KratosTheAxeman wrote:Solfege wrote:It's funny how, in M2017-1.3, the devs randomly took away Frost Armor, essentially killing this build's survivability. Now they nail its coffin shut by giving Antimass (a skill designed to work in conjunction with Mana Sweep) a ridiculous CD timer. Really makes you think...
Does that mean trying this build is a farce?
Depends on how much you want to invest, and what kind of returns you are expecting.
I think complaining that the build can't one-shot the whole screen with <20k mana is sort of unfair. If that were possible, this build would be completely broken for farming - even moreso if Antimass had no CD. And that's on basic TU/RW gear. No signets or anything.
Eat 2-300 signets - a heavy investment, for sure - and grab some Empyrean Bands/2% energy crafted jewels, and you're looking at >30k mana, which does one-shot packs in TA with Chronofield up. I reckon you can drop Chronofield at 35-40k mana - but TA isn't really worthwhile in the first place, so it doesn't matter much.
I think the largest problem I'm facing is gearing. The item progression from TU -> SU is crazy. Feedback builds were struggling for good gear before Sigma, and now a lot of the decent lategame options got removed, or are of nigh-unobtainable rarity.
There are no good endgame shields. No boots. Orbs are SSU or AmnXis RW (maybe DolXis or ElXis? Meh). Scaling this build is going to be extremely slow.