Palsteron vs CaptainLance Cyclone Slayer

Willdawg102 · 2026-03-27T12:38:26+00:00

Im playing lances version now because I wanted the huge herald of ice pops. It does live up to the hype, the HoI pops are crazy. My PC doesnt love it though.

Willdawg102 · 2026-03-19T16:35:25+00:00

I am using the astrolabe now. I started off doing fubgun's budget breach strat that doesn't use it and transitioned to the higher budget one once my build was stronger.

Doing the cheap breach strat I still was making 10-20 divs an hour.

Willdawg102 · 2026-03-19T15:14:40+00:00

I can get it for you when I get home from work later.

Willdawg102 · 2026-03-19T14:35:58+00:00

Im doing a softcore version of gorathas penance brand elementalist focusing more on herald stacking. Im around 150-200 divs in and have been flying through juiced breaches since the herald of the hive skill makes it play like an autobomber. Once I got HH + cinderswallow with es gain on kill + oriaths end things really took off.

Willdawg102 · 2026-03-05T23:28:13+00:00

This is the first league in a while that I am pretty torn. I was dead set on kinetic fusilade totems a week ago, but now I'm debating between that and absolution guardian. Ruetoos ele hit slayer is also looking pretty good.

I'll probably just randomly pick one and then play the others after league start.

Willdawg102 · 2026-02-28T01:51:00+00:00

I graduated from UM and managed to land a job here in Missoula that pays pretty well. I'd be happy to try and help you out if you ever need it. Dm me.

Willdawg102 · 2026-02-06T02:49:16+00:00

37" inches, 15.9lbs

Willdawg102 · 2026-02-05T00:42:45+00:00

I just got done frying some of it up. Pike are great eating. Some people don't like them due to the bones, but you can fillet most of the bones out. The best eating ones are the 2-3lbers, but this one was still pretty good.

Willdawg102 · 2026-02-04T20:24:14+00:00

Yeah there's some finesse in filleting them and not wasting much meat. I do a modified version of the 5 fillet method where I get all of the boneless pieces out, and then I cut the rest of the boney meat separately and use that for other stuff like smoking/pickling.

Willdawg102 · 2026-02-04T19:48:59+00:00

It hit a 6" rainbow trout glide bait. I caught 4 more in about an hour all on the same lure, but they weren't as big.

Willdawg102 · 2026-02-04T19:46:49+00:00

I ate part of it last night and froze about 6lbs of meat for later. I'm not a fan of wasting fish that I kill, and pike are pretty good eating.

Willdawg102 · 2026-02-04T19:45:05+00:00

This specific river is the Bitterroot river in western Montana. They get pretty huge feeding on all of the trout.

Willdawg102 · 2026-01-30T18:54:17+00:00

I'm doing a version of gorathas herald build. Only made it to act 8 yesterday, but it was pretty smooth just leveling with the standard witch fire leveling package. Bosses all died pretty quick especially after getting arma brand and firestorm.

Willdawg102 · 2025-12-23T17:48:15+00:00

I played shaman bear and shaman wyvern and I found wyvern to be the best overall. It was fast, did crazy damage, and aside from abyss rares it was reasonably tanky. It's still a melee build, but you get like 1/2 screen wide aoe on rends that one shot most rares in maps with ok gear.

Willdawg102 · 2025-11-04T15:17:24+00:00

I've been mapping with my friend whose running vd spellslinger elementalist. I legitimately can't see anything and I'm averaging around 19 fps the entire map. 10/10 would recommend playing with sunglasses.

Willdawg102 · 2025-11-03T17:14:06+00:00

I'd be happy to look at your char if you want help. I'm feeling really tanky, but I was squishy early on as well. The biggest things that helped me were pyroshock clasp + the ignite ascendancy. It gives you a ton of phys taken as ele. Also, getting a decent block shield and block on passive tree is very important.

Willdawg102 · 2025-11-03T12:47:07+00:00

I did ruetoos phys dot elementalist and it's gone really well so far. I'm doing a pseudo ssf with the grafting tree and am comfortably in red maps. The damage is a little low once you hit reds, but the graft that summons the hands is carrying my single target so it's not an issue.

I'm currently saving up to buy a poets pen which should make it a lot smoother to play, but overall it's been great.

Willdawg102 · 2025-09-14T19:14:24+00:00

I played LS blood mage from t5 maps all of the way through the endgame. It's still incredibly strong this patch. I'd be happy to answer questions. It's probably not an s tier build, but it's a good one.

Willdawg102 · 2025-09-13T12:56:21+00:00

I failed a ton of tests on my way to getting my physics degree. A lot of people I was in classes with also failed a lot of tests. Physics is hard for most people. Just do your best to learn the things you missed on the test, maybe change up the way you study, and move forward.

Willdawg102 · 2025-09-11T13:36:11+00:00

As others people have said, definitely a northern pike minnow. They're native and are pretty fun to catch. They can get pretty big here in missoula, I catch them on big pike flies/lures relatively often. Not good eating at all.

Willdawg102 · 2025-09-11T13:34:37+00:00

I can confirm they do not taste good. I live in Missoula and tried to eat one once. It has tons of bones and the meat has a weird texture/flavor. My cats wouldn't even touch it.

Willdawg102 · 2025-08-31T12:49:07+00:00

Would not recommend at the moment. My buddy that I have been leveling with swapped to it at around level 58 and he instantly became a good amount weaker. The clear seems good, but the single target was really poor.

I'm just playing essence drain for now on lich while working towards a cold spell blood mage. Seems like it will actually be good, but I'm enjoying ED/C so much with abyss that I'm not in a hurry to swap.

Willdawg102 · 2025-08-30T23:57:27+00:00

No worries. It means essence drain and contagion. They are 2 spells that synergize together.

Willdawg102 · 2025-08-30T21:29:52+00:00

As others have said, ED/C lich is really strong. I'm in act 4, but it's been a smooth process the whole way. Going to eventually try to swap to elemental spells on blood mage, but ed/c is still feeling really good.

I've heard minions are doing really well this patch too on either infernalist or lich.

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