My Reaver Currently starting 50 on this patch.

[golden glen]

I want to discuss my Reaver and do that over and over.

So this is a good place to start at.

Checkout my posts of this Discussion to see a clear distribution of skillpoints the equipped gear and a current statsheet [Statsheet.(https://steamcommunity.com/app/1154030/discussions/0/833871657871386685/) Edit: I've created a new Steamdiscussion with screenshots of Stats and Gear and Skillpoint distribution. I'll keep this discussion updated with further patches.

Here's for a start a Current clear of Ixion 70 that expires in 2 days. https://streamable.com/fwuhq1

But then you can see it and potential give me some advice except the next best advice is some LV hahahaha.

But for a current Patch it's more then enough for all the presented strength. It likely could take Ixion a +20 LV or something. I don't have that to see, and I guess I could have enough for that already.

I'll keep on posting into this with further progression.

[golden glen]

My Doom Horn 3 with Frail removed against Shadow Clone with another +20% dmg. The -% Resistances doesn't do much. Either they don't have high armor , it doesn't scale good with pierce,bleading,and poison, though my poison is low on dmg + Bleed rupture. My best was 11 seconds quicker and for loosing more then 20% resistances it doesn't tune the damage a lot. I think I've played somewhat well. Here's a link for 2 days https://streamable.com/lkh30n

Ok so I've just looked at both again and Doom Horn makes it nearly 14% Quicker.

So I respec to that. It's not by a huge amount , but it's still less time then on the other.

I'll stay for 3 points doom Horn for now, and then I find some points for the clone on later LV.

So I've respecced into a doom horn with -24% damage resistances and the time went down by a little. Expires in 2 days. I realy believed that -24 % Resistances to my dmg would affect it far more https://streamable.com/97vym8

The 20% in dmg to shadow clone did just liek 10-12 seconds worse, then -24% dmg resistances nearly uphold the whole fight. I believed that fall out very much stronger to my Reaver Build.

It's still the favorable build to it.

Having 3 points there first, and then potentially level it later.

Give you just to low dmg for what you actually deal, or there's just about no resistances on enemies.

So there's not much to reduce....

But else it should increase the damage far more, especially if it applied to pierce , bleed , plague or Rupture dmg. Not just a 8 seconds or so. There must be practically no resistances on them and then it doesn't realy go int o a negative instead.

I Have Room for it in my build as well. I just believed it would be far more effective.

Made another Video of 1:17 so doom Horn doesn't offer much to my dmg. -24% resistances should be far more on my dmg then that.

They look nearly unaffected and the weak shadow clone shouldn't hold up with that on +20% on the damage of it. I know it's how often my ruptures to and if I supercrit how often, but it shouldn't be that close to the same in length if it affected all resistances including my dmg type.

Again the Doom Horn, this time on 1:17 https://streamable.com/srmiku expires in 2 days.

and for not Having -24% resistances and having +20% damage to shadowclone instead the timer shouldn't be that close, that I even reached a Quicker time by 1:12 here's the Video timer of 2 days to it. https://streamable.com/ezp0x8 Doom Horn certainly does to little damage difference for my damage build I think. It should be changed or the DMG I deal is just to high already? I think the Damage I deal should be enhanced by that more on a later patch. There's no need to want Fragile + Doom Horn on my build with so low Time difference one it. The -24% resistances are a Joke on Pierce + Bleed + Rupture + Plauge dmg lowscaled. You might assume far more, but like 3 seconds on Ixion or it was just proc luck. Is not realy justifiable. There's no major reason to pick it on my build as it doesn't do enough in the current stage.

[golden glen]

I've exchanged a Dark Essence for a Pristine Plumage. Now I'll take a new time with the same build.

Lost like a 3 seconds because a late jump attack with invulnerability. It took 1:10. So I'll keep Pristine Plumage for now and let the Dark Essence stay in the chest. It's ok to loose 3% critrate and 8% critmultiplyer. For 24 Agility and 5 Armor per LV, that's what I wanted. Only a charm was an option and that seemed the best to choose, Necrotic bones second best, but I'm not at a real Energyissue currently. So I took Pristine Plumage for now.

[random scaffold]

Why don’t u use battle awareness ?

[golden glen]

Because I'm tanky enough and don't have points for everything good. I'm still at 5.1k Armor and only reach 5.5k with it. So I'll invested it into some Damage.

Got 3 skillpoints from it to spend other places.

[random scaffold]

I think u r not reviewing the footage properly of no Doomhorn and doomhorn

[golden glen]

I think the times are to close in the end to realy say that that much resistance reduction does a lot to the clearspeed. It should offer far more. You can see both.

[random scaffold]

Yeah I already saw it and A) the boss flew off th screen for like 3 seconds and u weren’t hitting him because of that in horn clip

And b u didn’t have full uptime of the horn

There are like 10 seconds in duration at least where u r dealing damage to the boss without the debuff

With it, you deal more damage

[golden glen]

I think that 6 seconds faster then this doesn't realy justify a -24% resistances. https://streamable.com/lnihmf The first one still has the best cleartime with 1:05 , this one doesn't have -24% resistances and ends up at 1:09

That's not much deffirence though the enemy should take much more dmg.

[random scaffold]

Do u know how to find and zip your save file

You can send them to me and I can look at your char directly

[golden glen]

I knew how. I would do that over a DM though.

I would just quickly need to do that. Find the right path and copy the files into a folder for you.

Then you can play around with it, potentially tell me if you know a better path. I like mine currently.

[lapis spear]

its C:\Users%profile%\AppData\Local\TQ2\Saved\SaveGames by default if not steam cloud

if it's steam cloud they're downloadable there https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=1154030

[golden glen]

I've got the folder ready

I could place it here as well.

[lapis spear]

Werent you want to send it over a dm?

