This is going to be a short guide, as I’m not sure if people will want to build it seeing that it is by no means a top performing build, but it should be able to roflstomp just about anything in MC, and was tremendously fun to play.
It is also tremendously squishy simply because of the nature of acid builds which don’t involve the OK. #sadbuttrue
Itemization/skill point allocation
Goal here was to hardcap…ABB, LA, BoD, and AoTG
Because of the modifier from iceskorn gloves, I’ve come to value hardcapping merciless repertoire. It translated into a huge damage increase
All said and done, you have no flex in the items except for maybe the affixes on the kuba pants. Anything which fixes resists (and stun res!!!) is useable
Devotions
Abominable might + Yuugol is the fairly obvious go-to tier 3’s here.
Expectations in crucible:
It is possible to clear crucible with 4 buffs + 1 banner. But I wouldn’t advice it. It’s risky. I have a 70% success rate with it. With the huge power spike monsters have had recently, even father kymon can one shot you with his chest-fire-shotgun
Funny, you’re the second player after Ya, who banged heads against the same wall. Amarastan crusher is not melee, but meme build. It will be really cool if the concept works. Nevertheless it’s nice that you tried it!
I know, it’s better now. Flat dmg mods are not as useless as before. Which is why ABB conduit is a strong contender. Also, tankiness… But Peslilence is a beautiful amulet, hard to drop.
Some devo suggestions… Revenant is a must, Scorpion and Tainted Eruption are acid defining procs. With five craftables you can drop Sailor for Eel, and then Jackal for Rat, Spider for Scorpion, Manticore for Revenant. You’ll get Tained Eruption and 2 extra points for 20+5% oa from Torch.
Also, no SS is waste of time on approach.
Medal rune, Dreeg Vector is double worth it. 130 oa shred, extra DoT, kinda decent, too.
I’d also save 10 points from AotG and push nightblade mastery to get core stats and Nightfall to make SS a good proccer. Put some points in CoF so that the radius is at least as big as your ABB to make sure everyone is RR-ed just with one click.
But Revenant, most importantly. With 16% adcth you’re practically unkillable with multiple enemies as long as you spam. Better than old Agrivix, adcth-wise.
Right, the shoulders do give some da shred. But I’d still go for those 2 nodes of Torch. It’s over 150 oa. And a poem for you:
For for naked dreams, you need more greens.
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/JVl6yPlN maybe? But BoD goes to shit… And the Sailor for Eel after all. Even with 5 craftables your cc res will still be low.
Also, the number of proccing skills is limited but Rat could go for Fiend…
@ya1: I’ll check this out over the weekend maybe. Might be inactive this coming week for a bit. Unyding oath is huge though, massive amounts of flat damage on it, especially with cold modifier to PB
2nd EDIT: Before I go back to bed - PM me if you want the character file should you be curious, I’ll PM it to you tomorrow or something
And if your build still isn’t Crucible cleaner It needs to become more greener To be able to clear the entire screen You need to be dressed entirely in green
Agreed. This one is something else. I tried Venomancer pieces on the dervish once but that wasn’t clever. Occultist is needed to properly use that chaos to acid.
I think for even bigger flat, you can try 2 piece dreeg set (amulet+shoulder) and deadly means belt; then softcap that second rite. Chaos provided by solael’s witchfire is not that much to convert in my experience.
Also, dreeg amulet have a really sweet proc. I got 6:20 clear times without banner in my venomblade + 2 pieces dreeg witch Hunter, but still quite hard to make it consistent in this new cruci.
I agree with Spanks. Points are scarce even as is. Changing to Dreeg amulet is -1 to occultist. Deadly Means is -3 to LA and AotG. Dreeg proc is great but it doesn’t look like it’s worth switching focus from chaos to acid to vit to acid (especially with Abomination and Eye of the Guardian).
But idk… How did you pull off full VB with wps and everything with 2pc Dreeg set and oathkeeper belt? Where did you take the points from? And da???
How good id Occultist conduit with -15 RR to bloody pox? It doesn’t have OA or DA, but will still give you valuable RR and + Occultist is desirable stat, no?
I use only execution for wps, and the rune of vampiric shadows for additional damage n heal. Quite nice, but witch Hunter don’t have any defense against madqueen, so often dead in 162 if you are not fully prepare. Especially because the build got so many projectiles based proc.
BTW, haven’t thought about abom. I’ll try it in my VB witch Hunter, because of dreeg set, I also have a big conversion for chaos. Will check it after I’ve done min-maxing my secret build
EDIT: sorry, I missed your Devo because I cannot see it in Mobile.
Yeah. Abom is quite overlooked in many acid builds. Don’t forget flat chaos from possession too
@Nery: conduits are probably best in defense here. One less skill to cast is DPS again too. But don’t forget that ABB uses offhand %WD. Which is why phys/acid conversion here is big because base damage of crusher is a lot bigger than dagger.
But it’s mosrly the chaos/acid conversion which wins it over for me. Better guardian gaze, and better flat
@ya1: I’ll send you the character file when I’m back from th hospital
Ear pain? The sound of ABB spam can be quite unsettling…
Conduit is quite strong here. Since the all damage penalty was lowered from 50% to 18% it gives over 55 acid. Flat acid you get from the 25% conversion times all chaos flat (100+ from occultist, 100- from Abomination) times 200% wpn dmg times dmg penalty is equivalent to about 80 acid to ABB but not 100% uptime… But then there’s Eyes devo, and the radius, and +1 occu (better than +1 to nightblade since you don’t wps), and the conduit res, and the %acid, and the very important here crit dmg… Decisions… I went for the conduit on the dervish due to res when not greening.
Anyway, what’s the crucible time??? IIRC 163 can seriously slow this build down.
