What if anything to drop for SP: gloom or blood moon?

[lanceuppercut]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...dXV!aYe!abbbZb

Am playing HC hence the overly defensive skills but wondering if there is any way of fitting SP/gloom in, currently i am using:

LMB) HA: Using puncturing arrow as its a bit more area of effecty
RMB) impale: Using this as a super piercing attack
1) Caltrops: I do find useful for slowing enemies and life on hit
2) Vault: Can't see a way to drop this for mobility etc
3) SS: If for nothing else, using it to break jailer/frozen
4) Preperation: no brainer, to use as a plan "b" when all goes wrong

Potentially caltrops are the "weak" link but I do find it oh so useful, for example the very first boss in act4, usually its a pain as those little shadow things overwhelm you, not with caltrops, I just ran around and let the caltops slowly chip away at them, I didn't even fire a shot at the boss, he got caltrop'd too..

Maybe thinking blood moon would be instead of the usual gloom if for nothing else, for the life heal for bosses or places where health globes are hard to come by.. In HC, the 65% damage reduction might not seem entirely as good as it sounds as I don't exactly want to get hit in the first place!

Edit: actually just re-read the tooltip, SP already heals so gloom is clearly the no-brainer. Tried switching over but I'm finding myself hitting "1" for caltrops still and i feel quite exposed without them when i'm up against fast enemies but i can see how SP would be useful..

[Dave Null]

I'd drop Vault, it's not that great, to be honest. There's a small delay before it activates, and you are not invulnerable while vaulting. Smoke Screen + Tactical Advantage is a much better replacement for it.

[lanceuppercut]

thing is though, i tend to vault around a lot as its cheaper than a SS and i always try to get close to the 25% movement speed limit.

vault for me is not to get away once i've been vortex'd in or stuck in the middle of a pack but rather escaping from particularly tough champ packs that i've decided i'm not going to stay and fight, but instead run to town because its not something i'm comfortable dealing with.

so a double vault + tactical advantage means i can put some serious distance between me and hopefully what isn't a +fast pack, while i don't think i could get anywhere near the same kind of distance with a single SS in that time, hell with the extra 2 secs of 60% movement boost from tactical advantage, i could probably squeeze 3 vaults away for the same 14 disc cost..

[Lanthanide]

I haven't used SS ever at all, don't even really know how it works. Can you cast it while jailed/frozen?

I use vault similarly to lance; to escape nasty enemies or frozen/jailer/wallers. I also use it a lot to get around the levels, just to speed up the gameplay and downtime between packs.

[lanceuppercut]

yep, you are able to activate while frozen/jailed/in the mouth of those underground wormy things. best CC breaker I've used as it doesn't have a long cool down like the barb's wotb.