I was recently 6pc Firebird, 4pc TalRasha at the same time. Around 2.4 mill buffed fire DPS on paper. Passives I used Elemental Exposure. Basically I had frost on my weapon, used Familiar with Arcane, Wreath of Lightning Gem for the lightning damage, and the rest of my skills were fire. It worked out well because I could get 4 stacks of Elemental Exposure plus 3 meteor's to come down from Tal Rasha set (minus frost).
Due to the hydra change, I made some adjustments. Brought my dragon wand out so I could cast two hydra's but it was already tinkered and it was set on fire damage. So Elemental Exposure wasn't that good anymore. I changed my gear up and removed Tal Rasha set entirely. Changed Familiar to fire for extra 10% damage. Remove Wreath of Lightning Gem since I no longer needed the lightning damage. I'm now at 3.6 mill buffed fire damage on paper. 1.85 attack speed. Hydras are machine guns now which I love. Hydra rune i'm using is Blazing to take advantage of attack speed. I thought about using Mammoth but then attack speed doesn't play a major role. And the Blazing dot stacks fast. I've seen 20 mill hits from my blazing hydra.
What legend gems should I be using?
I know to use Zei's. That's a no brainer.
The other two I'm confused on. I like Bane of the Powerful. I have it up to 64 seconds right now. I'm using Boon of the Hoarder because I just spent a lot of gold tinkering stuff and combining gems but that's being removed once my gold is back up there.
Other guides say to use Pain Enhancer or Efficacious Toxin. Pain Enhancer is that really that big of a boost? I just don't see it. Toxin I can see but if someone else has it in a group then the 10% is wasted.
I mostly play in 4 man random groups on T6 rifts or greater rifts lvl 30+
Well I did some rearranging. Found an Ancient Burning Axe of Sankis with 20% fire damage on it. Got it up to 2941 dps so I dropped hydra and picked up meteor. Might go blizzard but I'm not sure.
Got my Toxin gem up to lvl 32 so I'm using that, rank 34 Bane of Powerful, and rank 33 Zei.
I'm now 3.8 mill fire dps on paper with 60% crit so this is nice!
Due to the hydra change, I made some adjustments. Brought my dragon wand out so I could cast two hydra's but it was already tinkered and it was set on fire damage. So Elemental Exposure wasn't that good anymore. I changed my gear up and removed Tal Rasha set entirely. Changed Familiar to fire for extra 10% damage. Remove Wreath of Lightning Gem since I no longer needed the lightning damage. I'm now at 3.6 mill buffed fire damage on paper. 1.85 attack speed. Hydras are machine guns now which I love. Hydra rune i'm using is Blazing to take advantage of attack speed. I thought about using Mammoth but then attack speed doesn't play a major role. And the Blazing dot stacks fast. I've seen 20 mill hits from my blazing hydra.
What legend gems should I be using?
I know to use Zei's. That's a no brainer.
The other two I'm confused on. I like Bane of the Powerful. I have it up to 64 seconds right now. I'm using Boon of the Hoarder because I just spent a lot of gold tinkering stuff and combining gems but that's being removed once my gold is back up there.
Other guides say to use Pain Enhancer or Efficacious Toxin. Pain Enhancer is that really that big of a boost? I just don't see it. Toxin I can see but if someone else has it in a group then the 10% is wasted.
I mostly play in 4 man random groups on T6 rifts or greater rifts lvl 30+
Pain Enhancer is more or less the third highest DPS gem.
Got my Toxin gem up to lvl 32 so I'm using that, rank 34 Bane of Powerful, and rank 33 Zei.
I'm now 3.8 mill fire dps on paper with 60% crit so this is nice!