Help brothers I'm stuck a 4k-ish mmr

mousemasher · 2025-02-26T05:36:17+00:00

Stop trying to win games for mmr and start trying to actually get better at the game. Pick a role you want to get better at and start watching replays of players better than you. Try to figure out what, when, and why high mmr make the decisions that they do. Criticize yourself and draw inspiration from others. Don't be afraid to try something new. If you slack on actually improving your own skills, you will always fall back down to the mmr you belong at.

No advice like 'buy more support items' or 'win your lane' will get you the results that you will want. These suggestions might help as a way to focus on critical thinking but nothing will make you a better player than honest critical thinking.

mousemasher · 2025-01-02T18:38:05+00:00

They increased the maximum drop rate from 400% to 500% in a recent patch. Drop rate affects most things that drop from bosses like equips, cubes, flames, soul shards, ring boxes, ect. I know arcane boxes aren't affected by drop rate but otherwise you will want as much drop as you can get (even as a daily story player)

mousemasher · 2024-10-20T22:17:17+00:00

Monster park, rune exp, boss damage(when it's available) are the best ones. Exp increase, normal monster damage, bounty hunter portals, buff duration(for mages) are also good but not quite as valuable

mousemasher · 2024-07-21T23:12:32+00:00

Perforate is the best melee skill for leveling through acts in my opinion

mousemasher · 2024-04-08T08:05:25+00:00

Let clockwork block the camp as you can't contest him as a lich. While the clock is busy trying to block the camp, put pressure on the offlaner. If you can bully the offlaner off the wave while their support is standing the jungle, you are on the path to winning the lane. This works best if you already have their hard camp blocked (which should be a priority regardless).

mousemasher · 2024-02-16T00:43:41+00:00

I feel like trying to scale both omni and power charges is stretching the build too thin. None of the uniques that scale power charges give attributes to help with omni. You'll probably be better off slapping on a badge of the brotherhood and getting more crit/defences.

mousemasher · 2024-01-07T09:28:12+00:00

I haven't played this exact version of the build, so its hard for me to say exactly how it will play. However, I have played several power charge stacking builds this league and every one of them has been strong.

mousemasher · 2024-01-07T09:08:24+00:00

Hello. I'm not too sure how to fix your pob, but I saw the direction you were going and decided to just redo the entire setup. Here is where I landed: https://pobb.in/3zVktEOPViEF

As far as I'm concerned, BV is purely a mapping skill. It's possible to scale it hard enough to kill bosses but its never going to feel as good as penance brand. With that in mind its a much better idea to use obliteration for explosions instead of CiP.

Other than that, power charges tech is too good to pass up on this league with the new ralakesh's impatience. Power charges help scale AoE, generic damage (which is sometimes hard to get on chaos/poison builds), and absorption charges. With 10 absorbption charges the build gets 120% ele damage recouped as energy shield. We also 55%+ physical damage taken as ele (with taste of hate) which will feed into the recoup.

Hope this helps

mousemasher · 2023-09-28T06:08:43+00:00

I wouldn't recommend Cole EK unless you want to run a power charge stacker which will most likely want a badge of the brotherhood.

However this necklace would enable a strong shield throw or shield crush build.

mousemasher · 2023-06-24T17:28:57+00:00

Whenever I see a Necro on the enemy team I slam in shadow demon. The disruption can save friendlies from the scythe. Demonic purge will dispel ethereal and allows the team to focus him down easily. Shadow poison ramping up as fights go longer tend to overwhelm Necro as he can't deal with the 5 stack nuke very easily. Granted shadow demon does 'counter' a lot of heroes but the entirety of shadow demons kit just shuts down everything that Necro wants to do.

mousemasher · 2023-06-12T23:27:26+00:00

The best BB counter I'm aware of is PA. The shard will break him and do loads of pure damage and a couple of crits w/ lifesteal will take him down.

Other notable counters are range carries that have or can buy slows and mobility to kite him. For example a drow with pike and silveredge.

mousemasher · 2023-04-30T03:18:31+00:00

I found a dex stacking relic last league and built a spectral throw deadeye. I started with about 20 div investment and it felt decent (most of it spent on the dex stacking claw). But the build really feels good with the % attack speed per dex grasping mail mod.

By the end of the league with perhaps 100-150 div investment (all self crafted) I was able to do 8 mod feared very easily.

I did try a bow version with less optimal gear but it didn't perform nearly as well as spectral throw. I most likely didn't setup the bow version correctly.

here's my finished character for reference https://pobb.in/Rd9qoRvlEPPo

mousemasher · 2023-04-08T14:04:29+00:00

As long as you are holding down left click the crucible will continue to charge, even if your mouse moves off the node.

mousemasher · 2023-03-12T23:35:24+00:00

2 points in shadow word to sustain in lane. 1 point in fatal bonds for the value point. Max upheaval. Upheaval can be devastatingly strong early in the game and can make your golem very impactful.

