R.I.P. Silverbolt
Is a fire/chaos Hellhound focused build viable in 1.6.0? I feel like Hellhound summon limit increase needs to be somewhere else apart from the Lost Souls set.
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Correct, Lost Souls simply blocks too many slots and 2 Doggos arenāt enough to carry a build on their own. It feels like a slight nudge in the right direction and they will be there, but not quite at that point for now.
Maximum Hellhound - 26/22/22/22 Hellhound
This was the best way I could fully grab every overcap with Summon Hellhound - I had to pair it with something so I chose Shaman so I could get full Fire Hellhound + Full Lightning Primal Spirit. Seems like something that could be usable, though likely lacks the pet resistances to do anything spectacular. I just wanted to get something on paper to see how much fully maxed Hellhound can do by itself + Primal Spirit.
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does āscales with player bonusā pet benefit from flat dmg? such as
servant of Empyrion or blade spirit get flat dmg bonus from flame touched or iskandraās EE?
and here my theory craft buid: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/O2GOOb62
is it viable late game?
Curious to see how it performs if you are willing to test it 
Nope 
You need Will of Bysmiel > Manipulation + Hellhound to tank.
Inner focus, Arcane will, Nullification & Solaelās witchfire are waste of skill points on a Pet build.
Also, Seal of Blades component wonāt do much good.
And the Mirari series are official: Mirari - SilverCore Pets
Conjurer, Cabalist & Ritualist done 
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My old Conjurer wasnāt doing anything, so I respecced it to this build. Good news is: Hellhound surprised me with its damage. I assume it was his Ember Claw - I was seeing Crits for around 100K, which I definitely wasnāt expecting from the dog.
Bad news: bad energy regeneration, the equipment that gives points to Hellhound give little skillpoints everywhere else, little resists for the pets, and Iām too glassy to take Nemesis hits. Then again, Iām bad at the whole ādonāt get yourself killedā part of the game, but after Retaliation pets were no more, I have yet to find a pet Conjurer that was tanky enough to take hits for my liking. I donāt like the constantly moving and fearing the next hit would be my last.
Iāll try some other theorycrafting with the Lost Souls set and see if I canāt do anything thatās worth trying out.
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This should cover my Energy issues & pet Resists. I donāt think I can improve on the Devotion set-up, so I ditched the 2-Hander so I can get 2 Seals of Might and having the Dracarris weapon at least covers me for more Vitality Resistance and Physical Resistance. The only way I can get pet Vitality resistance close to 80% is by changing the suffix of the shoulders and replacing the components to cover my resistances, but I have enough pet Speed to offset losing the 16% by forgoing 2 Eldritch Mirrors.
Iām liking this set-up a lot better. Iāll report the results once I can stash together the pieces.
EDIT: 
I got up to Crucible 168 without the pets having any of the tribute buffs (the pets all died at Wave 160 :sad:) Not bad for a Conjurer with no pet sets. Iām going to make this its own build post, because itās really good.
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Sorry for spamming this thread, but I want to see how well this addition to the Silverbolt series goes:
Silverbolt series - pet Deceiver
Iāll give it a dry run once I can respec my old pet Deceiver, and then give it a second go when the next hotfix actually gives the Primal Instinct buff we were promised in 1.1.6.0. If the Primal critters are good enough to provide non-negligible damage, it may be similar to the Maximum Hellhound build above.
EDIT: Sadly, without having a lot of Physical Resist or Armor, Iām too much at the mercy of bar Mutators so that even 26/16 Raven and 26/16 Hellhound canāt save it. Hellhound still does great damage, but itās nowhere near as defensive as the Conjurer above, so I canāt take advantage of the buffed Hellhound + 22/12 Spirit and 100% Lightning to Fire conversion. Sad.
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Yeah, looking towards Primal Instinct buffs as well. Meanwhile I was actually thinking of updating my Scheherazade Pet Deceiver with Silverbolt 
Guide Updated with new GT links and the Reap Spirit Ritualist 
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Added a new meme build that doesnāt use any set items to the OP 
Wow, been playing for years and still see items and sets I have NEVER come across!
MENTAL NOTE TO SELF - Keep a sharp eye out for Diviner set - I do not have a single piece of that set yet.
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Check your blueprints. You can craft the helm.
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Yeah RNG. I have seen Divinity set only in GT for long periods of time. Together with Allagast are my least dropped set items. Itās only one of the few sets I have never used 
An attempt to make Black Scourge work for once
Iāve attempted to make a Chaos build that uses the Black Scourge critters ever since Chaos Reap Spirit was a thing. I really want that Fiendmaster Raiment to give skill points to something thatās not Siphon Souls; if it gave +3 to Reap Spirit, it would give me exactly what I need to make this build shine. Letās see how it performs and hopefully I can provide some convincing.
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Best of lucks.
But I donāt really have much hope for the pets from Black Scourge, or anything with āon Deathā proc on a pet build. Really wish 
would just change those.
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