The Blood Surge Necromancer is an AoE focused Overpower build that manages to output great DPS and continuous healing. The passive benefit of stacking Maximum Life bonuses and Fortify means we get damage for free, while building an unstoppable tank!
The Blood Surge Necromancer deals most of its damage by making use of the guaranteed Overpower abilities provided by the Blood skills which also offer built-in tankiness through Fortify. Blood Surge is especially effective at applying Overpower damage to the entire screen with its massive AoE potential. This makes the Blood Surge Necromancer incredibly strong in density farming in Helltides, Nightmare Dungeons and some Seasonal content.
While this build focuses on Overpowering as often as possible, learning how to incorporate Critical Strike Chance and Vulnerable status can push your damage ever further and rewards the player for understanding the finer details.
This build is the natural evolution of our Blood Surge Necromancer Leveling Guide. It uses many of the same Aspects, including powerful options from the Codex of Power.
This build guide assumes you have a Level 50 Character and finished the Campaign. Level up with our Blood Surge Necromancer Leveling Guide. If you are looking for a different Necromancer play style, check out all of our Necromancer Guides.
Season 3 - Season of the Construct
Recommended Stones
- Tempest - Incredible single-target attack with fast attack speed.
- Resource Support - Helps out with generating Essence during combat.
- Breaking Support - Provides you with Vulnerable and additional instant Barrier destrruction.
- Arcing Support - Spreads your Breaking Support and therefore Vulnerable on multiple enemies.
- Flash of Adrenaline - Permanent damage multiplier after a certain Governing Stones and Tuning Stones level.
- Duration Support - Helps making the combo permanent.
- Tactical Support - Helps making the combo permanent.
- Safeguard Support - Provides additional Damage Reduction and can also be up permanently.
Alternative Stones
Many other options are possible to support this build, including different Governing Stones to apply the effects. Feel free to experiment!
- Efficiency Support - Increases your critical strike chance tremendously.
- Mockery Support - Helps defensively by taunting the enemies and grouping them on your Seneschal Construct.
Skill Tree & Gameplay
- Hemorrhage has incredibly high Essence generation due to its bonus Attack Speed and allows you to spawn a ton of Blood Orbs to trigger various benefits.
- Blood Surge has two damage components. The first one hits the entire screen and "drains" the targets, which empowers the second smaller AoE damage "surge" and scales with targets hit by the first damage portion.
- Blood Mist is our get out of jail free card. While you are Immune reposition yourself to gain an advantage.
- Decrepify applies a powerful CC effect that also causes Lucky Hit procs to reduce Cooldowns on our Skills. Prioritize casting this on any new monsters, or when it runs out. This also greatly reduces incoming damage and makes kiting monsters easier.
- Corpse Tendrils is the best CC option in the game, provides Vulnerable and also spawns a ton of Blood Orbs to trigger various benefits. Therefore we try to reduce its Cooldown by investing five Skill Points and incorporating +xx Ranks from gear.
- Bone Storm gives you a reliable source of Barrier in combination with Shielding Storm, as well as additional Damage Reduction and Crit Chance.
Passives
- Rathma's Vigor gives you another source of Overpower procs when you are able to stay Healthy for 12 seconds. Picking up or consuming Blood Orbs decreases the time between guaranteed Overpower procs. Make sure to use your guaranteed Overpower procs on Blood Surge by keeping track of Rathma's Vigor's timer on your buff bar.
- Drain Vitality allows you to quickly stack Fortify to increase your Overpower Damage output as well as decrease incoming damage.
Book of the Dead
There are 3 different Minion types you can choose to summon or sacrifice, located in the Book of the Dead. The Blood Surge Necromancer chooses to sacrifice Skirmishers for the Critical Strike Chance bonus, Bone Mages for the massive increase to Overpower Damage and Iron Golem for Critical Strike Damage bonus.
Learn more details and how to unlock this class specialization in our full Book of the Dead Guide.
Resource & Cooldown Management
One of the most important parts of your endgame journey is acquiring enough Essence to destroy your enemies. Having a grasp of the essentials of how your Essence works is key to your progression. There are many ways of generating resources, but below are some of the most important and relevant ones for the Necromancer.
Hemorrhage
Hemorrhage is a fantastic tool for quickly generating Essence, at range, against single or small groups of enemies. It naturally gains Attack Speed when you are Healthy, and picking up a Blood Orb causes it to damage enemies in an area. Every target hit generates more Essence.
