Quote (luckspin @ Feb 7 2020 12:59pm)
As they say, realising u r in denial is half the battle.
Guy clearly mostly mfs with this char, lookin at his juvs and tp scrolls in the belt. And u guys r in eachothers friends lists in this forum so i dont expect u to have an objective opinion on the matter. Its clear from the build itself, and ive also looked at his dudu topic, that he doesnt pvp much so its no surprise to me that his builds r not great.
Dropping shadow GCs for trap will decrease Ar, phys damage, claw block % chance, mind blast level, shadow master level, venom damage, DR %. All to gain 1-400 Trap damage per GC.
Assuming your opponent has 85% Res (Spirit of Phoenix + Lo Rune in helm), that 1x trap gc adds an average of 5.1 PvP damage per LS. Math:
1-400 average damage is: 200.5. We will round down to 200 for easy math.
200 * .17 = 34 < where .17 is the pvp penalty
34 * . 15 = 5.1 > where .15 is 85% res in decimal form.
That added LS damage is hardly worth all the loss from the shadow disc tree.
There is little difference between 3max/20/20 and 36/20 in terms of usefulness for a hybrid. Hybrids, because only 1 hard point into claw mastery and only a lvl 1 base WW level (before all skills are applied), natively get very little damage % bonus and Attack Rating % bonus. The 3max damage doesn’t go very far. Therefore, it’s more important to hit your oppjent and hopefully land Open Wounds and cause more FHR checks than dealing slightly more damage.
Arguably your hardest opponent is a bvc, due to the ease of how they can stack Lightning resist + along with high DR. Then you add there 3000 life advantage and massive WW damage over yours, the matchup is tough. With them having 9-10k defense, you proposing only having 6k AR gives you around a 37% chance to hit them on fools side. Your chaos AR will be around 3k, giving you like a 15% chance to hit with that claw. Hitting the 12k + AR point for fools claw for hybrid is critical for every matchup.
As far as 102 build on hybrid, hybrid only gains casting Mind blast faster and teleporting faster with 102, but loses:
Attack rating
16% DR
Bad WSG claw placement unless you have a good eth rep fools runic talons (which I’m the only one on East that has)
Life
Damage
37% Deadly strike
The trade off just isn’t worth it and unbalances the character and turns it into more of a trapper, but with less LS damage and no life rep. You would be better off just going full trapper than going 102 hybrid.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
The only true argument to have with his build is swapping Plague Bite for a 2sin/30+ ias/fools/eth rep/290+ Ed/3ls claw. I would lean more towards the later (the 2sin as opposed to 2 socket) however plague bite is just slightly worse.