Hello all.
I tried to create a necrotic dot lich and understood that it’s a useless trash. Main problems of it: 1) too low survivability (glass gun), 2) crazy mana spending, 3) imbossible to create a balance between normal getting ward and normal damage, 4) too small radius of damage skills.
At the first time i tried to use “Life drain” as my main damage skill but it was very bad idea because 1) lich has a very small survivability and +50% armour from it is useless because lich has no normal value of base armour, 2) 0 getting ward from it because in that build senselessly to play without node “Blood pact” because mana drain of “Life drain” is too high and in this game channeling skills turn off mana regeneration.
At the second time i tried to use “Ghostflame” as my main damage skill and it was a bad idea too. Not so bad as previous but for what need use build wich can’t alive even at the 200+ corruption? I choosed it because 4 reasons: 1) it is the only one stable source to upping the base armour, 2) the only one skill with adequate ward getting, 3) it has much more damage than all other lich necrotic dot skills and 4) it has frailty (for only dot build it’s very important because it has no hits and accordingly has no other ways to use it). In the future i understood that stay style even with “Ghostflame” is a useless if you play class with so low survivability as lich and tried to create move-while-damage build. I got 4 idols with top rolls of mana efficiency for “Ghostflame” (13%x2 and 14%x2), taked shield, taked passive node “Infusing souls” 2/2 in “Wandering spirits”, taked the wand “Mad alchemist’s ladle”, taked passive node “Soul shroud” 4/4 in “Reaper form” and uped intelligence as much as random gave it to me. After it i tried to give this build the second chance on the 200 corruption and it was an epic fail. Too high mana spending, too low survivability and very low move speed. It looked like a fight one leg old man which run out of steam very fast versus gorilla herd. After all tries i understood that necrotic dot lich build now is a dead build.
For resurrecting necrotic dot lich build in this game need to do:
- Give it a normal survivability.
My character can’t alive at the 200 corruption even with full of all resistances, shield, 4 strong ward sources (body armour, gloves, 2 idols and passive skill in warlock tree), 90 points of intelligence, 2 nodes upping base armour from intelligence and 100% reduced bonus damage from critical strikes. - Give it some ways for normal mana recovery.
During ratio of mana prices and mana recovery looks like crazy. - Give it normal ways to shred resistances.
Only dot build has no any hit skills and can’t use shred blessings. “Wandering spirits” and “Infernal shade” are trash for it because they can’t do it stable and “Infernal shade” has too small radius and too small work time. And please untie shredding fire resistance in “Infernal shade” from puddle. It’s very uncomfortable. - Give it normal radii for the damage skills.
“Life drain” and “Infernal shade” have so small radii even with nodes for radius and tier 6 suffix of increasing area for area skills in amulet so it looks like a joke. - Give lich skills some ways to get a normal count of ward.
My during necrotic dot lich build: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/Bre9lnPQ
P.s. If someone agrees with me please press like and vote for this theme. Hope developers pay attention for it and resurrect this dead build.