Resource Aspect of the Umbral
Each Crowd Control effect that you inflict upon enemies triggers this aspect. This means that you can stack multiple different Crowd Control Effects in order to get incredible Essence generation. You need to find a 4 Resource version of it from a drop. Try to gamble rings at the Purveyor of Curiosities to get this item. Important effects that can trigger the Resource Aspect of the Umbral include:
- Corpse Tendrils Slow, Stun, Pull
- Decrepify Slow
Resource Aspect of Potent Blood
Continuously picking up Blood Orbs is already incredibly valuable for you in the early stages of progression, but with this Aspect it also resolves the majority of Essence problems you may run into. You can also rely on the Orbs left over from a fight to help top off while you move to the next pack. Skills that generate Orbs for you are:
- Hemorrhage
- Blighted Corpse Tendrils
Paragon Board
Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 when they reach level 15!
Level the Paragon Board by scrolling. Each step optimizes progression.
Glyphs
We need to level up our Glyphs to increase their power and activate their Additional Bonus with surrounding nodes. Glyphs have a radius of 3 by default, this increases to 4 at Glyph level 15. Complete Nightmare Dungeons to obtain Glyph experience.
Glyph Leveling Priorities
Level 15
- Dominate
- NOTE: This Glyph needs to be leveled to 15 to be functional and is your priority while progressing in WT3 and 4. This Glyph starts on Blood Begets Blood and moves to Scent of Death after.
- Corporeal
- Territorial
- Control
- Blood-drinker
- NOTE: This Glyph is not used in the final "Min-Maxed" board since we eventually transition away from using Blood Orbs on the build.
- Essence
- NOTE: This Glyph is not used until you transition to the "Min-Maxed" board setup. Make sure to reach Rank 15 before respeccing.
Level 21
- Dominate
- Corporeal
- Territorial
- Control
- Essence
Also check out our dedicated in-depth guides to learn more about Paragon Boards and Glyphs.
Endgame Progression & Variants
When you start diving into the Endgame of the Blood Surge Necromancer, you don't have all the tools available to achieve the final build versions. This section guides you through different progression points to give you a smooth transition from our Leveling Guides to the final build version.
Progression Goals
Many of your Skill choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. While we can guarantee that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the progression might be different for everyone!
- Unlock the following Aspects in your Codex of Power:
- Blood-bathed Aspect Hoarfrost Demise - Fractured Peaks
- Aspect of the Umbral Champion's Demise - Dry Steppes
- Aspect of Potent Blood Betrayer's Row - Dry Steppes
- Aspect of Grasping Veins Corrupted Grotto - Kehjistan
- Aspect of Disobedience Halls of the Damed - Kehjistan
- Aspect of Might Dark Ravine - Dry Steppes
- Ghostwalker Aspect Broken Bulwark - Scosglen
- Find the following Legendary Aspects by farming in Dungeons, Nightmare Dungeons, Helltides, through the Tree of Whispers, or gambling with Obols:
- Aspect of Shielding Storm - Gamble Pants
- This is the most important defensive Aspect for the build. It continuously generates Barrier while in close combat. The more enemies, the faster the Barrier generation.
- Aspect of Rathma’s Chosen - Gamble Focus
- Grants Attack Speed after we successfully Overpower skyrocketing our Essence generation and overall DPS.
- Aspect of Shared Misery - Gamble Boots
- Need a near perfect roll to be effective. Helps to spread CC and generate free Essence from Aspect of the Umbral.
- Aspect of Shielding Storm - Gamble Pants
- Acquire the following Unique items by farming in Dungeons, Nightmare Dungeons, Helltides and Endgame Bosses. NOTE: You cannot gamble Unique items with obols!
- Temerity: Amazing survivability tool that can replace any Legendary pants you may have. Requires you to prioritize overhealing significantly to maintain the Barrier. Replaces Might.
- Tibault's Will: Phenomenal Speedfarming and Bossing setup pants for added damage multipliers with Resource generation built in. Lacks survivability stats for pushing high NM Dungeons that need to be picked up on other items instead. Replaces Might.
- Blood Moon Breeches: Powerful pants with the highest total damage multiplier as well as decent survivability stats. Replaces Might.
