[3.4] Elemental Beyblade Necro: A Dancing Dervish Build

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For your first few starting levels, you'll want to focus on picking up as much minion damage as possible. You're able to use SRS at level 4, and that will be your bread and butter for a while. You'll unlock Melee Splash at level 8, and the combination of SRS + Melee Splash is enough to carry you for quite a while.

On tree, we're avoiding Minion Life as much as possible. Because your eventual end goal is to run Dervishes, who don't take damage, Minion Life is fairly useless. You shouldn't find yourself in a situation where your SRS keep dying, but if you do you can always grab a few nearby Minion Life nodes. We're also pathing close to jewel sockets, but don't pick them up quite yet as you probably won't have the jewels available immediately to socket (especially if you're using this as a league starter). If you do find yourself with a really good jewel, feel free to pick up a socket for it.

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We'll continue on pathing towards more Minion Damage/Attack Speed nodes in order to increase the efficacy of your SRS. If you haven't already, I recommend to pick up most of the gems you'll eventually need for your build. All of them scale SRS to an extent (some more than others), so it also makes socketing your leveling gear a lot easier. Grabbing Multistrike, Elemental Damage with Attacks, Minion Damage, and Minion Speed are very helpful.

We're also picking up the aura-cluster, which will allow you to run Wrath and Anger, both linked to Generosity. Even though we don't use Generosity in the final build (since it's provided innately by Victario's Influence), you'll want to use it while leveling. Once you get this up and running, your damage skyrockets and, for the most part, is enough to carry you through the rest of the leveling process on this alone.

If possible, finding a +1 Minion Gem helm is also good. Remember, that you can also try your hand at fossil crafting! Bound Fossils aren't uncommon, and have a chance of crafting +1/2 Minion Gems on helm.

You'll see that we also pick up a few Minion Life nodes. This is to save on points for now, in order to quickly get towards the aura nodes. Later on, we'll be respeccing out of these.

Your first ascendancy goes into Puppet Master, as it gives overall very good bonuses to SRS.

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From here on out, you'll want to start filling in your jewel sockets (if you haven't already), and pathing towards more life. You'll get your second ascendancy here and stick it in Command of Darkness. This allows you to run a low-level Clarity aura not linked to Generosity, giving you a free 20% resist to all elements.

Once you meet the level requirements, switching over to using a single Dervish this early will help you get used to the playstyle of the build--it's not the most efficient for leveling (since straight SRS spam is probably better), but you might as well start now. In order to do so, you'll probably have to refactor your tree to pick up more Dex. Here, you can remove some of your Minion Life nodes in favor of slightly longer pathing that goes next to a +30 Dex node.

From here on out, you'll basically just head towards more life, your Merciless Lab (don't forget to do it before killing Kitava!), and jewel sockets on the final tree.

Your primary damage setup. Because The Dancing Dervish/Duo comes with a built in active in Manifest Dancing Dervish, this build is able to use 6 support gems. Because The Dancing Dervish/Duo is a hybrid Str/Dex item, it may be difficult to roll a lot of blue sockets on it. For most purposes, your core gem colors will be RRGB, with additional sockets based off of your own personal preference. See the gearing section for more information on what colors you should use, and when.

You'll want to use SRS to trigger your Dervishes, and they do a surprising amount of damage even just on a four link since they also get the benefits of your auras.

Summon Raging Spirits:
Your bread and butter.

Melee Splash:
Gives your SRS the ability to cleave down worms and enemies.

Elemental Damage with Attacks:
Most of the damage your SRS will be doing is elemental, so increasing this is always good.

Spell Echo:
Gets more SRS out, faster.

Quality on your aura gems is a large quality of life improvement. You will often times find your Dervishes going offscreen in pursuit of enemies, and having additional range on auras keeps it covered longer. It's not super necessary, but is something nice to have.

Wrath
Adds flat lightning damage to your Dervish. Pretty much a no-brainer.

Anger
Adds flat fire damage to your Dervish.

Hatred
Adds cold damage to your Dervish. Because you're not scaling physical damage, Hatred doesn't add a lot. It does, however, give the most DPS of any other aura (aside from the above), even including Haste. In addition, it has way lower Dex requirements than Haste.

Clarity
You will want Clarity outside of your Victario's Influence in order for it to affect you. This way, you gain a free 20% resistance to all elements via your Ascendancy points. For the most part, you'll want to keep this at a lower level so as to not take up your full mana pool.

Flesh Offering
A large damage increase to your Dervishes. Cast this as often as you need to. It also helps to pop the corpses of those pesky exploding spiders in Delve.

Convocation
Sometimes your Dervishes like to wild out and you lose track of them. Convocation helps to keep them focused on mobs relatively close to you. You can't spam it, but think of it like a gentle tug on their leash to get back to what's important.

Elemental Weakness
Your main damaging curse, equal opportunity elemental damage for everyone!

Desecrate
Desecrate allows you to generate corpses on demand, in order to use Flesh Offering on them. For most mapping purposes you won't need this, but this will allow you to keep Flesh Offering up on some of the larger bosses.

Smite
Smite adds a large amount of damage to your Dervishes IF you can keep the buff up. You have a good amount of +duration from your ascendancies, so it's worth trying out. Keep in mind that it can sometimes be a trap to Smite, since you're light on defensive options. The bad thing about Smite is that because YOU, the player, don't have sources of accuracy, often times you'll end up missing your attack, which means you don't get the buff. It's not bad, but it's not good.

