[2015 Patch 1.02] Legendary Emma. What Diamond? dps emma frost leveling pve pvp
Guide by MadeofDiamond Last update at Jun 14th 2014, 03:27

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Legendary Ranged Emma Build. What Diamond?


Emma


Do you enjoy butt kicking enemies with your mind? Do you crave destruction? Do you want a minion to become your personal meat shield while you destroy enemies' minds? If you said yes to any of those questions, this build is for you!

This build is slightly DoT focused. Here's the stats we should be at least going for.

35% crit chance (not including Fandral).
250% crit damage
3000 mental damage rating
As much health as possible.

Omega Telepath Tree



A decent AoE basic. Point dump because we have extra 20 points and we have no where else to dump it in. Can chose to dump in
or
instead, or maybe put some points into Mental Cloaking.

A definite max because it deals decent damage and it applies vulnerability debuff.

A decent channeled AoE power. It even comes with a persisting DoT effect.

Max this awesome power as it lets you see enemies on the minimap in non-diamond, increases mental damage and you regenerate health when you deal mental dmg.

This is an "okay" single target spirit spender that lets you restore your health. Max it.

Your CC breaker. No point ranking it up to match the cooldown duration.

One point just for Accuracy. Remember to activate this first if not Accuracy won't work.

Hellfire Headmistress Tree



Psychic Domination scales horribly. Never put any additional points into it.

Deals extra damage and lets your pet taunt enemies to get their attention off you. Best used with a melee teleporter pet (having a Haste Aura is good for your teammates too).

Max this because DoT damage is excellent and it makes enemies cower.


Point dump for spike damage.

Diamond Paragon Tree



One point just for moving around.

Artifacts


✴ [item]95[/item] gives you bonus crit rating and radius to your main AoE damage dealers -- Telepathic Torment, Psychic Blast, Sudden Dread, Inspire, Kneel Before Me.

✴ [item]69[/item] You will be using Inspire often, and Inspire makes enemies taunted (to your minion, that is). Hence it gives you additional damage to the enemies. 10 min cooldown rev is nice too.

✴ [item]244[/item] gives you bonus crit rating and dmg rating vs targets not attacking you. You'll be using Mental Cloaking and Inspire Minion quite oftenly so enemies wouldn't be attacking you that often.

✴ Mental Headband - Gives quite some mental damage rating and mental AoE proc.

[item]207[/item] - Teleport is good and the crit and crit damage is better.

GoTK - Gives your crit and brut. It's okay, but too rare for only these stats it give. Not really worth the time grinding for it.

[item]78[/item] gives us additional damage rating against targets not attacking you, which is a great bonus. The power and dodge rating is good to have too.

[item]75[/item] for crit.

[item]223[/item] for crit bonus.


✴ - My choice

Medallions


Wizard is the best medallion for this build because it gives bonus damage rating and ranged damage rating.

Alternatives are: Doc Ock, Dr Doom, MODOK or Mandarin.

Core


✴ +Energy

Mental Damage Rating

+INT

Invisi Medkit.

+Health

25/25 medkit

✴ - A must have

Relics


Lots of choices to chose from. [item]213[/item] for bonus DoT damage if you don't have much spirit problems. If not, use [item]188[/item].

Legendaries


Since the legendary item rework, Warlock's Eye is now BiS for Emma (previously it was still good, but Gungnir edged it out I believe). That's not to say that Gungnir isn't a decent choice (especially if you already have it leveled on Emma), just that the Eye wins out over it.


Gear Priorities


1. Critical Rating
2. Damage Rating/Mental Damage Rating/Critical Damage Rating
3. Spirit
5. +ranks to powers

The rest have equal priorities.

Costume Affixes


Grade 1 - Critical Rating

Grade 2 - Health on Kill

Grade 3 - Critical Rating (Damage Rating does fine too.)

Grade 4 - Critical Rating

Gear Slots


Slot 1 - The Darkhold (All Hero Unique)
This unique is extremely powerful for Emma. +1 Energy means you won't have to have it on your core. In addition, it gives +706 dmg rating (on lvl 60) and +1446 mental dmg rating, which adds up to an amazing +2152 dmg rating and also the +5% additional mental damage from the +1 Energy. Besides this, you also get a decent amount of brutal strike rating, brutal dmg rating and spirit.

Slot 2 - Phoenix Harness (Emma Unique)
It adds spirit and spirit regen when under 10% spirit. Also adds ranks to OT Tree and Telepathic Torment.

