Saurus Sorceress Build

Reply 533#  volthce1991

-yep lv7 makes a big diff.
-ele's mid range skills are: force explosion and Freezing field.  and to a degree, chilling mist.

Reply 537#  175.*.*.133

-i was dead before i could touch the dragon... so it was boring lol.
-doesn't look like a hard nest once you get few rounds of practice.  
-The freedom team strategy is super stable,,and because its so stable --even if i were to be alive, it looked like a tedious task because the pally had the aggro 95% of the time..and dps whacks the dragon's tail.  and that's too stable for me...i like challenge and taking risks...idk if i can but wanna try solo the dragon!!


-for Ele gears, going with SD set (including 3set accessory) is by far the best choice...its so much stronger than 50A because it gives a huge boost to matk%+ ice%+fire%+HP+INT..Not to mention it is much cheaper to +++those SD set than 50A. you'll have so much matk and 50% ice +50% fire element...and your hp will be like 150k.. and you don't really have to worry about crit because we the have hell fire passive.

We dont have level40cap yet in DN-Sea, It was just from an article that i've read about hellfire passive.

I can see that the FD build has a lot more skills and packs more damage but over all they are pretty equal on that map alone when just looking at the run.

Reply 542#  EarlZ

-yea with my current FD boost of 70%,(and spending so much to get 70% boost,) the fire skill are still weak, and only do 5~10k more dmg than the time I had 50% fire...  there's lots of room for improvement though, as my dmg can be boosted by 30% from FD, then from matk, and lastly Fire%.
-so you guys can see how effective the fire% build is:)

part1 dps build seleana in hellbishop.

-This ele has less than avg gears...Matk 4.7k, fire52%, crit 11k, FD10%,  HP68k.
-yet, with no lag and the windows explorer error-_-; you should be able to solo hell bishop w/o death easily.

part2

I'm confused about why you chose burning hand skill plate. There's no such thing as duration one. There is only CD and CD reset, unless there's a 3rd option..o.o

Reply 545#  PokeKai

-Its the CD reduction plate, lowers the CD to 2.8s or so.
-This apparently insignificant reduction yields you quite a boost in your overall dps, when you're spamming your fire skills.

Saurus, hmm, haha do u mind telling us the reason why u stop ur Fire Elestra?

i think Fire Elestra might be dealing more damages as it is able to freeze enemies 3times, giving 2.5x damage boost. >.< but seeing u stopping ur Fire Elestra make me curious =P

Reply 547#  175.*.*.72

-the reason was that freeze debuff at one point got capped at 2x. and so i switched over to seleana.
-I am unsure if its still capped, but about 2weeks ago i did 2.5x dmg on my seleana, but it happened once, and i have never seen my FB do x2.5dmg since then.
-There is nothing wrong with the elestra, its a very powerful & player friendly class, allowing any1 to pull off the x2 dmg every 45sec.  
-Another reason why I'm using a seleana is that FD stat works well with a hybrid build..and I could not come up with a good FD hybrid elestra build.

Hm I'm not sure what I should get for my 4th skill plate...

My 3 must haves are fireball, fire shield, flame road.

Whats best for a pure fire seleana build? Firebird, inferno, ingition, rolling lava, or vortex? Right now i have glacier wave duration equipped.

Reply 549#  PokeKai

-I highly recommend getting a +20% dmg crest for this skill, because the burn effect is very powerful, provided the last hit of the skill crits on target.

-If I were to rank the crests(from A~F,) for use in lv50 new lotus abyss map:
  -Firebird C, bosses have crazy SA and deal massive dmg...that its too risky using this skill at 0-range in many situations.
  -inferno B, Very useful, but would be best if Inferno is maxed.
  -ingition C, powerful, but not enough to kill off mobs if you're using lv1 ignition +avg gears.
  -rolling lava B+, very useful and powerful skill.
  -vortex A, the burn is Op. However,with the recent patch, iIve noticed that some bosses (those that use barrier, like the 1st boss in bishop & mino boss in apo hell) have become immune to the burning effect of flame vortex.
  -glacier wave C,  great for controlling mobs, but unfortunately new bosses are immune to freeze debuff.

