hello,
was wondering, do i need to have talent points invested in blight for it to work as an aspect with sever? or would it work regardless.
I mean “Critical strikes from Sever have a % chance to spawn a pool of blight under target… etc etc”
thank you.
Hey Acolyte,
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To your question, without putting points into it, you will get a plain ‘vanilla’ blight that does damage. But to get the ‘slow’ and the ‘15[x]%’ boost - then yes you would need to put the points into them. I do this very thing in my ‘minion + shadow’ build - where I don’t use blight directly, but instead use the BonePrison with blight aspect - and putting points into blight gives it the slow (which procs ‘control’ rune damage) and the gives the dmg bonus - very powerful IMO!
Good luck with the sever build - hear it trucks when it comes online!
I found the Sever aspect for blight to be lacking.
You honestly won’t need a generator once you get going.
I use blight/Sever/BCE/tendrils and all minions on my shadow/minion setup with Bloodless Scream+Howl from Below+Mendeln while still awaiting the Sever unique boots on my eternal Necro
Essence just isn’t an issue later on in levels.
yeah i am melting stuff as i level with blight used as my main spender, and finally got the shadow dot for blood mist and tested out a build variant that didn’t even have blight and it almost seems like it is even better damage.
With my group and how the necro plays versus the sorc, I tend to start at range and move into the packs, so keeping blight even with the shadow dot from the blood mist aspect “blood soaked”.
Once I get Lidless Wall and the last items I need to drop I can finally test it out and decide. This item seems like it would proc best with blight, since I can proc it on my self at range then cast blight into the packs to trigger more bone storms as I move in the mop up whomever is left
Are you absolutely sure this works? I know that Sorcs, who can automatically proc Ice Shards in a similar way, do not get a fully specced Ice Shard when this happens. They get the raw points version (5/5) as far as damage goes, and the first modifier node works, but the 2 final modifier nodes that you can chose ONE of, do NOT work if the spell is auto-casted by some proc and not cast directly.
Just saying. Necros might be different. But there may actually be consistency and you do not proc a fully specced Blight.
EDIT: Googled a bit and seems this might be wrong. Apparently auto-cast spells always cast at 1/5 but do get all modifier nodes. Sorcs might be busted.
It’s definitely worth having on your bar as it gives 15% more damage to you and minions (but the key here is you) when enemies stand in it.
So Tendrils+BCE+one blight as tendrils start to pull sets you up for Sever spam with a damage boost, use Iron golem stun right after tendrils to get another stun for a few more seconds.
Most stuff just melts at that stage with all the shadowblight procs with both aspects used, if you use Bloodless scream, all that shadow damage chills/freezes enemies as well.
Toss in that Mendeln proc at least once in that sequence and it’s rare you have to setup more than once per pack
Cult leader, scent of death, Wither and Flesh Eater are the boards I use, skipping skeleton and mage specific buff nodes as well as most +resistance nodes as they don’t work properly lets you get everything except for the attack speed/lucky hit execute and the other nodes nearby on Flesh Eater.
But that 40% buff from consumption of 5 corpses is a huge boost, especially if you setup your killing combo right
You’re comparing two different mechanics if you are referring to the auto cast conditional shards from the sorcerer’s enchantment.
Those are predicated on the target being frozen and are explicitly stated to be “conjured” not “cast”.
Thus, they cannot proc vulnerable from Destructive Ice Shards etc, but they do have the chance to ricochet.
This is why with the combination of frost nova, and Mystical Frost Nova work so well together. You get very consistent vulnerable application, which is a big source of damage.
Thanks for clarifying.
So the only drawback of proccing Blight in this way is you always get a level 1 version of it? Or is that also false?
I believe you get whatever effects you have from talents, aspects etc.
Blight aspect definitely works when applied from Sever or Bone Prison aspect.
But it also slowly pulls the enemy towards you with each following cast, so I never found the Blight pull aspect to be worth the slot unless you’re applying it with Bone Prison+Tendrils combo, but thats overkill and just really unnecessary for the extra aspect for blight pull
I don’t know enough about the endgame damage scaling for necro to answer that.
nightmare 85+ require very specific builds and considerations.
I like to play more speed/group builds myself, so we can have more fun doing stuff and not worrying too much about being “the top 1%” pushers.
If I wasn’t planning to go Lidless I would see myself favoring a two hander crit sever build, and would probably add the aspect that gives a chance to add Blight.
Maybe not to the 2 hander itself, but within the confines of the build.
A bit off topic, but one thing i have been having some fun with on my sever build is that gen that uses a random corpse skill from you bar every second you’re near a corpse. You get a lot more tendril grips, and you regen essense so much better, but you are constantly battling the gem for corpses, especially on bosses. Fun, but I’ll have to see how annoying it is later in leveling.