3.2 Demon Build Tainted Synergies

DrunkAkuma wrote: 1 week ago

Might swap to

Tainted, someDay* down the future, but Lister + Goatmen is GOATED xD

Goatman mentioneddddddddddd

Afura wrote: 1 week ago

DrunkAkuma wrote: 1 week ago

Might swap to

Tainted, someDay* down the future, but Lister + Goatmen is GOATED xD

Goatman mentioneddddddddddd

Can't not Run

Goatman Summons after Growing up with Doom & Doom 2 when Baron's of Hell are one of the most powerful enemies.
literally Goats throwing green fire balls, SO CLOSE BLIZZARD SO CLOSE, at least he Got an

Axe hahah

DrunkAkuma wrote: 1 week ago

Afura wrote: 1 week ago

DrunkAkuma wrote: 1 week ago

Might swap to

Tainted, someDay* down the future, but Lister + Goatmen is GOATED xD

Goatman mentioneddddddddddd

Can't not Run

Goatman Summons after Growing up with Doom & Doom 2 when Baron's of Hell are one of the most powerful enemies.
literally Goats throwing green fire balls, SO CLOSE BLIZZARD SO CLOSE, at least he Got an

Axe hahah

In low density areas I like running a super demon, a defiler and a goat. Higher density I just do two defilers and let the super demon delete trash 10 at a time.

Good Ide, Never Tried running 2 Defilers +the Epic Bound.

I would want to be able to reset points, and try another build, but not all of them, cuz then I would Lose my super unique demon if i reseted back to zero.

For those using

Tainted, how are you using

Death Mark with them? Do you mark somewhere on the Ground near the pack you want them to attack? Currently, when I send my Urdar over to a monster, they

Teleport right on the monater as well. Seems suboptimal since you'd want the Urdar on the oack and the

Tainted a ways away spitting on them. No?

FerociousTerrier wrote: 1 week ago

For those using

Tainted, how are you using

Death Mark with them? Do you mark somewhere on the Ground near the pack you want them to attack? Currently, when I send my Urdar over to a monster, they

Teleport right on the monater as well. Seems suboptimal since you'd want the Urdar on the oack and the

Tainted a ways away spitting on them. No?

0- start your run spawning 3

Tainted with max- to fire resist and skill level as possible. Switch to other gear after that. Priority should be on - (minus)to enemies fire resist. In my testing -to fire resist and sunder charm works on

Tainted. Even after gear or sunder was removed and put in stash. Consider

Tainted own damage as a snapshot of skills you had when you cast them.

0.5 if you found +3 skill shrine resummon your Tainteds. Of you have -fire gear with you .

1- Normal or terrorized P1 most of content : teleporting around ,

Tainted are killing most of stuff on arrival. Then I run around collecting

Gold or gems, Tainteds finish what is left.
2-

Travincal terrorized options: a) hurl 3

Tainted to the council wait for most of those monkies to die. optionally b)Use

Blood Boil to kill apes faster. c) Teleporting there with Infinity-carrying merc . see most council members die in one hit. kill leftover with Boil
3- Tough Heralds (works best in

Tal Rasha or WSK or any zone with walls): hurl

Tainted over the wall, use boil. and heal

Tainted with bodies around. If possible be close enough so Infinity on your merc will have effect on

Herald. If zone is open,

Herald is tough, lay Lethargy under him.
4- never-ever go to Durance of Hate when it is Cursed. Landing next to dolls is instadeath

5- if no Enigma: run around teleporting Tainteds from time to time where your mouse is. They kill you just loot.
6- P1 cows: run around opening clickables. Since everything is dead around you and far away from you.

When I

Death Mark my pets I send them without much precision. Sometimes on monster, sometimes next to them (sloppy fingers). It all works.
Only for

Baal and Diablo I was throwing pets behind boss. So waves and lightning will be not aimed at you.
For Some (especially. ubers) will make sense to have Simmons between you and boss. So they can soak damaging spells aimed at you. Haven't done ubers with boiler after the patch yet.

Solution for durance: give a schythe Infinity to merc (got it for self wielding), dont

Summon Tainted until in lvl 3, done.

Tainted kill eveything, merc is there for aura only, and for safety measure i gave him Cure and

Prayer aura, dont need pots or worry about poison/curses.

maps with fire inmune like Chaos just tele/

Death Mark and spam bloodboil, main issue are heralds but then again, better than ES, boss killing speed is by far faster.

Andariel gets 1 shotted

You need 10p for

Demonic Mastery to get 3 demons. And I don't understand, why you need 20p for

Bind Demon as well, if this is either

Blood Boil or

Tainted build.

Eve if you want to combine the summon-boil-

Tainted builds all together, you only need 1p in

Bind Demon (if it exceeds 20 with soft points), then wait till a relevant TZ appears, bind a normal Vile Lancer or other demon you like when TZ is cursed. You can get

Holy Freeze cursed demon with the ability of procing curse more frequently this way.

I respecced my fire Lock into

Blood Boil -

Tainted as I mentioned above and the skill distribution is like this at lvl85 (1p in

Sigil Lethargy). Hits like a train and I don't even bother to use

Blood Boil mostly and this is without a proper demon.

