Last time it was fire, now it is ice.
Nowadays I don’t check grimtools when I theorycraft a build until I feel it finished, because usually there is something very similar already uploaded, and thats spoils the fun. This was the case with this DW Deathmarked Spellbreaker as well. When I thought that it is ready I looked at grimtools and found this one created by non other than fordperfect. At first I was a bit disappointed as his opinion was not really encouraging about this deathmarked spellbreaker, but hey, I was committed and as the main design principles and the results differ, I decided to share her with you. This is just a showcase, so no essay this time.
I have this disability that I create builds using only epic items, so this applies here as well.
The other main difference that when I imagined this toon I was totally into an AA+WPS build. This is a one week old build so expect changes in the future. 
FINAL VERSION GRIMTOOLS I consider this the final version of this toon. Thanks for everybody who contributed with valuable suggestions!
SR75 + SR76 chunk 4
SR85 + SR86 chunk 4 I have done a few SR90 with her, doable, but honestly, after 85 she become too inconsistent…
Ravager of Flesh 1 min now with correct link…
Calla DED in 2:03 Turned out that I have seriously overthinked this fight. Facetank + dodge sunder worked. Actually this is my first ever Calla kill as you can see the achievement popping up in the end. me happy
Avatar of Mogdrogen: Unfortunately I haven’t started recording 
The trick was that the first animation what looks like sunder is actually just a summon skill and the second orange glare is the sunder what you have to dodge or if you soaked it, keep away for approx 1 sec while it last and jump back full facetank again.
General concept:
I had an ever-growing grudge against Ravager as he repeatedly stomped me so I wanted to create my own build which can reliably kill him. Although I was able to pull off kills earlier with my fire templar I wanted a toon which makes this guy looks an easy kill. That’s it. That was the plan.
Subject? check.
Location? check.
Desire? check.
Vengeance? check.
What do I need to do this?
Offense: Pneumatic Burst on
- VERY high single target damage:
- Lots of attacks from max attack speed and dual wield. I must admit, I worked really hard to reach 200%. The attack speed stats nearly all on my gear are max rolled.
- Almost constant WPS skill activation. In this build I have 99% WPS chance.
- 3*25%: Execution, Whilring Death, Amarasta’s Quick Cut
- 24% Belgothian’s Shears
- Conversion:
Phys → Cold: 68% and Elemental: 30%
15% to cold from Star Pact
32% to cold from Deathmarked weapons
11% to cold from Mythical Night’s Embrace
10% to cold from Coldstone component
20% to elemental from 2 points on Manifestation
10% to elemental from Shard of Beronath component
Pierce → Cold: 57%
30% from Deathmarked set
13% and 14% from Dread Sigils of Alamos (I will not go to Steps of Torment soon….)
Acid → Cold: 24% from Deathmarked Shoulderguard. This is just a cool addition because Lethal Assault, Nidalla’s justifiable Ends and Merciless Repertoire as well has acid/poison damage.
Other than these Amarasta’s Quick Cut and Whirling Death are both max cold converted from Deathmarked set item skill modifiers.
- Reasonably high OA: After @tqFan tought me how to use the Grimtools Monster Database correctly I came to the conclusion that Ravager has 3136DA at lvl 112. If you fight Flesh which has 350 OA shred, you will need at least 3486 OA to be able to crit him. I have 3416 OA with pneumatic burst on which will give us 3066 OA after shred (cannot crit him) so I decided to go with Nemesis relic because we need the 150 DA shred from it to have better hit and a tiny (2,26%) crit rate against Flesh. It is not a very big number but with the dual wield setup we have a lot of attacks going out per second. Besides fighting Flesh I think this 3400+ OA is plenty for every other content you may want to do.
