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Firebats Arachyr w/ Piranhado - 2.6.4

by robsonwt last updated Feb 20, 2019 ( Patch 2.6.1 )

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Skills

Firebats Cloud of Bats
- Firebats
Cost: 125 Mana

Call forth a swarm of fiery bats to burn enemies in front of you for 475% weapon damage as Fire.
Cloud of Bats

Call forth a swirl of bats that damage nearby enemies for 425]% weapon damage as Fire. The damage of the bats increases every second, up to a maximum of 850]% weapon damage after 3 seconds.
Spirit Walk Honored Guest
- Spirit Walk
Cooldown: 10 seconds

Leave your physical body and enter the spirit realm for 2 seconds. While in the spirit realm, your movement is unhindered.

This ability does not start its cooldown until after its effects expire.
Honored Guest

Gain 20% of your maximum Mana when you activate Spirit Walk.
Locust Swarm Cloud of Insects
- Locust Swarm
Cost: 300 Mana

Unleash a plague of locusts that swarms an enemy, dealing 1040% weapon damage as Poison over 8 seconds.

The locusts will jump to additional nearby enemies.
Cloud of Insects

Enemies affected deal 25% reduced damage.
Hex Jinx
- Hex
Cooldown: 15 seconds

Summon a Fetish Shaman for 12 seconds that will hex groups of enemies into chickens. Hexed enemies are unable to perform offensive actions.
Jinx

Hexed enemies take 15% additional damage.
Piranhas Piranhado
- Piranhas
Cost: 250 Mana
Cooldown: 8 seconds

Summons a pool of deadly piranhas that deals 400% weapon damage as Poison over 8 seconds. Affected enemies will also take 15% increased damage.
Piranhado

The pool of piranhas becomes a tornado of piranhas that lasts 4 seconds. Nearby enemies are periodically sucked into the tornado.

Increases the cooldown to 16 seconds.
Soul Harvest Languish
- Soul Harvest
Cooldown: 12 seconds

Feed on the life force of enemies within 18 yards. Gain 3% Intelligence for 30 seconds for each affected enemy. This effect stacks up to 5 times.
Languish

Increase your Armor by 10% per harvested enemy and reduce their movement speed by 80% for 5 seconds.

Confidence Ritual
- Confidence Ritual
You deal 25% additional damage to enemies within 20 yards.
Grave Injustice
- Grave Injustice
Gain 1% of your maximum Life and Mana and reduce the cooldown of all of your skills by 1 second when an enemy dies within 20 yards.

The range is extended by items that increase your gold pickup radius.
Creeping Death
- Creeping Death
Your Haunt, Locust Swarm and the damage amplification from Piranhas last almost forever.
Swampland Attunement
- Swampland Attunement
You and your pets gain 120 Physical, Poison, Fire, and Cold Resistance for every enemy within 20 yards.

The range of this effect is increased by your gold pickup radius.

Items

Arachyr's Visage

Set Helm

21 - 24 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Spirit of Arachyr
Arachyr's Visage
Arachyr's Mantle
Arachyr's Carapace
Arachyr's Legs
Arachyr's Stride
Arachyr's Claws
(2) Set: Summon a permanent Spider Queen who leaves behind webs that deal 4000% weapon damage over 5 seconds and Slows enemies. The Spider Queen is commanded to move to where you cast your Corpse Spiders.
(4) Set: Hex gains the effect of the Toad of Hugeness rune. After summoning a Toad of Hugeness, you gain 50% damage reduction and heal for 10% of your maximum Life per second for 15 seconds.
(6) Set: The damage of your creature skills is increased by 4500%. Creature skills are Corpse Spiders, Plague of Toads, Firebats, Locust Swarm, Hex, and Piranhas.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Mantle of Channeling

Legendary Shoulders

Primary Stats

+85–108 Vitality
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

While channeling Whirlwind, Rapid Fire, Strafe, Tempest Rush, Firebats, Arcane Torrent, Disintegrate, or Ray of Frost, you deal 20–25% increased damage and take 25% reduced damage.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+85–108 Dexterity

+85–108 Strength

+85–108 Intelligence
The Traveler's Pledge

Set Amulet

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Damage Increased by 51.0–100.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+330–524 Dexterity

+330–524 Strength

+330–524 Intelligence

Endless Walk
The Traveler's Pledge
The Compass Rose
(2) Set: While standing still, damage dealt is increased by up to 100%.While standing still, damage dealt is increased by up to 100%.
Arachyr's Carapace

