Awesome build! I think the 2h mace can have a bit more flat lightning damage and shock chance too if you can get it with T7 flat lightning. I see you are at 600 corruption from the other comment. Do you think this build's defenses would hold up in higher corruption (like 1000) ? I'm working on a 1h Cleaver+Vessel of strife version that would have much lesser damage but like 3K HP + 4-5K ward. But if 2h has good survivability then missing out on the damage is pointless.
I don't think it would go much more than 600 on my version, since the problem is survival. Idk if you seen, but I use a 4lp Harthenon's Vow with health on hit. With so little hp on hit, the survival on higehr corruption is very hard. A vessel of strike version can be a very good change to go higher. About the 2h mace, it doesn't have minion melee, thats why I rather use the Alluvion.
@@SnoWyz1988 Ty, I will test my planned version when I get time and see how high it can push. Good point on the minion melee, although the mace can get minion lightning pen I think you're right the flat damage is better due to Ice bite's 250% dmg effectiveness.
@@SnoWyz1988 so swipe as physical skill gains 90+ physical damage to swipe which does not apply to alluvion which also doesn't apply to howl of west wind. the lightning skill at the start just makes your swipe gain lightning tag. it doesn't actually do lightning damage except every 3 seconds. you need go further down the swipe tree to take 5 point to turn it into lightning skill than alluvion will apply +90 melee lightning to helmet which buffs wolves because your hitting with lightning skill. right now i think you have a lot of melee lightning damage and melee physical damage. Furthermore, the build doesn't work because swipe's spirit wolve. spirit wolve is lined physical nuke. yes it does have melee tag which will use Melee lightning damage but melee lightning damage becomes adaptive damage to skill type.... in other words, it will do physical damage because skill is 100% physical so 90 damage alluvion would be using physical tag. also since helmet has internal cooldown of 1 second, it is also not that good because if you attack too fast. it will not trigger because you were still on cooldown. that is explanation to why build is bad. the idea behind lightning wolves is everything with gathering of the storm. gathering of the storm has a node called friend of tempest which makes lightning minion gain storm bolt stacks and since wolves are lightning, they will gain lightning storm bolt stacks. it also has another node which mostly useless except in this build called whirlwind tactics which is when you use companion skill, you release all storm bolt stacks. i believe it is 4 per companion ability use. so gameplay is like swipe->etherra blessing->swipe. you get nearly free crit cap because the storm bolts when cast by wolve are based off MINION stats... which wolf has like 10% base critical chance in tree and there is an armor skill which "added melee minion critical chance" so between your totem which adds like 250... 500% and like 18%. whenever wolves trigger their storm bolts, they're like 100% crit bolts. I am pretty sure that lightning wolves is not a melee build. it is spell-caster build to turn wolves into a lightning damage nuke. The melee damage of helmet is just there to buff wolves auto attack damage which doesn't really happen very much because your like swiping every like 3 seconds. I think it is also there to buff the gathering of the storm base damage because it has node called tempest weapons which convert some of melee damage into spell damage but again, this barely matters because damage of storm bolts is mostly related minion and not your own. Melee version of wolves is always going to be better with squirrel helmet because of how the Spirit wolves summons 1 wolf per summon unit, so squirrel helmet is like 10 squirrels per proc vs 5(6) proc of spirit wolves.
Awesome build! I think the 2h mace can have a bit more flat lightning damage and shock chance too if you can get it with T7 flat lightning.
I see you are at 600 corruption from the other comment. Do you think this build's defenses would hold up in higher corruption (like 1000) ?
I'm working on a 1h Cleaver+Vessel of strife version that would have much lesser damage but like 3K HP + 4-5K ward. But if 2h has good survivability then missing out on the damage is pointless.
I don't think it would go much more than 600 on my version, since the problem is survival. Idk if you seen, but I use a 4lp Harthenon's Vow with health on hit. With so little hp on hit, the survival on higehr corruption is very hard. A vessel of strike version can be a very good change to go higher.
About the 2h mace, it doesn't have minion melee, thats why I rather use the Alluvion.
@@SnoWyz1988 Ty, I will test my planned version when I get time and see how high it can push.
Good point on the minion melee, although the mace can get minion lightning pen I think you're right the flat damage is better due to Ice bite's 250% dmg effectiveness.
@@Goldoexperiencu Pen is a good affix, but only when you can stack a lot.
can i use this build to lv up or i have to farm gear in end game ?
All you need is the helmet. The rest is farmable after.
new sword?
@@kuden259 Nah, I forgot 2 things: macro for R+E and to allocate the passive for swipe become lightning.
@@SnoWyz1988 Don't stand in the bottom corner, you'll get frailty
@kuden259 melee sux. It's not like I can lure him all the time.
THIS IS FINAL BUILD? high corruption viable?
@@caiokissaca Yes, I was at 600 corruption without issues.
@@SnoWyz1988 so swipe as physical skill gains 90+ physical damage to swipe which does not apply to alluvion which also doesn't apply to howl of west wind. the lightning skill at the start just makes your swipe gain lightning tag. it doesn't actually do lightning damage except every 3 seconds. you need go further down the swipe tree to take 5 point to turn it into lightning skill than alluvion will apply +90 melee lightning to helmet which buffs wolves because your hitting with lightning skill. right now i think you have a lot of melee lightning damage and melee physical damage.
Furthermore, the build doesn't work because swipe's spirit wolve. spirit wolve is lined physical nuke. yes it does have melee tag which will use Melee lightning damage but melee lightning damage becomes adaptive damage to skill type.... in other words, it will do physical damage because skill is 100% physical so 90 damage alluvion would be using physical tag. also since helmet has internal cooldown of 1 second, it is also not that good because if you attack too fast. it will not trigger because you were still on cooldown.
that is explanation to why build is bad. the idea behind lightning wolves is everything with gathering of the storm. gathering of the storm has a node called friend of tempest which makes lightning minion gain storm bolt stacks and since wolves are lightning, they will gain lightning storm bolt stacks. it also has another node which mostly useless except in this build called whirlwind tactics which is when you use companion skill, you release all storm bolt stacks. i believe it is 4 per companion ability use. so gameplay is like swipe->etherra blessing->swipe. you get nearly free crit cap because the storm bolts when cast by wolve are based off MINION stats... which wolf has like 10% base critical chance in tree and there is an armor skill which "added melee minion critical chance" so between your totem which adds like 250... 500% and like 18%. whenever wolves trigger their storm bolts, they're like 100% crit bolts. I am pretty sure that lightning wolves is not a melee build. it is spell-caster build to turn wolves into a lightning damage nuke. The melee damage of helmet is just there to buff wolves auto attack damage which doesn't really happen very much because your like swiping every like 3 seconds. I think it is also there to buff the gathering of the storm base damage because it has node called tempest weapons which convert some of melee damage into spell damage but again, this barely matters because damage of storm bolts is mostly related minion and not your own.
Melee version of wolves is always going to be better with squirrel helmet because of how the Spirit wolves summons 1 wolf per summon unit, so squirrel helmet is like 10 squirrels per proc vs 5(6) proc of spirit wolves.