Not sure if someone else has already come up with this build idea, but this is my take on an acid radaggan cabalist. https://www.grimtools.com/calc/r2BnOnk2
As you can see in the GT, I tried to maximize DPS using a ptir-inspired method - fevered rage transmutor on pox.
Even with -25% monster DA with an additional -240 DA shred, crucible clear time is around 8min 15s. Furthermore, consistency is somewhat iffy. Playing buffed/bannered crucible with this spec felt like playing a really well built naked crucible toon.
Clear time goes up to about 9min 30s when you remove fevered rage, and go for more offensive devotions (i.e. OA + crit from ulzuin’s torch).
On paper, this seems like a really well designed set - pure acid sigils makes you a leechtank capable of tanking most nems while RE does damage.
However, several thing gimps the build:
Energy problems. Despite my GG rolled greens, I found myself struggling a little to sustain my skills.
The entire set gives you an OA ‘I-shit-you-not’ total of…4% OA + 30 OA.
And guess what? It gives you 0 DA.
This problem is made worse because not many non-green acid rings give OA/DA. Heck, there aren’t that many good acid rings to begin with.
With the exception of a small handful, no acid based weapons or gloves give casting speed. Which in term means this piano build is rather handicapped (i.e. sigil’s CD is 1s, RE is about 1.5s)
Inadequate ‘+1 to all skills.’
For starters, we have no good necromancer belts. Seriously. Bypassing pet builds, I have never seen a build using a necro belt with +1 to all skills to it. To put it into perspective, I believe there are only 3 belts with +1 to all skills to necromancer: Lunal’valgoth’s, shadowfiend, spiritseeker.
Compare this to the OK which has 5 belts. On a tangential note, I find it weird that the pack of deadly means (which belongs to NIDALLA) has +1 to all skills in OK.
In fact, I believe that it’s the only acid belt with a +1 to all skills in a mastery.
No good acid relic with relevant +1 to all skills. Again, the only one worth its salt is eldritch ruminatons. I mean…has there ever been a build which uses the occultist’s acid relic?
Lastly, acid based devotions also don’t really give much by way of DA. So…yeah.
I tried it too before, Sigils+RE. But RE sucks as acid for some reason. Sigils do 0 damage. Idk if it can be good. RR and both main and off hand free is good start, but set is lacking for both damage and stats
I used the shoulders on my PB build. Also option for ABB WH instead of Zantarin shoulders of Kings. But I am talking about full set. I saw ranged builds in the past. Acid Deciever and maybe is possible vitality Apostate. But as caster, I am not sure. Probably is being used, but long time ago and certainly haven’t see in FG anything other than these shoulders.
Just wanted to mention Safarel’s build, as it is the best radaggan build I know of, even though the fire to acid conversion on sigil messes with it big time.
Especially acid side of the set seems really weak.
9:30 w/o rage sounds like Spellscourge level of fail. You are making me want to retest it.
Sigil can have 822 Flat damage total and 5x of them can be stacked for 4.4K flat in 6m. In theory mobs a least should die pretty fast. Not counting RE support
Problem is needing to stack them. And you can only have 4 sigils up, because by the time the 5th sigil actually starts dealing damage, the first one has disappeared.
So when attacking a nem, it takes at least 4 seconds to hit peak DPS. And this also assumes that the nem doesn’t move away from its original spot.
The thing is that i did it in 9:30 min back in AoM with my default +2 min lag and minimal RE support.
You can keep 5 sigils up with an ascendant source, which is how I made my GT.
I’d really like to test this build. I made a feedback thread about radaggan in testing back a few patches and after everyone chimed in with an opinion, a conclusion was reached that it needs it’s own identity and not be Vit Sigil like Valguur but acid, provided that Necro gets Acid RR. And this is the result.
Sure, the problem may very well be how I’m piloting it. Here’s the character folder to save you some time.
(P.S. it’s named as such because of how RE looks) _The Nefarious Nipple.zip (633.2 KB)
