Spectral Binding

[Nightbringer]

I'm not quite sure what "aether damage 8" does. Is it a passive aura which reduces nearby health of my enemies by 8 every second or per tick? Will it scale with cast speed? In which builds this ability and its upgrade fits? I want to use it for my Death Knight build, because it feels thematic and also stats seem good. Offensive power, health, passive damaging aura, reduction in resistances. All seem nice, but not sure if I will ever find use for aether damage buff.


Also, will Spectral Wrath activate itself automatically. Now I see recarge and ability duration stats on it as it would be ability which you would activate frequently, but Spectral Binding is more of an aura type thing.

[Faust Wither]

specral binding, aura that give you a aether damage on weapon attack
spectral wrath, give spectral binding some kind of retalion which active if you get hit

[KG]

Spectral Binding adds the flat aether damage to your weapon damage, so any attack that deals a % of weapon damage gets that % of the bonus.

Spectral Wrath activates automatically if Spectral Binding is active.

[Nightbringer]

But isn't this 7 damage per hit kinda low? For what these skills are useful for in general?

[Faust Wither]

Originally posted by Nightbringer:

But isn't this 7 damage per hit kinda low? For what these skills are useful for in general?

as a hardcore necromancer, usualy it help me in increasing max health at low level, but after i got the tree of life devotion(because i'm a summoner), so i reset it. Also it has badaass undead looking aura. but at level max, it kinda have good bonus 44 aether flat damage, 85% aether damage, 1174 health, 88 offensive ability(which increasing crit chance).

[Nightbringer]

Is it worth it? While it looks cool, looking at stats, it does not seem as a bargain for 20 or so points investment.

[RodHull]

Originally posted by Nightbringer:

But isn't this 7 damage per hit kinda low? For what these skills are useful for in general?

Well at max standard level 12 it does 48, and 48 flat damage is quite strong. I suggest going to read a guide on how to stack damage types and bonuses to best effect. But a brief overview, lets say you have it at 12 and your doing 48 extra aether damage, now lets consider your character has 1000% aether damage bonus from gear and devotions (not difficult to get at all) well now thats an 4800 damage per hit, and lets say your hitting 2 times per second well now thats a 9600 DPS boost.

Flat damage bonuses like this are some of the most powerful ways to boost damage when combined with gear and % bonuses. Thats why they seem small cause later they get boosted.

Pet builds particularly utilise this concept (but not that skill particularly) by stacking flat damage boosts of what seems like small amounts onto 12 or more pets it means huge amounts of DPS

[Nightbringer]

Thanks for explaining that to me. It seems then that this is a perfect ability for me!

[RodHull]

Yeah its a solid skill if your going an aether route, also 1000+ health and a nice OA boost is nothing to be sniffed at.

[Faust Wither]

Originally posted by Nightbringer:

Is it worth it? While it looks cool, looking at stats, it does not seem as a bargain for 20 or so points investment.

if your build is aether is worth because is rare for a thing to reducing enemy vit or aether resist. but for vital build probalby one point for spectral binding and maxed for spectral wrath, but it is for fancy aura, just give it onepoint one for specral binding either way you gonna find the endgame gear for necromancer that support the aura.

[RodHull]

Originally posted by Faust Wither:

Originally posted by Nightbringer:

Is it worth it? While it looks cool, looking at stats, it does not seem as a bargain for 20 or so points investment.

if your build is aether is worth because is rare for a thing to reducing enemy vit or aether resist. but for vital build probalby one point for spectral binding and maxed for spectral wrath, but it is for fancy aura, just give it onepoint one for specral binding either way you gonna find the endgame gear for necromancer that support the aura.

If your going for a death knight id personally max both but you could get away with less I guess.

[KG]

^ The Health & OA is pretty nice for anything that isn't a summoner.