yeah I just checked my mistake
Ok I redid my build http://www.grimtools.com/calc/vNQmYnN6
The health and energy are wrong, not sure why its showing that. But anyways where should I put my last 12 points in mastery.
Should I use it to increase the mastery bar of nightblade or put it in scars of battle ?.
Max Bulwark and Cadence. At least 1 point in Fighting Form, more points in Deadly Momentum.
Get points out of Menhir’s Will. It doesn’t need that much, 6-7 is sufficient.
Invest in Fighting Spirit for overall damage.
Take some points out of Field Command as well, take them to Squad Tactics.
Get Scars of Battle and Decorated Soldier to at least 8\8 each.
Take points out of Anatomy and get some Phantasmal Armor, probably 5-6 at least.
Wait first I will take away from devotion tempest (reckless tempest,) and put the points in tengos hammer. Talk about that first then back to mastery.
Okay, you said you wanted to be Fire-based, right? Many suggested Demo instead of Nightblade, I, of course, agree.
If you want, we can try to build some Physical Pierce Blademaster out of what you already have.
I want to try something that no one thought of doing, thats why I chose fire and lightning. But I am seeing I can only have one I chose fire, but still want to stick with nightblade and soldier.
I want to do something that people havent tried, thats the point of why I chose soldier and nightblade with fire and lightning. I dont want to copy other’s build, I want to do my own thing I know it will work.
I have 57% shield block chance tengos hammer goes when damage is blocked, so I will take away from reckless tempest and put the points in tengos hammer. I do damage and its physical and I still have meteor fire damage, I will change guile to a relic that does fire or physical damage, or get a relic that increases shield block to tengos hammer can go off more times.
My build can work I just need to find the gear.
I am going to go take a nap right now, will be back later.
Oh boy this will be fun. And by fun, I mean some HUGE pain in the ass. There is absolutely no synergy at all, at best it will be some converted damage from Cadence or Shar’Zul Fire Mace with Forcewave. Either way is somewhat highly inefficient.
See you later, I’ll think of something.
I’m wondering if he can actually do anything with the Justice set as he has it already :rolleyes:. Fire Forcewave/Blitz Blademaster? I don’t know.
I honestly don’t freaking know, my mind is a mess right now. Anyway, even if we, somehow, try to force fire upon this build it would still be some sort of physical\fire mixed thing, both of which would not reach high possibilities for obvious reasons.
Right now, I only figured the Nightblade would be used for pure support through Phantasm, Pneuma and Barrier.
Maybe if we hang up some procs on Soldier skills… I don’t know, this needs testing. Most of the fire damage actually would come only from conversion and devotions. This along is some bullshit.
I think you’ll find that this is nigh on impossible at this point until the expac hits. There’s only so many builds to be tried and only a fraction of those are viable to down rashalga.
Me, personally? I’ve killed her with 5 different characters: ranged, melee, pets, spellcaster, and a weird AAR/pet hybrid build. They all took different strategies and different amounts of time to kill her, but they all did it.
here’s a workable fire/burn blademaster: http://www.grimtools.com/calc/L2Jx4gZp
This is a pre-expansion build so it doesn’t use the skill points, stat points, and devotion points that are in the expansion. It’s based on converting all of blademaster’s natural cold/frostburn to fire/burn with Warpfires. Justicar set with 1800 armor, 100% armor absorption, 11.5k HP, and 2400 DA gives great survivability. It’s all about moving around constantly with blitz and shadow strike while hammering on enemies that survive the initial onslaught with Cadence hits between cooldowns. You definitely won’t be able to facetank the Mad Queen, but you can jump in and out of combat when she turns on her aura.
I don’t think it’s possible to invest significantly in shield skills without sacrificing fire damage considerably, so I think this is the only viable offensive approach. Going with the shield approach is possible, but if you decide to take the shield approach, you’ll just be a gimped physical blademaster with fire tacked on.
I beat her with my battlemage, and it was mostly easy, because of nullification and mirror of ereoctes, but what I don’t get about the mad queen, is that I see a lot of people saying for you to run away when she puts up her aura, because of the strong retaliation, but I watched a lot of YT videos from people killing her with melee builds, but they were facetanking and attacking her, while her aura was up, and their HP hardly moved at all.
How the hell are these people managing to attack her without getting their HP plummeting to 0??
I feel that there is a trick to this fight, but people don’t wanna say it, for whatever reason.
There are certain types of projectile that trigger her retaliation - which I believe is a per-projectile life reduction attack, Falcon for example. To be fair no one would put a video of them getting brutally raped by the Queen on Youtube, in these videos they probably had good timing and got a bit lucky.
With my physical Witchblade I always turn Falcon off when facing her, and I can only facetank her about 30% of the time, sometimes she could just oneshot me despite Menhir’s Will. May be I should turn off every AoE skills too like when I do Bourbon but I don’t care since I would just use a DoT build for reliable farming anyway.
Looks nice, but why didn’t you take Menhir’s Will as a circuit breaker? I also feel like taking Shadow Strike on top of Blitz is a waste, especially since SS uses damage we are not investing in.
The trick with Warpfires is nice, but you still will need more in Attack Speed. I thought about 2H approach with Shar’Zul mace and Forcewave for Cast Speed. It’s a little bit easier.
Also, disagree about the belt and some other pieces of equipment.
Menhir’s will doesn’t work with dual wielding. Blitz is just a 1-point wonder because of the Justicar bonus and it gives a reliable way to proc meteor shower. More movement options is never a bad thing. I don’t know what you mean about shadow strike damage being a type we aren’t investing in, it gives great weapon damage (allows us to stack huge burns), and all the base cold and frostburn is converted to fire.
Force wave would work decently, but OP wants a fire build, and force wave would be only half fire at best due to conversion limitations.
Attack speed is not a concern since the primary goal is to stack burns. Cadence is just there to fill time in between cooldowns. I did forget to toss a point into the pneumatic burst transmuter though.
I’m not in love with the relic or the belt, but nothing else really jumped out at me. Belgothian’s Carnage might be a better relic for cooldoen reduction and nightblade skill bonus though.
Ah, yes. But looks like OP wants a shield, so it’s still not an option here. In this case, we have to suffice with 1 Warpfire still.
…I don’t know why I thought that Warpfire converts physical damage to fire and not cold. In this case, yes, SS is a very good addition, my bad.
Yes, but what if we toss some good procs on it? In this case, Attack Speed is still a must. Since Forcewave offers Cast Speed, it’s easier to roll with it than Cadence. And anyway, as OP wants a shield, the whole point of conversion goes to shit with 1 Warpfire. We need to stack more conversion then.
Carnage is probably the best we can work with here.
I took away forcewave and ring of steel
I got blitz and I have points left, what do I use the remaining points on. I am going for physical and fire damage.
I took away reckless tempest and going to get tengo’s hammer, for more physical damage. And because I have 57% chance to block. is that good ?
Few changes - http://www.grimtools.com/calc/p25ekG25
OP
Build with your gear - http://www.grimtools.com/calc/vNQmvEN6
Build with somewhat good gear - http://www.grimtools.com/calc/8NKxqn2D
Yeah dot builds are kinda OP… for bossing. You can ignore most mechanics while kiting.
Not only bossing but pretty much everything, notably Crucible solo. Can’t wait to make a right proper Vitality decay Ritualist once the xpac hits 