ManyCookies wrote on Apr 22
nd, 2022 at 10:22pm:
Talked with a few more people and they advised me to just do a blaster lock and focus on damage, that should also be easier to gear since i wont have to worry about spell penetration (which i cant get high enough anyway).
Played around in DDO builder for a while...ended up with 41 points tainted scholar, 39 points soul eater, soul eater T5 but level 20 core in TS.
Feats : Maximize, empower, quicken, enlarge, spell focus evocation, greater spell focus, force of personality (do not have wizard past lives or completionist).
With EDs, i ran into the big problem of how to synergize spellpower. It seems like the most popular damage choice involves going draconic mantle + epic strike + t5 and using ruin/greater ruin.
But how are you supposed to gear for all these different spellpower?
Force : Blast, evards and ruin/greater ruin
Acid : Pact damage and draconic epic strike
Radiance : Pact damage (if using the stance) and SLAs
The level 30 legendary feat (scion of X) mainly buffs one of those 3, so its going to result in a synergy issue anyway.
How does the draconic epic strike work anyway, is there a DC? Or is it just raw damage?
Gear Set follows (Do note I've got raid gear where it is most appropriate for the build):
- Goggles: Brightgaze. 14+ cha, Quality potency, +2 quality DCs, and Lantern Proc.(slotted with Insightful Cha and Festive Cha to be my full Cha item suite. Also have my Essence of Dethek Runestone in here for temp HP/SP proc.)
Armor: Legendary Red Dragon Armor. Proc is still decent on any warlock, even if you don't strip fire immunity. Armor also covers fire SP and crit.
Helmet: Crown of Snow. Freeze proc and DCs. Winter set.
Bracers: Legendary Green Dragon Bracers. Decent stats, exists mostly to hit 3pc Autumn.
Necklace: Celestial Insignia. Temp HP proc and heal amp. Like the bracers mostly for 3pc Autumn.
Trinket: Legendary Gem of Many Facets Crafted insightful radiance on this and electric absorb so I can be lazy and not hotswap for raids. Does not actually do anything for sets on this build/life. It does however have the Divine Blessing set on it; if I ever wanted to gear swap around my rings. Swap in the matching ring to cover your Radiance SP/Light Crit needs.
Cloak: Countenance. Radiance lore and spell pen.
Belt: Direbear Belt. PRR and MRR. Winter set. (Slotted with Saph of Defense)
Gloves: Gloryborne Gloves Sacred DCs and Positive SP + Light SP.
Boots: Legendary Deepsnow Boots Con item and Winter Set.
Ring: Clouded Dreams Exceptional SP and lore. Slotted Pomura's Augment for the 5% insightful crit as well.
Ring: Bound Elemental Ring of Earth. Acid stats and more importantly the Alchemical Earth Attunement Proc. This is the acid caster's magma.
Weapon: BLIGHTSTAFF This bad boy has everything this build/playstyle needs. ACID, NEGATIVE, LIGHT/EVIL, and POISON all rolled into one delicious raid statted package. This bad boy gives you 22% lore and +148 spellpower to everything that matters besides Force for Tentacles and Arcane Tempest. It also comes with another acid DOT proc that stacks with the ring.
Also I don't know who explained warlocks to you but they're legit a bit downs.
Your pact damage is going to forever be the type that matches your pact. GoO is always acid, nothing changes that. Blast shape modifies from the enhancement trees affect the BASE BLAST damage type. Thus when you take Utterdark Blast you stop doing force damage and instead do evil damage. This is why most warlocks forgo force entirely and load up on Light SP/crits.
As such; I suggest you take the epic feats for Acid and Light. Your legendary feat take Scion of Celestia; your main damage when it's not being resisted (aka your pact damage) is going to be evil. Few things resist evil/alignment. Celestia boosts the Evil Damage and gives you 150HP on top of it.
Note that I'm wearing medium armor because I invested in Enlightened Spirit. Your mileage will vary trying to adapt a pure blasterlock from my gear set. As I am totally fine with trading off some front loaded damage for the survivability in ES; you know so I'm not a soulstone or liability in quests unlike most blaster warlock players.