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00:00:00 – 00:10:21
The video discusses an advanced solo melee Necromancer build in Diablo 4, focusing on Shadow damage without using minions. Key strategies include using abilities such as Corpse Tendrils, Corpse Explosion, and Sever to manage enemies and create vulnerability. The build leverages unique items like "Howl From Below" gloves to enhance abilities and generate corpses through lucky hits with the Huge Flesh upgrade. Further, the build improves survivability using healing orbs, shields, and barriers, particularly effective in high-level Nightmare Dungeons with abilities like Bone Storm and passives like Grim Harvest and The Protector.
Equipment chosen for this build includes aspects like the Aspect of the Embalmer, Enduring Aspect, Wind Striker Aspect, Cadaverous Aspect, and Blighted Aspect, all contributing to healing, mobility, damage boosts, and overall effectiveness. Players are advised to use a wand for faster attack speed and a shield for damage blocking. The combination of these equipment and aspects maximizes Shadow damage and ensures a robust defense.
The video concludes by highlighting the importance of optimizing Shadow damage and willpower nodes and mentions future content featuring builds at higher levels. The creator encourages viewers to experiment with the build and provide feedback.
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In this part of the video, the creator showcases a Reaper build for a solo melee Necromancer in Diablo 4, focusing on Shadow damage without minions. The strategy involves using abilities like Wreath to auto-generate corpses, Corpse Tendrils to group and immobilize enemies, and Corpse Explosion for Shadow AOE damage. The Sever ability is used for sustained damage and to set vulnerability on enemies. Unique “Howl From Below” gloves enhance Corpse Explosion and deal additional Shadow damage. The creator also explains how to generate corpses during boss fights using the Huge Flesh upgrade, which has a chance to create corpses upon lucky hits. The Iron Maiden skill provides additional Essence and healing during combat. The segment concludes with options for configuring Corpse Tendrils for either increased vulnerability or additional healing via Blood Orbs.
00:03:00
In this segment, the video discusses strategies for improving survivability and optimizing damage for a melee Necromancer build. Key points include using healing orbs to reduce the cooldown of the ultimate ability, Bone Storm, which also decreases enemy damage and provides a damage shield, converts damage to shadow damage, and can generate corpses. The build focuses on maintaining essence for continuous corpse generation using abilities like Sever and passives like Grim Harvest. Other important passives include Fueled by Death and Death’s Embrace to increase damage and reduce incoming damage. The segment also covers defensive aspects like The Protector for damage shields and Shielding Storm for additional barriers, especially useful in high-level Nightmare Dungeons.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses various aspects and equipment choices for a build, particularly focusing on a Necromancer character. Key points include:
1. **Aspect of the Embalmer**: Generates blood orbs during corpse explosions, aiding both healing and ultimate cooldown reduction.
2. **Enduring Aspect**: Grants Unstoppable status when health is critically low, preventing death with a long cooldown.
3. **Wind Striker Aspect**: Increases movement speed upon dealing critical damage, enhancing mobility.
4. **Cadaverous Aspect**: Enhances the next core skill’s damage after consuming a corpse, benefiting from stacking corpse explosions.
5. **Equipment Choices**: Uses a wand for faster attack speed and better lucky hit chance, and a shield for damage blocking and Thorns for generating extra corpses.
6. **Blighted Aspect**: Boosts damage significantly after shadow blight triggers on multiple enemies.
7. **Paragon and Glyphs**: Utilizes the Territorial Glyph for increased damage to close enemies and added damage reduction, contributing to a highly survivable yet moderately damaging build.
Overall, the emphasis is on survivability, shadow damage, core skills, and efficient use of aspects and equipment to maximize the build’s effectiveness.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, the presenter discusses the advantages of increasing damage by focusing on Shadow damage ticks, noting that enhancing Shadow damage significantly boosts overall damage output. The speaker highlights the importance of seeking nodes that improve willpower and additional factors that enhance Shadow damage or damage over time. Additionally, the video wraps up the discussion on the reaper build, emphasizing the fun and effectiveness of playing a solo Necromancer melee build in the game. Future content will include more builds, particularly at level 50 and eventually tier 4. The presenter encourages viewers to share their opinions on the build in the comments.