Skyforth presents: Glaciator. RIP BUILD. GGG can let me down one last time.

Taking acrobatics requires minimal investment. It's right there next to path to shadow nodes. You can even get some more block on the way. Not saying that it's the best thing for this build (skyforth fully tests his builds and took the other route probably since he didn't feel the need). However, acrobatics is most certainly worth it if you want it.

Taking ondar's guile is just an alternate route to the shadow area. Why you feel that it can't be done is beyond me. You just have to drop all the nodes after the evasion wheel. It's not a big loss believe me. You aren't sacrificing any offence, especially with the Heatseeker cluster.


I doubt that any evasion and armour you can stack is going to be a large amount without auras, requiring yet additional investment. Armour isn't really that good at--it pretty much sucks. Losing any armour isn't too much of a disadvantage. In the current state of the game, acro and ondar's is the clearly superior defensive choice as compared to IR. This is made even more prominent with the fact that armour only protects against physical damage.

Sure if you don't need any points to get it but getting to those things takes a lot of points. Instead of going Ondar's and getting Acro you would already have full shadow tree with crit, att.speed life and everything else on the way just by taking route through scion.

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Taking ondar's guile is just an alternate route to the shadow area.

By the time you'll get there you will have no points left to get anything major out of shadow tree. Then comes the questions:
Is it worth even going above acrobatics?
What do do with the rest of the points?

Here you go:


This is an obviously more defensive version. Takes two extra points for the block cluster under acro. Obviously you lose some crit and attack speed(negligible loss in damage), but you have more life, more block along with acrobatics and Ondar's Guile. Not saying that it's the best way to do this build, but just to show that it can be done.

Personally I would like to know Skyforth's opinion on this variant. Thanks.

I still dont understand how he gets his attack speed over 400%.. mine dont even hit 200%.

Can someone explain that to me please

Show your gear and tree. Can't really tell much without that.

I guess it's preference between more defense or offense.
With an exception that your defense also has drawbacks.

Armour has its own set of pretty huge drawbacks. It only protectes against physical damage. Also since you barely ever get hit through block, the only thing you are scared of are those huge oneshot hits from Brutus or kole. And armour won't save you from those either.

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Etherfire wrote:

Armour has its own set of pretty huge drawbacks. It only protectes against physical damage. Also since you barely ever get hit through block, the only thing you are scared of are those huge oneshot hits from Brutus or kole. And armour won't save you from those either.

You forgot granite flasks and endurance charges... With that I'm pretty sure one shot doesn't happen. While your build relies even more on chance to not get hit because if that happens you have no damage mitigation or at least a lot less than me.

Oneshot usually doesn't happen for most any builds as long as you have over 5k HP.
The way this build is set up at the moment, armour is probably better but for builds that do not get nearly as much block (not using ungil's gauche or BoR) acrobatics takes the cake.
Alright, I have to sleep now. Bye.

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Etherfire wrote:

Show your gear and tree. Can't really tell much without that.

Dunno where to get to the 400% Attack speed
Gear


Passive tree