Area Dmg Or Sentry Damage Better

Like the light-heavy drones, the sentry drones too have faction variants. Though no 'integrated' or 'augmented' sentries exist as only the navy variants are available. T2 drones do the same base damage as do T1s. However, they have longer range and better tracking. Apr 18, 2014 For pet/sentry damage, it takes your attack speed into account but it increases their damage by that much instead of their attack speed (you can basically think of your attacks per second as a dmg multiplier). If they're like witch doctor pets, then they'll also benfit from bonus dmg to elites, and won't benefit from the area dmg stat. Jan 09, 2018 Better cap your elemental resists or you would be toasted. Capped resists is a must for every build. Being -50% chaos resist: it's fine in most cases. Mobs' physical damage are balanced around 0 phys mitigation. Mobs' elemental damage are balanced around 75% resists.

Build Guide

Guide:

Like all sentry builds idea is to get all 5 sentries asap and avoid to waste time dealing with single enemies, This build can be customized and some particular skills/talents/items can changed thus it's very versatile. It is mandatory to have as much CDR as possible so sentries refresh quickly, Some attack speed and critical dmg is recommended too. Due to we using multishot and Elemental frost spliiting arrow best is to nuke big groups in tight corridors. However in open spaces Multishot is killer and even more below 60% mechanic is spam AE and use Hatred for Multishot once it is available, so we have increased critical chance refreshed. Use Mark of Death with spreading contagion and companions as often as cooldown is finished.

Attack speed works here good if we shoot more our sentries shooting more frequently too. And since we using 2 secondary skills(which one becoming primary but still its secondary thou) our sentries shoot them every time also. As we using cold its great to stuck some elemental damage - We can have it on wrist (20)/neck(15) and in cube(20) ( and weapon in case of Etrayu (20) - all gives 65%). If you dont have Kridershot Etrayu and high elemental dmg gives also good results but still Kridershot and EA are better... So i decided to stuck more sentries dmg, skill dmg and add elemental dmg( from wrist(need lucky 20% rolls!!!, got only 18:( ) and Cube (20%))

Critical chance is less prio as we have a lot of Dex and Multi shot is adding 15%CHC for 4 sec every time we using it.

As you can read above you can drop some defensive items for more offensive like The Withing hour or Lacuni Prowlers on lesser GR. On GR 60 I had almost 120 milions of resistance so feel rather safe...( I remember when in season got like max 20 milions, and get one shooted by everything on higher rifts....)

Legendary Gems: Pretty Simple Gogok for CDR and Dodge, BoT for dmg on chilled/freezed enemies and BoS for boss/elites ownage. Testing now Iceblink but... dont looks primising for me as CHC is not needed so much and due to Frostburn freezes enemies often feel BoS is great... Will try to test some other gems soon.

Talents:

Ambush: mandatory because of 40% dmg above 75% enemy HP

Cull of the weak: mandatory because of a lot of freezing / slowing, 20% extra dmg.

Customer engineer - mandatory 5 sentries on - huge boost to dmg when you got all Marauder pcs.

4th talent can be talent of your choice i used Leech to heal through some dmg, or add missing health when there was no globes..

I used below and they work quite well also.

Perfectionist - dmg reduction and more vaults can be performed.

Hot pursuit for mobiliy

Numbing traps for dmg reduction

Thrill of the Hunt - CC control (its good to change polar station in something else then as they slowing enemies by 60% and this skill by 80%, and both skills not stacking!)

Awareness - if you dying a lot...

Follower I used: scoundel

What can be changed? Questions?

A lot as game offer huge possibilities:) I run couple series of test runs changing one skill or item on GR 50 and comparing times:

1) Multishot or Sentries dmg?

Sentries. I was trying to modify build by having dead man quiver equipeed as it giving up to 100% to Ms dmg and got bombardier quiver in cube so we had only +2 sentries but without up to 100% sentry dmg. run 3 GR50 runs and times were 1,5-2 minutes worse than in this build. So assuming stacking Senries dmg is way better than multishot.

2) Polar station vs AE Frost arrow. Both skills slowing enemies to 60% it is mandatory to use them both?

It's all about CC, so we can cover large area on open GR. We must remember as ranged class we need to stay as much as possible away from mobs, (one lag and you are dead, cause he will hit you one time to much:P ) so i used so far Polar station for additional CC.. I will test other sentries like Impaling bolt and Gaurdian turrets soon:)

3) Again this Multishot, Other spender? Maybe Cluster Arrow?

Tempting as CLA has high dmg output but Wind chill offer this +15 CHC bonus, gives us 2nd penetration.. and is also good AOE. However Cluster is during tests as frost has good healing ability. I was switching Cube quiver to Augustine Panacea so so AE had even more dmg and spender for Cluster but this is completely new build and need some reworkig on other things like stats prio and other stuff. but looks promising.. soon:)

4) Why Scoundrel?

Don't had items for Templar/Mage yet...But for sure templar is good option because of he can aggro mobs + Healing abilities so we don't need again much defensive items.

5) Unity?

Didn't use it yet. I assuming at some point it will be needed but for now (until gr 60) it's not necessary, However if you have issue with dying try to use it:)

6) Mobility sux. Maybe Smoke screen?

if you run out from Discipline it's not good. That's why i used leech to heal through some dmg. Spare Vault although got Tumble which allows as to vault more. Smoke screen requires more discipline, and sometimes we need only one vault to avoid hit. We using 8 discipline instead of 14, and also next costs us half so overally its 12 vs 14 points. Still less. additionally we can invest in Perfectionist and change Mark of Death to Preparation. This is recommended if you want use this build for Speed T10 Rifts or farm faster lower Gr for gems.

7) Ring of Royal Grandeur?

That is interesting for example Leoric Crown would be here great or other stuff, like we could use Frostburn in gloves place and in Cube something else... Testing this as there is huge bunch of items... will keep you posted:)

THE END

Gr 60 was not maybe completed within stunning time... but it was completed on paragon level 390 with not fully upgraded gems (got only 220+ dex) and legendary gems have 25/26 level only.. Also items.. were not fully upgraded yet, so my mystic need to give me better rolls... and for sure can find some better (ancients would be nice) therefore i think After some improvements like tests with templar this build can beat more than 60:)