By the way, this little wyrms gets what TZ provides if they were spawned in TZ even if they fight for me. Interestng.

dionisy_cn wrote: 1 week ago

0- start your run spawning 3

Tainted with max- to fire resist and skill level as possible. Switch to other gear after that. Priority should be on - (minus)to enemies fire resist. In my testing -to fire resist and sunder charm works on

Tainted. Even after gear or sunder was removed and put in stash. Consider

Tainted own damage as a snapshot of skills you had when you cast them.

Are you sure about that? -fire resistance on gear shouldn't work for summons, sunder charms work though that's correct.

Afura wrote: 1 week ago

Are you sure about that? -fire resistance on gear shouldn't work for summons, sunder charms work though that's correct.

I tested I by having just

Tainted with no - enemy fire resist. They cannot kill always immune to fire devilkins at

Inner Cloister waypoint or in

Cathedral.
Add sunder charm -they kill but slow.
Use sunder charm on summoning, leave in in the stash : they still kill fire immunes
Add - fire resist. In my case I was doing it via Horazon set book,

Boots, gloves . To avoid adding skills. Fire immunes are killed much faster, everything dies in one hit.

I should add Obedience but had no proper base my Warlock without gear can cary
If someone else will do such test with more scientific approach and confirm or reject my test results - I'll be glad

dionisy_cn wrote: 1 week ago

I tested I by having just

Tainted with no - enemy fire resist. They cannot kill always immune to fire devilkins at

Inner Cloister waypoint or in

Cathedral.
Add sunder charm -they kill but slow.
Use sunder charm on summoning, leave in in the stash : they still kill fire immunes
Add - fire resist. In my case I was doing it via Horazon set book,

Boots, gloves . To avoid adding skills. Fire immunes are killed much faster, everything dies in one hit.

I should add Obedience but had no proper base my Warlock without gear can cary
If someone else will do such test with more scientific approach and confirm or reject my test results - I'll be glad

Hmmm I know that sunder charm works for sure with summons, but -resistance gear I don't know, as far as I know -resistances on gear only works for traps and hydras. I need to test it myself with a hero editor or something.

This is my Summon Warlock on Hell

Baal Run.

A few updates on this build:

1. Better to max

Blood Oath over

Engorge for two reasons: i)

Blood Oath increases the fire damage of

Blood Boil, whereas

Engorge increases the physical damage, and with this build it is better to go fire sunder than physical since your cursed demon will break physical immunity with

Amplify Damage; and ii) it appears that

Blood Oath may have an effect on demon health at time of binding (unconfirmed) and in any case would help beef up the demons, whereas you can get high

Engorge benefits already from soft points.

2. I made a separate thread about

Bind Demon and maxing out the

Bind Demon/related skills makes for a really, really strong demon. I currently have a Lightning Enchanted/Stone Skin unique Vile Lancer that can face tank Dclone, no problem (the lightning immunity may have something to do with this). HOWEVER, there isa problem using my psycho lady with the

Tainted summons--she gets

Teleport locked when I use

Death Mark because the

Tainted don't move, they just start shooting. She can only move once the

Tainted decide to move. This is a fatal flaw in this build, because she becomes useless using

Death Mark. Otherwise she is insane and does crazy damage. Although with this fire heavy build in mind, I may have to switch to Urdar to see if they are able to break the

Death Mark lock.

All that said, this is a fun build.

Lvl 96:
Max

Demonic Mastery
Max

Blood Oath
Max

Summon Tainted
Max

Blood Boil
Max

Bind Demon
1pt Sigil: Lethargy
1pt pre-reqs
Rest in

Engorge

Tainted kill quickly and the bound demon is an excellent physical damager/tank.

I kick pots and barrels and urns, sometimes break open tombs.

If I understood correctly that the

Summon Tainted get the -Enemy fire resist and Skill level at the point of summoning and then you can wear whatever gear afterwards, then the best pre-buff would be: Dual Phoenix + Flickering Flame +

Arkaine's Valor socketed with

Defender's Fire for total -81 EFR right? Do I miss anything?

Does it also mean that we can fill up the inventory with Demon skillers before summoning, and then stash them all afterwards during our run to have more loot space?

sassiebarbie wrote: 1 hour ago

If I understood correctly that the

Summon Tainted get the -Enemy fire resist and Skill level at the point of summoning and then you can wear whatever gear afterwards, then the best pre-buff would be: Dual Phoenix + Flickering Flame +

Arkaine's Valor socketed with

Defender's Fire for total -81 EFR right? Do I miss anything?

Does it also mean that we can fill up the inventory with Demon skillers before summoning, and then stash them all afterwards during our run to have more loot space?

Tainted doesn't get your -res, only fire sunder works on them.

FerociousTerrier wrote: 1 day ago

......
-she gets

Teleport locked when I use

Death Mark because the

Tainted don't move, they just start shooting. She can only move once the

Tainted decide to move. This is a fatal flaw in this build, because she becomes useless using

Death Mark. Otherwise she is insane and does crazy damage. Although with this fire heavy build in mind, I may have to switch to Urdar to see if they are able to break the

Death Mark lock.
......

There is a bug when you

Teleport with your summon who has big model size, the summon and merc (melee attacker) will be locked in place if the summon is range attacker and is attacking.
Urdar and

Tainted are both big model size, I doubt if you can separate them when the

Tainted is attacking from range.