[3.16 - RETIRING BUILD] VD Brands: S-Tier Bosser, A-Tier Map! -- MURDERED BY GGG_INTERN SOMEWHERE--

If funny you bring up soulwrest because I had considered it way earlier in the league. I think the problem you would run into is that you consume corpses so fast that they would resummon so quickly that they would never actually get any attacks off. I think it’s trying to do too much in one build and you’re better off playing arcanist brand VD or soulwrest necro, but not both.

I just had another idea though. Instead of using leadership’s price to inflict brittle and buff our damage, we could use it to buff the damage of our summons as a pure necromancer. Getting high crit chance for you summons has always been the most challenging and expensive part of late game min maxing.

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IceColdPorkSoda wrote:

I just had another idea though. Instead of using leadership’s price to inflict brittle and buff our damage, we could use it to buff the damage of our summons as a pure necromancer. Getting high crit chance for you summons has always been the most challenging and expensive part of late game min maxing.

Hmm defo a huge idea in inverse. The necro himself needs to deal a top-end hit close to a 600k damage to hit max Brittle though. Or needs something like... Painseeker? To scale it up. Plus ailment nodes.

A juicy DD may work actually.

I’d do painseeker with some ailment nodes, along with pure phys spectres which are starting to be meta in the Korean scene right now. I wouldn’t want to invest much into actually doing damage with DD because you need those points for dual cluster setup. Would probably take spiritual aid.

How important is the nexus glove base? trying to upgrade my crap rares to get some more hps. Another question- does arcanist brand give VD the brand tag? were taking brand damage, crit, multi etc.

Threw this char together and kind of as fast as I could. Lacking woke spell cascade, unnnatual instinct and leveled gems. We are just throwing the two brands onto mobs and spawning VD? then cycloning when we want defense buffs?



I have the same clusters as you and others

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i003 wrote:

Threw this char together and kind of as fast as I could. Lacking woke spell cascade, unnnatual instinct and leveled gems. We are just throwing the two brands onto mobs and spawning VD? then cycloning when we want defense buffs?

I have the same clusters as you and others

Mate, uh, is your Str equal to your int to activate Leadership's Price?

Yep, two brands, leap slam over them, two brands, leap slam over, the faster you go, the faster everything goes (including instant leap slams, lol)

Still no staff on trade.. I see you're using nexus gloves and elreon ring craft's isn't that a bit of overkill?

Gaave up on the high mana version of this build. It's squishier and the damage isn't more impressive. I've respecced to something more in line with what you have, which was thankfully cheap.

Are you currently running anything on your left click?

If not, you can run Enduring Composure small Cluster Jewel for Endurance charges and put Immortal Call there. Possibly even Anomelous Immortal Call + Enhance + Increased Duration. It may boost survivability even more, and let you put something else on CwDT, like Sigil of Power or something.

You could swap one of your Brand Cluster Jewels with a Curse Cluster Jewel that Unnerves enemies cursed by you and gives you Culling Strike against cursed enemies. That should be more effective damage.

If you go for two groups of Clusters, nabbing a Crit Chance cluster that gives critical strikes a 5% chance for Double Damage may be worthwhile. It lets you get a Fire Damage + Crit Multi + Cast Speed Cane while letting you got off those Double Damages to apply Ailments.

Legacy of Fury boots should do some pretty spectacular things for Clear. Honestly, give how big your hits are Herald of Ash may be a good idea as well. This may be able to replace an explodey chest, or supplement it.

Alternatively, Fortify Boots can free up a 6 slot item, and Gem Slots are precious to this build.

Alt Quality Blood Rage could be a source of Frenzy Charges instead of the chest. You'll need to compare prices and weigh the opportunity cost of a gem slot.

Can the build be tanky enough to go Low Life? Probably with Petrified Blood. DoT, especially Chaos DoT may be an issue.

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hipposcottamus wrote:

Still no staff on trade.. I see you're using nexus gloves and elreon ring craft's isn't that a bit of overkill?

It is 100% overkill until you get to a 7L helm - Hypothermia increasess the cost of the brands again.

I'm actually experimenting to see if Clarity and EVENTUALLY Essence Glutton can be dropped from the build with high-tier enough gear or the right combination of gems / mods.

Reason being Commander of Darkness is just outright a 30% damage increase, 6% cast speed AND 2-3 suffixes worth of Elemental Resist.

Suffixes are a powerhouse slot. Freeing them up enables stuff like crit mult, cast speed, 60% damage during Soul Gain Prevention, or some utility like 20% increased flask duration, etc. Plus it'll buff up your spectres a little. Imagine getting 3 & 7% cast speed = that's 20% permanent cast speed and at least a 10% damage increase at max ramp, plus it just makes the build so much smoother to run with in maps.