If anyone is struggling with resources, early use the ring of the midday hunt together with the ring of midnight sun. It's gives you a flat 50% increase to your vigor.
This works but no one ever talks about in gearing. I use it cause if the lack of good drops. As someone said before, would rather they cut the unique drops and increase Anc Legendaries with GA
@@b-rizz5209they dont need to lower the unique chance to up the GA chance. The big issue is that anything that isnt ancest is useless, and only GA’d gear is ancest. They should make non GA’s have 800 item power so loot doesnt feel so bad.
You need the Weapon called Rod of Kepeleke. This solves your resource cost. Your Core Skills are now additionally Basic Skills, free to cast, and deal up to 30% less damage based on their cost. When cast at Maximum Vigor, your Core Skills consume all Vigor to return to full damage, cast at their largest Size, and become guaranteed Critical Strikes, with [1.00 - 3.00]%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage for each point of Vigor spent this way.
I just want to say thanks so much, I've been following different guides and streamers all season, and you're the first I've heard to not call it "vicious shield". Well done, your parents would be proud.
Great stuff. I love that you go into full detail on what is actually scaling the build and how not to brick it, lol. Looking forward to the Crushing Hand build!
amazing video and amazing explanations. I learned a lot here. Was already following your builds, but understanding them in more depth is super helpful. Thanks!!
Great guide - detailed and thorough. I now understand what I need to do and WHY! Thanks so much Nick for putting the massive amount of time in this would have needed 🙂
Isn't it nice how a short version of build breakdown takes 40 minutes, but results in something that's easy and pleasant to play? Also... "Stat squish" they said, "Do less damage" they said...
Honestly this is the best explanation and most scenarios covered for item decisions out there. Puts the other guides to shame really. With so many bugs factoring in causing tons of uninformed decisions for players, you really made the info at least consumable.
Just wanna say this is my first season playing and you've been an amazing help man appreciate it a lot, best youtuber iv'e watched by far no one else goes into the stats and stuff as much as you do and it helps out a lot, thank you for whatcha do.
I just started playing the game again after a long time. I have tried alot of build out there and so far this is the best I have tried. I appreciate the work my man.
This is the first video I've found that actually breaks down the build and explains what's going on, so you can easily judge what you need and how to achieve it. Knowing the exact stat breakpoints is so important! Also, care to share how you get the required items so fast? I struggle for days trying to roll a single stat MW on an item....
Dude, you are simply amazing. Thanks for doing a great job. Imo so far the best video of yours. Thanks for explaining everything thoroughly with all the details.
@@AlperTanGandalf In a group, if you dropped the Tribute before your party members accepted, it wouldn't be consumed. So you could run the legendary one with guaranteed Ancestral drops repeatedly.
This vid is fantastic thanks man, taken my build to a whole new level new level just understanding everything in depth and having the paragon board broken down per level is a game changer. Went from 65 pits to easy 80s unbuffed this morning, thank you!!
Holy f balls, i have only the uniques with some okish gear, about 150 paragon....i just breezed through a T35 pit (i know, pretty easy but I was trying to do it myself and i'm very much a casual!). I was pretty much struggling with on my previous build. Barely even had to use all my cooldowns lol Thanks man, always love ur guides and builds. I might enjoy doing my own but always when I need to push Pits I come to you for help :) Good tip from comments helped me pass 240, put in Ring of the Midday hunt if you can't make 240 as it gives your 50% more vigor. This helped me get over 240 as my Rod of Kelepe doesn't have a GA on Max Resource!
Followed your levelling guide for the class then went over to the first early endgame build you have...even that quill build just demolishes anything so far in T2 with constant barrier and...yeah i mean it is completely bonkers but THIS build? hahaha so nice. Update 24.10.24. Kept going...done masterworking and all that snazzy stuff and this build is still completely bonkers. Got like 60 hours in the game most items masterworked with +2 +3 ga this just rocks.
Great build as always. I am curious though after looking at your Mobalytics Quintillion and Trillion Builds, do you ultimately think there's an edge for the Mythic Variant, i.e. Shroud/Harlequin, vs. Ebewaka, vs. Legendary Aspect? Helm/Chest?
Love your explanations as well. Other creators seem to have only super end game builds with the greatest gear possible. Good for them but their builds don't work for me. It's nice to see a real world type build that works for me.
This build is great! I just started and jumped to tier 1 with crap gear. I was able to farm up gear through Helltide and get the rolls I needed but I don't have any GA's on my gear and this still makes tier 1 a joke! Thanks for the information!
this build is the "pit 150" one from mobylytics in your link section? I'm sure its min/max perfected I just wanna ask: 1. what happened to Rebounding aspect ? no longer viable ? 2. Harmony of Ebewaka? 3. And I'd like to hear serious oppinions about Rakanoth's Wake boots I'm currently using, they provide movement, cd red, tons of ressistance (with star 52% to all res), and alot of damage 75% to damage (without star), and unique effect aint that bad either dealing 780fire dam whenever i use skill on cd.
Well maybe after todays slight evade nerf it will be, but it was not at all. This is by far the fastest build, ever. I zip through 60+ pits in 2 minutes and im Para lvl 160.
