This is a thematic hybrid pet build for a Dreeg’s Evil Eye Spamcaster with the following pets:
endgame version (SR32): 2x blightfiend, 1x eldritch hound, 1x eldritch talon + poison spiders
budget version (SR26): 1x blightfiend, 1x eldritch hound, 2x blightscourges
This build is very SSF/beginner friendly since there are so many DEE related items in the game. You could probably make an entirely different second budget build besides the one provided. I decided on this one to go for a blue set build. This build will show low OA, but you will be reducing enemy DA by ~450 using the blightfiend aura and curse of frailty so it works fine.
PERFORMANCE
This one of my strongest hybrid pet builds, normally I aim for SR30 in 5-9 min as reasonable for a meme concept like this but it can easily do SR32 in this timeframe as well. The main goal was to surpass the advertised minimum Ultimate Ascendant campaign difficulty (SR24) without compromising the gameplay.
GAMEPLAY
For this build I maintained the same criteria as for my other post-1.2 hybrid pet releases:
-Gameplay should be similar to a normal (panetti) build with ‘player-scaling pets’ because pets die very rarely.
-Button count is low, I try to keep it around the same button count as top20 builds with 8 or more ‘easiness’ score.
-Leveling is very straightforward, build is ‘online’ very early, no conversions or rare items needed.
-Useful items will be in the loot pool at all experience levels, can be played SSF or beginner without stash.
-Green items are only single rare.
VIDEO
Note: this is a gameplay demonstration video, not a speedrun
ENDGAME BUILD
BUDGET BUILD
DEVOTION
This build is surprisingly easy, I think it will be hard to level this wrong since Blood of Dreeg has perfect synergy with DEE and blightfiend (no statwaste) and also solves the issue of Necromancer not able to heal the blightfiend. This means in Devotions you can go pretty offensive without having to go for Tree of Life.
The devotion setup uses very little tier 1, so a lot of building up and breaking down needs to happen to get there. I recommend to start with Eye of the Guardian, you only need to replace that one with Abomination at the very end when all devotion points are obtained. Also take Nighttalon, the elemental resist and 80% all damage will be very useful early and together with Rat will meet the requirements of Bysmiel’s Bonds. Or skip Rat for a more defensive path: Eel > Behemoth > Bysmiel’s Bonds.
Leveling Guide for Hybrid Pet Acid Necromancer
Early game
For hybrid pet builds I rarely use both Skeletons and Blightfiends, it costs too many skillpoints and their damage types are different. Also unlike occultist pets and brairthorns they don’t have aura skills that boost the player as well, so the points only improve the pets. So for acid builds I recommend to invest most skillpoints into your blightfiend very early in the game (~1-25), at this stage it is very easy for the player to keep up with relevant damage using component skills. If you first develop the player skills, you will likely get a good player build midgame, but make it hard to switch into the ‘hybrid pet mentality’ and gear requirements at that stage.
For a good start I like to have at least something like this: blightfiend 8/16, rotting fumes 4/12. You need 5 levelups before you can even put a single point in blightfiend, but this should not be an issue as you can use the attributes to buff whatever weapon component you use for attack. Sometimes you don’t get the component you want quickly but it will drop eventually, for this build I like Mutagenic ichor, but super early whatever drops first can be used.
Early I don’t develop other necro skills beside blightfiend, so after this I can build my attribute bar of the other class to switch from components to the skill I want to use for attack.
For additional pets I prefer to use only the Blight scourges, but of course then you need to drop the amulet first. It can drop on 3 tier levels (normal/empowered/mythical), so that raises your odds for at least one. I personally always play Solo Self-found, but sometimes I stash just one item to make sure my build is thematically what I wanted. However it is important to keep in mind, the build can work perfectly fine with only one blightfiend for most of the game, so the other pets are flavor additions.
Midgame
When you get to higher levels things can get difficult if your pets start dying too often. It is important when playing a hybrid pet build that your pets don’t become a burden otherwise you might as well lose them. For pets +%Health should be considered an uptime stat, it is not what makes them permanent or self-sufficient. For permanence you need resistance and health regen. For resistance it is good to be aware of the following innate resistances:
Blightfiend: 50% Poison, 50% vitality, 30% pierce
Blight scourges: 50% Poison, 25% vitality, 0% pierce
The 0% pierce on blight scourges is annoying but they won’t be aggroed as much and you will pick some up from devotions. Elemental should be the first priority and can be gained from any common green item dropping with ‘…of the Wild’. Bleeding can be gained from ‘…of Caged souls’ and Aether from ‘Taskmaster…’
Relics
You can also use the crab spirit or stormhound from a relic as second pet, you need to craft these relics anyway to complete the build. However unlike the blight scourges their innate resistances do not match well with the blightfiend:
Crab Spirit: 0% Poison, 0% vitality , 50% pierce, 25% elemental
Stormhound: 0% Poison, 0% vitality , 15% pierce, 500% lightning
You can easily get some vitality resist from master of death but Poison resistance is very rare on gear, so to get it I recommend putting 2 points in the crane devotion and ditch these pets in late game when the requirements to use them become too complicated. Poison is only easy to get when necromancer is combined with Occultist.
The development path for the final relic is Hysteria → Savage → Bysmiel’s domination → Mogdrogen’s ardor. A decent alternative early game relic for this build is Corruption, and later in te game Meditation. I mention meditation mainly for shared stash users, I don’t recommend going out of your way to get this relic if you don’t already have it.