My Curse 48 Hound Master Build

Just sharing my curse 48 hound master build to help others!

Build image

Detailed build information

UPDATE: I have not verified that this is still the same since the "new beginnings" update for the game! Please let me know in the comments if you find any changes until I have played enough to verify it.

For this build I use the following skills:

- Weapon skills: both skills from the epic 4ith-tier weapon, which are bolt barrage and cyclone shot
- Build ballista
- Might (replace with exorcism if doing more than 1 round)
- Bloodlust
- Frag shot

Runes:

- Weapon expert (allows you to start with both skills for your chosen weapon)
- Skill mastery: holy (use this to select exorcism for healing if you are doing more than 1 round)
- Skill inclination: projectile (used to target ballista and frag shot in early levels)
- Surefooted (damage reduction)
- Ready for battle (only active skills first 5 levels)
- Harmony (increased summon damage, buffs ballistas)
- Lord's bane (increased damage during bosses)

Passives:

- Focus on cooldown reduction and multishot
- Especially look for extra summons and damage of ballistas
- As always, use the magnetic skill at least a few ranks if you're doing 1 round, more if staying in. More pickup = more upgrades.
- Pick up extra health. Hound master has pretty low base health. Try to get to at least 300+ HP so if you get caught in something you don't get 1-shot and/or lose lives.

Notes:

- You can honestly be fine with any of the other weapons as well, based on your personal preference; however, I found that the basic weapon really falls off in higher curse levels. The green and purple background weapons are in my opinion, the best ones to use.
- Bloodlust and might buff your ballistas and are necessary; might is optional, if you have bad rng take it until bloodlust shows up, and if you're only doing 1 round, just take both buffs.
- If you're not using the green background weapon, then use frag shot to apply fragility and kill enemies faster. If you're using the green background weapon, you don't necessarily need to use frag shot, but still can anyway. A replacement for frag shot when using the green background weapon could be chain lightning or storm of arrows, these are both great skills that hit a lot of targets.
- Make sure you are maintaining the maximum well fed buff for your hounds; it maximizes their efficiency to shorten match time.

[Layla Spellwind]

Unfortunately with all these games that release early access, then even just a month later, let alone years later. Any online information for that game is completely out of date.
Trying to look anything up can often lead to disappointment.
I hate early access.

[Layla Spellwind]

I had a really bad time playing the houndmaster in general. My least favourite character by far. Decided to just get the things on their skill tree that affect other characters and just not bother getting the achievement for levelling them to 170.

[GothicCatMom]

@Layla Spellwind yeah some of these older SS guides of mine are from over a year ago sadly :( The replacement to exorcism is that all holy skills now have "Penance" which causes a small heal on hit, so my advice is to to pick really any large area holy skill that you like OR go after the earth orbs general skill. I need to archive some of these old build posts (or work on updates- unfortunately after finishing my runes by class guide I got a bit burnt out on SS game and have been playing other games).

[Layla Spellwind]

Exorcism is not available, guessing it's been removed since this was posted.

[GothicCatMom]

That sucks x.x yeah I have only played maybe a few hours of the new beginnings, but I liked the game much better before. Exp felt much slower than before as well. Thanks for letting me know!

[Arkan]

Definitely outdated now. Hound Master doesn't have innate access to Bloodlust and Might since New Beginnings, unfortunately.

[GothicCatMom]

Yeah I can, I have only played about an hour since they re-launched the new update with the new class and all, so I need to check on the skills in all my guides and make sure nothing has changed. I know I had a look at the rune table and didn't notice any changes. I will tell you for paladin though the build I use for it is normally a a chaos paladin with skills pulled from the chaoswalker class. The leveling and difficulty felt slightly slower than before the update, but not as badly as comments I have seen on the prior one they had to change.

[LYM]

Yo can you do build on paladin pls? Thank youuuuuuuu <3