hi there wudijo , congrats on your great run , and thanks a lot for your guide , took sometime to muster out the gear to mimic your build , was wondering is it my gear or play style . I just can only barely bear gr 33 to 34 , I just took out preparation to bolas so I can regen hatred/ discipline and also maintain gogok as the ball lighting really takes sometime to travel , below is a link to my toon , hope u can appraise him!! thanks your very much all comments are welcom
The build works fairly equal, no matter what tier you do. Once you get the gist of it, you should do fine at higher levels. Try to get a quiver with 32 or less travel speed (huge dps and discipline factor!), as well as a crit / chd amulet, cdr/resource shoulders and a lightning soj.
@Seifa, thank you, it should be working now I hope
Haven't tried Uskang, but it will be nowhere near Helltrapper or Kridershot. As you already have ~40% (or 60% in case of a good amulet) lightning damage increase, adding another 20% won't do very much. Kridershot is a little behind the Helltrapper, and enables you to shoot permanently (including huge benefits from area damage and night stalker), Uskang can't compete with that in any way.
Hi everyone, even though this thread has been inactive for a while, I don't really want to create a new one just for this purpose.
Many people have been asking me to create a video guide for the Helltrapper lightning build as well as the Kridershot lightning build, so recently I have done so. The guide includes the items, paragon, skills and a tier 45 solo run (no rift-fishing). Right now I can only upload the Helltrapper guide because of some weird copyrights claims by twitch, even though I consciously shut down all music save for ingame sounds; I have appealed their claim and hope this issue can be resolved soon. In the meantime:
Thanks wudijo for this awesome and detailed guide, and the "commented gameplay demonstration" which helps a lot to not only understand the theory, but also see how it's being done in practice. Now I'm only missing a looooooot of practice
Hi everyone, even though this thread has been inactive for a while, I don't really want to create a new one just for this purpose.
Many people have been asking me to create a video guide for the Helltrapper lightning build as well as the Kridershot lightning build, so recently I have done so. The guide includes the items, paragon, skills and a tier 45 solo run (no rift-fishing). Right now I can only upload the Helltrapper guide because of some weird copyrights claims by twitch, even though I consciously shut down all music save for ingame sounds; I have appealed their claim and hope this issue can be resolved soon. In the meantime:
Alright people, for those of you who were waiting for the Kridershot, here it is. I actually recorded this one three times (with the first one being the best, I cleared tier 40 in 9 min because of Wortham + conduit xD), and received some weird copyrights claims because of the music that was running (even though I was only using ingame sounds the second time). It's a pretty long video, but it has all the details for just about everything you would like to know about the Kridershot build, enjoy.
Tier 50 solo: Soon™.
Currently farming that elusive Hellfire Amulet so that I won't have to rely on a lame pylon. Approaching ~200 Hellfires by now, still nothing useful. Unfortunately I am very busy in the upcoming weeks, so hopefully I can get a lucky draw on that amulet, I suppose tier 50 will fall shortly after =).
Teaser (image): #1 http://puu.sh/crgXv/bb26ef7c10.jpg (16 Oct 2014)
#2 http://puu.sh/crfVj/120be149bf.jpg | http://puu.sh/crfOI/45fbeee39d.jpg (21 Oct 2014)
Could have been a better dmg roll on that Krider, but it's still not bad. I can't find that many differences in terms of efficiency between the two builds for anything unrelated to greater rifts, only solo keywarden farming is something where you would clearly prefer the frostfire build. In the end, it comes down to what you like most probably. In grifts, you should probably see pretty similar results if you can play the lightning build properly, with frostfire being more consistent in lower tiers.
i recently switched to lightning build, i got all the gear except hellfire and i aim for 45 grift, since i already did 43 with frostfire, so i need a shit ton of keys, so i wanted to know if there a reliable way to get 45 keys solo, since i dont really want to rely on other people for my solo progression. In frost-fire i can only get 43s and sometimes 44s. In lightning i cant get higher than 41, so is there a build for 45 keys or am i just doing something wrong?
I have two new videos, both recorded yesterday in quick succession.
