so i just droped this beast it seems CRAZY gives me +5 and +8 to skills i really wanna try this thing out but i dont understand one line from this weapon maybe can somone help me? https://i.imgur.com/3s7ZbSW.png
it rolled god tier rolls too
“|chtonic fissure skill tree applies with flame whip from all sources” what this mean?
Applies TO flame whip. I assume it is there to let people know that whatever things you put in the Chthonic Fissure skill tree will also apply to the flame whips that replace the souls that should come out of the fissure
so if i wanna use this weapon do i need focus my gear on crit chance? becuz i can get super high crit multi but i need for whip to be able actually crit too no?
Increased critical strike chance is more like a global affix which will affect all kind of critical damages as in from melee attacks/bow attacks/spells and spell critical strike chance of course just for spells.
So both will increase your crit chance. You can always press C and look under the Damage tab of your character to check the crit chance for all of your types of damage.
hmm i see thanks i had another question i just noticed flame whip isnt even active skill? its just a thing you get from passive skilltree so i dont understand one thing do i need need use chaos bolts in specilization tree or i can use something else? and i need scale now fire damage instead of necrotic?
Basically the skill itself if you read it again it tells you that after you cast the fissure spirits will fly out and target the enemies so with that weapon instead of spirits you will have the whips. So every passive point you add into the skill tree of the chthonic fissure which would affect the spirits coming out will instead the whips.
Item looks good on base but is tricky to build around. Firstly, many of the nodes in Chthonic Fissure apply only to the spirits and hence will be useless since the item turns off spirits.
Secondly while it can get a ridiculous amount of crit multi, the Flame whips only have the default base 5% crit chance which is really hard to get up to reasonable levels. The item is a 2h sword which also locks you from using a dagger/catalyst items which have base crit for spells. Acid skin procc’d by Fissure can help a bit but is only an unmodifiable 20% crit chance (and will be hard to ensure uptime for clearing). Uniques such as Logi’s Hunger (3% base crit for fire skills) and Prismatic gaze (4% base crit) seem to be absolutely needed to getting a decent crit chance on the flame whips.
Chaos bolts would also seem to be necessary here to ensure uptime of acid skin, increase fissure duration, generate mana and ignites(for ignite overload), and also Prism shards(prismatic gaze).
Anyway this is just my theorycrafting.
Immolator’s Oblation could also be sick here for the flat fire damage but the main issue I forsee is mana since without -mana cost from staves/wands even chaos bolts would not be as spammable.
Ah damn. I do not own the item so I did not know about that part. I assumed since it says to flame whip from ALL sources it works like that. My bad and thank you for clarifying. Did not mean to bait people into that.