3.16 - A5 Pts+Lab - Pure Explosive Trap Shadow - 1h56m39s
39Deathless Act 5 All Skill Points and Normal Lab Explosive Trapper Run. Explosive trap was used as primary clear and single target skill from level 1 on. Onslaught was not used this run at all. Part of the reason why this run was done using explosive trap all the way through is because in 3.17 it is likely that seismic trap will be getting adjusted. Would not be surprised to see exsang traps also be adjusted, albeit less so than seismic. Single target damage is quite good, and feels excellent when you can properly prestack, which I did not do quite so well at times during this run. When I did prestack well difference was extremely noticeable.
If you want to use onslaught with a clearing skill there are a few options. First there the option to use EK/Pierce/Onslaught in a G-G-G setup. Second, once you get WoC at 16, you can use WoC linked to onslaught and some damage support. Third, you can use the traditional frostbomb-onslaught, but that will be a little pain champ as you don't have elemental scaling, so it wouldn't likely kill things. To fix that you'd either have to go top pathing or wait until you get wand craft at 8 plus linking it to a damaging support in addition to onslaught. Regardless, I would switch to WoC as an onslaught skill at 16 even though it has a slightly longer cast speed, it has high base damage and will pathing laid in build will likely one tap most mobs.
If you're okay not using onslaught and still want to primarily use traps, exsang trap at level 12 even without chain will likely clear better than explosive trap.
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