thecrusher5066: I can’t believe he made this video live, on stream, in one take

villelepoaho4105: I know this is subjective, but I would highly recommend any relic for Ironeye that gives you a second character skill. You know, being able to dash twice? I can't even count how many times that has saved me from getting hit.

Edit: Shame that it's locked behind RNG relics though.

buffoonustroglodytus4688: I swear to God if they drop support for this great game after this DLC… I’ll be extremely disappointed.

Rizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz: the grapple followups on wylder are just too good (mostly fun) for me to put down

SilvesTheRog: I like running Undertaker with the relic that improves her dex at the cost of vigor and faith instead of the balancers' one. Insane damage when using weapons like star fist

shitshow06: Man i just wanna beat the dreglord and the balancers everdark the randos i get just keep quiting after 1 death

shukuffxi: The confusing part to me is the neglect for Revenant's Old Portrait relic while glazing how awesome Flaks Also Heals Allies is for Scholar (or anyone really). Most people are already flasking as soon as they take damage or shortly after so it becomes a bit moot most of the time when you take into account positioning and the fact that no one expects it or is looking for it. On top of that the healing just isn't that much, I've used it on people who've run out of flasks, even an Executor doesn't get half their HP back from it. Meanwhile Revenant's Old Portrait causes you to spend 50% of your health to restore both your teammates to full HP which is very regularly and expected to be used when two teammates are down - it costs you a flask to heal back up to full health after use (or after the ultimate wears off or is about to wear off). That's a time when you KNOW both your teammates WILL need healing and WILL receive it - the cost is your ultimate and a flask. The cost is also a flask if you use the ultimate for damage and not reviving. It's WAY

FlyBird: Been doing the first wylder setup the past few days and its truly remarkable. Your burst damage is insane with most unique weapons. I miss my rally heals in unranked, but hey, ill take it.

Mechamore: The first relic for Raider and the last one for Guardian is not available from the Small Jar Bazaar or the Collector Signboard.

ngianoni50: Is that first Raider relic actually at the Collector's Signboard? I swear I've combed it over like 5 times and haven't seen it

gambitsgonewrong7596: extra build for melee iron eye: balanced ED balanced undertaker relic is mor than viable!

mercurexi: Guardian guaranteed relic setup without "draw aggro while blocking", seems kinda crazy to me, especially if you use the Executor relic for more ult gauge while blocking.

Anyone that played Guardian a LOT, knows that the difference is actually huge when you don't use it.

HP while blocking isn't great, and a drop in the bucket (8HP per block ...).

I wouldn't sacrifice stuff like skill duration on Guardian, that lets you stunlock so many mobs during the run, even some day elites/mini-bosses, over HP on block ult while blocking, when you don't even secure aggro while blocking (see previous point), making it overall a small amount (though it might help when you're the last man standing, but then again, maybe people wouldn't die if you could hold aggro better LMAO)

Partial HP restoration on Guardian is useful, especially outside DON, to get back hp during a badly timed guard counter or to recover from small chip damage.

But again, I wouldn't trade that over Fulghor's relic (IIRC) that lets you get stamina back from your brooch's damage (while you block), that also enhances your guard counter based, on hp and grants more stamina too.

Guardian "HP bar" is actually his stamina bar, and you're way better off investing in more stamina / stamina on attacking-blocking, over grabbing HP back, which is usually a non-issue in most runs.

Real issue though, is that Guardian really doesn't shine THAT much with guaranteed relics, and need to farm some, since you need SO MANY stuff (Brooch is perma-slotted, then you need enhanced skill duration / draw aggro while blocking / better guard counter damage / etc . . . and if you're lucky, with the AoE flask / items perk, so you can assist your team that usually needs more healing / buffing than you do)

And it gets even worse when you compute DoN relics . . . since he needs affinity damage reduction, etc

lharsay: For Executor you might want to try to fit either of the moth relics on the build for the sake of more fp. The regular one gives damage on poison proc, the everdark one regens fp on successive attacks (like Corpse Piler).

drago2210: Actually, there is some use to the FP regen, because weapon skills only need half of the FP cost shown to be used effectively, it's just that they use it all if it's available.

