firebolt sorcerer - pit 165 clear | diablo 4 - season 4

well it literally took me a minute to find the last elite for opening the boss portal... another inefficient clear with a lucky ending!
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[@gui4634]

No hardcore, no like

[@robertvalenta422]

Hi again, congratz. Do have couple more questions, moving here from 163 clear comments :D I finished my MS and ended up with 0,84 FS gap, and Im very disappointed by it. Nothing that I would describe as "comfortable" or "enough". I can realiably only cast 1 FB. If I try 2 FB or 1 FW, about 20% of the time FS falls off (typically playing with 50ms latency)... Even when I try in Kyovashad training grounds with no stress, I still cant keep FS up all the time with more than 1 FB. So I went back to Hectic on Amu, with that I can cast 3x FW or many FBs and still reliably recast FS in time. I do wonder still am I doing something wrong or is it just expected to be this narrow? You make it look easy and you only have 0,94 FS gap right? Is that 0,1 sec really that big? TBH I can still die even with hectic on amu :P Whatever the case, I was never planning any super high pushing anyway, will do my 150 maybe bit more with Hectic on amulet and no stress, this 0,8 FS gap is just not for me :P But congratz to you!

[@robertvalenta422]

Actually I do have 1 technical question :) What is explosion radius of Shatter? I noticed in your boss fights that you have ads quite far away from shaman, while Im always trying to pull them right next to shaman... Is it as big as Kyovashad waypoint, or smaller? Thx :)

[@zebrabit]

@@robertvalenta422 nope but I think it's not that far - maybe just a few steps away. you can record yourself and pause the video to see if explosion had and affect to the boss HP to have an idea of how far is too far :D you'll get used to it with experience I'd say. I usually try to get them as near as possible but also not to cc them too much because they'll become unstoppable.

[@zebrabit]

thanks Robert and congratz on the masterworks... you must be tired! 😎 I do have 0.94 FS gap - I'd say it's comfortable but I should note that I have 600 hours on this fire bolt sorcerer and you only see the good parts in those videos. 🤡 I die quite often if I get greedy and overshoot fireballs / firewalls / raiment cc as you mentioned. you can try teleporting away from the crowd to refresh your flameshield at a safe spot. hectic on amu is probably a no-go because you loose so much damage - maybe rapid instead of inner calm would help more.

[@robertvalenta422]

@@zebrabit Thx for the Rapid suggestion, I could try that. Would have to go back to my old gloves, atm I have 8 Fb with 23,9 IAS and cant hit 12 frame Fb with that, would lose 4 Fb ranks, about 17% dmg, but gain that 0,25 sec FS gap and gain 8,33% dmg from IAS. I would lose 1,8x on Moonrise and gain 2,2x instead on Amu. 100 * 0,83 * 1,0833 / 1,8 * 2,2 ... not even 10% dmg gain. What do I gain if I played with Hectic on Pants and puting Shredding Blades on focus (that is the 0,84 FS gap no Rapid)? 100 * (2,2/1,8) * 1,3 = 59% dmg increace ... about 4-5 pit tiers, not very impressive. As I said, Im not planning on super high pushing, so for me 4-5 pit tier loss for convinience is worth it :) ... but OFC this is why I originally asked you about Shatter scaling. Is it linear and do I really only gain 59%? Or exponential? If one Shatter feeds another Shatter and so on, then dmg will be DMG*[2*2^(N-1)-1], where N is the total number of Shatter explosions, and this is linearly dependant on DMG, so it would mean that lose of Moonrise on Amu and total lose of 1,3x on another apsect only equals to ~37% dmg loss, which I can live with, not pushing hard. Has anyone actually tested how big is the dmg loss with Hectic on amu in game? Same tier, same gear, only aspects swotch?

[@zebrabit]

​ @robertvalenta422 shatter must be exponential cause I don't think there's another way of killing those mobs with a gazillion HP :) hectic on amulet I don't think so but saw a CN video that cleared 166 with rapid on 1H and shredding on amulet: www.d2core.com/d4/planner?bd=1bg0&lang=enUS