- Banished Lord's Talisman: Rewards building into Critical Strike Chance and adds the highest total damage multipliers for an Amulet. Great for pushing high NM Dungeons. Not as valuable for speedfarming, as the damage tends to be overkill. Replaces Sacrificial.
- Lidless Wall: Interesting option for Speedfarming as well as NM Dungeon pushing. Offers good damage and survivability while reducing the ease of play by sacrificing an Offensive Aspect. Replaces Sacrificial.
- If you're lucky enough to obtain the following Uber Uniques, they're useful for the build:
- Harlequin Crest does fit well onto Blood Surge Necromancer. Replaces Might.
- Doombringer is an incredible option for Overpower builds since you are increasing your damage while you are also increasing your Maximum Life. Replaces Potent Blood.
- The Grandfather is a mediocre Uber Unique for Blood Surge Necromancer since it prompts you to heavily invest into Critical Strike Damage instead of Overpower.
- Ring of Starless Skies is a close contender for best uber unique for builds that use Resource.
Learn more details and how to farm Legendary Aspects and Uniques in our General Farming Guide.
Progression Setups
Once you have completed the leveling guide, only the Codex of Power Aspects are guaranteed. With this setup the Blood Surge Necromancer can farm the Legendary Aspects and Unique items you need for the next progression point.
Gear
Coming from World Tier 2, you can already have a good array of Legendary Aspects imprinted on key gear pieces to help smooth out gameplay and set you up for success.
- Most noticeably, you rely on Skeletal Minions during your early progression to help with Essence. These are sacrificed later on once your Aspects are strong enough.
- Blood-bathed Aspect causes our Surge to echo again. The damage reduction does NOT affect Overpower damage!
- Aspect of Grasping Veins gives a massive amount of Critical Strike Chance and a decent damage multiplier.
- Ghostwalker Aspect is the only reliable movement speed boosting Aspect we can employ at this early stage. You can quickly spam Blood Mist on then off to gain 10% Movement Speed for 4 seconds.
- Aspect of the Umbral generates a lot of Essence during a fight when our CC effects trigger.
- Aspect of Potent Blood helps to manage Essence and naturally synergizes with Hemorrhage.
- +xx% Resource Generation on Rings is an awesome stat to smooth out your Essence generation.
- Make sure to upgrade your Weapon, Boots and Amulet at least 3 times to help buff high-priority stats.
Skill Tree
During early game progression, especially with lower strength Aspects and Affixes on your gear, this build relies heavily on the support of your Skeletal Minions. Not only do they help to generate corpses and Essence passively, but Raise Skeleton counts as "consuming a Corpse" for the purposes of Grim Harvest to generate Essence quickly. We move some of our points into supporting the Skeleton's base survivability and to capitalize on Corpse consumption.
Book of the Dead
Relying on your Skeletal Minions helps to alleviate the clunkiness and Essence issues in the early game that the Blood Surge Necromancer can run into.
In this setup, the Blood Surge Necromancer has access to all Legendary Aspects, allowing you to pilot a much stronger version of this build. Additional Legendary Aspects are used to fill slots that may be replaced with Unique items later on.
Gear
Now that we at least have low-rolled versions of the Aspects we need we can solidify our gameplay rotation and Essence generation tools.
- With an Aspect of the Umbral roll >= 3 you can manage Essence generation in density without needing the help of Skeletal Minions.
- Aspect of Rathma’s Chosen on your Amulet completely changes the gameplay experience of the build. Once you Overpower and gain that huge attack speed boost, everything becomes easier to manage. This is when you start to melt the screen with constant OP procs.
In this setup, the Blood Surge Necromancer has access to all Legendary Aspects and Unique items, unleashing the strongest version of this build. Be prepared to grind to access some of these highly sought after items!
Gear
Transitioning to the Late Endgame version of the build entails replacing your gear with higher Item Power, finding perfect combinations of affixes and replacing Aspects with perfect versions of those same Aspects.
- Incorporating the new Uniques that synergize with Overpowering requires you to shift a few Aspects around.
- We drop Aspect of Might entirely to make room for the Pants slot.
- You transition away from relying on Blood Orbs, making room for Aspect of Rathma’s Chosen on your Ring.
