Hey all, was wondering if anyone knows of a good leveling build for a Vindicator?, it’s for regular non-hardcore.
Been trying out a lvling specc which was recommended in a guide but it turned out to be REALLY slow and now after having tried out stormcaller’s pact i am confused as to what i should do as i don’t want to respecc too much due to the increasing cost X_X am thinking that Word of Pain might be the fastest way to get to 50, but unsure of devotions for that.
As a shaman primal strike leveling is best on the inquisitor side you can use word of pain and switch to runes. Your character feels really slow, because you have invested a ton into your mastery bar and nothing into damage skills. Bat is also a mediocre choice. We have plenty of aoe, don’t need sustain yet, and it doesn’t do much for single target damage. Swap bat and chariot to flame torrent+crown for a big early dps boost, can drop flame torrent later but it’s pretty damn powerful for aoe and single target
Drop pact and respec points out of mastery bar. Max out torrent, put as many points into primal strike as your energy can handle, use rover relic, ectoplasm, or arcane spark to deal with energy issues if it’s too much. Work on adding in wendigo totem, stormcallers, heart of the wild, and raging tempest after. I would ignore inquisitor for a long time unless you want to totally spec out of shaman pretty much and go for a totally different leveling style
Devouring swarm till level 25, then Primal Strike/Thunderous Strike till level 50 ish. Then respec into Savagery, craft Ulda’Jax crossbow at level 58, destroy everything with Savagery + WPS, have few points in Word of Renewal/Seal.
I just leveled one easily enough going the dual pistol route.
Start inquis, get to blasting round, get rank 6, go to chilling, rank 6, Storm Spread, rank 7* (Because extra projectile), max Aura of Conviction. At level 10 you should have grabbed Shaman and 1 point Savagery. Make sure your dual pistols are sorta up to date with max AS boost you can generally keep (Generally that is Of Alacrity suffix), and keep them with piercing aura items early (Vicious Spikes) before swapping to Hellcore Bolts much later on (Early on majority of damage output is piercing or elemental, and you can buff the flat piercing a lot easily, not so much the elemental). Relic progression should be Guile at 25, crafted into Deathchill at 35, and then craft an Eye of the Storm at 60. Odds are Eye of the Storm was your final relic anyway for any Vindicator build.
Just rush Elemental Storm devotion and then Widow and you’ll be fine, and can start working toward ultos and whatever else you might want after that.
Perhaps consider crafting double Arcanum Sigillus at 75 if you are so inclined.
For the build I am specifically going to be running this guy as, this also had only minimal respeccing needed, as I just had to respect the last 10 mastery points and the points out of Aura of Conviction into grabbing Stormcaller’s Pact once I hit 40 Shaman. DPS was fine enough to burst down any boss or encounter I came across within 3-10 seconds in most cases, shy of just bad luck on the WPS procs not triggering for an extended period.
Finished all of normal up till act 5 within 5 hours (with some dwadling around), am just about to finish elite just shy of 4 hours once I finish up the last bit of act 4, and then ult is there for the run and I’ll be 78-80ish for it.
The great thing about dual pistol vindicator leveling is because Vindicator innately has like +25% AS easily accessable (Storm Touched and Dual Pistols), and tons of flat damage scaling via the WPS and rank 16 Savagery, you can absolutely carve through everything with just self-found gear so long as you already have access to the needed relics and components for flat damage.