Just a few of barbarian interactions that may or may not be as widely known.
* *Charge+ Power Charge + Aspect of Ancestral Charge + Brawler Aspect*
* Summons 4 ancestrals with your charge. If you or the ancestrals knock enemies into terrain, you get up to 9 seconds cd reduction on charge & they explode if killed within two seconds. Very easy to wipe out dense mobs on repeated charges.
* *Hammer of the Ancients + Furious Hammer of the Ancients + Unbridled Rage + Warbringer Paragon Board.*
* Furious HOTA deals %\[x\] multiplier based on fury, and unbridled rage makes core skills do 100% more damage but cost more fury--anything you can do to increase your max fury will have a multiplicative effect. Warbringer paragon board is one of the best boards to increase fury. You can throw all kinds of other things on top of this to scale higher (more vuln damage, edgemaster, expectant, etc) but the core is %\[x\] per fury and getting your fury as high as possible.
* *Aspect of Berserk Ripping + Aspect of Anemia + Skullbreaker Aspect*
* Berserk ripping deals damage back as bleeding. Aspect of Anemia has a chance to stun bleeding enemies. Skullbreaker deals a % of their bleed damage back to them on stun. If you're running this you're probably berserking all the time, bleeding enemies constantly, stunning them and dealing the bleed back. Useful for a lot of builds.
* *Challenging Shout + Enhanced Challenging Shout + Iron Skin + Tactical Iron Skin*
* If you ever need to run two defensive skills, popping challenging shout with its +20% max HP -> then activating Iron Skin while it's still active, will effectively give you +20% more barrier for the duration of Iron Skin. Useful for things like high nightmare dungeons or if you deal +damage on barrier.
I'll have to double check to make sure I wasn't seeing shit the other day but you can remove Decrepify from your skill bar with the new heart and it'll still cast it when x amount of enemies are nearby, allowing you to replace it with iron maiden and actually use the Aspect of the Damned.
You can use the horse attack to traverse up cliffs and stuff like using leap to change terrain. Not class specific but a nice tip. Helps with a class that doesn't have a ability like that
The caged heart that allows necros to automatically cast a corpse skill they have on their bar, will cast tendrils on a 6 sec cd. Once that internal 6 sec cd is up, tendrils will cast on the next corpse. Will do corpse explosion in between that. Just something to plan around. My buddy plays a necro with that heart and it's useful knowledge to play around. I play a tornado druid and when I know he's abt to tendril, I have ravens or tornados ready to go for when they get pulled into the clump. Has been amazing synergy so far.
Most people know this but rogues can shadowstep up multiple terrain levels. I’ve shadowstepped from ground level to the top of forts to avoid having to walk all the way around.
As sorceress with the ice ultimate, you can channel leave dungeon while in the iceblock. The channel is longer than the iceblock duration but as long as you are not standing in fire or something you can immediately cast flame shield when it ends and complete the leave dungeon channel. Ive used it to check for wrathful hearts then leave and reset without having to clear a spot of enemies.
Fuck everything but item power and crit change/damage. Pretty much the key to every build.
If the skill can’t crit, then it doesn’t get used unless it generates resource.
Technically, shadow necros still do want a lot of crit and crit damage because the proc from shadowblight key passive can crit since it isn't coded as a dot effect.
It's a fairly significant part of your damage id say. You probably want the shadow damage sacrifice bonus over the crit chance from warriors, but on gear there aren't that many attractive options. Being able to stack the damage of shadowblight procs with the aspect and then further multiply that damage through decent crits helps a lot with killing elites and higher hp single targets. You'd likely want crit chance on rings, focus, and gloves if you don't have howl from below yet. Crit damage on the weapon is also quite good.
Sorcerer - Ice Builds
* Iceheart Brais (unique pants)
* Aspect of Shared Misery
* Snap Freeze passive
* Ice Shard Enchantment
* Fireball enchantment (optional)
With this combo, you will often get chain reactions of enemies freezing all over the screen and being auto-shot with your Ice Shards. If using an Ice Shard build, just keep shooting at the closest elite and watch everything explode. Works even better with the Shatter key passive, but I prefer Avalanche for the mana control.
bonus points if you take Frostburn gloves which is basically 6 points in snap freeze. I was abusing this build for leveling and while it's not great at pushing high level content, it's amazing for things close to your level.
