NekMore Thaar
NekMore Thaar Champion Loadout
One of the best Hydra champions in the game gets the speedy treatment. I often use this build against the Hydra as a speed lead. Even better with someone like Inquisitor Shamael feeding him turn meter. This champion really keeps the pressure up on the boss by giving endless amounts of turn meter to your allies along with useful buffs and debuffs.
All in all an exceptional Hydra build for an exceptional champion. I use this quite often with great success. Is it my favorite build for him? It might be, it's quite good. Another good option would be the Provoke set and we have that build for you as well.
Strategy Description
Artifacts Description
Relentless is an absolutely amazing set for the Hydra and Nekmo is no exception to this. He benefits greatly from the extra turns, allowing him to speed boost the rest of the team, as well as apply key debuffs that help heal himself and the team without being so reliant on healers to help keep you up in the fight.
He does need some accuracy to land his debuffs and the extra speed from the Perception set does help. Such a key staple set in so many builds. For the sub-stats just focus on speed, accuracy, and resistance. You may want to build him with some extra hp and defense just so he can stay alive.
If you can do all of that and still build him for some damage, more power to you. I started off with a defense% chestplate originally because it was difficult at first to keep him alive on the higher difficulties but eventually I was able to transition to an attack% chestplate with better gear. It's all up to your gear power what your options are.
I like the Refresh accessories for this build allowing you to get back to the A3 and A2 faster. More turns is a win-win for this build. Revenge is not a bad option either. You could do that instead.
* Some artifact sets have upgraded versions available. If you have a better upgraded version of this recommended artifact set, definitely use that instead.
I went with the Offense and Support mastery trees for this build with Nekmo. You are free to take either of the first two options in the Offense tree, depending on what your Crit Rate situation is looking like. Extra crit damage and Shieldbreaker for Hydra shields make sense here. Single Out will help with some extra DPS and Life Drinker will help keep Nekmo alive longer as he will typically on my teams, stay pretty low on health during the fight due to weak defense.
The rest of the masteries from that tree just increase his DPS versus bosses giving him extra value anywhere. In the Support tree I went with the typical extra Accuracy options to help land his debuffs. Lore of Steel gives an extra stat boost. Lasting Gifts is to help keep the buffs up a little bit longer and Master Hexer does the same thing but for debuffs.
Cruelty
Cruelty
Level 1 Blessing
I like Cruelty for Nekmo in this build. It allows him to debuff the Hydra defense quickly through AOE attacks and paired with the Relentless set this will start to stack up very quickly when the transition occurs between heads.
Level 6 Blessing
I would just keep it the same. Making it more potent and even better than before. Nekmo then is just that much more viable for this content.
The other option might be to use the Brimstone blessing if you don't have it on another champion. This will apply & re-apply the Brimstone to the Hydra heads at all times. On my teams I have other champions with this ability so I would prefer my AOE speed guy to be the guy negating the defense of the enemy.