I got my spellbinder to 100 and I don’t understand this skill. I understand this is a pet ability but the damage is so bad, high cooldown and it is single target. It is almost never useful. I don’t have any modifier to that skill and my gear sucks (it’s the best I found during the campaign).
For comparaison, ravenous earth does more damage and has big AOE.
The pet is kinda good. It’s the only pet-bonus-scaled pet that’s invincible. You can have 3 to 5 of them, there are builds focusing on it.
“Summoning” the pet also does player-scaled damage, yes. Though you can bring the CD of the skill down to around 1s, I’ve never seen a build rly utilizing Reap Spirit as a direct dmg spell. Nor can I think of one.
Diviner?
set dedicated to RS even for the player dmg part
dedication, like most skills it becomes good better great with modifiers or “only” with modifiers.
Reap Spirit is a high dmg cd skill, or “nuke”, what is often done with high cd skills is lower the cd so the dps effectively increases massively.
For RS, just like doom bolt etc, you can get the cd down to under a second, so now suddenly it does like 1-200k+ dps
I could try to get the whole set but in the mean time, I can’t make this skill work at all. It is very weird if a skill requires specific items to do much.
example of an exchange in a build not using RS as main main but filler, where RS dps could massively get increased just changing a pair of gloves
*and that wasn’t even a hyper optimized version of RS either since it was focused on Devas and drain essence as filler mostly
this is normal in GD
also why i mentioned doom bolt, it kinda sucks without massive itemizations either increasing its dmg or reducing the CD drastically
RE without items is also kinda only fine for campaign/levelling, it quickly becomes more a dud if you have no of the RE items once dealing with endgame content
And some skills are just stronger early game/during levelling than others, this is also normal, and RE is just a better levelling skill than RS.
more RS optimized version of Diviner
*unsure if it’s the “best” best Reap Spirit version specifically, or if it’s best because of RS+devas/Diviner combo