It’s important because most faction gear used in my setup actually comes from Coven. The reason I rushed Coven on Veteran is to guarantee I’ll have it Revered by 90. The missing faction score you’d simply have to grind up on Elite and that will take time comparable to rushing through the campaigns. The reason for that is a playthrough puts your factions close to Honored, it is somewhere around 10k faction score out of 25k required. I feel it isn’t really saving that much time as opposed to full playthrough of normal / veteran and elite. The reason for such progression is mostly to not die out of boredom. Then I moved to Elite, which was played in full. I’ve also partially played through FG campaign somewhere in the middle to get access to Korvan Storm Halberd farming spots. Test character was levelled on Hardcore, starting from Veteran, on which I completed the vanilla campaign and rushed AoM campaign up to Coven of Ugdenbog to open the faction. Therefore, WPS skills such as Feral Hunger, Upheaval, Markovian’s Advantage and Zolhan’s Technique do not work with Primal Strike. The proc rate of Torrent seems to be about 1.5 times per second while your attack speed will eventually reach 3 times per second.Ĭontrary to what it might appear, non-cooldown Primal Strike is not a default attack replacer, even though it’s normally bound to left mouse button and scales with attack speed. In practice Torrent has a limited proc rate that is easy to notice even with fairly modest attack speed. In theory that would have meant Torrent is a beast with non-cooldown PS because you’ll be able to cover the whole screen with it’s lightning. Torrent is not affected by penalties of Thunderous Strike because due to engine limitations it’s a separate part of sorts, more like a built-in proc. This means you’ll have to stack more lifesteal than you would normally be fine with. It is basically double-dipping, as a result non-cooldown Primal Strike will have less lifesteal than a theoretical skill with same damage output that didn’t had cooldown and associated penalties to begin with. The penalty is even known to apply to lifesteal ratio because lifesteal is considered as an offensive (‘damage’) stat. if Korvan Storm Halberd is used then it’s 35% weapon damage bonus is effectively reduced to 25% by total damage penalty of Thunderous Strike. If you’re getting bonus weapon damage or flat damage via skill modifiers they are also subject to total damage penalty, e.g. What that means is maxed out rank 26 Primal Strike is essentially a 187% weapon damage AoE skill with fairly impressive flat damage part. Total damage penalty is then applied to most damage sources of the skill, including it’s weapon damage. Non-cooldown Primal Strike is unlocked with transmuter – Thunderous Strike, which reduces weapon damage and total damage as the price for cooldown removal.Īmong two penalties the weapon damage one applies first, which is subtracted from weapon damage value of Primal Strike. People seldom play cooldown Primal Strike to the point where I can’t even tell you whether it’s good or bad, but non-cooldown Primal Strike has been a popular skill pretty much since the release of the game. Primal Strike comes in two forms – cooldown and non-cooldown version. Two years ago I wanted to remake my Elementalist as Conjurer while one year ago I had faith in Druid. This is a relatively new trend, and I tend to follow trends. Druid would had aged much better.Īnyway, the preferred high end class for Ultos set based build went from Elementalist and Conjurer in vanilla through Vindicator and Druid in AoM and early FG, but recently if you say Ultos you’ll hear Warder. I always regretted the class choice I made back then, it was obsolete really fast. Beginner’s Lightning Elementalist was the first beginner build I posted a whooping three years ago. I have quite a history with Primal Strike, it was one of my most favorite skills in vanilla, but one can level just that many characters with it before getting weary. One of the most recommended builds for beginners since times immemorial now has a guide available, in dragon quality to boot.
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