Set Chest Armor

51 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Spirit of Arachyr
Arachyr's Visage
Arachyr's Mantle
Arachyr's Carapace
Arachyr's Legs
Arachyr's Stride
Arachyr's Claws
(2) Set: Summon a permanent Spider Queen who leaves behind webs that deal 4000% weapon damage over 5 seconds and Slows enemies. The Spider Queen is commanded to move to where you cast your Corpse Spiders.
(4) Set: Hex gains the effect of the Toad of Hugeness rune. After summoning a Toad of Hugeness, you gain 50% damage reduction and heal for 10% of your maximum Life per second for 15 seconds.
(6) Set: The damage of your creature skills is increased by 4500%. Creature skills are Corpse Spiders, Plague of Toads, Firebats, Locust Swarm, Hex, and Piranhas.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Lakumba's Ornament

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5–6.0%
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Reduce all damage taken by 6% for each stack of Soul Harvest you have.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+416–500 Dexterity

+416–500 Strength

+416–500 Intelligence
Arachyr's Claws

Set Gloves

42 - 55 Armor

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 6 - 6.5%

Spirit of Arachyr
Arachyr's Visage
Arachyr's Mantle
Arachyr's Carapace
Arachyr's Legs
Arachyr's Stride
Arachyr's Claws
(2) Set: Summon a permanent Spider Queen who leaves behind webs that deal 4000% weapon damage over 5 seconds and Slows enemies. The Spider Queen is commanded to move to where you cast your Corpse Spiders.
(4) Set: Hex gains the effect of the Toad of Hugeness rune. After summoning a Toad of Hugeness, you gain 50% damage reduction and heal for 10% of your maximum Life per second for 15 seconds.
(6) Set: The damage of your creature skills is increased by 4500%. Creature skills are Corpse Spiders, Plague of Toads, Firebats, Locust Swarm, Hex, and Piranhas.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Bakuli Jungle Wraps

Legendary Belt

112 - 132 Armor

Primary Stats

+51 - 60 Resistance to All Elements

Secondary Stats

Firebats deals 250 - 300% increased damage to enemies affected by Locust Swarm or Piranhas.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Arachyr's Legs

Set Pants

33 - 38 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Spirit of Arachyr
Arachyr's Visage
Arachyr's Mantle
Arachyr's Carapace
Arachyr's Legs
Arachyr's Stride
Arachyr's Claws
(2) Set: Summon a permanent Spider Queen who leaves behind webs that deal 4000% weapon damage over 5 seconds and Slows enemies. The Spider Queen is commanded to move to where you cast your Corpse Spiders.
(4) Set: Hex gains the effect of the Toad of Hugeness rune. After summoning a Toad of Hugeness, you gain 50% damage reduction and heal for 10% of your maximum Life per second for 15 seconds.
(6) Set: The damage of your creature skills is increased by 4500%. Creature skills are Corpse Spiders, Plague of Toads, Firebats, Locust Swarm, Hex, and Piranhas.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Arachyr's Stride

Set Boots

30 - 35 Armor

Primary Stats

+78 - 83 Vitality

Spirit of Arachyr
Arachyr's Visage
Arachyr's Mantle
Arachyr's Carapace
Arachyr's Legs
Arachyr's Stride
Arachyr's Claws
(2) Set: Summon a permanent Spider Queen who leaves behind webs that deal 4000% weapon damage over 5 seconds and Slows enemies. The Spider Queen is commanded to move to where you cast your Corpse Spiders.
(4) Set: Hex gains the effect of the Toad of Hugeness rune. After summoning a Toad of Hugeness, you gain 50% damage reduction and heal for 10% of your maximum Life per second for 15 seconds.
(6) Set: The damage of your creature skills is increased by 4500%. Creature skills are Corpse Spiders, Plague of Toads, Firebats, Locust Swarm, Hex, and Piranhas.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
The Compass Rose

Set Ring

Primary Stats

+10–12% Movement Speed
+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence

Endless Walk
The Traveler's Pledge
The Compass Rose
(2) Set: While standing still, damage dealt is increased by up to 100%.While standing still, damage dealt is increased by up to 100%.
Unity

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Increases damage against elites by 12 - 15%
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 3.5%

Secondary Stats

All damage taken is split between wearers of this item.

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Sacred Harvester

Legendary Ceremonial Knife

Primary Stats

+36–44 Intelligence
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Soul Harvest now stacks up to 10 times.
One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

+(6–7)–(8–9) Arcane Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Poison Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Lightning Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Holy Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Cold Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Fire Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Damage
Vile Hive

Legendary Mojo

Primary Stats

+1.471363E-43 Maximum Damage
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1%

Secondary Stats

Locust Swarm gains the effect of the Pestilence rune and deals 45 - 60% increased damage.
One of 1 Magic Properties (varies)
+1.443337E-43 Minimum Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties

