I have a level 67 pure Occultist which by far has been my favorite class to play so far and it has worked really well on its own so far, but I want to give it a bit more flavor. my only three active damaging spells are DEE, Doom Bolt, and Sigil of Consumption. I’m using DEE because I have a total of 5 bonus skill levels above the max, so even though I dont see any builds that use it, i’m using it because it seems to work really well with the gear I tend to find. I’m trying to build my character as a caster type, and I’ve been looking into going Nightblade as my 2nd class and be a witch hunter, but I only see melee builds for it and no caster builds. So far on elite in the 2nd Act, I have mostly no trouble sitting in my Sigils, poisoning everything around me, and throwing devestating doom bolts at the tougher targets and bosses.
This is my build so far at level 67 http://grimcalc.com/build/1009-WVM5Um
I have a Spiritweaver Circlet so I have +1 to all occultist/arcanist skills.
Can anyone recommend me a 2nd class to work on as a caster, and maybe which skills I could take some skill points from to reallocate to it? Thanks in advance.
Pick nightblade second if you intend on mostly playing campaign with it. If you have interest in farming gladiator crucible then you go soldier, challenger is less rewarding but very doable with a geared up witch hunter. Soldier is all about defense for this build you just take all the nice passives. Nightblade offers a nice a nice mix of offense/defense through heals/dodge and debuffs/shadow strike poison mod. I would go nightblade since you’re a newer player and don’t have a ton of gear as it’s a top tier no gear character and great for farming campaign. Farming crucible is probably a long ways off for you
Shaman if you want some extra vitality damage and health. I think Devouring Swarm would make a good additional Poision/Vitality caster skill.
Nightblade if you want decent complementary stats. There are a few passives and skills that go with DEE caster, but mostly for the stats.
Or arcanist. You have the circlet so you can leverage the bonuses you already have. You can find a blackwood wand that gives the same bonus. Both have empowered versions.
If you want go to veteran and if you don’t mind repeating some content, run through the early areas and kill some bosses and open a few chests, up to level 35-40, about homestead, and you stand a good chance of finding a few items that are really good for what you are playing. The empowered ones might drop but It does not take long at high level to farm run the early content. And pay attention to items skills, several very good ones granted by components and items that work well with that.
