Cabalist

Necromancer + Occultist

A caster whose focus is Vitality damage, with a secondary focus on Aether damage. This is more of a battle mage than a fully fledged caster class, but it still has a heavy focus on Vitality damage. This build uses fewer abilities overall, but the few abilities it does use are pushed to their full potential, making them very potent when activated. This build relies fairly heavily on luck when finding or farming specific Rare items with the correct prefixes. These can be replaced with any Legendary pieces of gear that offer similar stats. Reassign augments and components to compensate for any resistances that may be lacking.

Bone Harvest, the first skill of this build, which on its own does not offer significant advantages, but its final ability, Soul Harvest, further enhances our Vitality damage, which is why it is chosen. Only a few skills in the Necromancer tree are selected, as the goal is to maximize the effectiveness of the chosen skills from both trees. Siphon Souls and Harbinger of Souls both further increase our Vitality damage. Curse of Frailty, paired with Vulnerability, leaves enemies weakened against the Vitality damage we deal. Solael’s Witchfire provides a constant increase to all damage, while Doom Bolt delivers massive burst damage. You also have the option to reallocate points from the Summon Hellhound tree to other skills as you see fit for your preferred playstyle.

This will be your starting class, with a primary focus on progressing the Mastery Bar. There are not many early skills worth investing in within this tree, but we begin here to unlock Bone Harvest as our right mouse button ability and to start advancing the Mastery Bar. The goal is to reach the later skills, specifically Siphon Souls and Harbinger of Souls.

Because there are only a handful of valuable skills in this tree, we focus on fully maxing them out to maximize our Vitality damage.

This will be your secondary class, with an early focus on the Solael’s Witchfire tree to increase Vitality damage. Gradually progress the Mastery Bar to unlock later skills. Curse of Frailty becomes essential in higher difficulties, as its debuff weakens enemies and allows your attacks to deal significantly more damage.

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Items

Attributes


Uroboruuk’s Visage


Spellscorched Plating


Coven Bloodied Ash

Physique : 40
Cunning : 0
Spirit : 67

Focusing on Spirit and Physique equally, only assign points to Physique as needed to equip new armor. While these values are wanted for end game, you can always reset Attribute points with the aid of a potion later on, so feel free to assign points over the stated limit as needed.

Devotions


Uroboruuk’s Mantle


Spellscorched Plating


Solael’s Voidward


#1 Chaos (red) Crossroad


#2 Viper


Uroboruuk’s Robe


Kilrian’s Shattered Soul


Solael’s Voidward


#3 Undo Chaos (red) Crossroad


#4 Gallows


Mythical Riftwarped Grasp


Restless Remains


Coven Bloodied Ash


#5 Eel

#6 Eldritch (green) Crossroad


Stonehide Solael-Sect Legguards of Tormented Souls


Ancient Armor Plate


Wendigo Lifescent Powder


#7 Bat
Bone Harvest


#8 Wendigo
Siphon Souls


Mythical Golemborn Greaves


Mark of Mogdrogen


Wendigo Lifescent Powder


#9 Behemoth
Solael’s Witchblade

Accessories


Uroborruk’s Eye


Dread Skull


Wraith’s Scream

#10 Undo Eldritch (green) Crossroad


Voidheart


Corpse Dust


Wraith’s Scream


#11 Order Crossroad


Incorruptible Gollus’ Ring of Solael’s Malice


Corpse Dust


Wraith’s Scream


#12 Dryad
Sigil of Consumption


Mythical Girdle of Stolen Dreams


Enchanted Earth


Wendigo Lifescent Powder


#13 Lion


Bysmiel’s Mark


Dread Skull


Rune of Vampiric Shadows


#14 Scholar’s Light


Uroboruuk’s Reaping


#15 Rattosh the Veilwarden
Curse of Frailty

Weapons


Mythical Soulbearer


Seal of Blight


Coven’s Bane


#16 Sailor’s Guide


Uroboruuk’s Effigy


Seal of Blight


Coven’s Bane


#17 Dying God (6)
Doombolt