1) 2p with a Barb, tier 49. Unfortunately there are not many barbs around, but Rob decided to give it a shot and it works very well, seems like it will surpass the WD combo easily. He doesn't have much experience and is using an Int Furnace even, so there is a lot of potential for this combo. Here's a nice clip (screenshots of other tries in the description): http://www.twitch.tv/wudijo/c/5450281 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r31p3WIqxKA
One more general thing: I've started playing season hardcore to try to go for the rank 1 solo there as well. I want to gear up till paragon 400 and go all in then (given I get a TnT in time) - p123 currently. It will probably take some time, but I'm slowly getting there.
Thanks for the links, wudijo. Was watching your stream yesterday while grifting myself, so couldn't ask in time - but at some point you said it might be better to go coldfire together with a barb. Why coldfire? Why not pure fire? Wouldn't the AoE barb and a pure single target DPS fire DH be the best possible combinations for 2p?
Btw, EU is a bit behind on the entire barb thing - in US and Korea many of the top spots in 2p are already occupied by barb+DH. Hades and Gaby are #1 on US with a GR51 clear, for example. I guess in your clan Empyrian is working really hard to catch up ;-) We've got some people interested in trying out barbs as well in our clan, but need to figure out who's "best" in doing this, and it takes lots of practice. It's kind of sad that people bitch about barb being "lame" and whatever, when it actually in my opinion is the class that requires most skill. It doesn't require skill to be playable - but a really good barb can just take any group 5 levels higher, whereas a mediocre Raekor barb will not help a lot. Plus, barbs are doing "their own thing", away from the group, so it's difficult to assess if the barb is "good", "very good", or "awesome".
Anyways, interested in your opinion what the best pure single target spec is, because you kind of got me confused there yesterday ;-)
Yes, pure single target seems like the best option if you want to play for rankings (excluding conduits here). The problem with fire is that you have no one to apply the slow, so you will have to do it yourself, leaving you only with a frostfire build, which in turn is really suboptimal on single target if you use a Helltrapper and have to use Gogok to reach the last breakpoint. My idea was to try out a physical build involving Cluster / Impale / EA using a bow or xbow, however even then you will probably get screwed on RGs that spawn a lot of adds, which are not that many fortunately.
I know about the barbs being popular in other regions, it seems like there are just none around on EU nonseason, which is really sad actually. Possibly we will even see full barb parties at the top at the end of the season, hunting for the conduits on tier 53-55. Empyrian indeed is working pretty hard and playing well from what I can tell, but we got some more seasonal barbs around as well.
About the Wreath of Lightning proccing Night Stalker: I have no clue, never tested it specifically, but there is reason to assume it does, as this is the case with Conduit pylons.
This datamined info is most likely going to be in the official ptr patch and i really don't see them reverting everything back to sentries auto casting everything at insane speeds. My guess is that their "buff everything else" approach just couldn't cut it this time around since m6 was just too powerful... I think it's just bad design on their part tbh.
Like, imagine a wizard skill that gave you a charge that lasted a minute and could stack up to 5 times which eventually gave you such a damage increase that could compete with sentries? I guess they didn't want to make such a high jump in terms of damage dealing by all classes in general and decided to cut back a bit...
The changes to nighstalker and disc generation in general are just a preparation for the new set which imo is a total fail by design since you want your disc for survivability and utility skills which would again encourage you to just not use anything disc related to save up the max value and stand behind your zdps wd and just shoot stuff... Bad design.
@Seifa, thank you, it should be working now I hope
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Many people have been asking me to create a video guide for the Helltrapper lightning build as well as the Kridershot lightning build, so recently I have done so. The guide includes the items, paragon, skills and a tier 45 solo run (no rift-fishing). Right now I can only upload the Helltrapper guide because of some weird copyrights claims by twitch, even though I consciously shut down all music save for ingame sounds; I have appealed their claim and hope this issue can be resolved soon. In the meantime:
Twitch Link: http://www.twitch.tv/wudijo/c/5343481
Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehvaQpc-oIA
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You're a wizard Harry.....
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/wudijo/c/5370192
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfgMngy5cLU&list=UU9dDy4kSyAl-iVSzKVq6tdQ
Just for the record, I didn't really keep this thread up to date about my grift progress.
