Diaco wrote:cyborgtemplar wrote:is trap sin with just lightening useful by itself later? it feels like i require catalyst trap to kill anything, and using clockwork slippers so cata trap isn't on such an extremely long cd, makes fire trap practically worthless.
I'm currently working on hard switching to maelstrom sin, since the necessity of catalyst trap to do dmg with it's cd is such an extreme slowdown on a relatively fast paced game. but am still curious.
At what stage of the game are you? What's your gear?
atm i'm 124. have done all but 2 of the 115 ubers (kabraxis, and veiled prophet) . . . haven' touched any of the 120's yet, been working on building up to transition to throwsin. as it feels like the trap dmg requires catalyst trap to have any relevant output to it. with catalyst it's extremely strong, but without it, i find myself needing 15+ lightening traps to kill a pack in teganze
https://tsw.vn.cz/acc/char.php?name=kiisara my main points of reference are uber bosses, teganze, and k3k. . . k3k takes about 7-8 traps per pack without catalyst give or take. teganze as i mentioned earlier is 15+, sometimes it takes well over 20 casts without catalyst trap. . . . don't mind the few points into energy, my hp pool feels more than ok so i wanted some extra regen and max mana to maintain the constant trap recast i need to use. . . . immolation was a good trap within catalyst and otherwise something that doesn't seem to do much in most cases. with the clockwork boots, it's only use is placing it by a k3k pylon inside catalyst and dropping it with a catalyst in the middle of a very densely packed group in teganze (though, it tends to still be better to lightening there as well unless it's too risky letting that many projectiles go off at once)