u/JekoJeko9

With two tier 1 supports, from as early as level 4, we can get EQ's miserable 4 second delay down to 1.4s, which makes it perfectly viable as a 1 button clearing and bossing skill. The skill has no '+total to attack time' so using a faster 1 handed mace and taking skill speed on the tree is actually rewarding. As long as you keep hitting different spots of ground on rotation the time between ground patches detonating becomes the same as your attack time with the skill.

On another practice run I'm up to act 3 killing everything with just EQ and the occasional boneshatter with a 1 hander. As long as you keep your weapon upgraded (current league mechanic always helps a lot with this) it's smooth sailing. What's more, the 1 handed nodes on the passive tree even have increased attack speed, not reduced! Taking a handful of reduced skill effect duration on the tree also lowers the delay from 1.4s to 1s.

Don't dual wield though, it lowers your speed and your damage for some reason.

Something I observed when looking for places to socket an abyss timeless jewel - there's a huge disparity between the top and bottom halves of the tree when it comes to how many keystones you have, particularly keystones close enough to jewel sockets which is important for timeless jewels. This is particularly frustrating for dex builds, especially since Amanamu jewel is a great ehp boost for any build with good recovery.

Every single jewel socket on the top half of the tree has a keystone close enough to it. Meanwhile, for the bottom half jewel sockets you have blood magic (which requires a jewel socket on the border between top/bottom anyway) and resolute technique. That's it.

I don't know how they expect builds staying in the str+dex/dex areas to make use of timeless jewel keystones - I guess they just don't? We have both pure dex classes so it's not likely that new keystones will be added. Would be nice if some existing keystones could be moved so that most, if not all, of the jewel sockets in the game could be used for timeless jewels. Right now the topside bias is insane.

Mace skills too slow for levelling? Try 1 Handed Earthquake