Choose my chaos HC character (poll)

Bananow9393 · May 21, 2021, 4:46am

2H Witchblade
AAR Warlock
DW Witchhunter
Caster Deciever
S&B Sentinel
Ranged Pyromancer

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Hello guys!

I’m sorry for weird poll but I come with kind request.

I need some motivation to keep my playtime on track. My real life got me and I don’t have a lot of time to play so I want to focus on one character and to do full HC playthrough from scratch after removing my all old save files.

This might take a while with only 2 - 4 hours playtime a week but main goal is to beat HC ultimate (with DLCs) but it will not be speed run in any means.

I chose chaos as damage type only because it is my favourite one I plan to start as soon as possible to focus on chaos damage and I will level the char as it is intended endgame build (so no forcewave levelling and such).
I also plan to start on veteran - I know it is not efficient but this time it is about journey

No other chars will be created until Ultimate Korvaak is conquered ! If (more probably when :p) char dies then I’ll start from begining.

Thank you Crate for creating the best game ever !
Ps. I might give myself waystones blueprints up to SR 50 as I don’t know if I can handle third climb and stay sane

Any vote and comment welcome

Cheers

Nery · May 21, 2021, 5:40am

Sigil of Consumption build for the win! That should be classified as caster, maybe Deceiver over Pyromancer, cause Inquisitor Seal will seal the deal for HC.

I personally wouldn’t want to level no-chaos RR either mastery build.

Bananow9393 · May 21, 2021, 6:19am

I did level few characters without RR in mastery and it wasn’t terrible. But that was on SC …

111197 · May 21, 2021, 1:47pm

Chaos AAR Warlock is a nice choice bcs of tankiness (damage absorb from sphere and occultist’s ultimate). Also he is suitable for HC thanks to great variety of faction items/blueprints as well as farmable ones (scepter that converts SoC to chaos etc)

Gnomish_Inquisition · May 21, 2021, 1:52pm

i selected 2h Chaos WB, hoping for something fun that turns out HC viable, that isn’t Obsidian Tremor spam - and wish you best of luck and godspeed on your adventure

Bananow9393 · May 21, 2021, 1:56pm

At first WB was my favourite of all of those because I love 2h but after some thinking I would love to try all of them on slow pace levelling.

The problem with 2H witchblade will be a weapon as first epic to get is lvl 50 tenebris (IIRC) so before that there will be just greens

fordprefect · May 21, 2021, 1:59pm

Most people voted DW Chaos Pyro and DW Rah’Zin WH for an HC toon? LoL they must be sabotaging you

Bananow9393 · May 21, 2021, 2:37pm

Hope so ! I’m curious how far I could get with those.

fordprefect · May 21, 2021, 3:00pm

You can tweak some defense with devotions but health bar will be the main problem since both reach barely 10k without some target MI’s. Both are too squishy for my taste though between both, WH might be better. https://www.grimtools.com/calc/62aR8xEV Here’s my theorycraft of WH, never tested it because it seemed too piano for a melee.

Archmagister · May 21, 2021, 4:39pm

is he a benchmark?

I love witchhunters, so I klicked witchhunter, but Pyro is cool too

Maska322 · May 21, 2021, 4:53pm

Of course S&B Sentinel because that means using obisdian shields!

Bananow9393 · May 21, 2021, 5:32pm

That’s just main goal… After I might try Crate

Bananow9393 · May 21, 2021, 5:33pm

I love obsidian shields and I never use any transmog on them ! There is also a chance to get then early in depraved sanctuary.

Foehammer · May 21, 2021, 10:25pm

DW Chaos Darkblaze Pyromancer all the way.

medea_fleecestealer · May 22, 2021, 8:23am

Looking like you might have to play two HC characters. Witch Hunter and Pyromancer neck and neck.

Bananow9393 · May 22, 2021, 11:59am

Not a problem for me maybe I will finish Two characters this year

Though I voted accidentally for Pyro so WH comes first in this case

Bananow9393 · May 23, 2021, 11:30am

I will have a chance to start this evening so I will close the poll in around 5 hours.

Bananow9393 · May 23, 2021, 6:21pm

Ok So known to be “tanky” DW Witchhunter won! I will start soon and post some screenshots with progress (or regress :p) after session.

Bananow9393 · May 24, 2021, 9:11am

So the beginning was not as bad as I thought it will be. Started as occultist and rushed for Solael’s Witchfire for damage and attack speed (and to start with Chaos damage as soon as possible).

At lvl 10 I went for Dual blades, belgo shears and pneumatic burst (all one pointers) and I will continue to progress through Occultist till Second Rite is maxed.

For devotion I rushed for flame torrent for AoE and I plan to get Eldritch Fire as soon as possible to get any RR.

Until lvl 20 I used double Slam ability as nice damage boost as it hits with both hands and having two of them is quite nice for kiting which I did quite a lot
Later I used one Riftstone and one Claw but I think I will change it for double Riftstone.

I am still waiting Tainted brain matter drop for Ruination relic.

Yesterday I reached lvl 21 just when I entered warden cellar. Then Of course I activated Ancient totem which spawned two aetherial amalgamations… after both of them hit me at the same time I decided to run away and finish for that night that was very close to death and I need to slow down and probably get appropriate components everywhere which I didn’t up to now because I thought I don’t need them yet.

For drops I think I got quite lucky as I have got both Madness and Voidblade from totems without much farming.

The char is a blast to play but I have to be more restraint!

Anyway here Is GT link
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/mN4OJOyZ

The beginning