The recent nerfs to Coruscation staff included the reducing the heat cost of the shotgun blast. This had previously been the highest heat per second generation in the game. This achievement requires pretty damn tight inputs in the first place. To explain, the current setup that’s basically required to even attempt this achievement is:
- Necromancer
- highest heat per second generating weapon
- Talent “Vanhel’s Danse Macabre” for 12% attack speed
- (The new army of the dead so it only requires one, not two ult casts, which would itself require a purple pot)
- 5% attack speed on the Charm
- A Ranger Veteran with “Drunken Brawler” for 3x3% = 9% atttack speed
- A Grail Knight with “Virtue of Purity”
- Which includes restarting the mission until you get the 7% attack speed duty
- One speed potion per attempt
- (Thankfully Tower of Trechery can give a constant stream of all potions necessary.)
Execution:
- Use the ult to spawn 12 fresh skellys
- Drink the speed potion
- Switch to the ranged weapon
- Build up to 90% heat (at which point the slowdown sets in)
- Switch to the skull
- Release a skelly
- Repeat these steps from “Switch to ranged weapon” until the achievement is gained
- (Getting a speed proxy may help a tiny bit, but since it only affects the last 3 seconds and due to the heat building/releasing cycle at that time, it does not make a big difference.)
Unfortunately due to the mentioned Coruscation staff change, the rate at which heat can be generated is noticeably lower, now Beam staff shotgun spam. I will say that I did manage to get the achievement, however it took me a full HOUR of nonstop attempts just to realize that with the current Coruscation staff it is impossible to get. (Or at least I’m fairly certain as I had multiple attempts with every single part of the mentioned setup and basically perfect inputs.) Upon realization I spend more time doing the same with Beam staff.
I was able to get the achievement, but all in all I spend around 2 hours to figure out all necessary steps of the setup and attempts, more importantly though, even then I was only able to get the achievement with the help of a macro which spammed my left mouse button every frame to be able to generate the heat fast enough. (Which is also why I’m pretty certain it is impossible to get the achievement with any significantly slower attack speed, if any.)
TLDR:
With the changes to Coruscation staff it is now nearly impossible to get Necromancers “Overcharged” achievement by human input. I would highly recommend lowering the amount of heat needed to get the achievement by around one cycle. (Which by text of the achievement would be 325-350 instead of 400 or afaik with how the code works (one full bar of heat = 40 heat) 130-140 instead of 160 heat.
