So my near final Shieldbreaker Vire's Might 100...what can I improve?

[peetski]

So I have posted before on this character and received some good tips but recently re-geared a bit in the past couple levels and improved Vire's Might dps by a chunk (126k) and also got resists up to snuff except aether and stun. Unfortunately, armor is still bad but almost 20% physical resist doesn't seem bad. But I don't tank, I skate!

If i have a question it might be, what could I be doing other than Firestrike while waiting for Vire's to recharge? It doesn't do a ton of damage except on lower mobs but also I have it trigger EE. Grenado I have buffed in gear but it also has a cooldown so doesn't seem like a lot of options. I don't stay in combat for long though, charge through, whack a couple, keep going with Vire's. As far as I know, the burn damage on this weapon does beat all the Korvan axes I found. Also, I see now I still have some armor open for augments so will address that soon. thanks I see grimtools isn't showing correct life it is a bit over 14k.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/m23ogPE2

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nice, almost a full blue build
you could easily replace Fire Strike with Blackwater Cocktail if your only concern was triggering Elemental Storm - Eldritch Fire on the other hand you're probably already having super low trigger chance on because you bound it to a wps, 15% of 24 is 3.6% chance to trigger Eldritch Fire from fire strike hits
anyway, if you're not standing and fighting, ditch fire strike, use judgment with hearth of wrath and BWC to trigger devotions
ex https://www.grimtools.com/calc/YNnB4dGN
get Tectonic Shift to softcap, no idea why you decided against the final cooldown boost
more points in mines for more RR, mines are static yes, but so can a boss be when you're skating forth and back over them

you could consider getting actual vire's might boost items, unless you really want to stick with the Epic/blue item theme (by boost i means items with modifiers to vire's might, like more cooldown reduct or added dmg etc)
get a better green ring, the one you have now is generic, which means getting at minimum a MI ring will default have more stats
no component in shoulder
no augment on belt, boots, gloves
stun res and aether res you can bump by taking out Eel devotion and the lone point you have in Bysmiel Bonds(for some reason?) and then plop 4pts into Throne

[peetski]

The one thing I can say is this character looks really cool in the load in screen. Go blue build! Well seriously, since I am asking questions and got some good responses. I am going to review this later today and see if I can make some practical changes. I realize there are builds made from Vire's with reduced cool down, offhands and spirit focus but I followed a probably older levelling build from Rekty that was 2-hand. Then I found a really good 2-h imho and it made me keep going with that. But I only followed to level 50 I think because it might have swapped later to 1-h with cooldown and I didn't have that gear.

I think I recently changed the Eldritch Fire away from Blackwater because I had too many buttons to mash and I took out the points for it. But I will check it out. Yes, that flipping ring, I just need to the poison I think with the other stuff. Trying to reduce the need for it so will try to get more augments. Still is fun in it's form now just has those periods of "might be two shot at any moment". But it can destroy some bosses in a fun way as long as there is room to move.

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Originally posted by peetski:

The one thing I can say is this character looks really cool in the load in screen. Go blue build! Well seriously, since I am asking questions and got some good responses. I am going to review this later today and see if I can make some practical changes. I realize there are builds made from Vire's with reduced cool down, offhands and spirit focus but I followed a probably older levelling build from Rekty that was 2-hand. Then I found a really good 2-h imho and it made me keep going with that. But I only followed to level 50 I think because it might have swapped later to 1-h with cooldown and I didn't have that gear.

I think I recently changed the Eldritch Fire away from Blackwater because I had too many buttons to mash and I took out the points for it. But I will check it out. Yes, that flipping ring, I just need to the poison I think with the other stuff. Trying to reduce the need for it so will try to get more augments. Still is fun in it's form now just has those periods of "might be two shot at any moment". But it can destroy some bosses in a fun way as long as there is room to move.

In most occasions, all you need is one main skill beside RR-skills. But your class has so many different ways to play indeed. You just need to find out your favorite style. As for me, I like afk-build ^^

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Shieldbreaker is popular for fire-retal build

[DirtyMick]

You should consider going for the vanquisher set. It is target farmable, so you don't have to just hope you get it at some point. Go to grimtools item database, search vanquisher's, and it will show you the set and where each piece drops. It is the go-to vires might set, and allows you to spam it nonstop, with no downtime whatsoever, when combined with a zarthuzellans offhand MI, which can be dropped by the boss in steps of torment right before the skeleton key door. I highly recommend it! You will be zooming around nonstop. It's great fun.

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Originally posted by peetski:

I think I recently changed the Eldritch Fire away from Blackwater because I had too many buttons to mash

you technically wont have more buttons to press
your version uses as many actives as the other, you're just changing where on the buttons you press it (potentially) firestrike->BWC is a 1:1 tradeoff,
my suggestion of then swapping grenado->judgment is the same 1:1 active skill press tradeoff, the difference is it's going to be pressed fewer times because longer cooldown

[peetski]

Thanks for the feedback. I've no idea why that one devotion point was sitting out of place. I've always found the devotion screen hard to read. But I did make that change and that fixed stun by getting Throne. All resists are capped or over. Got rid of Grenado even though those gloves were boosting it alot. But changed gloves to (more blue!) Mythical Ember Grip. I looked around at Vire's might MI gear and only find the lightning conversion robe from Malmouth and the added physical from Harvoth medal besides the book which I can't use with 2-h or with low INT. So I'll try to clear one of the Vanquisher areas, I guess Grove will be first. Not sure on fire vs fire (end boss) could be tough.

The Grove didn't work. First form ok, second form a bit too tanky. Lost at last 10% of it's health but it just took too long trying to avoid his close attack and got caught in some ground volcano stuff with no pot available. But yeah probably too squishy I guess.