[1.2.1.5] Cold/Lightn. SoC Proc/Player-scaling Pets Conjurer build

Found another build that is extremely fun to me, so I thought I’d share it :slightly_smiling_face: It’s actually pretty similar to my posted Bleeding spellcaster Trickster build([1.2.1.4] Bleeding/Procs Caster Trickster, WIP, SR32) in that it’s also a spellcaster build focused on one main skill that is an AOE and also uses as much on-attack procs and player-scaling pets as possible.


with Blood of Dreeg buff active

Build Concept:

The concept is to convert SoC damage to cold, lightning and frostburn via the Trozan set, also getting its CD as low as possible so it’s basically spammable(got it to 1 second in the build), while also using a lot of on-attack procs like the “of Fallen Skies” suffix and ofc devotion skills, and also using player-scaling pets, in this case Nemesis and Wind Devils, for more damage and also to proc even more devotion skills(also using 2 devotion skills that give even more - temporary - pets like Elemental Seekers), which all in all makes for a very chilled and fun playstyle, just planting our sigils everywhere and watching stuff die :smiling_face:
Oh, and if wondering why I’m using Possession and not Stormcaller’s Pact: the damage absorption is really nice to have, especially with the build not being super tanky, I tested it with both of these skills, and with Possession it feels way safer and more relaxed to play.

Grim Tools Links:

  1. BiS optimized version(VERY hard to get all of these items!!):
  1. “Budget” version:

**Itemization/Explanation of the 2 different versions:

So this time I made 2 different versions of the build equipment-wise, bc this build sadly is VERY hard to gear for, at least if you want to min-max and have BiS gear, that’s very, very tough to achieve if you don’t want to just use GD stash to “craft” the best equipment, which I obviously do not want to, BUT seeing how tough the build is to gear for legitly, I did make a BiS version using GD stash, just to show how I envision the optimal gear setup to be if I can ever get all of it. But then I also made a “budget” version of the build, trying to have only gear that is absolutely achievable without months of farming. BUT be aware that even this budget version is still not super easy to equip, bc the full Trozan set and the legendary amulet are absolutely mandatory for the build to work as intended(the amulet is not mandatory in the BiS version, but ONLY bc the shield used in that version has one of the 2 prefixes on it that give % CD reduction, and these are extremely rare on that shield!). But I think the budget version is the most achievable one I can think of without sacrificing key aspects of the build. The videos I’m gonna upload are of this budget version, not the BiS version, so as you can imagine the BiS version performs even better(mostly defensively bc it has more HP, HP-reg, armor and secondary resistances like slow res. And offensively more SoC dmg because Destruction is at 22/12, on the other hand the BiS version has one less Wind Devil summon limit), but the budget version actually already holds its own pretty well. Personally I’m somewhere in between these 2 versions atm, I farmed a LOT over the last week, but did not get a lot of the stuff I want yet, which is no wonder, seeing that the chance of the MI shield to drop with the Supercharged prefix I want is like 0,2%, the chance of getting a Gollus ring with “of Fallen Skies” suffix is 0,48% and the chance of getting a Bysmiel-Sect Legguards with “of Fallen Skies”(I want that bc of the trap resistance) is smth like 0,38%. No luck so far for me, but I’ll keep going. The only 2 MIs I use in the budget version are really easy to get: 1. the offhand drops a lot from Yeti enemies, and the chance of “of Fallen Skies” is about 6,5%, so it is very achievable, got several of these already, and 2. the MI medal is also not hard to get, and bc rare affixes that would fit the build have a very small chance to be on that one I use a drop with 2 non-rare affixes on the budget build which is once again very achievable.

Weaknesses:

These are obviously more present in the budget version, than in the BiS version, but the latter is still not optimal.

  1. only about 15k HP and like 1,2k HP-reg/s with BoD active, which is lower than I usually strive for
  2. no “oh sh*t” button to use like mirror or blade barrier
  3. trap resistance very low, which SUCKS when encountering Benn’Jahr(that’s why I always carry a Bysmiel-Sect Legguards around with me that has a lot of it, but doesn’t have “of Fallen Skies” for the proc, so I only switch to it when Benn’Jahr spawns, and after I killed him I switch back to the other leg armor that has the proc on it)
  4. No Slow Resistance(have to think about how I could get some from somewhere…)
    That’s all I can think of rn, otherwise the build is pretty decent I think.