[random scaffold]

I’ll take a look at it when I’m on my pc later

[golden glen]

Now I didn't

[random scaffold]

I don’t have my DMs open it’s better he post it here

And if he doesn’t want it here he can delete it after I’ve downloaded it

[golden glen]

Yes. But I think it for more feedback for now. It will be outdated later 😉

And honestly @random scaffold just facetank Ixion down , use a healthpotion if needed, just make sure to mark the target. Start out the fight with bar 2, first cast shadow clone, then banner , then marked to death or marked to death and banner the opposit around, switch to bar 1 and spam barrage, needed energypots when the refill requires it, Valor and stomp right for enhanced dmg. In the immunity Phase you gather energy place Shadowclone again and then Place Valor+Stomp+Barrage after he goes out of invulnerability. You keep Barraging on until the fight is over. Easy going.

I realy don't look forward to loose the facetanking capability. I gladly listen to good advices if you can give me some. Else it's more LV and continue the build.

[golden glen]

Taking 5 points out of Enhanced Critical Hits and putting 5 into Ability Enancement. I was a bit unlucky with one of Ixions attacks adding some seconds ontop. https://streamable.com/2knh74 Time 1:11. The Video expiresin 2 days.

I've just noticed I was only at 99% critrate on barrage so I respecced a point from Ability Enhancement making that 4 and putting one into Enhanced Critical strikes to have a 100% critchance again. Now I retry the fight.

That took a 1:10 so a minor better then the other. https://streamable.com/snwocu the video expires in 2 days.

[golden glen]

This takes validateable about the same amount of time. I've got a Video of 1:12 I won't post.

[random scaffold]

so this is about 8 seconds faster than yours, if i take off 5 seconds from when u actually hit the boss 1:05 and 0:57

its lazy, one button spam, no movement, no risk of dying, just have to keep your buffs up

it can get even quicker potentially while not dying

[lapis spear]

did you just swapped his precious shadow clone for the horn

https://tenor.com/view/unacceptable-adventure-time-lemongrab-freakout-armflail-gif-5515437

[golden glen]

Well done , but it's not much time you get. You'r the better player.

I'm just updating my steampost. Got 31 Screenshots to explain build and gear.

I can keep it updated there as well.

[golden glen]

To me it's very easy not to die. It's close to impossible to die while I have something to DPS on and the incoming dmg tends to be very low and healed up quickly. So far I realy enjoy my build.

With the recently added moonclaw I've got more energysustain by alot. That makes the build realy easy to play, and the switches from Overwhelm on barrage to Ailment chance with the switches to a drastically increased Rupture Rate it clearly enhanced my DPS to me.

[golden glen]

You'r quicker then me even though I've tried using Doom Horn + stomp + vulnerability on it....But you can feel the character is well suited for current content. You had no issue playing it easily.

[golden glen]

Newly added into the start of this post a steamdiscussion I can keep updated as well. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1154030/discussions/0/833871657871386685/

@random scaffold How does your skilldistribution look differently, you've had 15 points removing from shadowclone.?

I'd realy like to see it copy it and try it myself.

If I also got like 12 seconds quicker I'll take that and make it barely under a minute.

And theoritically shouldn't you have higher damage if you could chaind Doom Horn, Valor, Stomp and then Barrage?...

So why didn't you do that and have 1 more in stomp, if you get 14 from Shadowclone.?

And even removed the points from it not playing it with vulnerability.

As it should be a timewise layer of +20% damage the vulnerabiltiy, so it should be realy good.

[random scaffold]

I can do that yes, but I was just making the gameplay not "complicated" without needing to micro a rotation

[random scaffold]

the points arre elsewhere thats why

But I added in stomp now

[random scaffold]

It's not about being the better player, all I'm doing is spamming Right click, and pressing E ocassionally

[golden glen]

As you like to frame it.

[random scaffold]

I got the kill time down to 45s

It can even go down to 30s

[golden glen]

So generally it's actually a very strong rough,

[random scaffold]

I'll upload a clip

[random scaffold]

38 seconds.

skill tree

recommend you get an energy helmet, with energy reservation or something, will make it feel much smoother

[lapis spear]

helmets could have both energy and free reserved energy together for now, effectively grant up to 82 energy total iirc

and some cast speed or area dmg on top of that

[random scaffold]

we dont do area damage, but energy is good for offset aura

[lapis spear]

ikik 😸

[golden glen]

With a few modifications to it nearly a 50% faster clearspeed impressive. Thanks for showing that.

I don't like the auras energy reservation, but you seemed to handle that quite fine.

The build was even stronger in your hands then in mine. Well done.

[random scaffold]

just equip a energy helmet with energy reservation like I told you

losing 25% lightning res on your current helm wont do anything, you're overcapped

I took pierce imbuement purely because, for some reason u r using a fire bow, so i convert back to pierce, if you get a better bow, then they can be swapped for conserrvation again, but like I said helmet alleviates that issue

in that clip I use energy pot, cause there's a small window where banner is waiting to give u energy/moonclaw cd

the helmet wiill make that more comfortable

[lapis spear]

its been told multiple times, you've just preferred not to listen until a clean example on the vid

[golden glen]

I've listened multiple times and in my progression of it already found like 20 seconds shortage on Ixion.

[golden glen]

So next I copy tThat doom Horn and remove Shadow Clone and see where my time goes.

[random scaffold]

it's way more changes than that, i showed the full tree all feats and mods

make sure you comparre properly

[golden glen]

I did I've considered respeccing the Barrage as yours.

I'm not a fan of preperation reserving that much energy for extra dmg.

So I won't do that, resulting beeing a bit slower then you on that regard.

So the barrage is also coppied now.

Now it's up to taking time and valueing the fight.

