Rhapsody: Has a build that scales really well, making him better in long fights against most player also Rhapsody: Takes a skill doubling both players damage, effectively halving the time of each fight
I wish he put the slow all items back on the board instead of shield potion after he did that. Because it is a good play if you expect that your opponents will never be able to use their weapons more than you (slow + freeze basically locks out opponent items).
i think the advisability of that boils down to two factors: 1) how likely you are to encounter an enemy offensive enough to outshoot you vs an enemy defensive enough to go to storm, and 2) which player is more offensive overall. i dont think its unreasonable to expect a permahasted+permaloaded frost potion and a perma-attacking restorative weapon to put you on the winning side of both those factors
@@helicoidcyme Yeah, you can actually make an argument that for the matchups that he's bad against already it makes him worse, but if he was going to lose that already and it makes him better against the freeze builds it is still worth it.
Something strangely soothing about the sound of the ballista just kachugging away. Really neat to see the way you pivoted the build entirely and instead swapped to something radically different that was ultimately so effective.
Welll this was changed quite drastically after the last patch, since ballista doesn't give multicast to itself anymore. BUT, for theorycrafting sake, I wonder if ballista builds even _need_ port at all (at least in the previous-patch scenario). The ballista only reduces ONE ammo per activation so, the base single ammo of 1 in the ballista wouldn't work but I feel like if you can either boost that one or two times with loot or just use a powedered flask you'd be better off, and then gear your entire board to making the ballista go off as soon and hard as possible. It would make your build very frontloaded so maybe it wouldn't be good anyway but it's a thought to think about. Anyway, ironic how that last build was quite perfectly staged to counter your gameplan. They had the thaw skill from jack unfreezing their bees 1 second earlier, their bees had lifesteal and were on of the few things that could realistically counter your ballista, and they also even had scaling on their skills, quite insanely so as well.
Hmm you might have been stronger by replacing the port and just boosting your ballista(accepting the ammo limit)(you had reload on crit so replacing it with the crownest might have been a plain damage upgrade)
Cool run! Could you have taken port off at the end there? For more small ammo items. It looked like the ballista only needed to go off a couple of times
Rhaps is on vacation, or something like that. He threw out a post saying he would be out of the country and built up this backlog specifically so videos could be posted while he was gone. I think he is back next week though?
Rhapsody: Has a build that scales really well, making him better in long fights against most player
also Rhapsody: Takes a skill doubling both players damage, effectively halving the time of each fight
I wish he put the slow all items back on the board instead of shield potion after he did that. Because it is a good play if you expect that your opponents will never be able to use their weapons more than you (slow + freeze basically locks out opponent items).
i think the advisability of that boils down to two factors: 1) how likely you are to encounter an enemy offensive enough to outshoot you vs an enemy defensive enough to go to storm, and 2) which player is more offensive overall. i dont think its unreasonable to expect a permahasted+permaloaded frost potion and a perma-attacking restorative weapon to put you on the winning side of both those factors
@@helicoidcyme Yeah, you can actually make an argument that for the matchups that he's bad against already it makes him worse, but if he was going to lose that already and it makes him better against the freeze builds it is still worth it.
Something strangely soothing about the sound of the ballista just kachugging away.
Really neat to see the way you pivoted the build entirely and instead swapped to something radically different that was ultimately so effective.
28:59 Sad Pufferfish
Just in case you're wondering,
Nufu sells skills.
Going to come back to a very different game.
Welll this was changed quite drastically after the last patch, since ballista doesn't give multicast to itself anymore. BUT, for theorycrafting sake, I wonder if ballista builds even _need_ port at all (at least in the previous-patch scenario). The ballista only reduces ONE ammo per activation so, the base single ammo of 1 in the ballista wouldn't work but I feel like if you can either boost that one or two times with loot or just use a powedered flask you'd be better off, and then gear your entire board to making the ballista go off as soon and hard as possible. It would make your build very frontloaded so maybe it wouldn't be good anyway but it's a thought to think about.
Anyway, ironic how that last build was quite perfectly staged to counter your gameplan. They had the thaw skill from jack unfreezing their bees 1 second earlier, their bees had lifesteal and were on of the few things that could realistically counter your ballista, and they also even had scaling on their skills, quite insanely so as well.
Great run, Rhaps, very fun to see ballista pop off.
It just goes to show, no matter how insane a build you have someone always has one that's even more insane. :P
Fuck it, we ball(ista)
1:02:06 I'm no expert, but because theres an internal cooldown limiting how quickly you can fire, the switchblade is the right choice here, I -think-.
yeah i ddint get the need to increase multicast when it doesnt even finish firing before it goes again, youre capped at what like 10 casts? lol
Hmm you might have been stronger by replacing the port and just boosting your ballista(accepting the ammo limit)(you had reload on crit so replacing it with the crownest might have been a plain damage upgrade)
Cool run! Could you have taken port off at the end there? For more small ammo items. It looked like the ballista only needed to go off a couple of times
one day we'll get a post-patch run lol
Who needs a burn build? We have a ballista.
Those heals onbalksta lmao and shield potion
Freeze potion lol
Really well played, good video.
How old is this video?
Ballista?
I hardly knew a'
came out 12 minutes ago but its like weeks behind on the patch, so outdated lol
The trouble with a backlog sadly
Rhaps is on vacation, or something like that. He threw out a post saying he would be out of the country and built up this backlog specifically so videos could be posted while he was gone. I think he is back next week though?
@@liberalideas8224 thanks for the explanation, I hadn't seen that. It's not a big deal, it's fundamentally the same game after all.
ah that makes sense, man i re-read my comment and i sounds like a prick, did not mean to come out that way sorry everyone