It’s been awhile since I’ve played and there have been a lot of changes to skills and devotion balance. I was curious if there are “must have” devotions for the majority of builds. Previously, everybody stacked Giant’s Blood and Wayward Soul, but they’ve since added a lot of additional resistances in other places.
Are there still some “must have” things to consider?
Thanks.
Depends on the build :p. For soldier based 3 points to Menhir’s Bastion and Tree of the Life, for the rest Giant + Charriot
Solemn Watcher.
I tend to favour Bard’s Harp on a lot of my builds as well.
It’s great for energy hungry builds and certain pet builds.
Probably Blizzard for Cold/Frostburn builds.
Time Dilation for builds chaining Mirror of Ereoctes/Mark of Torment or anything similar is a well-known one.
I’d say Ghoul is a godsend for any attacking character, the leech on it in is insane and it’s cheap being a T1 constellation.
Thanks for the posts, I was primarily thinking about defensive type devotions that the majority of builds rely on. Most of the offensive ones are self-explanatory/intuitive.
It sounds like Giant’s Blood/Chariot are still important.
Hawk can find a place in almost any build unless you’re going for multiple T3s. Sailor’s guide is also quite good as a defensive constellation.
Personally I never do this for melee builds (the only ones I consider worth investing so much in healing) and I consider that option deprecated. I find the path to Tree of Life cheaper and closer to the affinities I need and Healing Rain is so much better, with a much quicker recharge rate and a better proc chance.
Besides, the real reason I think we stacked Giant and Wayward Soul was because individually they suck.
How is the path to tree of life cheaper?
I don’t know about established meta, but for me the reliance on Behemoth and Chariot is all-time lowest. I never really liked Behemoth because besides proc and flat hp node the rest is fucking useless crap if you don’t go for exotic hp regen stacking builds. As for Chariot last time I weighted it’s OA bonuses against hawk + panther and understood that the latter aren’t far behind while giving me more devotion points that match my build better. Before that I considered Chariot a must have, but the reason was Chariot being an OA pill rather than defensive proc. 12%+1550 once in 18 seconds is pretty bad as far as healing comes, moreover you can’t time it. If you want a proper extra heal get Dryad instead.
EDIT: overall it highly depends on how the offensive part of the build goes. If it’s convenient I’ll get 3pt in behe but won’t go out of the way to make it happen.
I dont think I started a char that does not have Hawk in it during the last 1,5 years. Lots of OA and +crit is worth 3 points on nearly every build, plus it opens green pretty wide.
Yeah, I seem to always pick up hawk as well. Easy OA for little investment and is almost always necessary for other devotions as well.
For defensive constellations I’d recommend anything with movement or total speed in them. Given the array of enemy CC in the game being able to escape is quite important late game and especially so in Crucible.
Indeed - partly for this reason, many of my builds end up taking “Sailor’s Guide” - move speed, slow/freeze resist, physical resist and some cold and lightning resist…what’s not to like!
Move speed is also good just for getting around faster, and is helpful for nemesis runs in particular IMO
Tree of life for defence, hawk, Harp, mark of assassin for physical, sheper for pets, oleron still good imo.
Aeon’s (if you can afford it).
Besides, it also opens up spear of the heavens, and dying god. Both with phenomenal returns with 3 and 4 points respectively.
I have given up hawk to get that 3 point investment in spear. It’s better IMO.