The Build
1st Mode (ABB + RoH)
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/nZonyYzV
with all permanent buff + Word of Renewal, Pneumatic Burst, Lethal Assault, Deadly Aim, and standing on Inquisitor Seal.
DPS shown is Amarasta’s Blade Burst.
2nd Mode (SS + RoH)
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/RZRGw6vN
with all permanent buff + Word of Renewal, Pneumatic Burst, Lethal Assault, Deadly Aim, and standing on Inquisitor Seal.
DPS shown is Shadow Strike.
Build Feature
- Ultimate Crucible Clear Speed
- Contain Inquisitor
- Contain Rune of Hagarrad
- Use no green MI or Crafted Green Items
- Need good energy management on shadow strike mode
- Optimal build need a good roll on pierce > cold conversion
- Require a skilled player
Build Overview
So I finally leveled an infiltrator. I am quite late to the party because I was always thinking about a good reason on using alkamos ring in infiltrator. This two builds are the results. The first one is a hybrid DW melee + Caster using full fledged Amarasta’s Blade Burst and Rune of Hagarrad. The second is also a hybrid DW melee + Caster using full fledged Shadow Strike and Rune of Hagarrad. Both builds are also supported by 80% Nightblade’s WPS.
I think the power of the build is self explanatory from the equipment setup. We utilized pierce > cold conversion (up to 96%) for making RoH, SS, and ABB almost pure cold. The shadow strike one is especially crazy as it can do 650k damage on crucible (4 buff without banner) and 450k damage on campaign. The shadow strike build suffer from energy issues though because silver sentinel set doesn’t gives any +energy regen. It is a pain to run it outside crucible and I recommend the first build instead for campaign.
Defense is just enough for killing the enemy before getting killed: 3.3k effective DA, about 25% phys res, dodge, decent armor, fumble, good lifesteal, 12/12 inquisitor seal, 17% reduced damage from aura of censure, and ghoul proc.
Equipment Choices
Craft all equipment at Arngrim and try to get +% armor as completion bonus. Get at least 90% pierce > cold conversion and as much acid>cold conversion
Core Items:
The Silver Sentinel Set
Dread Sigils of Alkamos Set
Gloves: Mythical Chilling Grips of Hagarrad. Converting up to 30% pierce>cold
Supporting Items for both mode:
Boots: Mythical Final March. Just a good defensive boots with high phys res and slow res
Belt: Mythical Spellbreaker Waistguard. One of the two +nightbade belt. Supporting cold damage and relevant skill bonuses
Amulet: Empowered Essence of Beronath. Just a good + all skill amulet with +Attack Speed
Medal: Mythical Undying Oath. The best medal for offense and defense. Gives flat damage and Reduce cooldown to both of our heal skill are invaluable
Supporting Items for 1st mode:
Pants: Mythical Deathwhisper Leggings. Perfect Fit
Relic: Ignaffar’s Combustion. one of the best relic, providing stackable elemental RR. Get +aura of censure for completion bonus
Supporting Items for 2nd mode:
Pants: Mythical Slithscale Legwraps. Perfect fit. Also has a really nice +22% damage to Kuba!
Relic: Mogdrogen’s Ardor. We need that +all skills. Get +%DA for completion bonus
Devotions
Offensive cold-based devotions for hybrid build
Blizzard > to Rune of Hagarrad
Hand of Ultos > to Blade Spirit
Rumor > to Amarasta’s Blade Burst
Elemental Storm > to Inquisitor Seal
Ghoulish Hunger > to Whatever permanent buff
Gameplay
Keybind:
LMB: Amarasta’s Blade Burst (1st Mode), Shadow Strike (2nd Mode)
RMB: Shadow Strike (1st Mode), Amarasta’s Blade Burst (2nd Mode)
Mouse scroll up/down: Ring of Steel
Keyboard 1: Pneumatic Burst
Keyboard 2: Word of Renewal
Keyboard 3: Rune of Hagarrad
Keyboard 4: Inquisitor Seal
Standard procedure:
Summon 2 blade spirit before action.
Press to activate Pneumatic burst and Word of Renewal. Ensure it to always be active and/or save it for heal.
Shadow strike in.
Cast inquisitor seal below you.
Scroll up/down to Ring of Steel, cast it in interval to ensure the enemy affected by fumble.
For 1st mode: ABB your enemy while mashing RoH button. SS button also a good supplemental damage.
For 2nd mode: Hold Shadow strike button while mashing RoH button, also press ABB button once every 3 second. DON’T FORGET TO WATCH YOUR ENERGY
Build Performance
For 170 Crucible, video with 4 buff without banner:
1st mode, RoH + ABB (7:25 clear times):
2nd mode, RoH + SS (7:20 clear times):
Shadow strike build win by 5 seconds, but ABB build win on QoL division.
I believe it’s possible that the SS build can do below 7 minutes if there is no enemy stuck in the spawn point and you can round the enemy better so it can get killed in one go.
The most dangerous enemy is reaper due to the usual reason. Just kill him as soon as possible.
The second most dangerous is kuba because of its heal make it takes a while to kill him. Kill him lastest.
You can facetank Alek meteor, but don’t!
For most cases, you just need to kill enemy in front of you as fast as possible. Don’t kite too much, except for evading fully charged reaper.
Afterword
My first build on 2019! Enjoy…