Is anyone else not getting shadowblight to work at all? I was attempting lilith a few hours before the patch came out, but i tried after and now my shadowblight isnt stacking or procing at all and i have yet to see anyone else say anything about it.
I played after the patch and it was fine. Do you still have Blighted aspect on?
i didnt change anything so yes i do
you cant see it stack, you probably mean blighted aspect. 3 causes, you are not doing shadow damage, you have taken a point out of shadowblight keypassive, you have unequipped blighted aspect.
It works fine, as I killed uber lilith after the patch and saw my blighted aspect stacks.
funny side point, i got the bonus uber unique spark when I logged in, however I had not killed uber lilith at that point this season 
My first kill was after the patch, and I did not receive another spark after killing her.
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Hey Ralph, what build did you use? I’m still torn on Golem or pure Shadow Mages.
i made up my own, but my primary damage is shadow mages and my main mitigation is increasing max res with tyreal’s might, stacking damage reduction and dodge, then healing is from the sage aspect that heals when you dodge. im trying to avoid using shadowblight, but in all honesty its just a self nerf and kinda pointless.
Thanks! I think Tyreal’s will be the first Uber that I craft. Does the mitigation from that alone seem to help much?
I haven’t Mastercrafted my gear until I made more gold, and since it just got cheaper with the recent patch. I’ve never really been one to push leaderboards or anything, but I do want to be able to solo Tormented bosses and Lilith. Is the Shadow necro capable of doing that (even moreso with Tyreal’s), or does it require more effort than other builds?
so from what i have heard tyreal’s is pretty meta, which is a good vetting process for it being a powerful item. its power is entirely in its mitigation as the unique power is pretty weak and doesnt even proc from your minion attacks. So yes it makes a big difference. 1% of max res above your res cap of 75% is aproximitely 3% damage reduction from elements if i recall. I worked it out a while ago… cant remember exactly now lol.
You can most definitely clear all 200 bosses and uber lilith, however with uber lilith focus on burst and movement speed, you need the burst for both phases but you need the move speed in phase 2 alot. You will also make your life 100% easier with bloodmist on lilith and beast in ice.
Duriel is probably the easiest uber boss as he literally does nothing except charge you for zero damage which is quite easy to avoid.
Andariel is annoying due to her beams killing your minions and the suppression fields around the mini targets during the intermission phase. This involves you dragging your mages inside the zone. its easy enough though with gear as you are more or less immortal to her attacks.
Finally, don’t expect Tyreal’s might to do all your mitigation, I have focused on getting life nodes on every paragon board, i have life on every item, dodge on every item that can have it. and my damage reduction is crazy with curses and debuffs im on over 130% damage reduction, which works out to a real world reduction of 75%ish. That’s not including armour cap and resistences.
And even then I can still get 1 shot if i don’t dodge on specific mechanics in the pit or mechanics double up and i don’t dodge either of them. I can survive every attack from uber lilith, but it gives you stacks so sadly i can only survive up to about 4 stacks then i usually die to big hits. my first kill i had 6 stacks LOL
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Awesome, thanks for the feedback! I definitely want to finish farming my Iron Wolf rep on an alt Barb so I can be one spark closer to crafting Tyreal’s.
So I don’t have too much interest in pushing Pits, but would like to be able to “speed farm” 80s. Regardless, are there builds better suited for Pits versus Tormented bosses? Or, will a build that can take care of Tormented bosses be able to clear 80s easy enough?
they can do both, I would just say movement speed and immunities are really handy on bosses to avoid getting stacks of the debuff. This debuff increases damage taken for the rest of the fight, so failing mechanics and just tanking them becomes much harder. This was one mistake I made, i focused on being tanky… that doesnt help if you take huge increases of damage when you fail a mechanic.
I would say if your char can clear a Pit 90 you can easily do all uber bosses, and if you have bloodmist and good movement speed or metamorphosis aspect you can do uber lilith too. Uber Lilith is still a special fight and should be considered like 10 times harder then all other uber bosses. its mechanics are very punishing and few players have the gear to burst her down to avoid most mechanics.
I am having the same problem. I had been trying to figure out why I was suddenly struggling in the pits, even when going down several levels, boss damage was just gone. I noticed that I wasn’t getting the buff counter that pops up for shadowblight…not sure if anything else isn’t popping up as well.
Yes I’m using shadow damage, I’m running a full sacrifice build, all of my damage is shadow.
Nothing was changed on my end.
Yes Shadowblight is still selected.
Have you swaped gear and forgot to re-imprint Blighted aspect perhaps?