And just FYI, the other two Witch ascendancies are Occultist and Necromancer. Necromancer is obviously minions, but also has stuff involving corpses and auras/buffs (there are definitely Necro builds that have 0 minions). Occultist deals with curses and chaos or cold damage and has one of the most viscerally satisfying nodes, Profane Bloom: "Cursed enemies you or your minions kill have a 50% chance to explode, dealing a quarter of their maximum life as chaos damage". The sound effect on that is just ~*chef's kiss*~
Can I have more than one ascendancy? Cause Occultist sounds cool as well! I did a warlock/necro for LE and it was okay but meh and I don’t like D4 necro. But I was initially interested in curses/chaos magic for this character, so I could see myself going down that route (on another character if I need to) if it has decent bang for your buck!
@@CassKGaming No, one Ascendency only. There's a pair of unique jewels, which are the only class-restricted items in the game, that say "Allocates [Ascendency point] if you have [the other jewel] socketed". So your Witch could get any of the Ascendency points from Elementalist, Occultist or Necromancer but it won't be able to get any of the points from Deadeye (Ranger) or Guardian (Templar) or so on. The jewels come from a pair of endgame (/incredibly/ endgame) bosses, have at best a 10% drop rate, the Ascendency point can't be re-rolled on them and there are 143 it can choose from. Needless to say, you're not going to be seeing those without trading.
@whypick1_ hehe okay, well I will have to try another ascendancy for my seasonal character (that I am playing on the side but with the same rules as this, so there is no chance for spoilers. I will upload bits and pieces from that character if I do anything cool).
detonate nearby corpses is OP... the only way to survive there could be using the wisdon scroll before open the box, but most of time you will forget those things.
Hmmm well I definitely want to try something OP 🤣 I think I might even have that gem to try out! I need to cycle through what I have to see what I enjoy the most. Experiment time!
@viljakainu1548 hehehehe I can try but promise nothing! Funnily enough, my current D4 build has a heavy emphasis on not getting hit for one of my item abilities to proc, so it’s not outside of the realm of possibility in the future!
That’s probably a good idea. I need about 100 post it notes for what I need to do when I get into a new area, and toggling the auras on is one of them. I have them on the separate bar, so I can’t accidentally toggle them off anymore though, luckily!
That sounds brilliant. I honestly want to do both 🤦🏻♀️ I know that’s probably not the right way to look at it/play, but I will either figure it out or completely mess it up, per my usual routine 🤣
@@CassKGaming Well, the beauty of ignite is, once you decide to go with a fire spell and ignites, is that your support links don't change that much. You'll always, always, use burning damage support, deadly ailments, ignite proliferate (until you can find another way to proliferate ignites) and then efficacy, maybe infused channelling, maybe controlled destruction... if clearing with fireball, greater multiple projectiles and a source of chain or fork, ... And, you will absolutely want another spell that hits and ignites that is supported by combustion. Combustion support has bad damage, but the inc fire damage taken on combustion is great. So 1 skill that does the damage, and another to inflict combustion FOR BOSSES. For bosses only! You don't want to use two different skills for clear. Because zero-click per monster pack is best, 1-click is next best, using two skills is just unnecessary. So level Flameblast, fireball, armageddon brand, wave of conviction, incinerate, scorching ray, flame surge and so on and so forth, and test them with different supports. You can level gems in your weapon swap weapons.
Thankfully chat saved you, I saw another new player miss the stairs to Izaro and proceeded to cover /every/ square inch of the previous areas looking for where to go before finally coming back to the room and walking past the stash like your supposed to. It hurt me so so much to watch.
Haha yeah chat was the MVP. I had no idea! Izaro was definitely a scary fight. I thought for sure I would die in his last phase. But I am super excited for the possibility of more Labyrinths! OPEN ALL OF THE STRONGBOXES!!!
