[1.0.3.1]Drain essence Cabalist - or how to beat cruci with channeling spell w/o buffs and banners

At first glance it looks really good :slight_smile:
You should cap devouring swarm tho, on lvl 16 is giving you much more vitality rr than cof and I dont think its inferior to it. Only thing Im not sure and should be tested is master of death vs primal bond. Maybe you will need that dmg adsorption.
I wanted to use that medal also, but didn’t had any with needed roll :undecided:

You can try but I really doubt that is possible in any reasonable time :slight_smile:

Actually, both can use %LL RR. Veilwarden constellation has bonuses to aether damage as well.

It does but for Aether based DE it hardly pays of to go that route, much better is to take haunt than to incorporate rattosh in devo path. And even if you do that it wouldn’t be on same lvl like with vitality cuz it misses twin fangs and wendigo.

This is great! It actually works unlike aether version (spellbinder with uroboruuk and hex launcher).

I take it to my thread
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61983

Dont tell me you had some doubts about it :stuck_out_tongue:

Joke aside, changeling spells are bit underdeveloped, even this build with few changes to channeling spells mechanic could be much better.

Consider making a feedback/suggestion thread then, it might help with the issue

I stooped doing that after 1.0.0.7 or so, when everything I suggested was considered as Ėcrying all over the forumĖ and being ĖbuthurtĖ about the issue.

Balancing, or to be more accurate, nerfing crusade made this game more unbalanced than ever.

Hi, trying this build for the first time currently lvl 40, how does it works for end game content ultimate? i play HC only

You can reliably expect any build that can clear gladiator crucible to be perfectly fine for campaign play.

Ah ok Ty, i am just starting to play again so kinda new. So can i tank all bosses with this build? or i need to kita some?

A wise man once told me you can tank every boss except the one who kills you.

Some bosses are immune to Life Steal. You cant actually facetank them (though it often isnt needed).

I’m missing several pieces but I respecced anyway from a pet build. I am pretty equal in power, except now I can kill Fabius and Iron Maiden. Still can’t clear Challenger Crucible though. I had the Dreadwalker Carver and Tome, crafted the headpiece, however I can’t seem to find the chestpiece. I don’t farm AoM, and I have a bazillion blues from farming old world content. I am guessing the Dreadwalker set only drops in the expansion zones, even though I am level 100? Anyone know what area they drop in or a good place to farm them up?

And i struggle finding Tome. Got 5+ chestpieces, two daaggers, helm recipe… But tome just refuses to drop…

I farm Crucible, and Dreadwalker set pieces drop in it. I suppose, it drops in non-AoM areas too, enemies just should have high enough level to drop lvl94 item.

It works more than ok, tho I dont recommend any build for HC for simple reason: I dont recommend playing GD in HC, to much RNG influence.

I dont know any that are 100% immune. Only one I dont recommend facetanking at all is MQ, cuz build doesn’t have circuit breaker thus MQ can shotgun you to death in some cases.

Lol, I have like gazillion tomes and similar number of chest pieces, but only one dagger, guess you just cant awoid to have some problems with at least one set piece :undecided:

Bane’Galor, Zantarin the Immortal, Herald of Flame/Destruction/Stars, etc.

Most of them summon adds and you can leech from those, but Banegalor doesnt, for example.

just wanted to say, i did 150 glad as aether drain essence with uroburuuk, so its possible, and not shit ;). i used 2 buffs though, as it was my first time crucible at all, apart from getting devotions in the beginning.

130 - 150 took less than 8 minutes, 100 - 150 around 20 - 25 min i believe, with zantarin, bane’galor and iron maiden as last wave, dont know if thats a hard combo for crucible.

did it with http://www.grimtools.com/calc/0V0JYAaN -> https://imgur.com/a/MDSk8

tldr: vit DE is nice, but aether/vit DE works aswell

JoV - what are your thoughts on using Dark One`s set instead or combine it with Dreadwalker? There seems to be lots of options to use DO set however the strongest/most fun combo seems to elude me.

Yea, I just checked monster stats, you are right. But I could swear that I ADCTH from Zantarin :confused:

Dont get me wrong finishing cruci one time doesn’t mean much, point of cruci builds/cruci farmers is to ensure reliable farming with more than, I would say, 90% chance of success. I test builds w/o buffs and banners for mainly two reasons:

  1. With buffs and banners is not challenging enough for me.
  2. If build can finish cruci w/o buffs and banners that in most cases simply means that it will be reliable farmer with buffs and banners.

Also I never said it doesn’t work to some extent I just stated that its much weaker setup and thus not worth it imho.

I tried so many options with DO set but Drain essence wasn’t one of them unfortunately. Since DO set doesn’t have any aether to vitality conversion I dont see it as top choice for DE build, tho, that set is so strong that almost everything I tried with it can reliably finish cruci, maybe it will be the case with DE build also.

Trying the build out. Liking it so far, just in Act4 normal though. One question about final build. The spec you have on grimtools has 50 points in Necro Mastery, but you only use skills up to 40. Are those last 10 points worth it for the stats and health? I would think spending them elsewhere would be more useful.

Edit: just thought of one more question. I’m often confused about flat damage on abilities and items. You put a point into Second Rite, but I thought that flat damage only applied to weapon attacks, not spells. Am I misunderstanding how that works?