The build I tested
Don’t use Seal of Shadows, because Rotgheist Sentinel isn’t sturdy enough to stay the ground and use spam skill
Go for converted Scales to have a good lifeleech
The damage rotation includes:
Converted Judgment
Dreeg’s eye on steroids
Fully converted second Vire’s nod
Devotions
Gameplay is very pleasant, feels like an acid/poison brother of Infernal Shieldbreaker, though not without problems:
Set starves on resists a lot as well as cc res (very important for DoT/kiting builds)
The damage is much lower then Infernal. The highest poison tic I saw is 200k with good mutators and w/o souls buff in SR
Heavily depends on Ascension as soon as all the c resists come from it.
No cast speed on the dedicated poison gloves
Solution:
Dreeg’s eye needs more steroids in general, not only in this set
The 3 pices bonus should buff poison damage as well
Interesting version with Dreeg Sword. I tried DEE build too, acid part of set is underwhelming though.
About gloves, for acid I usually settle for Dark One, cause of big OA and damage reduction to Pox, but dedicated acid gloves with cast speed is good proposal.
That part is a worrying trend in a lot of items/sets design that are supposed to be used by casters. Somehow Crate feels that caster’s sets that are not meant for spam casters don’t need casting speed. And some caster sets don’t even have energy regen (looking at you, Ulzuin).
Agree about DEE, it’s a below mediocre skill that requires a shit tonn of points. Compare it to BWC that needs twice as less and is infinitely better on all fronts.
Rotgheist is one of the worst purple sets in the game. Even with two greens it’s full of holes. Even with full physique dump da is tragic. No phys res. No nothing.
I tried a cd PS with Vire (on Nightbringer). It was a tragedy. Best not bother with such crap.
That’s not full conversion. Fire and elemental conversions don’t stack but go one after the other. Or did it change?
It sounds good, but in fact kind a useless bonus, since the build doesn’t facetank.
The problem, however, in CC res. The gameplay is very similar to IK shieldbreaker. IK doesn’t have CC res too, but has Aldanar for Ascension and Blastshield to fill up the gap
Bomb dee does in fact work just fine. Spam DEE still can use help
at home so i updated my old build a bit… probably would do something like this https://www.grimtools.com/calc/qNYodmeV I might even test it tomorrow since I havent played it in awhile
Just had an interesting thought that would help it a bit, maybe chaos to acid somewhere on the set similar to what dreeg set has?
Pretty sure Volcanic Stride damage doesn’t show on Vire’s Might’s damage breakdown. ya1 should be right then that there is still some Fire/Burn left on it as Elemental->Acid and Fire->Acid conversion don’t add together.
Took Seal of Shadow, the damage is obviously better, Bitting Blades have better damage output then Dreeg’s Eye
2600% acid and poison w/o Ascension, and still the build has the least DPS among all of my characters
Absolutely no CC res (except some stun) w/o Ascension while delay between each use is almost 10 sec that makes Rotgheist very vulnerable to CC effects
Acid items need some CC res and cast speed, obviously. And the set needs a bit of res and damage injection.