@@nikjustnik8202well, I zip through pit 120 with this build in 2 minutes. I do have maxed out glyphs, 12/12 gear, full aspects and 240 paragon, though. This build is insanely good. As good as Lightning Spear sorc was last season - basically has no downside except the high gear requirements
@@PieroCollao hehe i made a big mistake!! somehow i typed T instead of B. 11b is still good mate. im reaching 12B atm. Paragons are the best and easy upgrade.
@Bjondo86 i reached 45B just a moment ago, the resource ga in kepeleke did magic. I forgot about the extra dmg per extra vigor point and also the aspect in 3.00X
Amazing guide, thank you. Great in-depth explanations in regards to how skills, stats, and aspects are affecting each other. What is hilarious about this class, out of the dozen or more bugged interactions you point out in detail, the average player ( myself) can run 2-3 of these and smoke all of the content. Broken classes and builds are fun in arpgs; as long as the Devs fix it after a few months. I don't see this class being balanced for a year at best.
I've tried a bunch of Quill builds and Nick's are always the best for me, if you can hit some key breakpoints like max resource 145 you're gonna be great, follow the build
i think they might have fixed it, i have 249 and it goes 35-275-35-275. so think you actually have to hit the 275 threshold now to make it work. because just being above 240 does not seem to work anymore. Edit: i did not have 100% resource generation. and the written guide says nothing on HOW or where to get more. it does not even mention this as a priority to get
Problem I'm having is finding legendaries... uniques are stupid easy and now you cant find any legendaries. Very frustrating... I would rather they half the unique drops at add the legendary drops back to bosses
For real finding even ancestral legendary gear is crauy hard but having the right stats is almost impossible because there is like a 1 in 30 drop rate. And you cant trade anything because the shit is stupid expensive. Everyone wants like billions of gold for 1 ga chestplate like im some kind of chinese bot farmer
thank you again nick, this vid update helped me jump from 80-110 rifts - thanks for breaking down the build and all ur research - viscous shiled n hp + 3.0 kepelke and 47% midnight sun is powerful
I'm currently on tier 80 and looking to get to same tier as you. My damage is in millions and low billions. What did you do to get you into that next giga tier of damage that you were missing previously? I have 267 vigor but still not seem to fill resource consistently to get overpower. All my gear is masterworked to at least tier 8 and glyphs are all at level 70.
@@dpolenz79 the first thing was the ring of midnight sun - mine was at a low 30 percent - so each hit was not doing max damage and refill my resourrce to full after each attack nicktew recommends 47% and up atleast and the next thing was getting a 3% on my rod of K once i corrected those precentages by running a lot of boss runs to get the items i shot up tto doing 90's rifts - then updated my stats to match the wrritten guide and BAM t 110 rifts eazy one sho mode highest dmg i have seen with my setup is 1.1T thank you nick!
@@dpolenz79 lvl 80-90's across the board on glyphs spirit, headhundter, clossal, meng , fulimnate 90 on spirit and i threw on a health potion and life incense as well this build scales on HP due to V shield. Those two were the icing on the top to get to 1 trillion dmg - very important as well
Ive followed your End Game build exactly and im loving it, but how exactly have you gotten 100% vigour generation? Im sitting at 50% with ravager actively and bouncing between 35-275. Could you update the guide to explain as i have followed it exactly as described, thanks! Edit: using the shroud fixed this issue for me.
Thank you for the very clear and concise build guide! I played in beta, S0, S1, and S2, but never got very far, and this is the first character i'm aiming to get to paragon 300. I'm currently at the late paragon tanky part of the build, what's the difference between this build and the speedfarm build? Which one will I want to use for the majority of the game for infernal hordes, nightmare dungeons, etc? Thank you!
Hoping in the next vid there is much more insight with what to do if you don’t have a GA Rod, which is super hard to get. That seems to be what makes this 240 “easy to obtain”, but the transition from a starter / mid game build to this is really quite confusing.
If you dont have GA Rod of Kepeleke....You need 240 Vigor (235 if you have 3 points in balance exertion passive): you have 100 base vigor, you get 30 from spiritual attunement passive, 20 from magical nodes and 12 from two rare nodes from the sapping paragonboard, if you hit the requirement of 435 strength, you get additonal 4 Vigor from one of the rare nodes. So we are now at 162 Vigor and need only 73 more...the Menagerist Glyph slotted into the Sapping paragonboard socket buffes the magic nodes. My Menagerist Glyph is at Lvl 80 and it buffes the magic nodes from 4 vigor to 13 vigor. so thats additional 27 vigor (there are 3 magical nodes in range, 3x9=27). Now we need 46 vigor. Maybe you masterworked your Rod of Kepeleke to 8/12 and hit Max Resource twice. thats another 14-36 vigor, depending on your rolls. now you can use Elixir of Resourcefulness II for another 25 vigor. if you are still not at 240 /235 vigor, you can use Thibauts Will and Harlequins Crest. If you are still not at 240/235 Vigor, you can use the hubrisglyph instead of the menageristglyph. the hubrisglyph gives 5% more to the magic nodes. If you have a low paragonlvl, you should use the earlier version of the quill volley guide with the aspect of the unyielding hits and stacking armor and dont play the banished lord´s talisman. the talisman works only with 240/235 vigor. Sorry for my bad english and the wall of text. I hope i could help you. Greetings from a 47 year old gamer from germany :-)
@@MegaBiertrinker +25 from resourcefulness elixir pretty much carries it - in addition to tibaults will / shako if you want to supplement with that. It's very easy to reach 240 if you don't have a GA max rod - hence the timestamp talking about 240 vigor.
