It's just been revealed by GGG that the damage from Dark Pact has been nerfed in 3.1 from 95% to 76% more damage when using your own life to cast the spell. This will without any doubt affect the playability of this build. Therefore you should take what I say in the video about it being a potential starter build for 3.1 with a grain of salt. UPDATE: I killed Phoenix today (in 3.1) and managed to do it with just one death and overall I didn't noticed any huge differences in the damage output with this build. It goes without saying I will do some more testing before I publish another video with 3.1 footage.
I played something simililar this league on a real budget, you can just swap soulmantle on 5-link (while still having a six link because of free spell totem and possibility to have additional totem), 2 kikazaru rings, 1 self-flagelation jewel (nice damage boost) and Apep's Rage wand (still 55+% crit chance with power charges up). However Apep's Rage wand (30% cast speed and 50-101 chaos damage makes you feel having additional link in chest ^^) will gives you another +40% increased mana costs of skills so I've decided to put clarity aura on. To mitigate more damage received I was using arctic armour. But today I have discovered that Blasphemy with Temporal chains is much more better option (those dudes can't even reach you and they are just dead) while still having 1000+ mana with 2 aura reservations. Yep works pretty damn well, T16 viable Chest 30c Wand 5c Kikazaru 1-2c Voidbringers 1-2c and rest couple of chaos resist/life gear [I think dark pact nerf will touch self-caster, it still might works with totems like today]
We will have to wait and see what effects the Dark Pact nerf will have on this build. Interesting concept, but I'd say the automatic power charge generation from hierophant makes it so much easier for me to manage with this build compared to the Soul Mantle version, but it's a great cheaper alternative to getting a 6-link Soul Mantle.
I don't think that the nerf will affect the variation that hard! I think It was mainly targeted on self-cast dark pact zerkers etc. I played the Soul Mantle 2xKikazaru version as scion (ass/Guardian), last league and can say that it was really fun to play and carried me through most of the game with a 5 Link (technical 6L)! For 3.1: About the Power Charge Generation through Hierophant in ur build, with the new Storm barrier support + Wither + Arcane Surge + faster casting we can easily maintain power charges without a power charge on crit + orb of storms setup. Also this will mitigate most of the damage in combination with Arctic armor and soul of Tukohama! with self flagation (damage + dual curse) and the new chaos curse (+ flat chaos damage) and temp chain or assasins mark we will be able to clear most of the content pretty easily! Also most of the items should be pretty easy and cheap to obtain and it could also work in some other nice uniques! Edit: I also played HC so with the right Items (shield, life, armor etc) and playstyle its definitley HC viable! For Profile My ign: Jausaaaaa (ErdbeerGott/characters)
I think the nerf will apply to totems as the skill only has two ways to be cast. It either sacrifices the life of skeletons or the life of the caster. The totems cast the spell using their life so it should be a 19% less damage nerf to totems and the self-cast zerkers. I think it might actually be quite annoying for this particular build but the Soul Mantle variation should have nice damage anyway. Also, You can get Elder/Shaped wands (at least) with the Envy Aura and if can work Despair into the build aswell (might get a bit crowded here :'D) you can prolly more than make up for the nerf.
Gregorio Ricouz dp totems will still be very strong and is vital no matter what. Bobslop also has a good guide utilizing 2 kikazarus, soul mantle, and that gem that give u 20% damage per curse on you. Then u go guardian/assassin in lab and you end up not being effected by the curses. Pretty good version for hardcore. Nice guide chili.
It's just been revealed by GGG that the damage from Dark Pact has been nerfed in 3.1 from 95% to 76% more damage when using your own life to cast the spell. This will without any doubt affect the playability of this build. Therefore you should take what I say in the video about it being a potential starter build for 3.1 with a grain of salt.
UPDATE: I killed Phoenix today (in 3.1) and managed to do it with just one death and overall I didn't noticed any huge differences in the damage output with this build. It goes without saying I will do some more testing before I publish another video with 3.1 footage.
I played something simililar this league on a real budget, you can just swap soulmantle on 5-link (while still having a six link because of free spell totem and possibility to have additional totem), 2 kikazaru rings, 1 self-flagelation jewel (nice damage boost) and Apep's Rage wand (still 55+% crit chance with power charges up).
However Apep's Rage wand (30% cast speed and 50-101 chaos damage makes you feel having additional link in chest ^^) will gives you another +40% increased mana costs of skills so I've decided to put clarity aura on.
To mitigate more damage received I was using arctic armour. But today I have discovered that Blasphemy with Temporal chains is much more better option (those dudes can't even reach you and they are just dead) while still having 1000+ mana with 2 aura reservations. Yep works pretty damn well, T16 viable
Chest 30c
Wand 5c
Kikazaru 1-2c
Voidbringers 1-2c
and rest couple of chaos resist/life gear
[I think dark pact nerf will touch self-caster, it still might works with totems like today]
We will have to wait and see what effects the Dark Pact nerf will have on this build.
Interesting concept, but I'd say the automatic power charge generation from hierophant makes it so much easier for me to manage with this build compared to the Soul Mantle version, but it's a great cheaper alternative to getting a 6-link Soul Mantle.
Oh I am also using power charges generation from hierophant tree, I have the same ascendancies :)
I don't think that the nerf will affect the variation that hard!
I think It was mainly targeted on self-cast dark pact zerkers etc.
I played the Soul Mantle 2xKikazaru version as scion (ass/Guardian), last league and can say that it was really fun to play and carried me through most of the game with a 5 Link (technical 6L)!
For 3.1:
About the Power Charge Generation through Hierophant in ur build, with the new Storm barrier support + Wither + Arcane Surge + faster casting we can easily maintain power charges without a power charge on crit + orb of storms setup.
Also this will mitigate most of the damage in combination with Arctic armor and soul of Tukohama!
with self flagation (damage + dual curse) and the new chaos curse (+ flat chaos damage) and temp chain or assasins mark we will be able to clear most of the content pretty easily!
Also most of the items should be pretty easy and cheap to obtain and it could also work in some other nice uniques!
Edit: I also played HC so with the right Items (shield, life, armor etc) and playstyle its definitley HC viable!
For Profile
My ign: Jausaaaaa (ErdbeerGott/characters)
I think the nerf will apply to totems as the skill only has two ways to be cast. It either sacrifices the life of skeletons or the life of the caster. The totems cast the spell using their life so it should be a 19% less damage nerf to totems and the self-cast zerkers. I think it might actually be quite annoying for this particular build but the Soul Mantle variation should have nice damage anyway.
Also, You can get Elder/Shaped wands (at least) with the Envy Aura and if can work Despair into the build aswell (might get a bit crowded here :'D) you can prolly more than make up for the nerf.
They nerfed dark pact....Nobody makes builds before patch notes release...nice lesson learned today xd
Gregorio Ricouz dp totems will still be very strong and is vital no matter what. Bobslop also has a good guide utilizing 2 kikazarus, soul mantle, and that gem that give u 20% damage per curse on you. Then u go guardian/assassin in lab and you end up not being effected by the curses. Pretty good version for hardcore. Nice guide chili.
Gregorio Ricouz currently running this in abyss and it's pretty op, I'm on a 5 link soul mantle and it melts
really good at the game...like mathil OMEGALUL
Right after nerf was announced, this gets uploaded. Poor timing :(
Little early for starter builds
Dark Pact Totems can be expensive?...what.
gw but nothing new to me
also RIP afk gone cheap
Horrible build...
Necromancer is so much better
stop showing secrets ty