I'll rank the rest as well,, for those interested.  (again, this is for use in the new lv50 lotus abyss map)
-flame shield  A,  1) for its SA;  w/o the SA from this skill, you'll likely be bouncing all over the map before you can cast your skills. 2)for its dmg reduction.  w/o shields bosses hit you 10k++.
-Fire wall D, I don't want to rank it F. but this is not worth the slot.
-Flame road A, very good skill. must have for fire ele.
-Flame spark C, powerful, but due the large number of mobs, it is better to get a AOE skill plate instead of flame spark.
-burning hand B+,  basically adds 20%dmg to all your fire skills.  1) works best if you have fire% stacked. 2)the dmg dealt is an AOE explosion, so it works great on a crowd.

Reply 550#  kentasan

So I have max ignition, firebird, and inferno. Does that make a difference in the way you ordered the skill plate?

I didn't want glacier wave for the damage, i wanted it for the duration for more 50% damage attack. With the plate its only about 9s freeze.

I'm leaning on vortex vs rolling lava if i dont need glacier wave.

can u clarify more on the hellfire skill? description says this "This skill grants +20% to your current crit stat + an additional 5000 crit to all fire spells on targets affected with the burn status". my question, does the +20% apply to my base crit stat not just my fire skills? example. if i were to max my crit stat @lvl 40 so that both ICE and fire skills will crit at 95% chance, should i increase my crit to just 10000/1.2? or does hellfire just really just affect my fire skills?

Reply 551#  PokeKai

-hmm if that's the case, it would be really nice to get a crest for ignition...but I'd still go with the Fire Ulti.
-the GW does look good in gdn though...in gdn i'm planning to use Fire ulti, FB, flame road, and GW.

Reply 552#  203.*.*.3

This skill grants +20% to your current crit stat + an additional 5000 crit to all fire spells on targets affected with the burn status

-I think this description is very clear, so i'm not sure if i can make it any more explicit.
-it works  on brunt target.
-it grants extra crit to all your fire spells (but not to ice skills).
-the granted crit is 20% of your current crit stat (the crit stat displayed on your char stat page) + an additional 5000 crit (regardless of your base crit stat.)

example. if i were to max my crit stat @lvl 40 so that both ICE and fire skills will crit at 95% chance, should i increase my crit to just 10000/1.2? or does hellfire just really just affect my fire skills?

-for your ice skills to crit @95% on a lv40 target, you'll need 10k+ crit.

I'm not rich, so, at lv 40 cap if I were to craft both my weapons -crit resist prefix (instead of int), would I be at a disadvantage? How do they compare in usefulness?

Sir on your 5th build the Salaena FD build which is indicated there also your main build. what skill plates do you recommend to use?. I only have Inferno in my mind right now lol

-the -crit resist is for players with high crit, to deal with mobs that have high crit resist.
-The problem with this prefix is that it may still be bugged, and thus not working properly..
-if using this prefix, you must add it to both your main/sub weapon.
-@lv40 there are not many mobs that have very high crit resist, so its only use would be in apo nest vs. apo ogre,  and also SDN.
   --basically, if your target has high crit resist and you have  high crit;
      -90% of the time you will be doing ~0.5x dmg due to the target's resist.   
      -5% of the time when your crit strikes are not resisted by the target,,,you will do 2x dmg.
      -5% of the time when you do not crit on the target, you will deal 1x dmg.

-So by lowering the crit resist on a target, your dmg on that particular mob with a very high crit resist goes from 0.5x →　2x dmg. Therefore, its definitely an option to use the -crit resist prefix when fighting them...  but in other situations @lv40, the -crit resist prefix is not recommended.
-In a party, I'm sure other members will have Int prefix on their weapons... so I would consider going with -crit resist prefix.
-Also, it will give you a bit more crit stat than the Int prefix.  Which you may or may not need.

-Fire ulti  (#1 dps skill)
-flame road (#2 dps skill)
-FB (#3 dps skill)
-GW (the 1.5x dmg applies to all skills, and because the FD build has many ice skills in addition to the fire skills, this crest is probably the best choice.)

So you said that:

and burn debuff stack?
-Dmg for burn = Burn from A + Burn from B + Burn from C ...

Does that mean that burns from different fire skills can stack?