On PC you only use scythe to build striken stacks, but you want to stay between 90-99% essence so you can get 50% DR from both Raz shoulders and Aquila Cuiras in your burn phase or when you are running around creating piles. There are more implications for Corpse Explosion too. On console you can spam mages while also grim scything (this is where the 33% extra damage comes from for grim scythe build) So on PC you ignore yourself and all your damage comes from simulacrums. Simulacrums always get the full effect of Leger’s disdain regardless of how much essence scythe gives you, but for your own grim scythe it has to give you essence to get the multiplier (essentially there is no multiplier at full resource).

Last season I had +9 skills from gear and 2 skillers I got from trading skiller for skiller before I had completed Hell (I only play solo) infact I had +7 skills before I had completed nightmare.Īnd this season they have given Peace an additional valkyrie giving you easy access to 3 Valks, Insight for buffed act 3 merc, access to many more skills from magic amulets, circlets and +skill from rare helms/chests/shield starting at level 30.On console you can summon skeleton mages and grim scythe at the same time.

If you can complete hell, you can also have all of these items without trading by the time you start doing hell cows and Plague javazon gains no benefit to its main damage from anything but +skills. Plague javazon for example is super easy to get +10 skills or more when you reach hell cows: +3 gloves from anya (takes around 10 minutes to get a +3 with nothing else), +3 javelin from crafting caster amazon javelins (which has +1-2 jav skill as automod and can roll +1-2 amazon skill), +2 from chest with Peace runeword which is about as difficult to get as lore, +1 from Lore (but can now be +1-3 jav skill from circlets), +1 from any shield with skill (splendor runeword if none are found), +1 from rare amulet (but can now be +1-3 jav skill from magic amulets as from season 3). When you as a tester test all of this you want to have a fair playing field but anyone who actually mains a character should have a plan on what their base gear when they reach hell will be. A big problem with doing huge tier lists like this is that some builds are tested unfairly because basing everything around skill level 25 is not reasonable.

S15 diablo 3 tier list