Melee Primalist Builds

For the holy Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, stahp, Coral

I choose to stop. Ty. Guess I’m not the only 1 in the world asking you to.

Embodiment gives Aspect of the Boar to companions and Natural Bond gives 75% more health, should help quite a bit. You could always slap a Minion Health affix onto your helmet for example.

From the Abby video it looks like he could tank the Abby slams, but there was no HP regen or leech for the bear to heal back up, that’s probably why he dies.

You say you know you can stop. You say you choose to stop. But then you don’t stop:

The roar would heal the bear for 25% max HP each time.

I had the HP passives last season but they weren’t helping, esp in high corr monos.

Sounds at least plausible

Whatever you say, cowboy :cowboy_hat_face:

Switched to the suggested points:

  • not really worth spending extra point for extra effect as bear dies way too quickly on 800 corr and abberoth
  • in general the respeccing results in almost 120% crit multi (resulting in ~470% crit multi instead of 350% without it) at the cost of 18 passive points. Good thing - lynx procs on skill use even when pet is down. Bad thing - you have to revive it, he really dies a lot.
  • On the countrary those 18 points can be spent in favor of survivability (str/dex nodes) and small flat dmg increases (some attunement node in shaman)
  • Generally - looks like an improvement, ty. But still - not sure it’ll bring the build close enough to uber :frowning: yet it being still close (800-900 corr and feeling fine, normal abby in 2 mins) feels it just needs a little bigger push to finally being an uber killer.

In the meantime - there’s a bear build killing uber under a minute :smiley:

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Could you fit swipe on cooldown into the build? this would fully heal your minion every 2 seconds and allow for 100% uptime of aspect of the lynx and bear roar buffs.

IMO even with this keeping a support companion alive in Uber is tough. The DoTs just shred combined with the big damage of Triple flail slam and its difficult to get them to dodge Timeshattering slam(or any attack for that matter).

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9 passive points. It also gives +100% inc stun chance, +5% base crit and +3% leech on crit.

If you think it’s not worth spending extra points on the bear, then feel free to not switch the other 9 points that went into Natural Bond, Embodiment and Primal Aspects.

Next I would suggest changing these:

Gloves - Grasp of the Blood Mage. Trade some of your attack speed for Spell Crit, Spell Leech, CDR and most importantly, 25% of hit dmg taken is dealt over 4 seconds = another defensive layer. This same effect but better is later found on gloves that drop from Uber.

Boots - Vaion’s Chariot. I assume you’re using your current boots for the +all attributes, that’s good, but everything else on those boots is kinda wasted. Your current Endurance is overcapped, and Excited Bolts consume % of mana, so the mana cost reduction doesn’t really change much AFAIK.
Vaion’s are annoying to farm via arenas/colloseum echo, but they’d fix all the resistances under 70%, add armor, allow faster movement speed and somewhat fix the damage lost from those all attributes.

Idols - 1x3 large idols with 6-9% HP/11-30% lightning or 12-32% spell dmg + 2x1 humble idols with VIT and spelldmg.
A 2x2 idols with spelldmg can work too, those have kinda meh prefixes, but you’ll get more spelldmg out of them. Something like this: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Bap6769Q

That is absolutely true. I’m not sure that stormbreaker builds can kill Uber though. Would be fine for normal abby and high corruption though.

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actually I managed to put 100% uptime with simply keeping the pet dead and jsut clicking its skill for the aspect without spending any skills or passive point to pet’s survivability

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yeah, I’ve came up with the same idea but kept embodiment to increase Lynx’s uptime to 100% (or almost 100%)

was looking at them too as they give a good amount of survivability. But at this point I’d rather seek options to squeeze even more damage in hopes to finally try uber. We’ll see how it goes

yep, but was looking forward to replace them either with Army of Skin or Suloron’s Step.
Never thought about Chariot but they can be a good choice if replacing the Body Armor with Null Potent

That’s where it gets tricky. Without valid DPS meter it really needs some heavy testing (e.g. by killing some dummies like Harton).

What we have is
Mine ideal setup
58 Flat + 16 Flat
176% Inc
54 mana
12% Health

vs your suggestion
36% Health
225% Inc
8 Flat
26% Crit%
13% Crit Multi
72% Crit% (these two can be swapped to +16 flat)
36% Crit Multi (these two can be swapped to +16 flat)

Which boils down to - surely 24% health increase which is nice, %inc are not so important as with the amulet the %inc numbers scale up to 800 where 50% difference is neglectable.
Crit chance is also neglectable as with high maelstorm stacks the bolts always crit anyways.

So it results in
24% health + 49% crit multi + 8 flat + 50% inc
(or, 24% health 13% crit multi + 24 flat + 50% inc)
vs
74 flat + 54 mana (which will increase more modifier from ~105% to ~121%)

I’ll probably give it a shot anyways to test the idea (24% health is great anyways and hard to neglect)
P.S. good thing would probably be to simple test the build with my totems and without them and see how numbers/kill time will change

I’ve killed Uber on a bunch of melee/pseudo melee builds now and damage is definitely the biggest build check on this fight IMO.
An easy litmus test I like to do is just spec for full damage, ignoring resists and defenses then go in to the Uber fight. You want to first see if the build can do enough damage to start Uber’s first ward bar by the first timeshattering slam(you can freely test on him even with negative res/uncapped defenses as there’s only a single easily avoidable void beam till the slam). This amount of damage is the bare minimum for a smooth phase 5 in my opinion (ofc more is always better) then start fixing your defenses. If it can’t achieve this then better to give up on Uber Aberroth as a goal for this build.
The alternative of course is to be tanky enough to ignore most attacks and DoTs which is possible but even such a setup would still be prone to getting overwhelmed in phase 5 and dragging the fight longer is just tedious and not fun.

Skin is good for Attack Speed, but adds nothing for Storm Bolt. Suloron’s are even worse. Those two would be good choices for the Aftershock build you mentioned earlier.