoat vs extra ring vs pants etc..
Anyhoo firestarter does not proc from absolutely everything.. for instance Charged Up did not proc it the several times I tested it :). And not all weapon effects either, eg Hack does not work with it from what I've read. So you would actually need to test the pants to see
IDK if thunderfury and the like procs it, actually rather curious about that if anyone knows. I have poked at builds doing things that hit more frequently like consecrate (which is great for firestarter, and used by many players) and bombardment w mines glyph (since you get x10 mines, but alas they are a bit spread around, still seems useful - tho haven't really studied it to see if the mines are also proc-ing fire starter).
Nor did I extensively test BK ring to see if it ticks x2 a second for firestarter (I am told it procs x2 a second for the life drain), I mainly went and looked at the firestarter damage and then said "meh other options are better" (in a non perma-akharat situation).