Necro Barbarian for Damonzz

[Tilomere]

. But if I were in a group doing harder stuff, depending on what else was in the group I'd likely prefer to see a cc/instakill caster or another melee with better DPS instead.
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Expand your view.

Imagine a case where you had a tank, 3 glass cannon dps, and a cc/instant kill caster. You would say that the best choice for the group would be to fill the last slot with a healer, so all roles are filled.

But you would be wrong. It is correct that with such a group, the best choice to fill the last slot would be a healer. However, the best choice for the group would be for all 5 of them to reroll as necrobarbarians, then add a healer.

[Alled78]

I totally ripped off ifumoveudie's build to make this.

Damonzz wanted a caster that could deal damage in reaper, so I decided to make him one. Since no traditional caster is allowed to deal damage in higher reaper to enforce trinity game play (casters are all relegated to healer supports), we are starting with a pure 20 barbarian as our DC casting platform.

Barbarians have a unique instant kill, Visage of Terror, as the Ravage Capstone that instant kills up to six nearby enemies on an opposed stat check, based on Con. Since this bypasses additional saves in reaper, it is easier to land in reaper due to Con available in the reaper enhancement tree. Visage is not a spell, so is not subject to spell resistance, and will kill even things like wisps that are otherwise very difficult to DC cast on. So we want a max-con build.

But, for Damonzz, we also want casting. The heroic spell book doesn’t scale into epics, and all dps spells suck in higher reaper, so we will only add in instant-kill DC casting from Mass Frog. Mass Frog bypasses deathward and works on basically everything, so combined with Visage of Terror above it will wipe out the rest of the group. Mass Frog is based on wisdom and Transmutation DC, so we also want a high wisdom build. As a high wisdom build, we also might as well avail ourselves to healing hands.

We can then dire charge into the champs with death ward, hit Mass Frog to kill 5 mobs including the DW champs, then rage and hit Visage to kill 6 more, then start to melee.

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Race: Aasimar or Aasimar Scourge
Class 20 Barbarian Chaotic Good

Enhancements:
41 AP Ravager C6, T5, 6 Constitution, Aura -2 all stats, -2 will saves on crit, Hardy Rage
13 FB Extra Rages, Supreme Cleave
7 Racial AP Aasimar/Scourge, Healing Handsx3, 2 Wisdom (Fixed - thx Unbongwah!)
26 AP Falconry (Wis to hit/dmg/ktax2), expose weakness, coordinated strike, 2 Con

Heroic Feats: Magical Training, PA-GC, THFx3,
Epic Feats: OC, Completionist, IC:X, Arcane Insight or Embolden
Destiny Feats: PTHF, Mass Frog, Dire Charge, Plane of Earth

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Gear:
Goggles: Cannith Crafted Blindness Immunity, Melee Alacrity, Ins. Wisdom
Head: Slave Lords Sorcery: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Legenda...ioner%27s_Helm
Neck: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Legenda...cribed_Pendant
Trinket: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Bloodrage_Chrism
Aasimar Armor: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Coat_of_Van_Richten
Scourge Armor: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Legenda...f_the_Traveler
Cloak: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Legendary_Mantle_of_Fury
Bracers: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Legenda...led_Packbanner
Belt: Slave Lords Sorcery: Wisdom 17, Accuracy 28, Stunning 20, Quality Wisdom 4
Ring 1: Slave Lords Sorcery: Sheltering 45, Resistance 14, UMD 7, Quality Con
Gloves: http://ddowiki.com/page/Cannith_Craf...able_1b#Gloves (Acid Spell Power, Ins. Tactics, Ins. Accuracy)
Ring 2: Slave Lords Sorcery: Strength 17, Armor Piercing, Tendon Slice, Quality MRR
Boots: Slave Lords Sorcery: Dex 17,Deception, Concentration, Quality PRR, Augment: Wizardry
Mass Frog Weapon Swap 1: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Nightmother%27s_Sceptre with sentient Ottos +Eye of The Beholder 4 DC and 1 Wisdom
Mass Frog Weapon Swap 2: http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Legenda...lator_of_Minds
Main Weapon: Torn with Prowess, Alt weapon 2h Blunt with Blood Feast



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We can't cast while raged, but we want to be raged for Visage DC, so we will create a rotation that allows both as best as possible, tweak as u see fit for dungeon:

2 minute Barb Rage/Frog/Visage Rotation:

1 sec Mass Frog > 2 sec Tensor's + Rage >3 sec Visage > 33 sec Visage > 63 sec Visage > 64 sec Dismiss Rage > 65 sec Mass Frog > 94 sec Visage without Rage > repeat at 125 sec

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Epic Destiny:
LD with Conx6
Twists: Sense Weakness, Fade into Darkness, Spell Focus Transmutation (from prior life, but can't feat swap this life to keep), Acute Instincts, Primal Scream

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Constitution
18 base + 7 level + 8 tome +4 Racials + 19/9/4/2/1 items and augments +6 ravager +2 falconer +5 primal scream +4 Tensor’s +2 ship +2 yugo +11 rage +6 ED +2 feat +4 Reaper +4 reaper helm/remnatn pot = 120 Con most of the time (1 in 4 Visage’s at 105 Con.)

