DPS question for act 6 above.

[Sep]

At 15-20k dps, I have no problem farming or killing mob fast. But fighting the boss at act 6 above feel way to tedious with this amount of dps even with cold penetration.

I am currently using Freezing Pulse, GMP (LMP when against boss), spell echo, faster casting, cold penetration & add cold damage.

[DaTank]

My ED does 25k dps atm on Act 8, I also have Bane/Despair and Blight to help with damage.

Act 6 is a Frost boss as well, so yea I dunno mate.

[Sep]

Originally posted by DaTank:

My ED does 25k dps atm on Act 8, I also have Bane/Despair and Blight to help with damage.

Act 6 is a Frost boss as well, so yea I dunno mate.

Does your chaos damage chip away the health of boss at fast or slow rate? Currently feel like chaos damage have no problem against those boss. I ask one of the few people I know and they said they chipped the boss health rather fast even with 2k of chaos damage.

[DaTank]

I honestly don't pay attention to a bosses health, I just dodge mechanics and DPS every opportunity I get.


ED itself will slowly chip away, but if you get a Bane/Despair combined with a Blight going it will go fast.

[BelChris666]

I have not ran pulse in awhile. However many of those gems seem like odd choices to me for a 1x target set up. I jumped on path of building and at a base level (no talents) it says FP - Arcane surge - Spell Echo - controlled destruction - Elemental focus - Cold Pen is the highest base damage 6 link combo. Good luck to you, I hope you can figure it out.

[BelChris666]

you could also add frostbite curse and hearld of ice to your skills to further add dps to you Frost Pulse

[Rogue]

For bosses, don't use support gems that reduces damage, replace that LMP with elemental focus or controlled destruction.

Another skill that helps, use frost bomb. Then the curses(frostbite, projectile weakness) and auras(herald of ice, hatred, zealotry-crit builds) and maybe a golem (lightning, ice or fire, iffy since they die a lot later...)

Only when your gear is really top notch, then can stick to using GMP. for some bosses E.g First snow jewels, crap ton of spell damage or elemental damage bonuses, etc.

[Sep]

Originally posted by BelChris666:

I have not ran pulse in awhile. However many of those gems seem like odd choices to me for a 1x target set up. I jumped on path of building and at a base level (no talents) it says FP - Arcane surge - Spell Echo - controlled destruction - Elemental focus - Cold Pen is the highest base damage 6 link combo. Good luck to you, I hope you can figure it out.

Prolly I was using old fashion.. was away from the game for like 4 years before decided to return.

Originally posted by Rogue:

For bosses, don't use support gems that reduces damage, replace that LMP with elemental focus or controlled destruction.

Another skill that helps, use frost bomb. Then the curses(frostbite, projectile weakness) and auras(herald of ice, hatred, zealotry-crit builds) and maybe a golem (lightning, ice or fire, iffy since they die a lot later...)

Only when your gear is really top notch, then can stick to using GMP. for some bosses E.g First snow jewels, crap ton of spell damage or elemental damage bonuses, etc.

Thx for the info, would try it out for later.

[BelChris666]

No problem dude, glad to help.

[Sep]

Originally posted by BelChris666:

No problem dude, glad to help.

Currently going for FP, Spell Echo, Cold penetration, arcane surge and controlled destruction.

If I want to maintain ailment, whats the best substitute for it? Currently using faster casting for it.

[BelChris666]

I am not sure. I would suggest downloading Path of building off github. Its a program that shows dps better. you fill out passive and gear and then it can show you your best option.

https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding/releases

[Rezi Le Rae]

LMP does absolutely nothing vs bosses in fact LMP is just bad for freezing pulse no need to have it at all and act 6 still running added cold instead of hypothermia? you really should be following a guide it sounds like also you should have cold curses set up to lower the cold dmg reduction of enemies especially bosses. hope this helps!

[Sep]

Originally posted by Vankruze:

LMP does absolutely nothing vs bosses in fact LMP is just bad for freezing pulse no need to have it at all and act 6 still running added cold instead of hypothermia? you really should be following a guide it sounds like also you should have cold curses set up to lower the cold dmg reduction of enemies especially bosses. hope this helps!

I do run curse to lower the boss def. I just want to know the average dps the player have upon reaching act 6 since I am uncertain if 15-20k dps being too low at act 6 or not.

Edit: If I recall it right, did't hypothermia a bad choice against boss?

[Astasia]

GGG somewhat recently turned most of the story bosses into sponges. I don't know why. They are easy enough that I don't bother swapping gems for single target, but the fights do take a min and get pretty boring.

If you are destroying white and blue packs nearly instantly then your DPS is fine. DPS as listed in game is rarely useful though, it just doesn't factor all the important things into it, or adjust for certain skill mechanics, so off the top of my head I have no idea what 15-20k sheet DPS on freezing pulse means.