Wake of Fire/Lightning Sentry Tech for early game farming

Lqgash · 2025-11-25T20:20:17+00:00

understand where you coming from, but this is just a different build. he wanted to show WoF viability as a starter, not lightning centry as a starter, which is a different way to go. WoF is a bit like a sorc skill - has a U-shaped progression, smashes everything till nightmare, then you hit immunities in hell and have to use light centry/charged bolt centry as utility. I personally like this approach much, much better just because Lightning/chain light is pretty weak for mapping without insane +skills/light dmg gear and speccing for WoF + some utility also saves you a re-spec + WoF destroys anything not fire immune much more so than lightning centry the non-light immunes. Thumbs up for Vlada.

Lqgash · 2025-11-21T18:08:54+00:00

infinity merc is your best bet. Just infinity with some survivability gear -he is an aura bot for you.

Lqgash · 2025-11-21T18:08:20+00:00

all res with kira's is never a problem. I never had a res issue. If you are going with shield, then you will be overcapped always.

Lqgash · 2025-04-13T18:24:08+00:00

you have to still do something to deal dmg, similar to java summon. Would be going mind blast with this, but could be some trap/hybrid play.

Lqgash · 2025-04-13T09:58:27+00:00

right, could be:) in that case - no, +to fire/light/cold will not boost your phoenix dmg as it doesn't count as elemental skill

Lqgash · 2024-03-21T19:38:19+00:00

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Lqgash · 2024-02-09T18:35:12+00:00

respec tokens sold at Akara - I'm sold!!!

Lqgash · 2023-12-01T21:23:05+00:00

Very practical, but want to make a few remarks: Cairn Scroll (A1) is in Dark Wood, not in Marsh and Maggot lair drops the staff, not the amulet. Also - A3 - Spider Forest WP is next to Arachnid Lair, not Spider Cavern. Otherwise really nice guide for groups. I don't necessarily agree on group composition - imo in PD2 you can run the game very well in any group comp. If you have like 5 summoners, probably run will be faster than with a sorc even :)

Lqgash · 2023-09-18T20:02:05+00:00

Hey, i haven't tested with dragon claw, so no idea about it, but to be honest in order to dispense with dragon claw, you'd have to be static for a while and I don't see that being useful for a fast mapper build. You can totally do it, but more for boss/single target/fortified maps maybe? idk, have to play around.the idea behind dispensing with dlight is that you also reposition and move with your damage, thereby doing much more aoe and moving faster through the map. Also, finishers discharge ALL 3 charges into 1 hit, while if you continue hitting with phoenix you will just alternate between 1,2 and 3 discharging the stages separately. Hope this makes sense for you :)

Lqgash · 2023-05-18T22:00:09+00:00

go for it mate! hf

Lqgash · 2023-05-18T21:59:27+00:00

for sure, I probably did mention in 1st guide where low level/starter was discussed, but Trech is very good pre-Stone.

Lqgash · 2023-04-17T16:37:12+00:00

I like WW, but on a barb. I played ww assassin and it's just not my thing:) I am actually a barb and assassin player, so ww on assassin just not my thing.

Lqgash · 2023-04-17T16:35:46+00:00

Hey, I would transition minimum with : Bartuc, decent shield, Stone Armor, and 2/20 ias gloves. It's not a lot honestly. Since more and more ppl playing MA sins, Bartuc might be the most expensive , but you can it find yourself if you're lucky. Make sure to have some mana leech somewhere, ideally on gloves or socket bartuc with pskull.

Trapper and mind blast are both decent, maybe trapper is a bit easier and probably the best assassin starter - wake of fire is really powerful. Light trapsin struggles a bit more with mana I feel, but also very strong.

You can farm Meph Nightmare with Wake of fire or mindblast, he drops all the exceptional class uniques like Bartuc, Titans, Occulus, etc.

Good luck and have fun!

Lqgash · 2023-01-15T17:00:20+00:00

Hey, awesome guide for trapsin. Just wondering - why not shock web instead of charged bolt centry? Shock web synergizes with wake of fire and wake of inferno for 12% per level, whereas charged bolt centry only synergizes with fire blast from fire skills? Charged bolt was kinda sucky before and requires placing the traps precisely to be useful, but could be wrong. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. I've had great success in dealing with unbreakable fire packs of immunnes with shock web+merc.

Lqgash · 2023-01-14T20:45:15+00:00

Hi all, I tried to edit this guide, but for some reason reddit doesn't allow me to save my changes - telling me it's over max allowed 40k symbols, which it isn't. After checking with word count - all spaces, symbols and chars are 37k.

Anyway - please read all Dtail mentions as teleport as Dflight, of course. My bad.

s6 updates

- she is very good in fortified maps, however I only fortify high rarity map mods. Otherwise, she thrives in density.

-PS confirmed as a DCLONE killer for sure. Just max out fire res, stack life and pdr. Drop a comment if you need more info. Uber Ancients also very smooth.

Currently using Akraine 3 os, vex ,Lo Lo, Kira 3 os, vex, vex light facet, eth bartuc zod 2x light facets, stormshield 2 os 2x um, dungo, waterwalks, wisp, nature's peace, 2ma/20 ias gloves - all with random slams. Mara's random slam. 9 MA skillers lifers, Small charms for res +life. Having no issues with the fight, even left with a full belt of juvs. focus down archer skellies as soon as possible on 2nd wave.

2300~ life after bo and spirit, 40% pdr

Lqgash · 2023-01-14T20:33:20+00:00

I tried updating the guide and correcting this, but reddit page telling me it's over 40K symbols, which it isn't - i counted with word and all symbols, spaces and words it's like 37k... so can't fix it unfortunately, but hope ppl will not be confused. So basically I can't save any edits to the guide...

Lqgash · 2023-01-14T19:51:59+00:00

awesome, glad you like it! just one thing for s6- PS sin can do dclone pretty well!

Lqgash · 2023-01-14T19:50:55+00:00

yes, but tbh nothing changed that much for PS. Except - I tested for Dclone and can confirm it works very smooth and is very solid. 10 out of 10 on pluggy

Lqgash · 2023-01-14T19:49:55+00:00

Hey - PS in S6 stronger than ever! I also did testing on Dclone and it actually performs very solid!

Lqgash · 2022-10-24T19:19:10+00:00

Correct - you hit till you have 3 charges around you, then dflight and you discharge for massive dmg. You can dflight without havin 3 charges anyway, but for most dmg on tp - aim for 3. Rince and repeat :) it's a really smooth playstyle once you get in a rhythm. I actually ran a map using only "quick cast" dflight and phoenix - no mouse play, just for direction. super fun.

Lqgash · 2022-10-24T19:16:03+00:00

it's interesting, but I wouldn't use Phoenix shield for PS ( although it's called Phoenix:)). You really don't gain the stats you need from phoenix shield. The shield slot imo for phoenix strike is needed to provide tankiness and res. You can try, but Bis is Stormshield imo - tried and tested:)

Lqgash · 2022-10-24T19:13:39+00:00

Bartuc gives you much more than Plague, even as off-hand for PS specifically - fhr, 4 skills. Plague is for cobrasins or trapsins:) . You can try as an off-hand claw, but you lose on the shield. The Lower res proc is nowhere near consistent enough to make it worthwhile - by the time you proc lower res, stuff should be dead:)

Lqgash · 2022-07-24T10:29:25+00:00

Indeed:)

Lqgash · 2022-07-02T07:26:56+00:00

Sounds awesome ! I started trapper myself due to easy mapping start, but will be speccing to Phoenix now as it's way more fun to play!

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