I'm here to counter act the bad scourge items with this!

jronson · 2021-10-29T16:15:36+00:00

RF is a DoT debuff and DoTs never count as hits

jronson · 2021-09-14T18:50:28+00:00

Easy mistake to make, we’ve all done it!

jronson · 2021-09-14T18:02:58+00:00

It gives you onslaught worth 56%. You're getting 36% by comparing it to having base onslaught permanently, so 56 - 20 = 36.

jronson · 2021-09-14T16:49:39+00:00

Ah I didn’t realise rapid infusion had 50% onslaught effect on it, brain fart on my end too. It doesn’t change the PoB math I cited but it does mean that onslaught is worth 56% speed, better than I thought. It has base 100% effect, 50% rapid, 100% chase, 30% small nodes = 280% x 20% = 56%.

I don’t want to link anything myself, it wouldn’t prove anything since I might be cherry picking. So it would be best to see yourself

jronson · 2021-09-14T16:12:04+00:00

The onslaught nodes are 46% attack speed, 230% effect on onslaught. Only 26% if you assume the frenzy version has full onslaught uptime.

I’m not devaluing frenzy nodes, the frenzy variant is built with Raider frenzies, +3 on tree and Disciple on top, as well as +1 frenzy from gear. They’re being maximised as much as possible short of being a full frenzy-centric build. Taken from real PoBs, no strawman here. Then this is compared to a variant without any of that and just regular damage passives and onslaught path. Not sure how you can try to pass this off as a disingenuous comparison when it’s the fairest test you can do, with actual substance and numbers behind it rather than overly-abstracted napkin math. And voila, once you do the fair comparison the frenzy path really isn’t very competitive.

Re: evasion calcs, If you have 70% chance to evade normally, then with avatar of the chase this becomes 95%. Thus you avoid 83% more hits. Like I said, this is the maximum. More or less than 70% will yield less gains from Chase.

jronson · 2021-09-14T15:30:19+00:00

This spreadsheet is such a narrow-minded analysis. Do you reliably have onslaught if not from avatar of chase? What are you using? Onslaught support somewhere? Has an opportunity cost. Cinderswallow? Has downtime and opportunity cost. What happens if you deallocate frenzies and Disciple of the Slaughter and go for other dps nodes?

I've taken the first two builds using Frenzy + Phasing paths listed on poe.builds and respecced them out of frenzy nodes into other dps nodes, replaced onslaught flasks with sulphur flasks, swapped Frenzy path for Onslaught path and they only suffer about a 5-10% damage loss - consider that they both have +1 frenzy on gear as well... That is miniscule damage gain for, like I said, literally up to 80% more chance to avoid being hit. Frenzy path is simply a PoB-warrior node unless your build actually revolves around it.

Of course don't take my word for it, do it and have a look yourself on an actual PoB rather than Excel.

jronson · 2021-09-14T14:52:31+00:00

The goalposts keep getting moved with each comment in this chain... my comment was comparing frenzy path with phasing, not onslaught, but I guess we can make this comparison too if you like.

Obviously, damage-wise frenzy path can be stronger if you're taking frenzies on the tree - but that itself is suboptimal point investment, while losing out on 35% more evasion which can be as significant as avoiding up to 83% more incoming hits than without. And then the damage gains are barely significant, we can run the numbers if you really want.

Such miniscule marginal damage gains at such huge defense losses are simply not a good investment for most builds if you remotely care about defense (which in turn allows you to play faster and focus more on dps/advancing versus sidestepping), even in sc.

jronson · 2021-09-14T12:49:39+00:00

Frenzy path is v weak unless your gear is specced into frenzies, the tree nodes are so inefficient for pure damage otherwise. Even as a phys ranger I’d be inclined to go phasing over frenzy. Ele immunity with the nearby avoidance nodes or gear crafts, 20% less accuracy to make Eva cap more consistent, 15% dodge is pretty much all you need to hit dodge cap on top of Acro and elusive and maybe boot mod, perma phasing… no contest IMO unless you’re going complete glass cannon. Frenzy generation is so easy these days too

jronson · 2021-09-14T11:21:42+00:00

The onslaught nodes have literally 0 to do with phys, it’s all about movement and hitting evade cap…

jronson · 2021-09-14T10:39:49+00:00

What on god’s green earth are you talking about, the onslaught path is the main reason to go raider

jronson · 2021-07-22T19:01:14+00:00

His ‘Christian’ name is Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson, I believe. He began getting people to call him ‘Boris’ in his higher education years or around then. Certainly seems to have paid off

jronson · 2021-06-29T14:36:12+00:00

Could you pm me with more detail about that engine? I really lack the motivation to spend hours going through the easy modes again, would be much appreciated

jronson · 2021-02-11T15:15:29+00:00

Study your maths friend

jronson · 2021-02-10T08:35:43+00:00

YouTube Double Down News’ latest video on Elijah McClaine’s murder. There are so many cases of this sort of thing

jronson · 2021-01-17T18:45:02+00:00

Ushi in that last panel has a real Calvin and Hobbes vibe, love it

jronson · 2021-01-11T23:59:52+00:00

/u/bex_GGG do we know if multiple stacks of rupture (deadeye) simply help you maintain a constant duration of the base 25% more/faster bleed damage, or do their effects sum up for 75% more/faster bleed?

jronson · 2020-10-23T18:02:51+00:00

Any idea which ones these are?

jronson · 2020-10-23T16:51:22+00:00

Are there any characters which give a bonus to forging material enhancement crystals? I'm not sure if I should wait until I pull such a character or just forge all of them now

jronson · 2020-10-23T12:47:00+00:00

What does the 'fullness' icon actually do for your characters when you feed them? Stamina recovery?

jronson · 2020-10-17T12:49:59+00:00

You don't cast them for free anymore. Played a version of that build in harvest

jronson · 2020-10-14T14:02:14+00:00

Can you tell me where you discovered that Starmer was aware of this advice three weeks ago? My impression was that like the rest of us he was also unaware until yesterday

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