I am playing lightning LOD WOL and having some issues with above.
I have 58.98% CDR yet this is still not enough to have perma uptime on Epiphany. Several times in a rift I will get hit by the stone gauntlets effect and die.
I have 8% CDR on shoulders and gloves, CDR gem in helm, 10% CDR on one weapon and 9% CDR on the other. Using a macro to auto spam both mystic ally and Epiphany as per Raxx’s video guide for LOD WOL.
Following the maxroll planner so all skills are correct.
What am I missing?
Thanks
P.S. just noticed that the maxroll guide says if you are playing fire, then use Bartucs Cut Throat as your weapon. This weapon does not have CDR on it so your cooldown would be a lot lower than mine is now. Wouldn’t this make stone gauntlets even worse for fire???
Chances are, you’re spamming your abilities too much. This means that when you do that, you’re spending all your zodiac seconds somewhere besides epiphany. You have to be conservative with your other skills. Alternatively, don’t use stonies.
Link to guide : https://maxroll.gg/guides/lod-wave-of-light-monk-guide
Doesnt spamming your abilities reduce your cooldowns faster because of your obsidian ring? So that your epiphany will reduce its cooldown faster? What do you mean spending your zodiac seconds SOMEWHERE BESIDES epiphany?? How do you apply your zodiac seconds directly to epiphany??
When the Zodiac ring reduces the cooldown of an ability by one second, it gives that cooldown to one of your abilities that has a cooldown. If you have three abilities with cooldowns, it will give that one second to each in turn, i.e. every third cooldown reduction will go to Epiphany. If the other two abilities are off cooldown, all the reductions will go to Epiphany.
Also, if you’re struggling for CDR, are you using the Enchantress follower? She has an ability level that gives a choice between 10% CDR and 10% Elemental Damage, so you could get some more CDR.
Spamming your abilities means they are on cooldown significantly more often. Imagine a faucet that is pumping water from a barrel. You need that barrel empty and the way you empty it is using the zodiac ring. Every time you use a skill, you add water to that barrel. The more often it’s empty, the more often epiphany is active. You won’t reduce your cooldown faster if you’re constantly pouring water into the barrel, such as spamming dashing strike or any other skill you have with a cooldown.
To top it off, if you can’t keep your spirit full, you can’t cooldown your skills with your bell. You also shouldn’t use bartucs with this build at all, since it would be nearly impossible to keep up with your usage. The other ethereals have spirit on crit. If you’ve run out of enemies to hit before epiphany is back up, stay away from enemies and hit them from afar so you don’t activate your stone gauntlets.
This bit I struggle with as Cyclone Strike and Epiphany suck you on top of the monsters. How do you stay back and attack? Just use WOL only you mean?
Well… If your epiphany isn’t up, what’s the point in doing anything besides getting your cooldowns?