Also, full Cavalier (in addition to being extreme overkill on Toughness, IMO) will leave you without any crit chance, which is a problem because you’ll have essentially left yourself with only one damage stat (Ferocity is entirely useless without significant crit chance to access it). I assume you’ve been taking Decimate Defenses to compensate? If not, that would explain your lack of damage even more.
Yeah I noticed that, I would hit like almost 3k toughness in shroud lol. Isn’t there like diminished returns on really high toughness?
Rabid armor will work much better for you than Cavalier in a condi build. There’s even a way to gear up with full Rabid equipment “for just 6 gold”: * coughcough shameless self-promotion cough *, so you could give it a try for relatively little investment if you’re unsure.
Ok cool ill try that.
That build should work fine. My only suggestions would be to swap out Blood Fiend for literally any other heal (Blood Fiend is honestly just terrible, even in MM builds) and swap Rise! for Epidemic. I know you want to run minions and I’m not going to tell you not to do that, but you’re still running a minion build with just 3 minion skills and you’ll feel much better with a heal that’s actually effective on your bar, as well as the single highest damage-potential player skill in the entire game. Seriously, a good Epidemic can literally deal hundreds of thousands of damage, outstripping even Ice Bow 4 pre-nerf.
Ah that solves my multiple target problem. In that case should I swap out a different minion, say bone fiend for it? I really like rise cause it almost gives 100% uptime for that 50% damage reduction and like 6 minions to work with.
That will make you tankier but I really think it’s overkill. Your minions should be helping to tank aggro for you so shouldn’t need to spec too much into defense. The problem you’re running into is you’re giving enemies way too much time to kill you, not that you’re too easy to kill. That’s part of why full Berserker’s armor is so popular: it reduces the duration of the fight significantly, so even if your enemies deal (say) twice as much damage to you, if you can kill them in one third the time you’re still ahead.
I’ve been invested in the zerker meta since like week 1 of game release 3 years ago lol, and I agree with you. However, as much as your point stands true about killing your enemy fast, at the same time, it can hold true the other way around. Like some lucky bugger 1 shots you, then wheres all the damage you can output? on your 1 skill throwing rocks or whatever downstate #1 skill does, thats where lol. In the end though, its mostly about one’s skill whether or not you will get downed. There are still times, however, that you cant help it. But yes for all of my classes I have zerker armor. This is the first time I had anything but.
Thanks for all the suggestions. Ill try condi first to see if ill like it.
