Paige's Necro Dark Pact Hybrid Showcase/Eventual Build Guide

T15 Abyss: https://youtu.be/_e7Qz27sQag

Note: Using the Scourge is debatable.. I'm not 100% sure what is better currently, but feels like Council + Rippling Thoughts is the best combo.

Eventually this will be turned into a guide, probably sometime this week. I got this idea originally from trying to make a Blight CwC + Dark Pact build. The outcome however, was this.

Below I will type out my thought process and random ranting about the inner workings of the build mechanics.

The general idea was to put a bit of a spin on the typical Zerker Dark Pact build we're used to seeing.

I decided to challenge myself and try and make the Soul Tether belt actually worth it, a lot of builds use it just to use it, while we actually use it as a core defensive mechanism in the build. What makes this belt so good exactly? Essentially it lets you use Vaal Pact to instant leech life, and then once you're full life (which is always because instant leech) that leech then applies to your energy shield. This means while in combat I am sitting at around a 9100 effective life pool, along with a 41% chance to evade attacks, a permanent 12% (not hard to get up to 16-20%) physical damage reduction from endurance charges, instant life leech, and anywhere from -11% to 0%~ chaos resistance and of course, Fortify from Whirling Blades, all of this, results in us being an extremely tanky Witch dealing massive chaos damage and whirling around the map like a pinball.

Because of Soul Tether, equipping hybrid (life & ES gear) is a must. The good news is, this gear is pretty cheap because there aren't any "meta" builds that I'm aware of driving the price up on this type of gear. I decide to focus on life nodes in the passive tree, because there are times where you don't have ES, but it wouldn't take a lot to sacrifice a small amount of (mostly unneeded) damage and take some of the big ES nodes around Witch start to pump yourself up to over a 10,000 effective life pool.

I decide to run Shaper's Touch for general defensive purposes, these things should not be overlooked, there also isn't a lot of choices out there beyond these for this build.

Rippling Thoughts is very nice due to the Harbinger of the Arcane which casts Arcane Surge on yourself, with a 50% uptime, its pretty insane. The spell damage is nice, the AoE is decent, and this allows us to use the best movement skill in the game.. Whirling Blades. Oh, and ofc I had to get a Culling Strike version, just to be even more OP.

Breath of The Council.. pretty straightforward, 100% Chaos Damage and AoE. It's possible to corrupt this into a 0.2% lightning damage leeched as life, and maybe use Vinktars for a little more leech. I'm not too concerned about it atm though.

Beyond that.. I just use rare gear with life, ES and resistances. You don't need nearly as much resistances as I have, im like 137/101/172 right now, but I like having high res gear so I can swap in uniques whenever I feel like testing something new.

Flasks.. Atziri's Promise just for 2% life leech, Taste of Hate for physical damage mitigation (not required, could be replaced with a Basalt Flask). Blood of the Karui is a nice life flask, this also seems to function with energy shield (I believe its the Recovery Speed part), this isnt required.. I just had it left over from another build. I like a Quicksilver flask in most of my builds, but generally you're Whirling around the map anyways, so this isnt needed, just personal preference. Lavianga's Spirit flask for the unlimited mana.. this was only a problem during boss fights, though I think the problem is solved now with the leech boot enchant.

Because we're Necro, ofc we have the arsenal of the Offering spells available to us. I'm really liking Flesh Offering, though Bone Offering is definitely a viable option if you're feeling a bit squishy, or even if you're playing HC.

Outside of that.. the rest is pretty self explanatory I think, cya.

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