Hi, I’m Wizzzy, and will be starting up a “party” toon with some friends later. I was wondering if I could get some help making/finding a build that is 100% pure damage. No “focused” defensive stats besides augments and accessories. Mostly damage focused Devotions etc. We already have one guy who is going to be making a pure tank battlemage, and I got chosen to find a pure damage build, or just some other kind of nuker. Any and all help would be appreciated.
Sounds like fun 
you are going to hate the agro system though!! if you’re pumping all the deeps you will likely get agro a lot 
But, my 2 suggestions for you for crazy deeps that keep you at the back of the line.
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Vitality Phantasmal Blade caster (occultist and nightblade). Focus vitality and chaos. You will be chugging mana pots constantly, but the debuffs and the blades will rip through and keep you topped up with health. Can also max out chaos bolt with a no defensive build, massive spike damage every 5 seconds or so
This build is fairly independant of gear, so easy first class. ignore sheet dps, it is not a good indicator of this build. -
Albrechts Aether Ray + Devastation + Chaos bolt. Massively hard to gear, but can put out insane deeps when you have the gear. An alternative is to just stick to aether damage, and drop chaos bolt. Easier to gear, but still requires some damn good stuff before the insane deeps happen. AAR is single target only, so keep that in mind.
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bonus, there is a build that converts chaos to aether, varient of the Pblades, but you go arcanist + nightblade. Requires 2x hard to get rings to get the conversion. Then you focus aether and cold. There are changes to damage to Pblades in 1.0.0.8 patch so check to make sure they havent’ dropped cold damage as this cold make this build do less damage. This build doesn’t suffer from the mana issues of the vitality version though
What a great reply. Thanks for the quick response. I feel I should have also mentioned, we’re doing this on HC, so you know, go hard or go home. Also, it doesn’t have to be caster, if a ranged dps could somehow pump out more dps. We wouldn’t have to worry about dying super early as all 4 of us would be on discord and could effectively fight methodically.
ummmmm, on HC… you don’t want max deeps… you want balance
here is the stupid offensive version that WILL KILL YOU OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
http://grimcalc.com/build/1007-xkzQ6L
you also won’t have mana
unless you pump spirit something fierce
which helps you die more
gimme a sec I’ll do a build that is viable HC (I’m playing it now, it is great)
Here’s a viable version
http://grimcalc.com/build/1007-8dw9e3
No super nuke in the chaos bolt, but safety in health and fumble chance from ring of blades.
Still has huge consistent deeps
to solve mana you need to use ectoplasm, and the necklace prism for reduced energy cost.
you can also spend the spare devotion points to get owl (the purple one with - energy cost).
Stack “of vitality” on your gear except
Stack “of attack” on your jewelery and belt.
“resistant” thing of the above are good enough to get you into ultimate. trustme I was in ultimate with yellows…
I’ve ended up with the demonslayer set for this guy (sans 1 piece grrrr). the gun is a goto regardless ifyou want to use the whole set.
The bloodthirster set looks good, but don’t use it as it has no + mana… and that will be your biggest issue.
and what if I try to run an Aether ray focused build? maybe some Flash freeze for leveling or something
Flash freeze early levels are being nerfered in 1.0.0.8. But yes you can go that way.
Alternatively, get carried to level 15 so you can spec straight to aether ray.
Then level it up slowly and just enough to one hit mobs.
max out mental alacrity ASAP.
don’t touch fabric of reality unless at lvl 85 you find you have spare points.
beeline the Aether bomb constellation in the devotion tree (its a Blue one).
The second class is up to you, depending on how defensive etc you want to go. My 3 suggestions would be, soldier, shaman, or demolitionist.