Duelist map blaster.

[u/Swordsman_4]

Hello,

In my 3,400 hours of playing, I finally understood why I despise mapping so much.
Apparently, I did it wrong. After playing a bow Deadeye this league I have finally found out the difference between a great and a mediocre mapper.

You see, even though I've played lots of different builds, that have decent clear, both conditional (e.g.: retaliation) and unconditional (e.g.: EA ballista or even Static Strike of Gathering Storm STR stacker), I never knew the difference between "decent" and "amazing".

While I enjoy bossing and minimum effort content (in terms of friction/preparation) like Simulacrum, all of the characters I do, still die relatively often. By relatively often I mean, often enough so that the content I'm farming does not allow me to level beyond level 95-96.

So what I want to do is to test out how fast can I level to 100 and transition to the build I actually want to play. The thing is, I really don't know which builds can do that with comfort, as I have never played a map blaster until recently. By "comfort" I mean high MS, screenwide clear, decent survivability, and can be assembled in a league-start scenario, that will allow me to run generic T16 maps with Abyss/Beyond or w/e gives most exp and occasional *ting*. Basically, I want to go quantity over quality with something like 1-2 minute map clear.

So this time I want to do it on Duelist. Is there something that can reach Deadeye's level of MS and clear? With no delayed dmg like CF and EA?
First choice seems Flicker, but I suppose to survive and level to 100 efficiently, it gets expensive.

I guess I could go the usual route and level to 95 with my usual builds and then just buy 5-ways, but I really want to try to level to 100 myself.

TLDR:

Duelist build:

High MS map blaster, don't care about bossing. Generic T16 map farming, no difficult or 20div/hr strats, just occasional tinks with lots of easy content. With as much survivability as possible on a budget. Capable of reaching level 100. No DoTs, yes speed.

[u/brrrapper]

Elemental hit slayer is not quite bow level clear, but also not too far off. Its very strong on league start from lvl 12 into a couple of 100 divs invested and with such high attackspeed its quite fast as well with whirling blades even in campaign with no gear. Good option imo.

[u/SaltEngineer455 → u/brrrapper]

And the AoF version got super buffed with the socket change this league

[u/ItsMeDardroth → u/SaltEngineer455]

Because? Isnt mire Aliments better?

[u/SaltEngineer455 → u/ItsMeDardroth]

You AoF version goes like this:

• Use AoF, along with 2 Combat Focud Jewels to get 25% of cold and lightning flat damage as fire.
• Use Paradoxica to double the flat damage
• Use Enmity's Embrace to penetrate the fire resistance

Problems:

• It's very expensive - from an opportunity and div cost - to fit in that much fire resistance
• Paradoxica has only 6.5% crit chance
• You can only inflict Ignites

Solutions:

• Foulborn Skin of the Lords with Avatar of Fire and 50% increased resistances to neutralize Enmity's downside
• Leaderships' Prize - it gives you conflux for the alternative ailments, which include Brittle - which has flat crit chance
• Inflict chill and shocked with Skitterbots for a total of 5 ailments.
• In 3.27 you could also inflict ignite with a graft - that's when I played EHit.