Videos(will add more at a later time, only budget version used):

Farm run for Gollus Ring, Vampiric Bonewall Shield and Bysmiel-Sect Legguards:

So to wrap this up: like I already said this build plays surprisingly similar to my bleed Trickster build, but is not as strong, bc the bleed build is way tankier with way more HP/HP-reg and dodge/deflect chances, and also damage when kiting bosses is way higher on the bleed build bc the DoTs do still tick on the bosses while you are kiting them, while with this build it’s mostly direct damage(except for some frostburn) and the boss has to be in one of the sigils to get damaged, which is not that easy when he’s constantly chasing after you, so the kill-times for everything you can’t tank are way higher with this build than with the other one. But on the other hand every boss you CAN tank goes down even quicker than with the other build bc you can stack a lot of sigils on them which has insanely high damage potential. And I like this build very much, the blue sigils look so awesome, and SoC is just one of these spells I always wanted to have as the only main spell on a build, and now I finally made one that feels really good and fun to play :slightly_smiling_face:

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Update:
Changed some stuff around, found/crafted some nice stuff(got lucky on the crafted belt :slight_smile:), sacrificed one fallen-skies proc for the huge boost in HP-reg that the Gollus ring “of mending” gives, mainly bc I just can’t get one to drop with of fallen skies, but I like it and one of these procs is not that much of a loss. Devotion-wise I wasn’t satisfied with Arcane Currents, so I switched to Whirlpool which has a nice 100% chance when bound to a movement/charge skill that has at least 3 seconds CD, so I chose Stormtitan’s Charge. Obviously there’s still room for improvement, but I’m already pretty happy with the current state. Again, the affixes of the 3 MIs used are very flexible and interchangeable, just target-farm these MIs and look what you can get, lots of nice combinations that are not that hard to get, like the “aggressive…of protection” I got on the medal, DA, OA, elemental damage, HP are all great, and the “of fallen skies” on the offhand is quite easy to get bc it’s a “prefered” affix on this offhand with 6,5% chance(if I handled that spreadsheet correctly that shows you the chances).

So here’s the current build:

the helmet is crafted with +%armor so I have 1984 armor, wanted that on the belt too, but it came up with +%physique. I must have some good OA rolls on the gear bc my OA is 3008.

And what I also forgot to mention if someone wants to play this build: obviously it’s NOT a build for leveling bc you need to be level 94 to be able to wear the full Trozan set which is mandatory to have Cold/Lightning Sigil of Consumption. So for newer players that don’t have an already leveled Conjurer they can change to this build, you can use different skills to level, my favourite of this class combo would be Primal Strike bc it is very strong very early on. A detailed leveling guide for this(just an example I found, not a guide created by me. Works for Conjurer instead of Druid as well) is this:

And then after reaching at least Level 94 AND getting some of the important items for the build, especially the Trozan set(getting the blueprint for the helmet is enough bc you can craft multiple ones and then transmute them until you have the full set, very doable) you can switch over. Oh, and one last tip: if you want to target-farm that MI medal I highly recommend siding with Solael in FG bc only then you’ll unlock the Bloodied Wastes area via the Solael questline, which is in my experience the best area to farm for Rylok Marks/Crests bc it’s very close to the Vanguard of the Three riftgate/spawn point and a very small area with some Ryloks, so farm runs are very fast.

Also I wanna clarify (should probably have written this way earlier lol) that this is a niche, gimmicky build that while being able to do most content in ultimate, is NOT a super strong or even meta build, so don’t expect to absolutely destroy everything with it, especially with suboptimal gear. With my current setup Nemesis bosses are usually no problem and SR on ultimate is doable, but it gets stressful after like shard 20-25 and I died quite regularely when trying to do a 30-31 video, so I’m doing a 26-27 video instead. Although I have to say I’m not the biggest fan of farming SR in general, at least on ultimate, so I’m not the best at it anyways. But comparing my 2 posted builds the bleed build is definitely doing way better and I can relatively easily farm SR 30-31 with that build. This one is more of a fun build and I love the looks and gameplay, but for farming I mostly use the other one bc it’s just better and they feel very similar gameplay-wise.

Video SR 26-27 run(30+ totally possible, but not very fun and can easily die there):