Don't Sleep on THESE Masteries - 3.16 Scourge League

[@Palsteron]

What Masteries caught your eye?

[@Daetherion]

Wands! I league started Expedition as an int stacking wander (it was "fun" - made it to red maps on day 2, so slow but fun lol), and now I'm tempted to do so again, but this time I'll be much more well informed.

[@wolvie90]

I'm planning on starting as brand Assassin so having Holy Conquest moved to Mastery is just awesome. Another that caught my eye is the +3 to crit supports in crit clusters, I think that will be a killer boost to CoC builds if it works as I think with Woke CoC support.

[@stevenc3224]

@@exitbot5597 "Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted on you" is exactly what I saw

[@Siegram999]

"15% more skill effect duration"

[@kamex4k]

Daggers, I'm starting as White Wind Assassin fb, nightblade gives so much dmg and survivability thanks to mastery and dagger nodes, elusive etc, currently running 2.5 million dps on low, and the best is you don't need brittle

[@anathema1828]

Nice work on the video Palsteron!

[@kelossus1885]

Just a note, the evasion stun mastery is only good against attacks. any spell will bypass your evasion and reset your timer.

[@kuba-xy9hj]

damn, now int stacker might be also an option for this league given the fact that they moved pretty much every good option onto the tree including spell dmg per int node

[@Portitforward]

im looking at a hybrid str/int stacking inquis using energy blade for battle mage. you can get absurd flat damage added to spells, and with iron will being by the life wheel it makes it even better

[@silverfox7644]

I love the new mastery system, it’s currently new and takes quite a bit to adapt to, but I can see in the long run it being really good for the game

[@molomono9481]

Yeah it makes leveling less gear dependent in a way which balances earily game and makes end game more accessible in a fun way.

[@MrAntiKnowledge]

Pretty sure you could just set balistas to "attack without moving" (or whatever it was called) to place it at max range, if you click outside of range. So that 50% radius mastery isnt that groundbreaking. Also +50% to a melee range skill isnt much.

[@Asymat]

Pretty much this. Have to try it tho because depending on range, it might still be good QoL for entering rooms or taunt at some specific points.

[@Avel_runner]

Nice video as always, you always have a clever take on things! I tried tinkering a little with the tree for my Raider TR/CA league starter, and it ended up having more damage over the old tree, following the same path, that't neat. But I'm also bummed that I can't get Elusive on tree anymore lol I really liked the new melee nodes, will probably spec into something like it later in the league.

[@Palsteron]

Same, RIP Elusive :(

[@Kvodan]

Im absolutely love 3.16 content titles on KZbin. Because people talk about Masteries/Uniques/Defences a lot 😆 New skilltree looks huuuge. More flexible and strong with clusters or without them. Want to test on practice so many things.

[@BarbaP-]

Set your ballista skill to "always attack without moving" and you will cast your ballistas at max range, you dont need that node unless you want the extra range.

[@Palsteron]

The extra range is what I'm after yeah

[@Adrianmartinyoutube]

Anyways, with that extra range, ballista totems can be placed far of you, and not just in your foots and there is the HIGH value of it.

[@Neroh01]

Thanks for the interesting insights, now i am even more confused about what I'm gonna league start as. See you guys on Friday !

[@overshare7]

I didn't explore it at all yet but from what I have seen till now it's nuts. Gj on the video btw

[@sharpazn]

the +50 flat life is a no brainer for leveling hardcore characters!

[@Bulbayawak]

Always present, Never Absent

[@Thorsbeard]

lol at the Wand mastery part!

[@WeR2VEVO]

I have been trying for the last few days to make a budget viable Worb build, and I noticed that Sovereignty + mana efficiency mastery causes me to be able to reserve 2 auras + herald with plenty of mana left over, without enlighten. Very nice.

[@thetruth1842]

i love Worb, played it a lot in the past leagues, it gets insanely fun to play for clearing but bossing is so so bad, not being able to do lategame content after investing 50ex is so frustrating, dont recommend

[@pk10006]

Poisonous Concoction seems really nice with that 300% increased poison damage on non-Poisoned enemies. It has like 1500 base chaos damage at level 20, so you could probably just one-shot everything.

