You have to use your Z before you enter the portal or it’ll reset the state without it expiring, which is where you get the gains
Probably. I just do one Surge rotation in the first room which gives me the cooldown reductions for a clean instant clear every time until the portal appears
Probably playing with wrong abilities/rotations then. You can do clean wipes and one-shot the elite mobs all the way until the end if you just do it properly. Takes me a minute less to do the whole thing on DB than any other class
Green barelly heals you since the rework, 65% dmg reduction with 25% max health is an effective HP loss of about 20-25% compared to other classes, so you have less survivalbility.
Using identity to heal (only 30% or so of your health) is not really an option, not only makes you “dead weight” for 30secs, cd time, but also removes your damage reduction while still being at low health…
well, i played quite a lot of berseker, before the class changes. idk how it is now.
i played both technique and mayhem. i can tell that they both where kinda the same as survivability. not big difference. a green hp potion always recovered to full. and when i was running out of potions on abys dungeons, i always went out of mayhem, and healed me over 25%, so when i went back to mayhem, had full 25% hp. I never died by doing that, other that 100% wipe mechanics.
not to speak that the mayhem is better at movement speed and evading stuff. technique is just so damn slow and unfun to play
ps: this is before the class change. idk how it is now. i main Lancemaster now.
Green pots barelly heal even blue pots dont heal to full. And going out of mayhem makes you useless for 30secs… All skills hit like a wet noodle and are way to slow to use, not to mention you still gona be under or around 50% health and without any damage reduction for that duration.
I came on here to make the exact same post as OP (I’m Paladin main and looking for an alt to make with the Punika pass).
After reading through all this, I’m going with Shadow hunter. I’m looking for a mindless, fun, high’ish DPS class… And it looks like SH would do all those things.
Shadowhunter and soon scouter. Transform classes are cheap (with gems at least engravings are another story at the moment 1415+) Shadowhunter is my main atm and I enjoy playing her though it feels bs sometimes due to the psuedoheal in their kit
I think you can play Shadowhunter with literally only 2 gems because all your damage comes from Demon Form or something so in terms of that you don’t need any gems to play it so surely that should be the “cheapest” Idk about engravings and all that stuff but I might make Shadowhunter myself while I’m also a DB main.
I also heard that Shadowhunter doesn’t need any tripods whatsoever so it is truly cheap DPS to play, I wish I enjoyed it a bit more, mine is forever 1340 now. I (as Paladin main) am thinking about making either Arcana or Tai Scapper with the new Punika Pass… can’t decide and still have to buy slot for them…
I was told by a friend who has Scrapper alt that it used to be his most boring class to play with Taijutsu then he switched to Shock and it became his most fun alt to play.
I’m a 1460 SH and I love the class. It’s fast, tanky enough (doesn’t compare to a warrior, but I usually can get some hits and survive just fine), and if you build it well, you’ll get big numbers all the time.
For tripods, if you’re running demonic impulse, you’ll need to focus on the ones that give you identity meter.
For gems, focus on damage and cooldown for demonic skills and, if you want, cooldown for human form skills.
She doesn’t need to be positioned, as only 2 of her skills are back/front.
She heals herself when going into demon form. Around 20k each time.
I use grudge, been using grudge at lvl 1 since north vern. Cuz I was new and didnt really read or knew how the engravings worked. so I have had 20% increase dmg taken since lvl 50 and shadow hunters are still tanky
Berserker is not the cheapest because their gems and tripods are critical to doing good damage. And they need all the gems and all but 1 tripod at high level. As an alt, you already don’t have legendary mayhem which makes even 5x3 expensive.
SH or gunlancer are my vote. However, they are spec classes so you are going to take a bit of a beating on accessory prices because quality matters far more than for non-spec classes. And gunlancer is deceptively expensive if you want to do competitive dps, but parties will take you anyway.
