Wild Strike Elemental Raider (2.4) - HC Viable for Hydra and Chimera

I really enjoyed playing Elemental Wild Strike with Elementalist in 2.3 and decided to make it as Raider in 2.4. Purpose is to trade damage for survivability.

Check out 2.3 version in Witch build list (Way of the Grand spectrum Wild Strike Elementalist)

Clearing maps became more and more easy over time and I had the purpose to create a build that can kill almost any bosses in HC.

Wanting a very solid defense to all sorts of attacks and spells, I decided to pick the cheapest layers of defense and cheapest DPS Aoe attack.

By not requiring block, or armour, or crit, I could pick a very good amount of life nods and focus on using a lot of rare items and have life in every slots.

Wild strike has a very good Aoe that requires no investment with a very good base attack damage. Being in close range and having to click on the monster to attack it makes you read the mods and will save you from a dangerous Volatile blood for example.

Movement speed, Attack speed, life on hit, Dodge, Spell Dodge, Blind, Fortify, Enfeeble, Temporal Chain, Curse effectiveness, Arctic armour, Lighting coil, overcapped resistance, immunity to status ailment, positive chaos resistance are all great defense that requires not much nods from the tree making you able to pick a lot of life that will make sure you don't get one shot.

Dps can be good even with that defense. I do reach 90k tooltip dps buffed in solo, Vinktar shock effect added to that is really good.

Sorry for wall of text.

Build is cheap and a league starter. It has a lot of expansive options in end game like other builds.

Using Frost Blade for leveling and then Wild Strike. You are not forced to use specific weapons. You can use essences that adds elemental damage on rings, amulets, gloves, and weapons you find.

Conversion from frost blade and wild strike gives you the option to use physical weapons as well if it is what you find at low level.

Give it a try and have fun.

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Wild Strike - Weapon Ele - Multistrike - Elemental Focus - Lighting Penetration - Added Lightning

85% or so of damage is lighting, making the use of lighting penetration worth it.

Overlord does not get triggered enough often because of no investment in crit.This setup solves the problem:

Blade vortex(lvl 1) - increased crit chance - CWDT(lvl 1)

Use Frenzy skill in situation that you can't rely on frenzy per kill

Whirling blade - faster attack - fortify - Frenzy

Blasphemy - Enfeeble - Temporal Chain

Enfeeble is too good to not use,

Arctic armor:

another layer of defense

Blood rage:

frenzy charge generation

Ancestral protector - Blind - Culling Strike - Item Rarity:

Enduring Cry

This character is made in HC Essence League. I plan to update this build with new sections, images and video.

Edit: Build changed a bit for second attempt at Minotaur soon.

Please note that this is not yet a build guide, many sections and information missing. I plan on updating soon.

See you in HC Essence League.