So hey, the first tier vile life talent is completely freaking insane. It's deceptively plain -- you get heals on crits or kills. Maxes out at 50 hp per kill or crit. Any crit. Once per turn for either.
Which is to say. Enough crit -- say, 50% physcrit while dual wielding, or thereabouts, or basically whatever if you've got AoE attacks -- and you've got base 50 hp/turn regeneration, that occasionally doubles. And healmod boosts it. And, of course, it stacks with normal passive regen. And all the other healing you might have.
Level 27 mindslayer rocking effective 8798/hp (75 84 per crit or kill on top of 12 14 base) turn regen yesplease cue highlander theme. This is like playing a critzerker before bloodthirst got nerfed, only I'm even tankier ahahahahaha.
E: Welp, nevermind, two more levels and I've broke 100 hp/turn. Utterly ridiculous.
E2: I just noticed how conspicuously tailored to killing brittle clear oozes the lightbringer's rod is. Nice when you're tooling about the sludge nest. Mind you, shantiz the imbastormblade also completely wrecks the nest, though not BCOs in particular. Projectiles all around...
E3: Huzzah! Completely cleared the lowest level of the sludgenest. XP rate was kinda' crap, but so much loot ;_;
E4: Snrk. Haha. Turns out shantiz's ridiculous projectile killing thingy doesn't understand friendly fire.
And can one-shot escort critters. Heh.
E5: Portal was even in the same room. Only 13 squares away, though the level generated with us both surrounded by a dozen+ group of mixed vampires, wights, skeletons, etc. Two turns later, everything but two or three Ws and Vs, and me, are dead. Thanks imbablade.
E6: Annnnnd I finally hit +90 to dex. I have 100 dex. Said dex is base 10. +90 from other sources. No stat points invested. Vaguely insane. Also third stat to hit triple digits. Character is level 32. Stupid sexy mindslayers.
E7: Though yeah, not entirely sure people were really thinking through this gem thing. +4 all stat per tier. Another +11 from a cat-point resonant focus. Fifth tier gem, +31 to all stats. That is 186 points of goddamn stats. And then whatever augmentation adds -- my level 32 dude's getting 71 total, for a grand total of 257 bonus to stats. Before the rest of the equipment is added in. Not even counting the +15 con the lifebinding emerald I'm currently using is giving, here. Adding all that junk onto it comes up to 345. That is all of 15 away from being an equivalent stat investment to 60 into every single stat you have. And I haven't even hit the east yet! This is ridiculous! Around a third of my kit isn't even providing stat boosts!
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