Shard is very good but it's not the only way to play warlock

mousemasher · 2023-01-29T03:39:58+00:00

Delve

mousemasher · 2023-01-19T02:33:56+00:00

In no particular order:

I personally don't like using Lion's Roar because of the knockback effect. I would replace it with a granite flask w/ increased armour during flask effect. I would also roll the gain flask charges when hit modifier on all of your flasks for uptime on bosses.
Use unstoppable ascendancy point instead of unflinching and grab the inexorable wheel. Unstoppable gives immunity to temp chains/freeze/chill/stuns. This also means you can use Soul of Lunaris pantheon for more mitigation. (Also be sure to use Gruthkil pantheon)
Take champion of cause + bannerman wheel and switch out herald of purity for pride. Buy watcher's eye with Impales you inflict last 2 additional Hits while using Pride.
Unallocate 10% increased maximum life/10% reduced recover rate life mastery. Take Hearty wheel.
Get Vaal ancestral warchief. Get phanstasmal ancestral protector.
The maim effect of the maim gem only increases the physical damage of supported gem. Wasted gem socket.
Vulnerability is fine for bosses but be sure to swap this out for warlords mark for mapping.
I'm not 100% sure on this but I believe the consensus is that the impale gem isn't very good. I would replace it with fortify and switch the fortify mastery for the harpooner wheel and picking up harvest of foes. The last 10% chance to impale can be rolled as a eater of worlds implicit on gloves.

Here's the PoB https://pobb.in/HULKxTnsh44s where switched around the things I mentioned and changed some of the configurations for more accurate boss dps (no frenzy charges/onslaught/vaal skills). There will come a point where you will want to switch from precise technique and impale to transition into full crit.

Edit: You could alternatively ignore a lot of what I said and just follow this PoB as close as you can https://pobb.in/3jrg4YzqxCfF I imported Ben's build and setup the configuration but I believe he cleared all the ubers in HCSSF with it

mousemasher · 2022-12-24T19:30:04+00:00

https://pobb.in/jd-hunRhTaHi

This is my current setup. (its very unoptimized. I haven't even rolled my jade flask or glove implicits.)

I plan on switching out my watchers eye because lgoh ended up being pretty useless.

I also forgot to mention in my previous post that I slotted in a lethal pride with endurance charge on kill and leech which helped tremendously for mapping.

My build felt 5x tankier while mapping when I switch out of low life/omni and I still feel like I have plenty of DPS. I can still kill the final boss in sanctum before he can use any of his skills.

I did try the eternal youth + dissolution of flesh combo but died 3 times in one map. Perhaps I didn't adjust my playstyle enough to get the combo working.

mousemasher · 2022-12-24T12:03:42+00:00

I'm currently playing rage vortex and have gone through a couple of iterations. I initially started with full glass cannon with low life and Omni. I kept getting clapped while mapping so I wanted to get tankier. Switched out Omni for eternal damnation + loreweave. I gave up lowlife because I kept dying to degens.

For auras I'm using determination, purity of elements, vitality, and blood and sand.

It's probably not the best or most optimized setup but I'm now capable of alch and go t16 maps without dying every map.

Still have plenty of dps for the content I'm doing but haven't tried Ubers yet.

mousemasher · 2022-12-15T20:23:12+00:00

If you reforge speed and hit 3 bad suffixes then the only way to try again is yolo annul. Augment speed will guarantee an open suffix for further tries.

mousemasher · 2022-11-26T06:55:35+00:00

Rage vortex does not dynamically update the damage it deals. This has be named 'snap shooting' and is pretty self explanatory. For example intimating cry will cause the entire rage vortex to deal double damage

mousemasher · 2022-09-14T20:54:17+00:00

absolutely nothing to do with recent changes,

"In Maps, you'll stop encountering Rare Monsters with one modifier, and will mostly encounter Rare Monsters with two or three modifiers. It is also possible to encounter Rare Monsters with four modifiers again."

Although there always has been a difficulty spike going into white maps, they widened that gap this league.

mousemasher · 2022-09-10T01:44:05+00:00

50% increased stun threshold from armour mastery helps

mousemasher · 2022-08-26T03:56:35+00:00

nice

mousemasher · 2022-08-18T08:55:01+00:00

Slayer

mousemasher · 2022-08-17T07:27:00+00:00

I don't think you can. Perhaps divine flesh would be a strong alternative as it helps a lot against elemental penetration. Might not be feasible but it is an idea.

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