mini update:
a slightly alternate build
a few weeks ago, i thought about this build, a more survivability focused build
i got lucky with the immortality suffix
few key things:
mountaineer's armor and rage of ares - both give flat physical damage.. with these 2 items, throwing knife is really outperforming calculated strike.. it's because each knife carries the flat physical.. in muspelheim legendary, each of my knives does 300 - 400 damage.. but when the 450 damage from rage of ares procs, it goes up to 3000-4000.. and as long as i spam throwing knife, it procs all the time.. sometimes more than 1 knife procs the 450 damage
that means my life steal got way better.. but where to get my life steal? Deimos + Kydoimos.. i can't get back to phobos + deimos because i lose rage of ares.. and my throwing knife damage gets way lower without rage of ares so my life steal also gets way lower
now, because this is focused on survivability, i gotta have permanent briar ward.. the most i can do is 60% but i found that at lvl 7 refresh, 60% CDR is just enough for permanent briar ward.. lvl 6 still doesn't cut it, and at lvl 8 the cooldown gets too long
and because i have high CDR, i can spam plague
so yeah that's about it: good life steal + permanent briar ward + plague spam + 7 pets + mass confuse = great survivability.. plus lay trap is a great cheese skill
energy problem is solved by uhhh what's the name? the 2nd upgrade of HoO and the 3rd upgrade of briar ward
the bad thing is i lost my cast speed from touch of nyx and mechanical parts, so i had to switch one of my pet rings for an occult.. but it's worth it because my knives also got stronger
of course this is also possible with int build.. ele damage will probably come from eitr.. but you gotta have vit res from elsewhere because you might lose on demon's blood.. mine is str + dex build so i gotta focus on physical damage