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00:00:00 – 00:18:40
The video broadly focuses on the detailed breakdown and optimization of a "cold imbuement" Rogue build in a game, emphasizing key gameplay mechanics, skill allocations, and strategic use of gear and Paragon points. The core theme revolves around maximizing damage against frozen and crowd-controlled enemies using a combination of skills like Rapid Fire, Shadow Step, and various cold-based enhancements. The build prioritizes critical strike damage, precision stacks, and resource management, with essential gear and enhancements like swords, amulets, rings, and specific Paragon board nodes such as Denial. Practical advice such as using elixirs for critical hits and breaking animation with Rapid Fire for mobility is provided. The speaker highlights the build's potential for high-level gameplay, despite early-stage gear, and reflects on its effectiveness and fun, while also hinting at further optimizations and future content.
00:00:00
In this part of the video, War discusses updates on the game patch and highlights changes to the ‘rapid fire’ ability, noting fixes and increased radius. He then delves into his proposed build, explaining its components and combinations, focusing on skills, gear, and paragon points. He details aspects like combo points, critical strike damage, and movement, providing insights on optimizing the build for smoother gameplay and improved performance. Key skills and enhancements mentioned include puncture, rapid fire, siphoning strikes, shadow step, dash, weapon mastery, caltrops, and dark shroud.
00:03:00
In this part of the video, the content creator explains the mechanics and setup of a cold imbuement build for a rogue character. The build focuses on maximizing damage against crowd-controlled and frozen enemies, leveraging skills like cold imbuement and mixed cold imbuement. Key points include:
1. **Skill Allocation**:
– High investment in Frid of Finesse and intervention for increased damage and energy management.
– Use of rapid fire and gentling rush to optimize energy regeneration and attack speed.
2. **Key Passive – Precision**:
– Accumulating Precision Stacks through Marksman skills (puncture and rapid fire) to achieve guaranteed critical hits and massive damage multipliers.
3. **Gear and Paragon Board**:
– Prioritizing resource generation, cooldown reduction, and damage reduction.
– Ensuring survivability with Dark Shroud and resistance management through specific gear and Paragon board adjustments.
The segment concludes with a detailed overview of gear choices, emphasizing resource generation, damage reduction, and resistance capping to optimize the build’s efficacy.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the mechanics and benefits of the “frostbitten” build, which enhances critical strike damage against frozen enemies. They mention that although the “undying” talent is preferred for survivability, they will showcase “shared misery” instead, increasing the chance of freezing and spreading effects. The speaker also suggests using “rapid” for faster combo point generation and critical strike damage. Key equipment choices include swords for critical damage, the “scoundrel’s kiss” ability, emeralds for more critical damage, and various amulets and rings to boost attack speed and survivability. Emphasis is placed on maximizing the benefits of “cold imbuement” to enhance the build’s effectiveness.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses specifics about game mechanics, particularly focusing on managing cold imbuements and charges, and how critical hits can enhance performance. They highlight the importance of combo points and explain the setup of the Paragon board, detailing the selection of nodes for extra damage, control, potency, and resistance caps. Important nodes like Denial for double thresholds and extra armor points are discussed, emphasizing the necessity for strategic node allocation.
Additionally, they talk about preferred potions like the Elixir of Precision for increased Critical Strike chance and damage, and alternatives such as Advantage for attack speed and lucky hits. Practical tips include breaking animation with rapid fire by evading to maintain mobility. They wrap up by preparing to showcase a higher-tier gameplay run, underscoring new thresholds and planned videos for further insights.
Key components like linked build profiles and planning tools are mentioned for viewers to access and follow the discussed strategies.
00:12:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses gameplay strategy, emphasizing the use of certain skills like Rapid Fire and Shadow Step for smooth gameplay and efficient evasion. They highlight the importance of using cold-based abilities only through Rapid Fire, unless in urgent situations where dodging or quick movement, like using Shadow Step, is necessary. The speaker also mentions the improvement in gear and its impact on performance around level eight, noting that farming becomes significantly easier and more enjoyable. They reflect positively on the effectiveness and fun of the build, expressing a preference for its smooth mechanics and gameplay experience.
00:15:00
In this segment, the speaker discusses overcoming a fixed bug and defeating challenging enemies, emphasizing a close call with poison and the importance of evasion. The speaker talks about their gear almost breaking and considers the potential damage output if it were at a higher level. They express astonishment at their ability to dodge unexpectedly and conclude by mentioning successful rapid clearing of high-level tasks, even noting progress beyond previous limits before a patch.
00:18:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the potential of their build to reach level 130 and beyond, despite their current gear being only at level eight. They emphasize the build’s potential for increased power and describe it as “absolutely insane.” The speaker invites viewers to like the video, aiming for over 100 likes, and encourages comments on the recent changes to Rapid Fire. They express that, while they enjoy the build, it’s not quite as good as Heartseeker. The speaker ends by reminding viewers to subscribe and provides a farewell message.