Hello, wonderful people!
After the patch Leviathan seems more attractive than ever with fresh 50% cold to physical conversion.
And after all it’s a Blademaster weapon, so I decided to make use of it with Blademaster.
Meet the Bass Unit.
Clears Crucible in 8 minutes under Vanguard banner.
This build shares the thread with Tactician, Commando, Death Knight and Witchblade subvariations.
Build is self-explanatory: Leviathan, Cadence, Warborn, Peerless Eye of Beronath. Straight and simple.
Skill tree includes Blitz, transmuted Blade Arc and Ring of Steel as easy AOE nukes.
I went Empyrion devotion route because damage-wise it’s same as Oleron’s, but the safety is much better. Also Harp solves all common problems of such energy hungry builds.
Build’s defenses include nice amount of health and DA, 3900 Armor and 29% permanent phys resistance, 27% permanent dodge raising to 87% when boots proc is active, RoS for fumble, Will of Menhir, Ghoul and Prismatic Diamond. It’s really hard to kill.
This build includes craftable items with armor bonus (Warborn Visor, Mark of Kalastor and Windshear Greaves). Always try to craft items with armor.
Devotion route
Bull, Assassin’s Blade, Eel, Toad, Hawk, Kraken
Harp, Solemn Watcher, Sailor’s Guide, Empyrion
Ghoul, Obelisk of Menhir.
After completing Bull you must remove the Primordial node from crossroads at the spirit guide.
Also you can take Ghoul earlier if you feel unsafe; in this case don’t forget to remove the Chaos node from crossroads once Kraken is completed.
After completing Bull you must remove the Primordial node from crossroads at the spirit guide.
Gameplay
Aggressive melee combat.
Aleksander, Theodin and Anasteria are easily facerolled with Aetherward Oil. I think I’ll include this advice in every build. Aetherward Oil is just so good in dealing with hard aetherial hitters fast.
Max crit landed in Crucible (solo, Crucible buffs, Vanguard banner)
This setup is so versatile, it can be used with any mastery instead of Nightblade. I think Commando is near perfect choice too. But today I’ll try it with Death Knight.
Indeed.
This particular build is kinda special: it is well rounded to not need any additional support or resistances from other classes, so anyone using this build can take WB, Commando, DK, even battlemage and play with comfort.
Taking WB or DK will make it perform even faster.
DK should get Spectral Binding + Spectral Wrath maxed, Mark of Torment, Soul Harvest and maybe Reaping Strike. That’s it, DK needs no more.
Grimtools is offline for a while, so I can’t provide gt link for DK right now
As you invested in cunning, I would dump more points on Anatomy of murder for more dmg, OA and faster killing against bunch of human heroes/bosses. From 2 to 6/12, its 15% more bonus dmg against humans and 60 more cunning.
I tried the build without circle of slaughter and FYI it works just fine (with the additional benefit of having less keys to press) Managed to get a 7:15 run in without crappy mutators (no toughened/armored/shattered). The other runs were 7:40-8mins+ (cause of said crappy mutators).
Yes, it may be fine btw. When I went killing Ravager with different builds, Nightblade based ones live best namely because Circle of Slaughter.
0%, 30% and 40% chance to fumble are different levels of survivability.
I won’t drop CoS because I clearly know how good it is
Redundant for pilot like you. Otherwise it’s more safe. Depending on luck it can completely disable 1 of 4 nemeses in melee combat with guarantee. Safer gameplay for relatively low price
Managed to get a 7:15 run in without crappy mutators (no toughened/armored/shattered). The other runs were 7:40-8mins+ (cause of said crappy mutators).