Based on a simple test spirit bomb gives me about +12% more DPS and +9% more HPS for a whole dungeon run, but I wonder if the extra mitigation from gluttony proccing can make up for that.
For single target boss fights the extra DPS from SB falls to +6% whereas the HPS is -2% lower than than gluttony. Does anyone have different results or does it seem like gluttony is actually better for boss fights considering the extra mitigation?
Another factor to consider is that gluttony is simply much easier to play, because it gives more freedom of movement and you don’t need to constantly monitor your fragments and pain. After trying out SB for the first time it’s so annoying having to stand in one spot much of the time.
Yeah, Gluttony build is way easier to min-max the class with, especially in relation to movement and crowd control, such as disrupt, consume magic, Sigil of flame/misery/silence/chains. You also don’t have to worry about confined areas in order to spread the 4-5 souls for Soul bomb. The build is also fun, reactive and most importantly the only real self-dependent build atm. This means that, the probability of you dying is waaaaay lower than with spirit bomb.
Spirit bomb is however way better in Shrine of the Storm. It’s also requires way less focus on positioning on getting aggro and hitting stuff, but that’s it. I highly recommend Gluttony during rest all affixes and dungeons, at least if you want to be able to min-max the whole class.
Another fun factor is that you can do alot of HP-stacking with the new Meta. Meta at the moment grants 50% max hp. This means that with other external traits/esseences such as Strength in numbers and Anima of life and death you can get 1 mil HP with good gear during Meta. This means that with gluttony build during hard hits and each soul cleave you get 16% out of 1 million HP, which equals 160k HP per cleave (assuming you have around 500k hp outside of meta). With Spirit bomb you get 32% HP (4 fragments) out of 500k which also equals 160k HP per healing rotation. This means that not only do you heal the same as with spirit bomb build during certain proc situations, you also have 200% armor with that. And on top of all this, you have your “Real” meta activation incase something happens.
I play both builds. Depends on week. Usually
Fortified- meta build
Tyranical - spirit bomb build
In meta build I recommend use one of the trinkets cyclotron card for dmg loss compensation, especially for emissaries. Big pull - nuke emissary - gg.
In my case i always do more self healing with Meta build.
But both builds are good.