Moin everybody,
Recently I unlocked the Barrowholm Nemesis with my Chaos Witchblade, and the Reaper rendered her to pieces. I had absolutely no chance. Is Reaper that strong/difficult against chaos builds? Or is something wrong with my characters gear/devotion/skill setup? I thought I should have enough chaos RR for such cases as this. Below you will find the grimtools link:
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/Q2z7mqvV
Thanks in advance for any help!
Reaper has huge chaos res and is a very difficult nemesis that cannot be tanked for long before death because it builds savagery type charges boosting damage dealt.
Your build does has subpar stats, DA is low so reaper has crit chance against you. You did choose witchblade which is not ideal for the set you choose because physical damage from cadence is not converted to chaos very much. You need lvl 12 aspect of guardian also for more phys res.
I didn’t look at devotion but did notice you took abominable might buff which will do nothing if you face it alone. After ghoul and harbinger safety wear off you have to run away or you will die.
Reaper himself is pretty weak. The main issue with him is the ghosts he spawns, which shred your physical resistance to even under -50%. Those ghosts reduce also elemental, vitality resists and more.
Thank you for your answer!
To be honest, I didn’t build it from scratch with Harbinger Set in mind, I simply used a Witchblade build I had after I found the set. And I was quite suprised how well it deals with other content/other nemesis.
Is there a way to utilize cadence in this build better?
So I should somehow deal with the ghosts first, and use Abominable Might from their daeth against Reaper?
Those ghosts even shred you when they die, so it’s best to kill Reaper in less than 20 seconds (although, less than 10 seconds should be it, not kidding).
If you can’t shred him so fast, whenever he spawns those ghosts try to kite as much as possible till you kill them, then wait 5 seconds and go for Reaper again.
Thanks! I’ll try this approach!
Not sure I agree with that comment Reaper being weak. Most builds won’t have armor above 2.5k or so and the incoming damage will get pretty high the longer face tank continues.
In optimal situation the player will kill reaper within 7-8 seconds before the pets come into play.
As to the OP, I am not sure there is anything you can realistically do to convert more phys to chaos for cadence. There is a hand piece that converts but you then lose the harbinger set proc which is very powerful. I don’t know if it would be better damage taking the mythical voidsteel hands over the harbinger set proc. Witchblade is just not the best pick for the harbinger set is all.