Uber Ancients builds (post 3.3)

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 2 hours ago

Did anyone try out a Cleave Warlock against the uber ancients? More or less with same gear as a smiter focused an Res+CB+Lifetab (+attackrating)? In demon tree maybe just Consume for life and cb + Level 10 Sigil Lethargy and then everything else in eldritch skills. Can he out lifetab the damage from ancients like a smiter does? I mean he should be better in dealing with all of the minions cause of the 360 attack and be a great lifetabber cause he hits mulitple enemies. Thoughts?

If you're talking about using only Cleave vs Uber Ancients, it's probably a bad idea. 13FPA is the max for Cleave vs 10FPA for Mirrored Blades, so it's gonna feel slow vs MB. Plus, with Uber ancients the minions are more of a distraction than anything else. Big priority targets should be ancients themselves.

To get the 360 degree arc you'll likely need to invest more than a few points into Cleave, which in my experience does more harm than good because firstly it isn't much more effective than a 220-230 degree arc, which is pretty easily achievable with 1 hard point and +skills on your gear. Secondly, those skill points are better invested elsewhere, such as the demon skill tree (again speaking from my own experience).