1-Link, 299c budget DD vs. Maven 3.16 Scourge

added Q&A in description below

I think the direction of this build is to go full jam on Fireburst weapon swap and fit in both Blackflame and Berek's Respite while DD damage is already good enough for single-target and u clearly don't need mirror-tier gear to continuously raise unearth levels to infinity

Flat damage from corpse life is broken and you can probably copy this damage with 100c or less but it won't be as tanky

Bought everything in a single session and copied items into pob on purchase so it shows the price i paid below all items

Q&A

Q: what are the spectres?
A: best spectres to aim for are Lithomancer and Stoneskin Flayer they can be found in Primeval Ruins delve city, you can use 8.5% worse heist spectres early on

video explaining heist spectres

Q: you Never use dd ? Your build Work automatically on your vidéo
A: what

Q: can i replace x item for y item?
A: next question

Q: why your main skill gem is level 1
A: all the damage comes from corpse explosion which doesn't have tags and doesn't scale with gem level so levelling up makes it worse if anything because active gems gain more mana cost with each level

Q: necromancer ascendancy is more popular play necromancer
A: I won't because it cannot go for HoT autobomber. There's also a few other major problems with necro like more buttons to press, being forced to cast/trigger offering, being forced to take trash nodes on the tree to cap ignite chance and not to mention less damage overall

Q: unearth is so good, you always get your high life corpses and you don't need your spectres anymore
A: opportunity cost is incredibly high which ends up with less damage overall at ridiculous cost

Q: POB

Q: shit softcore with 100 deaths, trash video dislike noob.
A: i cannot disagree

Q: How do you spawn bodies on top of the bosses? Just the boots? I don't see you using any skills.
A: desecrate is the main corpse generation skill

Q: What gods in the Pantheon do you choose? I went Brine King because I seemed to get stunned a lot. Is there a solution to this problem?
A: animate guardian on high budget solves that problem but for campaign and early mapping Brine King is a no-brainer, ralakesh and lunaris for high budget

Q: with blackflame making it chaos damage, should we have large cluster for chaos damage over time stuff instead?
A: ignite and corpse explosion are very similar to scaling explode damage in their weirdness, they don't have tags so only generic global damage increases work, covering Blackflame topic it doesn't actually convert ignite damage but makes so enemies take chaos damage instead which means character increases to chaos damage do nothing but stuff like wither which affects monsters specifically work

Q: Hi, from where did you get "Enemy Corpse Life" in PoB Configuration?
A: from poedb

Q: How do you sustain your spectres life?
A: some sort of minion recovery is mandatory, with 2% minion regen they haven't died a single time in 20 hours of playtime

Q: How are u generating endurance charges?
A: small cluster jewel notable "enduring composure"

Q: can you give me info about these focus stats, they are nessesary?
A: They are very strong especially on a low budget but i didn't use any of them on higher budget

Q: Does "Minion damage" and "Minion life" node on skill tree affect the corpse explosion damage?
Does "Chaos damage over time multiplier" scale the corpse explosion damage?
A: yes, if u have spiritual aid notable. no. no.

Q: Where you get wither?You take nodes on increased wither effect?But i can't see any wither buff ore debuff
A: With blackflame ring wither never expires, withering step applies 6-11 debuffs on use so in 2 casts / 3 seconds u will have 15 stacks. There is also glorious vanity notable for 25% chance to inflict wither on hit which im not using but u can if u want to

Q: So what does Flame surge in your boots slot actually do besides 236 dps?
A: GGG reworked that skill this league to buff ignite, im using it for this new line "Hits on Ignited Enemies create Burning Ground, no more than once every 2 seconds
Burning Ground deals 25% of Fire Damage per second of Ignite affecting Enemy"

Q: Would really love to have a rough levelling guides. Especially when you transition to DD self cast and what spectres you got along the way

[Kim_Vanco]

Wonderful. I'm playing your build and it is so powerful. I killed veritania in 0.5sec. lol thx a lot sir

[CountCocofang]

Important to note: Glorious Vanity is always very expensive at the beginning of a league. It only enters "cheap" territory about 3 or even 4 weeks in. However, it is a massive defensive boost for builds that can utilize it. Don't expect that much tankiness without investing much more currency at the beginning of a league.

[MrXandr]

well, RIP this build in next league, ty...

[Hakkene]

wait whaat, where is all that dmg coming from? i cant figure it out, there's nothing more except few DoT affixes on your other gear pieces. Is blackflame broken for some reason with buffed ignite? I have to try this in delirium event

[nguoiradio]

Is there a build guide please? Thank you

[rsbladerunner]

Would like to try this build, but Blackflames average price is 6 Ex :(

[alexisleroy]

Sorry, noob here, probably a stupid question but.. where's your desecrate? you cast DD, but i don't see any "corpse" generation spell on your hotbar? :s sorry if that's dumb, as i said, kinda noobish here ^^

[yamakuchi]

Looks great ! Just wondering how you know the corpse HP to set in POB ?

[slicplaya]

So what does Flame surge in your boots slot actually do besides 236 dps? is it there for some type of increased time of casting inbetween desecrates?

[baatosanyo]

Whelp, no way that's gonna be 299c now

[teamwix]

Does this build have much potential for min-maxing or does it cap out fast?

[HostyGames]

try with lvl 1 desecrate man. its nothing bcz all damage from desecrate gem LUL