Making better use of Blue Crescent Cornell?

[Moonbane]

Since evolved Cornell gets an altenative loadout with Ebony Diabologue, you can actually avoid taking the awful Trinum Custodem and still keep the werewolf stats. Confodere can be taken from the Diabologue as a replacement for Trinum Custodem.

x2 Max Health
+2 Armor
+40% MoveSpeed
+3 Amount
+10 Rerolls

He also gains +1% Might every level.

Did a test run, focusing mainly on Melio Confodere and Stamazza. Both did significantly better than Trinum Custodem usually does.

[Chesshire]

Mega Cornell's increased Armor and Max Health means he increases the damage of Mazo Familiar twice, and the increased amount increases it further. Throw Divine Bloodline on to gain Max Health from using Mazo, and it starts increasing it's own damage with every use.
Take Night Sword for both more retaliatory damage, and heart generation to fill up your ever growing health bar. You can grab Centralis Custos to react to Muramasa's health drain by being constantly active, giving you even more Armor and Recovery.
Whip, Vanitas Whip, and Eskibizzur all fit in this build, and also all of these and night sword benefit from Slash. Which synergizes with high luck which increases health drain from Night Sword.
You can also back up Fuwalafoo or Muramasa with Sarabande for another damage source, which while synergize with his increased recovery. Avoid Jet Black, though, it won't allow enemies to touch you and trigger retaliatory attacks.

[Moonbane]

Originally posted by Chesshire:

Mega Cornell's increased Armor and Max Health means he increases the damage of Mazo Familiar twice, and the increased amount increases it further. Throw Divine Bloodline on to gain Max Health from using Mazo, and it starts increasing it's own damage with every use.
Take Night Sword for both more retaliatory damage, and heart generation to fill up your ever growing health bar. You can grab Centralis Custos to react to Muramasa's health drain by being constantly active, giving you even more Armor and Recovery.
Whip, Vanitas Whip, and Eskibizzur all fit in this build, and also all of these and night sword benefit from Slash. Which synergizes with high luck which increases health drain from Night Sword.
You can also back up Fuwalafoo or Muramasa with Sarabande for another damage source, which while synergize with his increased recovery. Avoid Jet Black, though, it won't allow enemies to touch you and trigger retaliatory attacks.

Your oppinion of stamazza and dark iron shield?

[Chesshire]

Well Stamazza occasionally crashes the game last I checked. Dark Iron shield is alright on a relatiatory build but prevents you from losing health, which prevents Divine Bloodline from boosting your damage. This is why you avoid Crimson Shroud. Legionnaire is better if you want a big long distance retaliation effect besides Mazo. Still there's plenty of room on the build so nothing saying you can't take Mazo, Night Sword, Centralis, Iron Shield, Eskibizzur, and Vanitas, and have self inflating AoE counterattacks. It only takes 3 passives to evolve the 5 of these that can evolve so you can add Candelabra, Torrona's Box, Clover, and Silver Ring to maximize the area and crit chance.

[Moonbane]

Originally posted by Chesshire:

Well Stamazza occasionally crashes the game last I checked. Dark Iron shield is alright on a relatiatory build but prevents you from losing health, which prevents Divine Bloodline from boosting your damage. This is why you avoid Crimson Shroud. Legionnaire is better if you want a big long distance retaliation effect besides Mazo. Still there's plenty of room on the build so nothing saying you can't take Mazo, Night Sword, Centralis, Iron Shield, Eskibizzur, and Vanitas, and have self inflating AoE counterattacks. It only takes 3 passives to evolve the 5 of these that can evolve so you can add Candelabra, Torrona's Box, Clover, and Silver Ring to maximize the area and crit chance.

Some good words there. Stamazza got fixed last update, no longer crashes the game. And Stamazza scales powerfully with amount.

Silver Ring is a stagedrop, so doesnt need to be counted. Just wait till you have 6 filled.

[Chesshire]

That's why I mentioned it after the first six. You'll need Armor, Hollow Heart, and Stone Mask to start with. Also Stamazzo doesn't really synergize with much of anything except crit, and there's few enough heroes that work with crit, like Reinhart, Sigma, and Sniper.