- RR:
- 6% cold from Viel of Shadow from Night’s Embrace item skill modifier
- 18% cold from Reaper’s Mark (Deathmarked full set skill)
- 23% cold from Rumor (Murmur devo skill)
- 20% elemental from Viper devo
- Flat 32 elemental from Elemental Storm (Rhowan’s Crown devo skill)
Defense: Pneumatic Burst on
- High physical resistance: 57%
- Full Deathmarked set → 16%
- Dual Blades at 25 points → 20%
- Berserker, Jackl, Dryad devos sum → 10%
- Mythical Deathwhisper Leggings → 6%
- Windshear Greaves → 5%
- Health: 13701 - Well yes, this is a bit underwhelming, but this build would be unfair if it would have high health as well.
- Reasonable sustain: 18% main 16% off-hand. With the amount of damage we push out this is enough. ~550 health regenerated per sec helps, but that is not something to seriously rely on.
- Other forms of defenses to be mentioned:
- 22% damage absorption from Maiven’s Sphere of Protection
- Dodge/Deflect: No need to worry if you don’t get hit.
- Base dodge with pneumatic burst on us 30%. This is extremely useful against slow, heavy hitters like Ravager and Calla.
- Windshear adds 60% to this every 18 sec for 5 secs
- Stun resist: 70% not that good, not that bad
- Slow resist: 25% is quite bad, but still the number of attacks and attack speed makes up for it. Would be better if had more…
Gameplay/Rotation:
- Pneumatic Burst up 24/7
- Spam Reaper’s Mark on everything (Maul is connected to it, so the more targets we marked to more likely that Maul will pop)
- Get close and intimate with Shadow Strike (Cleansing Water devo skill attached to it to nullify what needs to be nullified with surgical precision) Against ravager use shadow strike when you see the little eye icon on the bottom right corner of your screen to nullify it, or you will die.
- Ring of Steel stuns our victims and applies 26% Fumble chance (this is HUGE!!!, so against Ravager we have 30% dodge, 26% fumble, which means 0000 we have 56% not to get hit at all)
- Amarasta’s Blade Burst for damage but mainly for Lethal Assault. LA should be up 24/7 as well.
- Amatok’s Breath either for movement and to trigger Dryad’s Blessing
- Icechill if we don’t have better things to do.
- Nullify if we need it.
In the following sections I will try to explain what and why I have chosen regarding skills, devotions and gear.
Skills (top down, left to right)
Auto Attack: I use Beronath’s Fury as my AA as it has physical, which we almost entirely convert to cold, and elemental damage. Rumor devo skill is attached to it for the RR.
Nightblade
Dual Blades: Max. Pierce damage, +% cold and pierce and most importantly physical resistance.
Belgothian’s Shears: Max. AOE damage wps skill.
Amarasta’s Quick Cut: Max. Huge single target wps. Assigned blizzard to it so it can trigger aoe damage. One of the MVP-s of this show.
Whirling Death: Max. AOE damage wps skill.
Execution: Max. Huge single target wps. Aonther MVP.
Blade Spirit: Min. Just for proccing the attached Elemental Storm devo skill.
Amarasta’s Blade Burst: Min. Nice AOE skill, but we don’t want to spend point here.
Lethal Assault: Max. Flat damage, % damage.
Ring of Steel: Min. We take this because we want Circle of Slaughter.
Ring of Frost: Freeze is very useful in SR, the pierce to cold conversion on Ring of Steel is also good.
Circle of Slaughter: For me it is Min., but I can imagine that someone want 40%+ fumble chance. I am ok with the 26%.
Shadow Strike: Min. Used for mobility and to trigger Cleansing Waters devo skill from Ulo.
Nidalla’s Justifiable Ends: Min. – skill recharge and +cit damage is nice.
Nightfall: Min. Attack damage converted to Health is always handy. For one point spent it is at 8.
Pneumatic Burst: Max. Half of our health restored, huge OA boost, huge health regen, + total speed. One of the best skills of Nightblade.
Breath of Belgothian: I would take this just for the -3 sec skill recharge. Having +50% health regen is just the cherry on top.
Shadow Dance: Min. This is our main defensive skill. We have +10 on it, so for 1 point it will be at 11.
Elemental Awakening: Min. Elemental resistance, minor damage boost.
