Ties That Bind. Amara’s busted Phasegrasp variant.
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Ah… Thanks for clarifying that… That’s an action skill augment… I was looking for it in the regular skills list. So it should work, but it doesn’t? That’s interesting and unfortunate.
Haha, no busted in the “very powerful” sense. It’s incredibly effective at clearing groups of enemies.
Ah, gotcha…lol… I don’t really use it so I’m not familiar. But should it work with Samsara? It’s an action skill augment and samsara is suppose to work off of action skill element damage.
Yeah it’s a weird inconsistency, because, for instance, Do Harm, which also boosts action skill damage, does boost TTB. You can’t really depend on the skill descriptions too much. And testing can be time consuming.
You would hope and think it would work with it…lol… Probably why that guy had his build like that.
I’m not a fan of the Stone COM anyway. I’ll be sticking with my Elementalist for quite a while longer.
Ties That Bind is no augment, it’s an action skill, one of the variants of Phasegrasp. You can use it with augments, great synergy with Stillness of Mind. I think most will agree when I say TTB is by far the best Grasp variant, and generally Amara’s most powerful action skill only diminished by the fact that it can’t use +300% slam/+250% cast anointments.
The thing with Samsara is that no Grasp variant triggers it except for Fist Over Matter. But I think that’s the most common mistake people do on Amara builds, that video is hardly alone with doing that. You have to pay attention to the skill icons under the XP bar/to your healing to notice it, I won’t blame anyone except if they call their video “best build” like most youtubers do.
As for Elementalist, I think the Stone is better. Tbh I think Elementalist is bottom tier together with Dragon. The top class mod is Driver, but it’s pretty extreme and I just don’t like to use it. The closest alternative is Phasezerker which is a great all around mod that’s good for any build, except perhaps for pure melee.
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For mobbing with Ties that Bind, I actually prefer Golden Rule because it reduces the cooldown to almost nothing quite often. For bosses I only use the Spiritual Driver as a set with an Elemental Projector.
Because of the Pearl now filling the artifact slot, I am considering the Stone but otherwise will resort to Phasezerker.
Golden Rule is definitely a decent class mod, although I prefer the Zerker because A) it gives good cooldown reduction too even if you’re not being hit, B) it gives you +75% gun damage with Avatar, and C) it builds up Rush stacks like crazy. Personally I max out Do Harm and Awakening for obscene TTB damage, and Rush stacks increase this damage a lot.
Here’s one of the best BL3 players doing a scaled Takedown speedrun, also using TTB + Zerker, except that he’s switching to Cast against Wotan because TTB isn’t good for bossing.
If your objective is speed runs, yeah, but the Elementalist is what I used to solo TTD with the Pearl and the Seventh Sense:
I’ll switch to a phasezerker once I find one with the buffs I want.
Of course you can use whatever you want, just saying that aside from the skill/passive bonuses that mod isn’t doing anything at all in your video. It’s mostly weapon and artifact that are doing the job.
The Phasezerker is good for everything, not only for speedrunning. The point was that it’s so good that he’s using it for speedrunning even though Driver exists.
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Yeah, all it really was is the ASE, Pearl, and gun… There are other artifacts, too, you can use and guns, too. Just drop and go. I think it’s more skill tree based, tbh. Unless you’re going for specific goals like a speed run. All you need is the right gear and some practice.
I still don’t think the Stone COM is as good as that guy made it out to be.
Yeah, it’s just that Youtubers get more clicks if they call their video “wow this new thing is amazing” or whatever. I think the Stone is mediocre. Great skill bonuses for TTB though.
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Only problem is that TTB doesn’t really need better bonuses. My phasezerker Amara’s dmg output and mass clearing potential is already pretty silly as it is.
Imo, they should’ve combined the abilities of the golden rule and the stone class mod into one. Maybe then we would’ve something useful. When I use the Stone I can be pretty tanky but I can’t activate my anoints frequently enough. When I use the Golden Rule I can spam my AS but I’m vulnerable and lack dmg.
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I wonder would stone work well with stauros burn? In theory it could facilitate usage of this gun with repair/ reloading help with the hefty self damage and increase burn probabilty. That could make for a fun build… or not
I did some testing, stone indeed makes the time you can survive Stauros burn longer.Problem is Stauros burn hurts so much it is hardly significant
5 point clarity,no reduc/res:
rough rider:
15952 life 4s of survival with no rush stack
6s of survival with 15 rush stacks
shield 7035 with 51% fire res got depleted in:
12 s with no stack
18 s with 15 rish stacks
So 50% survival time gain in each case but not enough survival time to be viable without fire res shield. Problem with the shield is that in real fight, mobs will deplete it super easily unless it has absorb
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Did the mod get fixed?
It did.