[1.1.9.3] Beginner's Albrecht's Aether Ray Spellbinder

[Nery]

@dumb_eboy

Nery pushing the beginner’s build ladder with his 16th beginner’s build lol.

The build looks quite insane considering how budget it is (I especially enjoyed the yellow pants). The rolls on the MIs also look really easy to get. I had a feeling that a budget aether AAR binder with that off-hand would probably be OP, but somehow nobody did it before (I guess that’s mainly because Stupid_Dragon already had a CT aether binder beginner’s guide). Interesting that you got bat without any conversion, especially when you have that off-hand. Is it really worth it here or are you just getting it as a filler devotion? Or are you considering the player will eventually upgrade the belt to a Chains of Ygraad? An alternative would be to just go for hawk plus red crossroads and the fourth wendigo point for some extra life, less racial damage taken, OA, and crit damage.

I am also glad to see that the heavy spirit dump and 2.4k DA meta reached the beginner’s guide section. I know it is a Spellbinder - which relies on active defensive mechanisms - but it is still interesting to see this applied to a budget setup rather than an endgame one.

You mean your newer ones, right? I would guess some of the old ones might not be able to reach that far (but I say that only by looking at them and I am a bad pilot, so maybe on your hands they can). I would say SR65 is quite impressive for a budget guide. There are several from the compendium that can reach this far, but still a great achievement.

Thanks for your comment!

The items have only yellow affixes, not a single rare. Actually players can roll better items. Belt is in my alternative gear. Valbury isn’t the most popular location for aether builds but definitely worth it. I started with Bat devotion and decided to not over-complicate matters and to keep it even without conversion. For instance one could easily take Behemoth instead for passive healing (can save extra button too).

DA is really low and I didn’t even have OA shred from Siphon Souls as usual. For end game builds usually have good sustain, so it’s less important than budget setups. But still unless build is one-shotted, which is hard given Mark of Torment can be active fairly often, it’s relatively safe. Against bosses with high OA like Lokarr might be too low At same time build really need that spirit dump. Energy sustain and with off-hand mod, more damage is equal to more life steal.

SR, you’re right, I haven’t done it with my earlier setups but then again SR 65 was considered a norm for end game setups. Either 65 for glassier types and 75 for tanky bastards. I did SR 65 with vitality Conjurer (easy obviously), Blade Arc Witchblade and Lucius Battlemage. I was able to beat with Vindicator as we but I didn’t felt that safe and off-hand physical resistance was nerfed as well. I think if I update some of the older specs, they should be able to achieve it as well, to be more precise DW Infiltrator and Pistols Tactician.