Looking for build critique
First thing that caught my eye was that you’d have 115% bleeding duration. So either drop Hemophilia or the Afflicted runes… or both.
Is this going to be a PvE build?
Yeah it’s going to be PvE. If I dropped the runes would you recommend more crit or condition dmg runes to replace them? Or maybe switching hemophilia for Terror?
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I don’t know alot about hybrid builds, I think it’s a hard balancing act but maybe others have done the math. I’m a bit OCD or something, and if I was making a hybrid build I would probably aim for equal amounts of power/precision/condition damage and rely on toughness for survivability as Necro base health is fine. Rampagers provides this I guess, but it’s glassy, and its useless when you decide you don’t like hybrid anymore. Furthermore, when you want to get some survivability, you either get rabid or knights for toughness and this puts a bias on power or condi, which is okay I guess if that’s what you want.
A half knights/rabid mix however, as linked below gives you a set of gear you can anytime use for a full power or full condi build, and gives great base survivability with a fair bit of toughness.
This build has some critical damage weaved in so dagger hits even harder while still giving you a decent amount of condition damage. I’ve put alot of points into Soul Reaping and gotten you Fury from entering DS, incentivizing it as much as is possible, and along with it you get some critical damage and better LF generation.
Blood Magic traits as they are are very weak I think for the investment, even though Bloodthirst works very well with a CD traited Life Siphon to give like 250HPS (untraited is like 150HPS or so).
I like the Undead rune set’s synergy better than extra condition duration honestly. You could easily take terror in the build linked but you’d need necromancer rune set and sigil of paralyzation or something to get 2 ticks of terror I think.
I dunno, I’m pretty tired right now so maybe this is bogus and horrible :P Hope it’s useful in some way.
I like how you made DS more useful with that build and the toughness is really nice. Two things I’m wondering, would tuning crystals be better than sharpening stones since it seems like the majority of the damage would come from the condition spreading rather than direct damage, and why the coral on the back piece instead of a ruby?
I think it’s hard to say, dagger scales really well with power, so I’d probably use sharpening single-target, tuning crystals for aoe, but I don’t know. The thing is epidemic also spreads stuff like vulnerability and chill, so you do benefit from extra power on condition spreading I guess, abit.
I put a coral in the back because I’m OCD and weird :P just a personal thing, one day if I wanna use that rabid backpiece in a condi-focus build I’d have to change the gem and it feels like a waste, but yes, ruby gems are lovely, put one in there if you like.