For single target, you have to have The Tribal Fury allocated, summon Hydrosphere close to the boss and target the Hydrosphere with your boneshatter. Added chaos average damage at lvl 20 = 210. divergent is by far better. Posted by koticgood on Dec 9, 2021, 11:41:50 AM. You do lose alot not pathing to the left of the tree. More posts you may like. This. Superior. And yes, Divergent MS is hyper strong. Awakened Melee Splash Support causes our SRS minions to deal splash damage, which greatly increases our clear speed. 100. If you have enough Damage, you can add the Forbidden Flame / Flesh Mistress of Sacrifice Jewels for extra movement speed, but you’re gonna have to drop 2 Ghastly Eye Jewels from the build. - Amanamu's gaze update. Buy. Monsters gain 10% increased Maximum Life each time they are Revived. Buy. Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills have a base Stun Duration of 0. With the HoA's tail attack in the pob-configuration, it's the used standard attack, you reach then 6. The clear is also fine without melee splash thanks to Occy pops. Radius: 14 Requires Level 8 Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit. You lose two gem slots though because you need to run arcanist brand linked with hydrosphere to consistently overlap the sphere onto the target. Since we are using Divergent Melee Splash, the splash damage will hit Hydrosphere and Hydrosphere will release the same amount of splash damage. Awakened Melee Splash Support causes our SRS minions to deal splash damage, which greatly increases our clear speed. Same works with stuns as well. Ancestral Protector Attack, Totem, Melee, Strike Level: (1-20) Cost: 8 Mana Attack Damage: (90-180)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (90-180)% Summons an Ancestor Totem which attacks enemies with melee strikes while you're near it. Divergent Melee Splash Support, Melee Splash Support. 1. - Divergent Melee Splash is sick, get one when you can HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, put it in Squire and your vicious spiders deal 15% more damage to surrounding enemies LOL. 0d. I'm currently running a Vaal Flicker Strike character (PoB here, ~6M DPS with no flasks, Berserk/Vaal totem unchecked), and I had an epiphany. squire will add in the remaining gems from (3) that you dont take, plus most likely a melee physical damage supportDivergent Melee Splash. I tested dot capped fang build with and without divergent melee splash in sim 30 with double explode, and got the same rewards for both. Then, with Splash, the spider will splash off the hydrosphere and hit the boss, basically getting a 2nd hit on the boss. Boneshatter and melee splash. I'm using havy strike with +1 strike gloves right now, but awakened ancestral call, ancestral cry, and melee splash and I kill whole screens pretty handily. You'd need the support gem Melee Splash to get it (Divergent Melee Splash in order to avoid the damage penalty). Gl on improving ;) ReplyLevel 100 CI Summon Raging Spirit Necromancer 3. Also your awakened melee splash is outclassed by divergent melee splash when it comes to clearing. 4 Chaos Orbs Trade Divergent Melee Splash Support Supported Skills deal Splash Damage to surrounding targets [ Supported Skills. Support the site Merchandise. That improved clear by a lot because you have both splash and shockwaves from stuns for clear. When fighting Pinnacle bosses, swap Proliferation and Splash to Elemental Focus and Multistrike. Divergent Predator, Anomalous Elemental Proliferation, Divergent Melee Splash and Awakened Elemental Damage. Divergent. Radius: 14 Requires Level 8 Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit. Dominating Blow Attack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike Level: (1-20) Cost: 8 Mana Attack Damage: (165-238)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (165-238)% Requires Level 28 Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. Divergent/ or awakened Melee Splash - more damage for arakaali's. Quality now grants Supported Skills have 0-10% increased Area of Effect (previously 0-20%). Trust your mind and strengthen. When fighting Pinnacle bosses, swap Proliferation and Splash to Elemental Focus and Multistrike. Divergent Melee Splash Support. For skills with melee splash, you basically place the hydrosphere on top of the boss and the strike will hit the boss as well as the. Melee Splash Support: Supported Skills have (0–10)% increased Area of Effect: 50: Anomalous Melee Splash Support: Supported Skills deal (0–20)% increased Melee. 