No health whatsoever. I have golemborn, pretty great pants, lifegiver and all 3 accessory augments to Mogdrogens Sanctity to boost health, but it’s still utter crap.
Some resist gaps, especially poison.
No DA at all
No armor
Reading through the list one might think I do shitload of damage, but not at all. My almost maxed SS usually deals ~60-70k crits once a few seconds. My usual weapon swings hit for ~3-4k with 20k crits on execution. And I can’t withstand melee for long enough to utilize my aspd.
My current guess is that I need to change one to all of: boots, pants, ring(s), and also rework my devotions. But I don’t really have some crazy MIs to switch to. Also I’m thinking of go 50 Arcanist for Star Pact, but dunno where to get additional 30 points for that.
Any ideas what I might be aiming for?
Thanks
Few things to note easily enough. Full deathmarked is worse than 4 piece + a good Derm Slicer with the right rolls. Infact, most Blademasters nowadays have fully shifted away from Deathmarked set entirely. By using a different weapon setup, you could get +3 Nightblade from your helm + 2 weapons, on top of that +1 from your amulet you got, +1 from belt, and +1 from relic.
Also, spellbreakers in general are really bleh this patch. It isn’t one that favors them, due to the fact that they innately are so squishy.
I’m currently considering planning on experimenting with an Aether dual wield via double-Decree with iskandra set, utilizing my belt and relic to get +2 NB to help spec the NB skills needed.
I just need like 20 of the god damned Decree of Aldritch to deal with all the Decree builds I’m thinking about.
I worked a lot on DM Spellbreaker and their is few points i will enlight that you should know:
-To be strong enough this character is heavily dependant of well rolled MI’s.
-You can forgot Crucible, this version is viable only in vanilla game where it perform extremely well.
-With proper gear this is tier1 vanilla farmer build, you can kill every boss under 10sec (like madqueen, sharzul) and one shot near every elite in one SS and clear dummy in 29sec average, which is faster than BM for 1.0.0.7 as far as i know.
As Steelflame already mentioned it, DM set is no longer BiS for blademaster since Cadence buff.
Spellbreaker is probably the last mastery combo that can exploit the full potential of Deathmarked and the cold aspect of nightblade tree (SS, execution, lethal assault).
So basically you need to get that Star Pact and Leviathan Devo to enhance your cold aspect.
You should also invest 1 point in blade spirit and bind to blade of wrath devo, this should enhanced greatly your aoe and single target clear.
About Lethal assault vs Shard of Beronath+Elemental balance, both are good, Lethal assault provide a little more overall dps but its more energy consuming.
Sure about that? Mal’s Blade has Very Fast AS and it has base cold damage on top of which it has 25% piercing and has +2 to Execution. Seems pretty good for a DM set user.
So, basically, what you’re saying is that there’s no way to make it reliably good without MI, and I shouldn’t bother a lot about pierce and focus on cold? WHat’s the approximate distribution between pierce and cold dmg on your toon? I tried to keep the two close.
Also, all your DA and good chunk of health come from MIs, right?
And, finally, some of your resists look really scary, but seems like it doesn’t bother you at all. Do you die often?
Probably he want to say that Spelbreakers are last class combo with DM armor as meta.
I did something like 20-30 Lox runs and got 6 daggers so its something like 1 of 4-5.
Newer the less is slower than lox blade cuz its a sword, swords have lower base speed than daggers.
And lox dagger beats mals blade cuz base cold dmg, flat FB dmg and nice +crit multy.
@Drizto Its still bit slower on dummy than manticore BM setup just checked, average is 27-28 with living shadow and maxed cadence.
For a SS DM build, as far as i know, yes. its kinda trash with average gear.
You have to maximize both as high as you can, previous screenshot display my % cold/pierce & flat damage.
Correct, OA/DA are greatly boosted by MI’s.
About resist, bleed is near useless, because there is no direct damage done by it, only dots + only few mobs use this damage type, basically you will meet only fabius (or maiden but who farm maiden in vanilla ?o.o) who can do decent amount of bleed damage but he isnt a problem with my current setup.
About my low aether value its enough for what i’am doing with it right now, but if i want to farm Fall of Valbury i guess i will have to tweak it a bit. ;>
Do i die often? No. i could farm BoC/SoT/fabius/madqueen whole day without dying.
Exactly.
