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00:00:00 – 00:16:04
The video provides an in-depth guide on a specialized "blight build," focusing on enhancing damage output, optimizing gear, and balancing various statistics. Central to the build is the Eban Piercer Amulet, which significantly boosts damage through blight bolts and additional projectiles. Key strategies include stacking damage over time (DOTs), intelligence (int), and wither procs, and carefully selecting gear such as Harden Bones for essence regeneration and Shadow damage enhancements. The creator emphasizes the importance of high attack speed and shielding for stability in high-tier content, coupled with strategic skill distribution across several abilities like Blood Mist, Blighted Corpse Explosion, and Death's Embrace. The Paragon system is mentioned for defensive balancing, and efficient essence management is highlighted, particularly the need for a high attack speed to facilitate damage stacking. Although currently a "glass cannon"—vulnerable to elemental attacks—the creator notes plans for future refinements and invites community collaboration for further improvements. The video concludes with thank you remarks and encourages ongoing viewer engagement.
00:00:00
In this part of the video, the creator introduces a “blight build” they’ve been working on, detailing their progress over the past week in acquiring and fine-tuning the necessary gear. They mention a quick demo at the end of the video showcasing a speed clear of a level 91 Pit Boss, emphasizing the build’s ability to stagger and deal significant damage. The core of the build revolves around the new Eban Piercer Amulet, which boosts damage through blight bolts and additional projectiles. The creator highlights the importance of stacking damage over time (DOTs), intelligence (int), and wither procs. They discuss gear choices, including items like Harden Bones on the chest plate for essence regen and Shadow damage enhancement with gloves, while stressing the necessity of high attack speed and shielding for stability during high-tier content. The video also mentions an upcoming test with different materials to further refine the build.
00:03:00
In this part of the video, the focus is on optimizing various gear and attributes to maximize damage output. Key aspects include using concussive strikes for additional damage when enemies are dazed, prioritizing intelligence and movement speed on weapons, and selecting stats like damage over time for increased effectiveness. The user also discusses the importance of having high damage stats on amulets and movement speed as a valuable attribute. For rings, options like retribution, Inter colal, and ultimate Shadow are recommended based on different gameplay scenarios, such as speed farming or pushing. Boots can utilize the void attribute to efficiently group mobs during speed farming. The current build prioritizes massive damage output, reaching a significant dot tick damage, with potential for further increases by improving attack speed and overall damage. The Paragon system is briefly mentioned, suggesting the use of defensive glyphs like undaunted for damage reduction and potential adjustments to balance damage and defense.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses pushing damage into the 110 range, currently being at 107. They describe the use of different boards and modifiers for optimization, such as Gravekeeper, Wither, and Amplify. Specific skill points distribution includes five points into Blight, which doesn’t scale with skill damage but adds extra damage to the main projectile. The strategy involves using various skills like Blood Mist for corpse generation, Blighted Corpse Explosion for maintaining Fueled by Death, and Flesheater for boss fights. Additional skills and points like Death’s Embrace, Amp Damage, Decrepify, Tendrils, and various other modifiers are discussed to enhance damage, movement speed, and corpse management.
00:09:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses the optimization of skills and resources, particularly focusing on maximizing Essence regeneration and managing attack speed. They highlight achieving a 29% Essence regeneration per second, supported by specific equipment and enhancements. The speaker also details ways to manage Essence costs effectively, noting the balance achieved between cost reduction and resource generation. They emphasize the importance of attack speed, currently at 80.8%, which facilitates stacking Shadow damages and achieving high damage output through synergy of various buffs and procs. Strategies are shared for maintaining high damage during stagger windows in boss fights, including preparing corpses and stacking damage-over-time effects. The speaker touches on the effectiveness of different stagger effects and their role in transitioning to burn phases quickly. Additionally, the importance of managing mob clusters with tendrils for streamlined combat is mentioned.
00:12:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses the vulnerabilities of a “glass cannon” build, particularly how it can be quickly defeated by enemies with elemental attacks. They advise viewers to be cautious while progressing through different zones. The speaker mentions that the build is a work in progress and anticipates giving updates in the coming weeks as better stats and improvements are achieved. They invite questions, comments, and suggestions for improvements to the build, indicating a collaborative effort with viewers. The video concludes with a thank you message and well wishes for the viewers.