I believe it does, the duration scales as well.
welp there goes my build idea lol
maybe its specialization will have something to let you scale the skill properly
@napevation am already using int as my main scaling. When I have more gold for a full respec/have the gear/ level another acolyte I will be trying a high int character for sure 
@TwM You can still do a poison variant if you want, you will just need a lot of poison protection (and probably ward too). Don’t forget the aura itself gives you 60% reduction. Don’t let your build idea die! Just try it and see!
thanks for the video.
im sorry in advance cause thats probably gonna be a big post here
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the survivability of yours is great i like it. i will test some sword and board stuff as soon as i get a good 1h weapon, wich will take a while (only t5 rolls baby! haha.)
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i dont really understand why your reaper form is lowering your dmg. because here is the weird part. i just tested it in game myself. no change at all for me.
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some items and stats with my new 2h weapon (the weapon is kinda max tier in terms of attack speed and crit chance)
unique set. definitly some potential. in survivability and damage.
helmet
-75 armor
-10% glancing blow chance
-180 stun avoidance
-+40 health
belt
-56 armor and 3 potion slots
-200 armor
-50% inc health regen
great set in imo but im not sure if the 2set works properly i have kinda the feeling that it doesnt. got the same 80% necrotic dmg increase on my unique helmet and i dont get the same tooltipp increase when im getting hit while wearing the set. not sure at all, maybe it just doesnt show correctly in the tooltipp. hard to tell from dmg numbers them self cause they are like all over the place from 1k up to 13k…
speaking of that unique helmet. absolutely great helmet imo.
there are some other unique items i found so far but i feel the post already is big enough so i just write down the stats.
unique body armor: Yruns Wisdom
- +85 armor
- +100 armor
- +30 melee cold damage when above 65% health
- 30% of melee damage leeched as health when below 65% health
looks like a okay body armor to me
last one. two handed pole arm: Draalsting
- base attack rate 0.97
- +35 melee physical damage
- 3% increased movement speed
- 12% less melee attack speed
- 175% increased poison damage
- 120% chance to poison on melee hit
i really like this one, sadly in terms of flat dmg all the unique weapons suck in comparison to a good rare weapon. but 175% inc poison dmg sound good to me considering that should scale the aura of decay.
thats are all the items i found that are usable for reaper/lich. maybe there are a few more but they werent really worth talking about and are definitly not lich type uniques(kinda like the body armor i wrote down). i hope there are still a lot more to discover tho
btw: Napevation is doing a lot more dmg with his int stacking method. and seems to have more survivability as well. at least in terms of health. would be interresting to see hes gear.
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Hm, you don’t get any damage debuff from reaper form at all? That is odd. Could you by chance do a small clip of you pre-form, then with the form etc.? That way I can give it as evidence to the dev for a bug report.
Yes Isadora’s set is awesome and is working for me.
As for my gear it’s all crafted except helmet and belt (Isadora’s set)
Jade Amulet
Increased Crit Chance % - Necrotic damage % - 2 Protections
Silver Rings
Increased Crit Chance % - Necrotic damage % - 1 Protection - Added Health
Ranseur (Polearm) with 9% base crit (still looking for a 10% base crit)
Necrotic damage % - Melee crit chance - Melee leech - Health on Hit (or protection?)
Copper Plate
Intelligence - Hybrid Health regen + Ele Protection - Added Health - Increased Health
Lagonian Gauntlets
Intelligence - Melee attack speed - 1 Protection - Increased Health
Solarum Greaves
Intelligence - Hybrid Glancing Blow + Armour - Movement speed - 1 Protection
Radient Crest
Necrotic Damage % - Crit Chance % - Added Health - 1 Protection
I tried to Balance the 6 Protections types on all the gear pieces.
EDIT: I couldn’t provide pictures because I’m not at home anymore, so I just grabbed the list from a spreadsheet I made last week to help me craft everything.
@Merixa, looks like i even get a dmg boost. Desktop 2019 05 05 20 37 35 01 - YouTube
@napevation, good to know it works. thanks for the list of gear.
Thanks for the clip. I guess the game just hates me 
The first passive in Lich tree (I think on the right) triples the damage bonus when you’re low health.
Aura of Decay is nasty as it poisons you multiples times as well as mobs. So you don’t want to much +damage if you using it well unless you got a lot of regen or ward generation to cancel it out.
Started adding a leveling guide as I level a fresh Acolyte. I will update it as I go to make sure I’m comfortable with what I recommend. Hopefully this will help those who have said they struggle with leveling as melee.
Perhaps suggest “Occultist’s” items in the levelling guide? New players may still be getting familiar with the suffix/affix system and it’s an easy spot for Necrotic damage items.
I would probably put attack speed over crit multi myself. More attacks = more crits = more procs.
@Cmdr_Nexus thats a good idea. I personally forget affix and suffix names myself so I didn’t think about this at all.
@mautobu It says “not yet ordered” for a reason
@mautobu Haha it’s fine, you’re not the first! You’re right with attack speed likely being more useful overall. I just wrote them down in the ordered I remembered them, and don’t feel comfortable making anything solid without any real testing.
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I changed a few things in my gear and found what I like to think is a BIS list (for now)
Decayed Skull Unique Helmet
Jade Amulet
● %Crit chance ● %Crit multi ● +Health ● Protection
Sovnya (12% crit)
● +Melee crit chance ● %Crit multi ● Melee leech ● open suffix
Secutor Armor
● Intelligence ● Dexterity ● +Health ● %Health
Silver Ring x2
● %Crit chance ● %Necrotic damage ● +Health ● Protection
Bronze Belt
● Glancing blow ● open prefix ● +Health ● %Health
Lagonian Gauntlets
● Intelligence ● Melee attack speed ● %Health ● Protection
Secutor Boots
● Intelligence ● Glancing blow ● Movement speed ● Protection
Rahyeh Light Relic (crit multi)
● %Crit chance ● %Crit multi ● +Health ● Protection
I still need to find a Chimaera’s Essence to test the synergy with reaper form, it might be better than a regular Jade amulet.
@napevation
so u are going hardly on crit multi now instead of necrotic damage?
weapon with 12% base crit on it? how do you find stuff like that lol ?
Chimaeras Essence looks awesome! good to know there is still unique stuff to chase for.
but how does your defenses look like with a set up like that? there has to be one shots from time to time, at least in arena(ofc at some point there will be a one shot anyway in arena)