In 1.1.9.0 patch Guthlot Belt will give %pierce damage and I decided test Rankor trickster (link to grimtools). This meme build definitely needs some love. I do this build crucible around 6:30 with bad succes rate (~3/5) and 65-66 SR with few death. In my opinion Rancor Trickster has a few problems:
Small damage and big manacost to the Devouring Swarm. When you full overcaped skill you don’t expect 115(275 with mods from Rancor and meadal) bleed/second. I think increasing the bleeding to 150 for a basic skill is justified. Also can reduce manacost to 80 for full overcap skills. Also conduit and Rancor have the same conversion to Devouring Swarm and Rancor can receive mod with flat pierce damage to Devouring Swarm.
Small OA (without Savagery/crucible buff). Most dots build have high OA for realization crit damage. I suggest adding mod which reduced DA for Devouring Swarm.
PB…PB is very bad on Rancor: requires a lot skillpoint and not dealing high damage. In my opinion pass through should be a mod for Rancor…or change PB parts to RoS. Video 6.35 crucible.
+1 from me. Devouring Swarm is mostly used as RR only (and one of the most unpleasant to use), not a damage source, so seeing current flat mods increased/some more damage added would be welcomed.
Also, PB with cd (like bleed ones) could use some love too as they have rather poor AoE for a nuke.
Weirdly enough I just started a meme build Trickster with Rancor as well. I’m not to level 94 yet so having actually gotten into it fully. I tend to do a lot of my gaming/builds around character driven stuff either of my own or inspired by other writings. This one was inspired by Senua.
This is my theorycraft https://www.grimtools.com/calc/mN4gvdyZ but as mentioned I haven’t even gotten to a place of testing it yet. Right now the two MIs and the Pants haven’t even chosen prefix/suffix as I want to still dig and see if things might fit better before pulling the trigger on these.
Thanks for the thoughts and if I get mine up and running I’ll come back here and offer mine.