95. It will effectively double your DPS. I highly recommend to put in the divergent SRS only for bossing, the movement speed which the normal gem grants is way better for mapping. Reply. In order for it to feel smoother and not require namelocking enemies, every strike skill now hits in a very small area by default, without needing melee splash at all. Your gloves aren't from this world. Level 21. 4. I made quite a bit of cash in scourge with spiders. I wonder if the poison damage of 'viper stirke' is doubled if 'viper strike + melee splash' is used with 'hydrosphere' and I wonder if trigger enchant my claw would be effective if that's possible. However, you can equip AC and hit the sphere (with Molten Strike) for 2x balls against a single enemy. That is self sufficient till t13 map. Side note for Flicker enthusiasts, since we use Melee Splash. Divergent Melee Splash Support. enemy takes both the damage from the strike. Also for clearing while mapping use asenath on animate gaurdian with divergent melee splash instead of multistrike. I believe the Hydrosphere method is mainly worth it if you have Divergent Melee Splash, which I do not have. 0. If you can afford the Divergent version of the game and socket it in the Squire Shield, it will actually deal more damage around your primary target, and in synergy with Hydrosphere, it will basically double your damage against Bosses. Requires a Melee Weapon. When he enters the zone, any successful hit-stick made while running towards the line of scrimmage will result in a fumble. The biggest impact (and lowest cost) change I can see for DPS is including Hydrosphere and switching Minion Damage with Divergent Melee Splash. Explore economy and build overviews for the action role-playing game Path of Exile. 19 Most Valuable Gems 3. Awakened Minion Damage Support provides generic damage for minions. Its also the single best single target damage link if you can slot hydrosphere. Supported Skills deal Splash Damage to surrounding targets. 373. You'll also want to grab a Divergent Bone Offering and annoint Charisma to your amulet. 1. if you place hydrosphere on top of an enemy, they strike skills hit both the enemy and hydrosphere. Divergent Melee Splash vs Awakened. (lets be honest, your arent using splash on it though) But divergent doesnt increase your single target dps at all so even if awakened only increased your dps by like 1%, it's still better in that scenario. Awakened gem is better. Divergent : Take (0–20) Physical Damage per Trauma when you gain Trauma. Having access to full Splash on the tree and then getting additional strikes on gloves (or Ancestral Call) is huge. Regarding the use of Hydrosphere and Melee splash, wouldn't Divergent Melee Splash work better than Awakened version due to the overlap of damage? Last edited by mrkid0612 on Nov 3, 2021, 5:57:25 AM. Divergent Melee Splash Support Supported Skills deal Splash Damage to surrounding targets [ Supported Skills deal 2% less Damage to surrounding targets ] Supported Skills. Last edited by SerialF on Dec. Improving Akaraalis build. they use their own version of viper strike, which does a small aoe. Divergent Melee Splash is worth it when using hydrosphere. Supported Skills deal Splash Damage to surrounding targets - With divergent melee splash, putting a hydrosphere on a boss that your spiders are hitting will splash that % more damage hit from the sphere back onto the boss. So looking for a solution, I tossed Divergent Melee Splash into the golem links (replacing damage on full life) This move dropped my dps value to 89 million, but gave the golems LOTS more clear speed. Melee Splash Support Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit. 6. Monsters gain 10% increased Attack and. Supported Skills have 0. Convert Spider to Ligntning with 4Blue Triad Grip-200 Lightning Resist to boost DPS with Doryani's PrototypeDeal with Lightning Damage with Armour (80k armour with flask 50k without flask )Aegis Aurora Max block 75/75 (Glacing