[0.8.5 updated] Kryce's Manifest Armour & Shield Throw | Simply Unethical damage

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Greetings pounder of posteriors!

For the helmet, the minion damage is applied at 1x, i use that affix for +2 skill points. Taking more melee damage here might be worth it but Iā€™m no math wiz so Iā€™m not sure how the math checks out. With 20 points, you will not be able to max all the stat effectiveness nodes.

For rings, stats priority is throwing attack speed-minion dmg-attunement. First 2 have 100% uptime while attunement only gives all its benefits when we stand in the banner.

Shred wise, I am intending to get it in glove suffix since it will be multiplied. Getting it on amulet is not worth it imo as only we apply it instead of our minion (which hits more than us). Another reason is also bc it is hard to sustain 3k life while having max res on this build (i still donā€™t) so every suffix slot must be efficient.

Of course this is provided that you like staying alive. I also intend to push high corruption so I made the build with some semblance of defence in mind. If meeting hades is a hobby of yours, you can get shred on both ammy and gloves, as well as getting void shred from black sun and phys shred from heorot.

For a +3/+4 MA helm, yes definitely put those in shred, Iā€™m working towards that as well.

Clear speed wise, i suggest you run through a few packs to draw aggro, bunch them up then send your MA into them. This makes it so that enemies are coming from 1 direction and you can easily obliterate them by throwing shields from safety instead of having your MA do 360s between each pack on your screen.

Move speed wise, MA alr moves so fast that I have trouble keeping up with my eyes, but hey if you want more, feel free to farm for LP on suloronā€™s and slam movement speed on it.

I donā€™t think theres any other stat that can get clear up.

Now go and pound those posteriors with your MA!

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Yipā€¦ I am doing that nowā€¦ In an Arena environment, I virtually run loops around the map, stopping every so often when I see the MA is in a bunch of mobs then I tag him, and start running againā€¦ not a great way to play, but it does workā€¦ can be an FPS killer thoā€¦

I have found it fairly flexible - I use ribbon on blood and leech affixes elsewhereā€¦ If you are min/maxing then yes, gloves have way more important affixes, but there is so much ā€œspareā€ damage that I have found you dont need the build to be perfect before it worksā€¦ The general concept of taggin your MA and it mowing down mobs/boss/rares seems to work no matter what you doā€¦ Sure, you might not 5s Orobyss but lets face it a 20s kill is just as goodā€¦ :wink:

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Ok yeah the armor shred suffix on gloves would be a huge spike to your damage, with t5 youā€™d maintain at least 40 stacks Iā€™d guess, so ~60% more damage multiplier on bosses after a bit. I was just asking about res shred since I donā€™t usually play mixed shred.

For the t6 helm, I do think that t5 on a myrmidon or winged would be better than t6 on a worse base since the 60% shred isnā€™t worth the loss. Not sure if I have an exalted MA on a top base.

MS on boots was basically what I thought as well. a t6 roll would translate to 100% increased minion speed. t6 attack speed on gloves if possible would also help the build feel smoother, and also be a lot more damage - if thatā€™s the only source of MA increased attack speed, a t6 23% would be almost 20% more damage than a 15% roll, and a t7 almost 40% more damage.

To cap crit, we would need ~400% increased crit chance (15% roll) - 450% crit ch (13% roll). Gloves alone can get you up to 360% in a perfect world, but with the way shaping runes are right now thatā€™s not happening. I guess you could use a Solarum or Dawn plate if you had exalted crit on solarum gloves (100% total) and you didnā€™t have exalted AS. That would offer 11-15 more flat phys for the MA as well from the skill tree node.

The damage is already great so I wouldnā€™t want to sacrifice tank or clear for single target - in fact the opposite would be true. I was wondering how this build might tank up to survive in higher corruption being a 2h build. Iā€™ve played only shield-using builds in high corruption so far (400+) so Iā€™m not sure what youā€™d do to beef up a minion 2h build here besides stacking armor and ~3k hp. The attunement banner armor is also insane but itā€™s not reliable when clearing. Would this be more of a t4 Julra farmer instead of a high corruption mono farmer?

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Thanks for doing the wicked math!