Hey Nick. Been following your build posts for a couple of seasons now and really appreciate your choices and clarity of explanation. I am in T4 with the Quill Volley build and crushing almost everything in the game in seconds (except Andariel - still struggling with the fight mechanics a bit). A few questions ... 1) On the Sapping paragon board, why Menagerist as opposed to Hubris? I am using the latter and it gives me a few more max resource points 2) I am experimenting with shelving Ebewaka in favor of a Legendary helm with massive max resource. Along with a good Kepeleke max resource roll and the various other max resource buffs I am at about 250 max resource even without a Resourcefulness potion. I have a 50% Midnight Sun ring. I have a 60% Talisman. Nevertheless I still sometimes see the resource globe filling gradually (about 0.5s from 0 to max) instead of staying at max and kind of flickering as it empties and fills, which indicates optimal performance. Any thoughts about why this might be happening? 3) resource gen vs resource cost reduction on the legendary ring. Seems to me that RCR is contrary to the goal of meeting the Talisman requirements as each cast of quill volley costs less so you have a higher bar to reach. Why RCR vs RG? 4) how to quantify the Que rune Barrier. Iirc the Druid Earthen Bulwark is something like 35% max life but it’s been awhile. Is it the same here? Thanks!
Great guide! Thanks for all you do. One question for clarity, and I apologize if I missed it but why use the Colossal glyph? It increases damage of Gorilla skills but the only Gorilla skill we have on the bar is armored hide. If Gorilla is your secondary spirit, does Colossal do anything? Thanks in advance for any response that clears this up for me.
I've looked at your quill volley paragon boards and don't see anything that you've posted with this build. Also, early end game is different significantly on 2 of your builds. I really appreciate all your help... but at like level 200 what should I be following? Can you post this paragon board somewhere? Thanks!
Has this broken build been fixed? I ask because I think I've done it exactly as Nicktew has it, and I'm regularly getting 1-2 Billion but never anything higher than that.
Very nice guide thx a lot! I was very lucky and found Tyrael's Might. I dont know if it makes sense to use it in this build? Which aspect could i avoid for it? 🙂
If im not wrong, having any form of resource cost reduction eg affixes and elixir will mess up your banished lord setup as it reduces your quill vigor cost. I had mine at 0 vigor cost which made it not working with 240 vigor.
I must have missed something. Your Paragon board here shows Colossal in the starter board but your End Game Build shows HeadHunter. Can't figure out why you would use that at all to buff basic nodes when there is 6 regular nodes
I noticed that also so I just follow his guide for 230+tanky . Not sure what one he's using on this video because none of his builds has what's on this video .
Hello nick, longtime watcher, first time commenter. Where would you put the last paragon points for these builds. I’m almost 230 paragon following your early endgame board but it shows 74 points still needed?
Note that 2.0.3 hotfix sorted Kepeleke so that chance to cast Quill Volley twice is now working. This is a huge buff for this spec, which was already one of the strongest specs there is
Sadly enough they also silent nerfed kepeleke not counting the quill vigor (35) and now we need 275 vigor to make it work, so we basicly lose another aspect.
All I want to know is: 1. How many times has he tempered his items to triple crit all Resolve Stacks? 2. Did he use the Infernal Hordes exploit to farm that many Tempering material, because I can't imagine how he did it otherwise?
My chest for triple took 100+ attempts. My other 2 items were less than 15 each. The bottleneck actually wasnt obducite, I had a lot of obducite from doing infernal hordes natty and NMDs when testing stuff etc. The bottleneck was rawhide and that was super annoying. If your item hits 2 masterwork crits on resolve then I'd just finish it to 12/12 and ignore where the 3rd goes. 9 stacks is good enough.
Hi Nick great content. For some reason your late game Shroud build (Quill volley) is slower to kill some monsters than your early game version. For instance, I can pretty much kill Duriel, Varshan, Zir within 3 seconds with your early paragon build on Torment 4 without the Shroud, but when I use your late game Shroud version, the damage is enormous and can hit for billions but its not killing some of the bosses and even on Pit 100, some monsters seem resistant to the high damage which does not kill off some of the low level monsters and I have to spam Hunter a few times to kill these low level monsters and also the bosses. I do not know why your late game Shroud has this high damage but slower kill effect. I have tried other builds such as Mekuna's Regular mystic circle build using the Shroud and this build doesn't have any lag and kills the monsters quickly as per your low paragon build. Could this be a Paragon Board choice issue? I also prefer not to use mystic circle. Do you have a Shroud build that solves the slower kill problem that I am currently experiencing? Thanks if you can comment.
I just got a shroud of false death with GA in max HP in a random mythic box from the blacksmith, in the guide online it says to use that, but here I don't think you mention it, should I use that?
I'm currently testing your 'end game' mobalytics build guide... I noticed that my white damage is higher than my orange number... Is that normal? I was expecting overpower damage (orange) would be higher... Is this why you have the white numbers shown, instead of the orange?
