06-21-2012, 03:32 PM
I have been experimenting with a new build in inferno. I was very underwhelmed by my health regeneration I was getting with life steal so I started looking for another way of generating health. Initially I looked at LoH as it seems the popular option, but I decided to focus on Life on Spirit Spent. I figured if I could get my spirit regen up high enough I could heal a tremendous amount of damage and it turns out I can.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/mo...YXU!YZbaYZ
Stat gearing is very dependent for this build. Due to the IAS nerf I started to look to crit as an alternative damage buff. I was going to loose a lot of spirit regen due to the IAS nerf and I though I'd give Quickening a try on Fists of Thunder. I then thought, "what if I can get my spirit regen through the roof?". I purchased several new pieces of gear with spirit regen. I then added Sweeping Wind - Inner Storm and Mantra of Healing - Circular Breathing. My spirit regen is now at 12/s with Sweeping Wind up at 3 stacks. The thing is, with that much regen, Sweeping wind never falls off. I can keep casting it in perpetuity. And even if it does fall off my high crit rate means I'm back to 3 stacks in short order.
The last piece of the puzzle was Transcendence and gearing for Life on Spirit Spent. Between the 2 I now gain 100 life per spirit spent. Passively that is the equivalent of a 15k heal on a 12s cooldown. given my 12 spi/s regen rate. On top of that, Quickening with high crit rate means an absurd regen rate while attacking.
Finally with such a high regen rate, I basically tempest rush EVERYWHERE. My move command is always tempest rush. Between mantra of healing and healing from LoSS I recover a ridiculous amount of health while I tempest rush. I am starting to feel invincible with this build and my gearing isn't even that good. I've seen gear that would allow me to get to 40%+ crit chance and 150+ LoSS. If I focus on armor and resists and keep my health in the 30-40k, the passive healing I get in addition to the absurd mobility I have with Tempest Rush - Tailwind makes me feel really safe. My last few butcher runs I've gone entire levels without Sweeping wind falling off and I never once used serenity because I was never below 50% life. I only used breath of heaven to keep the damage buff up. I've even played around with dropping serenity for Fire Ally to up my damage even more but still like having that panic button when dealing with waller/jailor/frozen/vortex mobs.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/mo...YXU!YZbaYZ
Stat gearing is very dependent for this build. Due to the IAS nerf I started to look to crit as an alternative damage buff. I was going to loose a lot of spirit regen due to the IAS nerf and I though I'd give Quickening a try on Fists of Thunder. I then thought, "what if I can get my spirit regen through the roof?". I purchased several new pieces of gear with spirit regen. I then added Sweeping Wind - Inner Storm and Mantra of Healing - Circular Breathing. My spirit regen is now at 12/s with Sweeping Wind up at 3 stacks. The thing is, with that much regen, Sweeping wind never falls off. I can keep casting it in perpetuity. And even if it does fall off my high crit rate means I'm back to 3 stacks in short order.
The last piece of the puzzle was Transcendence and gearing for Life on Spirit Spent. Between the 2 I now gain 100 life per spirit spent. Passively that is the equivalent of a 15k heal on a 12s cooldown. given my 12 spi/s regen rate. On top of that, Quickening with high crit rate means an absurd regen rate while attacking.
Finally with such a high regen rate, I basically tempest rush EVERYWHERE. My move command is always tempest rush. Between mantra of healing and healing from LoSS I recover a ridiculous amount of health while I tempest rush. I am starting to feel invincible with this build and my gearing isn't even that good. I've seen gear that would allow me to get to 40%+ crit chance and 150+ LoSS. If I focus on armor and resists and keep my health in the 30-40k, the passive healing I get in addition to the absurd mobility I have with Tempest Rush - Tailwind makes me feel really safe. My last few butcher runs I've gone entire levels without Sweeping wind falling off and I never once used serenity because I was never below 50% life. I only used breath of heaven to keep the damage buff up. I've even played around with dropping serenity for Fire Ally to up my damage even more but still like having that panic button when dealing with waller/jailor/frozen/vortex mobs.