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The video from Rage Gaming, presented by Hol, introduces a Max Burst Minion Necromancer build tailored for Season 4, focusing on high burst damage and speed clearing to efficiently eliminate enemies, particularly in high-level content. The build leverages various skills, masteries, and strategies to enhance damage output and survivability. Key skills and masteries include Skeletal Warrior Mastery, Death’s Embrace, Death’s Approach, Amplify Damage, Decrepify, Golem Mastery, and key passives like Kalin’s Edict. The Paragon board optimizations emphasize crowd control and damage enhancements using Cult Leader and Hulking Monstrosity boards, along with glyphs such as Dead Raiser and Corporeal.
To boost damage further, the build incorporates the Bor Strength, Center of Death, and Flesh Eater boards, as well as glyphs like Golem and Gravekeeper for increased DPS. Key equipment includes Alt Dominion helmets, Hardened Bones chests, Blood Gloves, Grasping Veins gloves, and specialized boots for mobility and damage. Gear optimization focuses on attributes such as armor, resistances, intelligence, attack speed, and critical strike chance.
For utility and offense, Corpse Tendrils, Decrepify effects, and Golem damage are prioritized. Specific setups for critical strike and movement are discussed, alongside gem selections emphasizing increased vulnerable damage and health. The build's strategies maximize damage by aligning buffs, debuffs, and procs like Shadow blight stacks, particularly in Golem slams. This comprehensive approach to skill allocation, gear optimization, and strategic play positions the build as highly effective for various scenarios, with ongoing refinements suggested for continuous performance improvements.
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In this part of the video, Hol from Rage Gaming introduces his Max Burst Minion Necromancer build for Season 4. The build focuses on achieving high levels of burst damage to swiftly kill enemies, emphasizing speed clearing to maximize efficiency. Hol demonstrates the build’s effectiveness by clearing high-level content effortlessly, including one-hit damage up to 200 million and handling tormented bosses in groups. He highlights the build’s current state of development, potential for further enhancements, and suitability for both casual and advanced players. The segment concludes with a detailed explanation of the build components, including the Book of the Dead, skill upgrades for skeletons, mages, and golems, and considerations for pit pushing and single-target scenarios.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on optimizing a build for maximizing damage output and survivability in a specific game. The speaker emphasizes the importance of various skills and masteries such as Skeletal Warrior Mastery, Death’s Embrace, Death’s Approach, Amplify Damage, Decrepify, and Skeletal Mage Mastery. Important strategies include enhancing Decrepify for slow effects and damage reduction, maximizing Golem Mastery, and using certain key passives like Kalin’s Edict for attack speed increases. Additionally, the Paragon board is discussed, highlighting the control of damage to crowd-controlled enemies, the use of the Cult Leader and Hulking Monstrosity boards to boost minion and Golem damage respectively, and the selection of glyphs like Dead Raiser and Corporeal to enhance these effects further.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker focuses on enhancing their character’s abilities through various boards and glyphs to maximize damage output and survivability. They highlight important upgrades, such as:
– Dumping points into Bor Strength and utilizing the Golem glyph to enhance Golem damage.
– Using the Center of Death and Flesh Eater boards to boost DPS, especially in boss fights by consuming resources strategically for damage bursts.
– Employing the Gravekeeper glyph to significantly raise DPS through enemy corpse generation.
– Heading to the Stifle board for additional critical strike damage.
– Moving to the final board, often featuring Blood Bath glyph for crit strike damage and fortified damage boosts.
The speaker then transitions to discussing gear, starting with aspects, affixes, tempering, and Masterwork targets. They emphasize the importance of equipment such as:
– Alt Dominion helmet for scaling Warriors and Majors.
– Hardened Bones on the chest for max damage reduction.
– Blood Gloves for a substantial damage increase.
– Grasping Veins gloves for critical strike chance and damage.
– Movement speed on boots, particularly Aspect of Slaughter, which is crucial for avoiding attacks in combat scenarios like the Lilith fight.
The speaker provides a detailed itemization strategy aiming for optimized performance and survivability in high-difficulty encounters.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses optimal gear and strategies for enhancing movement speed, critical strike, and damage output. They recommend different setups depending on the need for mobility versus damage, suggesting running specific boots and amulets like reanimation for consistent DPS or unyielding commander for burst DPS. They highlight the importance of managing gear aspects effectively, such as using “The Grandfather” for critical strike damage and shadow blighted setups for maximizing damage with a two-handed weapon. Attention is also given to optimizing armor and resistances, aiming for over 9,300 armor and 70% in essential resistances to ensure survivability and effectiveness in battles.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker details the essential attributes (AIX) and gear optimizations required for enhancing a Golem Mastery build. For the chest piece, having a minimum of +2 Golem Mastery is crucial, as it significantly boosts Golem damage, with potential for up to +4 ranks. Additional critical attributes include intelligence and maximum life on gloves and dexterity slots, with attack speed and critical strike chance being secondary priorities. The amulet should prioritize Hellbent Commander levels for a substantial minion damage increase, provided you are near the minions. For rings, attributes like intelligence, attack speed, and critical strike chance are emphasized.
Regarding utility and offense, the speaker recommends increases to Corpse Tendrils and Decrepify effects, with a focus on Golem damage and some movement speed where applicable. The importance of tempering gear is highlighted, noting specific gains in Golem damage and cooldown reduction. Moreover, the utility of skeletal priest effects is mentioned, albeit with a preference for DPS enhancements like minion attack speed. Summarily, obtaining the correct AIX combinations across all gear is paramount for maximizing the build’s effectiveness.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses optimizing a build by focusing on increasing Golem output, achieving high crit strike chances ideally close to 100%, and enhancing attack speed for minions. The speaker explains that their crit strike chance is currently at 36%, boosted to 51% with corpse tendrils, and mentions potential improvements by increasing crit strike on their amulet. For gem selection, the standard is followed, prioritizing increased vulnerable damage in weapons and health increases in defensive armor, while also managing resistances in jewelry to reach around 70%.
Key strategies for maximizing damage include setting up buffs and debuffs before triggering Golem slams, using corpse eater procs, Shadow blight stacks, and ensuring Army of the Dead and decrepify are active. The goal is to line up all buffs for significant damage increases during Golem slams. The speaker shares that this build has been highly successful for Pit level 61 and could be adjusted for more survivability or single-target focus if needed. They conclude by expressing satisfaction with the build’s performance and mention ongoing testing for further improvements.