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

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Glinter schrieb:

Hi there!

I have always greatly enjoyed builds that have involved Scolds Bridle as a major item. Such builds have been the legendary Scolds Fire Burst CWDT Cyclone, as well as any build that abused the old Zerphi's flask and Scolds before they changed that interaction.

Anyways, thanks a lot for this build guide!

I was testing around with some standard ES and low-life gear, (of which equivalents could still REASONABLY be obtained in league) so I decided to mess around to see how much DPS I could pump out while maintaining a decent amount of defenses.

In the end, with the following gear, I managed to get around 35-38 million shaper dps with a low-life variant edit of this build; literally deleting Shaper and Uber Elder fights.

The Shavronnes and wise oak and I think the rare gloves are the only legacy-variant item, so this type of variant is 'achievable' with a decent amount of ES (Nowhere near the normal amount of 'EHP' achieved by the original variant).

With Spirit Offering up, I have a constant 7.1k ES, very nice for bosses and general mapping.

Really fun build! Let me know if anyone has any questions and I could configure a PoB link.

Hey could you tell me average VD damage per ball? Theoretically I have upwards of 35 million dps right now with 10.4k eHP. (more if you count the 20% shock)

I did a lot of tinkering with Shavs because as low life it's an option for SO to recover which feels nice. Best I could really do was get to around 8k es and (personally) that feels bad to me. would be interested in PoB link as I am still open to this avenue.

If I drop Arcane Surge mod on this staff, which multimod should I get?
i would like to add that with the +3 Fire gem, my mana cost is 134. So I dont have to use Fevered Mind.

Hi,
Thank you for fresh idea and cool build guide.
At the moment I've started to level my fresh witch and I've got one question: what the best way to level it if I can't afford poet's pens now ?
What does

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You can level as plain old VD+Desecrate.

means ?
Thank you

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lexplua schrieb:

Hi,
Thank you for fresh idea and cool build guide.
At the moment I've started to level my fresh witch and I've got one question: what the best way to level it if I can't afford poet's pens now ?
What does

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You can level as plain old VD+Desecrate.

means ?
Thank you

Easy my man (i used 2x cheap 1c wand first can get life sprig, and then switched to Axiom Perpetuum all the way till i could equip staff)

Spell cascade + Desecrate
Spell cascade + VD

Just keep on adding the supportive gems with VD setup to get higher dps.
Or you can use zombie setup to level, but VD is much fun and can easily level you up.
Good luck.

Suggestion for the Staff:
Prime Resonator (4 Sockets)
Glyphic Fossil (Essence)
Aetheric Fossil (Casting)
Scorched Fossil (Fire)
Aberrant Fossil (Chaos)

why are we skilling minion nodes like spiritual aid`?

Just got this armor, what should I craft on it? And do I still need the Fevered Mind jewel?

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zbomb schrieb:

Suggestion for the Staff:
Prime Resonator (4 Sockets)
Glyphic Fossil (Essence)
Aetheric Fossil (Casting)
Scorched Fossil (Fire)
Aberrant Fossil (Chaos)

I'm a little confused by the glyphic fossil. None of the corrupted Essence modifiers are particularly useful for this build and definitely do not merit the cost it adds.

Aberrant is for...blocking lightning modifiers? I am not convinced haha.

Aetheric+Scorched will get you best chances at +3 Fire Skills + 20% more damage with socketed spells. Can add Lucent to boost odds of Arcane Surge but eliminates chance at double damage roll too.

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gvarph schrieb:

Just got this armor, what should I craft on it?

And do I still need the Fevered Mind jewel?

You want to craft 10% of Maximum Life as Extra maximum Energy Shield - Prefix

and you should be able to drop Fevered mind now. Just be mindful of any damage reduction from armour/pantheon/etc and any Mana reduction you might have.

Remember: 528 damage to proc CWDT, 132 mana cost with zero mitigation anywhere.

I have 162 Mana cost and it's plenty high enough.

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Glinter schrieb:

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Here is a PoB where I manage to hit 805k damage hits with VD and no shock ticked, but, the eHP is extremely squishy, 6.2k ES pre-Spirit Offering; but with Spirit Offering up, and with Volatile Deads leeching as well as ES regeneration, I stand at 1.1k ES capped leech as well as 1k ES regen too, stacked with Spirit Offering regenerating big chunks of ES well, for some pseudo tankiness. With shock ticked (which I would assume we do on bosses right? with how Necro can shock enemies with corpses) I go up to 1,141k per VD hit.

Personally, I'm with you in how it doesn't feel very good to have so much less eHP with how much damage the build can already throw out. Only 7.1k ES with good ES gear I had laying around, so that is kinda iffy for things like Betrayal. I just wanted to fool around with an an extra damage flask and ES leech.

I definitely wanted to also try out a version with an ES chest comparable to yours, and to try out pure CI, but I did not have anything comparable to try out on standard.

Unfortunately we can't go CI with this build and still utilize Spirit Offering. So it's LL or Hybrid.

The shock effect in PoB is automatically 50% which is why we never tick that box.

Our shock is 20% base and gets improved by non-damaging ailment effect like Divine Judgement.

And yeah, I'm sitting at 777k VD damage. Once I get craft the chest I want, it'll go up to over 800k.

As for the whole ES VS Hybrid thing. Hybrid gets much more eHP in total as well as extra aura+BM support take up more socket space that we don't really have.

I think just stacking chaos res and about 4k-5k life is enough really. I have 59% chaos res, and will be 72-74% once I finish my new CDR boots and I almost never see my life pool drop. Chaos damage barely even tickles at this point.

Side Note:
Purifying Flame on CWDT can help with chaos degens if your chaos res is a little low by giving 100% uptime on consecrated ground at your feet.

TL:DR
Shavs can definitely reach higher damage numbers, I just don't think the trade-off is worth it.

Any idea why I seem to cast slower and regain less ES after taking out the jewel?

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gvarph schrieb:

Any idea why I seem to cast slower and regain less ES after taking out the jewel?

What is your mana cost? it sounds like you're not proccing on every cast, but rather every other.