Death Knight - Passives only + Retaliation

[Strixxy]

Anyone tried any class combination with only Passives / Main Attack passives + Retaliation while leveling or end game? Currently at 50 with DK using only left click and retaliation.

It's quite a bit of fun so far.

[KG]

Judging from my summoner (yeah - I wanted to see if I could actually enjoy one for once if based on necro - turns out yes) Spectral Wrath is really nice. Even with my summoner I'll often end up with the whole screen debuffed due to AoE attacks and playing aggressively.

I imagine it would be even better with a retaliation build. I think the combo might need item support (like all retaliation builds) though - and I don't know how much of that exists.

[Strixxy]

Cool stuff, my goal is to try and get as close to the term "immortal" as I can in Veteran Difficulty without using spells and still being able to kill tougher enemies at a decent speed.

So far I've been able to mess with enemy Heroes 6-8lvls above me without seeing too much stress. (As long as they hit fast and not too hard)

[Rylocke]

You'll definitely start to run into trouble in higher difficulties, especially against ranged and caster mobs.

[Strixxy]

Originally posted by Rylocke:

You'll definitely start to run into trouble in higher difficulties, especially against ranged and caster mobs.

That I am well aware of. However trying to push it as far as I possibly can and to tune it to keep it alive as long as I can

[caelcyndar5]

http://www.grimtools.com/calc/RZR99mKV Death Knight retaliation build works surprisingly well. Spectral Wrath really helps a lot since with a Warder version you'd have Wendigo Totem for heals. Managed multiple runs through Bastion of Chaos without using a single potion and the highest hit was only 4528 from Shar'Zul. Max retaliation damage was a whopping 324K.

[mmart42192]

Haven't tried this, but came looking to see if anyone had this idea. I had to go into a skeleton key dungeon for a quest, and all the enemies were about 10 levels below me (I was about 60), and once I got the item I needed, I wanted to let them kill me so I could get out faster. Problem was that with all the passive damage auras I had, and retalation damage, plus health regen and other things, even standing around doing nothing was killing enemies.

Like mentioned, definitely not viable for really high difficulties, but its really fun to just run through crowds of lower level enemies and watch them get killed automatically.