Best Hero builds for farming Secret Lair of the Snowmen?

Works quite well.

Acolyte/Zhed/Vekk

[skill]Fire Attunement[/skill][skill]Glyph of Lesser Energy[/skill][skill]Rodgort's Invocation[/skill][skill]Searing Flames[/skill][skill]Glowing Gaze[/skill][skill]Heal Area[/skill][skill]Karei's Healing Circle[/skill][skill]Restore Life[/skill]
Fire Magic: 12+1+3
Energy Storage: 8+1
Healing Magic: 10 Rodgorts Invoke on an SF bar?

Anyway, to the OP: R/Rt splinter barrage? just making sure you are microing it ofc.
If not, mindblast/rodgorts is the way to go

[skill]Glyph of lesser energy[/skill][skill]Searing Flames[/skill][skill]Glowing Gaze[/skill][skill]leech signet[/skill][skill]fire attunement[/skill][skill]aura of restoration[/skill][skill]mantra of frost[/skill][skill]resurrection signet[/skill] I would drop the glyph for another aoe damage skill, maybe [wiki]Rodgort's Invocation[/wiki] or [wiki]Liquid Flame[/wiki]. With the mantra, energy management isn't going to be an issue.

I would drop the glyph for another aoe damage skill, maybe [wiki]Rodgort's Invocation[/wiki] or [wiki]Liquid Flame[/wiki]. With the mantra, energy management isn't going to be an issue. Yeah you could add [wiki]Rodgort's Invocation[/wiki] or [wiki]Liquid Flame[/wiki] for hardmode. But in NM they go down faster than [insert funny sexual inuendo here ], so really you only need [skill=text]searing flames[/skill].

Really to make sure the hero is spamming [skill=text]searing flames[/skill] just bring:


[skill]searing flames[/skill][skill]fire attunement[/skill][skill]mantra of frost[/skill][skill]aura of restoration[/skill][skill]resurrection signet[/skill]



That is probably the best skill bar for a hero in that dungeon for NM lol.


edit: Actually thinking about it. I remember why I chose to take [wiki]glyph of lesser energy[/wiki] instead of [wiki]Rodgort's Invocation[/wiki] or [wiki]Liquid Flame[/wiki]. During the time it takes to cast [wiki]Rodgort's Invocation[/wiki] and recharge, you could cast [skill=text]searing flames[/skill] 2 times. 2 times the damage. + 2 times the length of burning. With [wiki]Liquid Flame[/wiki] it's even worse 16 total seconds for that skill I got searing flames casted 5 times in that period. And that's a whole lot more damage. So yeah I will stick with my original build for HM in my first post.

O and BTW Did anyone notice how [wiki]Rodgort's Invocation[/wiki] is wrong. It shows an old 15 sec recharge instead of 5 seconds?

O and BTW Did anyone notice how [wiki]Rodgort's Invocation[/wiki] is wrong. It shows an old 15 sec recharge instead of 5 seconds? The casting time is also wrong - it is a 2s casting time, which means you can cast it while SF is recharging. From experience my heroes seem to do more damage with Rodgort's + SF than with SF alone, as long as you have some way to mitigate the energy cost.

I rarely do the run in NM anymore, but really any build with a collection of AoE skills and a little healing would work, I imagine.

Rodgorts Invoke on an SF bar? It actually works quite well with [skill=text]Auspicious Incantation[/skill].

Me SF plus 3 SF's always find ourselves overwhelmed in HM, with cynn, two monks, and herta. Try bringing some party wide protection, if your going with another person defensive anthem paragon or 2 chars with aegis chain can be quite helpful. Aegis should block snowballs because I know from personal experience defensive anthem does.

You could always bring 2 e/mo mindblast+rodgorts since the energy is never an issue you could bring aegis on 2 of them.

Try bringing some party wide protection, if your going with another person defensive anthem paragon or 2 chars with aegis chain can be quite helpful. Aegis should block snowballs because I know from personal experience defensive anthem does.

You could always bring 2 e/mo mindblast+rodgorts since the energy is never an issue you could bring aegis on 2 of them. It is not possible to block the snowballs that matter as those are spells and of a interesting note they are non water dmg since mantra of frost will not trigger on the spell. It is also interesting that their actual wand attacks are water dmg and stormchaser does trigger on their spell attack as elemental just not as water. I haven't spent the time yet to check which element the spell attack is exactly but it could be tested easily with the mantras of X element.

It is not possible to block the snowballs that matter as those are spells and of a interesting note they are non water dmg since mantra of frost will not trigger on the spell. It is also interesting that their actual wand attacks are water dmg and stormchaser does trigger on their spell attack as elemental just not as water. I haven't spent the time yet to check which element the spell attack is exactly but it could be tested easily with the mantras of X element. Please, your not the first one to doubt me. Go try it before you say you can't block them. The snowballs are the same skills as wintersday snowball fights. In those fights you get an enchant which blocks projectiles. Thus the same mechanic works in the snowman dungeon.

So if you want a good 50% block reduction you could try aegis (unsure about aegis but know defensive anthem elite works through personal testing).