More Details

Head
- Arachyr's Visage
- Stat Priority: None
Shoulders
- Mantle of Channeling
- Stat Priority: None
Amulet
- The Traveler's Pledge
- Stat Priority: None
Torso
- Arachyr's Carapace
- Stat Priority: None
Wrists
- Lakumba's Ornament
- Stat Priority: None
Hands
- Arachyr's Claws
- Stat Priority: None
Waist
- Bakuli Jungle Wraps
- Stat Priority: None
Legs
- Arachyr's Legs
- Stat Priority: None
Feet
- Arachyr's Stride
- Stat Priority: None
Rings
- The Compass Rose
- Unity
- Stat Priority: None
Weapon
- Sacred Harvester
- Stat Priority: None
Offhand
- Vile Hive
- Stat Priority: None

Legendary Gems
- Bane of the Stricken
  Bane of the Stricken
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Each attack you make against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 0.8%.
- Bane of the Trapped
  Bane of the Trapped
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Increase damage against enemies under the effects of control-impairing effects by 15%.
- Taeguk
  Taeguk
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Gain 2% increased damage for 1.5 seconds when you spend resource on a channeled skill. This effect stacks up to 10 times.

Kanai's Cube

Staff of Chiroptera

Legendary Staff

106.5 Damage Per Second

Secondary Stats

Firebats attacks 100% faster, costs 75% less Mana, and has its damage increased by 125 - 150%.
One of 2 Magic Properties (varies)
+66 - 132 Minimum Damage
+88 - 176 Maximum Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Staff of Chiroptera
Coils of the First Spider

Legendary Bracers

8 - 10 Armor

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1%
Regenerates 100 - 115 Life per Second

Secondary Stats

While channeling Firebats, you gain 30% damage reduction and 60000 - 80000 Life per Hit.

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Coils of the First Spider
Convention of Elements

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 3.5%
Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Gain 150 - 200% increased damage to a single element for 4 seconds. This effect rotates through the elements available to your class in the following order: Arcane, Cold, Fire, Holy, Lightning, Physical, Poison.

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Convention of Elements

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Vitality
Maximum Resource

Offense

Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Armor
Resist All
Life
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Build Guide

Update: 21 of Feb, 2019

After a lot of tests and configurations, I think the most powerful Arachyr Firebat build to include Piranhado is simply to change Haunt for it.

You will lose the extra damage for Ring of Emptiness and it will somewhat compensate for the Fire rotation of the CoE
The character is less powerful, but the gameplay is way too easier. You don't have to keep Haunt and Locust Swarm in your enemies all the time, Piranhado OR Locust Swarm will proc Bakuli and the CoE will work by itself. It gives you time to keep Firebat running more of the time.
Enemies would be locked more often on Piranhado offering more defense and crow control
Piranhado and then Creeping Death will offer 15% plus damage to your enemies all the time.
Mana is kind of an issue, so it's best to invest something in Mana in your Paragon points.
It performed similar in the GR80s with 750+ paragon

Update: 20 of Feb, 2019

Reverted Soul Harvest back to Languish rune. The build was very squishy without it.
Used Angry Chicken as mobility instead. Sacrificing the damage boost of Jinx, to keep the toughness of Soul Harvest, Languish
Changed Esoteric Alteration for Taeguk. The toughness is in a good level, and it's better to boost damage. Taeguk gives some toughness by increasing armor as well.
About Grin Reaper mimics:

Keeping enemies under Haunt effect, regenerating mana and buffing damage
Preventing us from casting Haunt so often, focusing only on Locust Swarm
Crow Controlling by casting Piranhado with no cooldown and mana costs
Dealing (less) damage with Firebats.

They can reliably cast Firebats, Haunt and Piranhado,
They seem not to take the effects Legendary Gems
They seem not to be able to cast Locust Swarm. Don't know why. Probably a bug
They cast Soul Harvest but it does nothing. Probably a bug. Either they shouldn't cast it (as there are some skill they don't cast) or the cast should do what it's supposed to do.
So, they would be useful in this build for:

This build is holding up nicely in GR80s with 770+ Paragons.

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A variation of the most common Firebat Arachyr build to include Piranhado.

Change Spirit Walk for Piranhado
Use Movement Speed rune on Soul Harvest to compensate lack of Spirit Walk
Use Mana regeneration in Haunt to compensate lack o mana regeneration on Spirit Walk. The 15% damage of Haunt will come from Piranhado instead
Use Invigorating Gemstone to compensate for loss of armor rune on Soul Harvest and ability to escape traps as freezing and immobilizing of Spirit Walk
Piranhado will increase the rate which Bane of the Stricken will buff the damage and will group enemies together, dealing more Area Damage and working as crowd control and stopping enemies from attacking

Bonus: Grin Reaper

Change Mantle of Channeling for Grin Reaper trading damage and damage reduction for more crow control, ease of playing and mana spending.
Your mimics will cast Haunt, Piranhado and Firebats buffing damage, saving and regenerating mana and trapping enemies for you.

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