Running heartseeker, it’s actually been really fun
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I’m playing a pretty generic shaman, nothing too crazy, but I played Earthquake Beastmaster last season and would definitely recommend it. It’s a very good time.
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I’ve been wondering about that build… Nice to see it’s viable.
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I am running a ranger on the side for that heartseeker fun, any recommendation on where to go with it? Because NGL, the leveling has been hellish for me. I just don’t know what I am doing wrong and currently am at level 36, skipping campaign using monoliths for level ups and dungeons for the skips.
But while I can rush through the Monoliths as a level 24 Void Knight, I can’t do the same with my Marksman at level 36
Skeleton Archmage with the node to make it blow up other melee skellies, supported by a perma Dread Shade. I like the cooperative feel of summoning them in front of enemies for the archmage to blow up!
If I can get a Cycle of Putrescence, I want to see how this works with self-rezzing Volatile Zombies spawning Skeleton Vanguards.
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I might be able to help here. There is a strong leveling guide on Maxroll for Ranger that uses Puncture and bleed. Hate to recommend “meta” but it’s a good way to get your passive points for your main build. I played it until 70 but you don’t need to go that far with it. If you just want to go straight for using Heartseeker it should proc ailments well so DoTs could be the way to go.
My current ranger uses the bow that drops from Age of Winter and I was planning on going cold damage for my Heartseeker but haven’t got to testing it yet myself.
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Doing Void DoT Hammer VK now and it’s a blast.
Outside of sentinel, the build I most enjoyed lately is perma-werebear proccing storm bolts while rampaging (which you do all the time), but that one is annoying because rampage keeps getting stuck everywhere.
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Why OFFLINE is down too? I can play OFFLINE mode…
I am having fun with my vk es in hc, it good to play a fast build, ( played sb fg last season)
I’m playing a minion focus FG with 2hand and shield. You get a lot of tankiness from Mantle of the pale ox armor redirecting 20+% of damage to your manifest armor. Also it has huge base 30% life so with a T7 Slam can have 70% HP which is wild. Just that armor makes you sturdy.
Then just everything into minion damage, phantom rings, falcon fist and using the champion affix for + 1 void cleave. Since it’s a sealed flat damage for more minion damage. Also I use void cleave to buff them.
Once you get around 40 attunement you can play an SRS style Forged weapons and take the detonate node so while at max Forged wep and summon another one of them explodes doing huge Aoe. So when you run into packs your Forged weapons going crazy you summon more with vengeance and forge strike detonating them doing more aoe. Also when they expire they explode.
It’s an active fun play style with end game potential. Killed regular Aberoth last night fight was smooth. Was about to push today but yea…servers.
I’m using a spellblade shatterstrike build,but having a few issues with survivability. 100% crit avoidance is helping, but still taking hits.
How do you get ward immortality??
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Wait quick question: Do you just mean the bee cosmetic pet or are you trying to build something with the bees? I’ve been wanting to do something with bees but last season I wasn’t really able to get it to work. I kind of want to try again.
It’s weird, but you need to launch from steam directly. It will ask you if you want to play online or offline when you click play from the library page.
As far as builds for me:
I’m just finishing up a Last Bear/Shattered Lance Paladin build I made. It was surprisingly decent by the end. I did my 300 Harbingers before I hit my red rings then I got super lucky and hit a bunch last night. I killed Abberoth on my first try. I almost wish they hadn’t nerfed him, not necessarily because I think the balance for him is bad now, but I just don’t have a point of comparison for how my build last season did. I really struggled against him before but now it was super easy. Was my build better? Or is it just that much nerfed? I don’t know yet if I’m gonna grind it out for Uber Abberoth on this build though. It was a fun idea and I do think it still has some room to scale, but it’s not the smoothest thing to play and I have so many other build ideas I want to try.
Some other builds I want to try:
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Phalanx/Sigeon FG. Full on retaliation build. Hilariously I think there’s a node in the weaver tree that’s actually going to be a part of the build: Fury and Fortune: All rare enemies are permanently enraged but drop runes and glyphs. More enemy attack speed = more retaliations from us. Unfortunately not necessarily more shield throws, but more ripostes and javs.
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World Splitter + Horns of Ukh FG.
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Spell FG with the weaver idol enchant that gives flat spell damage if weilding a 2h axe and 2h shield.
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Some mana guide build. I’m not sure yet if I’m gonna try my own setup or if I’ll just do Frozen’s build. His looks really nice and I already have a lot of the gear for it.
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Lastly my delusional wishlist: Somehow make bee druid work. I don’t think anything has actually changed, but this time I have 2x Red Rings and maybe with weaver idols and set crafting raising the power ceiling I could possibly make it work.
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I would like to test many builds. I started with the Bleed Hammer /Smite Pala and it’s a lot of fun.
The whole update just feels great.
The game has implemented so many great ideas where others only dream of. 
It’s just the pet bees I’m afraid, so it looks good (bears like honey!), but the bees don’t contribute.
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Considering that my computer is like a potato, the Arena has always been a problem for me, where there were always a lot of corpses lying around, and it was impossible to play. But this season I overcame myself and decided to play on Sentinel anyway. And oh my God, he has the Erasing Strike skill that ERASES!!! all corpses. Now this is my favorite skill)))
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That sounds like a Way to play it,thx for the Tip!
i am also loving the es, i didn’t like the titan heart before but with es u get 1 sec later a full
heal 
No problem, it’s just sturdy all around build. It’s got everything.
Sentinel is over-tuned at the moment, but that doesn’t mean the builds aren’t fun. I enjoy Erasing strike because I just really enjoy the “slams” playstyle. A big, satisfying “bonk”.
Tornado were-bear is a cool approach to a caster build, but can be a bit clunky. Worth checking out tho. Shaman tornado still works really well for a more traditional playstyle.
I haven’t tried heartseeker yet but I likely will soon.
What I really want to see is some build diversity with Spellblade. I really like the class, it captures the “battle mage” fantasy quite well. Shatter strike is great, but I just wish there were more options to build one effectively.
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