[1.2] Lightning Strike Tank - Max Block/Aegis Aurora - Moderately Priced

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nwndotcom wrote:

This looks awesome
I'm using dual cybil's claw dual wielding block nodes for an incinerator and its not working well.

I'd really like to go cybils/aegis while keeping incinerate for my damage.

Could you help me mull up a passive tree for this? :)

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finamenon wrote:

General idea - This build utilizes Max blocking with Aegis Aurora, high armour, and a generally medium amount of ES to survive. You really don't need more than 1,300ES or so, as you will be blocking so damn much that it rarely depletes. The damage is physical based with the rich using a doryani's, and at level 76 currently is about 7.7k dps. Respectable and can get you through a lot of content.

I had help making this build. I don't think it is anything groundbreaking, and is likely a hodgepodge of similar other builds out there, but I can solo just about anything that doesn't hit stupidly hard and slow.

Current Stats

7,718 DPS
2,607 HP
1,280 ES
Block/SpellBlock 75%/56%
Armour 10.5k


Ill keep this simple and just post my gear and general gameplay ideas.

Gear

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The -only- essential items here are the Aegis Aurora, and Stone of Lazhwar. Aegis keeps you alive by healing your ES each time you block, and stone helps you block a lot of spells. The rainbowstrides round it out with even more spell block, but I dare say not essential.

Gems and Auras

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Chest: Currently I have a great 6 Link body armor, but you can get by with 5 fine. It just means you will take a bit longer to kill things, but this is more of a tank than anything.

4L: LS + MS + MFD + FA
5L: LS + MS + MFD + FA + ALD
6L: LS + MS + MFD + ALD + FA + AFD

I think these could really be changed around as needed, but I used 4L for almost the entirety of the build.

CWDT's: I use two of these, both on a 4L.

1st: CWDT lvl 1 + EC lvl 5 + Enfeeble lvl 5 + Inc AOE

2nd: CWDT lvl 9 + IC lvl 9 + Molten lvl 12 + ID

Tempest Shield: I use this to round off the remaining 4% block, and combine it with iron will for damage, and mana leech, as it has no multiplier and benefits from the iron will to help mana.

4L: TS + RM + IW + ML

Auras: I run a low clarity(leveled as needed) off a blood magic gem to help mana regen, with determination and purity of elements on reduced mana. I only run purity as the situation warrants.

Aura 3L: Det + Purity + RM

Utility 3L: Clarity lvl 9 + BM + Leap

Builds

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Level 76

Level 94

You might be wondering why I took Unwavering Stance. To the uninitiated, it means I have no delay or lag from blocking. So you can just block as fast as the attacks come in.

So how does this work in a nutshell?

Find a big ass pack, leap slam right into it, block so much you rarely deplete your ES, and lightning strike everything until it is dead. The fun thing is that since this is purely physical maces, you could just as easily use molten strike, glacial hammer, or even ground slam though I don't like the 80% base damage on that.


If you have mana issues? Use a mana leech gem on your LS.
Life issues? That might be a problem until you can use aegis, but if you are using multistrike and faster attacks like I mentioned, a life on hit gem keeps you going strong pretty well, especially with all the projectiles going off.

I think that about covers it. I know this isn't really unique, but with the setup I have it works well. Doryani's definitely is great if you can afford, but otherwise get a really high damage club or 1-hander mace type.

Have fun with your bashity-bash.

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What bandits have u choosen?

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Peterlerock wrote:

Sorry, this is not a tank.
You'll struggle in lategame maps, there's so much stuff that will kill you outright.
Aegis can only protect you for so long.

Your Lvl 93 tree is not optimized.
And 101% life is painfully low for a lvl93 build.

*At Duelist, you can take 3% attack speed instead of +10 str
*If you need the 20 Dex at Templar, you can reroute your path to Duelist via the two +10 Dex nodes at marauder
*You take 4% health nodes at Marauder, but not the 5-8% health nodes at Duelist?
*The two little nodes after "Blunt Instrument" notable can be used more efficiently
*you skip the 8% health + chaos resist notable

With some minor tweaks, I got it to +149% life.
Armor should be roughly the same, I dropped 2% block.
I gained you some attack speed, but dropped a bit of %damage.
+48% life vs 2% block should be a great exchange.

Personally, I'd even remove the whole Armor/ES cluster "Body and Soul" for six points that can all go into life. Like this.
Or remove Iron Grip+Unwavering Stance. This 7 point investment doesn't look to great to me.

With no crit nodes, I'd also recommend using Resolute Technique.
105 point tree
This is what I would aim for. Add some Dex/Int if you need it.

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Also: Your gear desperatly needs life rolls.
At least on rings and gloves, I'd even reroll the chest for 90+ life, and drop the unique helmet and belt for rare versions with life.

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In your 6L, added lightning damage is a very bad choice.
Replace it with anything, best would probably be "weapon elemental damage".

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finamenon wrote:

You really don't need more than 1,300ES

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awetZ020 wrote:

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finamenon wrote:

You really don't need more than 1,300ES

I run a lvl 93 atm templar block aegis. 3.5k hp 1.9 es 16k dps, and I would say you need more than 1.3 es because hard hitters will deplete not only your es but your life.