[3.20] Gryph's Burning Witch - CoC Volatile Dead Necromancer - Burn Yourself Through the Atlas!

Does anyone have suggestions on what upgrades I should get that would be the biggest bang for my buck?




So, I'm loving this character so far. I love CoC, VD, and being tanky as hell, and so far i'm hitting each criteria. I'm planning to create a hunter stygian belt with flat life, inc max life, and 'gain a flask charge when you deal a critical strike' so that I have permanent flask uptime for bosses. Stygian would have flat life, and then added fire damage probably. I think I'm good on accuracy? I'm also going to get a level 21 VD, but getting a better watcher's eye with ES on hit and then something like inc fire damage is.... a lot. Goal is to farm simulacrums and be able to clear The Feared (I'm on standard btw). I've got about 50 exalts, but I'd like to not use them all up. If I had 1000 exalts I'd love to get a 3-socket Voices and then grab another megalomaniac, but uh.... I don't.

Flask charge on crit is nice but not as good as you would think. It does not grant "permanent uptime". The max it gives you is 5 flask charges per second, and those charges get distributed between your 5 flasks, NOTE: each flask does not get a charge each crit. But I like it alot still, especially for Elder guardians because you can stack flask charges by hitting them during their invuln phases.

I recently started using the "Your critical strike chance is lucky" while focussed craft since I have awakened CoC and dont need CDR craft anymore. It is VERY helpful during long boss fights like Sirus where you are likely to run out of diamond flask charges from time to time.

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SniggidyDiggidy wrote:

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TheChosenOne_ wrote:

I am horrible with pob. I know this might be asking a lot but can someone please load up my character (Account: TheChosenOne_ and character :
TheJizzinator and see what my damage is and also if I am at the optimal damage with the CoC aps/cool down thing? Also it would be great if someone can recommend to me what things I should be upgrading next.

Didn't look at dps, but looking at your character next upgrades should be a few things: Hotheaded jewel with high attack speed roll. The reason being, without a source of onslaught, using martyr of innocence you are likely not even at the point where you would need the 14% CDR on your belt because I don't think you are reaching the 12.2 or whatever threshold. A source of onslaught and the jewel would help you immensely I believe (up to 40% attack speed there=more VD procs).

You are also going to want to swap out discipline for zealotry. You dont need discipline until you get the watchers eye, so get an enlighten 3 with a conqueror's efficiency socketed on your tree or enlighten 4 by itself if you have the money once you get the watchers eye.

The after that, get a watchers eye with es on hit, and swap flesh and stone out for discipline.

I'm using the guide's pob so the only jewel slot I could put hotheaded or conqueror's efficiency jewel at is at the place where the build puts watcher's eye or in the socket where replica reckless defense is but i'd have to get the unique ignite boots which would kinda suck for me because I'd have to get a bunch of new gear to try to get max resists. Which would benefit me more? Getting hotheaded jewel or getting an enlighten lvl 3+conqueror's efficiency jewel to fit zealotry, precision, herald of ash and flesh and stone? Is there a passive in cluster jewels that I can use to get attack speed+one other stat that can help this build?

I would start with the enlighten for zealotry. If you need jewel sockets, get a large cluster with 1-2 of the nodes the guide recommends. I started with mage hunter/essence rush cluster.

Since you are already using rumi's for defense i would drop your basalt flask for a silver flask with the same mods to get your source of onslaught.

I’m curious why is Zealotry better than anger? It seems anger does more dmg

If I have arcane surge when making consecrated ground on my watchers eye is it pretty safe to drop the gem from the movement setup?

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Whisperedn7x wrote:

I’m curious why is Zealotry better than anger? It seems anger does more dmg

Zealotry applies consecrated ground at enemy locations giving us 100% increased critical strike chance as well. This helps with attack crit AND spell crit.

