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Mega Crit Harvest Lich Build Guide

Posted by addiso on June 2, 2023
Last updated on March 1, 2024

Overview

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Big Crits. Big Damage. All Day.

People thought crit-Lich was gonna be dead with the Bone Curse nerfs but she's still here. You can 1 button clear monolith's with Signet of Agony 1/1 or play safer and just apply Bone Curse as needed.

The biggest target dummy damage check so far has been 1,054,000.

Main Affixes to look for are going to be:

This build is still viable without any of the slotted uniques but will feel average and struggle to push past 200 corruption.

All uniques will allow you to push 400+ and if you can craft a good pair of Fighting Chance with attack speed, you will start flying.

Alternate Uniques that are viable are Shattered Chains and Grimoire of Necrotic Elixirs.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Insanely high DPS with full rotation

Phenomenal group clear in monos and arenas

High Corruption farmer

Incredibly easy rotation

Massive HP Leech and extended Reaper Form from Aura Of Decay

Massive Defense Shred on enemies

No Mana management

Super tanky when using Death Seal

Flexibility with Crit chance allotment

Cons

No Crit Avoidance

Glass Cannon

No long range mobility

Super weak outside of Reaper Form

Bosses take more than 60 seconds to kill

Physical resist affixes fill a lot of your defense slots

Low base armor when not death sealed

Incredibly weak vs Crit avoidance modifiers

Super super squishy if you don't cap Endurance and increase your threshold

Gameplay / Mechanics

This build features base 50% Necrotic penetration from passives and affixes as well as -25 resists on enemies from marked for death by Sigil of Mortality 1/1.

Damage breakdown is as follows for melee:

(100% Crit Chance x 3.3% damage) Harvest X ~3000% damage modifiers from Death Seal and Reaper Form X ~600% melee critical strike multiplier when using Suloron's Step and Death's Embrace.

Titan Heart is an all rounder for the build.

The only strategies while playing this build are to avoid area attacks from monsters and bosses while using Death Seal for damage, armor scaling, and stun avoidance (Corrupted Consciousness ,Desperate Shroud).

Aura Of Decay Applies additional Armor shred (Decrepify) to enemies in conjunction with Bone Curse (Defile Defenses) while also keeping you in Reaper Form longer with the Absence of Life node.

Harvest does double damage to cursed targets which becomes 2.65 with the Symbol of Loss 5/5 node. Spectral Whetstone 3/3 and Iron Mouths 3/5 puts Harvest base crit to 39%. You have base 5% and the passive Deathbringer 5/5 gives you Increased 50%. Reaper Form ,Reaper's Curse 4/4 Gives you another 100% increased critical strike chance, so your total crit chance with Harvest ends up being (44% increased by150%) =110%.

200% is the base critical strike multiplier. You gain 50% from the passive Clairvoyant Insight 5/5 and another 50% from Reaper Form, Executioner 5/5. This puts you at 300%.Now add the Death's Embrace and Suloron's Step to get a total critical strike multiplier for melee attacks up to a minimum of 420%.

Skills

Passives

Stat Priorities

Equipment

Make sure to get near resistance cap with most resists if you can. SuffixPhysical Resistance with the Suloron's Step is especially important vs. Wengari axe throwers and the new Solarum archer type enemies.

Main affixes to get exalted are as follows:

T7 PrefixMelee Attack Speed on gloves is phenomenal.

Blessings

Endurance stacking is important. It may be easier to stack endurance and threshold on gear if you grab Grand Protection of Heorot.

Timeline
Blessings
Reign of Dragons
Fall of the Outcasts

Any

The Stolen Lance

Any

Blood, Frost, and Death

Any

Fall of the Empire

Any

The Last Ruin

Any

Build Variants

Leveling

For Leveling you wanna use whatever you can that has offers you crit multiplier and survivability until you reach endgame.

This build is gear intensive but can be replicated with weaker gear at approximately level 65.

Endgame

The Hardest part of Endgame is not getting killed in one hit.

T4 Julra is viable if you cap resists and get past ~2800 HP.

Capped endurance and increased threshold is mandatory for T4 Bosses.

Exalted stat slots should be spent on HP increases and intelligence or attack speed.

Loot Filter

No loot filter is provided for this guide. You can generate a loot filter for this build in the Build Planner or create one using Filter Wizard in the Loot Filters section.

FAQ

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Changelog

  • Swapped to hybrid health on gloves and belt for a large increase to HP. Moved points around in the passive tree to reduce stat wasatage from bed of souls and increase DPS from acolyte base tree and necromancer tree.
  • Add slight skill tweak for harvest tree and added aternate uniques recommendations.
  • Moved around stats to reflect vitality res changes. Changed items to Best in Slot format to reflect ease of looting with guild implementation.
  • adjusted some affix recommendations and added non unique recommendations
  • adjusted some affix recommendations and added non unique recommendations
  • Build guide was published

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