Crit / meteor build

[Concillian]

I still don't understand the Spectral Blades myself. I've started running Electrocute/Surge of Power for a primary slot. Sure, 80% of my weapon damage is only around 10K, but hitting multiple targets, at range, several times rapidly, and just watching my AP orb rocket to full? I'll take that.

It's also rate of attack plus life on hit. Meteor is for damage, spectral blades for healing. You have 5-6 enemies in front of you? Electrocute hits 3 and nets small Life on Hit return and small AP on crit, Spectral blades hits all of them and nets large Life on Hit return.

Take some damage, then diamond skin while using spectral blades, and you're back full.

Perhaps a ranged signature will help with ranged monsters that kite me, I dunno. Trying seeker this 5 stack, damage feels quite low compared to spectral blades.


Mongo, jailor / arcane is not as bad as vortex / arcane. I suppose every class must have the same issues with that on hardcore, and people survive in Act I / II.... I just am not seeing how to avoid occasionally being sucked into a field of sentries before you can get the boss pack thinned out so there aren't so many. Even when I play ring around the rosie, breaking direct line of sight by moving around some object in the center, I sometimes get sucked right on top of a sentry.

Part of it is non-hardcore gearing with like 30k health, for sure, but still I'm also at about 10% total damage taken since a couple upgrades (68.7% DR armor / 68.1% lowest resist). Effective health is pretty high.

I'm not playing with hardcore mentality either. I'll try replacing Wave of Force with images. Won't really help vortex, which I've found to be a bigger problem than jailor. Haven't played much with Teleport there, that may be better.