@@CassKGaming I'm not surprised, you made Izaro almost as hard as possible. In the first two phases he'll have some mechanic that buffs him/debuffs you. If you didn't disable it during that flight, he'll keep it through the subsequent phases. In the first phase you click on the statues to temporarily disable them, the aim being to beat Izaro when they're all disabled. In the second phase it's kill the gargoyles (and you grabbed a trinket that allowed you to insta-kill one). If you leave the mechanic completely alone, he drops an extra Treasure Key at the end (which is why you got 2; 1 Izaro always drops, 2nd from not touching the statues and you didn't get a 3rd because you killed a gargoyle). Knowing you're on Aussie internet made me really anxious that you didn't immediately run to the Ascendancy altar after killing Izaro.
@whypick1_ that’s super interesting! On my league character (when I take a hot minute to keep playing it), I will try to make sure none of the mechanics are disabled for the end. I don’t mean to make things as hard as I can, but I think it makes it more fun tbh. It feels like when you used to get a game on the day it released and no one knew/made these in depth walkthrough guides (you’d have to wait for magazines to release guides weeks later) and you had to figure it all out on your own, trying to finish the game in a weekend. Then you’d go to school and compare notes with your friends before your second playthrough.
@@CassKGaming So the two phases I mentioned were just for the fight you went through. You might have noticed when you went back into lab the second time things were slightly different. Well things will get a lot different the next time because not only is there a different layout for the 4 labs, but the labs change *daily* (at midnight UTC). Different layout, different Izaro mechanics and weapons (weapons determine his move set). I know it's against your rules, but there is a website where one goddamn legend of a player goes through and maps all 4 labs every day and shares it with the rest of us. So many hours saved because of that one man.
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And just FYI, the other two Witch ascendancies are Occultist and Necromancer.
Necromancer is obviously minions, but also has stuff involving corpses and auras/buffs (there are definitely Necro builds that have 0 minions).
Occultist deals with curses and chaos or cold damage and has one of the most viscerally satisfying nodes, Profane Bloom: "Cursed enemies you or your minions kill have a 50% chance to explode, dealing a quarter of their maximum life as chaos damage". The sound effect on that is just ~*chef's kiss*~
Can I have more than one ascendancy? Cause Occultist sounds cool as well! I did a warlock/necro for LE and it was okay but meh and I don’t like D4 necro. But I was initially interested in curses/chaos magic for this character, so I could see myself going down that route (on another character if I need to) if it has decent bang for your buck!
@@CassKGaming No, one Ascendency only. There's a pair of unique jewels, which are the only class-restricted items in the game, that say "Allocates [Ascendency point] if you have [the other jewel] socketed". So your Witch could get any of the Ascendency points from Elementalist, Occultist or Necromancer but it won't be able to get any of the points from Deadeye (Ranger) or Guardian (Templar) or so on.
The jewels come from a pair of endgame (/incredibly/ endgame) bosses, have at best a 10% drop rate, the Ascendency point can't be re-rolled on them and there are 143 it can choose from. Needless to say, you're not going to be seeing those without trading.
@whypick1_ hehe okay, well I will have to try another ascendancy for my seasonal character (that I am playing on the side but with the same rules as this, so there is no chance for spoilers. I will upload bits and pieces from that character if I do anything cool).
detonate nearby corpses is OP... the only way to survive there could be using the wisdon scroll before open the box, but most of time you will forget those things.
Hmmm well I definitely want to try something OP 🤣 I think I might even have that gem to try out! I need to cycle through what I have to see what I enjoy the most. Experiment time!
Naah just don't get hit ;)
@viljakainu1548 hehehehe I can try but promise nothing! Funnily enough, my current D4 build has a heavy emphasis on not getting hit for one of my item abilities to proc, so it’s not outside of the realm of possibility in the future!
@@CassKGaming I meant e.g. hitting your anti-freeze flask and frostblinking out of the blast area :P
oh em gee!
Labyrinth equals super fun!