Blow)with OP interaction with Hydroshpere and Divergent Melee Splash DPS will be double in 1-1 boss fightThis build. Whirling Blades can be created from the following recipes: AmountRuthless was replaced by Divergent Melee Splash. The +1 bonus from Awakened only applies to a "Strike" skill (which SRS isn't). You'll also need to do some changes to the tree. It removes the less damage and that's reflected to the boss via hydrosphere, so it goes from 50% more damage to around 100%. - Amanamu's gaze update. I returned to Heavy Strike with melee splash after EQ and slams got nerfed a while ago but quickly moved on to Boneshatter. This is fine because it meets the same breakpoint with gem level boosts as a level 21 divergent melee splash (both level 23 and 24 are 39% less modifiers). Bear in mind that I haven't had access to Scourge gear, but the build was still fine (up to Simulacrum 25ish - afterwards, the bosses become extremely tanky). Using hydrosphere method it's 62% more vs 99% more, with Awakened vs Divergent respectively. The splash. One on your character and one on the boss (that’s the melee hit). Location: The Coast ( Act 1) Related Quest: A Glimpse Beyond, Thirst for Blood, Twisted Dreams, Altered Flesh. 5% increased Area of Effect This is a Support Gem. 1. I've been on autopilot farming simulacrum with usually 2-4 deaths per run, but just cranked some upgrades and want to add more. Divergent Melee Splash Support. Seriously considering playing it again. Oh and pob dps doesn't Include 100% more dmg multiplier from divergent melee splash and hydrosphere. Path of Building: Splash would only be for Clearing maps, not for single target. Awakened Multistrike Support Attack, Melee, Support. Hydrosphere turns Divergent Melee Splash into a 99% more damage support. Place two or more different Emblems in a Map Device to access the Domain of Timeless Conflict. Utility Minions Core Minions. Desecrate. 17. and the melee splash off of hydrosphere, effectively making divergent melee splash a 100% more damage multiplier. With all this range you can reach enemies further than your Flesh and Stone aura, and all those hits splash making clear. Attritional Strikes are nice but you can get by with Divergent Melee Splash Support for most mapping situations. Get that minion dmg up to 5 aswell ASAP. because a 20/20 version still has -1% less damage. Wiki wiki. Anomalous Enlighten. Portal: Domain of Timeless Conflict. 1. Divergent Melee Splash is as OP as I thought it would be when I saw the mod. Melee Physical Damage Support Melee, Physical, Support, Attack Icon: M Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130% Requires Level 18 Supports melee attack skills. Trust your mind and strengthen. strike skills have a small aoe. Very powerful bug on arakaali. This is a Support Gem. Start with using 2 handed terminus at 51 . Attack, Melee, Support. Purity of Elements. Divergent Melee Splash Support. Divine ire to spawn the spiders. A 20/23 in a disfavour does 65% more damage to surrounding mobs. Quality now grants Supported Skills have 0-10% increased Area of Effect (previously 0-20%). It is not the same as slam melee skill. Ruthless was replaced by Divergent Melee Splash. Strike skills with Melee splash will deal extra damage from the splash hit when Hydrosphere is also hit. strike skills have a small aoe. Wrong. Divergent melee splash gets more splash damage per quality and nets a 99% as splash, which would give you a 1. (Divergent melee splash + Hydrosphere) 6 Feb 2022 - Updated passive tree 3. Supported Skills Repeat 3 additional times. 5 million DPS, which isn't nothing, but it's also not a lot. 7s-ish cd. - Use Divergent Melee Splash vs normal Melee Splash - alternate quality solve "less damage" output - Use Anomalous Withering Touch - 20% inc skill effect duration is a huge) - so on so forth. Problem is, if you're not abusing this mechanic you're losing out on running a support acting as the BEST clear speed increase gem aswell as a support literally. The awakened melee splash is about 5-7c. Name;. Divergent Melee Splash is a sleeper gem. The gems are: Vaal Summon Skeletons, Awakened Minion Damage, Divergent Predator, Anomalous Elemental Proliferation, Divergent Melee Splash and Awakened Elemental Damage. Disclaimer: In my 