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00:00:00 – 00:16:16
Max introduces a powerful Shadow Blight Necromancer build for Diablo 4, capable of dealing substantial damage, conceived by Crock, who previously developed the Pentad Dot build. This active playstyle build emphasizes intelligence and key mechanics like Blighted Aspect and legendary Paragon node Wither to maximize shadow damage over time. Essential equipment includes the Eban Piercer amulet and the Harley Quinn Crest, and optimal gear focuses on attributes like intelligence, attack speed, and damage over time.
Gameplay strategy involves maximizing Essence per second for uninterrupted blight skill use, with skills and items enhancing damage multipliers and survivability through effects like decrepify and bone storm. Scaling damage through corpse-related skills, specifically with Blood Mist and corpse explosion, and amplifying through corpse tendrils and decrepify, are critical. Paragon Board setups and glyphs like gravekeeper and wither further enhance the character's damage output and resilience.
Incorporating crowd control mechanics, such as stunning enemies for double damage with retribution multipliers, and utilizing glyphs like Scourge and Exploit for increased damage against vulnerable foes, further optimize the build. The video concludes by appreciating Crock's contributions.
00:00:00
In this segment of the video, Max introduces a highly powerful Shadow Blight Necromancer build for Diablo 4, capable of dealing up to 2.6 billion damage per second. Max emphasizes that this build is not a minion-focused playstyle but rather an active one that can clear high-end content efficiently. The build’s creator, Crock, previously designed a similar build called Pentad Dot, which has been improved and scaled for the current season. Max begins by explaining key mechanics of the setup, highlighting the importance of the Blighted Aspect and its damage multiplier, as well as the significant role of intelligence, which greatly enhances the build’s damage output.
00:03:00
In this segment of the video, the focus is on the importance of the legendary Paragon node called Wither, which increases the chance for shadow damage over time effects to deal bonus damage, scaling with intelligence. The key part of the build involves using the Eban Piercer amulet, which is responsible for a significant portion of the damage output through corpse explosions and blight. The build leverages shotgunning mechanics to stack damage over time effects efficiently. Additionally, important gear includes the Harley Quinn Crest for its beneficial stats, and the necessity of high intelligence on various equipment pieces to further enhance the build’s effectiveness.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses optimizing the gameplay strategy by maximizing Essence per second to enable constant spamming of the blight skill, which only costs 19 Essence and is crucial for dealing damage. They describe key equipment and skills to enhance this strategy, including increasing max life, damage reduction, intelligence, and attack speed. The speaker emphasizes the importance of various damage multipliers from skills and gear, like decrepify and bone storm, which also provide survivability benefits. They also highlight the specific attributes to look for on boots, gloves, and weapons to maximize damage output and efficiency, including intelligence, damage over time, and move speed. Additionally, they discuss the trade-offs between damage types and how to balance them for optimal results.
00:09:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses the optimal gear and skills setup for their build. They highlight the use of specific attributes on various items: intelligence, attack speed, damage over time, and maximum life on rings, as well as the importance of resource generation and shadow damage over time. The aspect of retribution is noted for its unique double-dipping effect, providing extra damage to staggered and stunned bosses. This makes the build particularly effective for boss fights, as opposed to typical damage-over-time (DOT) builds that are generally better for mobbing.
Regarding skill trees, the focus is on abilities that enhance damage multipliers and attack speed. Specific mentions include using blight with Supernatural and Imperfectly Balanced, which, despite some bugs, provide additional damage to projectiles. The Book of the Dead is utilized for increased shadow damage from warriors, increased damage to vulnerable enemies from mages, and increased attack speed from golems, all contributing to the overall efficiency of the build.
00:12:00
In this part of the video, the focus is on detailing the character build, specifically for a game involving various skills, damage types, and multipliers. Key points include prioritizing corpse-related skills for generating and exploiting corpses, such as Blood Mist and corpse explosion for Darkness damage. Important skills like decrepify and corpse tendrils are highlighted for damage amplification and cooldown reductions. The segment also emphasizes the importance of stacking shadow damage multipliers through skills and equipment effects. Additionally, the Paragon Board setup is discussed for further enhancement of damage and survivability, with an emphasis on glyphs like gravekeeper and wither to maximize the damage output and resilience of the character.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the various damage multipliers involved in the build, emphasizing the importance of stunning enemies to activate double damage via retribution multipliers. They highlight the use of crowd control for increased damage, and the benefit of being fortified for more max life damage. Consuming corpses boosts damage significantly, especially with the application of the Scourge glyph for increased damage to enemies affected by Shadow damage. Exploit glyph provides further damage multipliers against vulnerable enemies. The key glyphs mentioned include Abyssal, amplify, control, EXP, Scourge, sacrificial, and gravekeeper. The video concludes with a shout-out to content creator Crock and a farewell.