Earlygame clearing on Bone Witch?
Ripped my 50ish SRS Infernalist, figured I'd give Bone Bloodmage a go. Easy to hit the low 20s with SRS, but bone skills are feeling pretty weak.
Bonestorm does massive damage to single targets (except the Colossus, seems bugged for targeting there), but is awful in normal content. Relying on Bone Prison + SRS to clear, but it's falling off quickly. I've tried Power Siphon, but it's pretty clunky. Bone Blast is similarly jank, mainly due to the world's tiniest AoE.
How did people pull this off?
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I’ve been using ice wall with minimal investment into freeze rate, the two big nodes at the top right that give you increased damage vs frozen targets. I also have blasphemy w/ temporal chains and enfeeble. while also building every crit and spell damage node in the tree. I might be kinda squishy but I’m still experimenting, the freeze makes normal content more tolerable.
Have you given DD a try for clearing? The physical damage component scales with 20% corpse health, and all the phys spell damage modifiers that bone also scales with. It's a level ( tier?) 7 spell, so you should get it in your 20 iirc
I had a bunch of +minions and +phys gear from shops and swapped back and forth between Unearth and Bonestorm with pierce.
Unearth is nice if you get like 12 scorpions up.
Also, the active skill from Arsonist is pretty solid damage.
I eventually was just using Bonestorm with a gemswap to and from Pierce for clearing versus bosses, with the exception of using Bone Prison with -aoe for those damn scarabs.
I just finished act 2, and Detonate Dead is real good clear. Just Bonerstorm a group until one mob dies, and then you should be able to DD until the pack is clear.
I do still have some random skeletons around just to eat hits until I start blasting DD.