Nick I’ve got a quad GA banished lords but the bottom is at 48. I also have one with GA on max HP and 60% at the bottom. Is one clearly better than the other?
@@brooksrobinson7246 Don't even need GA on rod tbh since you can supplement resource in multiple ways. I actually made a brand new spiritborn to set it up with very shit gear and if you know HOW you're able to do it pretty easily. Maybe I shoudl make a dedicated video on that lol
@@NickTew I’d have to go back and watch again but I thought when you were pointing out the Uniques that you mentioned some stats that needed to be GA to really make it work, my mistake if not
Would you recommend switching any of these pieces to mythics later? I have a shako and tyrael's might and not sure if I should be wearing them or not for this build at super late game.
Hi Nick, I can clear almost all content but looking to get into that huge damage version now. What metrics are key? Do glyphs need to be 100, does all gear need to be masterworked to level 12 before any of that is possible? I'm missing something I just know it.
If you don't need the ferocity stacks to hit the attack speed breakpoint would it be better to use the devourer instead because it lasts a lot longer so it's easier to reset in time and the supremacy stacks are more consistent?
@natedawwg87 in the early game, the rod is there to remove the resource cost, an allows u to drop the accursed touch resource tech in the very early game. I wouldn't try the build without the staff as it's pretty much mandatory. Gamble for quarterstaff to get a chance at the rod as there are only 2 unique quarterstaff, you have a good chance to find it, once you get it, I would recommend going for the armour stacking version in the leveling guide, this will carry you to t4, then you should either be able to farm for the build, as you need paragon and masterworks rod for max vigor to hit 240
It’s definitely a resource regenerative issue if so. There’s a calculator that Sanctum put out for you to calculate yours. Needs to be 100% to make 240 work.
I've been following the dark shroud guide to a T for gear stats and my damge is only getting to the 10-20 trillions I cant figured out what I'm doing wrong!
Dad gamer here. All I can say is, great job, young man! Clear and concise-I approve!
mom gamer here 😂
Don't forget to take care of your kids lol
@@hawleyfromhellwhy???
This is so wholesome. I needed a cheer me up. Thank you
If anyone is struggling with resources, early use the ring of the midday hunt together with the ring of midnight sun. It's gives you a flat 50% increase to your vigor.
This works but no one ever talks about in gearing. I use it cause if the lack of good drops.
As someone said before, would rather they cut the unique drops and increase Anc Legendaries with GA
@@b-rizz5209they dont need to lower the unique chance to up the GA chance.
The big issue is that anything that isnt ancest is useless, and only GA’d gear is ancest. They should make non GA’s have 800 item power so loot doesnt feel so bad.
You need the Weapon called Rod of Kepeleke. This solves your resource cost.
Your Core Skills are now additionally Basic Skills, free to cast, and deal up to 30% less damage based on their cost.
When cast at Maximum Vigor, your Core Skills consume all Vigor to return to full damage, cast at their largest Size, and become guaranteed Critical Strikes, with [1.00 - 3.00]%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage for each point of Vigor spent this way.
@dankmctwist6575 that's the grind loop...
Why boost the GA drop rate that's stupid. You want to me max BiS in a week?
I just want to say thanks so much, I've been following different guides and streamers all season, and you're the first I've heard to not call it "vicious shield". Well done, your parents would be proud.
Thanks for including the low paragon point version. It's been really frustrating trying to find decent builds that don't require 280+ paragon points!
Yes thank you so much!! Your build has changed my game. I finally can do higher pits and unlocked T4.
paragon points only go up to 300 anyway.
Great stuff. I love that you go into full detail on what is actually scaling the build and how not to brick it, lol. Looking forward to the Crushing Hand build!
amazing video and amazing explanations. I learned a lot here. Was already following your builds, but understanding them in more depth is super helpful. Thanks!!
Very detailed guide. Easy to understand and so much better learning how the build works instead of just copying and wondering why it doesn't work
Great guide - detailed and thorough. I now understand what I need to do and WHY! Thanks so much Nick for putting the massive amount of time in this would have needed 🙂
Isn't it nice how a short version of build breakdown takes 40 minutes, but results in something that's easy and pleasant to play?
Also... "Stat squish" they said, "Do less damage" they said...
Awesome guide and way to give credit where it’s due. I respect that. Got a new subscriber 🤙🏼
Honestly this is the best explanation and most scenarios covered for item decisions out there. Puts the other guides to shame really. With so many bugs factoring in causing tons of uninformed decisions for players, you really made the info at least consumable.
I appreciate that feedback a lot!
Just wanna say this is my first season playing and you've been an amazing help man appreciate it a lot, best youtuber iv'e watched by far no one else goes into the stats and stuff as much as you do and it helps out a lot, thank you for whatcha do.
I just started playing the game again after a long time. I have tried alot of build out there and so far this is the best I have tried. I appreciate the work my man.
This is the first video I've found that actually breaks down the build and explains what's going on, so you can easily judge what you need and how to achieve it. Knowing the exact stat breakpoints is so important!
Also, care to share how you get the required items so fast? I struggle for days trying to roll a single stat MW on an item....