Whats your timer with real combat setup ? :x
I could go for a full dps setup, -3sec with 12/12 elemental balance, -1 or 2sec with manticore, -2sec with more oriented dps gear, its just an estimation but should be accurate enough, i assume i could kill a dummy in 23-25sec average.
you tried to fit so much legendary items on DM set which will hardly work, set doesnt offer great resist and life
try to find good mi’s, good raresviloth, gollus, crownley rings etc, get yourself farming route, id advice farming random places and bosses
all wps are fine when they reach %20 chance to activated, more points are cool but there are more valuable points to spend in spellbreaker, get them %20 and spend pts somewhere
you go SS spam build without starpact, seems weird to me… i would consider it as strong option
your devotion setup is way to greedy considering you dont have max resist all and low hp, i would def go abit defensive devotions till farm up good rares and max out resist and reach maybe +9k hp at least
if you go spellbreaker with dm set, its better to benefit from cold and frostborn as much as you can, again get star pact imo consider leviathan as an option for devotion and rhowans crown for flat resist reduction, also with nightembrace amulet skill you can freeze most bosses in game, another option to be consdieredtho peerless still so good
you OA and DA needs some more help, with all that juicy +crit will be wasted with 2300 oa tbh.
get some reputation up if all not maxed for augments, they make huge difference* you have 3 antivenom salve and still have 40 resist i assume you dont have all gg augments yet*
remove that coldstone on weapon, use aura component or lifleech haunted steel
farm some scraps and money, then craft boots and rings, would work
you can farm some sect pants, if you can handle guardians of 3 witchgod
put some points in circle of slaughter for fumble chance it works great as melee…
so much pts for OFF as melee spellbreaker… you could spend somewhere else
you already listed your weaknesses, maybe just up your resist with whatever you find, get some armor absorbempowered legplates of valor , shield wall devotion + targo, and some flat hp items , i would def step back from this full greedy devotion and itemization, and go safer route…
i suffered a lot as my melee spellbreakerit was my first char it was totally disaster till i realize how greedy i was
All WPS except for execution are 1 pointers boosted by +skills
3,12) Already respecced for Star Pact, got points from OFF, Nightfall and switching Deathmarked claw to Crescent Moon.
I see little to no possibility to combine Leviathan and defensive devotions, since all of them (except Behemoth that I have) require lots of Order+Primordial, which doesn’t intersect with Leviathan at all. I see no way really to find myself another 200 DA and 2k Health and have Leviathan/Unknown soldier at the same time.
That’s why I’m asking for options, except for double-rare MIs one may never see in a lifetime.
All rep maxed. It’s just none of the current gear has poison res, so I’m buffing it from -50. Most of armor augments gone to boost aether+chaos res.
8,11) Done already
9,10) Tried already, with little to no success. A few incorruptible rings with meh suffixes, and no good boots whatsoever. Spent like 15mil in total for all attempts.
Thanks
Basically I sacrificed few pts from war cry (5/12 now) maxed cadence (20/16), rest is putted in anatomy.
I use it to farm main campaign and only thing that I do change is component in weapon when going to PoV for maxing aether res.
Only thing that I dont like about it is mediocre DA, but having BoM is redeeming in that aspect.
You mind posting what your rares are exactly? You’ve got a nice notch up on me in both OA and DA. Your cold % is also much higher than mine despite almost the exact same setup lol
You mind posting what your rares are exactly? You’ve got a nice notch up on me in both OA and DA as well as a much higher cold % somehow despite almost the exact same setup
This is my Thread about Spellbreaker. I Explained everything here and it’s already on Build Compendium V.
It is Gladiator Crucible Solo Approved with many tips[in 1.0.0.6]. I solve many problems you have here in the link.
I use full of DM set and don’t need any MI and viable for most of the situation.
After I left this game about 4-5 months ago there’re someone who develop it to fit new patch. Now I’m back and able to answer all reason and what you may curious about.
You may ask me after read my build in the link by quoting this reply and ask anything, I’ll reply back to you soon.
PS. After 1.0.0.7, I change some skills(Like Night’s Chill decrease from 15 to 10, full shadow strike line etc.)
and these are my current performance about 60+k per shadow strike, 30+k per Oleron’s Might and maximum dmg record at 340k.
all resistance is cap at 80% except cold 88%, vitality 82%, aether 60% and chaos 77%
(Disable Time reduction of Stun 70%, Trap 24%, Petrify 30%, Freeze 45% )
consider leviathan as an option for devotion and rhowans crown for flat resist reduction, also with nightembrace amulet skill you can freeze most bosses in game, another option to be consdieredtho peerless still so good
