[Infares]

I put this in the nature section too but it's just as relevant here, and I know not everyone from the Earth board would go over to nature since not every earth build subs nature.

So I got hung up on the neanderthal boss in the snowy area of the orient, and my formerly full Coredweller spec was falling flat, so I decided to respec and try a new strategy. Long story short, I ended up speccing completely out of core dweller since I already had a fully pumped level 16 one started, and went 12/12 Eruption, with 1 point each in Earth Enchantment, Brimstone, and Volativity, then I got some Heart of Oak and the one that increases elemental resist since the ice attack sucks *** and I didn't realize at the time that I could micro my core dweller out of the AOE at the time, which I do realize as I type this...

Anywho, now I'm stuck petless and so I respecced AGAIN since I didn't have enough gold to respec everything so I decided to keep the eruption where it was, I got 1 point each in the first two Plague legs and put 8/8 into the one that reduces physical and elemental resists to make my Volatile, Earth Enchanted, Brimstoned Eruptions do even more physical and fire damage.

Strategy involves using eruption > Plague and kiting mobs around the eruption and healing myself with Regrowth as I take damage, so far I actually feel pretty good about the build, and by the time I get enough gold to respec back into Core Dweller I may or may not actually choose to do it, I might go ahead and finish the plague tree, finish EE/Brim/Vol and then finally start getting my coredweller back up to snuff, but I may put the 16/8/1/8 points I had spent on CD elsewhere until I have them ALL so as not to be constantly recasting CD since it'll take me a while to get that many points accumulated, and aura-buffed eruption with plague backup seems to work really well by itself for now, probably going to put 1 point into stoneform only and keep just enough points into Regrowth to heal roughly half my total HP pool at a time so I don't overdedicate but keeping it useful.

This build was a happy accident so to speak, I never intended to go petless with Summoner but being an eruption/plague engine that can heal itself seems pretty sound right now at level 30. Retried the Neanderthal boss and killed the Yeti boss with no trouble at all, this build kites like a dream.