Brand+Frozen Chakram build ? Advice appreciated.

[Robert Zerker]

Has anybody tried this ? Is it worth the effort ? Is it viable ?


I was going to make a sword-centric build when I read about Brand. So, I went to the top of the Conflux Montain and near it, I met a caravaner who sold me that Frozen Chakram for 2000 silver. So I said goodbye to my savings and bought the thing, afraid that I may never have another chance at it.

Chakram looked cool, so I thought let's try this :

So, Philospher :
- Need the Chakram spells, so must have for the purpose of the build.
- Breakthrough pt to access 3rd spell and have the sweet Mana regen passive.
- Despite focusing on Cold damage, it looks like "Fire Affinity" is a nice passive, compared to the limited use of the "Frost Sigil" (Thoughts?)

Then Warrior Monk :
- Chakram spellcasting requires Discipline ( :/ )
- so must have "Focus" (last only 240s but has a 500s CD...)
- and "Brace", as a back up tool to generate discipline...
- will eventually need discipline potion/food I'm afraid.

Add the "Cool" Boon, "Puncture" sword skill, and there you have the mandatory basic set for the build i guess.
(Collecting all the boons and other non-breakthrough skills/passives will help ofc)

So, how would you guys build on top of that ?


For my part, I'd like to try this (probably not the most optimized set) :

Warrior Monk :
- BTP : "Steadfast Ascetic"
"Master of Motion" passive
"Flash onslaught" (to land a massive killing blow once opponents are low hp)

Shaman :
- BTP : "Shamanic Resonance"
All of the rest, for QoL.


Maybe, going Spellblade would net a bigger damage through "Infuse Frost" (losing the boon but bigger frost dmg for melee) but as I wasn't quite sure if this would stack with the inate Frost damage from Brand. After all, it's mainly a Chakram build with the sword as a side-weapon for debuff and melee combat when it's non-avoïdable.


¤¤¤ Gear Choice : Not really sure what's best.

- Head : Wide Blue Hat ?
- Chest : ? (Crimson Plate armor ? End-Game item, Blue-Chamber line?)
- Boots : ? (Crimson Plate boots ? End-Game item, Blue-Chamber line?)
- BackPack : Meffino's for QoL and then switch to a Scaled Satchel when you don't need to carry that much arround?)

¤¤¤ Stats & Mana ?

- ?


And, that's all. Crafting Brand is a lot of pain however (needs lot of silver to buy the parts + a lot of time to go to all the cities to buy those parts) and I'm currently traveling to Abrassar to get the last part before I start the Blue Chamber MQ...

[Dexter]

I am doing chakram build right now but I can't help with it. I don't care if it is viable or not, it looks cool and I am going to use it.

side note: remember that there are pots that give You disciple boon

[techn0]

White Priest Mitre +20% frost
Crimson Plate Armor +25% frost
Crimson Plate Boots +15% frost

If you notice on armor nothing can get as high on bonus damage as frost can. So yeah, seems worth a shot.

[Dexter]

And how about pure physical chakram build?

[techn0]

Originally posted by dexter411:

And how about pure physical chakram build?

Scaled Leather Armor + Discipline Boon + Warrior Elixir for bosses

[Dexter]

Originally posted by techn0:

Originally posted by dexter411:

And how about pure physical chakram build?

Scaled Leather Armor + Discipline Boon + Warrior Elixir for bosses

Is there anything to lower cooldowns of abilites? As far as I know, nothing like that exists.

[techn0]

I haven't finished the game but not that I am aware of.

[BrutHammer]

There is a mod that gives you ability to change rechard time of all abilities.

[Dexter]

Originally posted by BrutHammer:

There is a mod that gives you ability to change rechard time of all abilities.

Yeah but it is not what I'm looking for.
I've tried Scaled armor and I must say. For bandits in prison, it did ok damage.(chakram)

edit: Scaled armor seems nice but it leaves You defenceless. Also Hound mask adds 10 damage bonus while Sclaed hat gives 7.