So Blood Surge has the node “paranormal blood surge” that gives you one stack of Overwhelming Blood per enemy hit and guarantees an overpower on 5 stacks. Does this stack with Deathspeaker’s Pendant, which makes mini novas from your skeletons? So would I basically be able to guarantee 5 hits per cast, so guaranteed overpowered every cast? (edit: tested it and not even the “cast two novas” aspect works for this, blood skills are even worse than I thought lol)
Blood skills seem insanely weak compared to Bone and Darkness so I was thinking of pushing Max Life/Fortify/Thorns and including Blood Surge for the increased Overpower damage that brings. Plus that Volatile Blood Drop aspect that detonates for 10K on Overpower seems interesting too, thoughts? I can get them to spawn quite a bit but there’s no way to really scale their damage so they fall off fast
I’m working on a build idea for late game Necro, pretty much based on what you’re saying but I haven’t gotten there yet.
I do want to point out that the per enemy hit is actually if you hit any enemy once per cast. So you can’t stack them each cast as far as I can tell, even the echo nova from the aspect doesn’t trigger an additional point added to the counter.
My build idea is based around resource management to keep blood surge as a rapid fire cast. There’s a unique ring that refunds up to 50% of the resource when you hit and there’s the resource cost reduction affix you can get as a greater affix. On a the helmet I got it has something like 46% resource cost reduction. Might take BS from 22 essence to 11 and then get 5 or 6 back each cast. Getting a ton of 5 essence BS casts seems a bit angry but I still want to try it. Sadly my pup isn’t high enough to test it yet but I got the random drop and I preferred to make a new character instead of retooling my other one.
yeah, maxing attack speed and then spamming Blood Surge could work since it also fortifies you so it could work to keep you alive while you deal thorns damage plus the overpower ticks. gotta test whether each mini nova from the skeletons also grants you fortify but probably not since nothing from the blood skills seems to scale correctly lol