2.4.2/2.5 Would like help theorycrafting (first timer): The Scourge + Blade Flurry + Evangelist

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griffinzero wrote:

I reskilled my necromancer for scourge Blade flurry and it is effective and really good. But one important point: Focus! Either do a summoner, and use jewels for spectre/skeletons etc. to use any minion skill you want, or do a melee witch and use mainly damage jewels and minion damage jewels because of scourge.

That is a great point. I had done some preliminary testing with Reave since Blade Flurry wasn't out before I left for my trip. It felt like to me that a pure summoner build would have been stronger. Granted Blade Flurry seemed to fit better with the tree and I didn't have any melee gear (was testing stuff out with my old summoner gear). I'll take a look at the tree, but it seems like you and the previous poster had similar ideas about focusing on our damage and less on boosts for spectres.

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griffinzero wrote:

And most important(!!!): Blade Flurry is a melee skill (for now maybe they will nerf this) so use fortify support.

It has been a while since I've done a melee build so I forgot that fortify is a decent support gem for it's damage alone, I had just put on Whirling Blades. But if we just rely on attack speed from the Blade Flurry gem alone, Whirling blades may not be worth using (would free up some gem slots) and instead just using Flesh Offering and possibly Haste would make old fashioned running a good alternative for clear speed. I'll think about this.

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skriiii wrote:

I'm looking forward to be trying out this build. Maybe you could add a section about what to look for in jewels?

Will try and do so. Preliminary thoughts lead me to think our gems may be nice and cheap (depending on how popular a scourge blade flurry build becomes).

I would think about going for:
-Minion damage
-Life/ES (based on what you choose)
-Attack speed
-Attack speed with claws

I don't think damage with claws or physical damage (alone or with weapons or claws) would be worth it since minion damage often has higher rolls (I think) and double dips with poison. I'll check which are prefixes/suffixes on jewels and which color of jewel is best.