poison build

[xlightningx]

which class works really good with the occultist as a poison build and makes me able to melt faces also on higher difficulties?

if you also got some builds,i am ready!

[Anathema]

I recommend Nightblade if you want to play poison melee and Arcanist if you want to play poison caster.

This is my DEE-spamming Warlock build: http://www.grimtools.com/calc/nZonpkVA

[xlightningx]

can you give me a build example for the melee?

[Funky T]

You could go down the nightblade dual-wield skill line and take the modifier, that converts some of those proccs into poison damage.
Then take shadow strike as a heavy hitter, the passive skills and the aura to boost your poison damage, take Blood of Dreeg as a source of flat acid damage and a generally good buff. Should be pretty much it.
I think the occultists Possession exclusive skill also boosts poison damage, so putting 50 points into the occultist mastery might be the way to go.

[Anathema]

I've been struggling a lot to come up with a melee build, mostly because there are just too many appropriate skills for the amount of points we get. I built something in grimtools that may work, but you'll probably have to shuffle skill points around to make it more effective.
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/b28vMzZj

[Funky T]

don't think you need Dreegs Evil Eye in a melee build, might be able to use those points elsewhere. Also might want to take some points out of ring of steel, dunno if you're gonna profit much from pierce damage with your poison focused build.
You could put those points into your dual-wield skills, at least get them all up to maximum procc chance (should be 20%). Execute might be worth some more investment, think it'll hit really hard.
And you should probably take pneumatic burst. It's a great heal with low cooldown when dual wielding. Plus it has some defensive boosts, like dodge chance and elemental resist.
Blood of Dreegs upgrade, Aspect of the Guardian might be worth some more points aswell. Gives you poison damage and -resist.
I don't really have a high level nightblade though, so my experience with that skilltree is limited.

[FlySC]

You dont need Ocultist for melee poison. I would recommend Soldier + Nightblade. Dual wield Slithtongues (a poison based dagger you can get guaranteed from a specific corpse, just google it). Use cadence as main skill. Tree would look like this: https://grimcalc.com/build/1009-9fH1hl

[FEZ. TF7]

I've been using a witch hunter on my recent character, playing as a melee caster, only skill's i've taken are Deeg's Evil Eye, Possession, Curse of Frailty, Shadow Strike, Merciless Repitoire, Blood of Deeg, and some points into Veil of Shadow, and 1 point into blade barrier, maxed out my Occultist bar and stopped at 32 on the Nightblade, if i have any points left once i max out most of those skill's then i may put some more points into the nightblades mastery or take pnuematic busrt, currently only level 57 but have steam rolled over everything so far, except Magdrogan, he nearly made me rip so i just done a runner from him, most of the damage i do is poison, acid, with some vitality thrown in, but so far it's alot of fun, curse a group of enemies, zip in with shadow strike them nuke with deeg's evil eye

Edit/ this is the current build i'm using minus the devotions as they are pretty obvious for a poison build, http://grimcalc.com/build/1009-UVc0x9

[vick1000]

Key to any poison build is Abomination and the massive Tainted Eruption nova. I use it on Blitz, but it works just as well on SS, maybe even better. I just went Blademaster to get some tank like quality, you still get massive DOT with internal damage stacking with poison. Blitz is the only active skill used mostly, I have a shield with Oleron's Blood on it, just to have another stack go off after Blitzing into the mob. Then just run back out, wait 3.8 seconds, and repeat.

I had tried Witchblade builds to max poison, but found them very fragile compared to other builds. Mostly due to having melee skills for poison, or just inefficient due to forced kiting.

[Azunai]

i've played through the game with a acid/poison melee DW witch hunter a while back.

don't remember the exact build, but i think it looked something like this:
http://grimcalc.com/build/1009-q6yM0O

key skills for damage are lethal assault and nidallas hidden hand. you want to overcap both as high as possible. they provide truckloads of flat acid damage.

if you use the venomblade set pieces (head an chest), a portion of your cold (from headpiece) and pierce (from chest armor) gets converted to acid, so having some abilites that deal cold or pierce damage primarily isn't a big problem once you're decked out - a decent chunk of that gets converted to your main damage type anyway.

for NHH to work properly, you also want at least 5 points in shears, quick cut and whirlwind (since that's the 3 procs that get modified by it - and 5 points maximizes the proc chance to 20%)

blood of dreeg also provides a lot of acid damage, OA and a second heal. the modifier adds decent physical resist and lots of poison resist (so much poision resist that you don't really need any on gear to max it out). possession gives a bit of bonus damage and (more importantly) damage absorb%. between the 2 heals (blood of dreeg / PBurst) and the various dodge, fumble and absorb perks the toon was actually quite tanky.

devotions are pretty simple. work towards abomination by picking up useful green and red nodes, essentially. i think i used oklaines lantern in this build because i was using daggers anyway. most of the good acid damage weapons are daggers.

rift scource slicers are a very strong (and farmable) MI weapons that work perfectly for that build (the green version of the weapon has a built in +3 bonus to nidallas hidden hand).