Artillerist 1450 Relic Gearing

[KinKin25]

So I heard the SPEC artillerist got nerfed?

Anyhow, I still have my legendary gear which is crit and swift. I kinda don't like being stationary aka wheel chair version. I like mobile and moving around.

Can I still play crit swift build? Or is SPEC build still good and vastly superior and I'd be gimping myself if I didn't? Bosses move around way too much to be stationary.

I also did a bit of a hybrid like 1200 crit, 300 spec, 400 something swift.

And what relic armor should I get?

[cayabyab]

hey this is kind of off topic but what server do u play on?

[Void]

It's hard to say when we'll be getting the balance patch right now so its probably not best to build around something we may not get for awhile. It appears that both spec and crit heavy builds will be viable though we may need to shuffle some abilities and engravings around.

You can probably get away with being a hybrid if you want to but watch out for Keen Blunt Weapon depending on your crit, since currently its getting removed from firepower enhancement and moved over for your barrage skills on barrage enhancement when we get the changes.

For relic sets either Poem of Salvation or Shrieking Hallucination will still be the choice unless you decide to go heavy swift for some reason where Nightmare Flower may be stronger.

[Lord Commander Dante]

Publicado originalmente por Void:

It's hard to say when we'll be getting the balance patch right now so its probably not best to build around something we may not get for awhile. It appears that both spec and crit heavy builds will be viable though we may need to shuffle some abilities and engravings around.

You can probably get away with being a hybrid if you want to but watch out for Keen Blunt Weapon depending on your crit, since currently its getting removed from firepower enhancement and moved over for your barrage skills on barrage enhancement when we get the changes.

For relic sets either Poem of Salvation or Shrieking Hallucination will still be the choice unless you decide to go heavy swift for some reason where Nightmare Flower may be stronger.

I play heavy swift artillerist and I use nightmare set. Good sh!t

[KinKin25]

Publicado originalmente por Void:

It's hard to say when we'll be getting the balance patch right now so its probably not best to build around something we may not get for awhile. It appears that both spec and crit heavy builds will be viable though we may need to shuffle some abilities and engravings around.

You can probably get away with being a hybrid if you want to but watch out for Keen Blunt Weapon depending on your crit, since currently its getting removed from firepower enhancement and moved over for your barrage skills on barrage enhancement when we get the changes.

For relic sets either Poem of Salvation or Shrieking Hallucination will still be the choice unless you decide to go heavy swift for some reason where Nightmare Flower may be stronger.

Is there a spec build that relies less on the barrage mode? As mentioned in first post, I do like moving around as most of the end game bosses move around way too much to stay stationary not to mention dodging attacks.

I've been running the crit and swift build (main is crit).

And remove from firepower, like firepower enhancement no longer gets affected by keen blunt? the fudge....

[adt.Shadow]

Firepower loses the crit bonus it gets currently, all normal skills get a boost in damage to compensate. The crit bonus gets moved to barrage.

Basically spec build is for barrage/ wheelchair players and crit/swift is best for firepower users. Both are viable people say wheelchair mode is better which dps wise it is but only if your target stands still.

All the future content most bosses are very mobile so pulling off those high numbers using spec/wheelchair will be very difficult so the numbers will equal out whatever way you go.

[Void]

In general heavy spec builds want you to be in turret mode as much as possible, I don't believe there is a ton of wiggle room on that. If you're running heavy crit keen blunt is fine, it was more a warning that you cant rely on firepower enhancement for bonus crit after the next balance patch (you need ~60% crit combined for Keen to be on par with other dps engravings).

[Marvv]

FP is dead go for Barrage

[KinKin25]

Publicado originalmente por adt.Shadow:

Firepower loses the crit bonus it gets currently, all normal skills get a boost in damage to compensate. The crit bonus gets moved to barrage.

Are you f'ing, isn't this a horrible nerf? We're losing out on 40% crit! I play as a crit/swift artillerist.