Hello!
I’m not HC player so i can’t say for sure. But the defensive properties of this build are too low to play safely in HC. The endgame became very deadly past few patches.
For HC i think you’ll have to find other gear with more armor and phys res.
The base of the gear is two daggers, +4 to Nightblade and one item with +X to NJE. These items allow you to cap NJE and NIghtfall. Building off that, if you can find gear (mainly farmable MIs) with high armor, health and phys res and if you invest in Dual Blades, RoS and Vigor at a cost of Merciless Repertior and maybe Elemental Awakening, you should be fine in shards 65-66 and 101-150 Crucible.
Look for: attack speed on Loxmere’s daggers, total of at least 30% phys res and 2000 armor and 14k+ health. Also i think you’ll need both hands to manage healing abilities and healing potion effectively.
Burger breaker has been around for a while. Spectral longsword is your bargain bin leveling option that you can vendor farm for crushing normal and elite. Lox doesn’t show up until elite (go ahead, make a suggestion for him to spawn on normal) and not until act 4 so realistically you’re not using loxblades until you’re just shy of stepping into ultimate. As swords they lose 100% cold right out the gate and their other bonuses don’t redeem them. Leveling options and nothing more.
no thanks, I already suggested him to be in SR. Although it wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Good point on the loss of %cold on the swords. A shame. If vendorshopped pulsing shards can be endgame items, perhaps the longswords won’t be harmed by a little buff either.
Nice to see that you guys are still making beginner and budget builds, I have not touched the Game for 8 months but I might get back into it soon now that it seems to be more finalized
I will probably start play GD again tomorrow, starting with my Primal Strike warder build guide and then I was thinking about doing SS infiltrator and after that Blademaster, either cadence or PB. I would like to have as “clean” new start as possible so why not test some of these budget builds that we have created?
I was aware of his Blademaster guide and even linked it in mine. That was more of a challenge: to take any fresh melee char and beat endgame with it. I actually recorded a run with a faction-only setup later, it completed Crucible in under 7 minutes and SR65-66 deathless. Faction gear is pretty powerful if you know what to look for.
yeah I am kinda the same, once I have made build I play it a bit and then I move on to another one I am not that keen on testing it in every aspect and fine tuning them and grinding SR and cruci. I am more of a build collector rather than perfector (is that even a word?)
I’m not sure if there was such an implication, but personally I’m not pressing anyone to include my builds just because they bear some semblance to their own. If you do then do it out of your own goodwill.
As for beginner section of the compendium - just link the thread in the compendium and ask to add it to beginner build section. Since they are scarcely posted I do the formatting myself.
Please make me (us?) a GT link with your suggestions for HC.
I’m completely noob and playing only HC as i said before and would like to maintain such toon like this when i work* (psst!!!)
*Doing “standby” job, so we must always be ready. (only playing pausable solo when i’m working )
No reasonable adjustment would make it a 100% safe build for HC for a beginner. The whole idea of the build is to use mobility to control the flow of the combat as it’s core defense mechanic. If you can’t choose when to engage and when to disengage you’d be caught up eventually and killed.
I have a similar build, even wrote a guide for it. Unlike banana I play exclusively HC, so mine is technically HC-proven. But me being able to pull it off doesn’t mean that anyone would.
Yeah, sorry, i have no hardcore experience so i can only make common recommendations to make yourself more sturdy - high resistance overcaps, high phys res, more health, more attack speed and high adcth value. People like Stupid Dragon are better advisers for HC.
One thing i can say: despite orientation to softcore and high dmg, this char is surprisingly sturdy. So there is a good chance to make it HC viable for dungeons, lower shards and lower Crucible. You will have to have Inquisitor’s Seal, high CC res, attack speed and adcth values for constant leech and in theory you won’t die in said intances.
I am not that keen on testing it in every aspect and fine tuning them and grinding SR and cruci. I am more of a build collector rather than perfector (is that even a word?)
