Energy Daemon Build by Therion X

[griffman]

Check out a vid of her:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_qcbmCiROY

Skills & Attributes

lvl1: Weapon Lore (for Energy Bolts' Damage)
-> 100 Points here. Experienced Players only choose it and get the Rest per Boni.
lvl1: Concentration (for its Regeneration)
-> 140 Points here.
lvl3: Constitution (for more Life)
-> 100 Points here.
lvl6: Agility (the Defence is, what we're intrested in)
-> at least 50 Points here.
lvl12: Dual Wielding
-> nothing, just good to have
lvl20: Armour (for more Resistance)
-> At least 50 Points here.
lvl30: Parry (for more Defence)
-> As many as you can invest.
lvl50: Meditation (for CoD's Reg Time)
-> 10 Points max. You get more than you need with Boni. For those, who are somewhat brave at the Beginning: Choose it and get the Rest per Boni.
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At every Level Up, put the Point into Physical Regeneration.
That's good for some Life and the Regeneration of Energy Deamon/Energy Bolts.
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Combat Arts

Energy Daemon (Energy Bolts)
This is, what we kill with, the Energy Bolts.
The best Reg Time is 1s and below.

Call of Death
Just bring it up to Level 36, where it's maxed in Time and Effect (60sec/6% Damage Bonus).

Equipment

Head
Pandora's Prophetic Circlet (Weapon Lore, Exp) or Dralkcib's Sneer (Weapon Lore, +x to all Special Moves)
[note, that Pandora's Weapon Lore Bonus is higher than Dralkcib's at same Level and Difficulty]

Torso
Rares with RSM and/or Weapon Lore

Belt
Dralkcib's Hips (+x to all Skills, RSM, phys. Reg)

Legs
Rares with RSM and/or Weapon Lore

Shoes
Rares with RSM and/or Weapon Lore

Shoulders
Rares with RSM and/or Weapon Lore

Arms
Rares with RSM and/or Weapon Lore

Hands
Dralkcib's Claws (Energy Daemon, +x to all Skills)

Weapons
Two finished Prototypes (Magic Damage +xx%, Crit, RSM)

Rings/Amuletts
Same here, those are just Recommendation, you coult put into your Sockets or equip, if possible.

Goilomn Gilisfon's Brooch of Diligence (Weapon Lore, Exp)
Dragon Ring* (phys Reg, Weapon Lore, RSM, Exp, Crit)
Pandoras Ring (Lifeleech, Crit)
Rares with Lifeleech, RSM, Weapon Lore, phys Reg, ment Reg**, +x to all Special Moves

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[** Why Mental Regeneration? Well, this Attribute boosts Magic Damage. Really, it's proven!]

Play Style & additional Comments

First a Word to the finished Prototypes: Their Damage for close ranged Battle isn't of interest. So all we look at, are the Boni, and they are static per Difficulty. Therefore, it's good to have 2 of the smallest possible Swords per Difficulty.
And here we go: Silver - min18, Gold - min54, Platin - min90, Niob - min150.
So just send another Character ahead to get them as early as possible.

Here, Call of Death is quite necessary. Unfortunately, the Energy Daemoness is neither a Speed Killer, nor a Mass Killer. But to kill at least fast enough to level properly, Call of Death is well important.

And now for the Playstyle:
Cast Energy Daemon & Call of Death and look for an Enemy or a Group of Enemies. Make them run to you, don't run to them. BECAUSE you need some Time to unleash your Bolts. Therefore you got to find a good Timing. But you surely get it after a While.

At the Beginning you have Problems just to kill even one Enemy. But on Bronce you still can hit them with your Weapon. Just be patient, she'll rock.

You can level her everywhere, except the Cave with those blue Frost Giants (?) and the Valley of Tears. I didn't tryout Garema, because I lost so many Characters there, that I just don't want to go there anymore.
You even can go to Hell's Ridge with her. But there, you need a very good Sense of timing.
For Valley of Tears: I tried out one single Golem, Me: lvl170, Golem: lvl184.. 13 Bolts á 40k Damage with a Regtime of 0.7s... I took me about 3 (three!) Minutes to Kill that single Dude!