3. I have no idea how this didn't get nerfed into. With Diverget melee splash they will do more aoe damage than with awakened. Bobby Wagner Madden 24 Overall Rating The NFL’s best tackler, if Bobby Wager gets his hands on a runner, consider the play over. When you have fullgeared free sockets, you can use a second movementskill, void sphere (interruptions. Lvling guide Level with any meta lvling skill that is melee and phy. Also would like some advise on Necro vs. AG + asenaths actually feels way better for clear than the Jugg Reaper setup. Putting hydrosphere on the boss means that when the spiders use viper strike on it, they’ll also. 3. Another point to div melee splash, and use multistrike in sanctums too - it will help alot at your level of damage to kill the guards faster. What you are saying is exactly what's happening: the unmodified attack is able to hit both the sphere and the boss, then both will have a splash area around them. Awakaned Multistrike is for single target and bossing. Divergent Melee Splash Support, Melee Splash Support. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills or triggered skills. Swap melee splash > Multistrike for Piety boss fight Unlinked:. This support gem restricts the skill to swords and axes . The original idea was to use Hydrosphere to proc EE + curse + Divergent Melee Splash, but they killed that interaction :( Reply reply Home; Popular; TOPICS. I like it! Reply. Awakened Minion Damage Support 29%. Supported Skills deal Splash Damage to surrounding targetsraw minion damage and attack speed are your best bets. Awakened Multistrike is a ~30div gem. With all this range you can reach enemies further than your Flesh and Stone aura, and all those hits splash. Supported Skills have (0-57)% more Melee Splash Area of Effect. Supported Attacks have 25% chance to cause Bleeding. Supported Skills have (0-57)% more Melee Splash Area of Effect Additional Effects per 1% Quality:. Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand. I agree with your recommendation for the audience. Bone Armour. 4. 8 seconds. Divergent Predator, Anomalous Elemental Proliferation, Divergent Melee Splash and Awakened Elemental Damage. Get a divergent melee splash. Viper Strike Attack, Duration, Melee, Strike, Chaos Level: (1-20) Cost: 5 Mana Attack Damage: (90-154)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (90-154)% Hits enemies, converting some of your physical damage to chaos damage and inflicting poison which will be affected by modifiers to skill duration. Occultist is nice for the clear, but asenaths AG is also very good, combined with divergent melee splash and feeding frenzy the spirits are very agro. •. 2 days agoFantasy. Life: 4,302 132%pobb. for. Quote this Post " pipettebymouth wrote:In town get ancestral warchief and replace Ancestral protector as well as remove melee splash (these two are no longer needed). Melee splash can stay always socketed and divergent quality makes it a huge multiplier. Regular melee splash at lvl 20 deals 59% of your damage as splash, so running melee splash in this case would net you at 1. Reply reply BendicantMias • •. 0. From a quick search, we can find that a 23q divergent melee splash inverts the “less damage to surrounding enemies” value found on the base melee splash gem. This goes hand in hand with getting at least 1 white socket on your Arakaali's via Vorici either off tft or farming it yourself. Divergent melee splash 20/23 has a more damage multiplier with no downside. Anomalous Melee Splash is the go to if you don't have the Squire for mapping, and should be swapped out for Divergent Multistrike for most optimal damage on single targets. You need multistrike and melee splash support. Boneshatter does damage to yourself so it spawns the Hydrosphere on top of yourself making targeting it much easier than if it spawned on the boss. Most awakened gems are ~40% more damage mulitpliers. Per 1% Quality: 1 Superior 2 Anomalous 3 Divergent Supported Skills have 0. Melee minions, with divergent melee splash, they are basically hitting enemies twice Projectile attack builds, with vengeant cascade, your projectile hits an enemy twice (must only have exactly 1 split or 1 pierce, no fork no chain) On top of my head these are some of the stuff i