Right?! When I saw it I went full "whaaat?’
Yep, I got pretty lucky on those. They actually weren’t ideal for pushing WW before, but with the new Rend-centric version they’re basically perfect 
So, I went back to pushing after dedicating December solely to forging a better FoT.
GR124 in 14: 46
Desert -> Festering -> Cathedral
2 elites with conduit, 1 elite with power
Raziel with no pylon
GR125 in 13:56
Moors -> Festering -> Caves
1 elite conduit, 2 elite speed
Raziel again, no pylon.
I’m wondering if it might be better to switch demoralize to rage flip. I think I’ll also try cindercoat over aquilla. It feels like I can spare the toughness.
GR126 in 14:13.
Battlefield -> Cathedral -> Battlefield
3 elite power, 2 elite conduit
Agnidox with 1/2 a conduit left
I switched out Aquilla’s for cindercoat. I can feel a difference in power, for sure. Surprisingly, the loss of the 50% DR and 30% less healing from cindercoat wasn’t very noticeable.
127+ is doable, but I think it’s all fishing from here. Not a lot of room for improvement in my gear, and I don’t have it in me to do a batch of 115 or 120 gems for augs.
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Is there any reason I can’t try to do this in Non-seasonal play? This is so in depth, it’s mind blowing. It won’t be easy to follow you path.
This build is definitely doable non season, because it takes forever to get the gear. I wouldn’t make this a season goal unless you’re very dedicated.
I will say this build works better in higher GR’s. If you’re killing things too quickly, then you’re not getting a lot of price from orotz, which means your down time on wotb and cota will hurt you.
Wanted to update this thread with some gameplay footage from 2.7.0.
GR129: LoD HotA GR129 2.7.0 - YouTube
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At 5:20 I let grouping distract me from getting ORotZ procs, so my CotA dropped. I had to charge outside the group to hit some solitary white mobs for a bit until it was back. If you stay in density with a dropped cooldown, you die. You can see this struggle again around 6:50.
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Die at 9:40 because I let my BoM drop. Tried to attack to get some ORotZ hits, but never charged, so one shot by white mob again. Derp.
GR130: LoD HotA GR130 2.7.0 - YouTube
- Switched from demoralize to falter. You can see that the grouping is worse, but dmg is better. Sorry for the lag on this one.
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Well done, Poco! Thanks for posting the clears.
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131 down. LoD HotA GR131 2.7.0 - YouTube
You can see in frustrating detail how you shouldn’t keep hammering a lonely elite. Those stupid diggers at 11:30 almost cost me the rift. Should have moved forward, but for some reason I was thinking it would spawn the boss.
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Good job to southcoast55 for the GR133 clear with 3500 paragon.
I’m also quite enjoying the back and forth for rank 1 on seasonal 
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Yeah, 133@ 3500 P is very solid!
You going to try for 134?
Based on how the season is going, he’ll try 134 if someone beats his clear, lol.
I would need to get my gems higher before I trying, and the season is keeping me busy. I got a killer HF on my 6th try, so I’m pretty stoked and will actually try to get all my gear in a good place.
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엔류 did 138 on April 23rd… so, thus far he’s done 138 with R6 HOTA, 138 with LOD HOTA, and 139 with IK HOTA, all with around 9k paragon.
Like his IK HOTA clear, this one is interesting for using Rage Flip and Sankis (no EF).
Wow, very impressive. I can feel that rageflip is the best for the tippy-top clears, but sankis is really puzzling to me. EF not only gives AS but also cooldown. If I’m pounding down some heavies and I’m behind in cooldowns, I have to charge over to some fodder to build up EF stacks so I can catch up, or else I run out of wotb/cota and it’s instant death. He must be using spear to always keep enemies in striking distance. Way too much skill for me 
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The fire damage and mini IP have to work nice.
엔류 now up to 140 with all 3 HOTAs (IK, LoD, R6). His IK clear in just under 15 minutes, R6 in 12:27, and LoD in 10:00 flat. All done with about 9300 paragon.
With LoD, this time he’s using EF rather than Sankis (also using Squirt- can’t remember if he used that last time). Still using Spear. (IK clear still using both Sankis and Spear)
A clear in 10 minutes leaves room for at least 2 more GRs of clearance with the same gear + paragon… looks like at 10k paragon, the potential is there for at least 140 for IK, 141-142 for R6, and 142-143 for LoD. That means LoD is probably only a whisker weaker than Frenzy!
There’s also a 142 with LoD on the AS server, though done by a fellow with nearly 15k paragon, so not quite as impressive.
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I knew it! These LB filters are really doing some amazing work in highlighting under-rated builds.
Also very interesting to see Squirts being used in top clears. Power + Shield and I’d imagine the boss just vaporizes.
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Did you miss my “Squirt’s Analysis” post?
(To be fair, I failed to mention LoD HOTA there, not sure why.)
Nope, not at all. In fact we talk about it a little further down. Everything was theoretical, though, so by interesting I mean “the predictions were true” and not “how unforeseen”.
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Shoot, forgive me for not remembering…
Further down where?