AP Rounds Tactician Showcase

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Took some trial and error but I think I've pretty much finalized this build and now want to showcase it. I wanted to do a pure physical damage build and see how far I could take AP Rounds. I went Evasion only because I knew I was going to be relying on Pin/Blind as additional Defense and didn't want to deal with being slow with Armor or using points to eliminate that drawback.

Pin is in my opinion just busted on Tactician. Enemies literally can do nothing while you kill them. Those annoying Abyss enemies? Tact pin makes them a joke.

The Spirit efficiency nodes on Tact also let you easily slot in Eternal Rage which is a massive dps boost. With a bit of investment you have 44% more damage up basically 100% of the time.

Normally going Evasion/Deflect only isn't great but with Pin and Blind it's been really comfortable and as long as I don't stand in ground degen or facetank a boss slam I don't die in maps. The build really needs at least a tiny bit of Life and Mana Leech to feel comfy, especially as you stack on +projectile levels.

I forgot to show it in the video below but AP Rounds gets up to 150k+ on tooltip during combat.

The bleed on the build may look weird but it really helps with clear and despite the individual AP rounds not being great for setting bleed Crimson Assault solves that with it's 50% more magnitude. The drawback of 1 second duration doesn't matter because AP Rounds is going to be constantly refreshing bleed. I found this to feel much, much better for clear than Armor Explosion/Herald of Ash. The DoT is almost at 7k bleed dps with very little investment which is more than enough for clear. If I make it to 100 the rest of my points are going into bleed magnitude.

Clear: Clear is 1 button. Just hold down AP Rounds. Fork and Herald of Blood handle your clear. Make sure to sweep your fire over anything running at you that isn't Pinned. Flash Grenade is your oh shit tool. I tend to prefire Gas Grenades/Flash Grenades on Abyss/Essence Rares.

Rares: Hose them with AP Rounds and then use Emergency Reload when you run dry. They should be dead before you have to reload again. Use HVR on Armor Break if your AP Rounds damage isn't stacked yet.

Bosses: Prefire Gas Grenade followed by Flash Grenades as boss becomes active. Hold down AP Rounds. If it's an empowered boss when armor breaks hit Emergency Reload then swap to High Velocity Rounds fire once to proc Riven and then swap back to AP Rounds. If it's a normal non empowered map boss you can ignore HVR and just hold down AP Rounds and the Boss should get stuck in a cycle where it's Pinned and then Heavy Stunned and then Pinned again.

So not totally sure of the cost of this because I got some pieces early on in the league and they've likely gone up now. I don't think it's crazy expensive though as my current gear has plenty of room to grow. I also want to up my rarity since I'm only sitting at like 60%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuJP1I4a7vc

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