Since I saw Flay announced I had an idea to try to do a Hybrid Melee/Spell build using Bane of Winter, the Spear that adds flat melee cold damage to spells. Flay already has a spell component built in AND it can proc other cold spells.
So that’s the general idea. As usual, I’m terrible at actually putting together all the nitty gritty details, so I’d appreciate it if anyone had planner advice. Here is a very rough draft of what I have so far:
The premise is that Flay crits into marrow shard, both flay and marrow shard proc bone curse, which then procs tundra nova. Flay should hit 100% crit chance fairly easily while the spells will sit at around 70% t0 100% crit chance.
For offense it scales Dex for flat damage, Int for more cold damage ( cold aura of decay), and critical hit damage.
Its fairly easy to get to 60 dex for +60 melee and spell cold damage. 60 dex is also another 120 flat flay melee damage.
Int gets to 60 easy as well for -60% resistances for aura of decay.
Frozen Ire Scepter also nets +40 melee and +60 spell flat cold + you hit like 10 times a second with all of the hits which then has a good chance of procing the cold tundra spell.
That is a total of 220ish melee flat and 130ish spell flat.
Defensively The build revolves around the new Primordial unique Reliquary Nest. It allows you to boost each of your non-unique idols by 40-60% which is a ton of potential stats. The resistances on the builder look bad because the bonus isn’t included, but with the boost of all my resistances are over capped and my HP is around 3500.
Reliquary Nest also boosts all endurance threshold by up to 20%. That means even at 4k hp you can have 50% endurance threshold with the affix and blessing setup I have now at around 90% roll value. With worse gear you would need you hp closer to 2500, so it will be a balancing act depending on how good your gear is. The new Lich passive corrupted form keeps you at 50% hp so you would have permanent 60% endurance.
Because the build doesn’t want it’s hp to high and it stacks a lot of dex + int you can also use the Lich reaper passive to make int and vit give dodge chance. Reaper + 2 hp affixes swapped to dodge rating allows you to get 50% dodge chance fairly easily.
Then there is ward at around 350 a second + 150 every 2 seconds on crit. 250 hp regen to counteract hp drain. Perma Leech from the Accursed Feast Lich node. 30% DOT damage reduction. Lastly 30% armor reduction.
