I have been playing with a fairly successful build in T3.It is most likely a bit more glassy than people are interested in, but I enjoy a nice challenge on some of those elite packs.
Pros:Decent mobility with white mobs. High health white mobswill take a little extra love with torrent. Accommodates ranged and melee elites. Flame-blades and conflag for some extra critical's never hurt. Cons:Very glassy without the proper amount of toughness for higher torment levels. I only have 6APoC and and run out of AP depending on how long a fight lasts. Unable to see the number of orbs out in high clutter areas.
The Buildis based around getting as many multipliers as possible to arcane/arcane orb/arcane torrent. I only have bracers and boots equipped to help in that respect, but there are more options in other slots. Keep your buffs up(duh). Keep your 4 orbs up as best you can without spamming the button as its AP cost is high. White packs - spam flame blades and keep orbs up. Elite packs - Use blades to apply 6% cc buff as much as you can without itinterfering with your DPS. I do a couple of different things depending on each elite pack. Sometimes i just spam blades for 5 stacks of dynamo and use the buff on the orbs, or sometimes i ignore blades and use a combo of orbs and torrent. I can usually run from pack to pack without having to stop and kill much. If a group starts to form, i can just turn and let my orbs proc, and then continue on my way.
Here is a video i took of some of the action. It's terrible quality. I'm no pro video editor, let alone, creator. Please pardon the terrible video you may watch.
Hm... if you ignore the Blades and just spam Orbs/Torrent, doesn't that make Conflag passive completely useless? And I'm surprised that you can even "spam" this with 6 APoC. But actually it's good that you get used to the lower amount of APoC already - I'm still running 20 most of the time, at some point need to make the switch to RoS mechanics...
Just watched the video - that's some nice DPS there. Wow!
Blades was mostly for AP shortages. I couldn't think of any other passive to take that would be super helpful at the time. I have since switched to a more tanky build like this, losing a bit of dps for toughness to allow for higher torment levels(aka get carried by a monk).
As for spamming, it was never a spammy setup. Blades is really the only thing i can "spam." With that i could also spam orbs if i needed.
I really wish i still had my nice triumvirate for this build. I bet i could squeeze out a lot more dps.
I have been playing with a fairly successful build in T3.It is most likely a bit more glassy than people are interested in, but I enjoy a nice challenge on some of those elite packs.
Pros:Decent mobility with white mobs. High health white mobswill take a little extra love with torrent. Accommodates ranged and melee elites. Flame-blades and conflag for some extra critical's never hurt.
Cons:Very glassy without the proper amount of toughness for higher torment levels. I only have 6APoC and and run out of AP depending on how long a fight lasts. Unable to see the number of orbs out in high clutter areas.
The Buildis based around getting as many multipliers as possible to arcane/arcane orb/arcane torrent. I only have bracers and boots equipped to help in that respect, but there are more options in other slots. Keep your buffs up(duh). Keep your 4 orbs up as best you can without spamming the button as its AP cost is high. White packs - spam flame blades and keep orbs up. Elite packs - Use blades to apply 6% cc buff as much as you can without itinterfering with your DPS. I do a couple of different things depending on each elite pack. Sometimes i just spam blades for 5 stacks of dynamo and use the buff on the orbs, or sometimes i ignore blades and use a combo of orbs and torrent. I can usually run from pack to pack without having to stop and kill much. If a group starts to form, i can just turn and let my orbs proc, and then continue on my way.
Here is a video i took of some of the action. It's terrible quality. I'm no pro video editor, let alone, creator. Please pardon the terrible video you may watch.
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Just watched the video - that's some nice DPS there. Wow!
As for spamming, it was never a spammy setup. Blades is really the only thing i can "spam." With that i could also spam orbs if i needed.
I really wish i still had my nice triumvirate for this build. I bet i could squeeze out a lot more dps.