Tier 47 solo (11 Oct 2014): http://www.twitch.tv/wudijo/c/5275743 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqkeEv7wZ0s
Tier 48 solo (12 Oct 2014): http://www.twitch.tv/wudijo/c/5279781 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETBp67gUlYg
Tier 49 solo (24 Oct 2014): No twitch link, sound got muted | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ux_8fKG1PI
Tier 50 solo: Soon™.
Currently farming that elusive Hellfire Amulet so that I won't have to rely on a lame pylon. Approaching ~200 Hellfires by now, still nothing useful. Unfortunately I am very busy in the upcoming weeks, so hopefully I can get a lucky draw on that amulet, I suppose tier 50 will fall shortly after =).
Teaser (image): #1 http://puu.sh/crgXv/bb26ef7c10.jpg (16 Oct 2014)
#2 http://puu.sh/crfVj/120be149bf.jpg | http://puu.sh/crfOI/45fbeee39d.jpg (21 Oct 2014)
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Highest I got was 52, some guys in clan got 53 even.
Video of a trial run: http://www.twitch.tv/wudijo/c/5328897
Highest solo key I have seen was 46 using the lightning build, but I didn't really try that much.
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1) 2p with a Barb, tier 49. Unfortunately there are not many barbs around, but Rob decided to give it a shot and it works very well, seems like it will surpass the WD combo easily. He doesn't have much experience and is using an Int Furnace even, so there is a lot of potential for this combo. Here's a nice clip (screenshots of other tries in the description): http://www.twitch.tv/wudijo/c/5450281 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r31p3WIqxKA
2) Solo tier 50. It's going well, I had some tries last night, spawned the RG before 15 minutes in 4 of the 10 runs. I still can't get a good hellfire, I could have very likely beaten one of those in time if I had one
I strongly recommend to play this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4ygeG0qiw and then start the clip: http://www.twitch.tv/wudijo/c/5450128 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AvJfXC6No
One more general thing: I've started playing season hardcore to try to go for the rank 1 solo there as well. I want to gear up till paragon 400 and go all in then (given I get a TnT in time) - p123 currently. It will probably take some time, but I'm slowly getting there.
Enjoy
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Btw, EU is a bit behind on the entire barb thing - in US and Korea many of the top spots in 2p are already occupied by barb+DH. Hades and Gaby are #1 on US with a GR51 clear, for example. I guess in your clan Empyrian is working really hard to catch up ;-) We've got some people interested in trying out barbs as well in our clan, but need to figure out who's "best" in doing this, and it takes lots of practice. It's kind of sad that people bitch about barb being "lame" and whatever, when it actually in my opinion is the class that requires most skill. It doesn't require skill to be playable - but a really good barb can just take any group 5 levels higher, whereas a mediocre Raekor barb will not help a lot. Plus, barbs are doing "their own thing", away from the group, so it's difficult to assess if the barb is "good", "very good", or "awesome".
Anyways, interested in your opinion what the best pure single target spec is, because you kind of got me confused there yesterday ;-)
I know about the barbs being popular in other regions, it seems like there are just none around on EU nonseason, which is really sad actually. Possibly we will even see full barb parties at the top at the end of the season, hunting for the conduits on tier 53-55. Empyrian indeed is working pretty hard and playing well from what I can tell, but we got some more seasonal barbs around as well.
About the Wreath of Lightning proccing Night Stalker: I have no clue, never tested it specifically, but there is reason to assume it does, as this is the case with Conduit pylons.
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Like, imagine a wizard skill that gave you a charge that lasted a minute and could stack up to 5 times which eventually gave you such a damage increase that could compete with sentries? I guess they didn't want to make such a high jump in terms of damage dealing by all classes in general and decided to cut back a bit...
The changes to nighstalker and disc generation in general are just a preparation for the new set which imo is a total fail by design since you want your disc for survivability and utility skills which would again encourage you to just not use anything disc related to save up the max value and stand behind your zdps wd and just shoot stuff... Bad design.
Hope new Marauder is more fun to play, and want to try the new set to see how it performs.
my DH is only a few days old, finished my M6 last night with helltrapper and meticulous
meh time to find something new
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Imho they should remove caltoreps and choose between sentire and traps, to have a more consistent legendary.