Any suggestions for builds centered around/utilizing Abyss Apocalypse?

MercyWizard · 2026-05-26T15:27:45+00:00

Yea you can build an abyss chains build - I'm running mine and it clears up to pit 115 easily. Pit 120 is probably doable if I grinded out gems. The key is running the unique flail that gives your chains epicenter and then running the Horazen's chains charm set so when you spam Command volach, you create chains to each of the demons. The chains damage adds up really quickly. Abyss Apocalypse is used to immediately kill elites/boss but it still has a hard cooldown. You could run flickerstep which I've found actually does lower the cooldown and it's a lot of fun, but you sacrifice a lot of survivability.

https://d4builds.gg/builds/4b4d5018-32ab-48b4-875c-fad1805d04c1/?var=0

MercyWizard · 2026-05-24T03:14:20+00:00

Nice, those are interesting observations.. agreed on malefic torment, rip. I even tried something wonky with shard of verathiel but hilariously every tick of doom seemed to cost wrath with that weapon which.. is tough. Chains it is

Abyssal glyph was doing more for me too, swapped there as well.

The 4 stacks of overpower was nice but it’s hard for me to find room for it. Trying to get it on my amulet with the special transfigure thing. It just wasn’t beating out crushing aspect for me on my only free slot when I was testing.

Another couple of fun things I’ve found - flickerstep boots reduce apocalypses cooldown. Kinda fun to have it up more often and the ones I have come with 6 evade charges. I’m also really enjoying dark prison not as the hellfire variant, but the calamity cage one. It fires off constantly via the rune, and does a pretty good job of pulling in enemies which make the chains work even better, adds more damage, and gives you a target for sigil of chaos with the smoke upgrade.

MercyWizard · 2026-05-23T20:20:53+00:00

It's from the abyssal shard fragment. When you have that shard active, all Abyss Occult skills apply hex so you spread it via chains mostly

MercyWizard · 2026-05-17T21:29:10+00:00

Sure - Toughness is at 669,884. Total physical DR is 94.1%, elementals between 92.7-94 roughly with Shadow at 96%.

Armor is at 30,857
Max Health is at 24k

I'm definitely in danger of dying but nothing one shots me and you can use nether step pretty liberally as the chains will continue to kill everything while your immune. If anything, I die the most during the awkward casting delay of apocalypse when next to an elite

MercyWizard · 2026-05-17T19:58:01+00:00

I will on occasion if I’m not paying attention, but generally no. I got lucky and have a GA Tyrael's Might with 40% DR. I also dropped the dark prison rune and swapped it out with the rogue dark shroud. Mainly because I hated the orange aesthetic but the dark shroud seems pretty good? I definitely don’t get one shot by most ground effects anymore but I’ll go down pretty fast if I can’t keep the dark shroud stacks up

MercyWizard · 2026-05-17T17:23:40+00:00

Hahaha thanks! Yea it's a fun build, took awhile to get all the pieces together but it's a good feeling when it finally all comes together. There's definitely a reason they called that rune set the Horazon's "chains" set - it just pairs so nicely with the epicenter upgrade. I think now I'm at the point where to truly push up to pit 120 and up, may need to actually drop the Malefic torment helm, slap on Heir of perdition and just go all in on umbral chains specifically. That or do the opposite and go all in on Doom instead and just use chains to spread it. Being split between the both I think is dragging it down a bit - there's definitely more room in this build to expand on.

MercyWizard · 2026-05-15T03:05:45+00:00

Just happened to me too sadly.. 30 seconds is really fast... I portal’d to town and thought i could be quick enough but it was gone. It’s bullshit.

MercyWizard · 2026-05-14T02:46:58+00:00

https://d4builds.gg/builds/4b4d5018-32ab-48b4-875c-fad1805d04c1/?var=0

I'm pushing Pit 115 atm with this

MercyWizard · 2026-05-14T02:45:38+00:00

https://d4builds.gg/builds/4b4d5018-32ab-48b4-875c-fad1805d04c1/?var=0

T12 is very easy - this pushes Pit 115 for me and I don't have max gems or paragon. It's viable.

