Some soldiers of in the armies of Cairn dabble with the Arcane, reaching into the Aether. But their art is limited so they use the little they get to enhance their fighting abilities. They are called War Wizards.
Let´s talk about the definition of a “Meme-Build”:
Take a mastery combination which is not very popular.
Use a damage type nobody would think about (I will, of course!).
Put on a component rarely used.
Use an item which I haver never seen on other builds.
Profit.
This is a Blade Arc-reaping build with over a 100 % Critical Hit Modifier with limited RR and usable skills. We took this medal to use War Cry as an AoE (with surprisingly good results) and Bloody Whetstone as a nuke. Not much buttons more to press. Defensively, we have Mirror and Nullification, which really helps against Mad Queen (wouldn´t say it trivializes the encounter, but it´s much easier). 2.700 Armor and 3.000 DA combined with “okayish” Physical Resistance and excellent “3rd Tab-Resistances” let this build survive fairly well.
We don´t have much Bleeding Sources so DoTs don´t stack up so high, but we do a good amount of Physical Damage, so it´s okay.
Rhylthar, be honest…why should I play such a build?
Well, I wouldn´t recommend it as first Bleeding Build played. But it is easy to level, fun to play and performs good. It´s not the best in anything, but neither bad.
For me, my choices become more and more limited. I seriously doubt that there will be massive changes to Bleeding in the future like a new set or something, so since Forgotten Gods I have to work with that what I have ingame. Some things work, some don´t. But we all know: Grimtools is the real endgame.
Performance in SR is quite good, not always very fast but reliable. Strangely, I have problems with 2 enemies which weren´t so hard before: Kuba (don´t know, what´s the problem sometimes) and Korvaak 2nd Phase…didn´t get him down 2 times because couldn´t kite him in small room and he hits like a truck. But both are manageable when you get the larger arena.
For Crucible…well, I already sent the file to poor @romanN1.
I brought it to 150 easily, we will see how it performs when he has time and feels like trying. I don´t expect much; hope it will make it on a regular basis. UPDATE: CRUCIBLE 7:10 (3+1)
I could try something with Blood Knight but it is more Vitality…though I could combine it with Galdiator´s Distinction for full Physical and Bleeding.
(I think the results will be worse than my Bleeding Death Knight with Bloodrager.)
Nice build! I’m loving meme specs! It lets you unleash creativity! I’m working on a couple meme builds too. Very exciting to be able to explore the non-meta elements of the game!
I’m partial to any of the boots with a shield - Wyrmscale, Stonetreader, Voidwalker, Runeguard, etc.
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I just don’t like Windshear tbh. Think they’re overrated/overused. But I also have a bias toward over-defensiveness in my builds, so the above recommendations probably aren’t optimal either.
True, but you’re walking around with a pretty reasonable uptime (read: 100% uptime) on ~3k% Bleeding (Cunning bonus included) on non-boss SR shards, or boss SR shards with spawns/adds. I dunno if an 84% Bleed stat really makes them shine more than anything else would.
