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You can also use potion that give you +7 - +8 to armor, no need switch to shield
There also exist potion of final stand, it scales much better than spell and you can drink it before spell end
When enemies surround you and you near death, take Wahai Pōraga and cut them all, this weapon look very fun
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Yeah, going in there with a level 7 dude or anybody packed up on various Blessings is a totally different ball game.
It's eminently possible with a regular level 4 party or whatnot, though. Just treat it like a puzzle.
If Aloth is getting instakilled & Eder very quickly too, well, clearly walking in boldly into the midst of ~7 powerful enemies is not going to work well. Can you sneak up on them and take one or two out quickly? Can you use sparkcrackers to lure some of them around a corner and pick a fight (or use sparks to lure them together then start combat with a grenade)? Can you blow up their most damaging enemies (rogues, wizards) ASAP?
What's the differences in capability between your previous party & current one, anyway?
I'm sure you never try to do this street solo on L7 without gear on PotD upscaled :D
And with Ghost Heart / Ascendant + Elder + Aloth L4 you can do that fight much faster that I do solo on L7 (without group splitting)
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Could you add my build https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/102168-build-glanfathan-soul-hunter ?
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Posted final build for 1.1
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* Added video with equip and abilities* Updated abilities
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Boring Ukaizo fight + Showcase for companion micro management - how to block big guy :D
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Maybe this helps you https://youtu.be/3BJJ9wCxcmc, I do this solo on level 7 with scaling enabled. Rise up alchemy, put x2 trap that slow enemies, choose arqubuse as your primary weapon, start combat with success charming, take best armor against pierce + run near them and make enemies wizard hit your character, create potion of withdraw or some scrolls, put aloth AOE on them, use empower to generate additional focus, charm only range guys
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Figures run out. As do the other consumables.
Like you have to know how much of each to bring for each fight and that's not good for newbs.
With this build you can go into pretty much every fight unprepared and come out with a win.
But it more funny, and faster and safe for some bosses, just image how fampyrs charms your summons, what you will do ? Bring them with yourself and if they out, use your tactic
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They restock?
If so, I guess I can do this AND cast scrolls. Even better.
With berath blessing you can rise your Alchemy/Arcana something like 20/15 and use both poisons and scrolls, for non Chanter class you can always use figures
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Right. But they all require consumables. How do you get the ingredients for many of the good ones anyways?
I'm curious about this.
All what you need is Neketaka Herbal Shop
Obsidian didn't remove scrolls from PoE I, and I'm sure they will leave them in PoE ||, just use your build and cast scrolls :D
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Thank you!
It's designed to be boring but very very effective.
Once they have the Triple Crown Achievement, this is what I'm going to do.
The only problem with this build is you get overconfident.
If obsidian
1. Don't nerf paladins
2. Fix broken armor system
3. Remove abilities that do damage 24/7
You can do that :D
But now exist much faster and safest ways to break the game
1. You can use arcana
2. You can use druid + alchemy
3. You can use invisibility + caster class
4. Poisons
5. Any fun martial build + Alchemy
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I went single class Maia and she seemed perfectly fine. You have a very cheap, very reliable escape from ever getting engaged on, a permanent 6th model in combat and the amazing interrupting shots ability.
Maia has unique class, that interrupt on hit, this make a sense with one hand AOE weapon, this fact make her little bit viable
I feel that the level 8 Wizard spell Caedebald's Blackbow makes Rangers feel redundant. They have high accuracy yes, they have a pet yes, they have stunning shots and bouncing arrows. Caedebald's Blackbow is so strong that it continuously terrifies enemies that aren't immune to it and it bounces like the ranger skill.
That aside I think Rangers are pretty strong. They don't have huge damage buffs like Rogue or Barbarian, but they can always hit the enemy and create synergy with their pet. I think that's where their true strength lies. I think that more afflictions would fit into their kit. Right now they feel average because other classes can do something similar and some even better individually than a Ranger.
I also think that they should have more "hunter" styles skills such as damage bonusses or affliction bonusses vs certain type of enemies that they can focus on. I know this is how D&D does it, but I think there's a good thought process behind this. Rangers are used to the wilds, they hunt, they can track. All those things are not in the PoE Ranger kit and that's the most confusing part.
I wouldn't call them weak though.
Their accuracy bonuses works with spells, classes that mix rangers can have over 130 - 150 acc and hit bosses with 170 fortitude
You can combine blunderbuss.frostseeker with mutli shot + Storm and get around ~ 100 - 150 damage for two 2 targets
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I moved this discussion from https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/102516-solo-build-the-lightning-sphinx-massive-burst-dd-marauder/
Sorry poor Ukaizo
Sorry 1TTFFSSE for this discussion in your build topic
> That's easy. It's a known fact ciphers can solo mobs easy due to their charm spell. And as I see already in your video, your pet is not lasting long + you are quite squishy. You will have troubles with single high hp high damage enemies like Guardian of Ukaizo.
