I finally have enough proper Corpse Explosion items to play this build. so a question re this item:
The Johnstone
When Land of the Dead expires, you are granted 50 stacks of Macabre Knowledge. Macabre Knowledge increases the damage of Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion by 200%.
What exactly does the Macabre Stack do?
a) Do i get to have 50 free corpses to use outside of LotD?
b) or I only get 200% DPS buff for the next 50 corpse lances/explosions?
c) or is the stacks multiplied to the 200%?
thanks.
At the end of LoD, b)
With Pestilence, beware wasting these stacks by doing a Blood rush / Molting and Auto-Devouring the Sheded Corpse, thus triggering a Corpse Lance by inadvertence. Same advice with Moribund Gauntlets.
Corpse Explosion is the best skill for this item, because it applies the bonus damage on multiple monsters at the same time. And you know, the stacks are limited.
Still don’t get how the Johnstone work on lod CE build, how does the 50 stacks post LotD come into picture?
Each time you attack with corpse explosion, it consumes a stack.
From 50 to 0.
At the end of LoD, you get 50 stacks again.
50 stacks means your next 50 corpse explosions will do 200% increased damage.
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It’s pretty simple. After your LotD expires you get either 50 “supercharged” lances or 50 “supercharged” explosions, depending on what skill you use. Each lance or explosion equals 1 stack. You can use the stacks any time you want as long as you have corpses, but most people save them for the next time LotD is active. The 2nd time you pop LotD, first 50 lances/explosions will do 200% more damage on top of all multipliers you had the first time.
Forget the word “stack”, if it confuses you. Think of it as strapping a stick of dynamite to the 50 first lances/explosions.
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After 2 years, I tried and tried with no luck playing a corpse explosion, corpse lance.
When there is no corpse around, this amulet is completely useless.
Hmm… salvage