can think off. It will be useful just for the 30% support gem quality on it's own. 5% increased Area of Effect Supported Skills deal 1% increased Melee Damage Supported Skills deal -2% less Damage to surrounding targets. With melee splash on Spiders they splash damage to the boss. Downsides/notes: Gem swap Melee Splash for 40-60% more dps (Unbound / Awa Unbound ailments) Needs a Loreweave with a white socket to gem-swap (6W 78% res loreweave is relatively cheap in sc trade though) 3 buttons to press besides SRS to sustain damage; Divine Blessing. (Divergent) Close Combat (use to replace Melee Splash when you have the gloves) Fortify (Oro's Sacrifice corrupted implicit mod) The only real explanation any gem needs here is that Combustion, critically, increases your chance to ignite: as Oro's only has a built-in 20%, you will need it to get enough to regularly ignite on each use of Flicker. One small thing you can do is get a white socket on your Covenant which will let you gem swap Melee Splash with Unbound Ailments instead of Multistrike. 0c 1 6. Chaos Orbs. Life: 4,277 124%. Unbound Ailments Support 20%. - Start buying alt quality gems, like divergent srs, divergent melee splash, divergent multistrike etc. Swap melee splash > Multistrike for Piety boss fight Unlinked:. This is a MUST have. At that point you're sacrificing so much damage, why even go HS. At base, the build wants: Determination (Divergent) Malevolence Radius: 14 Requires Level 8 Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit. Level Requires Level Strength. Melee Splash will also "spread" effects, for example, if your initial hit is a knockback to the target you hit with a single-target. Socketed Gems are supported by Level 16 Melee Splash (23–27) % increased Area Damage gem: sword_shaper 1000 axe_shaper 1000 mace_shaper 1000 claw_shaper. Divergent Melee Splash with 20% quality almost negates the penalty of melee splash to near targets, which is a lot better than splash aoe that awakened gem provides. 20. Ruthless was replaced by Divergent Melee Splash. Corrupted No. Divergent Predator, Anomalous Elemental Proliferation, Divergent Melee Splash and Awakened Elemental Damage. - Void Beacon jewels, flesh and flame. it solves the things i hated about cyclone being that it auto targets and repeates with multistrike. . Path of Exile Wiki editing functions. You might know that divergent melee splash + hydrosphere doubles your dps. (Affects Melee Strikes, including the Default Attack. Sounds like an unfortunate side effect, because its a solid. Divergent Melee Splash Support, Melee Splash Support . Found The Squire and thought about spiders build my dps is really low and can't beat sirus A8, any tips?Damage to boss while hydrosphere is active on him means your splash damage from divergent melee splash (Supported Skills deal 1% less Damage to surrounding targets (20 quality effect)) reflects from boss to sphere and back again the boss which means you deal 99% more daamge to single target. And as poison needs to ramp up before it deals good damage, the more target it can hit at the same time will increase clear by a lot instead of restarting every time it kills on target and. I'm surprised at removing MoM, I found it added an extra layer, but that was purely subjective. Good call. Let's say I run a level 20 divergent melee splash (21 20% is 60ex so no. Increased Duration. Increased Melee Splash radius by 17%. for. 'Melee' (A lot of the better skills push the definition a bit!) builds that explode packs. Fire Affinity grants 100% of Physical Damage. If we raise this to 53 quality with diallas malefaction, we WILL see a 65% more damage mod. Managing the chaos storms can be difficult and was probably the cause of several of your deaths. Also, as occultist, you want to get your hands on Witchfire Brew asap ideally :x . Requires Level 72. I basically only switch to multistrike when doing pinancles or in the sanctum. At bigger budget ashes etc. So it's probably more around 12mil st. Divergent Melee Splash: For increased clearspeed during mapping or against content with alot of density swapping out Multistrike for Melee Splash makes huge difference. That will cause melee splash around. This should be swapped out for Multistrike on Pinnacles and Ubers. Use