What is better?
Attack speed buffs your total damage output and also increases the rate you get resource back when using basic skills.
Alternatively, should I use a dedicated resource generation aspect, like Umbral or exposed flesh?
Whats your build? Umbral is great eith decripfy also works well with penitent greaves. I use blood lance i have Rathmas aspect on neck for attack speed , i use the aspect that gives you 10 essence if you get a bloodorb while healthy and i also use blood cuiras with the essence regen skill on bone spirit . My other ring has the bloodorb reduces cd on bloodwave so im constantly getting 9 orbs from my ult
So your build is basically what I am currently running. I don’t need a generator at all because I get so much essence from the blood orbs, corpse explosions etc.
I am making a pretty dramatic change to my build. Overpower can’t scale with vulnerable and crit damage but with Barbers heart, it makes it possible.
I currently overpower for around 2mil but from my calculations, I should be able to break excess of 50mill with my new build.
I am going to be running Rathma on my gloves as my amulet has the sacrifice aspect on it.
What I am trying to figure out is should I use the accelerating aspect for an additional 25% attack speed or should I use Umbral.
Both have their benefits. I am no longer using blood wave. The problem with blood orbs is that they don’t actually contribute to your damage. You need to use 3 aspect slots. #1 reduce CD of bloodwave. #2 Essence when picking up blood orb. #3 Tidal aspect for 9 orbs.
None of these aspects actually increase your damage! Yes you need blood orbs to hit multiple targets but you won’t actually get any additional damage from it.
I am going change to bone storm. Lidless unique allows for essentially infinite uptime of bonestorm and only takes up 1 aspect slot.
I spent all day funnily trying to fit a shield in for the extra hp% found it hard to drop anything in the end i dropped hungering blood , i find stacking dmg% after blood orb consumption helps. Also i rely on the blood orbs for my chest for bone spirit which means more essence.
Sadly i havent found lidless wall unlike Mendeln which everyone seems to struggle with i have 5 now found 2 in back to back nm dungeons tonight. How are you getting 50 mil mate id be interested to try that.
I agree with you regarding bloodwave i think it should be 3 waves as starter then tidal granting 5 waves in total with 15 blood orbs would make it decent i think i just enjoy the fact you can shoot it into a room before even opening a door then you get anouther ult very fast
Lol, I have thought the exact same thing.
The only other problem is how quills aspect works. You end up wasting a ton of your resource generation.
Every cast of blood lance, consumes 3-4 of your blood orbs. This is unfortunate as it means that a lot of the essence generation is wasted.
That being said, I don’t know if you found temerity on your build yet. With the buffs in the last patch, it is a match made in heaven.
My current build is running them, 25k HP, with a 20k barrier. The nutty part is that I have buffed blood orbs so much that just picking up one maxes the barrier.
You can actually run into a group of mobs in a NM tier 100 and not die. Also I am in the same position, my current build is so using a focus and not a shield. I simply can’t fit as shield in with the aspects I want.