Megaloot – Elys Bloodcaster Loop Build Guide

Guide to Elys Bloodcaster Loop Build

By Mihealsick

The catch is, the build is kind of complex so bear with me.

The goal is to use Elys’s Bloodcaster spec along with Blackthorn and Omni-Vamp to heal damage as fast as you receive it while counterattacking the whole time.

Blackthorn deals straight Magic damage (not attack) each time you take damage equal to your active armor +1. This is definitely modified by Wisdom and Faith, both of which have excellent scaling, so this build doesn’t care about piling on armor–just health.

Normally, Lifesteal % lets you recover health equal to physical damage you deal to health. However, the Shadow set’s Omni-Vamp effect lets you Lifesteal from any damage dealt to health–which includes Blackthorn damage. (Importantly, “recovering” health only lets you heal up to the yellow part of your health bar.

Then the Bloodcaster spec says that every time you heal, you deal magic damage to the amount healed +1 to the selected enemy. The way I’m reading Omni-Vamp, it should also apply to this as well, which seems like a possible loop?

Instead, this is the round sequence I’m seeing (assuming I don’t have mana for Drain, which complicates things a little):

1. I make my 1 normal physical attack per turn. It hits for 542 damage.
2. The enemy takes 56 points of damage to its armor for some reason that I don’t understand. (I have 160% penetration and it has no toughness).
3. I apply 75 Sparkle because I thought it would be cute to dismantle a Jade ring earlier. It was not helpful.
4. The enemy attacks me for 345 damage (which exactly matches its attack value), which I take to my health.
5. I heal for 86 and gain a stack of Vimblow.
6. The enemy takes 540 magic damage.
7. The round ends.

Those numbers above are pretty different than what I expected.

Note that I have over 100% Penetration and I’m fighting an enemy that has no Toughness, so it’s definitely dealing damage to their health.

My Lifesteal/OmniVamp value is 556%, plus I have +50% Healing Power. My Recovery value is 279. I have 0 armor in that round, and I have 475 Wisdom and 0% Faith.

The 86 point self-heal doesn’t make sense to me at all. Omni-Vamp/Lifesteal is recovery which can only heal up to 75% of damage taken in a round, but that still doesn’t line up with the 375 I took.

The 540 magic damage doesn’t line up with my understanding of either Blackthorn or the Bloodcaster trigger. It just doesn’t match the stats noted above.

I definitely took damage so Blackthorn should definitely have kicked back… but I also definitely healed, so why aren’t there 2 instances of magic damage in the round? Is it because “recovery” does not count as healing? (I definitely got a second instance of magic damage during the rounds where I had cast Drain, and Drain is not recovery meaning that it can heal past your yellow bar).