So due to Crate made DarkBlaze set no longer the worst set in the game’s history I decided to check these horrible nerfs in practice.
Honestly, it’s impressive. New bonuses are real nice. We’ve got one more decent pistols build.
Fire strike - main damage source due to fire and lighting to chaos convention. Main skill and Brimstone have highest priority. Explosive strike doesn’t work with item modifiers.
Flame touched - flat chaos(converted), and OA, maxing. Temper is 1-point passive.
Blast shield - circuit breaker, helps much, maxing it.
Blackwater cocktail - flat resistances reduction(Agonizing flames), also cool devotion activator and enemy OA and physical damage debuff.
Use any AoE skill(Bloody Pox, DEE, BWC) for fast leveling.
For gear Bloodsworn Repeater with any good affixes is recommended.
Some nice helm, shoulders and chest can be bought from vendors. Also periodically check faction merchants for gear with good resistances.
I saw that one coming after they buffed the set. I would slightly disagree with skill allocation, imo, shave off ~5 points of Blood of Dreeg and two points of Blast shield and put points in Solael’s Witchfire Modifier for more Chaos damage and couple of points into Second Rite for some stackable DA shred.
Pardon me but please give me some of whatever you smoke
14/12 Blast Shield is at a breakpoint for max. resist bonus, and generally the higher flat absorb the better.
BoD is extreamly useful for this build (flat chaos damage and OA) and the last ultimate level gives around twice the bonus than the ones before it so it’s quite worth to max.
Consecrated Blade doesn’t give more (effective) chaos damage per point than BoD and it’s only affects one weapon since the other deals no physical damage.
Second Rite doesn’t provide any DA reduction, you must meant Vulnerability, but it’s not giving more effective OA than BoD.
I’m not saying that changing a few point’s would have a great effect on performance but the changes you suggested don’t seem to make too much sense to me.
Got Ghoulish hunger as extra circuit breaker (low physical resistance in the build)
Got Flame torrent proc - attached to Thermite mine : each mine can proc the effect indepedently + the proc is centered on the mine and not on the char (same concept as Blind Fury on Inquisitor seal)
Attached Chariot on Blast shield : I don’t like attaching those heal procs on an aura. They tend to activate off trash’s attacks and are thus on CD when you need them the most. So I like to attach them to circuit breakers.
