Hi guys!
My last goal prior to season 1 is to beat Uber Lilith. However, I’ve tried so many different skill/paragorn board/equip variations and I never seem to reach the numbers others get. The build linked below gives me the highest damage output out of I believe 5 or 6 different paragon boards I’ve tried. My BSps crit Lilith for a maximum of 2-4 million, the guy who I stole the build from crits for up to ~15 mil.
My current build is EXACTLY depicted here:
https:// maxroll. gg/d4/planner/rpnr078t
Everything including equipment and glyph levels are accurate. The attack power shown on the planner is not correct for some reason, I’m currently at 16k in the city and 22k infight. My exact out of combat stats are shown here:
https:// imgur. com/gallery/M6xbapQ
Note that not all of my glyphs are lvl 21, the lowest one is at lvl 15 (Imbiber - which I heard may be the most important one is at lvl 21).
What is it that I’m only doing about one 3rd or even one 4th of other necros’ damage? I’m thinking that lvling up all the glyphs absolutely makes a difference, but given that most of them are already on the higher end I doubt it would tripple my damage. Parts of the gear may also not be optimal but I’ve seen guys with worse gear criting higher.
I am very grateful for any advise!
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Short answer, the person doing much more DPS has much better gear.
The gear in your link is not well-itemized. A wide mix of different types of conditional damage. There isn’t much vuln damage. Essence and crit chance are a bit low. The weapon item level is a bit low for Lilith.
Doing decent DPS with Bone Spear doesn’t take much. Doing extremely high DPS is very gear dependent. Contrary to certain common opinions.
I’m not sure what is going on with the skill selections. There are skills providing benefits for consuming corpses but no skills for consuming corpses. I suspect the skill setup in the link was still being adjusted or something.
For Lilith specifically CE, Tendrils and Mist are going on the bar. The other two are more up in the air. I’d take Splinters on her. Bone Storm is fine for the last skill. You could run Decrep instead with sufficient gear.
The Flesh Eater board special node is quite good on Lilith. It’s basically an on demand mini CD for that boss. Hence why I’d rate CE so high on her.
An easy way to pick up that special node would be to dismantle the Bloodbath board and the normal nodes on Bone Graft making the connection. Connect the Bloodbath board to the top of the Scent of Death board. This frees up three points. Cut the essence on kill nodes on Bone Graft (useless for Lilith) for the other two points.
Even if you decide you don’t want to use CE this way shifting the Bloodbath board frees up three points. That long Bone Graft connection is only worth it if you’re definitely taking the nearby armor/health nodes.
Leveling glyphs would certainly help.
In your position farming better itemized gear is a reasonable idea. Lilith will be rough in general otherwise.
For the record, none of this is intended to be overly critical or disrespectful. I’m just trying to help.
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Thank you so much!
Yes, I noticed at some point earlier that vulnerability specifically was extemely low with my gear, swapped my weapon to have +vuln. and did all of a sudden 1-2 mil higher crits. I’ll try your build, gear, and paragon adjustments, all sounds reasonable. I think the challenging part is to actually get all the desired stats on specific items (e.g., high itemlvl weapons with +critdmg/+bonecrit/+vuln).
Not taken as an offense at all, the best criticism I could’ve asked for!
You “need” to have at least 150% Vulnerable since it’s achiveable (190+ % is ideal). I see that you only have around 50%. Put Vuln on your weapon and both rings.
For the skill tree, you can max Death’s Reach. Maxing Grim Harvest helps topping up your Essence in the fight but it’s not necessary. Put 1 points on Corpse Explosion for Flesh-Eater.
On the paragon board, take Flesh-Eater. I think the rest seems fine.
BTW, drink Elixir of Resourcefulness if you didn’t. You can buy them on Sanctuary trading channel (discord) for around 600-800k/bottle if you don’t have any.
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Will do, thank you! Awesome, I had no idea about this channel. I’m sitting on 2 as if they’re made of gold (no idea you could trade them).