With the changes made to it I've also hit below a minute. 58 seconds. https://streamable.com/yxb7kh The Video expires in 2 days. https://streamable.com/yxb7kh

That was a bit of optimisation thanks @random scaffold

[golden glen]

Made a second Video of Ixion with the same build it was 57 seconds. I won't upload it. If I was luckier on Ixions attackpattern I might have gotten 3-4 seconds on that. But he went ones invulnerable with a jump attack, that realy broke my dps for a while on him. I tried my best doom horning and stoming to uphoald the debuff on him. Else I tried to fire barrage.

So times are compareable quick on him. to me.

As mentioned I don't want to play preperation the same, so my time will be slower on him.

I've went under a minute now.

Cut a third in time by replacing skillpoints. Very good so far. Got a 15 seconds out of you letting me change skillpoints. That helped in Damage when the enemy is closeranged.

On a bossfight like this it helps by measurable seconds.

Was unlucky with an invulnerable jump attack at like 5% HP that took some extra seconds I've landed at 59 seconds, that's again under a minute.

3 of 3 attempts so far all bringing me under a minute.

The same build again, this time the quickest of them all in 55 seconds https://streamable.com/x27np2 expires in 2 days. In 4 of 4 attempts it was done in under a minute, so this clearly enhanced from the ones before from above a minute.

If that's been about it with the help I can get for it so far, then I'm very satisfied with my build. I like where this went so far.

This clearly downgraded to difficulty 1 of 6. The Reaver is just super.

It's good to see, that it just brought up to 10 to 17 seconds in difference bringing it below a minute but not drastically, and you didn't want to push many skillpoints around, Messed a bit with modifiers and I've copied some. Thank @random scaffold for the advice and playtesting and showing me an even stronger build on the same character. Even I could enhance my clearspeed not as drastically as you, but by some.

[golden glen]

Valor is identical, Barrage is identical, Stomp is identical and Doom Horn is identical. My Preperation is not which will clearly make me a bit slower then yours. @random scaffold But I think I can claim it's ready for more content or even higher LV content thent that. A LV 71 still stood no chance. I can surely wait for the next major patch with this skilling and gear.

It's realy ready for more.

[random scaffold]

So you think preparation makes a 22s difference 😛

Might wanna check again

At most it makes a 5~8 sec difference

[golden glen]

Then it's your playstyle ontop. And if we honestly like in the survey ask for your play experience, what difficulty you rate it between 1 and 6 where one is very very easy and 3 goes for moderate and 6 for very or very very difficult.

Where you land at?

I claim mine is at 1 cause I feel no killthreat at me.

It's mainly standing still and dealing damage , then I'll cetainly survive that fight, all about aiming right and landing barrage.

The Good is you'r tanky enough with it against any hit, and when you've marked the target you quickly heal up again on your damage. All the incoming damages in generall are not that high.

I've just seen at your 38 second clip @random scaffold You've had no issue with incoming dmg and needed no of the three healthpots. That was a generall very easy fight to you. There was never a real danger on your character getting killed that fight. you cut the video like 2-3 seconds earlier then me, but ther'e still more then a 10 seconds difference. It can't be the battlefield awareness as that's pure defensively. I realy think that's up to you instead of me playing. I still can do it comfortlably , though not as quick as yours. That's all fine to me. Landing below a minute is fine enough for now.

It's easily handleable fights all with this character.

And if not , it's realy best and closed to outgeareed at parts. It takes many items dropping often before finding one and I'm tired of that if I look in a few months for a new one anyway possibly even of it....

I can keep the Reaver here for now, and have found a current quickest for that Ixion fight.

It's been over many options and might have a current best.

There's not much to enhance at that point and instead of investing tens of hours I better wait for a coming major patch to continue with what it gives.

But from a start of 1:32 to 0:55 that's realy a step in time on it. There I'll end my current grind and think it does well enough at least I rate the difficulty at lowest of low. The build is so strong. It's very usefull. I realy want to thank again all those that helped me on the path here. I've invested some time trying myself.

There wasn't any major gearing in between it was mainly respeccing some skills.

Using them better as well to.

That's still a drasticall reduce in time needed, by more then a 33% clearspeed. That's not a small step I think.

Here's a current end to it though for me, and I'm glad to continue another time on this.

🙂

[random scaffold]

Battle awareness is not defensive.

I have extra vitality damage on it

[golden glen]

Not high enough to make it count that much...

[random scaffold]

Keep in mind, I ahve the exact same items as you, the only difference is our skill tree, so the only differenc ecomes from point to point

And of course some luck, of the boss patterns, but that should be minimised with enough runs to average out

[golden glen]

And the playstyle in game. Proc luck to on Rupture.

You've had no immortal jump attack in it if I'm right.

[random scaffold]

Yes, but I'm not using rupture

[golden glen]

Did you remove the passive points from the chance ?

else it'S a rnd barrage hit.

+45% chance on it.

[random scaffold]

You can go check

[golden glen]

That's just specced into the build.

[random scaffold]

But rupture is pretty useless when invested in

[golden glen]

Didn't know thought it enhance my general dmg.

[random scaffold]

Deals like 1% of the boss health, and that's if you proc it, which ourr chance is like what, 8%?

I only spent a single point in that passive chance

[golden glen]

Not exactly sure. Hoped it was far higher then 8%.

[random scaffold]

It's 1% per ailment stack

[golden glen]

Open wounds ?

I collect up to 10 stacks of bleed.

easily

[random scaffold]

if thats the warfare one yes

[golden glen]

no it's the rouge one. The one from Warfare I only have a point in to open Rupture.

[random scaffold]

No

Our builds are way off in passives

[golden glen]

I've had 6 points in the Rouge ones. for +45% Rupture chance.

[golden glen]

I'd like to compare.

