[b]Hey guys,
last but not least, I hereby present my dual wielding Witch Hunter build to you folks. Based on the three Damage Types Chaos, Acid and Vitality, this toon can clear Ultimate without even breaking a sweat and Nemesis bow down as soon as they spot him approaching. [/b]
This is a dual wielding Witch Hunter build, not making use of any Set Bonuses, relying heavily on ADCTH and therefor on the damage it inflicts and Attack Speed. This grants high survivability and high damage at the same time, resulting in a very fluid and satisfying gameplay. This results in this build being easy to gear up for and very approachable for new players.
A good chunk of the items can be crafted or replaced by other, optional Gear (see below).
With Abominable Might active you inflict about 63k paper DPS. Without, you will sit around 47k DPS, which is plenty. Additionaly, your procs will hit hard and your WPS combined with Nidalla’s Hidden Hand result in guaranteed high damage output.
The OA can be pushed to about 3200 with alternative gear, no problem. But I run this one with about 2900 OA and capped Attack Speed and I wanted to present you a build without too many godly rolled MIs. Sitting only at around 1800 DA and 9k HP, you are squishy on paper, but as soon as you hit a mob, you won’t die (except Mad Queen). With other Augments and Crossroad’s +%HP Devotion Points you can easily push your HP up to ~10k.
Resist Reduction is served by Devotion Procs and Skills. Since we deal Chaos, Vitality and Acid damage you will have the maximum benefit out of all your RR skills. Together with a crafted Master’s Spellblade, you will have -90 to -100 RR on all three Damage Types up your sleeves.
As Auto Attack Replacer we’re using Beronath’s Fury from the Shard of Beronath Component. Both Nightblade and Occultist don’t offer an Auto Attack Replacer out of the box, so we need this bad boy (must have). Aspect of the Guardian offers much needed 100% Poison and Acid Resistance and 12% Physical Resistance; overcapped Possession grants additional 14% Reduced Overall Damage. With gear, you will sit at 18% Physical Resistance and overcapped Elemental Resistances, which can easily be pushed even higher with optional gear. Mark of The Apostate grants a 2 sec 50% Fumble & Impaired Aim proc, resulting in you not being hit too much, as well as some juicy Poison Damage. Your Weapon & Devotion procs make many of the trash mobs die just by running around them.
13 sec. Ultimate Fabius kill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2XMOwPGb_E
20 sec. Ultimate Sentinel kill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytOg2wrXs2E
Quick kill vs Ultimate Benn’Jhar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX9EZKnyR5w
Quick kill vs Ultimate Moosilauke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMYguo5Vy-A
My recommended Gear, Devotions and Skilldistribution:
Grimtools
GrimCalc without +Skills:
GrimCalc
I’ve been experimenting with Belgothian’s Shears and it inflicts definately more DPS than Whirling Death. Imo, you need an AOE WPS with this build. Fevered Rage from Bloody Pox (deskill 2 Points out of BS) is also viable, but the risk does not result in significant better killing speed.
Gameplay:
LMB - Beronath’s Fury (Flame Torrent)
RMB - Shadow Strike (Tainted Eruption)
Mouse 3 - Solael’s Flame
Keyboard 1 - Pneumatic Burst
Keyboard 2 - Blood of Dreeg
Keyboard 3 - Curse of Frailty (Eldritch Fire)
Keyboard 4 - Gaze of Beronath
Keyboard 5 - Blade Barrier
Cast Curse of Frailty on the mobs you want to approach, Shadow Strike in and LMB everything until corpses pile up on the floor.
Don’t forget to cast PB and BoD to keep 100% uptime on both.
Against Nemesis and other hard Boss Mobs, cast Gaze of Beronath for -100 OA debuff and Solael’s Flame. Wield them down after. Cast BB if neccessary (won’t happen 99% of the time).
Keep in mind, stun and freeze effects are your main enemies. As soon as you can’t hit an enemy you will die rather quickly.
Due to your low HP pool and DA, your Healthbar will jump a lot. Deal with it.
Mad Queen: Well, I don’t recommend fighting her with this build, to be honest. It is a chore. Your procs and pure DPS together with very low DA will kill you within seconds. If you really want to fight her, equip MoD, ditch Panther Devotion in favor of Turtle and kite her, as soon as her Aura pops.
