I have used it for pure chaos while testing a personal variation of [1.1.7.0] KaosKats (Updated 6.17 Cruci) - Taking pets to the Darkside
Also, personal Ghol variation using witching hour meme: The Lazy Hour - Pet Cabalist
It does fine. But when I say fine, I am not talking <6m Cruci fine, however. Question though is, whether I would consider taking it over weapon + Off-hand combo, to which the answer would be a “no” atm.
And that said, my main gripe with the item is its CD. Would certainly get more love from me if it was a toggle skill like Winter King’s.
A bit more regarding the weapon, (random fwuffy thoughts and stuff)
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I find Silverbolt more useful for Pet builds in general and get better performance using it. Though I wasn’t going for a Chaos Pet build with Silverbolt. And it was mostly that huge +3 to skills carrying it.
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I don’t like losing mana regen, CDR and 1 component for Witching hour.
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For Chaos Pets, A Salazar’s Harbinger is huge DPS boost while taking up only the weapon slot. Being an MI, you can also fish for affixes according to your needs and wants.
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Fiend’s Gaze provides free -%RR, player DA, Pet OA, extra conversion so that you don’t need to proc Voidwhisper bands to get full Phys > Chaos, etc on top of everything else an Off-hand provides.
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The Flat and %Dmg from Witching Hour is nice, but only available half the time due to CD. Assuming you don’t take Hourglass, which I personally don’t, whatever advantage it might have plummets quickly.
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Further commenting on the Flat dmg aspect of it, it saw most use combined with the number advantage of Skeletons. Being a passionate hater of the Boners, Fwuffy gives the weapon minus points for that.