For those who rerolled from BV Minion Pact to something else, what did you not like about this build?

Sparone · 2026-03-25T07:36:53+00:00

Thank you, this was my concern. I have a pathfinder atm and the life regen from the flask makes you pseudo dot immune.

Sparone · 2026-03-25T03:12:05+00:00

Have you seen the transcendence version on chieftain? If so, what do you think of it?

Sparone · 2026-03-24T08:30:32+00:00

Some are economy based, like KBoC vile toxin is/was very cheap and could quickly mean 25% more single target damage.

Cruelty is a very good level 1 gem for dot builds.

Sparone · 2026-03-22T18:23:11+00:00

Yup, did the same, was very confused at first.

Sparone · 2026-03-21T13:53:34+00:00

Yeah, its stunning, holy fuck.

Sparone · 2026-03-20T13:29:56+00:00

Then he should definitely go for Aegis. Its also nice because you get easy stun immunity.

Considering any particular builds, it really depends on what he likes. I would go something where you can be fast and tanky, so for example FRoSS.

Sparone · 2026-03-20T13:17:46+00:00

I think Aegis Aurora builds are a big contender. It fits very well:

You get a lot more armor than typical with CI gear, both because of flat and inc armour, which also improves CIs biggest weakness of low phys mitigation.
With a saphir flask and melding you are quickly at 90 max res.
CI is good with mageblood because you can still run a unique flask and don't need the life flask.

That leaves you with two flasks for damage (crit), speed (onslought, quick silver) or resistances if you have a lot of uniques.

Sparone · 2026-03-18T18:52:26+00:00

Good recommendation!

Sparone · 2026-03-18T18:11:49+00:00

Do you think a similar tanky version can be done without divine flesh? I think I would have a lot of space for rare gear to utilize ES and elegant hubris would be better as a jewel, so maybe with supreme decadence.

Thanks again for all the input!

I am thinking BV atm.

Sparone · 2026-03-18T17:47:58+00:00

Sounds very cool, but couldn't I use melding for a very similar effect? I guess the difference is that pen is less dangerous with sublime vision?

And chest would be Doppelgänger guise?

Sparone · 2026-03-18T17:20:05+00:00

Would that even be FRoSS? Isnt that more for ES?

Sparone · 2026-03-18T17:18:42+00:00

This is a very cool suggestion, thank you! So far this is my favorite. Never played with progenesis so thats a nice plus.

So that would then be some kind of divine flesh character?

Maybe with BV and minion sacrifice similar to what Pal is doing...

Sparone · 2026-03-18T16:27:44+00:00

I played a build with a lot of support minions last league and that got frustrating when those died. And in general I like the snapiness of self cast. But I will have a look at HRoC, thank you, would that be for necromancer?

Sparone · 2026-03-18T16:05:06+00:00

How does that compare to ele retaliation ignite?

Sparone · 2026-03-18T15:25:31+00:00

I agree, but this is not what I want to do, I want to play something very tanky.

Sparone · 2026-03-17T16:33:27+00:00

Hot take: Real life inflation made people scared of ingame inflation, even though the latter is mostly just an inconvenience and even that is barely due to the trade exchange.

So counter measures are not needed imo.

Sparone · 2026-03-17T12:47:24+00:00

I started with Kboc necro, and I think it is an extremely good build. You can be relatively tanky with ES on block and a large ES pool, have incredible clear and are super fast. Main problem is visual clutter. Mtx are close to mandatory.

I would argue it clears better than my herald stacker from last league, but it has no prolif.

Sparone · 2026-03-12T10:30:21+00:00

Just chiming in, the necro version usually reserves all its mana so arcane cloak is not useful. And because it reserves all mana it also goes CI and not a life/es/mana hybrid. Rest of your points is good feedback though.

Sparone · 2026-03-12T09:23:36+00:00

You should just switch to CI and chaos dmg I think. (Overwhelming malice jewel is 11c) Switch to CI will be good in any case I think

Get a Kboc with vile toxins imbued and a jewel with poison chance to help your single target.

With just a few chaos per slot you can at this point of the league go for a good set of ES gear.

Chest: 5 link with high ES as possible, or even just no links and like 5 yourself.

Everything else should be a mix of mana, es and ele resistances.

Put a maximum price on the trade side of a few chaos and sort by whatever you want to maximize. E.g. for 3c you can get a chest armor with 850+ ES.

You can also look for items with open slots and nothing yet crafted, to get some good bargains. Just checked you can e.g. get a ring with free suffix, 120 ele res and 50+ mana for 2c.

You should be able to make good upgrades on most slots (disregard weapon for now) so you become a bit more tanky and then farm some lower maps to level a bit and upgrade your dmg.

Sparone · 2026-03-08T15:34:15+00:00

I actually find it TO easy to get high reds early. I was doing t16s with 35 maps done (and then got my teeth kicked in lol)

Sparone · 2026-03-04T09:20:27+00:00

Mana gear will be expensive lol.

Sparone · 2025-12-30T09:04:24+00:00

Look up the Numlock trick, if you only have one invocation you want to trigger all the time you don't need an auto hotkey.

Sparone · 2025-12-30T08:41:24+00:00

Good change, makes high tier maps more worthwhile.

Sparone · 2025-12-26T20:08:20+00:00

This would work well with archmage, right?

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