Build is mostly obsolete post patch.
I have a much better version now.
See my Spellbreaker guide in Sig.
Note that this build is still ok, my spellbreaker one is just much better now.
This is a 2h battlemage build based on the active skill Obsidian Tremor given by the item Obsidian Juggernaught. This build was also inspired by the kalimdor’s tempest guide by Most. As such it will also use Aggrivix’s malice proc and devastation on weapon swap with warpfire+aldanar’s manatee.
Obsidian Juggernaught’s skill is a long range piercing 3 projectile cast with a fairly wide radius that shotguns in close range (all 3 projectiles hit same target). This makes it ideal for triggering aggrivix malice’s along with other procs since it hits so many times per cast. We are also able to use the extremely op 2Hander only devotions from kraken. The problem is that the skill is split between physical/chaos, and chaos is a pretty terrible damage type due to many chthonic enemies having resists to it and also a general lack of -chaos resist debuffs. We fix this by converting nearly 100% chaos damage into aether using Clairvoyant’s chest+mantle, and Albrecht’s duality. We will also convert most of the physical part into elemental/aether/chaos to achieve a better unified spell damage attack.
Video: 6min Ultimate BoC run, hero clear
Shar’zul still hits a bit hard, if i wasn’t going for speed would probably wait for a 2nd mirror/devastation. My Char is bugged and is missing a devotion point, the last point would actually help quite a bit :[
Video: 10min Ultimate BoC run, full trash clear
Video: 25sec Ultimate Loghorrean kill
Gameplay:
Basically we blitz onto people’s face and shotgun them with obsidian tremor while procing a bunch of aggrivix’s malice flames to damage everything around you. Against harder enemies or huge packs, weapon swap to drop a devastation then swap back. meanwhile keeping up warcry/flash freeze spam to mitigate damage. Pop Mirror as ohshit button or if you know big damage will be incoming i.e. when tanking inside a devastation against a deathroom etc.
Can fight from range if enemy too strong.
Auras: Maiven’s sphere of protection, iskandra’s elemental exchange, counter strike (1 point here for aoe bleed to proc aggrivix), reckless power, Field of command, optional voidward aura
Without +skills
http://grimcalc.com/build/k6Shd1
Stat distribution is flexible, split between spirit/physique as you see fit. minimum physique requirement is around 550 to be able to use all the gear mentioned here.
Devotions:
See grim calc above, not much to say here, not surprisingly mostly defense/hp regen ones, offensive proc = Arcane bomb for resist debuffing. Pretty standard these days.
Gearing / components / augments:
Head: Maw of Despair, sanctified bone, 15 poision resist
chest: Clairvoyant’s Robe, Chains of oleron, 15 poison resist
shoulder: Clairvoyant’s Mantle, Silk swatch, 15 poison resist
Belt: Phantom-Thread Girdle, antivenom salve, 15 poison resist
pants: Wraithborne Legwraps, silk swatch, 15 poison resist
relic: Aggrivix’s Malice
weapon: Obsidian Juggernaught, imbued silver/wrathstone, outcast’s aether/chaos enchant
ring 1: Albrecht’s Duality, corpse dust, mogdrogen’s sancitity
ring 2: Band of eternal haunt, corpse dust, mogdrogen’s sanctity
neck: Peerless eye of beronath, focusing prism, mogdrogen’s sanctity
boots: golemborne greaves, mark of the traveler/mark of mogdrogen, 15 poison resist.
medal: Blackstar of Deceit, Attuned lodestone or Arcanespark
weapon swap OH: Aldanar’s manatee, silvercore bolts, outcast aether/chaos resist enchant
weapon swap MH: Warpfire, imbued silver, outcast aether/chaos resist enchant
Yes. This is a gear intensive build, and yes, my gear is 100% legit from farming+trading before you ask:)
However, most of this gear is optional, the only mandatory pieces are obsidian juggernaught and aggrivix’s malice. albrecht’s duality and clairvoyant robe+mantle are relatively mandatory but not absolutely.
Leveling Guide:
1-10: take arcanist, rush to trozans, and max it
10-30: level with trozans+psn nova from mark of dreeg and go 50/50 arcanist, 1 point in each of the trozan’s subskills, a few in innerfocus. 1 point in arcane will. 1 point in mental alacrity
30+: unspec trozan, switch to PRM line, max everything except only 1 point in supercharged. max reckless power + devastation when possible. afterwards go into soldier and get passives etc. level with PRM/devastation +use aethersteel bolt ability for ranged resist debuff nuke. do this until lvl 58 when you can switch to obsidian juggernaught.
In closing:
This build combines the strength of aggrivix’s malice proc with a strong multihit skill from item both to reliably proc it even on single targets as well as be a strong dps ability on its own - once we convert the terrible damage types to the ones we want. This allows maximum investment into passives to buff overall damage.
Devastation is a very strong anti boss skill, we circumvent inability to cast it on a 2H by weap swapping since it will persist even if you swap back immediately.
We stack multiple sources of -aether resist, as such to unify our damage into aether as much as possible with nearly 100% chaos damage conversion to aether.
but this might be the answer
