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The video discusses a Barrage Rogue build for season 4 in a game, focusing on efficiency and versatility. Different variations of the build are explored, emphasizing optimizing Barrage for various scenarios. Strategies include leveraging cold and moment mechanics, maximizing crit damage, and incorporating mobility skills for agile gameplay. The importance of optimizing offensive slots, utilizing key passives like Precision, and selecting aspects for synergy is highlighted. The Ambush board setup is detailed for additional damage and reduced damage taken, aiming to maximize toughness for rogue characters. Overall, the build is described as effective and suitable for all levels of play, with future guides on other builds teased for upcoming content.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses their Barrage Rogue build for season 4 in the game. They highlight the effectiveness of this build, mentioning that they reached tier 80 effortlessly with mediocre gear. The build focuses on using Puncture to build combo points and Barrage as a spender, utilizing new tools like extra imbument counts. These tools allow for various elemental builds like cold, poison, or shadow Rogues. The build is flexible and doesn’t require specific items to function, making it suitable for all levels of play. The Barrage ability is explained as shooting a multitude of arrows that ricochet and split, providing high damage output and versatility for both crowd control and single target damage. Positioning and direction of shots play a significant role in maximizing damage output with this build.
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In this segment of the video, the content creator discusses different variations of a build, including an endgame pit variant, leveling and speed farming version, and a bossing version. They mention that despite some differences in skills and details, the builds are quite similar, with the exception of using a different glyph for leveling and speed farming. The importance of acquiring a branching volle aspect for better area of effect (AOE) clear with Barrage is highlighted, especially helpful in high density situations. The significance of using shadow imbue for lower-end content and cold element for higher-end content due to the effectiveness of arrows over explosions is explained. Overall, the focus is on optimizing Barrage for increased hits and damage output in various scenarios.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses leveraging cold and moment mechanics to increase damage output, particularly with freeze effects. They recommend using cold tempers on armor gear to benefit from extra casts and improving damage. The setup involves utilizing puncture as a generator for resources, high attack speed, and efficiency in triggering vulnerable effects. Key passives like Precision enhance critical damage, emphasizing stacking crit damage for stronger combos. The strategy also includes incorporating mobility skills like Dash and Shadow Step for agile gameplay, and maximizing crit chance to trigger defensive buffs like Dark Shroud effectively. The overall focus is on optimizing damage output through strategic gear selection and skill utilization.
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In this segment of the video, the focus is on optimizing the offensive slots with critical strike damage and utilizing the Marksman finesse recipe to stack significant amounts of crit damage. The Precision key passive is highlighted for enhancing combo damage, with a recommendation to include Innovation for boss fights where Puncture does not generate resources against Unstoppable Targets. The use of a crossbow for burst damage with the Puncture ability is emphasized over a bow due to its higher damage output. Aspects like Moonrise and Expectant are recommended for extra attack speed, movement speed, and synergy with cool points. Optional powers include Undying for healing, Simulation for additional synergies, and Hectic for mobility in boss fights. Poison Trap is mentioned for its damage reduction and imbuement reset benefits, particularly effective in tougher content for boss encounters.
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In this segment of the video, the focus is on the Ambush board with extra crit damage to trapped enemies, along with trapped enemy damage reduction. The Ambush glyph is highlighted as part of a Trap board setup, providing additional damage and reduced damage taken. The Paragon board includes other key legendary notes such as exploit weakness, Elish Bounty for extra damage, and cheap shot for nearby crowd-controlled enemies. There are mentions of cany for non-physical damage bonus, combat for extra crit damage and resources, and diminish for damage reduction from slowed enemies. The setup aims to maximize toughness with various life and damage notes, reaching around 51k life. The speaker emphasizes the importance of defense for rogue characters in higher tier pits. The build is described as straightforward and effective, particularly for Rogue gameplay. Future guides on different builds like Pen Shot, Rapid Fire, and Hard Seeker are teased for upcoming content.