Dual Wield Reaper Advice

[Takeda]

Currently using Scourge Strike from a relic, which I would imagine is a long way from being optimal.

With the Nightblade Necromancer combo primarily providing Pierce and Vitality damage sources, Beronath's Shard looks wasteful in it's elemental conversion. Troll's Rage looks to be a waste of a relic slot. In addition, I'd be happy to sacrifice some DPS to not be yet another Nightblade in Belgothian just to get the 'strike' - thematically it's bad.

I tried Bone Harvest on LH mouse which was ok, but presumably i'll get no WPS every 3 seconds and it tended to trigger before i got in the fight (I'd click an enemy to close distance, blow the Harvest and run in with a sheepish look on my face).

Suggestions?

I'm guessing it's gonna be Troll's Rage and learn to live with it.

I should add, is there a source of skills, items and sets which lists all the potential auto attack replacers?

[SchnitzelTruck]

You can get a gargoyle belt which converts 50% vitality to cold and make a cold dw autoattacker. Morgoneths set works pretty well for that as an end goal. Already a few reaper builds with that set posted on the official forum and they seem fairly powerful.

[Faust Wither]

https://www.grimtools.com/db/itemsets/166

new set seems good, but i don't know how to balance the stat.

[Azunai]

i tried a DW reaper and my conclusion was that there is no synergy. switched over to a 2H build focussed on cold damage and suddenly the class made a whole lot more sense. had blade burst on left click, shadow strike on right and RoS and BH on number keys

if it has to be DW, your best bet is probably a DW acid build with the class set (deathmarked). unfortunately that build only makes sense with the set and isn't really worthwhile without the transmuters and skill modifiers of the set.

[Takeda]

Thank you all for your answers.

I seem to have an obsession with dual wield nightblade hybrids - so I keep poking them with a stick to see what I can make work. My arcanist has cold covered and although in theory I've got nothing against a second cold focus, the infiltrator hedges in on that and my shaman is entirely lacklustre with leccy. The lack of a decent one handed leccy melee is killing her and Korba's seems to be the solution.

Short version: not all nightblades should be cold.

So my reaper is 85 and has been fine til now (60 odd % life leech carries you a long way) but I'm trying to crowbar in DPS without a real attack skill and that's smothering her resistances and survivability.

The Armour of Eternal Night looks very interesting tho - I'll tough it out to 94 and see if I can make her viable then :)

[Carl!!!!]

With some conversion items, you could pull off aether reaper imo.

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/11323 (aether auto attack replacer)

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8414

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/11247 (with shadow strike aether conversion roll)

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/11735

https://www.grimtools.com/db/itemsets/131

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/1548

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8340

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/7930

[RodHull]

Problem with reapers is the lack of native auto attack replacer hurts their DPS, you can use shard of beronath but its sub optimal, you will end up transmuting some of your damage to fire and lightning (a waste) and it totally lacks vitality support. Most vitality heavy melee builds tend to focus on a big ability with a cooldown like bone harvest and just don't bother with attack replacers as there basically isnt a good one for cold/vitality builds. The fact none exists has always bothered me a bit, its the the only damage source I believe which doesn't have an attack replacer in game.

[Takeda]

Publicado originalmente por RodHull:

Problem with reapers is the lack of native auto attack replacer hurts their DPS, you can use shard of beronath but its sub optimal, you will end up transmuting some of your damage to fire and lightning (a waste) and it totally lacks vitality support. Most vitality heavy melee builds tend to focus on a big ability with a cooldown like bone harvest and just don't bother with attack replacers as there basically isnt a good one for cold/vitality builds. The fact none exists has always bothered me a bit, its the the only damage source I believe which doesn't have an attack replacer in game.

I think this is what's informing my quest: the idea that each class should be viable as it is as opposed to requiring conversion into a sort of meta. Presumably balancing vitality melee is the issue - an Auto AR could be created but it shouldn't unfairly favour the damage as a side effect of dragging up the potential of other classes.

[RodHull]

Im not sure why one doesn't exist really, I suppose you could argue cold also doesn't have one but its semi catered for in other ways, but vitality just flat out has zero attack replacer support

[+|A.O|+]

I went for vitality and health reduction..

The vitality damage being buffed heavily by stuff like Wendigo (devotion) and +%vitality damage and dot modifiers that are already available for nightblade.

Cleared the game in Normal, trying elite.
I think I have low phys to vitality conversion hence I'm suffering. Max 25% conversion. Need gear!