Nope man
> your pet is not lasting long
I can summon him x12-x15 times. It immune to Engaged, and I used it only to cast cipher spells
> single high hp high damage enemies like Guardian of Ukaizo.
Do you see my reflexes ? :D They higher than in your build ?
Do you know how much damage can do disintegration ?
Do you know something about Pain Link ?
Do you know how much penetration I can achieve with Ectopsychic Echo ?
Do you know how much accuracy I can stack ?
I can upload video with Guardian of Ukaizo, little bit late. (I can't upload Fampyr fights with Deadly Deadfire, but look on my channel there exist video with PotD solo. on DD they will have +6 to all stats and +30%HP, nothing more). I can do near any fight without charm
I'll be amazed if you post a battle with the Guardian of Ukaizo
Make sure you show it is on POTD, show your stats, show the boss's stats. I can't wait to see that video! :D
I do 2 fights, one only with healing potions
Second one with potion of penetration (timing for attributes and hit roll check under the video 4 alchemy, 2 berath and 2 from class)
In this run I only changed ring and helm
The interesting fact, my Ukaizo has 2 levels more than one from your video, I don't know why :D
You have base of 147 + 20 (borrowed instinct) for reflex while I have 162 base + 20 (determination) so I have more reflex. I don't even use a shield yet. Disintegration does a lot but Guardian has high fortitude that is why I see a lot of it miss in your video. That is why yours took 14 minutes to kill the boss and mine 8 minutes. Pain Link is just okay but it does add up to your damage so that's good. Penetration is only good if you can double it twice the enemy's armor (to get overpen which gives you +30% damage) otherwise there is no point. My character has 2 less accuracy than yours.
Also I am right when I said that your build is very squishy because you drank a lot of potions. Any build can solo the Ukaizo Guardian if they too drink as much potions as you did.
You right I can't kill Ukaizo without healing potions, but I didn't know that you have problem with Healing Potions, maybe you have some checklist :D
> Also I am right when I said that your build is very squishy because you drank a lot of potions. Any build can solo...
Only If your build can do that boss with 5 healing potions and 1 adra, without arcana and drugs, but it can't
You use 3 Moowell scrolls, with your int this is 1800 - 2700HP
> You have base of 147
I can take snake reflexes this will give me +10 passive reflex (Instead of Pain Link) + 15 Defensive bound (Instead of Sacred Horrors and Mark of the Hunt ) vs all AOE attack and end with 172 base for AOE attack and 192 with Borrowed instinct
> That is why yours took 14 minutes to kill the boss and mine 8 minutes.
In real fight with minions, I kill him faster than you
> I don't use shield yet,
> My character has 2 less accuracy than yours.
If you take shield you will lose -20 accuracy, and 20% hit to crit chance
If you drop your drug you will lose -10 accuracy
My companion allow me to switch between Shield <-> DW scordeo with Modwyr with disabled modal I will get +23 accuracy and +20 fire lash
I can kill Queen and get 5 more accuracy from her hat
After that I can drop penetration potion, because with that setup I have (125 + 28) ~72% crit chance for weapon and ~150 for will spells
I simple to lazy to record all that things
My build should be able to do it with just 3 healing potions. 3 moonwell scrolls are actually an overkill because it heals me to full hp and still continuing to do so even If I don't need it anymore. Whereas with potions, I just use it with when I'm low. 2-3 should be more than enough for me.
It's good we have this discussion because it helped you optimize your build better. Yeah higher reflex defense is better than having pain link, sacred horrors and mark of the hunt.
Nope. Even with mobs, my build will kill faster than yours. Mine hits the boss for 100 per shot, yours at 33 per shot + disintegration damage if it manages to land. With mobs it would be even worse because you will have to rely on charm alot + you will need more focus to do damage on them otherwise your 33 damage per shot + extra 33 dmg to another target (from driving flight) is not enough. Mine deals 100 per shots + extra 100 to another target (from bounce).
Just look at my demo video. Yours will be a lot slower because you just do lower damage overall.
Yeah that's why I don't take shield because the increased reflex it gives is not enough to offset the penalty I will get. I won't drop drugs because that is part of being a Nalpazca.
