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Backstory: I was running a chains-heavy build, and I found myself doing less damage than I thought I should, and always topped up on Spirit. This seemed like an eminently fixable problem, so I began to ponder a basic-less build. As I looked at my uniques, I realized that I wasn't really taking advantage of them (a lot of them focus on the Vengeance powers), and that I wouldn't really be losing anything if I dropped the chains powers and focused solely on Mental damage.

And, as it turns out, it works awesome. The above build is exactly what I'm currently running at 60. I haven't tried it without my gear (I have all of the GR uniques), so it might be pretty gear-dependent.

Here's the power breakdown:

Damnation (Left Mouse Button): This is your "basic". It does mental damage in a cone, and applies a 10% vulnerability. It's nice.

Inferno (Right Mouse Button): Fire it and forget it. This does okay damage, it's another DoT we can stack, and you should stand in it to buff your healing from Infernal will.

Ride (A): I like Ride. Cruise around at good speed, killing any trash that gets in your way. It's a quick way to get around, it's free XP, and with this build, you can basically do it forever for free (not forever, but for a long time.

Wheelie (S): Your dash. I toyed with the idea of putting points in this, since it does decent damage, but decided against it. You could do so if you don't like Penance Stare, and it would probably work great. Use it to move around on the battlefield (during a fight -- for just getting around, use Ride)

Burn the Treads (D): Great power -- rev up your bike and nail things in a line with it, applying a DoT. With the new changes to charge powers, this does great damage when fully charged -- you can one-shot yellows with it (well, two- or three- shot, considering the DoTs that are probably already on them). Learn to line up a few guys in a row, and nail them. This is also your boss-whacker.

Dread (F): CC-Breaker. Whatever.

Penance Stare (W): One great thing about this build is that there is room for Penance Stare. This will take a chunk out of any boss stupid enough to get hit with it. The cooldown is long, so it's only good for once a fight (twice, if you are unfortunate). Get the boss down to about 25%-50% and nail them with it.

Infernal Will (Passive): Heal, double heal while standing in fire. Stand in fire.

Spirit of Vengeance (Passive): A great passive, it makes you tougher as you get hit, and also makes you hit harder. For most of leveling my GR, I played the Infernal Contract game to keep myself at 50% health to buff my damage. Risky, but viable. With this build, I didn't see much need -- you heal up to fast, and kill things too rapidly, to maintain that balance. Still, it makes you really hard to kill, and when you do get in over your head, you unleash hell. Totally worth the points.

Simple, right? The rotation for trash is Inferno + Damnation. For tougher trash (Blues and Yellows), Inferno, Damnation, and try to line up Burn the Treads to take 'em out. For bosses, Inferno, Damnation for the debuff, and then Burn the Treads. Rinse, repeat. For a really, especially long fight, it might be possible to run out of spirit. I haven't yet, but it's possible.

Gear: Uniques, except the Scythe, which is still pretty great, but not as relevant to this build as a Chains build. Here's what you get from the uniques:

Infernal Chopper: A huge spirit discount, a plus to your Vengeance powers, plus to speed, and a buff whenever you use a Vengeance power. Hey, wow, look at all those points we put in Vengeance. A must-have.

"Crash" Simpson's Boots: A big spirit buff, spirit regen buff, attack speed -- good stuff. Also a big + to Spirit of Vengeance, and a bonus to Defense that makes you even tougher at 50% health.

Blood-Signed Contract: A big +damage to Mental attacks (all of ours are Mental, in case you'd missed that), +Power Duration, +Spirit on Hit, and a plus to all of our Hellfire powers. Another must-have.

Quentin Carnival Jumpsuit: A bunch of +health and stuff. Very nice, not completely critical to this build.

Alejandra's Scythe: Adds attack speed and crit, so totally viable, but also has pluses to Chains and Physical damage, which are of no value. A well-rolled unique would probably be better for this build, but I'm currently running with this, and it works fine.

So you can see above that Infernal Chopper and Blood-Signed Contract are probably critical to getting this build to work -- the spirit-related stuff is nice. The others are nice-to-have, and the Scythe is of very little value.

I totally dig this build. It loses some of the novelty of the "hovering around 50% health" build but, honestly, that was tough to make work anyway -- it's actually very difficult to remain around 50% health with Blaze's powes, and the long cooldown on Infernal Contract. This is better, and it kills stuff a lot faster than my old Chains build.

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