1.0.0.9 Update: Some minor tweaks. Build has more health/da, resists are better (particularly elemental has a significant overcap from elemental awakening), and the build now uses scorpion sting. In my testing scorpion/scholar’s light offers less damage than lantern/scorpion when everthing crits, but it is more consistent and will be much better for people with lower OA
What can this build offer me?
The goal of this build was to be able to output big dots (massive if you go full offensive 300k+) and quickly dispatch all enemies while being unkillable. The end result was a build that can do everything, but be a reliable gladiator farmer. It is an excellent beginner build to farm campaign on and with gear it becomes a top tier campaign/challenger crucible farmer with excellent mobility, sustain, aoe, and single target damage. I managed to solo challenger crucible without buffs/towers and make it to wave 120 or 130 gladiator w/o them as well where Iron Maiden laid the law down when I was low on hp and my mark of divinity was on cd.
Pros:
Insane survivability through hp regen, Behemoth, dodge, and Wendigo’s mark
Excellent aoe and single target damage
Can handle challenger crucible pretty easily without buff/tower and 15 fps.
Great with and without gear. Great beginner build to farm on!
Can facetank most boss/nemesis enabling us to dish out disgusting auto attack damage Kappa
Not only can our damage obliterate mobs quickly, but they are barely a threat. With the on command confusion from tainted eruption and additional confusion/stun from evil eye/pox most monsters won’t even touch you before they die
Cons:
With DA not at super high values, low stun reduction, and shit armor we are prone to being bursted to some extent particularly by fatty crits. Getting locked down by multiple CCs can be the death of you as well
Build is absolutely HC viable, but you cannot play like monkey. Play some boring shit like warder if you are monkey man
AoE and single target are both excellent, but not the absolute best in either category 
Check out Eleturd’s acid/poison shadow strike hunter if you want that beast single target
Can’t reliably solo Gladiator crucible. Check out Drizzto’s Poison Witchblade if you want a poison build to murder Gladiator on
Leveling:
Focus on the occultist side of things for leveling, but be sure to grab 10 points in NB early on. The mobility hadow strike offers greatly speeds up the leveling process and pneumatic burst particularly with dual wield (remember the modifier for it enables DW) will provide a lot of survivability. Focus on evil eye/blood burst and definitely get some points in curse/vulnerability. Spam and transmuted DEE are both fine, if you go cooldown version using an offhand so you can spam (greater) fire blast from searing ember/flintcore bolts is a great source of additional damage while your dots do work. Mark of Dreeg is pretty beast at all points in the game so be sure grab one ASAP. You can grab 2x Slithtongue’s from the Slith cave early on to get more poison in your life as well. The gear available for poison characters from factions is honestly pretty shit. We have a lot of damage as is though so I suggest to just focus on hp/resists on gear, worry about the damage items when you get to ultimate
Rush Manticore and then Behemoth on your devotions. After this you can take the slow path getting everything on the list or bum rush Abomination/Tainted Eruption. I highly suggest the latter as it trivializes everything that isn’t a boss. Grab as many red/green as fast as you can and start leveling it up asap. You won’t have the sustain of wendigo available to you asap with this path, but you should be able to survive just fine and the clear speed increase is massive
The Setup:
All calcs include stat distribution and devotions. Points needed to reach 575 spirit for Dreeg set will vary! Depends on belt’s % spirit roll and whether or not you have focusing prism equipped on amulet. Feel free to drop some points and sneak in ring of steel/frost for some more safety. Really shouldn’t be necessary when geared up, but I threw it in the noobie calc and it has some use in crucible
With +skills
Without +skills
The noobie calc for those without sick gear
Sexy new grimtools link including +skills
Pictures below. NB, Occ w/o bonus, with bonus, and Devotions
The Binds:
- Dreeg’s Infinite Gaze (Mark of Dreeg) to Tainted Eruption/Abomination. If you are against a single target make sure to stand on top of them so max projectiles hit them for a really good proc chance. Note that eruption’s cooldown is .5 seconds longer than Gaze’s cd
- Evil Eye to Manticore
- Shadow Strike to Scorpion Sting
- Behemoth to Possession
- Either Dreeg’s Afflicted Spines (relic ability) or Curse of Frailty should be bound to Wendigo’s Mark. Afflicted Spines provides a 100% proc chance giving you a guaranteed proc on bosses or an oh shit button of sorts if you’re in the midst of a mob, you can heal 1hp->full in an instant with applied to a lot of targets. Curse has a lower proc chance, but you can apply pretty quickly to an entire crucible wave. The mark will kill off the weaker stuff while healing you against the heroes/bosses you’re fighting
The Gear:
Sadly dreeg set makes it tough to cap all resists particularly if you want to be a boss and use 3x Survivor’s Ingenuity on your rings. The 5 piece set bonus is a huge damage boost so do your best to keep it, but if need be feel free to drop a piece of it for a resist/health stat stick. Stonehide of kings is the other boot option here. I prefer the physical resist of formidable boots with our shit armor, but against iron maiden or in crucible the stonehide of kings comes out on top
For campaign if you have a 2nd runed dagger I recommend have 2nd dagger+w/e weapon on swap with one of them having a riftstone for maximum mobility / farming speed as plaguebearer is really only super useful vs boss/nemesis monsters
Head: Hood of Dreeg (Leathery Hide / Spiritguard Powder (Death’s Vigil))
Shoulders: Mantle of Dreeg (Silk Swatch / Solarstorm Powder (Homestead))
Chest: Vestments of Dreeg (Hallowed Ground / Outcast’s Warding Powder (Outcasts))
Main hand: Runed Dagger of Dreeg (Mark of Dreeg / Nature’s Harvest (Homestead))
Offhand: Plaguebearer of Dreeg (Oleron’s Blood / Nature’s Harvest (Homestead))
Hands: Viperfang Grips (Unholy Inscription / Solarstorm Powder (Homestead))
Waist: Girdle of Stolen Dreams (Dense Fur / Wraithtouch Powder (Death’s Vigil))
Legs: Stonehide Dreeg-Sect Legguards of Nature’s Bounty (Silk Swatch / Outcast’s Warding Powder (Outcasts))
Feet: Formidable Exalted Treads of Menhir’s Wall (Mark of Mogdrogen / Solarstorm Powder (Homestead))
Amulet: Black Gem of Dreeg (Focusing Prism / Survivor’s Ingenuity (Devil’s Crossing))
Rings: Incorruptible Cronley’s Signet of Attack (Corpse Dust / Survivor’s Ingenuity (Devil’s Crossing))
Rings: Incorruptible Cronley’s Signet of Attack (Corpse Dust / Survivor’s Ingenuity (Devil’s Crossing))
Medal: Mark of Divinity (Aether Soul)
Relic: Dreeg’s Affliction
Videos:
These are just some random ones I had on my youtube. I’ve been super lazy about making new videos, but I will try to do so soon. I refuse to record a 10fps video of crucible, but if someone else wants to I’ll throw it up here. Valbury gives me fps issues as well, but that one I will try to do
7sec Fevered Sharzul kill Cheesey AF. Tons of jelly pots for insane regen did a totally wussy blade barrier at the end to make it way less cool since I could’ve 100-0 facetanked him ;(
Bastion run! Linked to the Sharzul kill for proof of tankiness. No pots, pneumatic, or mark of divinity proc just a single blood of dreeg cast. Behold the power of wendigo!
