Hybrid Fire Opressor
This is my first try to make a hybrid build. I saw some potencial in fire Siphon Souls, due to RR from Compelled Wraith and Blazehearth. It is not good enought to make a character with hight damage, but grants a very efficient way to heal and make the character survive. Most damage comes from skeletons, followed by sundered whraiths. It is strong enough to finish SR 80 within time, but struggles to fast advance beyond this point. Leeching mutator in enemies like Fabius are a real chalenge to this build.
1-Skills
1.1-Active: Siphon Souls, Raise Skeletons, Reap Spirit, Summon Guardian of Empyrion, Ishtak’s Mercy
1.2-Passive/Toggle: Spectral Binding, Master of Death, Presence of Virtue, Resilience, Burning Weapons (2X), Fiendmaster, Mogdrogen’s Ardor
2-Equipment:
2.1-Essencial
-Compelled Whraith: not a pet item, but grants 20% fire RR to Siphon Souls and can receive pet bonuses from affixes.
-Blazehearth: another non pet item that grants fire RR to Siphon Souls (15%) and bonus to all necromancer and oathkeeper skills. Also converts Siphon Souls damage to fire/burn.
-Conduit of undying whispers: converts skeleton’s damage to fire.
-Ascendant Cow: the best choice for fast summoning here.
2.2-Other choices
Tryed to increase skill levels and keep character fire damage the higher possible. A cabalist with Korvaaks Burning Blade (to convert wraiths vitality damage to fire) and and Conduit of Eldritch Whispers (extra elemental RR to Curse of Frailty) seems viable, but adds another button to press and I wont try it.
3-Devotions Skills: Dryad’s Blessing (Siphon Souls), Healing Rain, Natures’s Guardians and Cleansing Waters (Reap Spirit).
4-Performance: heals really fast, especially against crowds of enemies. Uses few tonics of mending, requires very few buttons to be played, but the damage is not that high. Struggles especially against Fabius when Leeching mutator is active (this is the main reason I lose time bonus in Crucible). In SR, advance beyond shard 80 within time is very difficult, and Manifestations of Hunger take very long to kill. The fight itself is not hard, because they summon lots of weak enemies I can easily leech, but takes many minutes. Enemies that summon minions, like Zantarin, are the easiest, because I can leech their summonings. Not a top build, but I liked to play it and wanted to share.
