[1.1.9.7] Frost Reaper - Powerful Drain Essence and Blade Spirits build - SR 76, Crucible 170

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This build comes with a tonne of damage, and a good amount of survivability. It’s very fun sucking the life out of entire groups within a second or so.

  • It has a resting dodge/deflect of 39% / 31%
  • 30% Fumble on top of that makes it harder to hit in melee
  • Decent DA of up to ~3,300
  • Insane amounts of lifesteal from 3x Blade Spirits and powerful Drain Essence

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This build also does an insane amount of damage in groups. Here’s a screenshot with damage reaching 5.2m when fighting this group.

Enjoy~ :smiley:

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Chilling!

Did you try Ravager/Callagadra/Crate with it?

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I haven’t yet, no! I figured it probably won’t have the phys resist to fight Cally or Rav. But I don’t know :open_mouth:

Cold DE Reaper is a comfortable SR75-80 runner for me. I run different rings and pants, my OA/DA are dramatically lower and it still runs like clockwork. Should be even better now after cold res nerfs :+1:

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It seems you have too much offensive devotion procs. Why dont try Nemesis relic instead to bind something on it, so you can get rid of that Bone Harvest…
Also, i dont think putting more than 1 point into Merciless Repertoire is worth it. Better max Ill Omen and other skills.
And i believe 20% slow res is too low, you’ll lose too much DPS from debuffs due to it.
Aside from that, i believe it’s a great build.

What do you mean, too many devotion procs? They are all assigned.

The slow res could be buffed, indeed. With proc buffs it’s up at 65%, but I understand something more consistent could be helpful. Devotions cuold be shifted around to get Sailor’s Guide easily enough, but eh. I don’t care enough to make tweaks to it at this stage. :smiley:

Re: Merciless Repertoire, I suppose I wanted slightly more damage feeling that the build was tanky enough for it’s intended purposes. But you’re right, ~ +60% cold damage hardly seems worth it.

You got Bone Harvest skill only to proc one of your devotion skills, that doesnt count as “all assigned” for me.

Bone harvest, ring of steel, ill omen, drain essence?