I have played my smite pally to 400+ and while this build only has life, res and armour, i think its definitely capable of farming 400 corruption since you can easily get to max armour dmg reduction if you have enough throwing atk spd.

The problem at high corruption levels would be that you need to adopt a safer playstyle i.e. send your minion ahead to draw aggro and blow up packs individually. This ofc gives you slower clear.

But i think this is rly just how it is at high corruption since some combination of mods and dangerous monsters will straight up rip you a new one, no matter what build youā€™re playing.

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I donā€™t mean to downplay anything, in fact I am trying to build a forgeguard for the first time just to play your build because I really think it could be something great. I have level 80 characters so itā€™s not like I donā€™t know the game and am a newbie but I *just noticed something that I wanted to bring to your attention. At the top you mention having Level of Rive or Level of Vengeance as an Ideal prefix 2 on the helm. Rive is Body only. Vengeance and Smelterā€™s Wrath both work for helm and have melee damage attached to them as you mentioned. No offense intended. Speaking of Legendary Apathyā€™s Maw, after seeing your build, I raced to get a monolith to 50 corruption, which is required to get the maw to drop according to Tunklab (which is how I found out about Rive) (thankfully I have a helm that has +1 MA +1 Smelterā€™s Wrath on it with enough FP to build up MA) anyhow. Maw dropped first time and I had a two handed axe purple with crit chance on it that was Tier 6 so I risked it and Heck yeah thatā€™s what moved over! I feel so good lol. I have a lot of good gear for this build. The only catch is leveling up. I have a mid 80ā€™s void knight that just crushes everythingā€¦ period but am always looking to try something different. This looks great.

As a side question: I see you have Attunement on two itemsā€¦ I know you say health, resists, and crit avoid are the ones to go for. Is there any reason to look for Attunement or was that a side effect of getting items with the other stats? Iā€™m building my loot filter and wondering if I should add attunement.

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First of all, congrats on hitting the T6 crit on your maw, it is undoubtedly one of the biggest upgrades you can get for this build.

No worries, no offence taken at all :slight_smile: Good catch on the helm affix. Unfortunately, idt i can edit the original post any further for some reason. Anyway, i think its quite intuitive that we get the skill affixes for the associated melee damage so it shouldnā€™t be too much of a problem.

I believe i have attunement on rings because i couldnā€™t get throwing speed/minion dmg rings. Similiar to my reply above, the stat priority for rings is throwing speed-minion dmg-attunement.

However, having too much throwing speed when youā€™re low level without having too much attunement on the tree may result in you losing your mana pool too fast so adjust accordingly.

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first of all, absolutely love this, I was looking for a reason to level a forge guard and this build fit the bill 10x over

a question though, how important would you say javelin banner is? Iā€™m so used to zoom zooming with shield rush iā€™ve been doing normal echos with that specā€™d instead, but iā€™m worried if Iā€™ll need the extra oomph from banner for Jura/high corruption shades or if I can get away without it for the sake of clear speed

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Chipping in hereā€¦ I am running Empowered Monos with 130+ corruption and I havent needed to use javelin during normal play at allā€¦ I proc it in Orobyss or boss battles for the def but it really doesnt seem neccessary based on how I am playing right nowā€¦

ps my build is not near the OP in damage/ehp yet (no maw not enough health) but its critting 200k+ on the dummy almost every shot and Armour is 80% Health 2000. I do however have lucky rings with minion damage.healthā€¦

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There is a couple of reasons why I chose to take javelin:

  1. There is a lack of skill points for us to put into our passives once we reach the end of the FG tree and get the 150% minion health node. Most of the other nodes on the FG tree straight up donā€™t benefit us. Sure we could put points into some armour nodes, but we alr get so much armour from shield throw that i find it inefficient. This is a big reason why i decided to stack attunement.

  2. Javelin provides us with a source of healing. This was important to me bc prior to this build, i was playing life based melee abom which solely relied on life pots to sustain. That felt like absolute shit so I absolutely wanted a healing skill since there is no minion dmg leech for players.

So basically, javelin is not just a solution for sustaining our life, amping dmg and armour, movement skill, but also for us to have an efficient skill point investment.

But I am curious about which skill yā€™all are interested in picking up over javelin.