I've been following since outriders and your builds are always crazy. i've never seen someone figure out the math behind abilities as well as you
Dude, you are simply amazing. Thanks for doing a great job. Imo so far the best video of yours. Thanks for explaining everything thoroughly with all the details.
That under city exploit did some nasty work with all these 3GA items floating around
I could never find a tripple there
Is it still a thing ??
@@Libbylou312 Nah, it was hotfixed yesterday.
I can never find the video or info on this. What did that exploit entail? I'm curious.
@@AlperTanGandalf In a group, if you dropped the Tribute before your party members accepted, it wouldn't be consumed. So you could run the legendary one with guaranteed Ancestral drops repeatedly.
This vid is fantastic thanks man, taken my build to a whole new level new level just understanding everything in depth and having the paragon board broken down per level is a game changer. Went from 65 pits to easy 80s unbuffed this morning, thank you!!
awesome
Holy f balls, i have only the uniques with some okish gear, about 150 paragon....i just breezed through a T35 pit (i know, pretty easy but I was trying to do it myself and i'm very much a casual!). I was pretty much struggling with on my previous build. Barely even had to use all my cooldowns lol
Thanks man, always love ur guides and builds. I might enjoy doing my own but always when I need to push Pits I come to you for help :)
Good tip from comments helped me pass 240, put in Ring of the Midday hunt if you can't make 240 as it gives your 50% more vigor. This helped me get over 240 as my Rod of Kelepe doesn't have a GA on Max Resource!
Thank you for this extended guide. Makes more sense for me than the guide from AOS.
Loving your builds, looking forward to the speed farming one as the quill can be a bit awkward for moving around in like Hordes
Great job on deciphering this build and it's very impressive.
Followed your levelling guide for the class then went over to the first early endgame build you have...even that quill build just demolishes anything so far in T2 with constant barrier and...yeah i mean it is completely bonkers but THIS build? hahaha so nice. Update 24.10.24. Kept going...done masterworking and all that snazzy stuff and this build is still completely bonkers. Got like 60 hours in the game most items masterworked with +2 +3 ga this just rocks.
Great build as always. I am curious though after looking at your Mobalytics Quintillion and Trillion Builds, do you ultimately think there's an edge for the Mythic Variant, i.e. Shroud/Harlequin, vs. Ebewaka, vs. Legendary Aspect? Helm/Chest?
Love your explanations as well. Other creators seem to have only super end game builds with the greatest gear possible. Good for them but their builds don't work for me. It's nice to see a real world type build that works for me.
This build is great! I just started and jumped to tier 1 with crap gear. I was able to farm up gear through Helltide and get the rolls I needed but I don't have any GA's on my gear and this still makes tier 1 a joke! Thanks for the information!
this build is the "pit 150" one from mobylytics in your link section?
I'm sure its min/max perfected I just wanna ask:
1. what happened to Rebounding aspect ? no longer viable ?
2. Harmony of Ebewaka?
3. And I'd like to hear serious oppinions about Rakanoth's Wake boots I'm currently using, they provide movement, cd red, tons of ressistance (with star 52% to all res), and alot of damage 75% to damage (without star), and unique effect aint that bad either dealing 780fire dam whenever i use skill on cd.
Crushing Hand / Vortex seems like it'd be overall faster for farming 99% of the content.
Well maybe after todays slight evade nerf it will be, but it was not at all. This is by far the fastest build, ever. I zip through 60+ pits in 2 minutes and im Para lvl 160.
@@LeonKennedy-fk7sg 60+ is a wide margin, most builds can zip through 60 for example as it's not even T4 level of difficulty but then struggle at 70
@@nikjustnik8202well, I zip through pit 120 with this build in 2 minutes. I do have maxed out glyphs, 12/12 gear, full aspects and 240 paragon, though. This build is insanely good. As good as Lightning Spear sorc was last season - basically has no downside except the high gear requirements
duddde, been searching for a good build that works while leveling up paragons. here i am at 185 and doing 4B dmg!!!! you got a like and a subscribe!
Im only at 11B :(
@@PieroCollao hehe i made a big mistake!! somehow i typed T instead of B. 11b is still good mate. im reaching 12B atm. Paragons are the best and easy upgrade.
@Bjondo86 i reached 45B just a moment ago, the resource ga in kepeleke did magic. I forgot about the extra dmg per extra vigor point and also the aspect in 3.00X
Amazing guide, thank you. Great in-depth explanations in regards to how skills, stats, and aspects are affecting each other. What is hilarious about this class, out of the dozen or more bugged interactions you point out in detail, the average player ( myself) can run 2-3 of these and smoke all of the content. Broken classes and builds are fun in arpgs; as long as the Devs fix it after a few months. I don't see this class being balanced for a year at best.
I've tried a bunch of Quill builds and Nick's are always the best for me, if you can hit some key breakpoints like max resource 145 you're gonna be great, follow the build
Best video to explain the how this build works.. I have 244 resource gen.. yet vigor still drop off 275..
i think they might have fixed it, i have 249 and it goes 35-275-35-275. so think you actually have to hit the 275 threshold now to make it work. because just being above 240 does not seem to work anymore.
