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Another benefit of dragging out Calibrum marks is if you're running Conqueror, which lasts
for 5 seconds after your last attack on an enemy. By delaying triggering your Calibrum mark
you extend the uptime on your Conqueror stacks, which may be helpful if it allows you to
keep them long enough until the next instance of combat. In fact, while using Calibrum-
Gravitum, by fully dragging out the sequence of triggering your Calibrum mark and casting
Binding Eclipse from it, your Conqueror stacks can last for up to 12 seconds off of one
Moonshot hit! Without Gravitum (the only off-hand that allows you to land an extra ability for
free off of a Calibrum mark), the maximum is still a respectable 9.5 seconds of Conqueror
extension.
Think we're done? Not yet! One more benefit of dragging out a Calibrum mark is to stack up
effects that will enable it to deal more damage once you finally trigger it. For example, if you
have Kraken Slayer you can basic attack minions until you have the passive proc stacked up
and trigger it on your Calibrum mark for greatly amplified poke damage. This can also be
done with energizing effects either by basic attacking minions or even just moving around, if
you have Stormrazor/statikk shiv/rapid firecannon. With Fleet Footwork it won't necessarily
amplify your damage, but may at least give you an appreciated surge of healing to reward
you for your patience.
And finally, once again specific to Calibrum-Gravitum: Dragging out your Calibrum marks
can actually enable you to perform a very slow combo that wouldn't be otherwise possible.
Moonshot hits a target, you drag that mark out for 4.5 seconds to run down the 10-8 second
cooldown of Moonshot. Then you trigger the mark and tag them with Gravitum, and instead
of dragging this one out, you immediately Calibrum-Moonlight Vigil while they're still hit with
the 30% slow and are an easy target. This enhanced Calibrum mark you once again drag out
while you run down the remaining timer of Moonshot's cooldown, before triggering it at the
last second and tagging them with yet another Gravitum mark. When Moonshot is off
cooldown, you cast Binding Eclipse and hit them with a free Moonshot once again while
they're rooted.
The end result is a combo consisting of Moonshot -> Calibrum-Moonlight Vigil -> Binding
Eclipse -> Moonshot; just dragged out over the course of 8-10 seconds. And the combo is all
but secured after the first Moonshot hit just so long as the enemy stays in your Calibrum
mark range for the entire combo, which basically requires either a very long chase, or for the
enemy to just disrespect your potential combo and stay in proximity for no reason.
A lot of the time the enemies will back out of your combo range just out of sheer confusion
of not knowing what Aphelios even does and walking away just in case, basically respecting
your combo without even meaning to. But on the rare occasion that the target is just the
right mix of informed enough to have a good idea what Aphelios does but clueless enough to
not know the potential combo you have available (which is normal since they'll have
probably never seen it or considered it possible before), and brave enough to stick around
when they think the extent of the damage has been done already after being hit by
Crescendum-Moonlight Vigil; you'll get to pull off this
