[1.2.1.6] Unconventional Dual Wield Melee Aether Veilkeeper's Ritualist

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Intro!

This began as a full meme build. There are so many of these legendary Aether weapons that look interesting as they have built in Aether resist reduction, including the two I have in this build combined with the Conduit Savagery mod to convert fully into Aether. So much to my surprise when I fully equipped all the items I had prepped and the build felt good.

This used to be a vitality damage Soul lance gunner Ritualist that I fully neutered and rebuilt since that build was bricked beyond belief. Thank you Crate for tonics. So if you wanted to play dual wield Aether from the start, I have no clue how it would perform early on for levelling (probably terrible if I had to guess).

Therefore should probably preface that this is an endgame build only.

The Build

After I decided on the two weapons, Mythical Mindwarp and Edge of Sanity, my next step was rest of the gear slots. Obviously a Blademasters Talisman to enable dual wielding. Craft for %OA.

Step one was to convert Savagery into Aether. Amulet must be a Conduit of Wild Whispers with Savagery → Aether mod.

One of the biggest percs of Necromancer is the massive amount of flat Vitality and Cold damage you receive from Bone Harvest, and also Wendigo Totem from Shaman. So my second goal was to convert those into Aether.

Veilkeeper not only buffs Necromancer WPS, but also fully gives Cold → Aether conversions (need to high roll on conversions on a few though).

Chains of Ygraad gives conversions for Vitality → Aether around 50~%. Too bad it doesn’t give +1 to Necro or Shaman.

The remainder of Vitality damage converted comes from double Rings of Tawrot. Usually I’ve seen people run rings that provide respective -RR, however in this case I preferred double Tawrot to finish out full Vitality conversions, but also giving that last bump of attack speed to hit 200% cap, AND providing +4 total to Necrotic Edge.

And lastly, as these two masteries only provide two WPS skills, I had to slot in an Olerons Blood component on one of the two weapons. This total value to use WPS is 98%. Not capped out sadly, but close enough to where I think its fine.

Ingame Stats

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This is an ingame screenshot of Bone Harvest + Wendigo Totem, and 8/8 Savagery active, along with a few other full uptime buffs.

Bossing Performance

Ravager of Flesh → 58s Clear

Callagadra → 1:13s Clear (ignore the ending lol)

Authors Notes

There are room for improvement. Pants and belt can be changed for sure. However, I cannot be bothered to try farm for a perfectly rolled belt (or even anything with Aether damage…).

Best case scenario is probably to land on a belt with %OA and %Aether Damage, then swap out pants to something with better overall resists and Physical Res included too… it takes too long and I cannot care enough.

Even though I like the weapon for its general stats and proc, I have no clue how much value Mythical Mind Warp is providing here. When I looked it up and also asked around in the discord, I’ve got mixed answers in how resistance reduction stacking works. Saw a lot of answers saying it applies last, but also seen people say the order is unconfirmed. Because of that, I have 0 clue if this _% reduced resistances is even doing anything.

I don’t think I was able to find any dual wield aether ritualist build online, so this was fully home cooked. Other than better rolled greens, I would appreciate any feedback as well! Especially on that whole RR stacking thing…

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Interesting build

Are you using wind devils to proc anything?

What about seal of the void instead of olerons blood?

Is aetherfire from imp really proccing much due to bind on a WPS?

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The wind devils aren’t used for anything here, no. I had extra skill points so it was a why not type decision. I could spec into call of the grave for crit damage, but I’m unsure if thats even worth it. Can def move them around though.

My initial plan was to use Magelord rings to have elemental → Aether conversion, and seal of the void might have some decent value, but since I saw Olerons was fully physical (which should nearly fully convert to Aether due to my weapon choices), I figured it was a better pick, since in my current setup I don’t have fire or chaos conversions. That, and the OA is nice.

After you mentioned the aetherfire comment, I realized Widow proc is 24s long. I’m used to just tunnel vision slotting in -rr devotion procs onto the DAR without even thinking, but maybe there can be a use case of aetherfire on Savagery here… I’ll give it a test and see how it feels. I don’t play aether often, so I have no clue how much it can proc versus how much its proccing in my build.

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I’d something on Devils, maybe Aether Fire, they are a great proccer, far better than Execution I think

You can leave Bomb on Savagery because WPS gonna be too random imo + Bomb Activation time can take too long sometimes

Oh and btw really nice build :+1:

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That sounds much better than what I had initially. Will give that change a shot!

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damage reduct, and build has full conversion on Oleron vs void, so a Blood actually isnt’ bad here

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15% chance of 15% dr.
I’d rather take I’ll omen for that, even though casting it on a DW melee char kinda sucks.

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sure, but OP doesn’t have Omen here :wink:
and some DR is better than no dr, and with 5secs duration it should be plenty at 200 speed to keep some decent debuff overlap even if initial application might take a second or two

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yeah that is true.

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Any information about Crucible or shattered Realm perfomance? build looks like fun - hence why im asking :slight_smile:

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I don’t run crucible, so not sure.

I haven’t ran a speedrun SR30-31 with this build yet tbh, only have done 26 to get the skillpoints and left. It should have strong AoE since wps like necrotic edge clears out waves at a time

It will def clear in a decent time, once I’m free on the weekend I’ll look to record some gameplay of it

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Thanks :slight_smile: i’ll give it a try , if i dont forget about it maybe i can tell you what i was able to run in SR comfortable as farm and as push , once i got the gear. got the feeling the belt will be the worst part, good that i need to farm aether crystals anyway lol

Edit : did overread what you said about the weekend , dont sweat it :slight_smile: i’ll give it a try anyway :slight_smile: im off from work today and i basicly can start the character now and should be done by tonight/tomorrow early.

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But one question , i knew i had a Conduit in my Stash but that gives me Bonuses to Stormtotem , and i saw you use it for double conversion of ravager and upheavel , obviously a key item. Is it random what i get there? before i craft 20 Conduits now .

Edit : Nevermind i pressed 3 times on it and got it , %OA savagery and Chaos to upheavel , could be better but good enough for the start ^^

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Yes, I wrote that in this thread [1.1.9.5 - 1.2.1.6] Aegis Corruptible - Voidsoul Sentinel [sr+][vid] - #33 by GIJW

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oh sorry just took a quick look at your other build - my bad . but cant lie farming since 3 hours for krieg’s set , doesnt feel good lol

Edit : just a bit of whining and the gloves drop instantly. thats the spirit lol

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I would like to try out this build! Is it possible to make a save file available, @Kaine , good sir?

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btw just realized how do we procc upheavel ? since we scale it quite a lot , or is it just randomly on many items but unused? ( since its normally a 2h thingy )

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In what GT-link do you see a point spent in Upheaval?

This is the GT-link for the build in this thread

No upheaval

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Yo chill out man. I know there’s no skillpoint in it, i thought maybe i overlooked something in items or whatever to somehow procc upheavel since there’s quite a lot of scaling in upheavel in this buildf so i was just asking .

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You mean that the items used for this build gives lots of item skill modifiers to upheaval?

You must use a two-handed melee or ranged weapon, and use a default attack replacer for it to proc.

If you want a good read about upheaval mechnics. Read this Upheaval mechanics