Of course I can use same technique as you, but this will be to simple :D I will upload video on my build page with optimized setup, but not now
At the end you highly depend on Damage from Scroll Level, you can't get same high damage rolls from druid skill, if obsidian fix this Aracana PL, you can die before kill Ukaizo
Moonwel get also +10 to all defenses and 90 sec of health regen * 3 = 270 / 60 = 4.5, I assume second half of the battle you constantly regen health, and I not sure that you can kill Ukaizo without moowell
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They have the best (stack-able) accuracy bonuses in the game, something like +20 - 30
They have Driving-Flight ricochet attack that proc weapon skills, i.e with frost-seeker you will hit second target with 3 additional projectiles
They have +15 stack-able defenses against any AOE attack
They have +8 defense against ranged attack
Ghost Heart can summon his companion something like x12 ~ x13 times per fight (With empower)*
Everything else is garbage, in summary they really good as second class and really bad as pure class-
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Why do you need Mage-Slayer for this? To prevent getting catched by the Pull?
You pull all of them into one place and then with 1 - 2 carnage prevent them for casting :D
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Take mage-slayer + wizard, cast Buffs + Pull of Eora, go to center of black hole with Wahai Poraga and cut everything :D Very fun build
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There exists stat that you can feel from the start, and this is Intellect (that is funny, the more your character smart, the more game easier :D ) with Berath blessing it can give you +100% AOE, +50% Duration
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I moved this discussion from https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/102516-solo-build-the-lightning-sphinx-massive-burst-dd-marauder/
Sorry poor Ukaizo
Sorry 1TTFFSSE for this discussion in your build topic
> That's easy. It's a known fact ciphers can solo mobs easy due to their charm spell. And as I see already in your video, your pet is not lasting long + you are quite squishy. You will have troubles with single high hp high damage enemies like Guardian of Ukaizo.
Nope man
> your pet is not lasting long
I can summon him x12-x15 times. It immune to Engaged, and I used it only to cast cipher spells
> single high hp high damage enemies like Guardian of Ukaizo.
Do you see my reflexes ? :D They higher than in your build ?
Do you know how much damage can do disintegration ?
Do you know something about Pain Link ?
Do you know how much penetration I can achieve with Ectopsychic Echo ?
Do you know how much accuracy I can stack ?
I can upload video with Guardian of Ukaizo, little bit late. (I can't upload Fampyr fights with Deadly Deadfire, but look on my channel there exist video with PotD solo. on DD they will have +6 to all stats and +30%HP, nothing more). I can do near any fight without charm
I'll be amazed if you post a battle with the Guardian of Ukaizo
Make sure you show it is on POTD, show your stats, show the boss's stats. I can't wait to see that video! :D
I do 2 fights, one only with healing potions
https://youtu.be/g14Lu0DKb0U
Second one with potion of penetration (timing for attributes and hit roll check under the video 4 alchemy, 2 berath and 2 from class)
In this run I only changed ring and helm
https://youtu.be/aKotAIi0OeY
The interesting fact, my Ukaizo has 2 levels more than one from your video, I don't know why :D
You have base of 147 + 20 (borrowed instinct) for reflex while I have 162 base + 20 (determination) so I have more reflex. I don't even use a shield yet. Disintegration does a lot but Guardian has high fortitude that is why I see a lot of it miss in your video. That is why yours took 14 minutes to kill the boss and mine 8 minutes. Pain Link is just okay but it does add up to your damage so that's good. Penetration is only good if you can double it twice the enemy's armor (to get overpen which gives you +30% damage) otherwise there is no point. My character has 2 less accuracy than yours.
Also I am right when I said that your build is very squishy because you drank a lot of potions. Any build can solo the Ukaizo Guardian if they too drink as much potions as you did.
You right I can't kill Ukaizo without healing potions, but I didn't know that you have problem with Healing Potions, maybe you have some checklist :D
> Also I am right when I said that your build is very squishy because you drank a lot of potions. Any build can solo...
Only If your build can do that boss with 5 healing potions and 1 adra, without arcana and drugs, but it can't
You use 3 Moowell scrolls, with your int this is 1800 - 2700HP
> You have base of 147
I can take snake reflexes this will give me +10 passive reflex (Instead of Pain Link) + 15 Defensive bound (Instead of Sacred Horrors and Mark of the Hunt ) vs all AOE attack and end with 172 base for AOE attack and 192 with Borrowed instinct
> That is why yours took 14 minutes to kill the boss and mine 8 minutes.
In real fight with minions, I kill him faster than you
> I don't use shield yet,
> My character has 2 less accuracy than yours.