[random scaffold]

it's already there for you

[golden glen]

Then I'll see if I copy further.

ok

[random scaffold]

but your 6 points are 10 * 1.45 = 14.5% chance for rupture

vs 24% damage

well, 4% extra rupture chance for 34% pierce damage etc

if you werre to go 12 on martial expert, there's lots of places you could spent 6 points

[golden glen]

Thank you I've looked at it again and it's a bit different and you'r higher in dmg then I am.

[random scaffold]

u can see that your skill points are not taking into account the benefit of each point

[golden glen]

I thought Martial Expert was the best to pick.

[golden glen]

I was trying to do my best so far.

[random scaffold]

well, sleight of hand also gives 4% per point too

I also am willing to bet you didn't Shadow spell on Anatomy, and still kept bleed power

[golden glen]

For now in just the few steps I'm fine in dmg and can get that with further LV.

[random scaffold]

yeah I'm just explaining why the times are 20s apart

[golden glen]

It's fully over the top to outheal on damage on an enemy, especially Ixion.

[golden glen]

That's good I'm understanding it more and more, a bit I understood already.

[random scaffold]

In my opinion there's not such a thign as a better player in this game, it all comes down to math

[golden glen]

I'd claim you can it on my and your build of a character easily.

You can do it that much quicker, but you don't have to and still clear the game.

[random scaffold]

I just meant, even people with faster reaction times or actions per minute than you doesn't really matter, as longas you know how to build, I'm definitely slower than most people considering my age but if you know how to build, these factors dont matter ^^

[golden glen]

On that strong a character there can be many paths to victory. The below a minutes of the current combo are the best.

[golden glen]

I think I'm on a good path for a solid endgamebuild.

[lapis spear]

There's not going to be any form of endgame in the nearby future, only on full release or later.

[golden glen]

If this works over to the endgame and I then need eventually healthpots as well to bridge on my HP Pool I'll be fine with that, but on current content there's no need to do that. So far the lifeleach build on reduced damages works realy good and easily outfights enemies.

[golden glen]

They shall have all the time they desire.

It's not about when it's there, but beeing ready for it when it's there.

[lapis spear]

Even level cap is not going to stay on 50, so no, you wont be ready by all means with what you have now.

[golden glen]

Surely if it start out with enemies at 71. If I gain 5 LV I might be able to fight a boss +30 LV if they allowed that as an option. I'd at least try that.

[lapis spear]

And i assume they're going to rebalance things several time eventually

[golden glen]

We'd see I believe my character stays awesome.

[golden glen]

I hope the LV cap raises again with the next major patch like it did with earlier ones.

[random scaffold]

would be cool but then u ahve people shaming other peoples builds cause they kill bosses on +50

[golden glen]

that be a whole new league, but I might join that one to of clearing them.

My durability wins that fight for me.

[lapis spear]

I'd pray for some strict time gates like gd crucible and shards 🙂

[random scaffold]

ehhhhhh I hate timers

[golden glen]

I realy like videos and when I end them I see the time on them. Then that's easy to valuate how quick or slow it was.

[lapis spear]

They're the ez filter from tanky slop xD

[random scaffold]

No I mean, like a timer to finish a boss

[golden glen]

That realy depends on gamedesign.

[random scaffold]

If you don't defeat the boss in 1 minute, he enrages and one shots you. Would you like that? 😄

[golden glen]

If I can handle the enraged damage I don't mind it realy.

[lapis spear]

Try reading

[random scaffold]

anyway I don't wanna derail from your thread, you can post as usual

[lapis spear]

:(

[random scaffold]

related to your build

[golden glen]

let's assume he deals 1000 damage and gets 30% enraged ontop he just ends up at a 1300 damage, that's damaging but not to dangerous.

[golden glen]

I've hit a current end as I wrote. Done for now.

I've give some detailed insights for anyone that cares.

I've got advices to a high degree of you psixi and I brought it as far as I could carry it and wanted to take over the changes. The cleartime went from beyond a minute to below a minute. From Easy to Easier. That's the result of building around with the character.

So for now I can take a stop on this.

[lapis spear]

Only took about 3k messages, hurray

[golden glen]

I wonder where this climbed when it's at a 1.0 , it surely gets some steps in between.

[golden glen]

If you read it all and seen it all. I hope you also had your fair share of interest in it.

It's been interesting to me at least.

[lapis spear]

No im not, honestly that was too much for anyone

Bastion kinda does the same thing sub 30, why bother

[golden glen]

That was just about as much as needed. It lead to a valuable converation about my build and gives room for more of it.

[golden glen]

I'll copy another thing of psixi and replace the attack 1 by Barrage on rightclick, that opens a slot for Warbanner on my Slot 1.

So I've played a clip together of 1:04. I won't post that. It looks a lot like the others before, then you know a time to it. I didn't play that perfectly.

made a second Video of 1:07 , though I think that was better played then the one before it was slower.

So I've got the Primary attack 1 back and managed a Video of 1:06

I've removed dodge for flicker. Then I could slot all the remaining skills I use.

3 to boost my dmg Valor+Doom+Horn Stomp, then the Barrage, Warbammer, Mar for Death, Flicker and then Primary attack. The skillbar is full on my build. I either need to apply a second skillbar to combat the enemy or I need to remove Primary attack first for the next skill added.

[golden glen]

So I want to try this Valor now instead.

A Video of it, that was my second quickest time recorded with 56 seconds. https://streamable.com/fxumc6 link expires in 2 days.

[golden glen]

I think it's fair to conclude the new Valor brought me about 10 seconds Time on Ixion. That's realy good if it nearly cut a 7th out of the time, nearly 14% of it.

Yeah made a second Video there I wasn't so lucky with Ixions attackpattern and landed on 0:59 so barely a minute, I still consider that better then what the other skilling did.