VERY IMPORTANT:
If you like her, better don't do Teamplay with her. For some weird Reasons, your own Bolts can attack yourself. But this happens, as far as I observed it, only, when playing in a Team..
Although you've got massive Magie Resistance, you can get BIG Damage, that can kill you..
It already happened to me sad.gif

That's it, I hope you like it.
If there are Questions, I'll try to answer them and solve the Problem 1smile.gif

Greets, Therion X

[fennek]

I really like the idea of the Energy Daemon so I have just started building one. I have a couple of questions though:

Am I supposed to exchange all other Daemon runes apart from Energy Daemon and Call of Death? Or should I read them to get some extra combat arts? And should I level Energy Deamon and Call of Death so they are even all the time? Right now I´m on level four with Energy Daemon and level two with Call of Death.

Also, I´m level 11 in silver, when does it start getting easy? I´m drinking health potions like crazy...

Thanks for your help and a good idea of a character!

[Night Ω Wolfe]

I never ended up playing the Daemon much so I can't answer all your questions... I am sure someone will get back to you soon though....

As far as your question on reading all the runes though, I can answer that. No, do not read all the runes you find! How many runes you have read, have in your inventory and have in your storage directly effect how many runes will drop for you. The higher the runes in all locations means the fewer new runes you will get. Therefore don't read runes for combat arts that you do not plan on using and don't stockpile runes either. I would suggest either trading them in for runes you know you will use or if you are playing MP, mule them off to a character you don't use.

[fennek]

Thank you for your quick answer!

I´ll be sure to take your advice on the runes. Here I come Combo Master...

Take care.

Fennek.

[griffman]

fennek said:

I really like the idea of the Energy Daemon so I have just started building one. I have a couple of questions though:

Am I supposed to exchange all other Daemon runes apart from Energy Daemon and Call of Death? Or should I read them to get some extra combat arts? And should I level Energy Deamon and Call of Death so they are even all the time? Right now I´m on level four with Energy Daemon and level two with Call of Death.

Also, I´m level 11 in silver, when does it start getting easy? I´m drinking health potions like crazy...

Thanks for your help and a good idea of a character!

As Wolfe said, do not read the runes. The only extra CA you may want to try using is Tentacles. Gogo likes to use them with his, but I don't. It's really personal preference.

You do not want to keep your two at the same time. Eventually energy daemon has a duration of greater than 60 seconds, but call of death stops at 60. Early on you want to keep your regen of call of death equal to or as close to the duration as possible. For energy daemon you will want to keep each cast down to about 2 to 2.5 seconds, or below as you get higher. I suggest socketing a bunch of energy daemon runes as opposed to eating them early on because it will keep your regen lower.

This guy *clicks* at about 45-50. Try just using your weapons until the mid 20's when you will be doing more damage with the ebolts. At 45-50 you will all of a sudden notice a huge difference and be able to kill mass amounts of guys. I think my first time in hell's ridge was at 42... but I had a trader accompany my daemon so I had a surplus of good items throughout the entire experience.

[fennek]

Thanks alot, Griffman!

I really appreciate you guys taking the time to help me.

[Night Ω Wolfe]

[fennek]

Guess who´s back with more questions...

Every time I level up I can only put one point into Concentration. When I have put one point there, the number gets red and further points can´t be added until the next time I level up. Why is that?

Also, am I supposed to use Call of Death and Energy Daemon at the same time? My CoD level is still quite low so I don´t really see the purpose of using it...

As always, I really appreciate your help, guys!

[griffman]

You can have add skill points to a skill passed the level of your character. For instance, if you are level 20 and you have 19 in concentration, then you can only add 1 of your points to it before it will turn red. Of course, if you have a lot of + concentration you can get it higher than your level....

Later on you will use Call of Death along with Energy Daemon. Early it will not seem to help at all, but when you get somewhere like Hell's Ridge you will notice a huge difference. Still, you should level it up because you will eventually need it.

[fennek]

This is turning out to be my own personal support thread...

Thanks for your help Griffman.

Another question, if you have the time to answer it of course:

With this character build that is based on Energy Daemon and Call of Death, would it still be wrong to read one Soaring Daemon rune? I mean, it could be really good to be able to fly for a little while... Or am I way off?

It needs to be repeated, I really appreciate your help.

Fennek.

[griffman]

Haha no it's no problem whatsoever fennek. I'm happy to answer any question you have about this build or anything in general about Sacred.

Yes, I would suggest reading a Soaring Daemon rune. It can very helpful getting places you can't reach walking, or clearing out a large part of the map that other characters can't reach.

[fenric]

Great build, I'm so going to try this out!