I know the most common choice for gems with FB are Bane of the Powerful, Zei's Stone of Vengeance and the Gem of Efficacious Toxin. Right now, though, I don't have a viable socket amulet and will only be using 2 gems.
The first will be the Bane of the Powerful, but I'm kinda hesitating on the other one. They're not all 25 yet, but will be soon, so you can assume 25 lvl gems for comparison purposes.
Damage boost is multiplicative, not additive with other buffs, which is key to understanding why it is so amazing. Yes, there will be times when monsters get in your face and you won't be getting full effect, but the entire point of your build is to keep distance and typically this will be at full strength during the Rift Guardian burndown.
2.Bane of the Trapped
Could be #1. Damage boost is also multiplicative, in its own buff category. If you're running solo, most builds don't use anything that qualifies as crowd-control, so you generally have to rely on Templar, but his skills (swap Loyalty for Intimidate) and a nice Thunderfury will tend to keep everything snared up nice and taking the extra damage. Pretty much 100% uptime on Rift Guardian burndown, too.
3. Gem of Efficacious Toxin
DoT and extra damage taken is significant and with guaranteed uptime. But for my money the real value is that this gem makes Corrupted Angels - one of a handful of exceptionally frustrating monsters (I'm looking at you Winged Assassin) - very easy to kill because they will pull up a poison shield instead of a fire shield.
4. Bane of the Powerful
Viable alternative to Efficacious if you have very little +Elite damage (like just Unity). Elite damage is it's own buff category, so if you're not toting around a Furnace, Sun Keeper, and/or SoJ, the 15% +Elite secondary is where you're getting half (if not more) of the value. The +20% damage buff is additive with other common buffs, so you're typically only getting a fraction of that in relative damage output.
I would concentrate on trying to get your hands on an Amulet with socket -- even the third-best gem on the list, once ranked, will outpace in damage and utility a stat like INT or +Fire damage (but not CC/CHD). Oh and reroll the Movement Speed on your boots.
I would concentrate on trying to get your hands on an Amulet with socket -- even the third-best gem on the list, once ranked, will outpace in damage and utility a stat like INT or +Fire damage (but not CC/CHD). Oh and reroll the Movement Speed on your boots.
Thanks for the detailed answer!
Regarding the boots, I never bothered since I couldn't get all res (got a secondary resist) and I wasn't using any of the skills that can roll on boots. With the 2.1 changes to regen, though, it was worth rerolling, thanks for pointing that out
Regarding the amulet, I'm having trouble letting go of my 20% fire/675 int/10% cc/89% chd golden gorget ... the only two potential alternatives are :
- 698 vit/8.5% cc/80% chd (-10.9% dmg and -20% fire dmg)
- 17% fire/9.5% cc/52% chd (-13.4% and -3% fire dmg)
Do you think either of those would be worth a try?
Thanks, that's the one I've been using for a few days now. Still looking for something better, but I don't feel like crafting hellfire on a wiz, too few interesting passive for FB build.
I know the most common choice for gems with FB are Bane of the Powerful, Zei's Stone of Vengeance and the Gem of Efficacious Toxin. Right now, though, I don't have a viable socket amulet and will only be using 2 gems.
The first will be the Bane of the Powerful, but I'm kinda hesitating on the other one. They're not all 25 yet, but will be soon, so you can assume 25 lvl gems for comparison purposes.
What would you suggest?
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Taliesyn-2517/hero/66020932
Damage boost is multiplicative, not additive with other buffs, which is key to understanding why it is so amazing. Yes, there will be times when monsters get in your face and you won't be getting full effect, but the entire point of your build is to keep distance and typically this will be at full strength during the Rift Guardian burndown.
2. Bane of the Trapped
Could be #1. Damage boost is also multiplicative, in its own buff category. If you're running solo, most builds don't use anything that qualifies as crowd-control, so you generally have to rely on Templar, but his skills (swap Loyalty for Intimidate) and a nice Thunderfury will tend to keep everything snared up nice and taking the extra damage. Pretty much 100% uptime on Rift Guardian burndown, too.
3. Gem of Efficacious Toxin
DoT and extra damage taken is significant and with guaranteed uptime. But for my money the real value is that this gem makes Corrupted Angels - one of a handful of exceptionally frustrating monsters (I'm looking at you Winged Assassin) - very easy to kill because they will pull up a poison shield instead of a fire shield.
4. Bane of the Powerful
Viable alternative to Efficacious if you have very little +Elite damage (like just Unity). Elite damage is it's own buff category, so if you're not toting around a Furnace, Sun Keeper, and/or SoJ, the 15% +Elite secondary is where you're getting half (if not more) of the value. The +20% damage buff is additive with other common buffs, so you're typically only getting a fraction of that in relative damage output.
I would concentrate on trying to get your hands on an Amulet with socket -- even the third-best gem on the list, once ranked, will outpace in damage and utility a stat like INT or +Fire damage (but not CC/CHD). Oh and reroll the Movement Speed on your boots.
Regarding the boots, I never bothered since I couldn't get all res (got a secondary resist) and I wasn't using any of the skills that can roll on boots. With the 2.1 changes to regen, though, it was worth rerolling, thanks for pointing that out
Regarding the amulet, I'm having trouble letting go of my 20% fire/675 int/10% cc/89% chd golden gorget ... the only two potential alternatives are :
- 698 vit/8.5% cc/80% chd (-10.9% dmg and -20% fire dmg)
- 17% fire/9.5% cc/52% chd (-13.4% and -3% fire dmg)
Do you think either of those would be worth a try?
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Taliesyn-2517/hero/66020932
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Taliesyn-2517/hero/66020932