I can easily take damocless sword, there's not a lot of dmg I get through that. A higher Frenzy from 4 of 5 to 5 of 5 increased the dmg and a 4 second longer staytime is good for my damage. My critrate was realy close to 100% , so a 8% critrate make a supercrit still unlikely. 1 point I've got over for crits, that's ok. I would if it was an enhanced capacity go for critrate next if I could and try to max that from 1 to 5. So far this certainly works. I didn't even realy notice the dmg from Damocless sword to me yet. I get 15% dmg for it , and that 4 seconds longer with even 8% dmg more from me, for a minor bit of critrate where I just barely scap the 102% Critrate and don't miss 24% Critdmg on my 321% critdmg, that just give me 345% critdamage if I skilled into that, and the critrate in barrage would go from 100% to 110% instead, when it's active. The raw damages to it work far better then aiming for a bit of critdmg less then 10% of it. And a minor critrate upgrade that makes super crits appear about 1 of 10 hits, instead of 1 on of 50 hits. It still seemed to function quicker though supercrits are 5 times less likely to happen.

[golden glen]

For the joke of it I respecced from Doom Horn to Shadow clone. 15 to 15 3 Livingtime, 1 Frenzied, and 4 Enhanced DMG. It took 1:03 minutes https://streamable.com/0b56ol

Here's one with Doom Horn 57 seconds https://streamable.com/13jk2s expires in 2 days. For what this Doom Horn should offer. It's not much quicker. I would have believed the shadow clone should cut far worse in time.

That's the used shadow Clone.

Realy just 6 seconds difference on all that -Resistances. I don't play the follow up well as my chain is to long with doom Horn and valor. So might need to use Valor before Doom Horn and Stomp and Barrage then. Then Doom Horn + Barrage.

Still I would have believed that the times of the builds should defer more, barely a 10% difference in time, and both are quick. There's not much difference there, but a bit.

From the one on the ground to the one Equipped. I just found an upgrade, that might enable fire ailment to to my build. The % should reach a higher damage overall. The dmg of the bow is not split Fire Pierce, and is only Pierce with a +48 Weapon Fire dmg. I believe this could cut better in time. I'll see.

https://streamable.com/wdxmpr The fight with the new bow took 55 seconds, so fairly good I'd claim, surely nothing I can see as a downgrade for now. It managed my current besttime at least on a first try. The video expires in 2 days

[golden glen]

With the new bow a run of 49-50 seconds Video. https://streamable.com/06w3j1 expires in 2 days. So a new besttime for Ixion 70 was achieved.

I get like a third of Flat Pierce dmg to the bow through the different model. I get 35% Pierce dmg ontop and loose 13% projectile dmg. I hope I've done the math right and from my believe the new model does better.

[golden glen]

Now made a Clip 48 seconds long. I won't show that there's little difference in it. Possibly I can get finer and be more lucky on the attackpattern and get a 45 Seconds together.

After having seen multiple attempts I see a powerspike in dmg if I land Doom Horn and Doom Horn + Stomp another powerspike.

[golden glen]

If I plan Doom Horn Barrage better my follow up also starts getting usefull.

If I land Stomp + Barrage in that Second it be realy usefull , especially if that stomp crit which it doesn't allways do.

Then I try to apply Doom Horn, when stomp is at 4 seconds, then again when stomp gets ready and then barrage afterwards, wait for the 4 seconds to go to land doom horn and fire barrage again. That's been a solid tactic for the fight. First run there, place Warbanner and Mark for Death then Fire Barrage until Ixion gets close range, start the combo Valor,Doom Horn,Stomp and then Barrage, Barrage and use energypots until 4 seconds are gone, Doom Horn again and then continue to Barrage until Doom Horn+Stomp is ready again. That you do for a short while and any enemy will lay. The current setup is just not strong enough to handle my Reaver. Chapter 4 and 5 I realy wait for you 😄

[random scaffold]

Didn’t you say doomhorn is bad ?

[golden glen]

On Ixion theres first a minor phase of invulnerability, but you can outstand the dmg easily and when he gets targetable again you tend to be ready for Valor+Doom Horn+Stomp+Barrage, and then you continue barraging until 4 seconds on Stomp use Doom Horn again and fire barrage until Doom Horn, Stomp is ready again and continue on using barrage until the target is dead. I didn't count rotations needed, but it's not that many.

[golden glen]

I redecided. I feel more satisfied with my clear time, didn't want to try shadowclone instead again.

The Bow I've picked up is amazing.

The shift from 50/50 split fire and pierce with 50 added flat pierce is worse then the new one with all pierce dmg and added 48 fire, and the scaling for pierce dmg is higher by 35% and the one for projectile dmg just 13% lower, so I thought I scale up on that item.

I don't scale any fire and my Pierce amplifier is beyond 400%, so a 50 dmg more is a 200 effective 😄

I just loose 100 fire dmg but gain 48, so there I've lost only 52% dmg.

Where I've gained flat beyond a 50 dmg to pierce, that's more then a third to the flat value 😄

On just like 6 runs of Ixion 😄

[golden glen]

I believed the time difference be more impressive, but I'm highly satisfied with my outcome for now. I'll play Doom Horn instead of Shadow Clone, potentially even just 2 Follow Ups on Barrage might land more dmg then 1 Shadow Clone through all its lifetime.....

The resistance reduction ontop if that realy functions for me looks awesome in the rought with so many % to it.

It's my favorit skill on the Reaver to apply resistance reduction to a target.

