See, so far I fucking hate this. The answer to everything has been berzerker. I actually think sweep feels fine on slayer but the survivability does not.
Part of the problem is slow attack speed though. Slow to start the swing, slow to swing again. Too much empty time to be hit as well as not hitting. Melee pretty much relies on hitting shit every billionth of a second unless built defensive. It's the big reason the melee rework was pointless, aps was nerfed too much and now most skills feel shitty unless used on a zerker. Even in the duelist forum half the fucking build guides are for bows anymore. I've played slayer and berserker both with sweep and ground slam, the difference is laughable. Either is playable but the slayer feels like SHIT in comparison. Of course it'll probably mean more nerfs to berserkers eventually to make all the melee be of equal trash tier.
i'm gonna give it one more goal. tweaked my build some and i can't sell that fucking sword. got my APS to well above 3aps. Leech is top notch now and i'm sitting at 6500 HP plus about 8000 unbuffed armor.
And i hear you on attack speed. Just sucks. I'd swap to lacerate champion with challenger charges if I could get my shit to sell but league is dead. Bladestorm/Peformate on glad was perfectly fine btw. Felt great. but that's because the skills are inherently multihitters.
Necro-specter competes with every expensive build I've played at a portion of the cost; bossing and clear are top tier. I was doing 350-400 delve in MF gear. I'm regretting selling off my specter build's gear.
It does seem unbeatable for performance:cost. I'm only playing that BV-HoI build because it clears faster and chaining 2+ screens with crunchy explosions tops anything spectres can do. I still switch back to the spectre build for bosses.
As usual, I took Somayd's build and tailored it to my playstyle. Which is, I stand in fire a lot, so I like lots of sustain. Honestly, I think using Devouring Diadem just so you don't have to worry about mana regen(his words) is lazy and missing out on a lot of EHP. Mine has over 8K EHP, life and ES leech coming from your BV and HoI, maintains ~3.5M boss dps, and probably double the HoI damage for more consistent chaining.
No item in the build costs over ~3ex. I've wanted to craft 30% HoI reservation helm(so I can turn on Discipline) but that would require finding cold or elemental life leech somewhere else. The only option I can think of is implicits on rings but I can't find any Circle of Fears with said implicits and HoI reservation. Any other options?
While the clear speed is superior on corridor maps I feel in open maps that are specters better. Survival is pretty bad but my tree--I ran out of regrets--and gear aren't optimized
Yeah, I'm trying to get 37 without that challenge. I might just settle for 36. It's clear there was a bit of a reversion on the challenge "reasonability" this league. Last league was nearly perfect.
I got my first ever Aul this league. As in, my own mine. Every other Aul kill has been bought.
I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to manage a Possessed Beyond boss.
Nice one with Aul. I'm at 31 and I'm not bothering with some of the kill conditions type stuff as that pisses me off. I still need Aul but I've done him a few times before so it just depends on where I find him, not seen him yet and am at 400. Hope that I find him though as he's my favorite fight in the game.
I've done 500+ breaches and every map I run has fortune favors on it and I've not even completed a Chayula stone. I might just call it a day once I get one.
there's a thread on reddit that tells you how to do the beyond boss thing.
Yeah, I'm trying to get 37 without that challenge. I might just settle for 36. It's clear there was a bit of a reversion on the challenge "reasonability" this league. Last league was nearly perfect.
I got my first ever Aul this league. As in, my own mine. Every other Aul kill has been bought.
I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to manage a Possessed Beyond boss.
It does seem unbeatable for performance:cost. I'm only playing that BV-HoI build because it clears faster and chaining 2+ screens with crunchy explosions tops anything spectres can do. I still switch back to the spectre build for bosses.
As usual, I took Somayd's build and tailored it to my playstyle. Which is, I stand in fire a lot, so I like lots of sustain. Honestly, I think using Devouring Diadem just so you don't have to worry about mana regen(his words) is lazy and missing out on a lot of EHP. Mine has over 8K EHP, life and ES leech coming from your BV and HoI, maintains ~3.5M boss dps, and probably double the HoI damage for more consistent chaining.
No item in the build costs over ~3ex. I've wanted to craft 30% HoI reservation helm(so I can turn on Discipline) but that would require finding cold or elemental life leech somewhere else. The only option I can think of is implicits on rings but I can't find any Circle of Fears with said implicits and HoI reservation. Any other options?
Do you really have elemental equlibrium in this build? It's picked in my pob but it doesnt make much sense to me, your BV hits with every element so it's just a damage loss right? You also didnt check any of the relevant boxes in the config for it.
Yeah beyond boss is actually pretty easy, either spawn a beyond boss normally or use the prophecy that guarantees one, then carry the prophecy that makes the next rare you kill spawn a ghost(but don't use it so you don't waste it). Drag a rare to the beyond boss, use the prophecy and wait for the ghost to posses it. Shit's actually pretty easy.
As for Chayula, I personally got him 3 times in the ~150breaches I needed for the other challenge. Just RNG, I've seen some people say they got super super unlucky with that(on reddit some guy said he completed 2 chayula breachstones on his own and still haven't seen him). Not much trick to this one just need to run a lot of breaches and hope for the best. Breach zana+breach scarabs, can even just run in, check the type of breach and get the fuck out if it's not chayula to spam it faster, although your money will leave pretty quick that way too.
Do you really have elemental equlibrium in this build? It's picked in my pob but it doesnt make much sense to me, your BV hits with every element so it's just a damage loss right? You also didnt check any of the relevant boxes in the config for it.
Yeah beyond boss is actually pretty easy, either spawn a beyond boss normally or use the prophecy that guarantees one, then carry the prophecy that makes the next rare you kill spawn a ghost(but don't use it so you don't waste it). Drag a rare to the beyond boss, use the prophecy and wait for the ghost to posses it. Shit's actually pretty easy.
As for Chayula, I personally got him 3 times in the ~150breaches I needed for the other challenge. Just RNG, I've seen some people say they got super super unlucky with that(on reddit some guy said he completed 2 chayula breachstones on his own and still haven't seen him). Not much trick to this one just need to run a lot of breaches and hope for the best. Breach zana+breach scarabs, can even just run in, check the type of breach and get the fuck out if it's not chayula to spam it faster, although your money will leave pretty quick that way too.
Cheaper way for breaches would be to do it in Delve. Find a lvl 68 breach node with a low cost and run it endlessly looking for Chayula mobs. Youll just need to be careful to not complete the breach if it is a chayula one.
Cheaper way for breaches would be to do it in Delve. Find a lvl 68 breach node with a low cost and run it endlessly looking for Chayula mobs. Youll just need to be careful to not complete the breach if it is a chayula one.
Oh yeah I guess that works too I've seen people say you can do that for Harbinger farm too(I just bought white/yellow harbinger maps, they basically paid for themselves anyway and you don't even need to run that many since a bunch of harbingers in there).
