Null's Inclination Build

I tend to not do builds that that have been done often and shown to be pretty ineffective. I'm constantly doing off the wall builds but trying to make them end game viable. When looking to see what people have done with Null's so far I saw many fundamental flaws in their builds. When I saw spirit guardian jewel and a null's list for 1c, I figured it was time to give this a good.

The fundamental problems I've seen with the builds so far is they focus on the minions rather than their own damage. Let's be clear up front, this is an ele bow build that also summons minions to help it. It's not a summoner build with a bow.

When I saw these builds getting a bunch of minion nodes and minion uniques I was curious if I missed something. It would be like a CoC build focusing on spell damage and crit rather than getting weapon crit and acc. If YOU don't get enough kills (or crits w/ CoC) the buffed up trigger effect just can't happen enough for it to be a real impact.

So I'm hoping to share my info so people with more currency can trick it out and maybe someone can see something I didn't then add to what I've started. This build is fun but has some glaring errors. It's fairly difficult to get decent DPS, as your giving up a good/fast ele bow or windripper for null's. So there's a heavy focus on my tree for DPS. Also many bosses are difficult as they have high damage AOEs that wipe your army out quickly so that bow damage you're lacking really shines during these fights. Leaving you to be a master kiter to get through them.

Bandits
Oak, Krait, Krait (I took the point but was before I planned to use blood rage)

Split DPS buffed is 15k
Blast DPS buffed is 14k (but does "shotgun" projectiles overlap, especially vs large hitboxes, like bosses, so does higher effective DPS than split even though lower sheet dps)
15 second vaal haste
71 second animate weapon
9.5 second SRS

On a good map (lots of small minions, high IIQ so many weapons) I'll get 40 weapons up and maxed out on 50 SRSs

Average map I have 20-30 weapons and 50 SRS

Bad map (reduced damage, high life mobs, low IIQ) I'll have 10-20 weapons and 20-30 SRS

so worst case is usually 40 minions, my peak was over 90 when doing a rare unid map which one of the mods was sea witch and had like +100% IIQ

The gorge I posted was just under a 4 min run and I had one faster just before it that had burrowing crabs so perma-vaal haste and maxed out minions the entire time.

I went with split + chain + WED + culling + added light. For a 6th I'd either go with leech or LGoH for the needed EHP. You want to go balls out added cold would probably work, FA if you wanted to save on mana.

I tried out TS, it's better damage and better for bosses, wouldn't require a single target but once the army is up and running TS just can't keep up and suddenly the army starts to die off. You end up with this burst of clear speed then a lull, then a burst again. Split helps lvl that out. But everytime a map starts with a blue pack I wish I was using TS. (No, I'm way too fucking lazy to swap)

LA probably works but I didn't try it. Something about needing LMP along with chain seemed like it wouldn't match the damage, maybe it would and I should give it an honest try.

Culling is required, you want to be able to steal kills once the army is going and your damage isn't doing all the work. Also lets you kill bosses a little easier and you just have to get them to 10%.



For single target:

Blast Rain + WED + conc + added lightning

I didn't try any others, blast rain is new so I wanted to try it. It's pretty good for single target, probably a little too mana hungry for this build but if the target isn't too mobile I usually get enough mana to spam it. If they are then they become a real pain in the ass to kill. I use to have FA rather than added light, but decided I prefer the harder hits over faster.



Majority of your damage, I can't imagine any helm matching this even if you could cover the mana reservation without it's discount. Haste, wrath and anger because they scale both your damage and their's. Hatred would be one sided and heralds wouldn't help them. Although, you could consider heralds because the main focus is your damage. Do not do any minion only auras though, just not worth it.



I'd love to have fire golem with minion life and other EHP shit but alas, not enough sockets to make it all work. Blood rage is for the frenzy charges, IAS scales ele damage great and the 12% more damage is nice too. If I had the 40 regrets I'd change my merc bandit to frenzy charge as I didn't think I'd be using them when I went through merc. With all the duration stuff you get 15 seconds on vaal haste, if you're moving quickly and get decent mobs on the map you can easily sustain it the entire map. Sea witch map I found myself casting it before the duration even ended on accident.

Drillneck, LA and pierce might be a better combo, but you'd need better jewelry than what I have to make up for the EHP loss from quiver. I can imagine it will have a much higher sheet DPS, unsure about the comparison between effective DPS.

-Trying with pierce and drillneck. I think this could be a big DPS boost, just lose some of the autotargeting from chain.

- For HC viability, probably go with acro and evasion. Can't really afford to be effective and give up much DPS. When the army is going you won't be in the line of fire often, adding avoidance, with good MS you can take an active defense to stay alive. Early map exiles and many bosses will be pretty scary though.

- A crit version might work, which would help the early map play when you do run into blue packs right away, maybe with bosses too because of the burst. I just worry the crit won't be very high and getting enough accuracy to make it worth it might be difficult as well. Getting ele damage and crit gear is also not cheap to gear.

- A LL version that stays on the left side of the tree might be good. Being able to run heralds would be a nice DPS jump, and if you're going with shavs I'd probably try to give crit a shot.

- A version with more frenzy charges would be good.