I started Chieftain using both some attacks and holy flame totem and flamewood support. Sometime later later I really wanted to go the melee ignite route with controlled blaze and sadism, but damage was lacking. All in all super slow getting through the campaign.
Getting into maps I switched to Boneshatter (the build I wanted to do initially). Immediately felt much better, getting into yellow maps in a four link so far, still lots of room for improvement, I am somewhat optimistic. Lots of cool tech for hitting one self, such as recoup, endurance charge generation and self ignite.
Haven’t really used the league mechanic too much. I can’t really tell why I am either absolutely crushing it or being crushed, there seems to be no in between.
And finally I am really sad about the Guardians Blessing support. Can’t be triggered, hard to impossible to keep your minion alive and you have to reactivate the aura manually. Ouf. Let me know if you found any good way to use it.
But I am having fun.
How’s your league going?
First time playing bow build - Ziz’ EA champ. Build feels very solid. Pushing into yellow maps with mostly shit gear from campaign plus 15c bow. Build is tanky and damage is fine, not great. I thought I’d hate the delay of the EA blast but I’m ok with it. I’m too lazy to study the league mechanic. So many stuff to buy and memorize which units/tribes are. I have too much shit in life to have another chore to solve so I’m sticking to my staples of incursion, betrayal and expedition. Was excited to try sanctum but I haven’t found any and I’m too poor to buy them in trade. Generally I’m having fun and the game seems like it is in a good place.
Yeah even when I played EA Elementalist I felt safe to just run and place totems, run and place totems. Especially with additional projectiles the random misses would often impact the next pack and by the time I’m near them those missed shots explode and most of the trash mobs die (alch and go, nothing fancier).
Btw, do people consider EA ballistas as bow builds? To me it feels nothing like a regular bow build even if you need a bow technically. It plays mostly like other ballista totem/spell totem builds.