Skill Tree
You transition fully away from generating Blood Orbs and reprioritize damage scaling:
- By swapping Corpse Tendrils to apply Vulnerable and maxing its Skill Ranks, you can reliably generate more Essence with Aspect of the Umbral and output significantly more damage.
Book of the Dead
Sacrifice all of your Minions if you haven't already and use Golems - Iron for the largest damage multiplier available to the build, for the Book.
The Gauntlet variant is designed to provide the highest damage possible, while constantly moving at high movement speed. Furthermore the optimizations made in this variant aim at reducing button presses, that do not deal damage, to maximize clear speed.
Gear
- It is incredibly important to squeeze every little bit of damage out of your gear. You can accomplish that by incorporating stats on gear pieces which usually prioritize damage reduction or utility such as your Chest or Helmet slot.
- Make sure you are Movement Speed capped at 200% total Movement Speed. If you are not, you use +% Movement Speed After Killing an Elite on Boots and if that is not enough you also run it on the Amulet.
- Since Shrines will be present during your Gauntlet runs, Shrine Buff duration on Boots and Amulet are highly important.
- Blood Moon Breeches and Decrepify should ideally only be necessary on bosses while you are one-shotting non-bosses without using Decrepify.
- Accelerating and Rathma’s Chosen will get you to the Attack Speed cap during their duration.
Uber Unique Gear
- Harlequin Crest provides an incredible boost to basically everything a build needs which in turn makes it an auto-include in almost every build. Replaces Embalmer.
- Ring of Starless Skies skyrockets Essence efficiency as well as damage. Replaces Accelerating.
Skill Tree
- To achieve constantly high movement speed you need to incorporate the new passive Death's Approach.
- Your Seneschal Construct takes care of most of your Essence generation. The remaining part is taken care of by including Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul together with Grim Harvest which in turn also allows you to profit off of Fueled by Death.
- You need to put one point in Drain Vitality to have a source of Fortify to increase your Overpower damage tremendously.
Uber Unique Skill Tree
- Since Harlequin Crest gives +4 Ranks to all Skills you can now move the one point from Blood Mist to Inspiring Leader. This is useful since you lose Accelerating by equipping Ring of Starless Skies and are not Attack Speed capped at any time anymore.
Seneschal Construct
- If you are missing Evernight replace it with Initiative Support.
- If you are missing Genesis replace it with Gripping Support.
Paragon Board
- You adjust a lot on the Gauntlet Paragon Board compared to the usual Paragon Board to squeeze out as much damage as possible.
Book of the Dead
- To maximize your damage, specifically for Gauntlet Bosses, you need to sacrifice Golems - Iron.
The Speedfarming setup makes you more efficient in farming the Open World, Helltide zones, Tree of Whispers, regular Dungeons, and Nightmare Dungeons. All Level 100 Endgame Variants use the "Late Endgame Min-Maxed Paragon Boards".
Gear
For Speedfarming, the name of the game is Essence management and buff uptime. To this end you need to automate the hardest part of this build's challenge: Corpse Consumption.
- Lidless Wall offers a solution for both. Since Blood Surge hits every target on the screen multiple times, it's easy to spread the Storms around and maintain uptime. With the extra Storms proccing Hewed Flesh and generating Corpses, all you need is to automatically consume corpses by equipping Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul.
Skill Tree
- Essence generation is almost automated by including Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul together with Grim Harvest which in turn also allows you to profit off of Fueled by Death.
Book of the Dead
- Sacrifice all of your Minions if you haven't already and include Golems - Bone for more Attack Speed for faster clears.
The Nightmare Dungeon Push setup is the same as the standard variant. The Blood Surge Necromancer already needs to build for maximum survivability to be able to stay in Close range of enemies.
AVOID THESE Nightmare Dungeon Affixes
Before we go into what you should change on your build, take a look at Nightmare Dungeon Affixes that you HAVE TO avoid for a successful push:
Avoid these modifiers if possible:
- Monster Overpower Damage Resistance - We are permanently using Overpower damage. This modifier hamstrings our ability to output damage tremendously.
- Monster Close Damage Resistance - We are permanently in close range of the monsters which results in a lot less damage dealt.
- Monsters Unstoppable at Low Life - We lose a lot of damage from conditional effects and monsters can attack you freely.