Viel of Shadow: Min. Although generally nice skill with OA shred we take this because we want Night’s Chill. Also has -6% cold resist on it from our amulet.
Night’s Chill: Max. -% Pierce, Cold, Acid resistance.
Phantasmal Armor: Min. 9 points for one, nice defensive skill.
Anatomy of murder: Min. +14% cunning worth 1 point.
Merciless Repertoire: Min. Additional damage.
Arcanist
Iskandra’s Elemental Exchange: Max. Elemental damage, energy leech, energy regeneration. This is crucial against Flesh.
Manifestation: 2/3 for 20% physical to elemental conversion.
Overload: Tried to Max it, but this was the skill what I have decided on to cut a little bit. Mainly for OA and Aether res.
Maiven’s Sphere of Protection: Max. 22% damage absorption. No brainer.
Star Pact: Min. We take this because of the 15% physical to cold conversion.
Inner Focus: Max. Huge OA boost.
Arcane Will: Max. Against any foe which actually counts this is a perma buff with offensive, defensive and utility aspects.
Nullification: Min. It is always better to walk in the park with a nullification in your pocket rather without it.
Devotions
I categorize devotions into four buckets why I chose them based on their primary purpose. RR, Damage, Sustain and Utility. Of course, all of them have multiple benefits but I grouped them to the bucket which I think is their most prominent aspect for this build.
RR: Viper, Murmur
Damage: Hawk, Dire Bear, Amatok the Spirit of Winter
Sustain: Revenant, Berserker, Dryad
Utility: Jackal, Empty Throne, Rhowan’s Crown, Ulo the Keeper of the Waters
Gear
This build utilizes the full Deathmarked set which generally makes your nightblade damage cold. I think this is a very powerful set because it has everything what you need. Damage, conversion, phys res, attack speed, +to all skill, RR. Generally great. I will not explain the items of the set, just focus on items of this build which are not part of Deathmarked.
Ring 1&2: First of all FU Alkamos. I have done around 180 runs of Steps of Torment and you dropped two of the shittiest rolled Alkamos’ Touch of Dread, no Anguish. So I had to go to discord for GD trade. Yes, it is the Dread Sigils of Alkamos set. These two rings are designed exactly for this toon. You need these.
Amulet: If you are obsessed with no-MI builds like me Mythcical Night’s Embrace is what you want because of the phys to cold conversion and the RR on Viel of Shadow. If not, go and get an Ellena’s Neckalce. You can literally get one in 3 minutes from Ellana (the big bad Slith matriarch in Hargate’s Island. Even without any prefix and suffix this amulet is vastly superior to any legendary amulet for this build. It is ridiculously good.
Gloves: Mythical Iceskorn Talons. Cold/frostburn damage, huge % attack speed, lethal assault, buf to Amarasta’s Balde Burst.
Boots: Mythical Windshear Greaves. Defensive ability, physical resistance, +2 Amarasta’s Quick Cut, +2 to Whirling Death. Windshear proc is also very good.
Belt: Mythical Blade Breaker Sash. Crit damage, Cold/Frostburn damage, OA, DA, +1 Belgothian Shears, +1 to all skills in Nightblade
Pants: Mythical Deathwhisper Leggings. Cold/Frostburn damage, OA, Physical resistance, Aether and Chaos resistance, +2 to Amrasta’s Blade Burst, +2 to Lethal Assault.
Medal: Mythical Undying Oath. Cold damage, health, health regen, resistances, +2 to Pneumatic burst complemented with cold damage and – skill recharge to it. Rune of Amatok augment both fits to the theme and also the best choice here.
Relic: I have gone with nemesis, because in one hand I needed the OA shred against Flesh. In the other hand I really like the “Asterkarn Magical Blade Killer Hunter Bitch with a Pet” concept.
As always, constructive criticism is welcome.
Happy Gaming!
p.s. if anyone have alkamos rings with not min pierce to cold and speed stats and want to trade please reach ot to me
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