[@lucasbortoluzzi9369]

cannot be blinded opens up lucky crit too that's a big one

[@adamjmorgan]

Wands are pretty OK. Exceptionally well-balanced and in a perfect place. YEP

[@Nimroc]

The mastery I'm the most excited about currently is the es/evasion hybrid mastery that makes it so 30% of chaos dmg do not bypass ES, I'm thinking of using that to distribute part of the self-damage from Forbidden Rite to ES and then possibly use Ghost Shrouds to heal the ES back up, since I'll be going for life/es/evasion hybrid.

[@xTobsecretx]

I just wish they'd already put Blessed Rebirth onto the passive tree. That notable single-handedly gate keeps Dark Pact from being league started in SSF. Even if it was a weaker version of Blessed Rebirth, like maybe 2 seconds of immunity, so when you get the cluster jewel, you'll respec the mastery.

[@cullenoconnor3204]

CoC and AwCoC do have the critical tag. This mastery plus the new shiled is +5 levels for AwCoC if you can find a one hander to make sense with it. Possibly insane

[@Demonlord468]

COC supports have Trigger, Support, Spell tags and not critical...

[@cullenoconnor3204]

@@Demonlord468 Untrue. They have the critical tag as of 3.16

[@dosenkeks5599]

The Sword Mastery "8% chance to gain a Frenzy CHarge when you Hit a Unique Enemy" and the Axe Mastery "Enemies you hit are destroyed on Kill" immediatly caught my Eye, one significant point is, you dont need the specific weapon Type to get those nodes. Even if you go for Staves, both of the Nodes look interesting for me. No Corpses -> easier lvling to 100, Frenzy on Bosses -> way more boss dmg

[@ChunkyCoffee]

I wish the Arcing Blows node was closer towards ranger, could do a cold lightning build.

[@weedalism]

can u not just mark the attack without moving and the ballista will be placed at its amx range? o_O the range would not change that problem if you try to place it at a certain range more far away

[@johannes1022]

wands are fine, not broken at all. sums up wand masteries pretty good XD

[@Portitforward]

the projectile clusters arent going to be in the path of a ball lightning character, unless I am missing one

[@MattDoesLife539]

Wand mastery be like "Let's completely juice INT power siphon build to the Jupiter, while also giving them a free crown of eyes buff with max 100% accuracy, yeah sounds about right, nothing wrong there!" - GGG, probably.

[@lourencobredademarco4024]

I think it's even woth to get the almost useless phys wand nodes, because of how good the masteries are.

[@divinityai]

Idk, you still lose dps with new tree somehow

[@DexBunny]

@@divinityai depends on the build I guess, I updated my Ritual int stack elementalist and gained 2M dps.

[@kyle9401]

@@DexBunny everyone says not to league start with an int stacker, however I always like to scale a single build each league. Think this is the league to do it?

[@IsHeHigh]

This is a bad take... the passive wheels leading up to the wand nodes are mostly doodoo and these masteries don't increase the ceiling of the build... really the only meaningful one is the accuracy because it potentially frees up a suffix or two

[@jacob5373]

Critical ailment support should also get +3 from the city mastery

[@ss5gogetunks]

Wand masteries look bonkers :o

[@Adrianmartinyoutube]

Nice vid dude. I just subscribed at your channel ♥

[@Demonlord468]

COC does not have the Critical Tag it has Trigger, Support, Spell.

[@WCFactBreak]

just IMO the most OP mastery the 30% increase defences on the Stafs, this is just insane. The poison notes are also very very good but considering that there are no good poison builds now they may not be used that much.

[@IsHeHigh]

Man there are some bad takes in these comments lol... there are plenty of good poison builds, Helix, SA, pestilent/viper, BV... and they all got pretty substantial buffs.