Also now with both Balancers' relics equipped, the damage boost makes up for the damage lost for using a skill with no FP.

So for example on Executor, your best DPS with katana was one handed R1 combo, but now using just the first 2 Double Slash attacks (like Rivers of Blood or Serpent Bone Blade) is better DPS even when out of FP.

And with that tiny FP regen it means u get a huge dmg boost every 3-4 cycles, so using skills even when out of FP ensures u get to use the FP for a dmg boost exactly when you have enough of it, wasting none of the regen.

LordMehu: I Think I have a better caster duchess build by the way. I use the Glass neckless too, same reasons, no need to explain, and then the Dark night of the wise and the old pocket watch. Both of the later ones give FP restoration on successive attacks, which you wanna do for the dmg buff anyway, and these two combined gives duchess a ridiculous amount of FP recovery. You can just go in with the dagger for damage boost, use your spells once successive attack buff is stacked up, restage it, and upkeep the dmg buff and restore tons of FP While restage is on cooldown and then repeat.

And with this you also get 25 more max FP and the FP raise for solving towers from Dark night of the wise, and you are not forced to hold 3 staves for more fp and have more space for weapons with useful passives.

Now yes, this build lacks magic attack power up or improved xy spell school effects. But After some testing, the successive attacks buff on full stack gets pretty close to the same dmg compared to 3x improved xy spell type, I tested this with a blue carian slicer in training ground and the dmg difference was only 10 dmg in the 3x spell improve set up's favor. But in return, you dont even need starlight shards cause you have so much FP regen. Its still better to use shards when you just wanna spam spells to do burst dmg oc but you can keep casting even if you dont have any left.

The last Reason I'd argue this build is better then the one in video is bc everything except Glass neckless first effect, all of the relic effects actually work on duchess and she gets benefit from them, unlike the recluse remembrance relic which is just magic attack 2 and there is 2 wasted effect slot in that relic slot.

carter6930: The best way to play executor isn’t as a dps but as a pseudo tank, his parry’s chunk massive stance damage and he has the longest critical attack animation in the game. Optimally you’d be stance breaking and leaving the enemy vulnerable for proper dps units to get free damage in without worry.

eunnith: Recluse doesnt actually have a preference for staves so you will have to specifically go to places on the map that offer staves, you're very unlikely to get them to drop otherwise so not much better than the same relic on duchess (but she does start with 1 staff so she has a bit of an advantage)

OmniKing_17: Not running Str & Dex relic on Guardian is a mistake. You can buy it from the signboard now

bloodcake1337: not even d5 lol, who cares about relics in base game lul

notoriousogb6584: one thing you forgot to mention, is the crucible dodge talisman that also increases dmg taken

HenrytheSwole: Yo i remember u from somewhere. Cowboy maybe? Anyways wherever u were from i liked ya so glad this got recomended. Subbed

evros7753: for revenant, i like to use the old portrait since that gives the explosion and defeating enemies fills art gauge quicer, thatll let u spam the ult, which does nice dmg with the explosion.

if u can try to get max fp increased from sorcerers rise with some kinda skill like hoarfrost stomp, that will make her much better early game. i personally got those 2 with blood loss, which is very nice, but getting some kinda affinity dmg up like lightning 2 would be better.

my 3rd relic has lightning atk up 2 with strengthening allies when ulting. i think trying to get affinity atk power for whatever incant u can get, or what the current nightlord is weak to is nice. lightning spear is probably her best incant, u can reach 750 most games, and 1k with some good luck. its alot of rng but when u get it its very good. also pick up the pouch to hold more starlight shards. this is my advice from a revenant main

epruno3583: I clicked to see if you used the same executor build as I did. This build is crazy. Just spam unsheath and destroy everything, or corpse piler if you get it.

ironicsymbolism6085: Oh boy, here I go bonking again. Unga bunga to you my fellow barians

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