Raining fire from above! This build is absurd when I get to freecast in the height like that on the clumps

Nice thats a good tip! Appriciate that 🙏

Ayy super happy to hear that my man! I've run into a few people ingame running it too and have whispered me saying they are having fun playing it too. I'm super stoked to get the gear together for myself and start playing the brute build as well. for the gems, ignited runeglass. Just for that extra BB dmg. The flail does so little damage so its only a utility weapon for the most part, BB is the bread and butter of your damage. The perks and runeglass will be the same for this build and the brute build.

Love it. Thanks brotherman. Really appreciated. Keep pumping! @@jiggyspice6809

@jiggyspice6809 You subbing the tumblr shoes for Michael?

Yeah this is a great question and I guess it depends on what you feel more comfortable with. I opted to go for more shirking heal so I can stay alive more easily. The blunderbuss already deals so insanely much damage that I felt the extra 10% damage from fire harnessing wasn't needed. But that is up to you. for the earring I think alchemist reprieve is better as it will make your mana potion heal for over 3k health. you are already near empower cap with this build so empower might not be needed. But that is again up to you. If you want maximum damage and burst then you may go fire harnessing and empower. But staying alive as a light armor player in this season is incredibly difficult so I went for as much sustain as possible.

Thanks bro !! ❤

Did you like that pronunciation? 😂😂

Yeah 2 perk crafts. Got very lucky

Michael build next 💪

This is crafted gear using the daily CD craft with the chromatic seal you buy from faction vendor. there are options out there for easily obtainable gear if you just want to try it out. You can check this google doc made by Eidorian docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/12PxYukTlbgVIYUvKRt4g7bJXttgKfZw_oBgmyFa15ZM/htmlview?pli=1#

onyx is 2.5% and moonstone etc are 5% but maybe an onyx is still worth so you are better suited against all types. In general though strike is not that important, the flail does very little damage and a warhammer is very easy to dodge and avoid.

I do agree that strike damage is not as much of a threat but it's free resistances compared to your gem setup

Probably fire damage to be hoenst. I went for health for survivability because I like to do 1vX a lot. I went for shirking heal because I 5x Sh is a must

I like it to be honest. The game needs more gear that is hard to obtain. It's very satisfying when you finally get them. I got pestilence quite fast but it took me 5 days to unlock ankh and I was nonstop farming. What a great feeling when I finally saw it on the track.

4 days, 30 tracks and still no Pestilence for me...BTW what's the last perk on Ankh? I was thinking thrust protection. @@jiggyspice6809

It slightly mitigates the damage but not enough. firestaff and BB just hit too hard tbh. Brute build coming soon, although the perk bucket will be very similiar to this. stack health and shirking heals with ankh.

Cant quite remember I think its called detrius or tan brown.

@@jiggyspice6809 Was it from the cash shop? I cant find one called that. Or do you mean the Dark Tan Brown?

Thank you! It's a mix of a variety of skins. The chest is from the store, called pauldrons of fear or something. The pants and gloves are from empyrean forge. And the boots might be from a twitch drop

@@jiggyspice6809 Thank you very much

Yes either that or replace vicious with emp fireball. I am running attun+keenlyjagged+vicious personally and it is working very well for me.

No don't go for jagged. Basically a wasted perk as people are running vigor. Attunement+vicious+plagued crits

Yes my man! I am working on a bb/flail build as we speak! The guide will be up this week 💪💯

@@jiggyspice6809 Great! Any quick tip before that one as to which do you like more? Iam just now starting to build a set and cant decide at all haha. Thanks so much, such a fast reply!

I don't think the nerf is substantial so I assume they will still be just as viable. If it turns out that the nerf is huge I'll definitely release an update if I feel they aren't the best choice anymore

I went for stam recovery

Oh try again next time man! Yeah I LOVE the influence races! Amazing addition to the game 🔥🔥

Wild! 💯

I use the exact same setup in PvE although I may switch the pestilence for the great axe artifact. "The abyss"

Its a mix of both

It performs even better now. Nobody has any hope at all to outheal the damage you're bringing with this build. You have to play more carefully ofcourse since your own healing capability is lowered also. But the damage is inadvertently buffed for this build as a result. With all potions + shirking heal they cant even heal back the damage from a single shrapnell blast.

Thx, I dont got ankh yet and took Tumbler mainly for the emp/fortify. Crafting a BiS Ring this evening and gonna look how it goes without Shirking Heals. Gonna upgrade the build eventually but then I got sth to work with at least already. I got a lot of refreshing going on my armor pieces atm.. is it not as beneficial as I thought on that build? Then I might try to get more def perk / health pieces. @@jiggyspice6809

Anything with hearty and fire dmg is good enough, Leeching is not a must have

2 perk crafts on everything. Just pure luck. Only the ring was a 3perl craft.

