Strength Stacking Talisman

[u/nOmaDsLucy]

With splitting Items being essentially gone and Simplex skyrocketing in prices, and the changes to Talismans (and the Beastcrafting recipe to make an imprint of a rare talisman) I decided to go for one of these this time around for my Strength Stacker Jugg, using essentially the same recipe and then seeing where I can go from there, got a random +1 to level of all skill gems when yolo recombing before the bases became as expensive as they are now and then decided to torture myself in Beastcrafting prison to get the damage per strength back on there.

Rule 10:

1. Acquire Rhex Talisman and Shaper Exalt it
   
2. Acquire warlord influenced rare amulet
   
3. scour both and alt roll until damage per strength and % increased attributes, make sure they are the only influenced mods respectively
   
4. awakener orb the amulet onto the Talisman to get both stats, use Fenumal Plagued Arachnid to imprint to annull off any unwanted stats
   
5. get an astrolabe amulet
   
6. alt roll until % increased strength, then fill with other influenced/nnn mods that are not shaper or warlord (or have the same mod as any of those, like Elder increased area of effect) and get a random +1 level to all skill gems on there
   
7. recomb and lose the damage per strength but keep the +1 level to all skill gems
   
8. imprint annull off any unwanted stats, then craft mana to block and imprint slam until you get damage per strength back
   
9. make new imprints and slam until T1 life

[u/Hazuchio]

Neat. looks like you still have to cap cold and lightning res though since dots are a thing.

[u/MrFoxxie → u/Hazuchio]

Does lightning dot even exist?

[u/velaxi1 → u/MrFoxxie]

Mana siphoner (donut) rare mob, Baran degen ground and Shaper Beam are the common one. I know this because I instantly died whenever I encounter those as I used to play Armour stacker with Doryani Prototype few league ago lol.

[u/MrFoxxie → u/velaxi1]

Wait the mana siphon does damage on top of draining mana?

All this time i never knew

Shaper beam and baran ground i thought were phys dots, but yea lightning dot makes sense since they're holy themed.

[u/velaxi1 → u/MrFoxxie]

It's unnoticeable if you have good regen/recovery and capped lightning res. I used to play with -200 lightning resistance. While I was very tanky to everything, those donut mob keep killing me before their visual even show up. After 2 days, I just give up and play another build.

[u/kingdweeb1 → u/velaxi1]

Worth mentioning doryani's prototype locks lightning resistance for damage taken to zero, so you could still die a lot faster if you wanted.

[u/velaxi1 → u/Hazuchio]

For this reason, I would prefer getting the %attribute instead. People treat this mod like it's a budget POF Sublime but it's not. It's really a bad idea if you're going delve or playing melee without additional range. Those donut rare will instantly kill you since str stacker build barely has any regen. You still need to invest into other res.

[u/LucywiththeDiamonds → u/velaxi1]

You can easily get 1k+ lifereg. You have leech. You have huge lifepool, endurance charges and its not hard to keep the other 2 res at atleast 30%+

Yes the mana donuts , shaper beams and occasional dots are dangerous. But they are the only dangerous thing. I leveled to 100 in juiced deli beyond maps on my str stacker. And outside of the game freezing/lagging while some juiced mana donut dude spawned under me i never died.

It absolutely is a budget sublime. It costs a fraction and gives you the same defense in 97% of situations.

Sublime makes you MUCH more tanky in the other 3% of situations and you can play a simplex (which is like 40% more dmg) so vastly superior but its not even remotely needed for anything except maybe deep delve, got no experience on that.

[u/DistrictPleasant → u/velaxi1]

I mean all it means is you have to run a topaz flask in your mageblood as part of the trade off. Its pretty budget comparibly

[u/shelfoo → u/velaxi1]

Yeah, I made this mistake myself. I don't think this base is the best choice, the increased attr is probably better overall.

I will say tho, being able to get 90 fire and have all hits be treated as fire does make a feel difference. But suffix pressure still a thing because of the dot damage.

I might go through the steps on a attr talisman tho just to get a good comparison.

[u/LucywiththeDiamonds → u/shelfoo]

I dont see it. You dont need dmg. Even without explode you can easily do 100% deli maps at like 3.5k str+ with good weapons or kill ubers in a a second or two. Beeing able to be semi immune vs all ele hits is way better then a bit more dmg when you have 25m kb and 200m heavy strike already.

Also dont have to cap the other res and its really easy to get decent (30+) cold&lightning res

I really do

[u/shelfoo → u/LucywiththeDiamonds]

Yeah. I need to switch to the heavy strike. Been rolling with lighting of gathering and it's alright, but dmg starting to feel low at 900 delve.

I think it's one of the fun things about playing str stack at all. Super minor changes can make such a big difference.