So, after the MI update I went to check out the new items that were added to the base game to see if some of them were interesting enough to make new builds. Two items intrigued me in particular, the Herald daggers and the Lucius greatsword, so I quickly tried to build a guy from scratch that could put these to use, but I kinda ran into a wall.
Blaze Herald: the Aether RR on Veil of Shadow was good and the idea of a part-Nightblade build with focus on Fire/Aether damage was intriguing. So I tried to make a few Spellbreakers out of it, but the results were… not great, to say the least. Relatively poor DPS, horrible survivability and crippled resists. Thing is, I love this weapon but I just haven’t been able to make one decent char with it.
Night Herald: I had already tried to create a build focusing on Cold/Vit damage without much success outside of a Phantasmal Blade spammer once, but this weapon brought me to give this setup another try.
Even here though, despite having more coverage item-wise for my damage type, all the chars I made had unimpressive damage, poor health, or were simply far outclassed by a similar build that didn’t use this dagger.
Storm Herald: I don’t have a clue on what build I should make out of it.
It looks like it could pair up well with the Aether Storm jewels but the conversion on Doom Bolt leaves me confused as to which classes this weapon is supposed to work with.
Lucius’s Blade Arm: it looks cool, has a massive bonus to Aether damage, the procs looks great and it seems to be practically made for a Battlemage (or a Death Knight, but I don’t have AoM sniffs). I haven’t been able to really put it to use though. My Lucius builds aren’t quite terrible like the Herald ones, but they’re still very average in terms of overall strength.
Can someone tell me if there’s a build that can put any of these to good use?