@@jiggyspice6809 perfect. Prob. gonna craft 3 Perk on fire staff first, than ring.

+ for armor perks, you dont want 3rd perk to be for net shot or grenades? Or for fire staff spells?

@@andrejadame5233 Oh yeah absolutely you do. Netshot perk is so mandatory I would love to have that on my chest or head. And on my firestaff i went keenly jagged, vicious, flame attun so I also want fireball on armor.

WHat are the best fire staff combination? only yours is top or there are more similar ones.@@jiggyspice6809

Oh you definitely want those perks! I'm working on getting grenades on my chest. And for now I'm using net shot on my boots but I will change it to helmet when I can and put shirking heal on boots. But yes you absolutely want those 2 perks.

is it better to use the two guranteed rolls for shirk pvp and a perk or fire dmg?@@jiggyspice6809

@jiggyspice6809 with anhk nerfs is still a good option to go with leeching on ring, shirking heals and leeching shrapnel blast on armor? Also u gonna use 3 bb perks on armor in this case?

@@wardominator.twitch the way I see it ankh got buffed not nerfed. The ankh changes make this build even better. Yes I run shrapnel, grenade and net shot on armor.

@jiggyspice6809 in what way u see this anhk adjustment?

The last perk on an artifact can always be changed. The bottom one on the list.

@@jiggyspice6809 what i mean for example, serenity you cant remove refreshing move you can only remove the onslaught/defensive stance stacking buff. The firestaff i can only remove it scales with strength not incinerate buff. Its only letting me replace the unique perks

I dont know how it works but someone told me that the way an int build scales with t2 gems make them stronger. If I'm not mistaken putting a t2 gem in there will give u a permanent unconditional 20% dmg boost. A opal is a 15% conditional dmg boost. I did test it myself on the training dummy and the t2 ruby deals around 600 dmg more per pellet than an opal.

Thats crazy how much a flawed gem can do

Yes absolutely! And i switch between the abyss and the BB all the time while using this gear. Both weapons work beautifully with this loadout!

Yeah you get slightly more damage mitigation but I like tumblers more. The double SH + 25% empower and refreshing is very nice. With this build you outheal damage so easily that damage mitigation isn't really needed. I've tested this build in both war and influence pushes and I can survive fine even in clumps.

Best HP but it gives barely anymore armour. Think it’s like 6%. The heavier builds benefit from this. They get 30% more. Featherweight isn’t for light builds like most players are doing.

​@@KepDeepbut more armour is better. Infact i had up to 1300 physical armour.

its the other way around, lights get 30% more, mediums less than 10%

@@KepDeep Wait, what?

Yeah they did so good on the mounts imo! Love them

Yeah that's fair. We don't know if they are bugs or intended. AGS are a bit inconsistent with things like this.

Well, Ankh Is good Just by buffing shirking heals, i did't even knew about mana pots bug and still feeling It so powerful Just cuz allows me to heal a lot more x Dodge.

Stamina recovery. You want as many dodges as possible so stamina recovery really benefits this build a lot !

100% ty@@jiggyspice6809

I respect your opinion. But so far I have had good results in all gamemodes with this build. Maybe I should have made the montage at the end longer. You are right though. As a solo the shirking heal reliance is a challenge. Especially versus ranged players. It's hard to proc SH against ranged. But I. Large scale pvp and arena this build is insanely good. If you have a pocket healer it is absurdly strong. But vs any melee this build will always win.

No what does it do?

pestilence applies poisoning on hit and it works on both weapons so that poison/disease effect would get extended@@jiggyspice6809

Yeah I run this build in PvE. I sometimes switch out the bb for the abyss great axe for trash mobs and go bb on bosses. But bb still good as well.

It depends on how good your aim is. BB is not the easiest weapon in the game. You have to hit your shots. But if you have experience with shooters then you will be just fine!

4 rubys and 4 onyx. Ignited runeglass for the armor though

I chose stam recovery, we want as many dodges as we can get since we are building for shirking heal.

thanks @@jiggyspice6809 , u put now a ruby in the pestilence?

Crafted and mutation

Totally insane! I hope they don't nerf it too hard

I use the "spell focus" passive on the left side tree. Critts also give you mana. and with mana potions its quite easy to always have mana.

PvP track 50+

No the artifact bb is actually weaker than a regular BB. But it applies a lot of disease which is why it is percieved as super strong since it's hard to heal back up when going against it. but it does not have attunement which is a flat 14% dmg increase, and without the gem slot you are also losing 15-20% dmg. But all that being said, yes it is still a BB so it hits super hard without the gem slot, you can also go with exhaustive netshot on the BB which will also be insanely strong! That's a bit up to you. I opted to go for damage and I have the exhaustive net shot perk on armor. the reason we go with a t2 gem is because a t2 int gem will scale higher if you are running an int build than the t5 int gems. So you are actually gaining more damage than with an opal, and the t2 gem dmg buff is unconditional and doesn't have a CD like attunement.

