[1.2.1.6] LAUNCH THE SLAYER: 4:15 Crucible Gladiator 150-170, easy SR 30-31, SR 36, Celestials HC friendly tanky Vitality caster Reaper

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*Demonslayer has been launched

Foreword

During 1.2.1.6 test patch Demonslayer set was reborn then got catapulted into the stratosphere with the addition of Vitality resistance reduction to Nightblade then got almost destroyed with nerfs and finally got reborn again. During all those life cycles I was trying to perfect a very old bicycle: Demonslayer Reaper, mightiest among Demonslayers. Here is the result.

The build

<<<< GRIMTOOLS >>>>*

*Craft for Freeze resistance

Questions about slaying demons

Those passive defenses look low. Is it really hardcore friendly?
I feel like yes, absolutely. You can give up a bit of OA in jewellery or get more health from your greens, but this build tanks really well and has decent failsafes to fall back on.
Aren’t Krav’all shoulders for Cold PB builds? Why Cold/Pierce belt?
Because Chaos is now converted via mod on Demonslayer pistol Kra’vall shoulders don’t mess up our conversion. And thanks to them and Spellbreaker belt we are hard capping PB line which on Vitality PB was almost impossible before.
So many greens, looks like it’s hard to put together…
On the contrary, quite easy. All greens are single rare and have most common affixes, and the fact that there are so many of them makes it easier because you can “swap”` affixes between them

Gear/skills/devotions/levelling

All items are pretty much fixed in stone. You could get away with an Ilgor Medal although Namadea’s would be heavily preffered here because of its conversion. There is some leeway in gloves/boots slot, but this combination felt the best to me. Try to match your affixes in a way that you reach similiar amounts of health/OA/DA.

Skill points cap our most important skills, little what was left went into Anatomy and Phantasmal Armor. Devotions include all the good stuff that build needs, namely a lot of stats from Charriot (as well as some decent Armor/DA boost on a proc that’s up like 75% of the time), mandatory Bat and Scales.

This is the endgame build. It works as advertised once you equip required gear at character level 100 and repeat my grimtools as close as possible. For levelling/beginner guides look at this forum.

Gameplay

In Crucible and SR 30-31 everything is facetankable. Pay attention to Mad Queen and try and use Mark of Torment on her when possible. In SR a lot of boss combos can be pulled together but you will need to do some repositioning sometimes.
For Ravager of Flesh try to use one Soul Shard if you have a spare copy of one of your rings and overcap Bleed res with augments by 30%. Use a couple of Wraith’s Scream augments for this fight if you want it to go faster.
Callagadra needs careful repositioning and sharp Sunder dodging.

Stats

General (with Charriot, Soul Harvest and Abomination up)

Phantasmal Blades damage (with Soul Harvest and Abomination up)

Videos

1.2.1.6 Ravager 48 seconds kill with OA augments

1.2.1.6 SR 30-31 3:44 lucky run (short rooms)

1.2.1.6 Callagadra 54 seconds kill with OA augments

1.2.1.6 Crucible Gladiator 150-170 “naked” extra spawn 4:30 run

1.2.1.6 SR 36 3:44 run (one death)

In Conclusion

Dark ages for all the (Chthonian) demons have began.

Credit for Doom themed gif ideas goes to @romanN1

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when is new patch live for us mere mortal saviors of Cairn?

soon, playtest just ended Thank you for participating in the v1.2.1.6 playtest

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We are live and this Demonslayer beast is officially online.

Enjoy slaying demons, everybody, their doom is near.

Is it not worth dropping a single point into Dread (Bone Harvest) for the range at least?

Not really, we are only using BH once in 8 seconds so we can live with normal range and every skill point counts here. As you can see I couldn’t soft cap Anatomy and found just two points for Phantasmal Armor.

What can we use instead of cursbearer?

Anything that covers your res and gives damage and some skill points ideally. Deathlord is not bad in that regard, so is Voidheart.

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Are we using Spellbreaker for the conversion?sorry for the noob question !

+1 nb and 2 nether blade for maxing out the skill
the conversion doesn’t affect anything used, (hence it being safe to slot an item that converts away from the main dmg type in this case)

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That’s the answer! This belt just fits so nicely here. And we really need points in NB more than we do in the supporting mastery on a Demonslayer.