Edit: i did not have 100% resource generation. and the written guide says nothing on HOW or where to get more. it does not even mention this as a priority to get
jesus fuck thx, you just fixed my gear
Finally a build where it's thorough u have a new subscriber yo! Gonna make tweaks to mine inline with yours
I see a Nicolas build, I build it. Always my favorite D4 builds every season!
Problem I'm having is finding legendaries... uniques are stupid easy and now you cant find any legendaries. Very frustrating... I would rather they half the unique drops at add the legendary drops back to bosses
For real finding even ancestral legendary gear is crauy hard but having the right stats is almost impossible because there is like a 1 in 30 drop rate. And you cant trade anything because the shit is stupid expensive. Everyone wants like billions of gold for 1 ga chestplate like im some kind of chinese bot farmer
Helltides are good for this.
Then you finally get a good GA legendary only to brick it even with a scroll 😂
Honestly just play more. Use a red opal. It is really not that hard
@@flintenberger8122lol
thank you again nick, this vid update helped me jump from 80-110 rifts - thanks for breaking down the build and all ur research - viscous shiled n hp + 3.0 kepelke and 47% midnight sun is powerful
I'm currently on tier 80 and looking to get to same tier as you. My damage is in millions and low billions. What did you do to get you into that next giga tier of damage that you were missing previously? I have 267 vigor but still not seem to fill resource consistently to get overpower. All my gear is masterworked to at least tier 8 and glyphs are all at level 70.
@@dpolenz79 the first thing was the ring of midnight sun - mine was at a low 30 percent - so each hit was not doing max damage and refill my resourrce to full after each attack
nicktew recommends 47% and up atleast
and the next thing was getting a 3% on my rod of K
once i corrected those precentages by running a lot of boss runs to get the items
i shot up tto doing 90's rifts - then updated my stats to match the wrritten guide and BAM t 110 rifts eazy one sho mode
highest dmg i have seen with my setup is 1.1T thank you nick!
@@dirkychan7720 good call on get rod and ring.
@@dirkychan7720 what level were your glyphs when you hit trillion damage and what ghlyphs are you using
@@dpolenz79 lvl 80-90's across the board on glyphs
spirit, headhundter, clossal, meng , fulimnate
90 on spirit
and i threw on a health potion and life incense as well
this build scales on HP due to V shield. Those two were the icing on the top to get to 1 trillion dmg - very important as well
Ive followed your End Game build exactly and im loving it, but how exactly have you gotten 100% vigour generation? Im sitting at 50% with ravager actively and bouncing between 35-275. Could you update the guide to explain as i have followed it exactly as described, thanks!
Edit: using the shroud fixed this issue for me.
Hey mate appreciated for all your works, have you ever compare resolve vs resilient?
I know it isn't "meta" but I absolutely love poisoning stuff and the CC is just fun tbh.
Thank you for the very clear and concise build guide! I played in beta, S0, S1, and S2, but never got very far, and this is the first character i'm aiming to get to paragon 300. I'm currently at the late paragon tanky part of the build, what's the difference between this build and the speedfarm build? Which one will I want to use for the majority of the game for infernal hordes, nightmare dungeons, etc? Thank you!
I love that it says you can get rawhide from cellars. I did one and it gave me 1....good stuff
my thoughts exactly
Hoping in the next vid there is much more insight with what to do if you don’t have a GA Rod, which is super hard to get.
That seems to be what makes this 240 “easy to obtain”, but the transition from a starter / mid game build to this is really quite confusing.
Agreed
If you dont have GA Rod of Kepeleke....You need 240 Vigor (235 if you have 3 points in balance exertion passive): you have 100 base vigor, you get 30 from spiritual attunement passive, 20 from magical nodes and 12 from two rare nodes from the sapping paragonboard, if you hit the requirement of 435 strength, you get additonal 4 Vigor from one of the rare nodes.
So we are now at 162 Vigor and need only 73 more...the Menagerist Glyph slotted into the Sapping paragonboard socket buffes the magic nodes. My Menagerist Glyph is at Lvl 80 and it buffes the magic nodes from 4 vigor to 13 vigor. so thats additional 27 vigor (there are 3 magical nodes in range, 3x9=27).
Now we need 46 vigor. Maybe you masterworked your Rod of Kepeleke to 8/12 and hit Max Resource twice. thats another 14-36 vigor, depending on your rolls. now you can use Elixir of Resourcefulness II for another 25 vigor. if you are still not at 240 /235 vigor, you can use Thibauts Will and Harlequins Crest.
If you are still not at 240/235 Vigor, you can use the hubrisglyph instead of the menageristglyph. the hubrisglyph gives 5% more to the magic nodes.
If you have a low paragonlvl, you should use the earlier version of the quill volley guide with the aspect of the unyielding hits and stacking armor and dont play the banished lord´s talisman. the talisman works only with 240/235 vigor.
Sorry for my bad english and the wall of text. I hope i could help you.
Greetings from a 47 year old gamer from germany :-)
@@MegaBiertrinker +25 from resourcefulness elixir pretty much carries it - in addition to tibaults will / shako if you want to supplement with that. It's very easy to reach 240 if you don't have a GA max rod - hence the timestamp talking about 240 vigor.
@@MegaBiertrinker Thank you so much, your breakdown really helped me out a lot with my Vigor issue!
