Has anyone experimented with a Critical Mass build?

[Karth]

Currently progressing through A2 with a wicked wind build. I'm doing it relatively cheap, with a 10% ctc shield I already had instead of an orb and a 750 dps 9 ap per crit 400 life on hit wand I managed to snag for 10k or something silly like that. Running with ~6.2k armor, 680-780 res, 26k life, and a whopping 12k dps.

It is a pile of fun, particularly if I can get a competent party. It is also amazing to compare the... hmm. DPS efficiency? Of this to almost any other build. Once I get tornados going to generate ap and crits I am effectively doing many times my DPS stat in damage with Explosive Blast; it resets 2-3 times per second if I'm handling things well.

[deya]

I wrote this guide the way I play CM build. It's not based on complete stunlock and I time my Nova's interrupt attacks/kiting/whatever. Meteor just does like 10 times more damage than WW and I can clear act3/act4 dying 0-1 times per full clear so it's efficient too. If anyone is interested you can read it from here.

[Aradebil]

ok, i got 40% crit (45 with pinpoint barrier), 14 AP on crit, and still Ghom rapes me... what am i doing wrong?:S

redo with 45% without pinpoint, 24 AP on crit and i just suck... it doesnt work on ghom... i dont know what am i missing

[moreno]

Life on hit probably. With 48% Crit, 19AP on crit and 940 LoH I can do Ghom quickly.

[galzohar]

Either life on hit or simply more resists and AP on crit will make ghom easy. With 1000 all resists, 44.5% crit and 20 AP on crit I rarely have to move out of the cloud since diamond skin absorbs pretty much everything. Same goes for azmodan's bloody ground thing.

[magicrectangle]

You don't have to face tank ghom. You can do the slow-kite around the room if you don't have the tanking stats to just stand still and tank all the gas.