Oh it was a good pickup due to its position and most people pathing by it, yes, but by itself its not a very good keystone. Put it somewhere else where it's slightly more inconvenient to pick up, and no one would give a shit. People certainly don't care about unique items that grant the keystone without having to grab it on the tree.
The perk of going real Hiero is that it gives you massive ES, +100% increased AoE, makes it pretty easy to get 0 cost skills with a Praxis, and you either get bonus damage through a bunch of totems or an extra maximum power and endurance charge to go with your extra totem. Scion doesn't really provide that. If you're doing Scion, the main sub-ascendancies I'd contemplate would be Berserker, Inquisitor, Assassin, and Raider I guess, but it's still not as good as plain Berserker.
Rigwald's Curse, Nasima's Brutal Restraint, and maybe 3x Grand Spectrum (crit) will do you good. It's completely feasible to get 100% crit chance with the fist even without going Assassin, but then you're probably using Increased Critical Strikes support. That Increased Critical Strikes support gem is higher value than normal though, because of Brutal Restraint (Nasima's).
Acrobatics was free avoidance on a plain life stacker build with a 2H or bow. You just stacked some endurance charges and flat phys reduction to handle physical damage, and then you had 40% dodge and 30% spell dodge.
Those only get you -7 (-8 with catalyst), I think, but they work too. Amulet is a non-option though because Rigwald's Curse is taking that slot.
Manastorm mostly. But I think I was also getting mixed up with a similar build that involved Manabond and Shavronne's Wrappings as Hierophant and reserving auras to the life pool.
In a game where the only way to die is one-shots, that just seems like 5 wasted passive points.
That must be a bait, no way you're serious.
I am. Phase Acro isn't that great for 4 points, which is why a fair amount (~25-30%) of non-raider rangers tend to skip it. 30% spelldodge isnt gonna make a meaningful difference in your overall mapping survivability, and those points can usually be spent in better ways. It's simply a matter of whether or not you have access to better things, which is why Acro/Phase Acro is a good choice when leveling and starting the gearing process, but as time moves on and you're potentially going for a second cluster setup, the points come at a higher and higher opportunity cost.
There is, but then you're into "hope for lucky RNG to get a good ring" territory unless you want to spend a lot of currency on crafting with stuff like veiled chaos orbs. Aisling's veiled modifiers do not let you get Elreon's signature modifier. If you can get a good ring that way that's great though. If you can get Replica Conqueror's Efficiency that's probably even better. But more likely master crafting the weaker mod onto regular mana rings is the way to go if you want 0 cost skills.
Berserker Marauder does good there. If you really want insanity, you can use Doryani's Prototype. You can also use the Earthbreaker support gem to spam totems that inflict Doryani's Touch. Apparently it's a slam skill now.
...did just that with my precious -58% worth of ventor's and 1x thread of hope ~ minus 138. It's busted, I'm used to much more dmg... But finetuned my caster to make up for the mana-deleterious archmage somewhat. Back to leap slam. Started liking shield crush though.
If you really want to convert mana into lightning damage just do Manabond, reduce mana costs to zero, and keep your mana pool empty.
For Doryani's Fist or Bloodseeker?
Berserker is honestly pretty ideal for Doryani's Fist. Rage is too useful, especially with tripled bonuses.
You can now combine block with evasion.. and you should.