Yeah could be true. Although the healthy toast boosts the mana potion heal with ankh and since you no longer get mana for dodging you have to drink mana potions regardless just to keep your mana up. But I will check that out. It's the main reason I didn't craft an earring yet. I need to think about the perks more

@@jiggyspice6809 run both, no refreshing toast its 2,5 seconds cd vs a 10% heal + Ankh

@@V1510N_ Yeah thats a good point

Yes you can. You just buy the gem setting from faction vendor. I have gem slot in it now.

@@jiggyspice6809 very good brother I didn’t know that. I just couldn’t resist the net shot perk lol. It’s too OP in small scale PvP. But you can’t gem certain artifacts, correct? I swear I couldn’t gem abyss and my buddy told me pesty too but he was mistaken.

Pauldroned fear from the store.

Yeah for sure, I use this build for PvE

Thanks!!! I dont know how to do the set itens!@@jiggyspice6809

I don't know the exact value. But yes apparently a T2 int gem will be stronger in an int build

Yessir!

Haha. Or a bit of luck. I think in total I spent around 300k on this loadout which is not too bad. They really improved crafting in S3

I see few comments mentioning featherweight and I think it is widely overrated at this point. When using ankh you want to stack healing rather than resistance. Featherweight is great if you are a musket for example to get that extra resistance. what would you recommend for a better gem combo btw?

@@jiggyspice6809 The gem combo rule of thumb is, don't put Moonstone and Emerald in your build togheter, you can either go X onyxes + Y moonstone/Y emerald. The reason is simple, 2 onyxes gives 5% resistance to all types, exact same as having 1 moonstone and 1 emerald. Now with you the things are a little more different, you gain 1% slash resistance that's true, but you lose 9% Strike resistance, and after the patch, strike resistance can no longer be neglected as the last patch, so i don't think the 1 to 9 tradeoff is worth it. Regarding to featherweight, you need to compare the shoes to it, the fortify on the shoes is neglectable, the empower is nice but the uptime is probably 5%, so basically you are comparing having 30% more armor, which has big additional returns with each fortify effect of BB ( 50% when under 50% health saves you from the rare moments when you get stuck in between the 5s shirking heals cooldown ). I think featherweight is superior on average in a light build.

I run this build in PvE as well

@@jiggyspice6809 how does it go in pve? ive just came back after 2 years, not really looking for expedition builds just something i can run for questing and general open world stuff

@@bl1tzcraft If you are just leveling up I would always recommend either firestaff and rapier or bow and rapier, just because you are so quick to move around, you kill mobs super fast and being ranged is just so nice and easy. But for the most part if you are still new to the game then just experiment on your own and see whats fun. Min/maxing builds doesn't matter untill you are doing endgame activities. And questing and leveling can be done with any build. But if you want the most laid back build for questing then bow/rapier because of all the haste and high damage+survivability. I can recommend Ulfhednar on twitch for PvE needs though, he's a good friend of mine and I am always asking him when I have questions for PvE stuff. He's always answering questions in his chat.

Hey thank you for the feedback. What exactly is wrong with it from ur end? Is the bass too boosted? It sounds fine on my system but maybe my settings are different. Really value feedback like this

Tradepost. They were cheap the first few days. Now they skyrocketed

Too late 😂but yeah every month a build can get nerfed, we never know. Only invest what u are comfortable with losing.

They nerfed it but it’s still strong even after this nerf, you just have to play slightly different

AGS saw us having too much fun and had to shut it down 😭

That 70k will not last long if I craft more. New consumables and dailys are expensive too 🙈

@@jiggyspice6809 I honestly don't know how to make money in this game. All resources are impossible to farm and all gear seems to be bound to player or bind on pickup.

@@iCore7Gaming I honestly don't know either. I bought mats to craft a BiS fire staff with chromatic scarab and sold it for 400k. 220k profit. And that funded everything else I needed crafted.

your bb build is wrong too

Explanation?

tumbler shoes are better than featherweight due to the double shirking heal and empower and refreshing. with the ankh amulet you will have no issue staying alive. I have played this build in 2 wars and influence pushes and i have no issue staying alive in clumps or 1vX at all. Certainly no build can 2 shot you, other than a BB build ofcourse, but if you get 2 shot you were not paying attention and that cannot be blamed on your build, thats just individual skill or lack of awareness.

Now that ankhs nerfed, all that bis is dog lmao.

@@aseryosorye1234 yeah I'm going to release an updated guide in S4. I'm currently running no artifact jewelry at all.

Yeah that is the general consesus, i also believe it is a bug and not intended but we never know with AGS tbh. In any case, this is made with that in mind though. The build will still be incredibly strong even if the firestaff doesnt apply disease. It's only 3 stacks you need to apply which is easy to do with the BB.

Haha 😅