Conjurer melee/pox bleed - will it work?

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hi friends, I’ve been playing around with the following build:
http://grimcalc.com/build/oivnXH

The idea is to cast bloody pox, curse of frailty and devouring swarm, then do some melee hits with savagery to get the buff and proc more bleeds from feral hunger and upheaval. Huntress and Oleron devotions add even more bleeds. There are various sources of OA and -DA to proc upheaval and Oleron.

Survivability comes from:
Blood of Dreeg
Wendigo Totem
Mogdrogen’s Pact
Wasting (on Bloody Pox)
Oleron proc

I have a few questions, if anyone can help:

  1. Will this work on ultimate? My main concerns are that it won’t survive in melee, and that the single-target damage won’t be great. I’m pretty new so there are probably more problems than that…
  2. Is stacking so much -bleed resist worthwhile?
  3. Where should I put the remaining points? And, can I get rid of any existing points?

I’ve also been thinking about an alternative without the melee, perhaps adding some pets. Is a hybrid pet/bleeding build possible gear-wise?

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  1. Only one each of -x% Resist reduction and flat (-x) reduction will be applied at any one time. If you have multiple sources then when the biggest one expires the next highest debuff will take effect, etc. until there are no more on your enemy.

I don’t know about the rest of your questions, but I was thinking of trying it out with soldier for Blade Arc for hand to hand bleeding and survivability. I can’t speak to the efficacy of either build in Ultimate.

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http://grimcalc.com/build/OIaKxF

The above build is what I’ve used for melee and it’s ultimate viable. Sometimes you might need to kite and sometimes casting bloody pox might not be a good idea (if you use fevered rage which I find critically important personally).

Stacking -resist is very important but thankfully devouring swarm is really good for that. I haven’t bothered with curse but feel free to use it. And to answer your last question, I’ve also thought about a pox pet build hybrid and I think it could work a lot better now thanks to the better aggro taunt system but I haven’t tried yet. GL

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Contrary to what DrThoss said, -x% stacks with other -x% sources.

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Thanks for the tips everyone! I’m currently thinking there aren’t enough points to go pox + melee, but melee conjurer might still be good just for the curse and maybe witchfire.