Awesome video man. Thanks for sharing. Cant wait to try this. 😊
Great work, really appreciate the tanky variation. Any chance you will make a guide for Crushing Fist speedfarming?
Hey Nick. Been following your build posts for a couple of seasons now and really appreciate your choices and clarity of explanation.
I am in T4 with the Quill Volley build and crushing almost everything in the game in seconds (except Andariel - still struggling with the fight mechanics a bit). A few questions ...
1) On the Sapping paragon board, why Menagerist as opposed to Hubris? I am using the latter and it gives me a few more max resource points
2) I am experimenting with shelving Ebewaka in favor of a Legendary helm with massive max resource. Along with a good Kepeleke max resource roll and the various other max resource buffs I am at about 250 max resource even without a Resourcefulness potion. I have a 50% Midnight Sun ring. I have a 60% Talisman. Nevertheless I still sometimes see the resource globe filling gradually (about 0.5s from 0 to max) instead of staying at max and kind of flickering as it empties and fills, which indicates optimal performance. Any thoughts about why this might be happening?
3) resource gen vs resource cost reduction on the legendary ring. Seems to me that RCR is contrary to the goal of meeting the Talisman requirements as each cast of quill volley costs less so you have a higher bar to reach. Why RCR vs RG?
4) how to quantify the Que rune Barrier. Iirc the Druid Earthen Bulwark is something like 35% max life but it’s been awhile. Is it the same here?
Thanks!
Great build breakdown. I have a question, would the lord talisman work with a Touch of Death build as well?
Good Job Nick. Are u gonna playing too Rogue in this Season? Would be nice.
Great guide! Thanks for all you do. One question for clarity, and I apologize if I missed it but why use the Colossal glyph? It increases damage of Gorilla skills but the only Gorilla skill we have on the bar is armored hide. If Gorilla is your secondary spirit, does Colossal do anything? Thanks in advance for any response that clears this up for me.
Thanks bro, just about to watch this but this is what I've been waiting for.
your the only streamer that clearly explain the banished lord works.
I've looked at your quill volley paragon boards and don't see anything that you've posted with this build. Also, early end game is different significantly on 2 of your builds. I really appreciate all your help... but at like level 200 what should I be following? Can you post this paragon board somewhere? Thanks!
Has this broken build been fixed? I ask because I think I've done it exactly as Nicktew has it, and I'm regularly getting 1-2 Billion but never anything higher than that.
Even without the full vigor, I am absolutely smashing T3 content. With potion I'm at 221 vigor
Very nice guide thx a lot! I was very lucky and found Tyrael's Might. I dont know if it makes sense to use it in this build? Which aspect could i avoid for it? 🙂
thanks for the guide! after getting all glyphs to 46 which should i focus on maxing out first?
If im not wrong, having any form of resource cost reduction eg affixes and elixir will mess up your banished lord setup as it reduces your quill vigor cost. I had mine at 0 vigor cost which made it not working with 240 vigor.
Pro tip for us controller simpletons, if you place Armored Hide and Ravager on the triggers, you can just hold them down and never miss a cooldown…
I must have missed something. Your Paragon board here shows Colossal in the starter board but your End Game Build shows HeadHunter. Can't figure out why you would use that at all to buff basic nodes when there is 6 regular nodes
I noticed that also so I just follow his guide for 230+tanky . Not sure what one he's using on this video because none of his builds has what's on this video .
Hello nick, longtime watcher, first time commenter. Where would you put the last paragon points for these builds. I’m almost 230 paragon following your early endgame board but it shows 74 points still needed?
Note that 2.0.3 hotfix sorted Kepeleke so that chance to cast Quill Volley twice is now working. This is a huge buff for this spec, which was already one of the strongest specs there is
Sadly enough they also silent nerfed kepeleke not counting the quill vigor (35) and now we need 275 vigor to make it work, so we basicly lose another aspect.
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All I want to know is:
1. How many times has he tempered his items to triple crit all Resolve Stacks?
2. Did he use the Infernal Hordes exploit to farm that many Tempering material, because I can't imagine how he did it otherwise?
Infernal hordes mats farm is patched this week I believe
I'm talking about pre-patch.
@exxuto you know he did. It's impossible in the current state of the game with how expensive masterworking is to get gear perfected like that.
@@OceanD4wrong just play the game you will get 10k mats easy
My chest for triple took 100+ attempts. My other 2 items were less than 15 each. The bottleneck actually wasnt obducite, I had a lot of obducite from doing infernal hordes natty and NMDs when testing stuff etc. The bottleneck was rawhide and that was super annoying. If your item hits 2 masterwork crits on resolve then I'd just finish it to 12/12 and ignore where the 3rd goes. 9 stacks is good enough.
Hi Nick great content. For some reason your late game Shroud build (Quill volley) is slower to kill some monsters than your early game version. For instance, I can pretty much kill Duriel, Varshan, Zir within 3 seconds with your early paragon build on Torment 4 without the Shroud, but when I use your late game Shroud version, the damage is enormous and can hit for billions but its not killing some of the bosses and even on Pit 100, some monsters seem resistant to the high damage which does not kill off some of the low level monsters and I have to spam Hunter a few times to kill these low level monsters and also the bosses. I do not know why your late game Shroud has this high damage but slower kill effect. I have tried other builds such as Mekuna's Regular mystic circle build using the Shroud and this build doesn't have any lag and kills the monsters quickly as per your low paragon build. Could this be a Paragon Board choice issue? I also prefer not to use mystic circle. Do you have a Shroud build that solves the slower kill problem that I am currently experiencing? Thanks if you can comment.