48 Seconds on Ixion 70 is fine enough as an ending point for chapter 3 to me. I realy believe the Reaver is strong enough for what's waiting in chapter 4. It's so overgeared likely compared to what you be when you get there at a 1.0. In LV and how often it replaced gear. It got a lot by playing through and then even more. You squished out about all dmg you could easily get and are about 12 seconds faster , which is still a remaining 25% of my time, and still I can feel very satisfied about my result up until now. Doesn't look like much room for improvements on a first glance, though it's quicker then mine. It should be a bit quicker. I'm totally fine with my slower one. I believe I tried to get it better as much as I can do for now.

[golden glen]

You would do better with the new bow as well @random scaffold psixi it lost 52 fire damage per attack and gained 200 to 400 pierce ontop of each attack. So there's a drasticall dmg difference there, though it's just a third to 2 thirds up in dmg to pierce. The numbers for the new bow are fare better to me. I also believe that my valor skilling might make you quicker to. The bow was surely measureable to me and the numbers I've presented you should cleary make a difference. My Barrage hits 8 times, there 200 to 400 added pierce do realy well. I'd gladly take 52 fire less for that.

[random scaffold]

thats why I converted your fire back to peirrce with imbuement

[golden glen]

Good I've found this other one 🙂

And that within less then ten runs of today, my first 3 seem the luckiest so far.

[golden glen]

what % did you get out of it? possible you even had higher dmg because you converted % of 100 dmg. At 60% you had with the 50 added pierce to it more effective flat dmg, but this one has 30% pierce dmg ontop to it, while only 12% lower projectile dmg. So I wonder, if you didn't anyway scale to a higher then I did.

Anyway, that makes it no so complicated as to play that imbuement.

I've sold the old one already that ones no option any more.

My clearspeeds seem better, and I didn't change the skillpoints.

[random scaffold]

nah, 60%, u cant go above 60% witrh aura

u would need a relic

[golden glen]

Not better as yours but as my own.

[random scaffold]

and even then you get 95%

[golden glen]

If you reach 60 then you had higher flat dmg.

You've got 150 to 175 pierce dmg nearly able to be amplified to 4 times incoming dmg. 100- 125 dmg that's converted by 60 % , then that add to the pierce, while I only have a 50 to 100 higher pierce and a 52 to 77 lower fireattack. Your effective pierce will go to 160 to 210 pierce dmg, mine varies more between 200 and 250 , while I get 48 firedmg in. So a flat should be stronger on your character then on mine, and you have extra multiplyers for dmg on Preperation, where I reserve energy to. Your pierce dmg should be a 160 to 210 Pierce dmg, where I just gain a 50 to 100 pierce dmg I loose a 52 Fire, but it's not scaled by a 420% Pierce dmg I have. So that at 200 to 250 instead of 160 to 210 is realy great for the low fire dmg I loose as fire only scales by a 100% dmg, and not at a 420% like it does now as that's also nearly 30% pierce dmg again ontop of what I've collected. So my lowest is not realy your highest and my highest is some beyond yours. If you had alike higher dmg , then you'll fight the fight also easier.

I'll gain at 50 Pierce compared to loosing 52 fire a difference around 150 dmg that's it less per hit with the old bow. Then the Pierce dmg is even enhanced by another 30% and there's the possibility of a higher hit that countes even better. And the missing fire dmg on it can not upscale to the gained Pierce I have.

If you had the bow, you also don't need that build.

At 60% conversion you barely gaine like 30 damage to Pierce and leave a 20 fire remaining, that again be an increase around 90 dmg per hit.

[random scaffold]

It’s more than that

[golden glen]

If it's even better then I thought, then that's realy good for me.

At least it's a lot of extra dmg through finding this different model.

My new best 😄

Next time I remember to keep the bow for Row 2....

[golden glen]

Reskilled Ability Enhancement on Preperation into Pierce Imbuement and I've managed a video of 47 seconds.https://streamable.com/5myvcs the video expires in 2 days.

[random scaffold]

what are you using on banner

your energy should be going up way faster

[golden glen]

I'm using ramping up damage,-damage taken, and reducing the enemies damage.

[random scaffold]

yeah thats why i'm still faster 😄

[golden glen]

I tried to figure it, and it effectively gave me 91 extra dmg by getting 29 from the weapon attack to pierce making an effective 121 dmg, where you have to take 29 away from , as that's the removed fire dmg, and an added 23 Pierce dmg which will make 98 extra dmg to it, so i've gained nearly 190 extra dmg from that switch.

[golden glen]

Ok I'll try it, I remove some of the tankiness, and see how quick it is.

[random scaffold]

I dont know, cause im not using it in my clip and i wasnt close to dying

[golden glen]

Me neither and I think it's good so.

I'll try with the different banner now

it went all out from the defenses and all into energyregen.

So the Video start to finish is 41 seconds long the fight a bit shorter https://streamable.com/5myvcs

Ones I was close to dying as I've got a lot of damage and he went invulnerable there I've used a pot. The clearspeed was the quickest yet.

[random scaffold]

yeah it will be, cause u get energy frorm both banner + moonclaw

means u can keep using barrage non sttop

[golden glen]

I didn't think I have that energyproblem, but if it was that way.

[random scaffold]

You do, in the clip you sent before this one

you couldnt cast barrage and stood still for like 2s

[golden glen]

If you write so I believe it could have been so.

It was more before I've got moonclaw.

[golden glen]

Again a few seconds less.

[random scaffold]

for non bosses you will need to change some mods on the barrage though

and even the banner, you wont be healing without mark

[golden glen]

I've tried one without rupture and put into deft hands 6 more instead and 1 into strategos. There I landed at this should be with the changes. https://streamable.com/g0oevx 40 seconds long. The link expires in 2 days.

I'll try later removing 5 from Deft hands and add that to strategos instead.

[random scaffold]

what a surprrise, rupture is useless like I predcited

[golden glen]

Yeah I want to see next if Strategos or Deft hands is more usefull.