The Boss Killing Blood Surge Necromancer seeks to maximize damage output against Endgame Bosses as well as Bosses located at the end of some Nightmare Dungeons. Some players maintain a swapped set of gear to use in these scenarios, or prioritize this setup for "Bossing" sessions. All Level 100 Endgame Variants use the "Late Endgame Min-Maxed Paragon Boards".
Setup
- Godslayer Crown grants a 60% multiplier for 3 seconds whenever you deal damage to a Boss, while pulling in any adds as well. This effect only happens once every 12 seconds, so make sure to time your biggest DPS bursts during this window.
- Blood Moon Breeches adds an additional multiplier to any target affected by Decrepify. It also adds ranks to Amplify Damage for a larger multiplier.
- NOTE: This does not require minions to activate!
- Aspect of Untimely Death benefits from overhealing and adds a new multiplier whenever we Overpower. This requires a Focus instead of a Shield and allows for more Critical Strike Chance stacking.
The Uber Unique Blood Surge Necromancer has acquired the most sought after items in the game and can therefore maximize Essence uptime and damage.
Setup
- Ring of Starless Skies is not only reducing your Essence cost, but is also increasing your damage tremendously. To fit Ring of Starless Skies we have to get rid of the Umbral.
- Harlequin Crest is also a great addition to the Blood Surge Necromancer. In this case you move Shielding Storm to the Pants and remove Might.
- Your multiple sources of +xx% Resource Generation paired with Ring of Starless Skies are going to give you a huge number of Blood Surge before you need to worry about Essence again.
Hardcore Adjustments
Hardcore requires you to build into more defenses. Here are some tips to successfully navigate the Blood Surge Necromancer through potentially dangerous situations:
- Make sure to stack more survivability stats on your Chest, Pants and Amulet by using Maximum Life, Damage Reduction and Total Armor stats.
- Use of a Shield instead of an Focus with Maximum Life, Damage Reduction and All Resistance can greatly increase your survivability. Use any recommended Defensive Aspect not currently on your build or add Aspect of the Protector/Protecting Aspect.
- Sacrifice Skeletal Warriors - Defenders for All Resistances, until you are capped via other sources.
- In the Paragon Boards, select additional Armor Nodes in Rare clusters whenever possible.
- Only farm Nightmare Dungeon content that's 1-5 Levels above your Character until you're comfortable farming higher difficulty content.
Check out our dedicated in-depth guide to learn more survival tricks in Hardcore.
Build Scaling & Stat Priorities
Learn about the important build scaling mechanics and stat weights.
- Overpower: Reads your current Life and Fortify value to calculate its bonus damage. So stacking Maximum Life and Fortify Generation are keys to outputting your maximum damage, in addition to the additive Overpower Damage on gear and in the Paragon boards.
- Crowd Control: CC'ing monsters and pulling them with Corpse Tendrils becomes a direct damage scaler. Not only does it maximize our paragon board bonuses, but it also grants us more time to apply more attacks before Overpower procs.
- Attack Speed: Increased Attack Speed increases the rate we generate Essence by reducing the animation length on our generators. It decreases the length of time before Corpse Tendrils is on the field and how quickly we can spam cast Blood Surge. It's arguably the highest value stat on our gear and Paragon after Maximum Life.
- Critical Strike/Vulnerable: Activating the base 1.5 and 1.2 multipliers from these sources is already powerful enough. The build also has a few multipliers that rely on meeting these requirements to activate.
- Resistances: As we approach lategame, we focus on capping all of our elemental resistances at 70% through rolls on Armor pieces, Paragon nodes, Jewelry sockets as well as sacrificing Skeletal Warriors - Defenders. The goal is to cap all of these at 70% by around level 80 (120% total because of the 50% penalty in World Tier IV). Use Paragon nodes and Jewelry sockets to shift Resistances around as needed. You may have to divert from the exact stat distribution described below to achieve this.
- Don't Get Hit: Make use of your range advantage and hit enemies from afar. By stutter stepping on the edge of your range, you can avoid most projectiles that come your way.
- Armor: A great deal of defenses comes from your Armor. The Aspect of Disobedience can help to increase the effectiveness of it while you are maintaining its stacks. Make sure to get as much Armor on your gear as possible.
- Damage Reduction: In all of its forms, this stat is important to stack after Armor. Since we can maintain Fortified status easily, Damage Reduction while Foritifed is a strong survivability stat on top of all other forms of Damage Reduction.
