[3.10] Gryph's Volatile Dead Necromancer || Fun, Medium Budget, Tanky, Millions of DPS

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Razzenit wrote:

Awesome build Gryph, pretty much decided to go all-in instead of following my alt-a-holic instinct.


What do you guys think I should upgrade next?

I know there are many options, just don't know which one would make sense first.
I'm at 4700 HP and 4700 ES at peak, chest is 5L, no AUL or Circle or Anguish, no watcher's eye, still on Martyr but it is 6L. Using offering chest + leash and aspect of the spider. Using mark for power charges but not sure it is needed. DPs on PoB per ball is getting close to 300K.

I have a budget of 11ex but I'm not sure how to best invest them.

All my deaths since I hit 96 have been pretty much to one shot but at 4700+ HP & Es I doubt I can be tankier (I need to increase chaos resists I know). I died repeatedly for example to Sirus slam while trapped on the 3-wall maze (AW6) and he just kept doing that on his last phase. Couldn't get the kill after I got him to the last 25% HP without any trouble (probably just my crappy chaos resists). Catarina also one-shot me which was really weird but I think she is also chaos heavy.

Would the ES on Hit watcher's eye really help me a lot? It would cost me all my currency. I saw I could save some skill points if I go for an Unnatural Instinct on the shadow area or the witch area but I'm not sure this'll help me either get more DPS to delete stuff faster or be tankier to survive some of those random one shots.

I think I'm stuck with the chest+belt and boots+ammy until I get Es on Hit elsewhere but I'm not sure if I should worry about that too much.

profile is public, MightyMorphinPowerBalls (only metamorph char)

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Nicol wrote:

So with the fix in the latest patch it’s just too tempting to not run awakened spell cascade.. only slight problem is I end up peaking at 19ish aps haha. I don’t think I can easily fit a discipline watchers in my setup, any other ideas to get high sustain? I guess a shaper lgoh ring could sustain at least the life pool if not the energy shield. I don’t think I have any way of fitting fenumus boots + aspect of the spider because even with the aura nodes, corrupted scolds and lv4 enlighten I’m reserving 97 % of my mana if I add aspect. I guess herald of ash could be dropped but that seems like a huge dps loss.

Here’s my current gear for reference (will probably scour suffixes on the amulet). I cut zealotry as a +2 amulet should give similar damage and it lets me add an additional mana roll

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5argan wrote:

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Nicol wrote:

So with the fix in the latest patch it’s just too tempting to not run awakened spell cascade.. only slight problem is I end up peaking at 19ish aps haha. I don’t think I can easily fit a discipline watchers in my setup, any other ideas to get high sustain? I guess a shaper lgoh ring could sustain at least the life pool if not the energy shield. I don’t think I have any way of fitting fenumus boots + aspect of the spider because even with the aura nodes, corrupted scolds and lv4 enlighten I’m reserving 97 % of my mana if I add aspect. I guess herald of ash could be dropped but that seems like a huge dps loss.

Here’s my current gear for reference (will probably scour suffixes on the amulet). I cut zealotry as a +2 amulet should give similar damage and it lets me add an additional mana roll

What does woke spell cascade do for us? Vd can only spawn 3 balls at once so I thought it was useless.

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Gryphenprey wrote:

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Nicol wrote:

So with the fix in the latest patch it’s just too tempting to not run awakened spell cascade.. only slight problem is I end up peaking at 19ish aps haha. I don’t think I can easily fit a discipline watchers in my setup, any other ideas to get high sustain? I guess a shaper lgoh ring could sustain at least the life pool if not the energy shield. I don’t think I have any way of fitting fenumus boots + aspect of the spider because even with the aura nodes, corrupted scolds and lv4 enlighten I’m reserving 97 % of my mana if I add aspect. I guess herald of ash could be dropped but that seems like a huge dps loss.

Here’s my current gear for reference (will probably scour suffixes on the amulet). I cut zealotry as a +2 amulet should give similar damage and it lets me add an additional mana roll

You need the Sovereignty Cluster to use Aspect as well. Putting a Large Ring Thread of Hope in that location will let you get all the mana reserve nodes, Spiritual Aid, Counterweight, and Discipline and Training+two life nodes there. You could save yourself some points this way.

As for Awakened Spell Cascade...How many VDs are you actually spawning? Game performance was always a big factor for me as well.

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vikdean wrote:

Guys, a quick question. I've just found this:

But, I also have this:

Now, I dont have enough mana left to use both, so I have to choose between Herald of Ash and Zealotry... what do you think?

Herald of Ash - Discipline - Zealotry should fit fine. But if you need to choose I would use Herald of Ash and a better amulet.

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Leedly wrote:

Hey! question :P

Do we ignite corpses? If not, would it be easy to incorporate that into the build? I was thinking about the possibility of incorporating a cinderswallow in, which would regen perm against bosses even if we could ignite corpses. with the 80% crit cinderswallow it looks like some insane damage, INSANE healing when mobs are being killed. Might be some nice cheap sustain for early on, or the damage might even be good enough to use it over something else.