[golden glen]

So one try with Stratego was at 48 seconds , and one with deft hands was at 42 seconds.

and a second to that that was on 44

So there's a bit varienty there.

That's it for todays trying around with modificator and skills.

[golden glen]

So I've switched points, moving 4 out of Taste for Blood into Strategos, and 1 out of Heart of battle to put it into strategos as well. Then I landed on 0:49, then I switched points out of Stratego, put 1 into heart of battle, that should increase my dmg by 1% compared with Strategos, and 4 into Taste of Blood +5% vitality penetration +45% vitality dmgand +30%lifesteal. I'm not sure if that affects mark for deaths vitality dmg. If It did It be a realy good choice. The one with Taste for Blood and Heart of Battle took 0:47. So it was minorly quicker on a first attempt.

So now I've made Strategos 7 a Strategos 6 and add basic Rupture to the build.

So this ones cut shorter, and it landed on 36 seconds. So a new best actually. The cut gave some seconds to to it, but a new besttime in video. I left out the drops and stopped in Ixions Dying animation already.

[golden glen]

So I wanted to use the follow up from Doom Horn better and landed at a 34 second video, probably cut even a bit more optimiced.

I've beaten your time @random scaffold 😄

I've just checked it again, 1 period of follow up at leat I've missed on the second stage.

I'm done with testing for now, that cut nearly 20% to 25% of the overall length of it. I've misstimed follow up often and that might have enhanced my damage even more if I would have hold that up for longer, so I could get the time even quicker, but I feel done for now, and 34 Seconds is realy fine for now. It's the quickest in the discussion currently. I might get it to 32 or less seconds if I play that doom horn better. I can leave it at 34 seconds for now. I feel I've done that very quick. I'm nearly at a 2/3 less in recording time compared with the time when I've started recording, If i get 4 seconds faster then I've cut the clearspeed two thirds of it. I've cut out a bit of the running and the dropping sequence, that also gives some seconds. This went from easy to easier. I might be at a point of optimisiation where just gearing realy helps, there's not much to do about the skillpoints.

I also think I rearranged my skillpoints a plenty often enough and I've been through any major option to it, except changing the main damage skill. Else there's just defensive options left to try, but currently in that fight and others I've got strong enough defensis. The healing incoming from Marked to Death is also immense, then I've got my emergency Healthpots. Generally all is fine. The fights got far quicker and the character was favored to win and now it's even more winning.

I'll see how much I want to switch into that in later stages of the game, and how far devs allow to level and get.

I might reduce my DPS a bit, if that allows me to survive again. Currently I am surviving.

So I could take a bit out there and put in into the offensive again. Like on Warbanner,Battlefield awareness or Unyielding. Those where either specced more defensive like with the Warbanner or skilled like Battlefield Awarness or higher like Unyielding was.

Over the course of testing I've got ailments far better implemented, I've got some currently unneeded defenses away for some more damage. I've found a better Bow. I've got Pierce Imbuement on Prepared.

Barely 50% quicker then a minute...That's realy good a clip that short makes me even more comfortable about coming content, and I could even build my more defensive setup again if I prefer that. That's realy great so far.

The next 5 LV I put into Unyielding and Versatile Defense. Then it's 6 points into unyielding upgrading that to 12. 4 points into Versatile defense, and then take the 10% armor ontop of it.

Then I can see about Strategos and Accuracy.

If I find points beyond that I'll put it into Versatile defense and Second wind I might bring up Versatile Defense and Second Wind before Stratego and Accuracy, and Strategos before Accuracy.

57 to bring second wind to 4 be good.

8 points in Versatile defense will bring me +50% Armor 😄 that's realy good to become tanky.

So i might level that up to 57. First Versatile defense 4 points, then Unyielding 6 and I might have hit the next levelcap again, then I'll continue on Versatile Defense and Second Wind, I can do that within a 10 LV.

Second Wind would be 0.4% Hp regenerated and I'd take the modifier for increased HP regen rate, so I'll get a +40% HP regem out of it to. That's usefull for my tanky build. It adds good ontop of my healing. I might be able to get that within 2 patches. Then I can see for minor dmg steps of 3% and then even later for the 2% from accuracy. Within 15 LV I might max second wind and then go for a bit more dmg how far I can.

[golden glen]

So now I made 2 videos 1 beeing 0:37 and the other 0:39 I've managed down to 0:34, that's all good every try faster then 0:40. I could do that fight minutes long, but I clearly don't have to do that.

I also got a take a second take of a 0:34 run.

[golden glen]

I realy want to come back to that bow. If I counted it out right, the bow I had would have a 183 to 223 pierce dmg with pierce imbuement . The new bow I've found with Pierce imbuement Does Deliver 252 to 302 pierce dmg. It has a 21 to 36 lower fire dmg on hit , but against that pierce where I've got multiplikators making it 4.20 times Pierce dmg. The minor values growth into hundreds. I get like 82 more dmg out of the 29 Fire into 29 Pierce. The Flat Pierce Value increased by 50 to 100 on the bow, and there's another added 23 Pierce dmg from Pierce Imbuement, so I rose at least a k in DPS. Getting around 400 to 600 more dmg out of each hit compared with the bow and build before. That's a 69 to 89 difference in dmg on the flat pierce value with pierce imbuement enabled. 23 was still more then 10% on the lowhit of my flat dmg on the bow. I realy counted out, that it should be quicker with this setup, because it has a lot more pierce dmg to access. +200 to 400 dmg on the bow alone without pierce imbuement and with conversion and pierce imbuement I've found another 52. So that's another 208 dmg at least. It's certainly a k in DPS I get on this skilling possibly more then that. So the optimisation in build did a some, and finding the different bow is about the same to more. I also offered another 30% in pierce dmg, which is an affective 60 to 75 pierce dmg ontop on the bow, because there's even more positive scaling on my character on that bow, it looses a minor Value of %Projectile dmg, but I've got a higher multiplicator on Pierce dmg. +The flat values of it. Respeccing found nearly the same as lowhit dmg and halve of strong hitting attacks. That's certainly how I've collected a quicker time.

