Class/Build with mostly passive abilities or off cooldown abilities

RAYVORN · February 17

Hello all. I have a longterm injury the effects how I play. There are specific type of game style that I do better at and I am not skilled enough at all in all these options with multiple classes to remotely point myself in the right direction to figure out a build. I understand that I will not be meta but I also want to be respectable and not be turned away from content.

This is what I am looking for and love some guidance and maybe a few possible builds.:

-Passive or long term abilities. Simple meaning but it is important that buffs are long term. Like 45 seconds + . Example would be sorc pets.

-Abilities that have a HARD cooldown. Meaning, once I press it, I can't press it again (even if I wanted too) until the cooldown is complete. An example would be blasting bones from Necro.

I love Necro and blasting bones. Would be great to find 1 or 2 other classes that have great abilities that mix well with blasting bones that does not require a ton of quick button pressing.

Looking forward to any help. Also does anyone know a good discord to have a live discussion about builds?

Necrotech_Master · February 17

in terms of cooldowns, blastbones is the only ability that has a cooldown on cast

the only other abilities that even get cooldowns are most cast time/channeled skills if you get interrupted

the 2 best builds for low APM are: oakensoul HA builds, or arcanist beam builds

oakensoul builds you only have 1 bar, so 5 skills at most, and if you do the sorc method, then 2 of those are pets so you only really need to hit about 2-3 regular use skills between HAs

beam builds, you spend the majority of your time in arc beams, or templar jesus beams, both of which are 4ish second channels or so

other skills which have cast times that can be OK would be the destruction staff scribed ability, which has a 2 sec channel but still hits decently hard

Soarora · February 17

Did you try my corpseburster suggestion from the last time you asked?

I think it’s the best you’re going to get with necro since it uses blastbones, tether is a “hard cooldown”, and it has AoE damage.

Other options would be arcanist and templar because you can’t really accidentally spam cast a channeled ability and both of those classes have channeled spammables (which also slows down the rotation speed significantly, Arcanist’s entire thing is “the less time not channeling fatecarver, the more damage you do”).

Not sure if I mentioned it last time, but merciless resolve would work (can’t cast it without a minimum stack requirement) but you need to either heavy or light attack consistently. There’s also sorcerer, who has crystal frags (can cast it only when it changes color) and bound armaments (very similar to merciless resolve but generally worse damage-wise).

All in all, the most effective build for you might be arcanist with the scribed banner bearer (arcanist even has an accessibility feature where it’ll lock the beam of fatecarver onto the closest target), but it wouldn’t have blastbones.

El_Borracho · February 17

In addition to the Oakensorc, I was thinking you could run a DK with Elf Bane which would extend the length of your DOTs

Or this DK/Necro subclass: https://www.skinnycheeks.gg/blightflame-assassin

Or like what @Soarora suggested: https://www.skinnycheeks.gg/1-bar-beam