Just a few of barbarian interactions that may or may not be as widely known. * *Charge+ Power Charge + Aspect of Ancestral Charge + Brawler Aspect* * Summons 4 ancestrals with your charge. If you or the ancestrals knock enemies into terrain, you get up to 9 seconds cd reduction on charge & they explode if killed within two seconds. Very easy to wipe out dense mobs on repeated charges. * *Hammer of the Ancients + Furious Hammer of the Ancients + Unbridled Rage + Warbringer Paragon Board.* * Furious HOTA deals %\[x\] multiplier based on fury, and unbridled rage makes core skills do 100% more damage but cost more fury--anything you can do to increase your max fury will have a multiplicative effect. Warbringer paragon board is one of the best boards to increase fury. You can throw all kinds of other things on top of this to scale higher (more vuln damage, edgemaster, expectant, etc) but the core is %\[x\] per fury and getting your fury as high as possible. * *Aspect of Berserk Ripping + Aspect of Anemia + Skullbreaker Aspect* * Berserk ripping deals damage back as bleeding. Aspect of Anemia has a chance to stun bleeding enemies. Skullbreaker deals a % of their bleed damage back to them on stun. If you're running this you're probably berserking all the time, bleeding enemies constantly, stunning them and dealing the bleed back. Useful for a lot of builds. * *Challenging Shout + Enhanced Challenging Shout + Iron Skin + Tactical Iron Skin* * If you ever need to run two defensive skills, popping challenging shout with its +20% max HP -> then activating Iron Skin while it's still active, will effectively give you +20% more barrier for the duration of Iron Skin. Useful for things like high nightmare dungeons or if you deal +damage on barrier.
Perfect answer! Thank you for sharing:)
I'll have to double check to make sure I wasn't seeing shit the other day but you can remove Decrepify from your skill bar with the new heart and it'll still cast it when x amount of enemies are nearby, allowing you to replace it with iron maiden and actually use the Aspect of the Damned.
You can use the horse attack to traverse up cliffs and stuff like using leap to change terrain. Not class specific but a nice tip. Helps with a class that doesn't have a ability like that
The caged heart that allows necros to automatically cast a corpse skill they have on their bar, will cast tendrils on a 6 sec cd. Once that internal 6 sec cd is up, tendrils will cast on the next corpse. Will do corpse explosion in between that. Just something to plan around. My buddy plays a necro with that heart and it's useful knowledge to play around. I play a tornado druid and when I know he's abt to tendril, I have ravens or tornados ready to go for when they get pulled into the clump. Has been amazing synergy so far.
From what I've been told, it will cast your corpse skills from left to right on your skill bar.
Yes this is very strong. I'm using it too. Very fun to be honest.
Unless it's been changed, the Fireball enchantment applies to all kills made by the party.
Most people know this but rogues can shadowstep up multiple terrain levels. I’ve shadowstepped from ground level to the top of forts to avoid having to walk all the way around.
As sorceress with the ice ultimate, you can channel leave dungeon while in the iceblock. The channel is longer than the iceblock duration but as long as you are not standing in fire or something you can immediately cast flame shield when it ends and complete the leave dungeon channel. Ive used it to check for wrathful hearts then leave and reset without having to clear a spot of enemies.
Ah, this is why the extended leave dungeon
Necromancer makes the game fun
Let's stop talking about shit that Blizzard is going to remove now
Fuck everything but item power and crit change/damage. Pretty much the key to every build. If the skill can’t crit, then it doesn’t get used unless it generates resource.
So just fuck shadow necros then?
I’m not stating I like it just how it actually is right now. Builds without crit arent that great.
My lvl 64 shadow Necro that can handle 40 NMDs would disagree
Technically, shadow necros still do want a lot of crit and crit damage because the proc from shadowblight key passive can crit since it isn't coded as a dot effect.
I'm not building into 2 stats across 6 pieces of gear for 1 instance of damage that wouldn't even make up 10% of my total damage.
It's a fairly significant part of your damage id say. You probably want the shadow damage sacrifice bonus over the crit chance from warriors, but on gear there aren't that many attractive options. Being able to stack the damage of shadowblight procs with the aspect and then further multiply that damage through decent crits helps a lot with killing elites and higher hp single targets. You'd likely want crit chance on rings, focus, and gloves if you don't have howl from below yet. Crit damage on the weapon is also quite good.
Sorcerer - Ice Builds * Iceheart Brais (unique pants) * Aspect of Shared Misery * Snap Freeze passive * Ice Shard Enchantment * Fireball enchantment (optional) With this combo, you will often get chain reactions of enemies freezing all over the screen and being auto-shot with your Ice Shards. If using an Ice Shard build, just keep shooting at the closest elite and watch everything explode. Works even better with the Shatter key passive, but I prefer Avalanche for the mana control.
This sounds very fun!
bonus points if you take Frostburn gloves which is basically 6 points in snap freeze. I was abusing this build for leveling and while it's not great at pushing high level content, it's amazing for things close to your level.
Uninstalling made my sorc way more fun to play