Highest damage skills

[Rabbid]

So, besides arcane beam and light beam, what are other skills that do massive damage?

[Rabbid]

Is there any reason to not always have arcane beam and light beam in your build? No other skills seem to compare at all to these two. kinda makes the game a lot less fun :( A pure fire build has so little damage it is not even playable. They really ran that spec into the ground and made it totally useless :(

[Wenshee]

I get 6 min 20 ranger character with shadow skill and cycle 6+ 450m damage on mage invoc

[Zolik]

Originally posted by Rabbid:

Is there any reason to not always have arcane beam and light beam in your build? No other skills seem to compare at all to these two. kinda makes the game a lot less fun :( A pure fire build has so little damage it is not even playable. They really ran that spec into the ground and made it totally useless :(

There is definitely more you can use. I've had success with sentinel playing Sniper Shot/Storm of Arrows etc, Doom Deathknight, Combustion Pyromancer. Some abilities/builds are definitely way ahead of others though. Dot stacking builds seem to be much better overall too right now.

I think part of the issue is certain classes or skills start off really slow in early-mid game and when it comes to high curse levels you don't really get the opportunity to make it past early game with slower skills.

Fragility is also way too much of a necessity and I hate it. If you get get lucky with passive points early on (like each time you apply slow there's 50% chance to apply fragility) it makes the game 10000x easier.

[Ouro]

Raw damage builds would be cool to see
(yes i know they work just fine early on, i'm talking curse 7 etc in endless)
if you guys know some, i'd love to see them

[nash]

barbarian with whirlwind, flurry, bodyslam, scent of blood and subdue with a lot of bleedstacking feels good at curse 5. no idea how it performs higher, but I did beat curse 5 first try with it.

[Eudicots]

Tigers are probably the single strongest skill for anything outside of endless.

[Frenzy85]

Shadow Orb scales really well into high Endless.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2887688002

[Wirt's Leg]

Icy Vortex is pretty much broken. 1.4 billion+ damage at endless 8 with 6 Icy Vortex and as much slow as I could get. Applies thousands of slow stacks immediately and most of the time pops ALL the bosses at once 1-4 secs after they spawn in and converge on me. I have a screenshot but I didn't take it through steam.

[Belgarion]

Originally posted by Wirt's Leg:

Icy Vortex is pretty much broken. 1.4 billion+ damage at endless 8 with 6 Icy Vortex and as much slow as I could get. Applies thousands of slow stacks immediately and most of the time pops ALL the bosses at once 1-4 secs after they spawn in and converge on me. I have a screenshot but I didn't take it through steam. :captainclown:

how u get 6 skills the same? What's the rune and how to unlock it?

[SatanBless]

Shadow Orb consistently has the highest damage for me whenever I use it. Even with minimal levels. It's just an extremely powerful skill, even in high curse without trying to go endless.

Also, Poison Cloud is actually amazing. Try it whenever you are using either poison or lasting as your main skill tags.

Poison Cloud is very unasuming, but it always tops the DPS charts with minimal investment. For other poison skills, Acid rain is very powerful as well.

Shadow also has the DK unique skill, the Ray of Doom, which scales extremely well. One of the most powerful skills for Shadow next to Shadow Orb.

For the Beam spells, Light Beam is definitely the most powerful. It also is a Lasting spell, so it works very well with Lasting builds that try to stack the Lasting Tag (Shadow Orb and Poison Cloud are both Lasting, so they work very well together with Light Beam).

[HoneyDrake]

Originally posted by Wirt's Leg:

Icy Vortex is pretty much broken. 1.4 billion+ damage at endless 8 with 6 Icy Vortex and as much slow as I could get. Applies thousands of slow stacks immediately and most of the time pops ALL the bosses at once 1-4 secs after they spawn in and converge on me. I have a screenshot but I didn't take it through steam. :captainclown:

you can add screenshots to steam without taking it through them.

[Wirt's Leg]

Originally posted by Honey Drake:

Originally posted by Wirt's Leg:

Icy Vortex is pretty much broken. 1.4 billion+ damage at endless 8 with 6 Icy Vortex and as much slow as I could get. Applies thousands of slow stacks immediately and most of the time pops ALL the bosses at once 1-4 secs after they spawn in and converge on me. I have a screenshot but I didn't take it through steam.

you can add screenshots to steam without taking it through them.

I'll try to fiddle with it.
Edit: I can't figure it out, brain too small.
Edit Edit: https://imgur.com/a/XMIEWVp

Originally posted by Belgarion:

Originally posted by Wirt's Leg:

Icy Vortex is pretty much broken. 1.4 billion+ damage at endless 8 with 6 Icy Vortex and as much slow as I could get. Applies thousands of slow stacks immediately and most of the time pops ALL the bosses at once 1-4 secs after they spawn in and converge on me. I have a screenshot but I didn't take it through steam.

how u get 6 skills the same? What's the rune and how to unlock it?

Complete curse VI on the Caves of Dhal Zhog. Rune is called Singular Focus.

[Belgarion]

Originally posted by Rabbid:

So, besides arcane beam and light beam, what are other skills that do massive damage?

What makes VS such a great game is that the dev never nerfed anything.
1- OP game breaking skill found?
2- stronger enemie/stages appear
3- Even more game breaking skills get released
4- Even stronger enemies appear
Repeat for success

[Wandal]

ice vortex do deal nice dmg, 36-90mil from 1 vortex depends on slow stacks
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888379877

[Goregasm]

41.8 billion. After enough cycles it's your speed that kills you because you have to move so fast to avoid the bosses that you get stuck on something and get hit. Another issue is when you choose a skill as soon as you press it you're not holding the movement so there's a slight lag and that lag can kill you. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888432426