[3.10] Gryph's Volatile Dead Necromancer || Fun, Medium Budget, Tanky, Millions of DPS

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ShadowyDream schrieb:

Yeah, I when all is said and done most of the blade blast builds I was looking at will be pretty interchangeable with this build. I have also penciled a couple Poet Pen + Spell slinger builds together, but I think I just like Cyclone as a vehicle to much better. I played this build long enough that when I try to go to stationary things it just doesn't feel good lol.

I don't really know why I just blanked on going pure CI with zealots oath or something. Honestly, since you only cast VD ~3 times a second with this build, you really only need to do hit your CwDT triggers like 2 times a second even with regular spell cascade in the VD link, so that shouldn't be so bad. I have just gone hybrid for a super long time and completely blanked on CI lol... I honestly only would need to swap a couple pieces of gear too, but it does make me mad since this was my first build that finally got decent Chaos res and that would be meaningless now lol.

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Gryphenprey schrieb:

I wouldn't want to poet's pen without bodyswap or lightning warp somewhere. hahaha.

Spellslinger can be inserted into current VD PP builds with just a movement skill and be great as is I would think.

I figured it out a while ago that I needed something like 2k ES recovery per second to overcome scold's damage. haha. Also GETTING enough ES is gonna be hard with a staff.

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ShadowyDream schrieb:

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Gryphenprey schrieb:

I wouldn't want to poet's pen without bodyswap or lightning warp somewhere. hahaha.

Spellslinger can be inserted into current VD PP builds with just a movement skill and be great as is I would think.

I figured it out a while ago that I needed something like 2k ES recovery per second to overcome scold's damage. haha. Also GETTING enough ES is gonna be hard with a staff.

Overall I am pretty happy with the way my modified Necro is performing. Sadly I don't think I will be able to get the Elementalist version to work because I just tried specing out of Gluttony and my mana tanks like instantly lol.

In the end the damage was a lot closer than I would have thought (the ele basically only did more because I would have perma shock still with it). I think I could actually shuffle things around on the necro to make room for Vaal Lightning trap, but I would still lose out on damage vs Sirus. Honestly my damage is high enough I am probably better off with the necro anyway since Plaguebringer at least brings something defensive to the build and my damage will still be ~6.5mil Sirus DPS even with the new tree i have that drops throat seeker and corpse pact

I honestly haven't really played with Poets Pen much despite having a couple in my stash. When you put Swap or Warp in the pen and are fighting a single target (like shaper/Sirus/elder), does it just keep warping you on top of them automatically, because I think that would just annoy me too much. Or where you talking about something else?

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ShadowyDream schrieb:

I might have to play with that when it drops then. I had penciled something together after the spellslinger info drop that had an elemntalist who could run a 6 link VD spell slinger + anger +zealotry (with auls) +herald of ash + aspect of spider that i think was also going to be able to run a second herald that was looking interesting.

Honestly though, I mostly stick to standard (prob just making a hardcore guy to do a little Cluster Jewel and shard farming to ship to standard this league), and I am pretty happy with how my necro is still performing after trying a couple builds. Honestly I tried specing back into Corpse pact using the Doryani's and just being minor attentive to my HP, and I was able to run guardian maps aside from the one I tried with -74% HP recovery rate, and I still beat that one, but I died twice to chimera's smoke phase. I would probably still drop CP just because it isn't needed and makes things a little more mindless if my APS doesn't get that high.

I did also try switch to my CoC gear and doing one of the versions without scolds and it wasn't terrible, and probably was more damage when fully ramped up on CP, but I don't like being forced to close in when I don't want to.

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Mistwalker schrieb:

Absolutely loved this build. Can't believe they just upped and gutted it like that when it wasn't even that popular of a build to begin with. Well there goes all of my standard currency and my league starter. Nearly 100% of my cash was in items for this build.