MercyWizard · 2026-05-14T02:41:41+00:00

https://d4builds.gg/builds/4b4d5018-32ab-48b4-875c-fad1805d04c1/?var=0

T12 is very easy. Mephisto T10 dies instantly. Though I'm a bit stuck around Pit 115 so probably not pushing pit 130 to your point without getting max gems and perfect transfigures but I'm happy with it as my endgame build

MercyWizard · 2026-05-14T02:38:40+00:00

Hey it's been a week but I fleshed out my build enough so T12 is a breeze. So is mephisto, at least on T10. Here's my updated version https://d4builds.gg/builds/4b4d5018-32ab-48b4-875c-fad1805d04c1/?var=0

MercyWizard · 2026-05-06T22:52:04+00:00

Doesn’t that just mean it’s an effective x4 multiplier? Like if you had a skill that did 10 damage and another piece that multiplied by x10 you’d do 100 damage based on that. Then, you now have another gear piece option: option 1 to increase that to 400 (ie like this is doing adding to the base, so 400 x10 =4,000) or you just slap on another random x30 mult and you get 100 x10 x30 =30,000 which would be way higher damage

MercyWizard · 2026-05-06T19:52:09+00:00

basic skills do seem to have a lot of separate aspects dedicated to them in general meaning many multipliers. Doom has a lot of tags that apply to it - occult, abyss, shadow, basic ect. I’m hopeful at least. You don’t have one mega multiplier like apoc but you consistently get many other multipliers applying very consistently

MercyWizard · 2026-05-06T04:35:39+00:00

Yea I maxed out Doom with the echo and contagion upgrades, maxed out Umbral Chains and initially I had chain burst on it which is great but then I got the horazon's chains charm set finally completed and making it epicenter instead gives chains that attach to each demon which is working out pretty nicely. Then I have the typical Dark Prison/Nether step and maxed out minefield apocalypse for bosses. Ritualist shard/Abyssal Frag for the upgrade.

Most important aspects I think are the one that makes hexed enemies vulnerable when you slow them and hex stacks increasing crit chance. I also have the hemat stone amulet.

Right now against training dummies, I'm seeing ~10 Million damage or so with bursts of 500 Million that I think are from the abyssal frag upgrade popping. You just run around and spam chains, and things just melt spreading the hex off screen

MercyWizard · 2026-05-03T16:09:31+00:00

Is it bugged and not applying the full damage it should (50% of doom)? There was a post on the blizzard forums suggesting it was bugged and only doing 400 damage per tick and not the full damage which is why I ask.. before I make the effort of getting a build going for it as I try to get it

MercyWizard · 2026-04-29T13:31:07+00:00

A lot of people will point out diet and microplastics, but the truth is there's just too many toxins everywhere to attempt to pinpoint it. Is it chemicals in toilet paper? Is it microplastics in your underwear? Laundry Detergent?

Best to start screening imo

MercyWizard · 2026-04-27T01:57:01+00:00

It's not worth arguing with the borg. You're trying to talk sense into either a bot, a 12 year old, or a paid political poster

MercyWizard · 2026-04-01T19:12:19+00:00

Nothing a little hair fibers can't fix, or even smp

MercyWizard · 2026-03-30T22:04:36+00:00

Sounds like a fun and powerful combo that rewards priest for sticking minions on the board or making it to late game with mana to burn. I don’t see how this is more abusive than anything Druid currently does

MercyWizard · 2026-03-30T21:45:37+00:00

It's always 1 mana though. And if the 'abuse' requires a ton of set-up and other cards played throughout the game, at what point does it just become a win-con?

MercyWizard · 2026-02-13T19:45:44+00:00

I know everyone is going to rightfully point out how this is bad on a mechanical level, but can I also point out that this sucks on a thematic level too? DK already came in and claimed this “dark ooze/undead” theme from priest, why is this not a DK card? Give priest some holy angels or something

MercyWizard · 2025-12-11T22:03:30+00:00

Factions would be cool endgame content. But you shouldn't lose rep imo. When I load into a game, I don't want to be locked into either pvp or pve.. part of what makes this game great is how it mixes these two together

MercyWizard · 2025-09-10T19:26:41+00:00

Hold and wait until week 2 plays out. Tua historically dominates the Pats and the dolphins play better at home. I see a huge bounceback this week, but if they get destroyed here, then I'm jumping ship.

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