anomalous convocation for the 40% minion move speed. Currently I'm using Divergent Storm Burst, cast on channeling, Blazing salvo BUT with lifetap, that will be no a option after change to CI Hi riojanoO! In the spoiler "Attributes Requirements", "Tipps for beginning, levelling and gearing " and in "manamanager" are the Ttipps. Now about melee splash itself, While SRS has a very small inherent "splash" on their basic attack, melee splash would easily tenfold the hit area without it. Divergent Melee Splash. and the melee splash off of hydrosphere, effectively making divergent melee splash a 100% more damage multiplier. This sounds more like an intended feature than a bug. ago. Around every corner, opportunity awaits, and it’s calling to you. Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks. When fighting Pinnacle bosses, swap Proliferation and Splash to Elemental Focus and Multistrike. MuskieGo • 7 mo. But everything from kosis or omni does one shot you after wave 27 and the dmg is solid, but not that extreme good for 100ex+ investment. I started to get more 6 orbed rewards, and less 4 orbed rewards. Anomalous/Divergent Melee Splash: Which grants 20% increased Melee Damage/40% more Damage to surrounding targets respectively. maybe i should check again, can always use an extra point! We do not use MoM, it would leave you effectively with 0 mana pool against a strong opponent and that is undesirable. 5% increased Attack Damage. the best way to get this is 12 passive +atk speed, 35% inc effect minion clusters. With Diverget melee splash they will do more aoe damage than with awakened. Chaos Orbs. Looking for way to further improve my Arakaalis build apart from more levels. 1 seconds after being Summoned: 20: Item acquisition. com Fantasy. 40k ehp in your current build will not be able to do simu30 comfortably. does the divergent melee splash hydrosphere bug still exist? did they fix it or can u still double ur dmg with hydrosphere on top of the boss? Last bumped on Nov. I don't want to have to pay 10 ex for a divergent melee splash and micro manage hydrosphere on all my melee minion builds because this garbage interaction is in the game. When you have fullgeared free sockets, you can use a second movementskill, void sphere (interruptions & virulences), increased duration support, enlighten (manamanagement) convocation, vaal anomalous skeletons/ absolution/ chaos. Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand. For single target bosses like Sirus I’d swap melee splash with Ruthless. GLOVES The gloves are Triad Grip with 1 red and 3. Swap melee splash > Multistrike for Piety boss fight Unlinked:. The Last To Die - Path of Exile. The funny/sad part about this is that just putting a divergent melee splash in the new disfavour already gives you 59% more damage to. Use Divergent Melee Splash once you get to this version when mapping, and use Awakened Unbound Ailments when bossing. or take a strike skill with divergent melee splash and tribal fury notable. Power Charge On. Divergent: Maximum 0. Lastly, make additional targetsDivergent : Melee Strikes target (0–2) additional nearby Enemies: 20: Vigilant Strike: Phantasmal : Melee Hits Fortify for (0–2) seconds: 100: Support Gem /24 . Valheim; Genshin Impact; Minecraft; Pokimane; Halo Infinite; Call of Duty: Warzone; Path of Exile; Hollow Knight: Silksong; Escape from Tarkov;👻3. 0c fire dot aura cluser 3. Swap melee splash > Multistrike for Piety boss fight Unlinked:. spiders use viper strike. Use Divergent Melee Splash once you get to this version when mapping, and use Awakened Unbound Ailments when bossing. Melee Splash will also "spread" effects, for example, if your initial hit is a knockback to the target you hit with a single-target skill, nearby enemies within the radius of Melee Splash will also get knocked. Supported Skills deal Splash Damage to surrounding targetsOn top of running divergent melee splash, anomalous withering touch, woke minion damage, and divergent multistrike. - Ashes of the stars upgrade, 15%+ rmr any quality % - Awakened multistrike update, this is big for single target. Is the Divergent Melee Splash + Hydrosphere tech a thing on this build, and worth using if so? ign: aan_allein_daishan. Melee splash extends the width of your vector as you swing your melee strike. but the new tree has plenty of raw damage and attack speed for you to start off with. Do strikes gain that. they way i solved the issue with carrion when mapping was using anomalous multistrike+awakened melee splash while using torrent's reclamation and have regular Convocation linked to a +5 enhanced along with divergent vitality and clarity slotted to vertex; it makes convocation on a 1. Pulled off right it functionally doubles the spider's damage output I suppose on single target, so about 12mil Sirius/Shaper DPS. Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand. Your gloves aren't from this world. Divergent. Then, the projectile from your own lightning bolt also hits… thus double hitting. This is fine because it meets the same breakpoint with gem level boosts as a level 21 divergent melee splash (both level 23 and 24 are 39% less modifiers). Divergent Pride: "Nearby Enemies have -5% to Physical Damage Reduction", which can translate in a damage multiplier. All this was with 75/60% dodge and 84% evasion, fortify, sapp, wind dancer, and nearby enemies are blind. 22. Whirling Blades Attack, Movement, Travel, Melee Level: (1-20) Cost: 10 Mana Requires Level 10 Dive through enemies, dealing weapon damage. One option is to exploit the Divergent Melee Splash + Hydrosphere interaction, but then you can't Cyclone on Kosis. Melee splash gives a more multi instead of a less multi ReplyDivergent Melee splash makes your clear very fast with the speed from Flesh Offering. 17 - Removed Hydrosphere gem setup. Melee Splash hits ALL surrounding target, no matter how many there are. Enter Lunaris Temple, kill Piety and get Skillpoint in town Get Imperial Gardens Waypoint, finish Trial of Ascendancy and optionally get plum for fairgraves. If it's near the boss, the two splash damage will overlap effectively giving out double the damage. 6k. - Start buying alt quality gems, like divergent srs, divergent melee splash, divergent multistrike etc. Free skill-sockets. GLOVES The gloves are Triad Grip with 1 red and 3. I've tried out different gem combos in the early maps and clear without splash felt pretty meh. I've got a corrupted 21/21 version and it actually does 2% More damage to surrounding targets instead of 40% less, so I do more damage to my splash targets than the main target. Corrupted Yes. I wonder if any experts can validate that swap. 4. 0. I'm at the point now where my minions (except zombies) rarely ever die - but the Redeemer fight is killing them. Although spiders are supplementary to hoag, they still do damage and help with clear. Gooood. Putting hydrosphere on the boss means that when the spiders use viper strike on it, they’ll also. The issue with melee isn't (and never has been) damage, it's damage projection. Divergent Melee Splash. Divergent/ awakened melee splash - more damage. Maybe a helm enchant for srs and work on crafting it. Level 20. Plus I've got lots of atk speed on the minions anyway. 2. You want chaos. Haste feels much better, I've tried both, ended up with malevolence auls uprising, and sincerely wishing I got a haste instead, and had the blessing for the "burst". When hydrosphere is on top of the boss, boss gets hit by main hit and the splash. 0c Geomancer 3. Divergent : Melee Strikes target (0–2) additional nearby Enemies: 20: Vigilant Strike: Phantasmal : Melee Hits Fortify for (0–2) seconds: 100: Support Gem /24 . It's dirt cheap and this change alone boosts your DPS by almost 200k. Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130% Requires Level 72 Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit. Cast when Damage Taken. - Amanamu's gaze update. So, the staff has +3 to level of socketed support gems as well as +10% to quality of socketed support gems. So we get around ~20M; we don't lose that much from the hydrosphere change. It has 0 uses since Tribal Fury is a 20% quality Divergent Melee splash. I didn't have AW Multistrike or Divergent Melee Splash, since hen I've found AW MS and I'll get the Divergent Melee Splash eventually. You can try divergent melee splash plus hydrosphere plus strike additional target combo, which you might achieve higher DPS. 1 to Melee Strike Range Supported Skills. Divergent Melee Splash is a sleeper gem.