You should definitely play aura support, the way you keep toggling your mana reservation skills on and off ;)
That’s probably a good idea. I need about 100 post it notes for what I need to do when I get into a new area, and toggling the auras on is one of them. I have them on the separate bar, so I can’t accidentally toggle them off anymore though, luckily!
Swapping out all your flasks so you roll into a boss fight with 0 uses on them is...a choice.
Hahahahahahahahahaha
Ignite and ... Fire... Blast? Buy FlameBlast gem, pronto! It makes use of cast speed, too!
That sounds brilliant. I honestly want to do both 🤦🏻♀️ I know that’s probably not the right way to look at it/play, but I will either figure it out or completely mess it up, per my usual routine 🤣
@@CassKGaming Well, the beauty of ignite is, once you decide to go with a fire spell and ignites, is that your support links don't change that much.
You'll always, always, use burning damage support, deadly ailments, ignite proliferate (until you can find another way to proliferate ignites) and then efficacy, maybe infused channelling, maybe controlled destruction... if clearing with fireball, greater multiple projectiles and a source of chain or fork, ...
And, you will absolutely want another spell that hits and ignites that is supported by combustion. Combustion support has bad damage, but the inc fire damage taken on combustion is great. So 1 skill that does the damage, and another to inflict combustion FOR BOSSES. For bosses only! You don't want to use two different skills for clear. Because zero-click per monster pack is best, 1-click is next best, using two skills is just unnecessary.
So level Flameblast, fireball, armageddon brand, wave of conviction, incinerate, scorching ray, flame surge and so on and so forth, and test them with different supports. You can level gems in your weapon swap weapons.
Thankfully chat saved you, I saw another new player miss the stairs to Izaro and proceeded to cover /every/ square inch of the previous areas looking for where to go before finally coming back to the room and walking past the stash like your supposed to.
It hurt me so so much to watch.
And I hit "Post" just as you discovered why you should maybe read Strongboxes before you open them :D
Haha yeah chat was the MVP. I had no idea! Izaro was definitely a scary fight. I thought for sure I would die in his last phase. But I am super excited for the possibility of more Labyrinths!
OPEN ALL OF THE STRONGBOXES!!!
@@CassKGaming I'm not surprised, you made Izaro almost as hard as possible.
In the first two phases he'll have some mechanic that buffs him/debuffs you. If you didn't disable it during that flight, he'll keep it through the subsequent phases. In the first phase you click on the statues to temporarily disable them, the aim being to beat Izaro when they're all disabled. In the second phase it's kill the gargoyles (and you grabbed a trinket that allowed you to insta-kill one). If you leave the mechanic completely alone, he drops an extra Treasure Key at the end (which is why you got 2; 1 Izaro always drops, 2nd from not touching the statues and you didn't get a 3rd because you killed a gargoyle).
Knowing you're on Aussie internet made me really anxious that you didn't immediately run to the Ascendancy altar after killing Izaro.
@whypick1_ that’s super interesting! On my league character (when I take a hot minute to keep playing it), I will try to make sure none of the mechanics are disabled for the end. I don’t mean to make things as hard as I can, but I think it makes it more fun tbh.
It feels like when you used to get a game on the day it released and no one knew/made these in depth walkthrough guides (you’d have to wait for magazines to release guides weeks later) and you had to figure it all out on your own, trying to finish the game in a weekend. Then you’d go to school and compare notes with your friends before your second playthrough.
@@CassKGaming So the two phases I mentioned were just for the fight you went through. You might have noticed when you went back into lab the second time things were slightly different. Well things will get a lot different the next time because not only is there a different layout for the 4 labs, but the labs change *daily* (at midnight UTC). Different layout, different Izaro mechanics and weapons (weapons determine his move set).
I know it's against your rules, but there is a website where one goddamn legend of a player goes through and maps all 4 labs every day and shares it with the rest of us. So many hours saved because of that one man.
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Haha yes!!!