Phase Run
With Phase Run being instant cast, using it as much as possible is a nice buff. It lets your Dervishes take a lot of agro, makes you faster, and overall is a nice quality of life buff to use.

Vaal Haste
Similar to Flesh Offering, makes your Dervishes do way more damage. I don't really recommend using it, because you won't be using Haste as an aura, and you're already socket starved as well.

Just, well, the standard CwDT-Immortal Cry-Increased Duration setup. Personally, I also run Phase Run in it just to give me some options.

These items are the bare minimum to make the build work. They are fairly inexpensive and can be picked up early on in a league.

• The Dancing Dervish:
  
  Literally the biggest component of the build. Without it, you won't be able to use Dervish at all.
  
  
• Writhing Jar(s):
  
  Writhing Jar(s) help to force-spawn Dervishes, as well as help to prolong your Rampage stacks when running from pack to pack. At this stage of the game, one or two Jars will be enough. Start planning for the future and only purchase Writhing Jars that have >=14% Reduced Flask Charges Used.
  
  
• Vitario's Influence:
  
  Victario's Influence is where you'll want your aura setup to be. Coming with a free Generosity link, all three of your auras will be able to support the Dervish right off the bat.
  

At this stage of the game, my recommendation is to prioritize six-socketing your Dervish as soon as possible, with RRRGBB as your colors (Multistrike, Elemental Damage with Attacks, Damage on Full Life, Additional Accuracy, Minion Damage, and Minion Speed).

These items are what the core build uses, and should be affordable enough to aquire pretty quickly.

• The Dancing Duo:
  
  Upgrading The Dancing Dervish to The Dancing Duo literally doubles your DPS and clearspeed.
  
  
• 34% Reduced Flask Charges Used:
  
  Between your flasks and your belt, you'll want a total of 34% Reduced Flask Charges Used. This will allow each Writhing Jar to be used three times instead of twice, which is important for force-spawning Dervishes. Your best bet is to find a belt (preferably Stygian) with 20% Reduced Flask Charges Used.
  
  
• Writhing Jars x3:
  
  Three Jars at three uses per lets you summon 16 worms (use two flasks fully, and 2/3rds of the third flask) and force-spawn Dervishes.
  

Upgrading your Dancing Duo should be the first thing you work towards. In order to do so, you'll have to find (or purchase) the prophecy Dance of Steel. Then, you need to kill the Arsenal boss (T13 map) with the Dervish equipped/in your bags. HISTORICALLY, the prophecy has been pretty cheap (1c), however the Arsenal map early in the league may be fairly expensive. The good news is that if it's early on in the league, people WANT to run high-level maps, so you should be able to find a carry quite easily.

At this stage of the game, you'll want to have your Jars setup so that you have the option to force-spawn your Dervishes whenever you want. I wouldn't personally recommend running 3 Writhing Jars in most maps. Instead, running 2 Writhing Jars + 2 utility flasks (Quicksilvers, Stibinites, etc) should suffice. If you find yourself having issues with the playstyle, running 3 Jars does help to mitigate scenarios where you lose your Dervishes between packs.

These items are what you'll want to work towards. They probably won't be available immediately, and will generally cost the most.

• Command of the Pit:
  
  You'll want a Command of the Pit with ONE abyss socket, and throw a Ghastly Eye into it. This satisfies your accuracy requirements and allows you to re-color/gem your Dancing Duo for more damage. Essentially, it acts as a pseudo-link and turns your 7L Dancing Duo into an 8L.
  
  
• 21/X Wrath/Anger
  
  A 21/0 Wrath/Anger will greatly scale the damage your Dervishes do.
  
  
• 21/X Hatred: Hatred is in a weird spot. At level 21, it offers no actual damage bonus. HOWEVER, at level 22 it adds 1% Additional Physical as Cold damage. Since your Victario's Influence gives +1 to aura gems, a level 21 Hatred gets bumped up to 22. It's definitely not a large increase in damage, and should be the last thing you look into picking up here.
  
  

Once you get your Command of the Pit, you can either look into recoloring your Dancing Duo to RRRBBB--replacing Additional Accuracy with Elemental Focus. Alternatively, you can keep your green socket and replace it with Additional Cold Damage.

For most of your jewel sockets, you'll want to be using Ghastly Eyes. In order of importance, look for these modifiers:

• Life: I mean it's life, what do you expect?
  
  
• Minions have X% Chance to Blind/Taunt on hit with attacks: You'll want to get at least one of each (blind/taunt). Since your Dervishes have extremely high attacks-per-second, even 4-5% of this stat procs quite a bit. It's a good way to add some additional pseudo-mitigation to your build.
  
  
• X% Minion Damage if you've used a Minion Skill recently: You have spammable minion skills, so rolling these are definitely large increases to your damge.
  
  
• +X elemental damage: Rolling flat elemental damage on jewels adds up. Physical damage is okay, but your build scales better with elemental.
• Minions have X% increased Attack Speed: Faster attacks are always good.
  
  
• Minions have X% increased Attack Speed if you or your minions have killed recently: Faster attacks are always good, and you can pretty much reliably trigger this by using a Writhing Jar.
  
  

The Watcher's Eye wasn't that good.