You have a point. My idea was to never cast meteor and just let ES deal with that to autocast it. Afaik ES casts do not consume AP and have a separate CD from the actual skill.
I had the chance to try it a little. BH turned out to be pretty cool - very useful to group up enemies and it's part of the skills that proc less dr on pulling monsters effect. I'd take that instead of Magic Weapon.
Yeah, sure. The whole point of using meteor shower is that it doesn't have a cd, so it's effectively being cast each second, so the delay happens only at the start, but then it's a permanent rain of stuff.
I messed on d3planner and with Woh EB does a lot of damage, but still less than meteor shower. ANyway it's not a good benchmark, and if you ran your build on PTR, it's definite proof that it works good.
yeah, the entire poist was to make use of Etched Sigil which basically doubles the skill uses - it aut casts spenders every second following the CDs, but it doesn't actually trigger them so you get actual double uses of skills like BH and EB. From what i've seen, with double cast and Chain reaction, there are no issues to keep the stacks up. I suppose the entire point is to have the 100% increased EB damage.
Also: with the belt and RCR from paragon AT will have around 8.25 cost per second, meaning it's basically free due to the 10AP/sec base regeneration. The AP on crit is nice anyway since you're going to cast the other skills.
Only "gripe" is Blizzard/Apocalypse. It does quite a bunch of damage, but afaik the AoE don't stack, so multiplecasts have a way smaller effect - the reason why i choose Meteor Shower, it's a free cast every second and doesn't have a cooldown.
I'm not entirely sure about Magic Weapon too. It's a solid skill but i prefer some more control with BH (which has also a reduced effect on diminishing returns) and with APD toughness alreayd goes skyrocket (with 20 mobs it goes well over the 3 billions mark).
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ModeratorYou have a point. My idea was to never cast meteor and just let ES deal with that to autocast it. Afaik ES casts do not consume AP and have a separate CD from the actual skill.
I had the chance to try it a little. BH turned out to be pretty cool - very useful to group up enemies and it's part of the skills that proc less dr on pulling monsters effect. I'd take that instead of Magic Weapon.
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ModeratorYeah, sure. The whole point of using meteor shower is that it doesn't have a cd, so it's effectively being cast each second, so the delay happens only at the start, but then it's a permanent rain of stuff.
I messed on d3planner and with Woh EB does a lot of damage, but still less than meteor shower. ANyway it's not a good benchmark, and if you ran your build on PTR, it's definite proof that it works good.
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Moderatoryeah, the entire poist was to make use of Etched Sigil which basically doubles the skill uses - it aut casts spenders every second following the CDs, but it doesn't actually trigger them so you get actual double uses of skills like BH and EB. From what i've seen, with double cast and Chain reaction, there are no issues to keep the stacks up. I suppose the entire point is to have the 100% increased EB damage.
Also: with the belt and RCR from paragon AT will have around 8.25 cost per second, meaning it's basically free due to the 10AP/sec base regeneration. The AP on crit is nice anyway since you're going to cast the other skills.
Only "gripe" is Blizzard/Apocalypse. It does quite a bunch of damage, but afaik the AoE don't stack, so multiplecasts have a way smaller effect - the reason why i choose Meteor Shower, it's a free cast every second and doesn't have a cooldown.
I'm not entirely sure about Magic Weapon too. It's a solid skill but i prefer some more control with BH (which has also a reduced effect on diminishing returns) and with APD toughness alreayd goes skyrocket (with 20 mobs it goes well over the 3 billions mark).
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ModeratorUhm, this looks a lot similar with my Firebird idea.
If i link the d3planner, are you willing to try it for the lulz? No guarantee of it being better, but i think it's viable.
http://ptr.d3planner.com/212179722
Hope you like it.