Has anyone come up with a way to scale Spectral Shield Throw to proper endgame.
The skill just lacks enough scaling from the tree and even jewels don't help much because of the lack of mods that work with it.
Posted Mar 3, 2018, 12:18 PM UTC
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When PoB added the skill recently I put it in, activated "Show Node Power" and immediately lost interest to tinker with it at all. ;)
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Before the league, I tried starting as Jugg and swung through Iron Grip so I could scale it with Accuracy and Strength, went through Duelist on my way over to Ranger to convert the rest and ended up with a really sad result, saw no one else posted a better idea, and made a GC miner.
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Might have to run it through PoB to figure out if that's worth it...but what about Hummingbird Shield Throw? (Jugger)
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I tried and got a decent amount there. One thing is that you need to do elemental conversion, so physical to lightning and the two physical to cold nodes by ranger are huge. I got it to probably a tier 2 skill with basic gear possibly a tier 1 clear speed if you get one of the sceptres with double shaper/elder conversion rolls with one of them being elemental to chaos, but it will never match the top meta skills. The conversion weapons actually work perfectly for shield throw. The problem is they are just as good if not better on other skills that use main hand only.
It sucks because it is a fun skill, but I just don't see it competing at the top end. The good part about it is that because it scales so much from your shield it is actually a lot easier to gear for than you would think early on.
If you want the PoB I came up with you can look https://pastebin.com/JB6HHbye, pretty much it gets 125k shaper dps with reasonably cheap gear and 300k clear. If you push it to top end gear you might be able to get 500k and 250k shaper dps.
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You can't. The skill is trash.
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Convert to cold through 40% in the ranger area and hrimsorrow, then scale ele. Basically the skill as a base phys sucks major ass, as neither the passives nor the support gems works. So yeah... Conversion.
Yeah. The problem with conversion is that penetration nodes on the tree won't work (atleast that's what I've been told).
They dont work, but that's your best bet at scaling the skill. So take it or leave it... Phys just doesn't work, which is sad tbh...
Wait what
Why the fuck wouldn't pen work?
Cause nodes like Fangs of Frost for example say: Damage with WEAPONS penetrate 8% Cold Resistance.