I love the rebounding aspect can I still use it in this build? Or is it not needed anymore?
Best build and D4 theory master, keep it up, what is the second best alt after this - thank u!!
What mythics works with this build or which would work best
Just done paragon 242 and all 5 glyphs upto lvl 100. I can see dmg around 95 100+ billion per hit. Its madness with this Shroud armor
Thanks for deep guide this build. I tryb this today. I m very exiting
I just got a shroud of false death with GA in max HP in a random mythic box from the blacksmith, in the guide online it says to use that, but here I don't think you mention it, should I use that?
I'm currently testing your 'end game' mobalytics build guide... I noticed that my white damage is higher than my orange number... Is that normal? I was expecting overpower damage (orange) would be higher... Is this why you have the white numbers shown, instead of the orange?
I'm sticking with my kiss of death followed by a trip to poison pound town. It's not as powerful but I love it.
Nick I’ve got a quad GA banished lords but the bottom is at 48. I also have one with GA on max HP and 60% at the bottom. Is one clearly better than the other?
Amazing build but If haven’t watched just know you need several very specific pieces of unique gear with GA to make it work
The only required GA is max resource on the Rod I think the rest can come after
@@brooksrobinson7246 Don't even need GA on rod tbh since you can supplement resource in multiple ways. I actually made a brand new spiritborn to set it up with very shit gear and if you know HOW you're able to do it pretty easily. Maybe I shoudl make a dedicated video on that lol
@@NickTew I’d have to go back and watch again but I thought when you were pointing out the Uniques that you mentioned some stats that needed to be GA to really make it work, my mistake if not
@@NickTew please do!
Nick can you tell me which is better: resilient or resolve stacks? And why?
Nice! Question.. can I use Harlequins instead of Harmony?..
Oops.. answered!..
Yes, but not optimal
You can add the comparison tables, the ones you published are different.
Whats your thought on hubris glyph instead of menagerist for more stats?
it's less than a % better so it's not a big deal
Awesome! Thanks Nick!
Ill never have your gear but ive done pit 115 so far and im happy with that xD
So resolve stacks and resilient? Or resolve stacks only? The guide you say resilient is better but here now it’s resolve stacks.
Any update to this build ? This is different from what you have on Mobalytics...
Would you recommend switching any of these pieces to mythics later? I have a shako and tyrael's might and not sure if I should be wearing them or not for this build at super late game.
Hi Nick, I can clear almost all content but looking to get into that huge damage version now. What metrics are key? Do glyphs need to be 100, does all gear need to be masterworked to level 12 before any of that is possible? I'm missing something I just know it.
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Is there any recommendations on what to do with the extra paragon points? Would love to know where to stick them!
How is your armore getting tempered for so much extra resolve stacks????? I can only do 1-2....
If you don't need the ferocity stacks to hit the attack speed breakpoint would it be better to use the devourer instead because it lasts a lot longer so it's easier to reset in time and the supremacy stacks are more consistent?
Can I still use this early endgame build without the rod or helm? What do you recommend using in place of those uniques if I have yet to see them?
@natedawwg87 in the early game, the rod is there to remove the resource cost, an allows u to drop the accursed touch resource tech in the very early game. I wouldn't try the build without the staff as it's pretty much mandatory. Gamble for quarterstaff to get a chance at the rod as there are only 2 unique quarterstaff, you have a good chance to find it, once you get it, I would recommend going for the armour stacking version in the leveling guide, this will carry you to t4, then you should either be able to farm for the build, as you need paragon and masterworks rod for max vigor to hit 240
@nicktew perfect a crushing hand build please and thanks
yeah i'm looking forward to that too. It seems easier to play, despite it having a little less dps.
seems like a cool build, but i m really more interested in the crushing hand variation of it.
im at 240 vigor but it still dosen't stay full any tips? my resource regen is probably bad but i cant raise it without losing barrier
It’s definitely a resource regenerative issue if so. There’s a calculator that Sanctum put out for you to calculate yours. Needs to be 100% to make 240 work.
Same 50 regen is all i can get to atm i hate it lol struggles
Can you do a video going over the Shroud of False Death version? That would be dope!
I love builds that say "Okay, first - don't get ANY mythics."
GODLIKE thanks man
I've been lucky and got a Shako, should I use this over the Spiritborn helmet?
Awesome video, thanks a lot!
Currently hovering over Viscous Shield on the Paragon Board and it’s completely different than the website you linked to.
Is this gonna be a viable build after todays patch?
This doesn't rely on the evade bug so if that's all they're fixing it should still work. If they fix the resolve/block bug then it won't be as strong.
Evade is the only way my barrier stays up ive pretty much copy and pasted everything he's got on
I've been following the dark shroud guide to a T for gear stats and my damge is only getting to the 10-20 trillions
I cant figured out what I'm doing wrong!