Some time ago I made tread about what builds would you good people like to see, this type of build wasn’t offered cuz at that time I didnt have VB chest armor, but some of you asked for some poison acid build and I made a promise that I will make one as son as I get gear required to do so, so here we are.
Shard dmg breakdown:
*Pictures are with constant auras, PB, BOD, Shard, and lethal up.
As you can see dominant dmg is acid followed by poison and cold in similar amounts, everything else is more or less in traces.
Since I didn’t had much time to test this build in 1.0.0.7 I will post grim calc that I currently use.
WD is straight up single target dps loss, and BS from unknown reason to me is also dps loss, it shouldn’t be but after testing on dummy it shows that it is. Probably due to time needed to BS hits, its slowing down your atc pace thus its lowing your dmg output. Before flat poison was added to MR I was putting more points in NHH but now that you have flat poison +% to cold and p&a on MR I got better results like this. NHH is buffing just one wps used by this setup and MR is buffing all your attacks. It probably needs more testing but for now it looks like that.
Stating this there is not much deference between this setup that is presented in grim calc and setup that would use all wps and maxed NHH.
Total difference is ~2 sec on dummy in favor of setup that is presented in grim calc of this build.
Attribute points
This build doesnt shine in HP department so put as much as you can in physique. Cunning and spirit just if you have to to fulfill gear requirements.
Physique/Spirit/Cunning ration of this particular character is 85/5/0
Bloodletters exalted threads of survival - mark of mogdrogen - 7% V/C
Spelbreaker waistguard - dense fur - 7% A/C
You can see the rings below in post 8
The PE of Beronath - focusing prism - 20% to all dmg, 2% OA/DA
Mark of divinity - arcane spark
Malediction
Weapon 1: Venomlash - Shard of beronath - 35% to chaos/vitality dmg. 15% chance of 15% rr, 8% chaos res
Weapon 2: Soldiers rift scourge slicer of the defiler - vitriolic gallstone - 10 Acid dmg 35% to Poison and acid dmg 200 HP (venomfang of defiler would be bis)
In closing
Personally I expected much more from new VB armor and this build overall. Don’t get me wrong its a good, interesting to play build capable of finishing all game content, nemesis, MQ, without any issues… Its just I expected more. I expected it to be capable to come close or even outperform DW Blademaster, but its just not capable to do so. To many things that you have to cast (ie. cof, abb) to maintain dps are inflicting severe penalties on your attack pace making it less fluid and thus lowing your dmg output. Also its a bit to many buttons to pres for my taste, I didn’t put olerons blood in weapon cuz I just couldn’t stand one more to use.
Believe or not Leviatan is used mostly in defensive purposes here, I needed that HP/DA and was desperate for 20% pierce resistance and even with that I needed to invest in phantasmal armor to cap pierce.
Offensive stats from Levi comes just like little bonus, and its nice bonus tbh
Oh yeah I forgot Well that is still pretty nice to have of defiler, never seen on in my life :eek: I am using full venom set for time being, but trying to replace weapons soon. You’ve got almost 20k dps, a lot of aether res, 40 stun res, and 200 DA over me, but I got 3150 and 500 more HP so at least I got you beat somewhere I got chariot+2 nodes torch+2 node spider instead of your Leviathan and only have 1 in throne
