DoT them up and let them rot by using many abilities with various status effects like , and to deal large amounts of damage to enemies. Through you can further boost your damage and survivability. It's also possible to maintain 100% uptime on through zones while leveling or on monolith runs as you begin endgame. With it's unique additional health pool Reaper Form is safe, giving you an extra life of sorts as you transform back into your regular form when your health pool runs out (which is automatically drained in this form).
Sustaining is made possible by using to frequently refill your , add additional damage and further increase survivability. This is a channeled spell and there is a slight adjustment to "learn" or get comfortable with using the spell without running out of mana. With a little practice you'll easily be able to keep your health full while leaving enough if you need to replenish your health again. This spell also deals surprisingly large damage considering how much health it regens.
adds more mitigation and increases mobility helping to increase clear speed and allowing you to reach more mobs to maintain reaper form. This ability shares a cooldown with which is gained once you transform but is vital if you happen to lose .
provides many sources of damage, ailments and debuffs. This ability also applies stacks to your own character but not the additional ailments you'll get through specialization. You'll need to toggle this on and off to control the number of stacks that build on your character and be mindful provides a damage reduction to while it's on. This means you will notice a large spike in damage when you deactivate the aura and takes some getting used to but makes for a very fun playstyle as the aura can deal massive damage once multiple stacks of several ailments are applied to enemies.
is in the build to help for "bossing" or kililng high health enemies. The Golem will distract the enemy allowing you to freely channel and safely stand in range for your to stack up. Essentially it allows you to stand still rather than constantly moving and having stacks reset. For trash mobs or clearing to the objective the Golems are a little aimless unfortunately, but you can summon them to reposition them as needed. The choice of which Golem is flexible, feel free to use your favorite. The build video uses as an example but is in no way limited to that choice.
There are a number of additional ailments that will get applied as you specialize skills providing additional damage and utility but the gameplay will remain the same as they're unlocked.