05-13-2014, 12:51 AM
(05-09-2014, 06:20 PM)Aahzmadius Wrote: So I finally got Myriam to cough up a socket on a 2nd Danetta's xbow, and I switched to a build closer to what you suggested:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Aahzm...o/26203755
I've done a few T1 rifts with it, and I think I'm ready for T2-but I'm waiting to craft a couple of good Aughild's pieces (helm now in stash; just need bracers). I realize that losing Pride's Fall and Reapers will lower the number of Cluster Arrows I can throw out, but I really want that extra damage buffer against Corrupted Angel and Exarch elite mobs.
Reapers is relatively easy to give up. I would be very wary to give up Pride's Fall however. To the point of looking for any other option to keep it. The major issue isn't that Pride's Fall lowers your CA cost because you have Cindercoat that can help with that. It's that Pride's Fall lowers the cost of Preperation/Punishment. To the point that if you have the buff you can often cast Preperation at least twice as much during a prolonged fight than you can without it. The deadliest situation you can get into with this DH build is to run out of resources in a fight with tough enemies and be forced to go into regen mode and not have enough Discipline to cast Preperation. At that point you are at a lose/lose as you need to use your little hatred to regen your Discipline but at the same time often need that same hatred to use Vault.
I would be interested to hear how it is going if you have swapped them out. If you haven't, I would be VERY careful about moving up in difficulties.
In other news, I've just got a hold of my Hexing Pants of Mr Yan. They rolled pretty much the worst possible stats I could get and they are still the biggest buff I have noticed for this character yet. Even above Cindercoat. These pants take the already awesome Preperation/Punishment and make the resource generation nuclear. Combined with the buff from Pride's Fall and additional cost reductions from Paragon or items I can take 10 Discipline and turn it into a full pool of hatred. I've also taken my sheet Dps from 735ish to 1.2 million while stutter-stepping. Average burst from CA went from 12 million to 17 million. I'm coasting through T3 rifts at the moment and debating making some build changes (most likely looking for a spot for Smoke Screen, but I will play around with some other ideas I have). I'm pretty confident that once I get a hold of a SoJ I will be able to move up to T4. That or the rare possibility of the Calamity.