Turbo's Death Knight Squirrels Beastmaster Build Guide

Extremely high single target dps

Solid hp sustain, no mana issues w/ swipe refill

Multiple defensive layers due to primalist passives

Good for MP w/ frenzy totem buffs & armor shred (requires tweak to Frenzy skills)

Freeze CC & Immunity on Warcry very strong

No movement skill & abit squishy, need to melee to maximize dps

Very active gameplay (good or bad depending on your style)

Mono clear is pretty fast but not top tier

Very expensive build

The key elements of the build that come together to make this an S+ Tier boss killer are:

• Yulia's Path w/ Maelstrom produces 60-80 flat necrotic damage (base squirrel is 18 physical as comparison)
• Tundra Stalkers 5/5 establishes it as a cold minion type w/ added flat cold as well as adding Frozen Fangs 1/1 damage with 40 base cold to the mix
• Physical flat damage increases come from Ancient Might 10/10, Axe and Claw 5/5, Summon Frenzy Totem's Bestial Frenzy 5/5 and Grounded 5/5, and uniques such as The Fang and Ribbons of Blood
• Apogee of Frozen Light X 2 grants significant "more" modifiers and can be rolled w/ % minion melee damage. I run Ornate Heorot Idol X 1 w/ bee's to allow me stacks for even higher "More" multipliers for my minions with Frozen Vengeance buff from the swords when a bee dies
• Apogee of Frozen Light X 2 provides a crazy +6 skill points to summon wolf which all are very impfactful. In addition, Herald of the Scurry provides +1-3 as well as can be rolled with another +3/4 on LP combine. Dedication of an Erased Primalist rounds it out for +1 to all skills
• Crit chance is handled with a T6 Prefix PrefixAdded Melee Crit Chance on your BP combined w/ Legendary Bite 5/5 and short term buffs from
• Attack speed for your Primal Squirrel is provided via Grand Heorot Idol X 3, Summon Frenzy Totem, The Chase 8/8, On the Hunt 5/5, Sciurine Rage, and Aspect of the Shark from passive tree proc's
• Additional damage sources/boosts exist with fairly fast swipes from you proccing Wild Calling 3/3 and burst from Frigid Breath 1/1 and other related warcry proc's. Dedication of an Erased Primalist's aspect of the spider buff also adds to the dps (thanks Radart!)
• Armor shred is applied very quickly in the 200+ range with with Rending Maw 5/5 combined with Hunters of the Deep 1/4. In addition, Herald of the Scurry keeps max stacks of physical resistance shred while Shamanic Infusion 8/8 rounds out some general pen for the build
• With good HP stacking you can easily achieve 2200-3000 hp with multiple def layers such as Berserker 5/5, Ursine Strength 8/8, Boar Heart 5/5, Porcine Constitution 5/5, Chitinous Plating 6/7, and CC in the form of Warcry's Jormun's Wrath 1/1
• Perma haste from maelstrom's Windswept 1/1 with additional redundancies and pet haste from Hawk Wings 1/10
• Mana regen is not required as it is refreshed quickly with Swipe via Duality of Nature 3/3
• MP friendly with Summon Frenzy Totem (need to remove Symbol of Selflessness 1/1), pairs well with on hit/physical builds due to max physical resist shred and extremely high armor shred values

While very active, game play is easy.

1. Maelstrom frequently to ensure 20+ stacks leveraging Beneath The Waves 3/3 for high necrotic flat damage (60-80 pending roll on Yulia's Path)
2. Swipe constantly to refill mana, assist in shred, proc Wild Calling 3/3, and proc a variety of buffs
3. Warcry to add Maelstrom stacks, target CC mass mobs/boss mechanics, or setup burst dps with Frigid Breath 1/1, Frost Claw 2/5 and Bringer of Winter 1/1
4. Summon Frenzy Totem on cool down in boss fights/heavy fighting, do not worry about timing for resets on Sciurine Rage. I suggest autolocking Sciurine Rage so you can stay concentrated on positioning and your other abilities.

This build guide is not suited for leveling, so you should look for primalist leveling guides. This build is a higher level end game build requiring multiple uniques. You can not level effectively with it until Yulia's Path and Herald of the Scurry are obtained and wearable in your late 70's.

This build is 100% meant to destory bosses before you even need to worry about mechanics. Outside of that, its a solid corruption pusher but will run into issues at extreme levels of corruption as it just doesn't have enough survivability or movement to take some of the range damage especially w/ dual wield penalty. A fair trade off for killing J4 with your eyes closed!

NOTE: The attached 3.53 second J4 kill had 2-3 minor tweaks changing out a few defensive nodes to squeeze out every ounce of damage. The build included in this guide still had a respectable 5 second kill.

Areas To Further Explore/Consider:

I have not put much time into this build (few nights play max to build it, test, and tweak) so its hardly optimized. I tried testing some various aspects and alternative skills/points and am comfortable with the majority of the build as a rock solid start especially based off my kill speed. That being said below are items I need to further explore/would love some input from more knowledgeable players.

1) Summon Wolf 's Victory Howl 1/3 and Snarl 1/2 may be bugged or just flat don't work (as maybe they intend). Since Herald of the Scurry changes Howl, I think these nodes aren't properly triggering on kill. If you look at all the other interactions with Howl as the description in other nodes/skills the game properly views Sciurine Rage as a "howl". It also treats squirrels as being equivalent to wolves in skill node verbiage. So not sure what's going on but with my build up top, Howl should be proccing nonstop clearing mono's which would help clear speed a bit with constant crit, damage, and attack speed buff of basically 100% uptime as long as mobs were there. If this is bugged/working as intended without proc'ing then we should remove those 2 points as the 50% increase damage probably is better used on another nodes depending on how many total Summon Wolf points you have.

2) Tweak Summon Frenzy Totem skill points if you spend the majority of your time playing with other people. If you are solo the increased buff values for your squirrels far exceeds the value of getting the buffs yourself.

3) I did not do extensive mono pushing but if your Summon Wolf skill points are 31+ you may consider Leap Attack for quicker clear and better surviability

4) Blessings... my only area of consideration is if Grand Spirit of Command would be better replaced by Grand Promise of Death since probably 40% of the damage is necrotic. Only concern is effective time to get the shred up via Swipe, I have not tested as I have 96% minion damage roll and not convinced its worth it for current content.

5) Drop Grand Heorot Idol X 3 haste affixes for anything of minimal value as you stay haste capped w/ Windswept 1/1. Not many options, health regen probably as good as it gets.

6) The gear in the planner is my current gear not necessarily the most ideal. A few BiS improvements I am chasing include:

• getting a +3/4 Summon Wolf on a 1 LP Herald of the Scurry
• Death Rattle w/ T7 Minion Damage
• Yulia's Path w/ T7 Movement Speed or Cooldown Recovery