2741

With the caveat that I haven’t played in 3.0.0 at all yet (meaning the beta, obviously), the answer is yes as far as mid-tier maps. I rarely ran into bosses that required me to resummon, or really gave me any trouble at all, when playing in Legacy earlier this year. Made it to 80 in the SSF league. Now, if you want to go to highest tier maps or do end-game stuff like Atziri, that’s a different animal that I know little about.

2742

I had a look at the Storm Burst and loved how it looks - but if I understood correctly it uses auto targeting? That might be a deal breaker since it’s a ranged attack.

I’m still strongly leaning towards a trapper (new Fire trap looks pretty good) but I might go with raider anyway, and try out Charged Dash. And if that fails I can always fall back to blade flurry, cyclone or even flicker.

2743

Hmm, I didn’t see it like that from the description and video. It appears to be ‘targeting’ everything around each orb and is piercing, kind of like Ball Lightning orbs channeled out in a cone. Then it seems to do an large area burst when you stop channeling. I assume any linked CwC spell would auto-target though.

2744

True enough. But it does require level 59. I usually don’t survive that long, and if I do, it’s too far out to worry about. I’m like @Piemax2 but I’m not as good at the game as he is.

2745

It seems 3.0 substantially weakens SRS, how much were you relying on that?
I didn’t make it to the end of A6, but the A5
bosses have lots of HP and I found them to be really tough; I guess I’d need to prioritize minion life before trying that .

2746

How far did you get with the RF build? None of my guys made it to A6 or past level 50…

2747

Haven’t played 3.0 yet, but I don’t think the damage nerf on SRS is a big deal. It’s supposed to be what, 15% damage reduction? Considering how fast most bosses dropped for my Legacy league Sarah, I’m not concerned. I’m sure there will be exceptions (Malachai was always a pain, for instance) but it should still be workable.

People are already posting updated builds, of course. This one looks pretty close to what I was doing in the Legacy league, and the conversation seems to be saying that it holds up all right for those who were testing it out.

2748

I haven’t been keeping up with skill announcements at all. But Storm Burst looks cool as hell.

Something like CwC + SB + Spark + GMP [+ Faster Proj + Lightning Pen] is probably dumb, but would be the spammiest spam since CoC Quillrain. Which is to say, probably hilarious.

2749

Thanks for the link! Like most of the summoner builds ls I’ve seen lately this calls for several uniques.I’d like to go SSF; Do you think the Baron helm is necessary? If so what are the odds it drops by the time I’d need it?

2750

One of my favorite things about these kind of balanced summoner builds is that they don’t require any specific uniques. You can make them better with stuff like The Baron or Reverbation Rod, etc but it’s not necessary.

I played exclusively SSF in Legacy and had no real trouble. I’m sure I wasn’t going nearly as fast as the guys trading for good gear over in the normal league, but I never felt like gear was holding me back.

2751

OK I’m sold! Now I need it to be Friday night already :)

2752

I played through act 7 and then did low maps with self-cast RF using the new MoM changes before the beta wipe, running RF full-time plus some scorching ray on rares/bosses in late act 5. It was overpowered with the various DoT changes and really melted most bosses. They’ve since given it a 20% nerf, but it should still be strong.

2753

@Rock8man: one of the streamers just released an introduction video to the game if you want to check it out. It covers most of the things that a new player should be aware of.

2754

Is that the Totem build with which I got the farthest? That one I kept going after my character died and transferred to the non-hardcore league, so it doesn’t really count. :P

Sorry, I’m not hip to all the acronyms in this thread. Including RF. :) I just looked it up, Righteous Fire? That doesn’t sound familiar to me.

2755

Yeah, RF is Righteous Fire. Kills you and enemies fast unless you build with heavy fire resistance and life regeneration.

2756

oops sorry R8; I mashed together your posts and one of Romalar’s.

2757

waiting for the patch I went back and played this frost pulse/ice nova inquisitor some more. picked up MoM and lots of mana, and made it through A6 w/o dying again. Is A6 generally viewed as easier than A5? or maybe the build wasn’t so bad and the problem was just user error in the Innocence fight?
At level 53 his life is 2.3k, mana 850 after reservation, and frost pulse tooltip dps is 7.2k; since I didnt stop for new gear once I got to a6 he could easily be a bit stronger- does that seem like the right ballpark to be in at this point for an SSF character?.

2758

I just played around with the 3.0 tree for a bit and man do the new weapon nodes look juicy. I quickly slapped together a tree for a poison dreamfeather raider so I’ll probably try and replicate my 2.5 character when 3.0 hits. Fingers crossed that poison doesn’t suck ass in this iteration.

2759

What do you use for messing around with builds? Is poebuilder still the gold standard?

2760

I don’t know if it’s updated, I downloaded the latest version of this - https://github.com/EmmittJ/PoESkillTree/releases . If Path of Building gets an update tomorrow I’ll use that to see what kind of numbers I’ll be looking at.