If you take shield you will lose -20 accuracy, and 20% hit to crit chanceIf you drop your drug you will lose -10 accuracy
My companion allow me to switch between Shield <-> DW scordeo with Modwyr with disabled modal I will get +23 accuracy and +20 fire lash
I can kill Queen and get 5 more accuracy from her hat
After that I can drop penetration potion, because with that setup I have (125 + 28) ~72% crit chance for weapon and ~150 for will spells
I simple to lazy to record all that things -
I using them. Install Deadly Deadfire mod, select PotD or Veteran difficult and enjoy the game, with amazing Berath blessings
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Sorry poor Ukaizo
Sorry 1TTFFSSE for this discussion in your build topic
> That's easy. It's a known fact ciphers can solo mobs easy due to their charm spell. And as I see already in your video, your pet is not lasting long + you are quite squishy. You will have troubles with single high hp high damage enemies like Guardian of Ukaizo.
Nope man
> your pet is not lasting long
I can summon him x12-x15 times. It immune to Engaged, and I used it only to cast cipher spells
> single high hp high damage enemies like Guardian of Ukaizo.
Do you see my reflexes ? :D They higher than in your build ?
Do you know how much damage can do disintegration ?
Do you know something about Pain Link ?
Do you know how much penetration I can achieve with Ectopsychic Echo ?
Do you know how much accuracy I can stack ?
I can upload video with Guardian of Ukaizo, little bit late. (I can't upload Fampyr fights with Deadly Deadfire, but look on my channel there exist video with PotD solo. on DD they will have +6 to all stats and +30%HP, nothing more). I can do near any fight without charm
I'll be amazed if you post a battle with the Guardian of Ukaizo
Make sure you show it is on POTD, show your stats, show the boss's stats. I can't wait to see that video! :D
I do 2 fights, one only with healing potions
https://youtu.be/g14Lu0DKb0U
Second one with potion of penetration (timing for attributes and hit roll check under the video 4 alchemy, 2 berath and 2 from class)
In this run I only changed ring and helm
https://youtu.be/aKotAIi0OeY
The interesting fact, my Ukaizo has 2 levels more than one from your video, I don't know why :D
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Heres the fight against her with the Deadly Deadfire Mod
Not a very hard fight tbh. If i would abuse LoS and stuff this would be a lot easier didn't really bother here though. Wasnt needed anyway. Shark Soup doesnt make you immune to the knockdown which is a pity but whatever.
I am gonna try some others with this mod installed to see how difficult they've become. Lucia Rivan should be interesting as that is imo the hardest fight in the game by far.
Good job, I also managed this fight. Empowered fire storm look awesome. Try to Ukaizo Guardian :D
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Sorry 1TTFFSSE for this discussion in your build topic
> That's easy. It's a known fact ciphers can solo mobs easy due to their charm spell. And as I see already in your video, your pet is not lasting long + you are quite squishy. You will have troubles with single high hp high damage enemies like Guardian of Ukaizo.
Nope man
> your pet is not lasting long
I can summon him x12-x15 times. It immune to Engaged, and I used it only to cast cipher spells
> single high hp high damage enemies like Guardian of Ukaizo.
Do you see my reflexes ? :D They higher than in your build ?
Do you know how much damage can do disintegration ?
Do you know something about Pain Link ?
Do you know how much penetration I can achieve with Ectopsychic Echo ?
Do you know how much accuracy I can stack ?
I can upload video with Guardian of Ukaizo, little bit late. (I can't upload Fampyr fights with Deadly Deadfire, but look on my channel there exist video with PotD solo. on DD they will have +6 to all stats and +30%HP, nothing more). I can do near any fight without charm
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That not true :D I can solo most of them with Cipher/Ranger without Arcana/Achemy/Cheesingnice video and yes some potions and poisons with high alchemy are op but they are a necessary tool if you play a melee toon.
Personally, Guardian of U is not really the hardest fight in PotD upscaled at the moment. I will do a run with a melee rogue/zerker but from my deadly deadfire hardcore run with full party the hardest fights were in no particular order but all more difficult:
-Druids of Bentwood bog on Sayuka
-Lucia Rivan and taking her ship
-The Rotten Lady and her friendz
-Animancer spire top at end of VTC quest
-Killing the queen and her company at the end of RDC questline at top of palace in Nekataka
those five come to mind. yeah but they are optional fights I guess but all present more challenging obstacles to deal with than Ukaizo thanks to multiple dangerous enemies you can't split
yeah any level 10 build can take the boss with maxed out alchemy or arcana. they are basically godmode. To other people, it's fair game but to me i consider them cheese. That doesn't mean it isn't fun. Heck, even the solo potd build I posted uses maxed out arcana to take advantage of avenging storm.
