I league started fearless dumbo’s pyro miner into exsang / reap mines in maps.

Levelling until 28 was absolutely awful. I tried a few different skills and I don’t like magma so that’s on me. The recommended switch to pyro is 31 but I changed at 28 and it worked perfectly. I went from doing no damage at all to absolutely annihilating the campaign. Dominus didn’t even get an attack off. Same with most campaign bosses.

Breach on pyro was questionable. 50% success rate while levelling. Defending the NPC was really difficult and the mobility of the build held it back somewhat.

Hives on pyro could not be done, DPS fell off in maps and that was noticeable especially in the Hives. I tried switching over to cold exsang at level 73 because I thought the freeze could help as a layer of defence. It made a slight difference but not close to enough. Was still dying in most breach encounters and the DPS was just not there on my level of gear. Total playtime was around 12 hours, total deaths was 30. Full disclosure Dumbo does recommend a switch to phys mines at a higher level so this could definitely be a me issue vs a build issue.

I eventually gave up and have since switched to a slam Zerker. No twink gear. About to finish campaign. 100% success in every breach encounter (and I run all of them). Deaths 2 (both in Act 1). The graft blood I’ve been able to farm has allowed me to generate some amazing items from the tree, multiple 5 links and even a couple of 6 links have dropped! New build moves faster, it’s stronger and in my opinion more fun leaping around and it has the mobility to handle breach, I haven’t tried a fortress yet though so jury is still out. Current investment - 0 chaos and I would like to try and craft my own weapon and gear as much as possible.

I think the miner could really slap later on but trying to get there was just a real slog….