Slot 3 - Nisanti Cloak of Invisibility (Emma, SW, Thor, Loki, Storm shared Unique)
This unique is also extremely good for this build. When you drop below 40% health, you turn invisible and drop all aggro, which can be a life saver. You also gain dmg rating to enemies not attacking you, which is a great bonus since you'll be using Inspire Minion and Mental Cloaking often. The other extra stats are also good to have. With The Darkhold, her Stole unique is still inferior compared to Nisanti. Probably when hero attributes system gets reworked, it could be considered.

Slot 4 - Generation X Academy Boots (Emma Unique)/AIM Space Corps Zero Gravity Boots (All Hero Unique)
Generation X boots is way better than the Stiletto unique for this build! It gives crit rating bonus, additional damage to area powers, extra spirit and 2 ranks to all powers.

Use Zero Gravity Boots if you have spirit problems for the spirit on kill.

Slot 5 - Locket of the Lords Cardinal (Emma Unique)
Needless to say, this unique gives a damage boost (Cyclop pet) and bonus to Hellfire tree.

Blessings



I say go for 3x Fandral. 9% chance to dodge and 300 critical rating is great.
Fandral

For the other one, go for Odin for the 7 spirit on kill. Emma's quite starved on spirit.

Uru and Runeword



Uur-Forged: The one that adds 200 mental damage rating.

Runeword:
Bowazon - Because it adds a bonus to your ranged dmg rating and crit rating. These small bonuses are good to have.

River of the Soul - If you're having spirit problems, use this. This helps a lot.

Key Binding


[1] Hotbar
LMB - Psi/Astral Bolt
RMB -

A -

S -

D -

Z -

X -

C -


Custom Hotkey Binding (Check out how to add more hotkeys here)
1 -

2 -

3 -

Q -

W - Empty
E - Empty
R - Empty

I usually stick to a certain hotkey binding style. RMB and S usually for AoE powers, D is either an AoE power or a "shield" power (Like Scarlet Witch's Entropic Warding which I used ages ago) Z usually for movement powers, [1] for CC Breaks and [3] for Signatures. The rest depends on the hero.

Here's what keys I bind to access other hotbars.
1 - 2nd Hotbar LMB
2 - 2nd Hotbar "A"
3 - 2nd Hotbar "S"
Q - 2nd Hotbar "D"
W - 2nd Hotbar "F"
E - 2nd Hotbar "G"
R - 2nd Hotbar "H"

How does this work? You edit the ini files and add in some codes. (More on that in the link above.) So when I press [1], the 2nd hotbar appears and "LMB" is "clicked". Similarly, when I press [Q], the power in the "D" slot of the 2nd hotbar is used.


Please do rate and give feedback. Don't rate it down before and without saying why, because then I'll immediately assume you're a sore loser trying to rate down everyone's builds because you want yours to be higher, especially now everyone can see who liked/disliked builds.


Changelog


20/1/14: Shifted a few points from Astral Bolt, Unlock Potential, Drain Psyche, Psychic Domination and Frenzied Confusion to Inspire Minion and Kneel Before Me and maxed Sudden Dread and Psychic Blast. Removed Mental Overload.

22/1/14: Added my post 2.14 key binding!

25/1/14: Removed the pre-2.14 key binding. Replaced 2.2 with with 2.14 (I thought it was called 2.2).

1/2/14: Added the gear slots for this build and changed recommended Legendary. Also changed the stats on the core.

8/2/14: Changed her unique choice since there's new (better) uniques.

9/2/14: Added my affixes and blessings recommendation.

15/2/14: Changed the name to 2.21. No other changes, since there has been no changes to Emma in this patch.

15/2/14: Shifted some points from Psychic Domination and Psychic Blast into Inspire Minion.

22/2/14: Changed the name to 2.3 and added my Uru and Runeword recommendation. No other changes, since there has been no changes to Emma in this patch.

1/3/14: Changed the name to 2.3.1. No other changes, since there has been no changes to Emma in this patch.

17/3/14: Edited some errors and renamed it to 2.33.

8/4/14: Did some minor reallocation of power points, changed my artifact, relic, blessings, gear priority, Legendary, Costume Affix and core choice and renamed it to 2.36.

27/4/14: Updated to 2.42.

26/5/14: Shifted 4 points from Psi Bolt into Kneel.

14/6/14: Updated to 2015 patch 1.02.