[@WCFactBreak]

@@IsHeHigh at least for me those are hardly comparable with the bleeds, the cyclone/shockwave/ignites/int stacking. But yeah, i am sure there are decent poison builds, they are just bot in their prime imo

[@MrKhanLabRunner]

POGGERS

[@tanksmontaje2699]

They’re good for some builds, they break others. Dot chaos is insane rn. I hit 2mil dot with my ed build absolutely mad, but other builds got nothing (rf build) and others lost up to 5mil (rage vortex)

[@Gamerys01]

Corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you

[@NeverForgetNasa]

Thank you! Helped me in getting 10.1 ApS with 52% ICRS for my CoC Ice Nova! Now it spams like hell :-) Critical Mastery

[@VAEClan]

I saw patch notes that alot of gems critical tag, does them count with +3 from passive? This should be insane

[@ibag2494]

I think the Life and Mana gained on hit in Claw mastery is kind of a sleeper too. I think I will even pick up some claw nodes on my toxic Rain starter for it

[@Asch_Ente]

the dagger and claw clusters next to each other on the right of the tree in range of lioneyes fall so you can make them bow nodes.

[@SaitamaSS4]

This guy is 200IQ, no kap

[@konrak81]

no elusive on the tree any more

[@inc0rect2011]

the frenzy masterie works without swords

[@vasiliynkudryavtsev]

I wish there ever was +3 to Enlighten gem mastery.

[@MeesterGgaming]

Really nice video, i finally found a video were not 1000 other content creators are talking about. For example while searching for starter builds i see 1000000000 Toxic rain Toxic rain and traps with the exact same setups most of the time aswell. And they score easy likes. Jeez please get some other stuff on the channels for f sake. Anyways thanks because of that for this video! I only lolled at if you are a ballista player. I thought only Quin69 played a ZDPS build with ballista :p

[@koolkoala1736]

Just out of curiosity, are the masteries restricted to the mastery type they are related to? For example, sword mastery applies only to swords or is it global? I could spend 3 points just to get a specific mastery point, if the latter is true, like getting the 3% triple damage from the two-handed mastery. Could be good in some cases

[@pedrofelipekuhnvolz299]

they are only restricted if stated

[@IsHeHigh]

Its just about opportunity cost. Most non mace builds aren't going to want to take 5 points to get one mace mastery, even if it's unrestricted

[@SpecShadow]

Am I blind or there is nothing for channeling? Speaking of blindness - "cannot be blinded" is not a great pick, I would rather get "unaffected" instead

[@MeesterGgaming]

they hate channeling, they love power creep and one shots ;)

[@reregfys7169]

WTF man those wand masteries!! O_o wtf ...

[@janovmi2]

mana masteries are garbage and my mana build lost 40% Damage with no way to get it back and thats just damage, also mana recovery thats required is like halved cause many things were removed from notables that are nowhere to be found and dont exist as masteries like mana from cursed enemies etc

[@travissullivan6575]

yeah, I was having issues with 'what is a crit support gem' kind of thing. Does power charge on crit count? What about critical affliction?

[@luca8182]

They both do, yes. The gems which gained the critical tag are listed in patch notes

[@Somerled_Pox]

"why are people not taking"... league hasn't started just chill with the thumbnail bait game dude

[@ytubestolemyhandle]

I haven't played this game in a looong long time... I guess physical damage is still meme-worthy? I mean, basically everyone needs to convert 100% of their dmg to elemental (several times over if they can pull it off) while physical damage just BARELY let's you beat the "game" (storymode/tutorial)... but won't do squat in maps. I always wanted to make a themed character.... even wasted a few dozen euro on cosmetic items, but what does it matter if you wear gear that makes you look like frostbite personified, if the whole screen is exploding in literally every elemental effect in the game. Frost Blades hitting for fire damage and similar nonsense just made me irrationally mad.

[@d.h.8695]

Damn, I thought you can have several Masterys in one Cluster.. Well seems legit to Not have it 😅

[@whoay1729]

Algorithm bump

[@banishedbr]

Did you see that the AXE mastery gives a buff to Sword which i found stupid... but well.

[@blazewagon5677]

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[@Millleuda]

does author know about using Frenzy on Hydrosphere?