[1.1.5.2] Return of the DW Krieg aether Battlemage

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Any proposal how to tweak it with a conduit having Poison instead of Chaos as well as on a char who sided against Barrowholm :frowning:

Whatever i tried my resists suck big time (and i took full Aeon instead of the spear proc which i think sucks big time).

I hate conduits in my guts as they are the most unobtainable RNG based items in the game if you target specific resist like Chaos here - i even duped lots of mats to see how many tries it takes to get that conduit - 80 tries later i still didnt get 1 with chaos res + the Aether cadence mod…So had to use my legit one with Poison res (50).

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Are you having troubles with res augments distribution? Or stats distribution?

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https://www.grimtools.com/calc/ - resists with solid overcap for SR are an issue as especially once i replace the pants with the one from your build.

Probably its because i have aeons but double mirror, double kriegs skill etc its really nice to have - not to mention those ghoul resets.

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You haven’t inserted the link, dude, you should push “extract” button in your grimtools link.

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https://www.grimtools.com/calc/a2EwYm8Z - damn it sorry about that - Friday after work…

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Looks okay-ish. But I like those pants for physical resist and points into Cadence. They also let us almost cap walking speed which is somewhat important. Not sure about Aeon. You need a seperate activator for that, like Callidor’s Tempest with a transmute. Otherwise you can’t spam Krieg’s Wrath as often as you want, and it’s a great aoe clearer.

But why not take initial setup? Also, you are losing on damage by using these augments and not dumping into Spirit.

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Just built up the mats for an Agrivix’s Malice, out of curiosity what is the best BS for the completion bonus? Just coming back to the game after 3 years, seems like Valdrick or Horrus would be good for the resistances.

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So decided to test it in the current patch. Died first time when I caught Aether res mutator. Build became a bit sad (more in tune with the class, lol) after Aether Corruption nerf. Super min-maxed spec does 6:50. Survivability will be hard for non min-maxed specs and for average pilots. Removal of 8% of Aether RR hurt this one a lot.

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Now that Edge of Sanity has a -20% Aether RR proc, has somebody tried to include it into the build, or is two Mindwarp still the way to go? I’d like to play a DW Battlemage, and Aether seems to be the most effective way to achieve that.

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How are you dual wielding without a nightblade subclass?

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Hi, certain items allow you to dual wield even without Nightblade mastery, in this case is the medal. Either Direwolf crest or Korvaak Brand will do the trick.

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This build looks fun :slight_smile: May I ask why you use dying god devotion when you use aether damage though ? Just curious since I’m fairly new.

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Dying God proc boost critical damage and speed and nodes are good, so can fit irregardless of your damage type.

BUT since it was nerfed some time ago, I wouldn’t take it these days.

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