My build came into existence from necessity. I was trying to build towards The Lost Souls Cabalist, but the game refuses to drop the plans for this set. I used the random pieces of gear I’ve got to make my build as I saw an opportunity to make a Vitality/Bleed pet build instead.
It turns out that my new build can easily handle all the content I’ve encountered in Ultimate, SRs, and the Crucible. I’m enjoying playing my build so much, I may not even go to the Lost Souls set if I ever manage to get the entire set.
Indirect nerfs from total speed nerfs (since familiar uses cast speed for its basic attacks which are actually spells) and also indirect flat damage nerfs on various sources (both items and devotions).
Survivability is fine for all pets right now. Pets in general are doing better than they do on live, the nerfs are compared to how they used to perform in the previous Public Test patch.
Would be curious to know how this build would get leveled effectively – especially the part about getting Mogdrogen’s Mantle without being fully decked out yet.
Changes - removed budget pet builds due to not being able to update them to satisfaction.
What does that mean exactly? simple - you are better off just using any random pet item you come across and just go straight to farming for the endgame setup rather than try to make a “stepping stone” in between the two.
Farming SR can be done reliably with just faction items and random rare drops. Worst case scenario, monster totems provide a decent amount of loot and now nemesis farming is easier than before since they come to you.
For anyone who wants something strong on a “budget” I rather redirect you to this one - Nocturne – Lazy, Budget, Player scaled Pets Conjurer, It is not exactly a proper pet build, so I chose not to blatantly copy paste it as my budget pet build recommendation
It is rather hard to keep Blightfiends alive vs superbosses and such compared to the likes of Briarthorn, especially if using Ghol set since it is more damage focused than defensive set. I don’t like that
Just dont let em shower for a few months,the stench will not only be their offensive tool but also act as a protective field around them,the main weakness a super boss has,is their large nostrils
It’s because you guys are living in the SR100+ world. 99% players don’t even reach 75, and many don’t do crucible and SR at all.
I’m yet to see my skellies, let alone blight fiends die in SR60-65, not to mention MC.
Even HC Calla never dropped my skelly count below 7-8 while getting evaporated, even before this ridiculous “balanced” Pet buff. Zantai and his bslance. The power creep is so real now it almost feels like D3 again.
Curious to see that in action if you have a video. If not, I would like to request a save file because in the current patch, it would be rather impressive to kill callagadra in ultimate without the skeleton count ever going below 7-8
First, great work with your pet builds. You have been continuously inspiring me to push further and further into the pet realm.
Second, As the saying goes “Fool me once - shame on me…”. I stopped sharing builds here about 5 years ago, after getting 3 of my top broken performers nerfed to the ground. Sharing only within our small HC community ever since.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to share with you and everyone else but not before Zantai stops nerfing stuff. And since, long time ago, he promised to keep normalizing builds indefinitely, I promised not to share builds. Curiously, not a single one of my ‘broken’ synergies had been nerfed ever since and most of my top builds have only gotten stronger.
Maybe some day, when the devs finally decide to move on to a new game, and stop balancing things…
Power creep plagues games with continuous increase in stats, damage, over time. Look at games like D3, PoE, their stats at release vs now. That is powercreep. And rebalancing a product for 10 years, instead of making two new and better ones, while still not achiving any balance, is what?
But I digress, as am quite happy with the current state of events. The bat keeps swinging while we keep playing ‘broken’ builds. Pets are super strong right now, my cabalists, ritualists and conjureres all benefit greatly from this patch. It feels like the retal era all over again.
Zantai and his bslance. The power creep is so real now it almost feels like D3 again.
