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

I tried Volkuur's and they feel really good. I think for anyone just gearing up, its kind of a no brainer to insert into the build. Life res and damage for cheap.

Really? The minuscule chance to poison makes that much of a difference? I
Know they’re pretty big poisons and a lot of them are from crits, but I still find that quite surprising.

We are primarily scaling Elemental, Minion, and typeless increased damage. All of that impacts the poison. This results in about a 6% increase in DPS with nothing else.

However, it gets better. Earlier EO builds benefit more, because EO applies to the poison but they can do things like take that poison damage flask.

So for a cheap build, go EO, go Volkuurs, go Divergent Herald of Agony with that flask for an 80% chance to poison and about a 34% increase in damage with no other investment.

There is also just the flat damage? My previous gloves weren't doing anything other than mana utility.

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Miggaletoe wrote:

There is also just the flat damage? My previous gloves weren't doing anything other than mana utility.

There are a lot of fun things you can do with the glove slot yes! Curse gloves, 8L trap something gloves that scale with all the cast speed, Fire Damage, and AoE and crit that we have, Vaal Flameblast? There's a wide variety of flex options because only our helm slot is locked to our main damage link and a simple 3L settles Desecrate Brand - everything else is flavouring/utility since we don't need 2 6Ls for bossing vs map clearing.

I think Vaal Flameblast in particular could look incredible at max Corpse Pact stacks, lol! With Max Brittle already on it would be interesting to see if it can pop bosses from 50%.

Map clear wise, Faster Attack Gloves with attack speed for gems could be a huge timesave.

45 Str+Dex Gloves use two suffixes to free up 2-3 passive points, other suffixes on precious slots (rings), and have room to take on 60% extra damage during Soul Gain Prevention!

By the way, I was even thinking of dropping one of the -mana cost ring mods simply because Sigil of Power actually adds a non-negligible amount of lightning damage at max stacks, even to bosses o_O

I've stitched together a bossing vid!! Felt energetic today and the music got me pumped. :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWuufXg2Fu8

Finishing up tutorial today too! I think I'm coming back into form and will be able to deliver more content over the week :)


A huge thank you to everyone who've made this build better so far with all the suggestions, etc. I'm officially opening a "Credits" section in the first post as well as the spreadsheet so we can continually push and refine this build. It's so under the radar but viable that I think it will have longevity for leagues to come!!

I have finally fixed my build (only need some keep suffix spamming on my helm).
Now I need to find some high hp spectres, I especially need Primal Crushclaws to acttivate elemental equilibrium. Who can help me? IGN: @Volatile_Coprse. I am usually online :)

is 3 ex a bad idea to start leveling this build? I can get some scuffed shit together, i kinda skipped the league but this looks super fun.

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queebl wrote:

is 3 ex a bad idea to start leveling this build? I can get some scuffed shit together, i kinda skipped the league but this looks super fun.

Um, as mentioned, you want to be level 90 to even get the build going. You could get a very scuffy version going (Tempest's Binding + Inpulsa + Duskdawn) going, but it's gonna have to work at T15-T16 until you can afford a Woke Spell Cascade, and then, stonks :D

I'll test some low-budgetover the next few days, my energy is coming back!

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arda820 wrote:

I have finally fixed my build (only need some keep suffix spamming on my helm).
Now I need to find some high hp spectres, I especially need Primal Crushclaws to acttivate elemental equilibrium. Who can help me? IGN: @Volatile_Coprse. I am usually online :)

/global 6666 is the answer to all your spectre needs :) and a great place to hang!