[random scaffold]

+35 pierrce damage is better than +50% pierrce damage

[golden glen]

If you get both on the same time. It's just better 😉 Extra modifier + more flat dmg.

[random scaffold]

or just get a magical bow with +120 pierce

[golden glen]

As it's to likely to find something better. I have streaks of beyond 20 runs not finding the bow for replacement.....

I still feel I can quit farming for a bow for now and wait for chapter 4. Even though there might be a better roll somewhere. It's some better then the old and the new skilling added some ontop.

[golden glen]

I've quickly tested a Trickshot build, removing 17 from Barrage, 6 from Doom Horn and 10 from Warbanner. I've removed 6 from Unyielding , 5 from Battlehardened and 1 from Eviscerate to level out Leadershipt that's 91% increased dmg for summons. I've levelled Trickshot to 17 and Shadowclone. My Trickshot lands only at a 79% critchance, so it doesn't crit every time like Barrage does. I've used Shadow Clone Copy on Trickshot. Buffed up my Summon by 70% more dmg and 15% allspeed through the modifiers I could pick and enhanced its lifetime by 3. The Video is 0:50 so worse then the other in time, but you can still easily clear it on Trickshot. I've had far bigger energyissues on my Trickshot, but that doesn't trigger Moonclaw so constantly like my Barrage does. My banner also regenerates less energy and allows for a bit less dmg now. So or so , you can clear Ixion on 70 on multiple Reaver builds. In the end it still was an easy fight to clear.

[golden glen]

I realy believe it's possible to play through the current content with each of the ranged attack skills from the Reaver. Be it Heavy Attack , Rain of Arrows or Barrage from Warfare or be it Trickshot or Scattershot from Rouge. My current favorit is Barrage. I never applied Scattershot well and never made that one look broken. I didn't have as high success on Rain of Arrows the last time I've tried. I still believe it's weaker then Barrage. Heavy Attack might take longest to do, and Barrage is far quicker, the critrate is better to. That's also replacing a Tier 1 with a Tier 3 skill. From the diversity of playstyles realy chooseable with a Reaver you can try any ranged attack. They all lead to success. I might try Rain of Arrows instead of Barrage ones, then mainly to see the time on it, to have a clear idea if I don't swatch it against Barrage or I do so.

So this was a first Rain of Arrows.The Video is 1:04. I was a bit unlucky on Ixions attackpattern, that loose me a few seconds, but then I'm barely at a minute or so. Barrage on my character clearly outperforms that. You can do it as mentioned , but there can be more efficent ways. My Rain of Arrows also just has a 50% critrate. The video expires in 2 days from now https://streamable.com/6wt2rc

I won't make videos of Scattershot and Heavy Attack. I believe both can do that and are slower then Barrage to me.

[narrow fulcrum]

Your first skill looks like it is stuck on cooldown? Is that a bug?

[fallow wave]

It doesn't go into cd until the active buff expires

[golden glen]

Made a try on Pan on 70 with this. It took 36 seconds. I fumbled the start a bit. https://streamable.com/3cs3zo expires in 2 days.

Then I made a kill on skylla took 1:57 to complete the list of mainbosses of chapters. https://streamable.com/v3ap9v expires in 2 days.

[golden glen]

How weak Shadow Clone is I removed 3 Points from Flicker and gave 3 points to Shadow Clone and enhanced its lifetime. The Video I've created is 8 seconds slower then my besttime without shadow clone. It's redicoulus how unnessecarry and unusefull the skill seems to be for my build. It certainly doesn't feel like a good addition. https://streamable.com/o46h40

Removed 1 point from Flicker from 6 to 5 to add 1 to Battlefield Awareness with 1 in enhanced Armor. Making it 1 from 0.

I just feel it's sad that Shadow Clone doesn't deliver a positive impact to my fights. Here's another without and it's 35 Seconds. https://streamable.com/elkk7p expires in 2 days.

Shadow clone is a very weak skill. I'll see what I'll get instead in endgame. It's not good enough.

[golden glen]

updated the steam discussion for a better overwiev every screenshot is named now.

[random scaffold]

Barrage Glass cannon damage

[fallow wave]

Cutting your screen to not show pre stacking stuff is kinda sketchy 😭
Show full clear, do not make Gregor think that it's possible to reach the boss and do that instantly

[remote nacelle]

also that's a bastion, not a reaver

[golden glen]

Yeah that's amazing compared with mine in time.

[lapis spear]

Its like that only because someone forgot to change % increased crit to additive crit in the mods alongside rogue skills

[remote nacelle]

that's not a reaver as far as i can tell

so no rogue

[lapis spear]

yes you can still get close to 200% on barrage without rogue

and close to 300% with rogue xD

[remote nacelle]

just not sure why rogue mentioned then? idk it's late XD

oh god because of the barrage mod, i quit man. good night 🥀

[fallow wave]

all they had to do is open their list of skill mods and "ctrl +f" "crit"
And fix everything that shows
Still they missed like 3 or 4

[remote nacelle]

it's okay, maybe in 0.6!

[golden glen]

It's exactly a bit beyond 100% on Barrage, that's the threshhold I aim for.

[golden glen]

I don't produce that damages, so easy.

and mine is a different concept

From Tanky to Glass cannon there's a large step.

[golden glen]

I'll see what % critrate I can aim for with a 1.0 for now it's good having 104% on my maindamage source. Even less can carry you through the game, but your better of with 100% and beyond.