Build Summary
Nightblade + Rogue
Strikes down hordes of monsters with calculated strikes and a shadow army.
Rule Caird from within the shadows with this +100% and over cunning build and 9 shadow friends.
Can do super bosses, D3 bosses, SR, high Zeke levels potionless.
I don’t do anything but Arkovia undercity on Zeke
Pros:
- easy to execute with only a few buttons
- can do all content
- no energy/healing issues
- still room to grow with affixed weapons and items
- never alone
Cons:
- performance without affixed gear is undetermined
- melee
Leveling
Do your favorite Nightblade leveling. Cold variant with Chilstrifes or even pierce with Dermapteran slicers + calculated strike both work.
Once you are are lvl 50 you can shop for Living Shadow devotion at the summoned merchants.
Build
Focused on pierce and bleeding damage, summoned Living shadows offer a decent amount of sustain. If that is ever not enough we have two heals at our disposal.
Easy to use: shadow strike to close down distance, throw Flash powder to apply RR, finish off the enemy with a series of calculated strikes.
Over 60% physical resistance and dodge and deflect. Lowest of the other resistance is Vitality with 36 overcap.
Note: this will vary depending if you have affixed gear.
Items:
Mythical claw of Bailu: it has a strong proc which lets us get to 100% weapon pool skill usage, which means Calculated strike is triggered every 2nd attack
Mythical Feater of Zhugue: Slow resistance is nice and set bonus gives us +1 skill to all skills
Mythical sharp edge grip: the insane proc makes it an instant pick
Andariels Visage: +2 to all skills and good stats, no way to pass this up
Funk Threads: +1 to all skills, no way to pass this up
Chains of Honor: +1 to all skills and good stats, no way to pass this up
Divine blessing of the Gods: +1 to all skills and rolled total speed. Proc is conflicting with serenity a bit
Divine Boudica’s ring: supports what we are doing and has an RR proc
Divine Mark of Ares: supports what we are doing and was the only ring with % cunning I had
Mythical Blade breaker sash: has stats we want, no belt was supporting +1 Rogue and had pierce damage
Mythical Direwolf crest: pierce damage and proc lets us reach 100% weapon pool skills
Really Great Pants: gives us spirit to wear gear, and we get to double all that cunning
Serenity: +1 to all skills and can roll %cunning
Slightly over 100% weapon pool chance, at 109. Effectively our RR weapon skill is at 26%.5
Devotions:
optimized for % cunning
Lion, Assassin’s Blade, Assassin, Blades of Nadaan, Sailor’s Guide, Empty Throne, Harvestman’s Scythe, jackal, phys res node on Lotus, % cunning node on Vulture
Skill Assignment:
Assassin: Flash Powder
Unknown Soldier: Calculated Strike
Azraka: Python’s Bite
Assassin’s Blade: Blade Spirits
(last 2 can be swapped)
Cunning bonuses:
Nightblade: 35
Rogue: 34
Devotion: 14
Serenity: 4
Belt comp - Chthonic shard: 8
Shrewd ring affix: 10%
Total 105%
Gear and Skill Alternatives
- Instead of Whirling Death in Nightblade, any of the other 3 weapon pool skills and can be taken. Also leave it at 23% proc to increase the likelyhood of Pytho’s bite to trigger by 0.5%
- Any ring can be chosen instead of Makr of Ares, either to cover resistance or reach +100% cunning. This is the only one I had with such a bonus. Ideally you will have GD’s Bladetwister Signet with % cunning affix
Links And SuperBoss stuff
Build: https://imgur.com/a/7lElIM1
All content done potionless.
sub 10s dummy kill
Modgrogen, Ravager, Crate, Calagadra, D3 bosses, SR 100
2 min Ravager of souls kill through his 100% fumble
Tyrael killed at SR 87
under 1 min Callagadra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjFywx9EOs0
about 3 min SR 80 with Oleron Buff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4dDrvX3Qnc
Fought 5 Tyraels at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbEBN8a-N4E
done SR 90. SR 100 possible, but have to avoid some D3 bosses and approach with caution.
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