Hey folks, I’m currently on my first Beastmaster character.
Thing is, I find it really difficult to get that class out of the glasscannon territory.
I’m currently lvl 90 and I struggle to find a good way to improve survivability.
I have all resistances above 75%, maxed out aspect of the boar and invested in some other defensive passives, but aside from that, I’m not sure what type of defense benefits this class the most. I have a bit of endurance, but I just can’t find stuff that increases that, like the actual damage reduction, not just the threshold. I got some gear with increased armor percentage, a bit of dodge, but honestly … the skilltree for beastmaster is so messy, I don’t understand how to best build defenses for the guy. Some advice for endgame viable defense without sacrificing damage would be appreciated. I mean, I could run a one-handed plus shield approach, but there’s just too little damage then.
My lvl 90 beast master is in the same boat. Having no luck finding my helm, running out of steam around 130 corruption in empowered. I rerolled blade dancer for now and maybe will come back to my beast master.
Yeah, that’s another problem, I get tons of uniques for necromancer stuff, like, unproportionally. But that stupid squirrel helmet? Or at least some more Artor’s Legacy with Legendary Potential? No chance.
I feel like the loot system should at least have a slight bias towards items that are useful for the class you are currently playing. I find pretty much anything but what could be useful to me, and of those uniques that I don’t need, I get constant repetition.
Do you have endurance? Do you have capped crit avoid? How much hp do you have?
Try having hybrid life wherever possible (gloves belt boots body armor) Increased life is very strong too going over 75 res in not useful 90% of the time.
I have a few BM’s and ran into similar issues but found some solutions for farming 200-400 corruption.
I found going for Endurance feels decent, but there’s not enough to rely on. The passives that I use are “Berserker” in the Primalist tree for less damage taken on low health, “Aspect of the Boar” in the BM tree, and health stacking. You also get multiple cleanses through Warcry + Fury Leap as well as massive HPS through Maelstrom stacking
Im currently trying a Cold damage Serpent Strike BM, farming 250 Corruption decently. Its very gear dependent but incredibly tanky due to the aforementioned stats. The biggest problem is the damage is mediocre (Please buff Frostbite)
It does feel strange that the defensives are not focused around one thing like Endurance or flat health, but its easy to reach 2k HP with massive HPS, Leech, and cleanse + heal on warcry/fury leap and does feel nice
Yep, I’ve reverted from a nice 24% minion damage as life leech armor back to Woven Flesh for the 100% crit avoidance. Helps a bit, but I find it sad I have to rely on that to have my character not implode every few encounters.
I have currently around 1000 HP, might try to increase that and see if it helps.
Yeah, the problem with Fury Leap is that it currently is annoying as hell, because it’s bugged. If you press it while it is on cooldown, it can still get you stuck in place where you land, so I currently refuse to use it.
1k hp is definitely not enough for a beastmaster.
You should aim 2k at least, around 3k is usually what you want
Thanks, I’ll see what I can do, Sir! May RNGsus be with me.
It kinda does. The class-specific uniques have a higher chance to drop on the relevant class.
Well, I can open a store with Calamity and Decayed Skull helmets, I currently have 7 Calamity and 5 Decayed Skulls in my chest, vs. 2 Artor’s Legacy, one of which I got gifted from my buddy playing with me. I can tell you, I am really sick of Calamity and Decayed Skull at this point. 
Somehow I also find a lot of Necromancer stuff like Soul Bastion and Hollow Finger. I mean, sure, there’s a bit of minion stuff on those, but also things I really don’t need.
The game also gives me a lot of fire mage stuff for some reason and some void knight equipment and recently set items for the rogue… pretty much ANYTHING except good primalist uniques. ;_;
Herald of the Scurry is the 3rd rarest helm.
But yes. I’m trying to get a Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros, I’ve started to loose count of the times I’ve done the dragon emperor & it being a boss drop is probably easier than a world drop to farm.
One of the ways I’m weirdly getting around this is running Druid specialization instead of Beastmaster and using Eterra’s Blessing to get out of jail. If you go Tempest Strike / Earthquake and take a lot of armor and life leech you can kinda get around this problem. The only issue is trying to make your damage type line up well with your companions without being pigeonholed into using physical damage or sticking to Spriggan. Still trying to figure that part out.
We found solution for beastmaster, it’s pretty easy actualy and not. Take spriggan form, if you can.
I have done a different approach right now: I’ve increased my health and summon spriggan, specced as a healer. At least it kinda works.
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