[3.0] (Updated) Dark Pact Occultist theory craft

HYPED xD
hope your build works , i would love to try it !! never been hyped before for a witch/zombie/chaos build before but your build is interesting .. you're a big fish !!

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lelit wrote:

You are completely correct, but at least you will be summoning skeles whenever you are in a tough fight (ie taking damage).

The interesting thing about the datamined tooltip on

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/gem.php?n=Dark+Pact

is that the line

"6% of hit Skeleton's Life dealt as Area of Effect Chaos Damage"

implies that if your skele has 100 life the aoe only does 6 damage, and if it has 100M you will do 6M aoe per aoe hit. The sacrificed damage seems to be the source of the aoe.

I dont know what the tooltip "Deals (20–201) to (30–301) Chaos Damage" actually means though. Not enough info to be sure yet.

It deals 250 + 6% of life as base damage, no other iteration makes sense.

The gem is nerfed as far as poedb is concerned, it now starts at 0% more damage for self-casting and goes to 95% more (down from 152% more, which is a drop of ~38% damage compared to what people were theorycrafting yesterday).

Any build with skeletons please?
I know they may seem worse but I think every skill made ingame should be playable in endgame

Is anyone considering a hybrid build that still has some minions present to soak dmg? I really want to be a summoner as well as casting Dark Pact, but I'm worried that in trying to do both you 'd have to split nodes and have weak dmg and chaos AOE or weak minions.

Thoughts?

path of building is currently bugged. Dark Pact ignores life increase for minions thus it shows much lower dps

My friend is suggesting (via google hangouts mind you)


omg joocy
You go saboteur
use Cluster trap skellies
then use remote mine dark pact
You can even use remote mine dark pact
take all the trap and mine nodes
and have easy access to the shadow area chaos damage

what bandits are you choosing?

can you guys leech with warlord's mark?
Cause I can't, making the build invalid if you can only leech with atziri flask.
edit: guess it was just lack of damage, since I leech on low level mobs just fine.

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Shibajusty wrote:

can you guys leech with warlord's mark?
Cause I can't, making the build invalid if you can only leech with atziri flask.
edit: guess it was just lack of damage, since I leech on low level mobs just fine.

Bosses have an innate 60% curse effectiveness reduction, so with Warlord's being your only leech you only get 2*(0.4)=0.8% leech. Shaper and Guardians are even worse with -80% curse effect, resulting in 2*(0.2)=0.4% leech; takes hella damage to leech back adequately at those leech rates :)

made a simple one that is completely doable (for me) right now, its got mind over matter for more defense against hits since we'll be losing hp to use dark pact (MoM unfortunately does not affect the life dark pact removes), something like 3k mana, 5k life and the items are not ridiculously hard to get, all of them excluding the daggers are similar to theones i have available to use and if I need anything I can buy. Plus been thinking of switching one dagger for a decent shield with spell dmg, crit chance for spells and a random ammount of life/es.
full buffed it has something like almost 5 mill dmg against normal creep, and over 3 mill against bosses including shaper, but i don't trust the numbers.
https://pastebin.com/nmFqV4bk
edit - ignore the 120 points, atm I've got 110, but the points only maximized life and mana, so its not big deal at all
also i used the gloves idea from Nostrademous build thread, he's got a nice one too