Anger got a buff this league so is probably better damage, but usually I default to zealotry bc of the crit. Let's me skimp on crit elsewhere. :P

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Kyronami wrote:

If I have arcane surge when making consecrated ground on my watchers eye is it pretty safe to drop the gem from the movement setup?

Absolutely! Consider also using a Sulphur Flask (Bottled Faith) if you do not already.

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SniggidyDiggidy wrote:

I would start with the enlighten for zealotry. If you need jewel sockets, get a large cluster with 1-2 of the nodes the guide recommends. I started with mage hunter/essence rush cluster.

Since you are already using rumi's for defense i would drop your basalt flask for a silver flask with the same mods to get your source of onslaught.

Thanks for the advice. For now I'm just gonna change flask. I tried enlighten 3+conqueror's jewel with zealotry and I got 8 mana. I had to lower my precision to lvl 15 in order to get 38 mana which is enough for my flame dash but my chance to hit was 92% on main hand weapon. I don't know if that's good enough or bad. Before getting the watcher's eye with es on hit, I'm probably gonna concentrate on getting my rare medium and small cluster jewel and just surging vitality on mego jewel since there's nothing showing up with surging vitality+mystical ward and overlord alone is too expensive for me right now. Maybe after getting my cluster jewel setup done, get enlighten 4? it's 4ex right now but I cant afford that yet

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TheChosenOne_ wrote:

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SniggidyDiggidy wrote:

I would start with the enlighten for zealotry. If you need jewel sockets, get a large cluster with 1-2 of the nodes the guide recommends. I started with mage hunter/essence rush cluster.

Since you are already using rumi's for defense i would drop your basalt flask for a silver flask with the same mods to get your source of onslaught.

Thanks for the advice. For now I'm just gonna change flask. I tried enlighten 3+conqueror's jewel with zealotry and I got 8 mana. I had to lower my precision to lvl 15 in order to get 38 mana which is enough for my flame dash but my chance to hit was 92% on main hand weapon. I don't know if that's good enough or bad. Before getting the watcher's eye with es on hit, I'm probably gonna concentrate on getting my rare medium and small cluster jewel and just surging vitality on mego jewel since there's nothing showing up with surging vitality+mystical ward and overlord alone is too expensive for me right now. Maybe after getting my cluster jewel setup done, get enlighten 4? it's 4ex right now but I cant afford that yet

Do not bother with mega jewel if you are not getting overlord on it. Literally the only reason to get it. My heist jewel was just INSANE. Don't use that as a reference. Overlord is the only mod you care about on it. Anything else is gravy.

Get Medium Cluster Jewel though. Wrapped in Flame is very strong. I do understand though, that the bases are a bit expensive.

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TheChosenOne_ wrote:

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SniggidyDiggidy wrote:

I would start with the enlighten for zealotry. If you need jewel sockets, get a large cluster with 1-2 of the nodes the guide recommends. I started with mage hunter/essence rush cluster.

Since you are already using rumi's for defense i would drop your basalt flask for a silver flask with the same mods to get your source of onslaught.

Thanks for the advice. For now I'm just gonna change flask. I tried enlighten 3+conqueror's jewel with zealotry and I got 8 mana. I had to lower my precision to lvl 15 in order to get 38 mana which is enough for my flame dash but my chance to hit was 92% on main hand weapon. I don't know if that's good enough or bad. Before getting the watcher's eye with es on hit, I'm probably gonna concentrate on getting my rare medium and small cluster jewel and just surging vitality on mego jewel since there's nothing showing up with surging vitality+mystical ward and overlord alone is too expensive for me right now. Maybe after getting my cluster jewel setup done, get enlighten 4? it's 4ex right now but I cant afford that yet

Oh if your hit chance is that low, getting some accuracy on your gloves and/or helmet should be a priority. You want atleast 98% hit chance(make sure ice golem is up) but ideally 100%.

You can also solve your mana reserve issue by buying or crafting a helmet with the essence of loathing mod for 4-5% rmr.