Can someone crit this build and answer a few technical questions please? Vaal / CI / GhostReaver

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The idea here is something with Vaal Pact, Chaos Immune, Ghost Reaver and a couple of evasion majors like acrobatics. This build focusses evasion and ES over armour, but obviously damage has to be high in order to leech effectively. I think this will probably mean claw focus rather than daggers.

Some questions: If I have Chaos Immune, Vaal Pact and Ghost Reaver and I pick up the Claw Life Leech node above Phase Acrobatics (Essence/Soul/Spirit Raker) will those bonusses to life leech now apply to Energy Shield? Secondly, since auras got changed, what nodes etc do I want to pick up as a balance to that?

In terms of the remaining skill points and alternative routes to Vaal Pact, I'd love some suggestions or criticism of the current build. Which nodes do I want to pick up? Is it better to go Shield + Claw or Dual Claw build? Do I want to pick up increased damage nodes or block nodes or a balance? Anyway, let me know what you think. I currently have an unspecced L32 shadow to work with.

I am also looking for an answer to the Q of soul raker working with ghost reaver or not :/

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RefugeeZA wrote:

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Some questions: If I have Chaos Immune, Vaal Pact and Ghost Reaver and I pick up the Claw Life Leech node above Phase Acrobatics (Essence/Soul/Spirit Raker) will those bonusses to life leech now apply to Energy Shield? Secondly, since auras got changed, what nodes etc do I want to pick up as a balance to that?

Ok, so.. I haven't really made a char like that, but I'll try to help.

Ghost Reaver turns ANY life leech to ES Leech. So yeah, all life leech nodes will apply to ES.

Soul Taker should work with Ghost Reaver, why not?

Claws vs Daggers: Claws have very good nodes, specially for life leech, they tend to not be as strong in DPS, but they'll give you a more steady stream of life return, while daggers have insane crit rolls, and are thus usually used by crit builds.

If you're getting VP, I'd probably go with more damage nodes, because more damage means more life returned, and so you'll have more survivability anyway.

I got some claw nodes and the EVA/ES cluster that you didn't get, also the Unnatural Calm, which you probably missed.



Feel free to PM me if you want to keep tossing ideas.