Season 15 | 2.6.1 Thorns of the Invoker Builds Guide

Bombardment – Barrels of Spikes… is honestly optional… BUT WHY!? YOU SAY?

Okay, so this build is centered around Elite kills to progress fast. Bombardment barely does anything later on, when compared to Punish spamming.

It IS a mindless bonus for speeds, but I find it difficult to justify it the higher you go. We just use Belt of the Trove to proc the 4pc. You’ll eventually see what I mean.

Consecration-Bed of Nails suffers the same fate as Bombardment! Except it’s much much worse overall. There’s a healing component, which is honestly, more welcome than the thorns damage.

Same concept here… better for speeds since AoE’ing down weaklings isn’t our thing.

This leaves us with one truly open slot. Since you can only fit either Bombardment or Consecration – but we don’t wanna use either…. What else is there?

Shield Glare – Divine Verdict for more DPS. Uncertainty for some “control”.

Judgment – Debilitate gives a unique defensive stack. We don’t have a “Weaken” effect. You’ll be surprised at how high the uptime on this is.

The choices are slim admittedly.

Stricken is very very good in this build and will likely take the place of Powerful much sooner or straight off the bat. Stricken works off your SHEET ATTACK SPEED so having a dagger main hand + ASPD rolls give us a very high Stricken application rate.

In the table above, I put them side by side to represent how they’re in the same “pile”.

Esoteric Alteration may be used in extreme GR’s to add a defensive buffer to prevent “Randomness”.

It’s also good for “speed GR”. Since we now must CLEAR RG’s to gain the fat stacks of EXP, reducing the “Insta-lose to RG” situation will benefit our farming speeds.

Esoteric should always be on your mind. It has many uses for a build that wants to stand around and spank things. There are times, though, when you simply cannot lean on it, and to press forward you have to fish for “survivable elites”.

Invoker: Reroll notes – commonly asked questions on rerolls.

How to Reroll Weapons!?!?! Is a commonly asked question and is too chunky for this tab. I’ll put it in the next tab since it’s quite a common problem for many. (Shields, too)

If it’s not obvious already – Thorns must be in every secondary stat! This is the very source of our damage and there’s only very few items we can’t(?) roll it on (Weapon, most shields, Justice Lantern…)

Defenses on all the things! Since we DO NOT USE CRIT RELATED STATS, that opens up a whole ton of rolls for “other things”.

Attack Speed is king in terms of offensive stats, as well as Physical%. While the latter can (mostly) only be found on Bracer and Amulet, ASPD can be rolled on Gloves, Rings, Weapon. While it’s on Amulet too, I don’t think it’s worth it due to better stats available.

You need healing – badly. All that toughness means nothing if you have no way to replenish life. Luckily we have a fast attacking build – so we use LIFE PER HIT as our means of healing!

Balanced Defensive Stats: Don’t just blindly put VIT on every slot, there’s a balance wherein RES becomes much more potent than Vit (and especially so since we increase our EHP via Life per Hit). There’s no one way to recommend what goes where – calculate and feel it.

REMOVE THE DAMAGE RANGE: Sounds weird but the damage range doesn’t do anything for you. You can get “another stat” in its place.. LpH, VIT, CDR etc… “What do you mean damage range?”… as in the base damage “1000-1700”.

Why is Pig Sticker used for Thorns builds? Because there’s no other really relevant weapon. It has many things going for it:

• High ATK Speed – dagger. ASPD scaled very well with Invokers plan.
• It has the most possible stat rolls!
• +Human and +Beast can be relevant!

So you can have something that looks like this:
STR > VIT > AS > Life Per Hit > CDR … that’s FIVE rolls.