Hi all,
So this is the 1.7.0 Scattershot rogue.
So firstly, the aim was to build on (pun intended) Dieter’s previous version Scattershot build, using the most
recent cap restrictions and affixes.
Credit to saikm for confirming the cap on Gold Find on gear was 650%.
The goal was to get as much damage from the Scattershot as possible while keeping most other areas respectably high.
So firstly the damage shots:
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The damage was 103M to 170M
Critical damage was in the order of 600M to 900M.
Deadly Strike damage was anywhere from 1B to 2B (2.3B was highest with a damage shrine active on the level).
- Note this was from a listed Scattershot damage of 26.26M
The equipment…
Sets included the usual suspects:
Blood Magic
Permafrost
Rage (Use a warrior armour and a Jasper etc)
Plague
And of course, the build required
Golden Veins
Buccaneer
So that left one set affix.
Deadly Arts was the obvious choice as Deadly Strike would be maxed, granting Cooldown Reduction of 60% (for Scattershot)
Crystal Affixes
- +30-50% Critical Chance (for hitting 60% critical chance)
- +150-200% Gold Find
- +150-200% Gold Find
- +150-200% Gold Find
- +20-30% Deadly Strike
- +75-100% Total HP
To the legendary affixes!
Ignore Resist (a MUST have)
+100% Frostbiting (Of course)
+100% Frostbiting
- 2 All Sets (I got the second +2 to all skills from socketing, alternatively get a second of these)
- 2 All Skills (This makes it each to get your primary skill to 40 via even numbers, more later)
Mythstones socketing:
+4 All Skills (Mainhand)
+4 All Skills (Offhand)
+2 All sets
+10% Deadly Strike
+10% Deadly Strike
+10% Deadly Strike
Lastly the epic affixes:
So the weapon is as you see it.
The build required two +5 Scattershots to max it at level 40.
A single +50% Gold find to get to 650%
Lastly I needed 3 x +5000 HP to have a respectable HP total.
The remaining epics were +Ice Damage or +Ice Damage %
(For those of you wondering, 20% Ice damage is more damage than another +5000HP converted to damage via Golden Veins)
The Pet
I used a legendary pet with Permafrost and HP Leech.
It doesn’t really matter which pet, just take which ever one has one of the sets and the
most useful affixes. I recommend damage, health, Leech and anything you find useful.
One important thing is the Leech, you need some, if the pet doesn’t have some, swap out one of the epic affixes’ on your gear.
(With this kind of damage, one affix is enough, even leech nerf won’t worry you)
The same goes for talents, they don’t really make much difference to this build, Scattershot does all the work.
Bleeding is a good example, it assumes the enemy will survive your Scattershot in the first place. WRONG!
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So to sum up this build has:
60% Critical Chance
350% Critical Damage
0% Attack Speed (which irrelevant since Scattershot uses Cooldown Reduction via Deadly Arts)
200% Frostbiting
94K Armor Rating
44% Dodge
37.5% Mana Absorb (Permafrost)
+10 All Skill Ranks
+4 All Set Ranks
30% Bleed Chance (talent)
7.4% Crushing Blow (Pet
60% Deadly Strike
140.4% HP
60% Cooldown
129k Hitpoints and 16.42M EHP
And 5 in all the sets.
A couple of points for those who are still reading
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Every now and then a Cartographer is unhittable with Scattershot, literally unhittable.
So just blaze away with Ricochet, with this build it does up to 20M per hit anyway! -
Shifting all points from Power to HP takes the Scattershot DPS down by 3M and makes the HP
220K and Armor Rating 150K ish. So you trade the damage for the HP, really its up to you, its not that expensive to respec so
go that way if you need the EHP. -
There is still a bug with using Sapphires on certain affixes.
I started with some legendary items with the affixes I wanted but lost some affixes when using Sapphires.
You end up with a blank space where the affix should be. To get rid of the blank spot, you use a Kyanite crystal and
remove an affix above the blank space. Then the others all move up. Unforunately it usually means you lose the set affix and
have to put it back using Emeralds.This is why the legendary items shown have different affixes to the found ones.
Some I just disenchanted and made from scratch so they sounded cool.
So intead of a ‘Crystal Ring’, I have a custom ‘Cataclysm’
regards