Squirt's vs. Endless Walk

Wizard
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I am curious to hear thoughts regarding the different Vyr setups that have been popular so far this season.

Season 17 Build 1

  • Worn: Endless Walk and ORotZ
  • Cube: CoE

Season 17 Build 2

  • Worn: Endless Walk and ORotZ
  • Cube: Karini

Season 18 Build 1

  • Worn: Squirt’s , CoE, and ORotZ
  • Cube: Karini

Season 18 Build 2

  • Worn: Endless Walk and ORotZ
  • Cube: Squirt’s Necklace

There are a few other permutations, but I am most interested in the role that Squirt’s plays. Is it worth ditching CoE for more consistent damage plus additional toughness? Is Storm Armor worth it compared to Energy Armor?

2

Total up the multipliers. You have 150% damage and 80% DR as Build 1. The damage reduction value of Storm Armor is zero. The extra AP is helpful, however.

And you have 200% Damage /Energy Armor- Force Armor as Build 2. I don’t know offhand how much DR Energy Armor- Force Armor is equivalent too. The one-shot protection that scales with total life is very useful too, plus you don’t have to duck in and out of Melee to proc SA.

3

I’m going with S18 Build 3

Worn : Endless Walk / CoE
Cube : Squirt’s Necklace and Messersmith (sp) axe.

I also have another version for Vyr / Crimson with Worn Rorg, Squirt in Cube, Endless Walk. No CoE, no Obsidian but CDR rolled almost everywhere.

In fact you can muse on it, you could go Flavor of Time (for the nat CDR) nstead of EW and get CoE, the lost in dps from EW is made up by longer shrine duration.

The longer human form allow for stacking chantodo to 20. (you also have to choose Fabuza or Swami, I go for Swami)

4

I’ve tried both build 1s and here is my take.

Squirts - Better for mob clearing. Not great on RG, basically get one shot by any RG attacks. The mitigation you get from Halo of Karini and Storm Armor is non existant against RG. I have failed GRs with more than 5mins on RG. Could possibly get better time than EW set if you get a shield pylon on RG. Better for group meta with monk and barb providing you with extra damage mitigation.
Endless Walk - I think the mitigation you get from this is key. Easily the more reliable version for solo High GRs. The mob clear won’t be as fast though, but will need much less time on RG.

5

Interesting post. Makes me think about my custom high GR push LoN build…

I was also thinking about ditching Halo of Karini as it took me forever on a RG as I seemed so much weaker against it at GR112. Since im using LON my thoughts were if I ditched Karini i could use squirts in cube and swap in SoJ for elemental/elite % then Amulet a hellfire with another passive boost perhaps. CoE on other finger of course.