75DC Visage, but opposed stat check not will save so ignores reaper scaling and should land easily.

Dire Charge DC 55 (Con 120) + 30 levels base + 21 wisdom KTA untyped +6 LD + 3 PL + 20 SL Crafting + 6 Insightful = 141 DC

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Wisdom
20 base +8 tome + 4 racials +17/7/4/2/3/2 items and augments +2 racial enhancements +2 Acute instincts +2 ship +2 yugo +2 feat+4 Reaper +1 Sentient +4 reaper helm/remnant pots = 94 Wisdom

Mass Frog DC:
30 Level + 7/4/2/4/2 Gear and Augments +3 Twist +42 Stat +4 Feats (averaging Arcane Insight) +3 Reaper +4 DC Sentient = 105 DC Mass Frog

Save + Stat Debuffs: Dire Charging in will activate -2 will saves from crits, and aura will give -2 all stats.

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PRR will be very good, with additional PRR from Scion of Earth (20), Bloodrage Chrism (30), barb wearing medium armor 45 plus bonus 10, on top of blitz 30, sheltering 52, quality sheltering 11, enhancements 12, and past lives 36. Probably more I'm missing.

MRR will likewise be fairly good.

HP will be bonkers, since we have a Con build, especially with the new epic melee defensive feat available to be toggled on giving 25% more.

Healing with blood feast filligree + Visage + blood strength (bypassing reaper) comboing off each other will be fantastic, combined with healing hands on a wisdom build is going to be gnarly.

Plus we get the new 11% damage reduction that barbs get instead of DR in the next patch.

Fortification bypass will be 28% slavers + 5% ship + 50% falconry + 30% Torn = 113%

DPS, well, it won't be monk, but its better than any other DC caster in the game.

Tilo i think now its time to build an eldritch knight build for my friend Damonz...
What you think?

[Tilomere]

Tilo i think now its time to build an eldritch knight build for my friend Damonz...
What you think?

I had a couple ideas bouncing around. Trying to break 100 spell pen to see if it would crack golems/wisps so one could instant kill everything with an earthshatterer warhammer, and trying to optimize a centered archmage burst build, so you could burst kill everything with raw damage.

I"m still on heroic racials, so it's too soon for me to figure it all out though for epics.

[jasonayoung]

I had a couple ideas bouncing around. Trying to break 100 spell pen to see if it would crack golems/wisps so one could instant kill everything with an earthshatterer warhammer, and trying to optimize a centered archmage burst build, so you could burst kill everything with raw damage.

I"m still on heroic racials, so it's too soon for me to figure it all out though for epics.

EK you say? Ill be your huckleberry.

20 wiz. Any race you want. Max int. Vistani pale master using all vampirism options (shroud, weapon, filigree, scion). And 3 auras. In light Armor with evasion and insightful reflex. Two daggers. Harper, pm, vistani etc

Shadowdancer for melee power, grim, meld, and .... Consume. Int based implosion. Aura not a spell. DC10 + level + dex/int mod + assasinate bonuses. And you dont have to waste points on prerequisites anymore, can take int up the right side.

Works like crazy. Youre still a necro with wail, CoD, finger etc. I went enhance focus for the vampire dominate (works). And cold focus e-burst, glacial wrath, and your EK melee dps amp. I run about 880 SP cold. The dps is strong. Take pierce addy and ignore any spells that have more than touch range.

I use necro set and adherents with int goggles and panoptic hat. Sun/moon daggers. Cold caster belt.

Habrius on thelanis.

[Tilomere]

Ahh good to hear it works!

I was thinking 20 wiz, fill in Ek, some vkf for crit range/multiplier, some PM for woo-woo because it looks and sounds cool, strength based.

Two auras with LGS ooze/dust on them, Pain main hand for LGS Vacuum with sentient shattered device, and offhand LGS Ash.

Agree on Shadowdancer. My guess is high fort mobs in Sharn have fort = 3xCR, or 189 for dungeon bosses, so I think amplification and procs from dagger attack speed is the way to go. Not going to even try break that fort. Shadowdancer proc lets you sneak attack through that 189 fort though, so you don't have to break through it either.

I need to test if Hellish Rebuke does LGS procs, if not, maybe an helf for accuracy or HOrc for helpless damage.

[Tilomere]

I really should revamp OP for Suffering (lgs ooze)/LGS dust twf daggers, Aasimar fallen (vulnerability), with Shattered Device sentience in GMoF centered now that GMoF has been revamped. It's a lot of work though rejiggering a gear set for Sharn. Drop 9 AP and supreme cleave and 4 AP from falconry. Add in AP tomes and racial completionist.

All the hidden information about how reaper works makes me not want to either. You won't know if this works at your level of character power and difficulty you play on until you build it.