Acolyte Chain Shape Template Build

[droid327]

Having fun blasting through heroic using chain and cone shape for picking up heroic class levels (would not take this into epic though, without the epic warlock feats available)

9 Acolyte 2 FvS 9 xxx
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Race agnostic
(8/2/10 for XXX class that loses priority to Warlock, ie Alch)

CHA>CON, all levels CHA
UMD, Spellcraft, Search, Tumble

Max Emp Quicken, Greater and Ultimate Attunement, then some combo of SF/GSF: Evo and PL: Wiz, or Shield Mast for HP, or Emp Heal. Take Attunement at 6, but swap it out after you gain it natively at CL8, before you take Greater at 12.

T5 SE for Wave and crit, T3 TS for chain and pact die, T2 AoV for Scourge and crit, T2 Beacon for Close Wounds SLA.

Gear for force+fire, and just Chain and/or Cone your way through R1, hit Wave whenever you get 3+ mobs in range. Abuse CW spam to keep Feigned Health stacked. Use MM from PL: Wiz to insta-build a bunch of scourge stacks whenever you lose them.

 

[droid327]

Tumble nerf really hurt this build, since it can clear on the run so fast in leveling content that runspeed was more of a factor in your clear times. Just drop it down to 1 point now

Still fantastic for quick leveling, though

 

[rabidfox]

I did few lives as 7 AotS (for stanch at 6 + 20 resist and DD at 7), 6 FvS (for strong close wounds + unyielding as a big heal if things go sideways) + 7 whatever. I just wish they'd let us take the 2 epic feats without needing 12 warlock, I hated having to bail at 20.

 

[droid327]

I did few lives as 7 AotS (for stanch at 6 + 20 resist and DD at 7), 6 FvS (for strong close wounds + unyielding as a big heal if things go sideways) + 7 whatever. I just wish they'd let us take the 2 epic feats without needing 12 warlock, I hated having to bail at 20.

Yeah thats another option, though the nice thing about 9 Aco is you get DDoor for even quicker clears on some quests, and skipping Finish timers

And agreed, I pushed for it when Sac Fist got their Epic Martial Arts feats. I played my last life into early Epic for tokens...even then you notice the lack of extra dice at 21-22

 

[Benihina]

Tumble nerf really hurt this build, since it can clear on the run so fast in leveling content that runspeed was more of a factor in your clear times. Just drop it down to 1 point now

Still fantastic for quick leveling, though

i am curious ; can you use tiefling for acid instead of fire for pact damg portion and take 2 cleric instead of fvs and go earth domain for acid instead of light for blast portion of damg?

 

[droid327]

i am curious ; can you use tiefling for acid instead of fire for pact damg portion and take 2 cleric instead of fvs and go earth domain for acid instead of light for blast portion of damg?

FvS levels are for Close Wounds SLA, Cleric doesnt have that, and the whole point there is CW SLA is a super-spammable, essentially free heal button.

Also, I'm not quite sure what you're getting at there - you're just trying to make both the Pact and Blast (Utterdark) work off Acid power? Tiefling's already aligned with Fire, so you'd get more power just by taking the Tiefling racial cores. Gearing for Fire is a little easier than for Acid too (and there's some really well-aligned items for leveling, like Powder Packed Barrel). And IIRC, those alt-spellpower skills only work for actual spells, not EB or Pact dice.

 

[rabidfox]

Yeah thats another option, though the nice thing about 9 Aco is you get DDoor for even quicker clears on some quests, and skipping Finish timers

You only need 7 for ddoor, levels 8 and 9 don't give more spells.

 

[droid327]

You only need 7 for ddoor, levels 8 and 9 don't give more spells.

Oh you're right, I must've been thinking cl9

 

[Benihina]

FvS levels are for Close Wounds SLA, Cleric doesnt have that, and the whole point there is CW SLA is a super-spammable, essentially free heal button.

Also, I'm not quite sure what you're getting at there - you're just trying to make both the Pact and Blast (Utterdark) work off Acid power? Tiefling's already aligned with Fire, so you'd get more power just by taking the Tiefling racial cores. Gearing for Fire is a little easier than for Acid too (and there's some really well-aligned items for leveling, like Powder Packed Barrel). And IIRC, those alt-spellpower skills only work for actual spells, not EB or Pact dice.

yes i was trying to get both pact and blast work off acid spower. was just curious if it would be possible to pull that off. from your reply it only work on actual spells and not eb or pact. thats a shame cos i prefer acid.