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I agreeā€¦ there is very little left in the passives to help this buildā€¦ I figure at least 5 points (maybe more) at lvl 100 have no real purpose in this buildā€¦

Javelinā€¦ I have it for those moments when it helps against big hits (healing you) but I honestly am struggling with alternativesā€¦ I tried Ring Of Shields but that takes the richocet so thats annoying trying to tag the MAā€¦ Still works, and it does make you effectively godlikeā€¦
I tried lunge and shield rush but again - they dont really do anything for the buildā€¦ Other skills either waste mana or I found that I didnt even bother activating themā€¦

I am thinking of Rebuke as an oh sh!t save skill but I dont think I will need it if I get my health up closer to 3k.

Honestly I think that for most of the situations, this build is fine just with MA, Sigils & Shield Throwā€¦ The others seem to be entirely adjacent to the main purpose of the build.

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Iā€™m waiting on them to release the skill tree for paladinā€™s healing skill. Fingers crossed that it can provide buffā€™s like primalistā€™s eterraā€™s blessing.

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Cant remember what the devs said about the Healing skill ā€¦ If I recall it was going to be replaced entirely but they seemed quite cagey with detailsā€¦ Maybe they are leaving it until MP is active.

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Hi :slight_smile: Quite new to Last Epoch but not to ARPGS but I canā€™t seem to figure out why you want Rive +# skill points if youā€™re not using the skill. Would love to know why :smiley:

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It is hybrid affix which also grants % melee damage, which is also added to Manifest Armor with increased effect. So check possible + skill level / % melee damage affixes in planner and add them in your filter :slight_smile:

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Iā€™ve been theorycrafting what I think is a similar build (I only barely skimmed your post to avoid ā€œspoilersā€, Iā€™ll return after I build mine if I need help). Iā€™m curious though, Today I was browsing different sets in the game and found Sunforged Curiass. As someone that hasnā€™t played any Sentinel yet and only have about 60 hours under my belt, do you think the 13 Forged Weapons equalling 260% fire dmg would be worth using Forged Weapon with a one hander? Or are stats on a 2h too good? My rough draft build uses Shield Throw, Manifest Armor, Ring of Shields, Shield Bash, and Shield Rush. I could drop the Shield Bash for Forge Strike to work with the Sunforged Curiass

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Havent personally tried out the set items after the recent changes to them added in 0.8.4. but previously Full Sets tended to be incipid and not worth using - at least not in end-game builds when individual high roll rares/exalts outperformed the set bonuses. I could be wrong based on the new updates to them, but nothing i have seen is enough of a change for me to think the Sunforged set is that much better.

Regarding your Forged Weapon Forge Strike build with Manifest Armourā€¦ That kind of build works quite wellā€¦ Forge Strike is one of my favourite Sentinel skills and is fairly good - I have not played it in a while but I loved dropping the hammer down and stun locking mobs while the forge weapons took care of the restā€¦ If I recall mana was an issue so you have to use a generator skill to really be able to spam forge strike fast enough ot make it funā€¦

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Still on my way to empowered monos, but omg, i donā€™t remember any other build destroying content with same power xD Thatā€™s still witout Maw. At which timeline itā€™s better to start farming 50+ corruption Orobis to get it? Age of winter while farming for Phys resist blessing?

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I suggest you move up to empowered monos to farm for maw. Empowered monos are just generally more rewarding than normals.

If you do not have a ribbon of blood yet, i suggest you farm in fall of the outcasts and try to get one with LP to potentially slam throwing atk spd on it.

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Thank you for the good explanation :slight_smile:

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As vapourfire has said, sets were already bad before the 0.8.4 crafting and legendary changes. WITH the changes, they got absolutely dumpstered on and are pretty much all useless/not efficient.

Additionally, while others and me have stated that the build pretty much rolls with any weapon, set weapons are an exception. Our priority is to give our MA as much flat crit on weapon (assuming youā€™re not using prismatic gaze, which also competes with the sunforged set for the helmet slot). This in turn makes using soloronā€™s step not worth it since youā€™re barely hitting crits. At this point, you would have veered off the concept of the build entirely.

I also explain why i do not use forged weapons in my FAQ so give that a read if you have missed it.