3.9| DEADITOR |Elemental Hit w/ Ballista Totem Support| Use Any Gear! (Need a Big Investment Though)

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Kaorael wrote:

Hey Wrecker!

I really loved your necro build last league so I wanted to give this one a try.

So far it's been nice, though with some rough spots. The ballistas (just got the 4th) are usually enough to clear anything, though for speed I've added a Split Arrow + Volley Support + Pierce Support link to help deal with crowds. It's fun seeing the absurd number of arrows you fire at once. Things get much better once you make it to the southeast part of the tree and start picking damage increases, until then you are resilient but lack damage.

I'm curious though, what's the point of linking Cast when Damage Taken with Summon Ice Golem and Blood Rage? It feels dangerous to link having taken a big hit with a life degen, and the golem you'd want up all the time anyway...

Enjoying myself in any case, thanks for your effort with all your guides!

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KaiEbel wrote:

Hey! Thanks for your service.

It is by far the hardest league start I've ever had, that's why I might be discouraged.

I started with Arc totems, freezing pulse totems, fire totems, tornado shot, splitshot, frostblades and really had never any problems like now.

I can understand that the rngesus can be to our disadvantage but not able to properly play the game is another thing and I guess you can understand it too!

My gear and my stuff is now as it is, because I deal more damage with using the skill by myself rather than with the ballista totems and still, I feel I can't do anything and just leech and hoping hitting lvl 90 and grab stuff. And this isn't the way I wanna play the game. I use groups to get faster xp but want to play for myself most of the time.

Your builds are well written, that's why I wanted to try something different. Sadly it didn't work out yet.

regards and thanks for your time

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Aeris85 wrote:

Hi there!
Enjoying the build at level 44 right now. Got all the gem combos in now.

I'm wondering:
1. Is Bow attack speed really affecting how fast my Ballistas shoot? Because it's technically not my bow anymore that does the shooting.
2. So, Blasphemy Support + Assassin's Mark curse enemies near to me. Nice. But I am also supposed to run around and avoid enemies' hits, am I not? So if I do take care of myself and evade manually, the curse is often not applied anymore, since the range is pretty low. How is that supposed to work?

Apart from that, to be read with a giggle:
I am quite sceptic that so little things are required in this build ;). I played Fiver's Frostblade Ranger before, and EVERYTHING was taken care of by him. The flasks, the Jewels in the Skill Tree, the Anointments... And these things are not mentioned here.
Why is that? Was the Frostblades Ranger inferior and thus needed all these things, and the Deaditor is soooooo much stronger that e.g. Jewels are not needed?

EDIT: I also noticed: The life leech from Blood Rage doesn't work with the Totems. Only if I shoot myself, I get the life leech. The build description didn't really sound like that, since you said more like "it's a 1 button build, you just have to place the totems, and they do everything for you". Do I misunderstand sth here?

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

How's level 77 treating you? The build is starting to do a lot better for me so I'm pretty stoked to get to the Atlas. I'm two or three nodes away from the 4th totem which will make a huge difference!

I'm glad you've found a weapon that's been able to carry you this far! I found a rare that had 51% to elemental damage. So that was nice until I found a 4 link that matched what I needed. So that was that.

Thanks for your encouragement and your update :).

It's going okay. My ballistas absolutely shred trash but to be fair I'm only in T2 maps. Metamorphs generally consist of me running around like a headless chicken - the ballistas don't seem to do a whole lot of damage to those (or bosses in general) and I'm guessing that at least some of that is due to bosses being buffed.

But trash packs? My ballistas 1- or 2-shot a lot of them yet. There's something oddly satisfying about seeing a huge pack in a room, plopping down a ballista, and seeing everything die before your second ballista is even able to fire a shot off.

Any tips for melting bosses/metamorphs faster?

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hopala wrote:

Hello again. Last season, I had a good time playing the previous version of this build (without Ballista Totem Support) for the while it lasted, so I tried running this as a league starter in SSF HC. After a few bad starts of me not reading the patch notes and immediately dying to Vaal Oversoul and stuff, I managed to get the build going and I'm now doing maps looking for trial portals.

To make this build more HC viable, I had to make one big adjustment which then might cascade into a lot of other adjustments. The biggest HC problem I had with this build was the lack of sustain. While using flasks and the Vitality aura was pretty alright during leveling, I don't think I would've survived in maps with just that.

So, I picked the Chieftain ascendancy instead of the Inquisitor one. While Chieftain doesn't increase damage by a lot, the 1% life leech for damage dealt by totems is very significant. It's practically a discount overleech since the totems hit so often.

Last time, overconfidence and getting stunlocked caused my death. I wanted to solve that problem by taking the Juggernaut ascendancy instead, but I had to take Chieftain instead. So I'm planning to take the Unwavering Stance keystone somehow. I'm not yet sure whether it will come by taking the Path of the Marauder instead of the Ranger though. Probably, since that will make evasion worthless and there are a lot of armor/life nodes near Marauder instead? I dunno, I'll let you know how it goes if I complete the last lab before dying.


I've also got a few questions about the build. Is Assassin's Mark really the best choice for an offensive aura? Right now I have to run Purity of the Elements because I don't have enough resistances, but I'm wondering for later. On-kill effects don't work with totems so it doesn't give any power charges or life, does it?

I'm pretty sure that Inspiration Support works for this build? It kind of sounds like it shouldn't, but you gain inspiration charges whenever you use a totem. And since they're dirt cheap and quick to cast the uptime is basically 100%. I haven't done any proper testing, but at least the in-game damage number goes up with inspiration charges.

Your passive tree explanation also mentions the three phasing nodes. Is this just a relic from the earlier version? The nodes aren't very good when you don't get phasing from totem kills...

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

I've heard that, in general, some people are simply skipping Metamorph because it's just too hard for a first playthrough. That's obviously not the case with every player though ;).

How are map bosses? They are typically a good judge of damage output.

I remember playing the Syndicate league. Those interactions were nerfed about 5 times in the first month until people could actually handle them. This is the first league with the new enemy defensive system. At the same time, they added bosses with random modifiers on them. So I'd expect them to do a thorough overview of community feedback shortly. (Hopefully, it's not the build. But if it is, they will have to be changed that I make for 3.10.)

I'll keep you posted as I get to endgame and deal with some of them as well.

Sorry it wasn't an enlightening post.

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pigi98 wrote:

Let me just say I love this build.

But, I am making a new necromancer because this builds damage is just way to low. My friends lvl 70 character trashes a tier 5 metamorph in seconds while this build (lvl 85), takes around 20 to 30 seconds which is just way to low. I don't see a way of killig anything in higher maps.

I got all the dmg nodes in tree, the tempest bow... The only way to make this build viable would be to at least triple the dmg somehow, but I don't know. Am I missing something or is it better to just make a necromancer for farming and then use money to at least make it a little more viable?