- Unstoppable: We only have one way to gain Unstoppable and that's from Blood Mist. Cooldown Reduction helps to "scale" this defensive mechanic by making it available more often.
- Fortify: Drain Vitality naturally Fortifies you while we deal our damage, but isn't reliable enough to maintain full Fortify. Blood-drinker turns the Orbs generated from Corpse Tendrils and Hemorrhage into a reliable source.
- Healing: Blood Orbs are incredibly powerful tools for constant Healing, and even overhealing for certain skill and aspect interactions.
Our Damage Explained article explains how to scale your Offense.
Learn all you need to know to scale Defense with our Defense Explained Article.
Stat Priorities
Choosing the right stats for your gear can make or break your build. You don't always find perfect stats (also known as affixes or modifiers) though, and you may need to make a tough choice between two good pieces of equipment. Use the following list of priorities to compare your gear and pick the required stats.
- Helm: Shielding Storm
- Maximum Life
- +xx% Total Armor
- Cooldown Reduction
- All Stats
- Intelligence
- Basic Attack Speed
- Chest Armor: Disobedience
- Maximum Life
- +xx% Total Armor
- Damage Reduction from Close
- Damage Reduction
- Damage Reduction from Distant
- Gloves: Grasping Veins
- +xx Ranks to Blood Surge
- Overpower Damage
- Attack Speed
- Critical Strike Chance
- Lucky Hit: Up to a 5% Chance to Restore xx% Primary Resource
- Lucky Hit Chance
- All Stats
- Intelligence
- Pants: Blood Moon Breeches Prioritize Maximum Life / Damage Reduction from Enemies Affected by Curse Skills.
- Otherwise Look For: Might Implicit: Potion Grants Barrier
- Maximum Life
- +xx% Total Armor
- Damage Reduction from Close
- Damage Reduction
- Damage Reduction from Distant
- Boots: Ghostwalker Implicit: Max Evade Charges
- Movement Speed
- Essence Cost Reduction
- +xx Ranks to Corpse Tendrils
- All Stats
- Intelligence
- Amulet: Banished Lord's Talisman Prioritize a high Overpower damage roll.
- Otherwise Look For: Rathma’s Chosen
- Essence Cost Reduction
- +xx Ranks of the Tides of Blood Passive
- Movement Speed
- +xx% Intelligence
- +xx% Total Armor
- Damage Reduction
- Rings: Potent Blood & the Umbral
- Maximum Life
- Overpower Damage
- Critical Strike Chance
- Damage (Physical, Damage to Close Enemies)
- Lucky Hit Chance
- Main Hand / 2 Hand: Blood-bathed Implicit: Damage to Close (Dagger)
- Overpower Damage
- Core Skill Damage
- Intelligence
- All Stats
- Damage to Close Enemies
- Off-Hand: Untimely Death Implicit: Cooldown Reduction (Focus)
- Critcial Strike Chance
- Essence Cost Reduction
- Cooldown Reduction
- Lucky Hit: Chance to Restore Primary Resource
- All Stats
- Intelligence
- Basic Skill Attack Speed
This build benefits the most from the following consumables:
- Elixirs: Elixir of Cruelty, Heady Crushing Elixir and Heady Assault Elixir
- Type I Incense: Sage's Whisper
- Type II Incense: Soothing Spices to cap Resistances, Reddamine Buzz
- Type III Incense: Chorus of War
FAQ & Mechanics
Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.
How Does Overpower Work?
Mechanics
Learn all you need to know about how to scale this build in the endgame.
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Summary
The Blood Surge Necromancer is incredibly nuanced and rewards the player for learning as much as you can about Overpower mechanics and how to maximize your Overpower procs. With your huge Maximum Life pool, Fortify and healing, you can survive damage that other builds could never conceive of!
- Blood Surge can hit a target twice, as long as they're within range of the "drain" and the "surge". The "drain" hits the entire screen, while the "surge" only hits Close Enemies.
- Overpower has been drastically overhauled in Patch 1.2! It finally plays well with other damage scalers like Critical Strike and Vulnerable.
- Blood-bathed Aspect allows you to cheat out an extra "surge" for free. This Overpowers when the base Skill does.
- Practice makes perfect! Don't be afraid to run slightly easier content of Nightmare Dungeons to get the flow of the gameplay loop.
- Happy blasting 🚀!
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