Replica Trypanon
Hey guys, been working on a PoB to make use of this weapon for a while now and I've settled on something I feel I can share. Curious to receive any feedback on it. PoB is (now) configured for Shaper resists, no Vaal skills or Onslaught (from on-kill boots) https://pastebin.com/AA9Cv16y
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All attacks with Replica Trypanon always crit, so we free up passives not needed for crit chance
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It has a huge accuracy penalty, but with Effigon amulet blinded enemies can't evade, and with Flesh and Stone's sand stance nearby enemies are always blinded
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Berserker naturally inflates any build's damage but the main reason for it here is Blitz charges, max Blitz stacks are normally -160% crit chance but that doesn't affect this build so it's much stronger
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Multi jewels
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~~I'm using Flicker cos fun~~ after testing the blind does NOT apply before flickering to an enemy, flicker is unusable. I've edited the PoB to use glacial hammer for now, it has high damage, is "true" melee so benefits from the blind, and comes with 60% cold conversion so I could swap the cold conversion watcher's eye to added cold and freed up a glove prefix for % melee damage. Also swapped farrul's to explode chest
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...but you could use any other melee skill too. I'll be testing different ones next league to see which feels the best in practice.
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100% phys>cold conversion between glacial hammer and tree passives. You can do fire instead (which actually uses Effigon fire pen), or any non-conversion skill with an extra watcher's eye and glove prefix. Only reason I'm currently staying cold is that cold exposure is much easier to apply through Frost Bomb than fire exposure through Scorching Ray. I'll experiment with fire conversion with Molten Strike / Infernal Blow but for theorycrafting cold seems fine for now
Items are just copied from trade. Tried to keep it at a reasonable price (e.g. no triple multi jewels, no level 6 awakened gems, easier to make rares). You could definitely push dps higher but I feel like this is a good achievable level
So yeah, would appreciate feedback / let me know if I missed anything. This obviously isn't as good as other meta melee builds but it's a fun use for a niche item and if my PoB's all in order I'll try it next league / come back with a showcase
EDIT: DPS is actually 17mil with glacial hammer enchant on abyssus but I've reached max pastebins in 24 hours. You can also run 1-2 winter burials if going glacial hammer, 1 is probably amazing for clear (might not even need a melee splash gem swap), but not much point in 2 imo cos winter spirit is good dmg-per-point with this tree even if you overcap on conversion