u/BobTheMadCow

All the discussions about this seem to be from a year+ ago, so maybe something's changed.

I've got a mythic Midnight Sun ring that refunds 65% of vigor spent in the last 2s on crit, and Rod of Kepeleke spending all my vigor when full to guarantee a crit, and I'm attacking around twice per second. Logically, that should keep me more than topped up, even if I weave in other skills.

So why do I sometimes only get ~95% of my vigor orb filled up and have to wait for Armoured Hide to top me off?

My damage **craters** when this happens as I have a bunch of crit damage multis, and I can only cast Armored Hide every few seconds to jolt the cycle into life again.

Any vets of the "orange" build days that can explain this?

EDIT: Figured it out. I had only barely enough % regen to make this work with Ravager active and if it dropped for even one attack I get stranded with not enough vigor and no regen.

https://d4builds.gg/builds/8d5eba5b-f16e-4108-aaa1-edceba77fe52/?var=0

https://reddit.com/link/1tw2j5b/video/5peld6iar45h1/player

I know killing Andy on T10 isn't impressive, I just wanted to have something to show.

I've been working through this for the last few days and it's come together to the point I'm happy with it. Found out a few interesting things along the way. Like the Hellion Sting that is auto cast by the helm when you're in demonform doesn't generate Wrath, unless you also have the aspect that makes Basic skill generate 25 extra resource. And that the biggest damage your doing can actually be the smallest font size on the screen.

Anyway, simple plan, use Dirge of Odium and as many ways to generate both Wrath and Dominance as possible to get as many Wretches out as possible and use Eviscerate and the Mutilation aspect to bleed things to death.

And it works well enough for me 😄 Better gear and properly leveled glyphs would help a ton but its pretty late in the season and I've bounced through so many builds on this Warlock I've got a bunch of glyphs sitting around lvl 30...

Build link for anyone who doesn't want to scroll back up: https://d4builds.gg/builds/8d5eba5b-f16e-4108-aaa1-edceba77fe52/?var=0

Just pondering if it's worth dropping crit chance/multi on a build that uses Eviscerate/Mutilation or is the base damage of the skill still worth the investment even if the DoT damage can't crit?

Edit: Checked the numbers when I got home and Eviscerate (claims) to do so much more damage than the base attack that the Mutilate aspect means crit isn't worth going for.

I've not seen anyone talking about the reworked aspect of the Wildrage that now reduces companion skills cooldowns by 5-7.5 seconds. I'm sitting at about 6.5s cooldown at the moment so this should make Wolves and Ravens 100% spamable. The cost being that this is a resource aspect so needs to go on a ring or amulet, so I'd be losing +1 to each companion and a 35% damage multi, but I'd no longer have any downtime between casts.

Anyone played with this at all and can give any insight into whether it might be worth the tradeoff?

From the patch notes:

Ceh (Spirit Wolves)

• No longer makes enemies Vulnerable

• Chill amount reduced from 50% per leap to 10% per leap.

• Maximum wolves reduced from 10 to 6.

Ouch

Shepherd's Aspect

• Damage bonus decreased from 5-13%[x] to 2-3%[x].

#Oof

I was using it to hoover up screens worth of enemies last season, and even when I adjust for the tightened trigger requirements the pull radius seems tiny this season. Is it just a wash now?

Bonus question: how **do** you hoover up entire screens worth of enemies now?

Been messing about with lunatic just feeling out the build for myself and I was immediately drawn to the Sigil of Chaos Hellfire Aura variant, but I don't see anyone mentioning it in any of their builds, either for or against.

Seemed like getting all up in enemies faces and making sure not only the big lunatic but also all three little lunatics explode on them would be a good idea, but I'm not even seeing it get a mention. Is it just a noob trap of something?

Well I've made it into Torment 10 so I feel like it's time to share what I've been working on: a human form Companion build with a focus on Lightning damage.

Storm's Companion lost the massive boost to Pack Leader in LoH, so it takes a bit more investment into LHC to feel good. But that also means a primary damage source with 100% LHC and several supporting skills that can frequently lucky hit too*. Even Earthen Bulwark can lucky hit!

I've leveraged that high LHC investment to include the new Frostburn and Azurewrath unique effects, giving you a 50% on lucky hit to freeze enemies for 1s and do extra damage to them during that time, which Azurewrath (on a charm) then explodes out double or more to surrounding enemies when the freeze ends. Stuff is frozen and exploding all the time!

Due to the werewolf skill variant, this build can do a fair amount of passive damage just running through an area, as the werewolf companions will use their powerful AoE storm howl ability to pounce on enemies as you run around. The active companion skills can also be cast while moving, putting down raven storms in front of you, and calling the werewolves onto priority targets (though they don't always listen very well) all without breaking stride.

Going to the Mythic variant, I plan to swap out the Azurewrath charm to get both the 5 set Nafain's bonus on top of the 3 set bonus from the Storm Shepherd. Dropping Azurewrath makes Frostburn less appealing so swap that for the massive anti-oneshot boost of Endurant Faith gloves. I cannot undersell how strong turning a hit that would have killed you into a 4 second dot of 60% of that damage is.

I'm really enjoying this season and I hope this inspires others to branch out and have fun doing their own thing too.

* At 100% bonus to LHC you're at:

• 100% on wolves
• 90% on ravens
• 100% on Cataclysm
• 30% on Lightning Storm
• 34% on Hurricane
• 60% on Earthen Bulwark's tectonic plates that it spawns around you

Edit to add another link to the build: https://d4builds.gg/builds/ac144c4c-b217-4f76-8651-20e6363014fd/?var=1