Crucible: You can finish Challenger in record times, but Gladiator is another level. I finished Gladiator with this build, but you will die. A lot. If you don’t prepare and switch Devotions/Gear, don’t even bother, or be frustrated. If you want to clear Gladiator Crucible reliably as a Chaos/Vit DW WH, try gomagon_t’s Witch Hunter with different gear and Devotions.
This is a very potent and fast Vanilla/Challenger farming build, not a (slightly) Gladiator master.
Gameplay Videos:
Cronley & BoC Treasure Trove run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hRVrBn6pUU
Ultimate SoT run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5spr9CRowhQ
Ultimate BoC run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG5ggY-WG0E&t=19s
Alternative Gear:
This build is very versatile gearwise. Almost every item can be replaced by at least 2 optional ones, except Master’s Spellblade. The alternatives may result in a less efficient gameplay though.
Weapon 1: Damnation, Basilisk Claw (skill into Lethal Assault, ditch a few skillpoints), well rolled Bloodlord’s Blade, Runed Dagger of Dreeg, Death Omen
Weapon 2: Plaguebearer’s Master’s Spellblade
Head: Eldritch Gaze, Cowl of the Venomblade, Clairvoyant’s Hat, Mask of the Harbinger, Hood of Dreeg
Chest: Devil’s Cage Hauberk, Vestments of Dreeg, Demonslayer’s Jacket
Legs: Wraithborne Legwraps, well rolled Sect Legguards MIs (even better than ELoV), Demonbone Legplates
Waist: -
Feet: Golemborn Greaves, Voidwalker Footpads, crafted rare Heavy Boots (even better than Elite Rhowari Greaves)
Hands: Voidsteel Gauntlets, Viperfang Grips
Shoulders: Better rolled Benn’Jhar’s Pauldrons, Mantle of Dreeg
Ring 1: better rolled Cronley’s Signet, Viloth’s Ring, Entropic Coil, Gollus’ Ring, Lifegiver Signet, Alkamos’ Touch of Dread, Rage of Alkamos
Ring 2: Alkamos’ Touch of Anguish, Wrath of Alkamos, see above (Ring 1)
Amulet: Pestilence of Dreeg (Plague of Shattered Souls Affix), Black Gem of Dreeg, Empowered Wretched Necessity
Medal: Mark of Divinity, Badge of Mastery, Blood Sigil of Ch’Thon, Black Star of Deceit, Undying Oath
Relic: Haunt, Necrosis, Malediction, Agrivix’s Malice
You can shift this DW WH just by gearing into more of a Acid/Poison (with Lethal Assault) or Vitality Damage dealing build. Always try to keep your Attack Speed at at least 190% and try to cap your Resistances. With some nice MIs, you can easily cap them out and have even more OA/DA than my current recommended setup. I just didn’t want to put those rare MIs into my recommended gear, because they can be very hard to grind and find (even though I have plenty). Cronley’s Signets and Viloth’s Rings are rather easy to farm, compared to nice Sect Pants and Benn’Jahr’s Pauldrons imo. Try to craft yourself some nice rare boots for even more Stun Resistance!
For example, check out Thrasheur’s Chaos Vitality dw Witch Hunter.
Pros:
- very fluid and fun gameplay, leaving you satisfied and entertained
- can easily clear and farm Ultimate
- Nemesis are your bitch
- very fast Challenger Crucible clearing speed
- dishes out a lot of DPS
- high survivability granted due to ADCTH and damage mitigation/high resistances
Cons:
- when CC effects hit you, you can die quickly, if you don’t react accordingly
- Mad Queen is a no go
- not a Gladiator Crucible farmer
- some HP bar jumping from time to time (HP not moving is rather impossible for most builds anyway)
To sum it up, this is not a build that can clear Gladiator without any stress (current top of all builds are Casters and tanky Caster hybrids with shield for that matter), but it is well rounded, with high DPS (better clearspeed than any Sword & Board) and so much fun to play with. You will be pleased with the playstyle. Give it a try!
Shoutouts to Chthon, JoV, Thrasheur, TomoDaK, Superfluff, Drizzto and jajaja for providing inspiration/help and making this forum a nice place to be.
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