Cant wait to try ik hota. It seems much more chill than lod.
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Yeah, though it’s squishier, too. If that gives you problems, you can always run with Esoteric rather than PE.
I think it could be a very fun xp build in between rend & lod power levels. Not having to worry about timers is very relaxing.
Hey in case anyone is wondering ik hota is super strong & fast. Plus easy to gear. 120 in 4-5 min on average map.
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Yup, me again, lol. Pretty much all the toughness problems have been ironed out. Im using a hybrid savages combo I gleaned from Kozmik with my own twists. Up to 140! Lots of room to grow. SO much easier to gear than LoD.
Update - End of season got a 143 clear with a 90 savages hybrid. Will miss the hota power.
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Alright, my “play all the builds I rarely/never play” campaign is coming along. Here’s IK HotA GR 138:
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Isnt it a fun build? Not sure why ppl dont play it more.
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If I’d like to use the Immortal King’s Boulder Breaker and thus I can’t use HOTA (because HOTA needs one weapon equipped and one weapon cubed), what would be the next best skill to use that can benefit from a single cubed item slot and any supporting things (like bracers, etc.) while still retaining the Immortal King’s Call set bonus? Perhaps Furious Charge?
Not looking to be the most optimized, just to get something that also makes sense.
4PC Rakeor and 6PC IK, or 4PC Waste and 6PC IK, are the only combinations (IMHO) that would make any sense.
The most sense (for Torments and speed farming) usually is only the IK Charge barb, guide here:
For HotA and Seismic Slam you have kinda the same situation (2 weapons + bracers).
In S31, you of course can put more than one weapon in cube, if your wish is to play HotA/SS with IK weapon equiped.
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Thanks so much, that’s super helpful!
Is it still feasible at this time to run IK4/MOT6 so that you are basically an earthquake build with infinite Wrath of the berserker and zero need for cooldown reduction on gear?
Technically, all that Earthquake needs to do its full damage is the Blade of the tribes in the cube weapon and Girdle of giants in the cube armor slot.
I’ve read some discussions about this combination from 4 years ago, so they probably aren’t very relevant anymore.
UPDATE: Tried it and it works, as soon as you get your Leap/Earthquake/Shout/Slam rotation down it’s very user-friendly and is very satisfying to play, and it also helps knowing that you can’t screw yourself into 0 fury and cooldown by misclicking something like in ordinary MOTE. I recommend it 