You don't even need a party for the encounters you've posted. They are just all one meteor show/great maelstrom away from dying + withdraw to keep you alive. Or since you are running an alchemy build, Handmortar + stone joint (it's the most op alchemy potion) then use invisibility potion and wham wait for them to die.
I do know of a build who can solo the last boss + all the encounters you've listed without any cheese though and that's with level scaling mod from Nexus. So far no one has posted anything like it so that's good! Thinking of posting but I'm afraid it might get too popular and you know how Obsidian likes to nerf popular op stuff.
I doubt you could. Ranger pets are too squishy. Cipher is not tanky enough either. I'd love for you to show me a vid and prove me wrong though.There we go PotD / Upscaled / Deadly Deadfire / No Alchemy / No Arcana / No Invise - Ghost Heart + Ascendant L20 | Admiral banquette (we can use any food with recovery/action speed) + Adra glow + Constantine
https://youtu.be/qzXU5hRqklQ
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Deadly Deadfire - https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/43
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Good job :D Look solid
How do you farm this armor ? I can't get negative reputation with Principi after 1.1
Could this build do fight with enemies that used arcane dampener, mostly with level scaling mod ?
Unfortunately once you've gained a certain amount of positive reputation with the principi there is no way to get it into the negative. No matter how many of them you kill. Basically only do furrante quests until you get the belt from him and stay away from anything else that gives you principi reputation so you can still get the armor. Or just screw their quests altogether and kill them right away but you will miss the belt. You don't need it later on anymore when you have high enough defenses however it does help early.
Running this from 4-20 i can count the numbers ive been hit with dampener on one hand. When you're level 20 it wont hit you anymore because you simply have too high defenses. Im not sure what you mean with leveling scaling mod? Like mods that increase the difficulty? I am not sure as i havent tried any yet. Vanilla 1.1 there arent a lot of fights this build has issues with and that is without using potions and stuff so you can probably play it with a difficulty mod. Not sure how this would affect early game though.
Thanks for explanation :D Such amazing reputation system
How do you fight Akemyr ? In Vanilla he dispel all your buffs and has something like +130 Accuracy and +130 to all defenses without buffs
Arcane Dampener goes against Will. This build has 172 will defense (167 with circle of protection) so even with 130 accuracy he has an hard time hitting. I dont remember it being an issue when i fought him.
The biggest weakness of this build are HP sponges like Kraken and stuff because once you've used all your spells and it isnt dead you hit like a wet noodle. This is a pure caster after all. There are ways around that like actually picking a sword with the 7th power lvl spell (i forgot the name, the tensers like one) but it really isnt optimal.
Thanks again for explanation :D I think with this build you can beat most of the fights from difficulty mod. You know it remember me about Priest's from POE 1, AOE spell, Stunlock, Such amount of buffs
If you had a time could you record Queen fight with Difficulty mod (without Arcana/Alchemy)
Just because i hate her so much
Fck that character. Without mods though. Would have been a lot easier with Shark Soup food (immune to the knockdown if i am not mistaken).
Thanks, yes, I can do her without mod also
but I can't do her with difficult mod :DWith mod all enemies have L20 and some of them has something like +120 to all defenses and +30% more HP
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Ciphers are insane multiclasses on POTD...
free 10+ acc vs will for all their spells
free +1 pen with BOTH spells and weapons!
free +20/30% damage
pain block as the best robust buff in the game
borrowed instinct as the best non armor self buff in the game
secret horrors and ectopsychic echo
charm
no spell limit
??? how many more op things do you need really??? the class is nutty af.
Yep, they can nerf them x2 more :D And Ascendent will remain one of the best multiclass option
I don't get Rangers...
in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)
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Okay I will try to put some clarification about acc, at first you can check my build https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/102168-build-glanfathan-soul-hunter, one of main build feature is high acc, really high. Without consumable, with shield and pistol modal I can achieve ~130 acc (
If I used DW (Scordero's + Modwyr) without modal, my acc +150 and +160 with queen hat
If I used Single hand weapon, without modal and with hat I can hit ~172, If I used +perception drug, then acc will be ~180
But lest's stop at ~130 and take as example Ukaizo fight, Ukazio with DD mod has 81 Deflection (huh pretty low), but I don't get +2% for DPS per acc (i.e 50 acc === 100% to dps), because when you overcome enemy deflection and get 100% chance to hit, there no point rise acc above, because crit give you only +25% DM and some penetration (But of course I can't overpen Ukaizo armor without Alchemy)
At summary accuracy will give you dps only if you graze/miss to much otherwise there no point to rise accuracy so high. Much simpler will be take "Aware" affliction with Graze -> Hit conversion