Crezury's 906k dps Skull army build

nerf is all but a surprise. It was OP as shit, and with only 20 % nerf and the new tree, pretty sure you don't lose that much...

Ok so since so many ppl ask i gonna answer to some of their questions now, gonna add them later to the guide on the front:

A skill tree for 1.5. would probably look something like this. Not worth to pick up the additional duration nodes, dont like battle rouse that much either, gotta see. Also need to check the life, if it's too low the build gonna have some serious problems. If it's "too high" just get some cast speed and such. Biggest nerf to the build is not the 20% dmg reduction but the nerf to the aura nodes. 60% auras cost roughly 28% mana now. With clarity having a higher mana cost its somewhat pointless to run MoM if you dont take Alpha's howl. Probably needs some high es/ev/life pieces now to have a high enough amount of unreserved mana. I also just thought about droping MoM/IR etc. and travel trough the es circle above the scion (not thorugh evasion), get a lightning coil and some more life nodes. CI is definetly still not a good choice for this build. With this new build we have also another problem: it has ~60 less strength so you wanna watch out for some good jewellery or so.
On the lowlife topic: probably not able to get enough mana regen.
With the nerf to the damage of srs and no changes to the minions attackspeed (or did i miss somthing) i also have to redo my calcuation for anger/wrath(probably still not worth since they get nerfed as well).
So yeah the damage will be lower but in which cases and how much will it matter?

For aoe setup it pretty much gonna be 20% lower. Care? A bit, but not too much. The damage before was just insane. You just gonna see a difference in maps where you dont kill mobs with 1 multistrike combo anyways. So that wont happen before maplvl 76 anyways if you have decent gear.

For single target setup i dont really care about the nerf. I mean, you saw me clear atziri that fast. That was a lvl 2 empower, not 4. That's all i need to say about that i guess.

That's all for now, hope i didnt miss anything. Gonna be gone for a while and can't answer questions in the meantime.

Don't forget with a bit of switching links around we'll be able to have generosity+hatred.Should compensate a bit for the aura nerfs.Also with good ES gear discipline is total overkill so that could be dropped eventually.

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sharukathan wrote:

Biggest nerf to the build is not the 20% dmg reduction but the nerf to the aura nodes. 60% auras cost roughly 28% mana now.

Since it's now confirmed that Generosity works for allies (which includes minions) I think that may alleviate the aura dmg nerf to an extent. The wiki doesn't list any mana multiplier for it so if it doesn't increase the mana reserved that would be best case scenario. At level 20 it supposedly has 39% aura effectiveness increase. And if you want to run a Dying Breath staff until you have something better - you get another 18% aura buff on top of the curse effectiveness buff it grants already.

I create the last Passive Tree, i think that it's the best for all

I am sorry pigi but that build is very much so unattainable and tries to compensate on to many things. Spreading yourself thin like that will cause for mediocre stats in both offensive and defensive stats.




this tree seems a lot more feasible and will give you more life/ES.
It is then your choice if you want to go for EB or not. In my oppinion it will be better to run a ES/Life hybrid. Ofcourse you can also start off using EB and then transition out of it in later levels.

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pusLe wrote:

this tree seems a lot more feasible and will give you more life/ES.
It is then your choice if you want to go for EB or not. In my oppinion it will be better to run a ES/Life hybrid. Of course you can also start off using EB and then transition out of it in later levels.

Take a look at mine. More life, more ES, 90% skill duration and 1% max fire resist on my tree.
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After theory crafting and talking in other threads I agree the Life/ES hybrid is better. Those hyrbid nodes provide enough of each that a rare ES chest with life will be better than more life/MoM cloak.

This is a 107pt tree I believe I'll do.



It's the gems that's been getting me. I want Discipline in there now because of the insane ES it'll provide but the aura nerf makes that difficult.

2 options. Either put clarity on BM OR use alpha's howl. Then there's further option of damage mitigation setup. I currently self cast Immortal Call and have enduring cry on cwdt.

Gems using On BM Clarity


Gems using Alpha's Howl

I ended up doing this. Based on discussions with matrixfactor and others he came up with a tree that works great. I paired it down to fit my level.



My gear and gem setup


Need a lot of mana regen on jewelry. Needed the alpha's howl and clarity on BM. I'll be swapping rings around to get life too.
Currently have about 3.9K life and around 3.5K (i think) ES.
1480 mana with about 145 unreserved. Mana regen is somewhere around 288 and can just support lvl 20 arctic armor and casting.

Just curious, but why do you get the Inner force node and the elemental equilibrium?? Kinda confused on that

passive plxxx