2 acolyte split
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WielderofGigantus
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Any particular reason you are only going Acolyte 2? There don't appear to be many debuffs worth it in the first two tiers of Acolyte and Soul Eater:
Hellish Rebuke is fairly minor damage, especially since the caster level would only be 2. Mindwrack does reduce enemies Will saves by up to 4, which may help for something like Paralyzing weapons.
Similarly in the Soul Eater tree, Taint the Blood reduces enemies Fortitude saves by up to 4. Taint the Aura can reduce enemies SR, PRR and MRR by up to 10, but it relies on the target first being Consumned, so only one target at a time would be affected.
Since you are going melee, eldritch blast doesn't really help you, and as an Acolyte of the Skin you don't get access to Eldritch Aura which could be combined with melee.
So yeah, you could reduce enemies' Fort and Will saves by up to 4, but I can't think of how that would be worth 2 levels of Acolyte as a melee character.
Hellish Rebuke is fairly minor damage, especially since the caster level would only be 2. Mindwrack does reduce enemies Will saves by up to 4, which may help for something like Paralyzing weapons.
Similarly in the Soul Eater tree, Taint the Blood reduces enemies Fortitude saves by up to 4. Taint the Aura can reduce enemies SR, PRR and MRR by up to 10, but it relies on the target first being Consumned, so only one target at a time would be affected.
Since you are going melee, eldritch blast doesn't really help you, and as an Acolyte of the Skin you don't get access to Eldritch Aura which could be combined with melee.
So yeah, you could reduce enemies' Fort and Will saves by up to 4, but I can't think of how that would be worth 2 levels of Acolyte as a melee character.
woq
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Takes too many points for the save reduction, you can get saves from other splits for will save dropping.
Enlightened spirit for proccing of other debuffs is superior to the extra points required for -4 will for 7 pts in Acolyte, it''s just too many pts. Something like Druid w/ Beguile is superior.
Acolyte makes more sense for //ranged// splits; like an Arti proccing full stacks of Track, LGS Debuff, SE + Acolyte + Consume on one barrage or AoE attack.
Enlightened spirit for proccing of other debuffs is superior to the extra points required for -4 will for 7 pts in Acolyte, it''s just too many pts. Something like Druid w/ Beguile is superior.
Acolyte makes more sense for //ranged// splits; like an Arti proccing full stacks of Track, LGS Debuff, SE + Acolyte + Consume on one barrage or AoE attack.
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woq
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If you want a decent melee split with 2 warlock soul eater, you can go:
Melee: 15 dl 3 monk 2 warlock w/ either T5 falconry or T5 DL + fillers to get consume, jade strike, tac dc, poison/other element strip, poison imbue from poison spy or whatever else you damn please w/ longswords or kukris (requires vkf and takes a lot more pts => less debuffage)
Ranged: 12 repeater with 28-35 pts in BE + 6 of your favourite class (alch, dark hunter, rogue, warchanter, whatever) + 2 warlock with 7pts soul eater and wherever you wanna put the rest; or just straight up 18 arti 2 warlock
You can probably even pull off some weird Bear/Wolf Lord w/ consume if you felt like it and it'll perform perfectly fine.
Other options could include a Warchanter PDK with consume for a utility guy... Or a Cleric of some sort w/ buff, debuff, melee stuff.
You could make a CC Shadarkai bot with the new raid kukri that contributes via control and raid kukri with salt that swaps some other kukri in for main weapon to do single target with consume debuff and twf debuff swaps to help out the team.
It all comes down to your imagination, expectations, assumed difficulty of content ran, past lives, gear available and willingness to use hearts and planning for stuff like getting an iconic race without it's intended class level in there.
Melee: 15 dl 3 monk 2 warlock w/ either T5 falconry or T5 DL + fillers to get consume, jade strike, tac dc, poison/other element strip, poison imbue from poison spy or whatever else you damn please w/ longswords or kukris (requires vkf and takes a lot more pts => less debuffage)
Ranged: 12 repeater with 28-35 pts in BE + 6 of your favourite class (alch, dark hunter, rogue, warchanter, whatever) + 2 warlock with 7pts soul eater and wherever you wanna put the rest; or just straight up 18 arti 2 warlock
You can probably even pull off some weird Bear/Wolf Lord w/ consume if you felt like it and it'll perform perfectly fine.
Other options could include a Warchanter PDK with consume for a utility guy... Or a Cleric of some sort w/ buff, debuff, melee stuff.
You could make a CC Shadarkai bot with the new raid kukri that contributes via control and raid kukri with salt that swaps some other kukri in for main weapon to do single target with consume debuff and twf debuff swaps to help out the team.
It all comes down to your imagination, expectations, assumed difficulty of content ran, past lives, gear available and willingness to use hearts and planning for stuff like getting an iconic race without it's intended class level in there.
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Grunndi
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I like that one, can swap between ninja imbue and DL once you have a bunch of ninja poison stacks.
I had a similar idea with 8DL/10Rog/2Wlk that doesn’t need to stay centered and gets D8 imbue dice. I’d personally do it as a TYWA dwarf (but that’s also just my thing). A “better” possibility could be PDK for full Cha SWF B-Sword goodness, or just good ol Horc. AP get really tight with a build like this though