ES imbue question

[BiggerTrolls]

I was thinking about the sneak dice stuff, and tabaxi is a really nice race all around. Very easy to grab 2 sneak dice from tabaxi among other goodies.

There is a card curse with +2 sneak dice also.
Card, race, shadow dancer, artifact... that's 14, not terrible I guess? Those are pretty attainable, and relatively easy to slot in.. Not sure how to go about pumping that number much outside of 20 warlock, maybe the dino augment? Is 16 sneak dice a thing? Seems tough to tetris!

 

[Grunndi]

Seems tough to tetris!

A bit earlier in the thread I listed a few gear iterations I briefly tried…. And yeah it was for sure tough.

Once I collect the required stuff I’ll probably give this a whirl. My favorite gear option I’ve come up with so far is:

3pc Deacon
Dino Light Armor
Dino Cloak
Dino Helm

5pc Dino:
Birchlore Gloves
Earth Necklace
Dino Belt
Magma Boots
Attuned Dino 1-hander

Aug set Imbue dice:
Red Wizards Sight (solar Potency)
Periapt of Cha/Con (solar Crit Chance)
Pact Bracers (lunar Potency)

Aug set Sneak dice:
Memento of Mori
Resplendent Fury
Clouded Dreams

It’s a fair bit lighter on DCs than I’d prefer (no artifact Cha or DCs, no quality DCs, only 2 Profane Cha), acid pact targets Will saves so hopefully it won’t be too terrible lol. But it does manage to get very nice crit chances, spell powers, and crit damage for Light, Force, Acid, and Positive. And has (I think) max imbue/sneak/pact dice from gear.

 

[DBZ]

Acid locks could get a boost next pack if there are 2 raids

Or you could swap to sonic when the new raid hits but the effects are not good

better effects on better item slots ice dot with salt and acid dot with ash and meltfang

 

[BiggerTrolls]

I think I have read the newish solar spell crit augment stacks with the universal(if thats what it is) artifact spell crit set bonuses. Is that accurate? Is the new spell crit augment replacing the need for legacy set specific spell crit?

 

[rabidfox]

I think I have read the newish solar spell crit augment stacks with the universal(if thats what it is) artifact spell crit set bonuses. Is that accurate? Is the new spell crit augment replacing the need for legacy set specific spell crit?

Solar spell crit and solar spell power are both artifact channel (same as flamecleansed, oasis, feydark, etc. and replaces those sets). They're not universal artifact (elders, autumn, etc. and will therefore stack with those sets).

 

[BiggerTrolls]

Solar spell crit and solar spell power are both artifact channel (same as flamecleansed, oasis, feydark, etc. and replaces those sets). They're not universal artifact (elders, autumn, etc. and will therefore stack with those sets).

Meaning they stack with elders style "artifact spell crit" ??

This is potentially exciting for my gears. I have a nice gem with elders and I'm not sure if the vecna set that give spell crit is the same. Why is it always obtuse? Does it stack with Leg Vol's influence?

 

[DBZ]

It might not even be wai thought that was bugged

 

[rabidfox]

Meaning they stack with elders style "artifact spell crit" ??

This is potentially exciting for my gears. I have a nice gem with elders and I'm not sure if the vecna set that give spell crit is the same. Why is it always obtuse? Does it stack with Leg Vol's influence?

Correct. Before solar, people were doing stuff like stacking Flamecleansed(Oasis/etc.) + elders(or autumn/vol influence), and now you can do solar crit + elders(or autumn/vol influence) ; so it frees you from being locked into some of those really old gear sets.

It might not even be wai thought that was bugged

The only one I know of that's bugged is spell crit DAMAGE that's doing 6% and not 15%. Solar spell crit/solar spell damage are likely WAI and replace a ton of older gear sets that had artifact spell crit/power (not universal artifact on them); but the fact that there's both artifact and artifact universal on different gear throughout the years is just a super confusing system. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if someday SSG nerfs artifact & artifact universal down into a single stat across all gear to simplify the system.

 

[Grunndi]

Yeah what the fox said.

Autmn is most flexible to slot but has the worst item:bonus ratio, and the items are ok but not fantastic (imo) and have fewer aug slots.

Elders is a bit better but will still take up 1-2 solar slots for only 2 set bonuses.

Vol’s has some nice set bonuses and the cloaks are also quite nice, but for blaster damage I find it hard to beat Deacon since you can incorporate 2 different elements of +35% crit damage on the helm and cloak, and get exceptional crit chance+USP on the armor.