Horror builds?

[Maina]

I have been beating my head against the wall on making a Horror build work on cycle 4.

Horror triggers off self-damage, attack, and kill. It gives absurd amounts of bleed and some astral damage to enemies.

Blood focuses on self-damage, bleed, and attack. Those synergize well enough.

Astral focuses on standing still. You need Astral to get Horror, but I see absolutely zero synergy with the rest of what Horror needs/wants. Whatever you pick for the Astral requirement feels like a dead perk. Astrokinesis at least triggers on attack, but the astral damage is doing nothing for you as nothing triggers off astral damage. In fact, it hurts you if you take blood bath.

And you will need blood bath, because Horror has incredibly low survivability with block/armor set to 1. But if you take it, you need to be doing only blood damage. If Astrokinesis kills them before blood damage triggers, you get no healing.

I've tried a stand-still teleport build - half of Horror's abilities don't trigger then.

I've tried a pure melee build - tend to get overwhelmed with a debuff that kills me on step/attack.

I've tried a speed build by adding in Lightning - eventually it's either debuffs because my damage is too low or it's ranged attacks before I can get close.

[CrabNicholson]

Herja + Asi Malak + Roil

Become a machinegun

[CrabNicholson]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3249686563

[Maina]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3249876164

That helped a lot, thank you.

I think overlooking Roil was my main mistake. It does more damage than it heals, to start, so I kept going with Bloodbath and struggling with the 'adjacent' requirement.

[CrabNicholson]

Brud takes care of the self-healing due to the insane amount of bleed that Horror inflicts, you'll probably heal back to full every time you attack once you get the combo rolling. If you can find the helmet that turns Bleed into Doom, then you've basically won the game. I stopped levelling up everything except HP when I found it because I was able to beat pretty much any enemy in a single attack command. If you use an "attacks area when two-handing" weapon then you will perform an attack for each point of Herja against EVERY enemy in your line of sight. Horror is probably the most busted build I've seen yet, except that it's a complete glass cannon that can't even get divine interventions. Maybe it would be worthwhile to pick up some points in Gore Cult for the meatshields. Aslan doesn't really do anything for you since you generally don't want to get hit, priest is probably better, but Aslan was more thematic, and it started with a two-handed weapon.

[Maina]

I mostly wanted Aslan since they can't pray in combat and Horror loses charges on kill, haha. That way I get a game completion with both. I did do a full heal prayer before picking up items on the last level of each zone, though.