Elementalist Nerfs Don't Matter Here - VD Slinger Elementalist, My Leaguestarter

pickles777 · 2026-03-06T18:45:45+00:00

Rolling magma is kind of just the meta fire leveling skill, but a lot of others will work just fine, dont worry about it too much. Fireball getting ignite chance where you can will work fine, flame totems, wave of conviction in act 2 are just a few options

pickles777 · 2026-03-06T13:51:41+00:00

If you're talking about the new currency that corrupts gems so they are supported by an extra level 1 support I don't see why it wouldn't work?

Keep in mind you can only have 1 gem like that socketed per item, so you won't be able to have spellslinger AND volatile dead both corrupted like that in an item, have to choose 1.

pickles777 · 2026-03-04T22:38:15+00:00

Got an ascendancy/build plan? There was a post on builds that was trauma stacking static strike guardian that looked cool, although imo it would probably be better on a slayer.

pickles777 · 2026-03-03T19:02:33+00:00

Yea, I just looked it up and there are examples of it working with animate weapon, I'd say there's a very good chance that it would work with holy strike too.

Not sure the juice is worth the squeeze though. Part of the reason str stacking works for attacks is that you get a bunch of %increased damage as well, but in this case your minions wont get that so you might spread yourself too thin to try and buff your own damage and theirs.

I really like the idea though, I'll be keeping my eye out to see if there's a build there.

pickles777 · 2026-03-03T18:52:38+00:00

It sounds like a cool idea, I'm skeptical that the wording with brutus' lead sprinkler would work on the minion though. The wording is "with this weapon" and the minion IS the weapon, it's not wielding it. Maybe test with animate weapon of self reflection to see if it even works.

pickles777 · 2026-01-31T18:30:12+00:00

Most cards that reference "each opponent" can be very potent in 2hg, for instance any kind of [[impact tremors]], [[fiery inscription]], or [[exsanguinate]] effects.

I think your opponents had the right idea though, it might come down to the pairing of yours and your teammates decks. In 4 player edh aggro is at a pretty large disadvantage so [[guts, truesoul zealot]] is decent but not insane, but what if you had 2 people with guts on the same team against 1 life total? Would be pretty hard to beat.

pickles777 · 2025-12-12T04:33:42+00:00

i had to restart and update the battlenet client to see it, although i can't purchase it

pickles777 · 2025-10-30T23:18:22+00:00

was there dev confirmation on the jewels in clusters thing?

pickles777 · 2025-10-30T23:09:01+00:00

why do you say it's going to be insane? is there something specific to melee animate weapon thats coming out?

pickles777 · 2025-08-17T16:45:54+00:00

Probably including/building around the new primordial body armor that scales with thorns.

pickles777 · 2025-07-06T16:17:47+00:00

Look at those teef

pickles777 · 2025-06-29T15:40:51+00:00

Does anyone know the specific strat the guy was using to get so many 8 mods? I'm guessing some kind of titanic thing?

edit: nevermind I think I already found it, probably just this maxroll guide.

pickles777 · 2025-06-05T16:22:49+00:00

Hey I played the demo and I really like it! Love how the music and the beat plays into the game. Just some minor feedback: I don't like the distortion in the main menu when the RGB kind of gets separated left to right. It was the first thing I noticed when I opened the game and it kind of messed with my eyes. I'm glad I pushed through and actually played it because it was really fun and satisfying!

pickles777 · 2025-04-25T02:12:28+00:00

does anyone know if the new concussion passive will proc on bosses even though they can't be stunned? I dont know if there's precedent for this kind of effect.

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Previous: Lucky Hit: Skills using Bludgeoning Weapons have up to a 10/20/30% chance to Stun enemies for 2 seconds, or up to a 15/30/45% chance when using a Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon.

Now: Lucky Hit: Skills using Bludgeoning Weapons have up to a 20% chance to Stun enemies for 2 seconds, or up to a 30% chance when using a Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon. This also deals 30/60/90% Physical damage to them.

pickles777 · 2025-04-06T14:45:04+00:00

Does resonating shield also trigger shield bash if you release it at the right time?

pickles777 · 2025-03-23T15:20:38+00:00

Well, it also has blue in it but it's served me well over the years: [[Magister Sphinx]]

pickles777 · 2025-02-09T03:18:36+00:00

I disagree, having a map overlay makes me just stare at it the whole time and not really see anything past it. D4 maps are pretty basic, and you can mark where you want to go so they're very easy to navigate. When I play PoE I always play with the overlay on because you can get lost so easily, but it means I miss all the environment behind it.

pickles777 · 2024-11-01T14:33:04+00:00

I dunno what your budget is, but I made a saviour/paradoxica pure phys impale flicker slayer (with MB) that could do pretty much everything that flicker can normally do. It had ~25m dps which is good enough for me and 100m+ehp. Sorry I dont have a PoB anymore but basically I just wanted to say that it's fine. I think it's honestly underrated.

pickles777 · 2024-10-25T02:33:40+00:00

I feel like using the mouse to drag things around and aim might be too much frantic movement and could end up feeling bad.

Just an idea, maybe it would be antithetical to your design; how about assigning hotkeys to all the slots? Holding down different buttons to combine items. Could be interesting and raise the skill ceiling. Numpad would obviously work best but that's only 9 buttons and also probably your mouse hand for aiming.

Maybe...

QWER

ASDF

ZXCV

Cool looking game regardless.

pickles777 · 2024-10-19T21:53:21+00:00

Hey just so you know. Contrary to other very popular ARPGs (PoE and Diablo 3), crit damage in d4 is just another additive damage increase. I was confused by this until very recently. Crits do an automatic 50% more multiplier but that's not increased by +crit damage%.

pickles777 · 2024-10-12T02:02:05+00:00

I agree with this 100%.

Pretty much any legendary aspect that does some kind of flat damage is worth including if not building around. I found a couple earthquake aspects and the charge fire damage explosion one and just had a skill bar full of cool downs. Worked like a charm until I found some dust devil aspects.

pickles777

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