No Crit Tempest Strike/Avalanche Shaman Level 89 - Just unlocked Empowered monoliths and am struggling. Would like some input on my build

[Campo246]

Hello

Im not following a build, I liked the idea of crazy attack speed and tornado/avalanche procs. so I did my own thing.

This is my current build Shaman, level 89 (Release / 1.0.1) - Last Epoch Build Planner. Im mainly stacking Spell Damage/Attack Speed/Attunement

Im not doing enough damage in Empowered Monoliths and im dying a lot. Could anyone please have a look at my build and make some suggestions about what I should be aiming for?

Thanks

[Gilavar]

all your damage comes from spells and you use 2 melee weapons? Not optimal. Also passive for dual weilding gives you 9% more damage taken from monsers which is bad. I suggest try a good 2h staff or wand / scepthre + shield. Also I find going the cold route (Jormun’s wrath-Bringer of Winter) on Warcry gives me more survivabilty as mobs are always frozen.

[Gizmodeous]

looking at your link, you need more armor. do you have 60% endurance? drop your off hand weapon (damage boost) for defensives (shield) with block% and whatever you need.

[Macknum]

Some things that jump my eye:

You overcapped Endurence what is a huge waste. It’s capped at 60% and you are at over 90%
Your resists are in bad shape.
Your idols look like they are a bit all over the place without beeing helpfull that much.
In the passive tree of the primalist in the botton row you can get some leech. Leech helps quite a bit.
In the Beastmaster tree there is a node called Boar Heart that offers aspect of the boar on hit what is realy important for the uptime because it’s normaly triggered when you are hit and you don’t want to be hit.
Crit avoidence is VERY important and you have none. Even auto attacks from enemys could wrek you at this point.

that’s all I can see at first glance without going to deep and look at every little thing .

[P3H4]

Hey!

• Great chest armor and boots!
• I think you’re weakest item is your belt and that should be the priority to chase something better.
• You REALLY need Critical Avoidance. At empowered mono, it’s kinda mandatory to have either Crit Avoid or Crit damage reduced. People are usually aiming for 100%. Also, watch out for the modifiers of the echoes (in mono) that you choose. If you pick the one that boosts crits for ennemies, it’s very clear that you will be one-shotted if you can’t prevent the crits.
• Your endurance is really unbalanced ! 90% is really too high and useless over 60%. Also, you only have the basic endurance threshold (given by your max health). Reduce the percentage and boost that threshold. Endurance is a great layer of defense but need a lot of investment. If it’s too much pressure on your affixes slots and gear, you can flush it completely… but you will need to invest in some other layers (armor, dodge, block).
• Balance those resists !
• Some blessing should be rerolled. Usually, you want to chase the better version of the blessings in empowered monolith (they are called “Grand” blessings) but if you really struggle to complete them, at least get good ones from regular monmos. You should re-do Spirits of fire, since like I said over-endurance does nothing for you. Maybe try to get the Armor one instead ? The one from Black Sun gives you leech… do you have some leeching that I don’t see ? If not, reroll that one too !
• I’m sure i’m missing it; but I don’t see your way to pop a totem ? Do you have it unspec and just on your skillbar ? I say that because I see many passive points invested that gives stats if you have an active totem (Silent protector + totemic fury) .

(Dang, Irrelevant was quicker!)