Here’s a list of the skills used in the build and why there going to be used in the build and how much points they should have.
Demolitionist
- [li]Flashbang[/li]Recommended Rank: 11
Flashbang is a really nice skill. Aside from the Defensive Ability Debuff, it also has a chance to confuse enemies, which is useful since we don’t have any other form of CC other than Vindictive Flame (which only has a 33% chance to stun on hit BTW). Leveling this is necessary, especially for the large AOE it has.
[li]Flame Touched[/li]Recommended Rank: Maxed
Flame Touched is nice because of the lightning damage and offensive ability. It’s highly recommended to max this, but you will be leveling this in-between high priority skills.
[li]Temper[/li]Recommended Rank: 1
You’d be surprised how useful Temper is even with a few points. Unfortunately, we can’t really invest too much into this due to higher priority skills, but as I said, you’d be surprised how useful one point is, especially with gear.
[li]Vindictive Flame[/li]Recommended Rank: At least 14
Total Speed, retaliation-like proc, and health regen. This skill has a lot going on. Try getting this over Rank 16 to fight the degeneration of Hungering Void. This helps out early game because of being able to get around areas quickly, which makes questing faster, which makes gaining exp faster.
[li]Blast Shield[/li]Recommended Rank: Maxed
This skill is so good, that’s it’s practically a necessity in any build with Demos. Get this maxed.
[li]Thermite Mine[/li]Recommended Rank: 11
This skill will always be useful to you because of the fact that it should be near you when used. A maxed out Arcane Mine, maxed out Raging Tempest, and a rank 12 Thermite Mine can give you -120% lightning resistance, so leave Thermite Mine at rank 12 so that you can prioritize other useful skills and modifiers.
Shaman
- [li]Primal Strike[/li]Recommended Rank: Maxed
This is our main damage dealer, so it’s a no-brainer that this is being maxed. Make sure you also have the Thunderous Strike Transmutor to spam Primal Strike.
[li]Torrent[/li]Recommended Rank: Maxed
You get a free chain lightning everytime you whip out a Primal Strike. This is the first skill you max out (followed by Primal Strike) as you level because you get fairly decent damage and AOE in the early game without additional energy costs.
[li]Storm Surge[/li]Recommended Rank: At least 1
This helps improve your damage output, but then again, so do elemental debuffs. Just put a point on this and let bonus skill points do the rest.
[li]Wendigo Totem[/li]Recommended Rank: Maxed
While This skill is obviously counter-thematic to the build. There is no doubt that this is the Shaman’s best melee sustainability skill in the game. When you max this and get bonus skill points from gear, the waves can heal you for a total of about 10% of your health! Max this by Act 3 in the first difficulty. The damage increase between Act 2 and Act 3 (when playing Veteran) is whack.
[li]Blood Pact[/li]Recommended Rank: 1
Helps out with your sustainability via more lifesteal. It’s kinda weird though how there is always some kind of delay before the buff activates.
[li]Wind Devil[/li]Recommended Rank: 1
This is guy is meant to be our debuffer. Just make sure you have pet attack in your skill bar to make the thing attack your target as it wanders off sometimes.
[li]Raging Tempest[/li]Recommended Rank: Maxed
This must be maxed out to get the most out of our debuffs.
[li]Stormcaller’s Pact[/li]Recommended Rank: Maxed
Get this maxed. The random boost damage is fairly good, but rank 20 gives you additional 62% Critical Damage. When added with Falcon, you’ll get 70% Critical Damage and Kraken will then boost it up to 85%, giving you the most out of your crits.
[li]Mogdrogen’s Pact[/li]Recommended Rank: 1
This adds not only health regen, but energy regen as well, but one point is needed because end-game gear can get you +3 skill points to shaman and you already have vindictive flame giving you so much sustain.
[li]Heart of the Wild[/li]Recommended Rank: 7
Adds HP to the elementalist, Going above Rank 10 is a waste of skill points as the bonus HP scales poorly after rank 10.
[li]Oak Skin[/li]Recommended Rank: at least 1
Only put a point or two to cap your pierce resistance to 80%.
[li]Brute Force[/li]Recommended Rank: At least 1
The flat lightning damage scales fairly well; however, due to higher priority skills, this is where you will dump the very few remainders of your skill points.