Squeeze damage from BIP and Shelter ST

I'm not sure why you're running rune suicide on a healer. Maybe to reduce cost of bip (even though ghostmirror light is in there to compensate anyways) or because you have ST. Oppressive Gaze and bip have shit scaling. the correct spread for the necro is 12 rest/10+1+1 sr/8 blood. You can run 8+1 blood if you want a marginal benefit from blood bond. He is running 10+3 blood on the BiPer to hit the +6 energy regen breakpoint for BiP which returns 20 energy per cast. The 8+1 blood breakpoint is more suitable for a Blood Ritual build to hit the 12s breakpoint.

Because of the steep life sac of BiP, it is more worth it to use BiP if you intend to hit the +6 breakpoint since the life sac is the same. Otherwise, you should consider using Blood Ritual instead.

On my own build, I have a monk smiter for SoH and my ST rit is a Rt/P with FallBack so they dont have to compete for attribute points.

On my own build, I have a monk smiter for SoH and my ST rit is a Rt/P with FallBack so they dont have to compete for attribute points. Yes in the past I run ST Rit as Rt/P and smiting at another hero. But I found i can get away from 15 to 14 communing which I swap the SoH down to the ST Rit. Also because lot of time i see my ST Rit is not short of energy which is why I think he can afford to low -1 energy pip. And the other attack caster that was carrying the SoH can have full energy pip. It was a tactical swap I make in my point of view if you understand what im say.

Yes in the past I run ST Rit as Rt/P and smiting at another hero. But I found i can get away from 15 to 14 communing which I swap the SoH down to the ST Rit. Also because lot of time i see my ST Rit is not short of energy which is why I think he can afford to low -1 energy pip. And the other attack caster that was carrying the SoH can have full energy pip. It was a tactical swap I make in my point of view if you understand what im say. Energy shouldn't be much of a concern since you have a BiPer.

One difference between 15 and 14 communing is a level difference in your spirits which translates into more health and armor for them. Besides, I like having +26 damage from my SoH. In any case, if the differences are minor to you, then so be it. It is a matter of balancing defenses vs offenses which also depends on your play style and the areas which you frequent.

I said BiP had shit scaling, that was specifically referring to the fact the next breakpoint after 8 is 13. Investing 10 points in blood and using a sup rune is a waste when the only benefit is an extra point in regen. I don't know how aggressive you run your builds that you need 13 spec bip to manage energy, because bip at 8 is more than enough for a well-designed setup and such a lovely breakpoint. 13 spec is complete overkill. If you want higher spec in soh, you'd be running it on roj monk, ua smite, or sos melee biotch rather than on the st rit. Trying to run soh at 11 on ST comes close to gimping the bar. If you feel you can get away with it, it'll work, but your setup will be less flexible.

If you want to squeeze out damage, using a RoJ monk for 16 spec SoH and then bringing binding chains on ST rit is ideal for more offense as a melee player. Where do you see a super rune. The attib is 10+3, and 8 +1 which mean 10+1+2, 8+1. I find binding chains rarely is enough to combo with ROJ, also it cause scatter ok with mm but I find it not that good with single melee. Btw I do run ROJ (mainly in area that holy damage can shrine) but find it good when your running 2 -3 roj just 1 roj isn't worth the bar and trouble to make them work good.

As for over kill on 6+ pip when you play 2 to 3 mes with pure dom/ill damage skill and no Insp you will appreciate that extra +1 pip and paying only -35hp for it is well worth the trade off.

Yes commute at 15 the ST sprite does gain 1 extra lv which give or take translate 5-7 more attack. ST Rit does have enough energy and time to keep with spawning new sprite just as fast as at L15. Which is why i choice to push them harder. But if adding a pts back for some tough area isn't hard either.

I said BiP had shit scaling, that was specifically referring to the fact the next breakpoint after 8 is 13. Investing 10 points in blood and using a sup rune is a waste when the only benefit is an extra point in regen. I don't know how aggressive you run your builds that you need 13 spec bip to manage energy, because bip at 8 is more than enough for a well-designed setup and such a lovely breakpoint. 13 spec is complete overkill. Actually you only need a major rune, not sup, for 10+3. He has a choice to bring down his blood magic level but at lower levels, the difference between BR and BiP gets smaller, so much so that BR may yet be a safer solution since it has a lower life sac and it also doesn't take up the elite slot.

It is up to you, more energy for your team or more safety for your n/rt.

Imo, best way to add damage to ST rit bar is to make it communing/channeling hybrid and put splinter weapon and Ancestor's rage in. So you can rise all attributes with runes... I think anyone do Communing 99% of the time their going for spirits spam build bar. It should beet go with Spawning Power to boost your spirits life. Channeling only have 5 spirits but most ppl only use SoS and Bloodsong (cause the other 3 is conditional passive spirits might or might not be to useful at the end of the day) in that case SP isn't that a big deal to invest heavy one for just 2 spirits so you can hybrid to other attib. Usually resto for some healing skill.

I think anyone do Communing 99% of the time their going for spirits spam build bar. It should beet go with Spawning Power to boost your spirits life. Channeling only have 5 spirits but most ppl only use SoS and Bloodsong (cause the other 3 is conditional passive spirits might or might not be to useful at the end of the day) in that case SP isn't that a big deal to invest heavy one for just 2 spirits so you can hybrid to other attib. Usually resto for some healing skill. It seems I should have been more accurate about the build I had in mind. Due the nature of Soul Twisting, Shelter and the way hero Ai uses ST, it is not wise to put more than 2 or max 3 spirits in ST bar. So no channeling spirits in ST bar just shelter and either union or displacement. The way channeling can bring damage to the ST bar is, as I mentioned, splinter weapon and Ancestor's rage. I was thinking that you should replace SoH on your ST with Splinter weapon and Smite hex with Ancestor's rage and put 10 points + rune to channeling. That bar , however, WILL require BiP in team or risking hero run out of energy.

I'm pretty sure eg is usefull only with rt/n mms. Agree if your ST is putting a sprites in the middle of the field near the foe there some major issue right there. Also Ai hero will rarely place a sprites in the middle of the field anyways unless you flag him their which is counter productive fi you do.