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

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xenochaos1 wrote:

is there a reason we are not using energy leech as gem support with cyclone/VD ?

It is a little bit useful for the leech but doesn't give much damage. You are better to take some small ES leech in the passive tree and have more damage with better gems links.

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1leven wrote:

Hi, I'm lvl 88 into the build. Currently trying to get some currency to upgrade whatever is need. What I don't get is that I'm doing like 1/3 of TS's dps and I just don't get where I'm missing it atm. Tried doing Cassia mission in red map and just got overwhelmed.

My items listed below:
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I know there's the belt and such.
Is Mark of the Shaper worth for the build?
Also dexterity seems to be a problem?

Get some dexterity and level up your Volatile Dead gem.
Volatile Dead is a spell, and spell gem damage scale greatly with gem level. By lvl 88, your Volatile dead should be at least lvl 19.

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fakemagicwaffle wrote:

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xenochaos1 wrote:

is there a reason we are not using energy leech as gem support with cyclone/VD ?

It is a little bit useful for the leech but doesn't give much damage. You are better to take some small ES leech in the passive tree and have more damage with better gems links.

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1leven wrote:

Hi, I'm lvl 88 into the build. Currently trying to get some currency to upgrade whatever is need. What I don't get is that I'm doing like 1/3 of TS's dps and I just don't get where I'm missing it atm. Tried doing Cassia mission in red map and just got overwhelmed.

My items listed below:
Spoiler


I know there's the belt and such.
Is Mark of the Shaper worth for the build?
Also dexterity seems to be a problem?

Get some dexterity and level up your Volatile Dead gem.
Volatile Dead is a spell, and spell gem damage scale greatly with gem level. By lvl 88, your Volatile dead should be at least lvl 19.

well it does give 39% MORE dmg AND 10% inc damage, its near the top gem in term of damage and it adds energy leech


(also is volley or GMP better for Unearth support?)

and why not spellcascade for more VD ball with cyclone? if we have the corpse

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xenochaos1 wrote:

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fakemagicwaffle wrote:

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xenochaos1 wrote:

is there a reason we are not using energy leech as gem support with cyclone/VD ?

It is a little bit useful for the leech but doesn't give much damage. You are better to take some small ES leech in the passive tree and have more damage with better gems links.

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1leven wrote:

Hi, I'm lvl 88 into the build. Currently trying to get some currency to upgrade whatever is need. What I don't get is that I'm doing like 1/3 of TS's dps and I just don't get where I'm missing it atm. Tried doing Cassia mission in red map and just got overwhelmed.

My items listed below:
Spoiler


I know there's the belt and such.
Is Mark of the Shaper worth for the build?
Also dexterity seems to be a problem?

Get some dexterity and level up your Volatile Dead gem.
Volatile Dead is a spell, and spell gem damage scale greatly with gem level. By lvl 88, your Volatile dead should be at least lvl 19.

well it does give 39% MORE dmg AND 10% inc damage, its near the top gem in term of damage and it adds energy leech


(also is volley or GMP better for Unearth support?)

and why not spellcascade for more VD ball with cyclone? if we have the corpse

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you get 39% MORE damage only if you're leeching. When your energy shield is full, you stop leeching, so you lose all that damage bonus.

Also, with your energy shield jumping up and down because of Spirit Offering, it will most likely be full very often.

any reason why we not using circle of anguish ring?

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xenochaos1 wrote:

any reason why we not using circle of anguish ring?

If you read first post, OP is using this ring. If you can fit in and get enough resist, yes you should use it.

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fakemagicwaffle wrote:

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xenochaos1 wrote:

any reason why we not using circle of anguish ring?

If you read first post, OP is using this ring. If you can fit in and get enough resist, yes you should use it.

sorry was looking at the POB (its not there)

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xenochaos1 wrote:

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fakemagicwaffle wrote:

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xenochaos1 wrote:

any reason why we not using circle of anguish ring?

If you read first post, OP is using this ring. If you can fit in and get enough resist, yes you should use it.

sorry was looking at the POB (its not there)

No problem. Note that OP is using that ring but not the new belt. I find it hard to cap resist with the new belt and an armor that gives +25% offering effect.

As for the person asking if it was possible to get the offering effect with alt spamming, the answer is yes

This is my current chest :


I went and bought an ilvl 85 base with Hunter influence and the goal was T1 Offerings + T1 spell crit.
Took me about 4000 alts and I got lucky, I hit T6 life + T1 offerings, and the regal hit the T1 spell crit.

I'm trying to craft a staff now, according to PoB you need quite a lot to compete with a decently rolled Martyr. Currently PoB lists me around 240k per explosion.
With Awakener's Orb I was thinking about something like :
- Get a Shaper staff with T1 CwC on it as the only shaper affix
- Get an Elder staff with "Socketed Gems are supported by level 1 Inspiration" as the only elder affix
- Awakener's Orb the Elder onto the Shaper (this should preserve both our prefixes) and pray the other modded rolls are decent (otherwise, craft "Prefixes can't be modified" and scour)

I've been trying to spam aetheric (with scorched sometimes) but so far haven't seen CwC a lot, even though it's decently weighted.

I think the Awakener orb only gives influence, but doesn't copy the mod on the item. Which mods would it copy if there were more than one?

Hello! I have 2 pobs, 1 from my 3.8 Blight character, and 1 for metamorph.

I do in fact use the leash right now.

As for spell cascade, you never get all 9 balls except while mapping. It's not worth forcing the extra cwdt links on an already socket starved build to have slightly more dps. Also it's REALLY REALLY bad for your fps.

I never really noticed a difference in clear speed either.

Oh and 60 ball limit is pretty noticeable with spell cascade.

I mean...it looks cooler I guess but...dont do it. Your frame rate thanks you.