Hello,
I want to make a cenobite sword & board melee build. Playing on hardcore.
Any suggestions for the second mastery and skills , besides the soldier mastery ? By suggestions I mean builds you have played or you saw other people playing with succes?
Thanks.
Defense works if you want to really double down on the shield stuff.
Thanks,
I chose Mercenary as the other soul, it also has some shield related skills.
I don’t have enough experience with Mercenary with the shield stuff to know how well it works out for that, but I certainly know that offensively at least it is quite potent!
Go with the Dream mastery is you want to double-down on lightning damage (Dream has a skill which converts 100% physical damage to lightning at 3/3, so roughly 8 points into the mastery). It also has a ranged semi-AOE skill which fully specializes in physical damage (and thus is affected by the damage conversion skills) which acts as an early nuke.
Dream also has a teleport attack at higher levels and its various auras are nothing to sniff at, especially the health/focus regen one which is a good investment if you’re not looking to spec in the Heal spell.
Well, I am on elite now ( Homestead area), lvl 53 mercenary+cenobite = Holy Ghost ( physical dmg) and it’s OP. ( 1.9 k OA fully buffed at this lvl :rolleyes: cause I went for the holly ghost exclusive skill instead of the defense exclusive skill). I only use one attack - Breaking blow ( no transmuter) from mercenary and for AoE I have Sword and Shield combo,- procs pretty often and I bound Blind Fury to Breaking Blow. Considering the OA I have, Blind Fury also procs very often… Melts lvl 58 mob packs/lvl 60 bosses so fast. I already have some attack dmg converted to health and I want to use Haunted steel later on my weapon to increase survivability.
Let’s see how it works out on Ultimate.