V Rising - The Best Chaos Lifesteal Build for PVE

bro how to use mind control on draculin?

Personally I'm using mix of illusion and chaos magic. For the main dmg spell I'm using Chaos Volley. It got nice single target dmg, so I relly like using it in boss fights. Second spell I'm using is Spectral Wolf with last bounce coming back to you and healing you. The heal is nice, increasing survability and overall it is nice spell vs group of enemy, but also nice healing source in boss fights. I'm also using Veil Of Illusion to stack phantasm faster along side the Spectral Wolf. As an ultimate I'm using Raging Tempest. The dmg of that skill is crazy and also you're untargetable during it, so timing it properly gives you nice dodge posibility. For EQ, I'm uisng Reaper and blue verison of that talisman, both with increased spell critical hit chance and overall I have 46% for that, so basically every second spell is a crit. I'm also wondering how exactly Chaos Barrage work? Overall dmg of 4 shots is 200% magic dmg or is this 200% magic dmg for each shot, that sums up to 800% dmg of 4 shots?

how is it only 375 shards to purchase a legendary?

My build is a summoner/ranger build. Corrupted Skull with the twin projectiles for up to 4 skeletons, Death Knight with the skeleton mage, Chaos Dash for mobility or lightning dash for attack speed, and Skeleton Army or Spectral Guardian for the ultimate (eventually gunning for Fallen Angel). Armor focuses on attack speed, and for weapons, I go Longbow and Pistols. I use Rogue Blood for the high mobility and crit.

Skeletons can scale to become glass cannons. At the very least, they keep the bosses (mostly) distracted while you shoot them from afar. Longbow is best (especially with the speed buffs making charge time a lot better), while pistols are more for critical health. Lightning dash is better for normal units or if you are better at dodging than I am, since the speed buff is really noticeable. Skeleton Army is very risky, since 9/10 times bosses will just nuke them with a big AoE that you have to avoid, but Spectral Guardian isn't always that great since you are more focused on weapon damage than spell power.

For the weapons, I'd suggest going for an epic longbow as opposed to the Legendary. If you have the T1 blood passive, I'd highly recommend a blood roll longbow to turn any adds into quick heals. Pistols would be best with the legendary, but if you only have an epic, cold is a great panic button for the Fan the Hammer ability.

Why are we trying to optimize pve exactly? If you're not playing brutal, literally anything will do, even...dare I say aftershock. If you can say this works for pvp just as well, then that's really nice

How to deal with dracula if you need some defense spells during 2nd and 3rd phases. What your recommendation will be if you want to build a mage build and want to deal with dracula.

PvE ?
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My build for non-boss pve is illusion magic: I take espectral wolfs and mosquito, illusion dash and golem.
For gems i take the ones those spawn a healing wisp, shield me or increases the bounces/damage.
For weapons i usually play with crossbow, guns, slashers and swords.
You want to spawn to non-stop all skills as you can thanks to phantasm perk plus schoolar blood and malice gear.
For bosses i usually switch to storm or blood magic since illusion school has a hard time vs big targets

Very informative! Appreciate it! Thanks!

Solid guide. I've been playing some chaos spell combos during 1.0 and the tree feels really nice on scholar.

Aftershock is surprisingly alright now and also a very fun pair with either of these spells

favorite incursion combo is bone explosion with void. Ult can be anything you prefer that puts out a good amount of damage, i run the winged horror soul shard, but if i wasnt playing on a friendly server id probably run raging tempest for more AoE. ive cleared the bosses for those in seconds just firing my voids, into bone explosion then ulting in. Cherry on top is you get skeletons

Void with arcane explosion for grifts then I go void with death knight for boss fights. I think for most of the leveling you can go full minion on boss fights and take out stuff way higher level than you.

Is it just me or is Turbulent Velocity passive bugged? It won't proc for me. Nice build btw.

You should be on a weapon with 3 spell lines (Crit Chance, Crit Damage and Spell CD) rather than staying h24 on your GS if you wanna fully commit on a PvE scholar glasscanon build.

Okay but, the tour in that amazing castle?

The Castle looks dope. Can you make a video about it? Mine looks like a home shelter for hobos!

good build

Why where your weapons only 375 shards per to gamble? Mine are 1500...

Why are the purple weapons only 375 shards? In me an my friends game it's 1500. Can you lower the cost somehow?

How are your prices so low for buying the weapons, im paying 1500 for each of mine

You should do one for every spell School tbh

Loved the Castle, any tutorial or any advice for building something that beautiful and functional?

Pure Unholy works VERY well for me!

is playing with the mouse and keyboard better then the controller.

Chaos Volley has always been a solid pick, even going back to the start of early access.

Condemn is just too useful of a debuff not to have somehow.

i like this build i know IS A CHAOS BUILD but i like to take sanguine coil for more heal :D

I got Apocalypse after playing through the game with greatsword but didn't really like how it worked with my goto spells (Blood Rage and Corrupted Skull). This was just the change I was looking for. Works great. Thanks.

Quick question, are you hosting your own server? If so, how did you change the vendor cost of the traders? I noticed that you have yours set to 375 purchase cost and the default I think is 1500 for the purple weapons.

Would you recommend this for a complete beginner not only to the game but from the start of the game?

What did you do for the gap between armor and act 4? Struggling hard on brutal

so what about the soulshards from shardbearers?

I've been quite happy with my static build but i had my eyes on the chaos/ignite type of build for a while. This one seems genuinely interesting. Thanks for sharing it.

375 for this weapon not 1500?

I know weapons are mostly personal preference… that being said, compared to hammer and a few others, Great sword skill set is trash…

Brilliant video

does 50 percent chance cooldown reduction works on ult?

what about endbringers?

Chaos Volley
Veil of Chaos
Void (Ice Nova while leveling)
Chaos Barrage
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Note: There is a lot more useful information in this video. I highly recommend watching it all.
This is just a footnote for myself, for when I review this build.

NOTE: Chaos points
Tier 1:
Errrol the Stonebreaker
Lidia the Chaos Argher
Clive the Firestarter
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Tier 2:
Jade the Vampire Hunter
Morian the Stormwing Matriarch
Azariel the Sunbringer
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Tier 3:
Quincey the Bandit King
Angram the Purifier
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Hope this is helpful!

nice dude

Great build and it is what I started using once I had access to Maleficent Scholar set and that Necklace, BUT I have to say, the legendary reaper seems just better in all situations. Great stats for spells, which is our main thing here and free access to Condemn, which if you're playing solo or your friends are not on it, is a HUGE boost.

i cant fight properly with the great sword. I like the SPIN from the normal sword for extra get out of dodge... and hitting with great sword E/Q requires aim.... in a messy fight with graphics all over i cant see and im not that twitch fast anyhow....the great sword is too much concentration for me :(

I am running blood fointain for heal and debuff reset and Death knight so the mobs dont primarily attack me and I can just shoot from behind with my guns (using same ultimate and same armor set. Only difference beiing I run the green ring). Worked good so Far

i know it's been 4 months and i might be blind but as a new player I was just wondering what blood type is good for this since I still haven't researched that.

Do you have a video build against Tristan the vampireslayer?

A build centered around inflicting the best Status effect in the game:
Dead.

Where is a good spot to find a 100% scholar blood humans for prisoners?

Ball lightning and void are the most unfair damage combo that i ever seen
U guys need to try