Top Damage Skill

[OREGRIM]

Has anyone found a skill that does more than Light Beam?

[Mokkun]

Kill skills. Kill skills stomp light beam when used properly.

~Edit for clarification. Kill skills are one that take stacks, or base debuff damage, and multiply them for enormous hits. Stuff like Subdue or Reap.

[OREGRIM]

What kind of chain would you set up? Tried Subdue and it just takes way to long to crush the Lords.

[XartaX]

Frozen warhammer slow stacking is pretty hard hitting. Combine with stacking exposed as well and you one tap most bosses even late loops.

[Palandus]

The strongest combo I've found is Shockwave + Demolish (to get the nice double buffs for frontal and slam), with Bloodshed + Scent of Blood on the Barbarian. I can take out a boss with 120 million hp in about 5-6 seconds.

[OREGRIM]

Originally posted by Palandus (Bone):

The strongest combo I've found is Shockwave + Demolish (to get the nice double buffs for frontal and slam), with Bloodshed + Scent of Blood on the Barbarian. I can take out a boss with 120 million hp in about 5-6 seconds.

Pretty strong build. My Paladin with Light Beam and Arcane Beam does kill just a tad faster but your build is probably the best for a new player wanting to clear content easily.

[Calm Koala]

I don't know how much damage Light Beam does.
For me Frenzied Bunnies are decent.

https://i.imgur.com/Leh5rhf.jpg

[Palandus]

Oh, so there is a build that Paladin has that doesn't suck. I'll have to try out Light Beam, because I find that the Paladin isn't that great to play.

[Ulyaoth]

Arcane Blade (Spellblade, Prestige 50) - Exposed+Vulnerable
Arcane Mace (Paladin, 3d Weapon, 2nd Skill) - Exposed+Vulnerable
Ice Vortex (all, default) - Slow+Paralysis
Frozen Warhammer (Elementalist, 2nd Weapon, 2nd Skill) - Slow+Paralysis
Purging Slam (Legionnaire, 3d Weapon, 2nd Skill) Poison + Rot (Consumer)
Noxious Shot (Sentinel, 4th Weapon, 1st Skill) - Poison + Rot
Fiery Blade (Spellblade, 4th Weapon, 2nd Skill) - Burn + Melting
Thundering Slash (Barbarian, 3d Weapon, 1st Skill) - Dazed + Disoriented
Reap (Deathknight, 2nd Weapon, 2nd Skill) - Doom + Cursed (Consumer)
Subdue (all, default) - Bleed + Hemorrhage
Eviscerate (AssAssin, 1st Weapon, 1st Skill) - Bleed + Hemorrhage (Consumer)
Staggering Blow (Paladin, 4th Weapon, 2nd Skill) - Dazed + Disoriented
Fan of Bombs (AssAssin, 3d Weapon, 2nd Skill) - Fragility + Weakness
Threshing Blast (Houndmaster, 3d Weapon, 2nd Skill) - Bleed + Hemorrhage
Incinierating Spear (Legionnaire, 4th Weapon, 2nd Skill) - Burn + Melting (Consumer)

All Kill Skills, that scale more the later the run is and outclass Light Beam by far.

Originally posted by OREGRIM:

What kind of chain would you set up? Tried Subdue and it just takes way to long to crush the Lords.

Slam focused Bleed Build with high AOE and heal.
There is an advanced setup with Carnage, Subdue, Scent of Blood, Ground Slam, Shockwave, Demolish as well but more RNG related.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2066020/discussions/0/3826426358092966696/
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3034812511

Originally posted by Palandus (Bone):

Oh, so there is a build that Paladin has that doesn't suck. I'll have to try out Light Beam, because I find that the Paladin isn't that great to play.

Just two examples, you can do a full Holy build with 2nd weapon, or full Arcane with 3d as well.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3036457959
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3002804616

[OREGRIM]

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197975543765/screenshot/2102675297279773896/

[Ulyaoth]

Originally posted by OREGRIM:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197975543765/screenshot/2102675297279773896/

If you go for something like this, you will end up always with the same values, since the damage display shows real damage done.
If you go into details, you can see overkill damage as well.

Time wise it looks pretty solid though.

[OREGRIM]

Yeah was looking for crazy skills. Light Beam x 5 with 1 Arcane Beam wrecks. Never make it very much past level 220 and I think that might be intentional on the part of the developers.

[Ulyaoth]

Originally posted by OREGRIM:

Yeah was looking for crazy skills. Light Beam x 5 with 1 Arcane Beam wrecks. Never make it very much past level 220 and I think that might be intentional on the part of the developers.

There was a time without Endless/Overlord Scaling and you you could get to Loop 100 if you wanted.

But there were so heavy performance issues accross the board, so devs implemented this scaling, what is actually supposed to kill you after Loop3 and the somewhat "forced" level cap between loops.
Also, Overlord supposed to spawn one Lord per round more, without the limit of 5 max alive at the same time, so you had 20 lords spawning together.
This was fun^^

I understand the move, if i go for Scent of Blood game starts lagging insane pretty early, due high attack speed and multicast.

[Calm Koala]

If you play paladin you could try Bladestorm with Misfortune's Embrace rune. Seems viable even on curse 48.

https://i.imgur.com/fBtkJLi.jpg

[Palandus]

How is it you did 5x holy beam, when I can only take a skill once?

[Ulyaoth]

Originally posted by Palandus (Bone):

How is it you did 5x holy beam, when I can only take a skill once?

Singular Focus Rune -
Win a match on Caves of Dhal zhog on Curse VI