Posion/Acid Witch Hunter Best Synergy

[swillfly]

I'm thinking of making a Nightblade with Occultist to use primarily acid/venom Nidalla's along with Shadow Strike. Does Solael's Witchfire complement this? I figure besides Pneuma that Blood of Dreeg will replenish damage. Also, any devotion recommendations/overall suggestions? Thx!

[Valkez]

Solael's Witchfire gives attack speed, so if you're planning to autoattack, I would invest into it as much as it is needed. If your main hitters are going to be Shadow Strike or DEE though, I would perhaps spend only 1 point into it, if even that.
Still, your main Occultist skills would be Curse of Frailty (for Vulnerability), Possession and of course Blood of Dreeg.

As for the devotions, you certainly want Murmur and Manticore. After those, I would aim for Abomination (acid branch only); Affliction also works. The rest I would pick according to your weapons and needs.

[RodHull]

As a witch hunter your primary enemy is being as squishy as a wet paper bag, healing you have covered and some with 2 of the best heals in the game. Your issue is getting hit and not dieing haha

Ive played 2 poison focused toons extensively, unless you go with a slightly tankier combo like necro or soldier with occultist, being a nightblade you dont want to sit in melee combat for to long hitting things as you will die alot.

Personally I just use melee as a way to stack some poison dots, do a little extra acid damage while doing it, as such personally I wouldn't invest to heavily into Solaels (maybe 1 point wonder if you have +2 or 3 occultist skills?) The way most poison builds work is to shadow strike in, ROS, few Auto attacks to apply extra dots + devotion procs, run away, heal, kite watch everything die.

[swillfly]

Thx guys! Yup that's what I plan on doing -hit & run with SS and backing up to heal while poison/acid burns 'em down, rinse & repeat.

[Finnvbot]

Veil of Shadow (Night's Chill) + Curse of Frailty (Vulnerability) + Murmur + Manticore = LODS OF EMONE a horseload of resistance reduction and OA/DA debuff. Can't go wrong with that but, as others have already mentioned, getting enough HP might be challenging. Personally, I use Amarasta's Blade Burst as my l-click and wield Nightshade's Reach, loads of fun and engaging gameplay.

[swillfly]

Yeah -HP & regen are key issues as even briefly jumping into the mobs deals serious tank/soldiery type damage.

I just tried to secondary equip 2 epic 3rd cavalry pistols I found but it would only let me equip 1 - is that by design or am I missing something?
Edit: Ah n/m -I found out I need specific gear like Gunslingers Jacket

https://steamcommunity.com/app/219990/discussions/0/352788917747490047/

That's weird... Nightblades are ambidextrous to swish around 2 swords but they choke on 2 pistols?!?!!

[Cthulhu's Email Server]

Get a gunslingers talisman. That will let you dual wield guns.

[swillfly]

My lvl 15 Veteran Nightblade came across Smuggler's Den (random spawning cave)... Holy Frijole! Gutworm is like 5 or 6 levels above, resists everything, can run you down making kiting a joke -my 115% run speed is garbage, throws nets or casts something to hold you in place, and can almost 1-hit kill. I felt like Shao Kahn was gonna say "Finish Him" while I stood around like a stunned dunce. Waaaay OP boss! I would have to re-do all my planned Nightblade skill points AND choose a much less squishy build to merely survive. DW Nightblade solo seems like the most difficult character I've played! They don't have mega-damage until later and instead of at least being glass cannons, they're dainty ballerinas hopping into mobs and bosses where they're just plain f*u!*kd.

Veil of Shadows is invaluable! I found that out the hard way. After discovering I would be mincemeat w/o any debuffers I riftgated back to Devil's Cross and respec'ed my top tier DW stuff and added Veil with it's darkness upgrade. That allowed me to eventually kill Gutworm and get the Supreme Treasure Box -which I think is a 1-shotter. And inside was 1 green and a bunch of yellow -plus the exp. for killing Gutworm was pfooey. Gee thanks. Veil reduces monster resists which are always increasing as you trudge on. I noticed that the screen pauses briefly and loads new bosses on Veteran so the mobs/CC aren't as easy either. But Veil is a real life-saver. Otherwise all the fancy sword tornado moves won't you.

[RodHull]

Gutworm is a sort of miniboss, hes particularly punishing vs squishy melee toons and casters, that said you dont need to kill him.

[swillfly]

RodHull původně napsal:

Gutworm is a sort of miniboss, hes particularly punishing vs squishy melee toons and casters, that said you dont need to kill him.

That's for certain. He really ain't worth it. I wonder if anyone playing Normal or Veteran ever got good stuff from his stinky sock drawer.

[RodHull]

Im sure ive found the odd decent green from him before but nothing earth shattering no

There are other similar bosses who are hard for when you first meet them who also drop total cack (usually)

Mad Queen Im looking at you !

[The_Mess]

swillfly původně napsal:

RodHull původně napsal:

Gutworm is a sort of miniboss, hes particularly punishing vs squishy melee toons and casters, that said you dont need to kill him.

That's for certain. He really ain't worth it. I wonder if anyone playing Normal or Veteran ever got good stuff from his stinky sock drawer.

It's rare, but his chest does drop legendaries and epic items :trollface:

Oh and with a witch hunter, your best sources of damage are either shadow strike or transmuted evil eye of dreeg, since the damage over time from the poison can be made stupidly powerful.

[edit] Oh yeah - main thing I farm him for is ancient hearts, since he drops those roughly 1/4 runs. And since Act 1 is full of Beast bosses and minibosses + heroes, you can easily farm hearts there.

[swillfly]

I had a dinky goblingroble once drop an epic sword. What was Junior doing with That? rng rng rng rng rng rng rng -bananaphone!

[Valkez]

swillfly původně napsal:

I would have to re-do all my planned Nightblade skill points AND choose a much less squishy build to merely survive. DW Nightblade solo seems like the most difficult character I've played! They don't have mega-damage until later and instead of at least being glass cannons, they're dainty ballerinas hopping into mobs and bosses where they're just plain f*u!*kd.

Witch Hunters sure aren't the most newbie-friendly builds in GD. Nightblade though can be fairly resistant. Get Pneumatic Burst (with Belgothian's Breath if you're DW, + 12/12 Shadow Dance), Veil of Shadows (10/10), Blade Barrier (1 point only) and a bunch of points on Phantasmal Armor. Veteran difficulty done ;)

[swillfly]

Thx Valkez -will do. Salazar really kicked my butt -killed me like 3 times whilst I tried running around that small cell. Thankfully I dropped a riftgate inside the cell after the door locks and could teleport back to town for soup and continue to wheedle him down. 2 blues and bunch of greens and yellows. Not bad loot.

[peetski]

I recently dumped some points in Soleils at level 83 because I didn't have much else to fill out and I am stacking some chaos. I am going to put a defensive proc on it. The dps isn't much. You can find Divebomber build somewhere, sort of what I play. DEE and Shadowstrike loaded with Nidalia Justifiable ends. In crowded spaces, especially Malmouth city, can be a chore. But otherwise it is a fun way to play. Kiting bosses while they die is great defense.