Lightning sentry – Dragon talon

Introduction:
With the changes to assassin trap synergy and -enemy lightning damage working properly we got a new way to play the trapsin. The hybrid builds are sadly a thing of past and not playing the pure sundered one element meta seems like a waste of time and energy but with this build its a little different not only it feels great it also performs great in high player difficulties. Compared to the meta self weilding infinity assasin we gain +20%light damage 75%block and a kick with 7%ctc lvl 13static field 10%ctc lvl 17chain lightning 10%ctc lvl 16lightning 5%ctc lvl 10life tap 60%open wounds 15%crushing blow 15%deadly strike at the cost of lower resist proc from act 5merc wielding plague and using shocking web.

Stats:
Strength: Enough for gear
Dexterity: Enough for max block if using JMOD
Vitality: EVERYTHING
Energy: 0


Skills:
Lightning sentry 20
Chargebolt sentry 20 -synergy
Shock web 20 –synergy
Fire blast 3/6/9/12 –synergy
Death sentry 1-10
Dragon talon 20
Burst of speed 1
Fade 1-10
Cloak of shadows 1
Mind Blast 1 optional
Blade shield 1 optional

Gear:
Helm: Griffon eye ( Cham )
Amulet: Best crafted/rare 2skill 10fcr or 20fcr(if not using 10fcr ring) with adds like resist, life, stats / Highlord's wrath (if going for lasti as bp without BoS)
Armor: Enigma
Belt: Arach
Gloves : Dracul's Grasp / decent pair of ias crafted blood gloves (if going for last ias bp without BoS)/ Trangs gloves if aiming for last fcr bp
Boots: upgraded Gore riders
Ring1: Wisp projector
Ring2: 10fcr Str/life/resists
Weapon: Crescent moon phase blade
Shield: Jmod with 4x 5/-5light rbf / Phoenix / Hunters glory 3x 5/-5light rbf
Swap: CTA + Phoenix/Spirit

Inventory:
2xTrap fhr sk
1x5fhr +res sc
1xCrack of the heavens
Torch & Anni
All the trap sks with life and scs with life+res you can get!

Fhr brakepoint

15% 7
27% 6
48% 5

Fcr brakepoint:

42% 12
65% 11
102% 10


Ias calculations without burst of speed:

Laying trap speed
5 11
20 10
42 9

Dragon talon speed
2 9
18 8
46 7

I'm sorry could you just clarify if this is intended to be a horrible pvp build or a horrible pvm build?

Any d2 player with minimal knowledge of the game can tell you this is a pvm build buddy. Now what i do not understand is how you get the free time to post crap so fast on my every post, its like you f5 this site 24/7 im not even mad its amazing

You can watch the video i proved to myself this two off meta builds work great on solo high difficulty i had tons of fun playing these builds and i just wanted to share to people who are hardstuck d2r and bored with the meta!

Its a fine build utulizing staticss while traps doing their job on the side. So more active gameplay compared to pure trap.

A little thing you may consider:
20ias/10cb gloves
Dual leech fcr ring.
Goblin toe boots.

This will raise ur CB up to 35%. Will help killing bosses and high HP monsters quicker.

Thank you sir! I have tested it with blood gloves+highlord+2x fcr leech rings and its stronger it even reaches the last ias bp without burst of speed but figured for a casual player playing a couple of hours after a long day of work dracules grasp is better.

Edit: double upped goblin toes sounds really great too

This post was edited by Starii on Feb 28 2025 10:52am

Yes forgot to mentioning the double upgrade part, it will however require 172 str instead of upped gore's 156.
But since ur wep already has OW, and deadly strike dont work with kicks etc i figured might as well go with goblins.

Wisp projector lmao

It does sound funny but hear me out! The ring slot is open Wisp will make you a tank vs souls(i think i fought a few in the video) and any lightning dmg and on top of that 10%ctc Level 16 Lightning On Striking goes really good with fast kick and -75%enemy light res before conviction now i know its nothing to write home about and it misses but this build utilizes it perfectly same can be said for Crescent moon phase blade utilizing items to the fullest is what makes it a good and fun build. Just take a look at the rift sin the whole build is built around 16%ctc lvl 21frozen orb.

and it is fun that you can cast an oak from the wisp and spirit wolfs from the crescent moon

This post was edited by Starii on Mar 2 2025 03:23pm

The synergi effects is the reason why theese builds are fun and works.

Same as stormlash kicksin.
Alone a kicksin wont do much, but when you add in the synergy effect of:
93% CB, max ias fueled by atma's amp
Static cast fueled by merc conv
Corpse explotion from death sentry fueled by Amplify damage and conv on monsters which is already 25% hp left due to static
The 1-514 light damage in stormlash
Just enought physical direct damage to end monsters and leech both mana and life
High ar and quick attackspeed.

The combination melt's. Each on their own and they are pea-shoters.

This is the kick king right here. Listen to his words