[3.9] Bashtart's Block, Crit, Impale Cyclone Gladiator [fast dual-wielding, high dps]

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Encapuzado wrote:

What unexpected turn from Resolute Technique and block to critical and impale.

Now feels like you should have ascended as Slayer, two-handed, with more critical and area of effect, or as Champion for more impale and fortify passive.

I'm currently lv 87 doing red maps. Will try to keep going with RT and perforate as main skill.

I feel the same about Slayer now, at 85, hitting a wall.

Also mana-sustain is horrible. Even had to take a +30 int-node just to keep going.

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CrankyFranke wrote:

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Encapuzado wrote:

What unexpected turn from Resolute Technique and block to critical and impale.

Now feels like you should have ascended as Slayer, two-handed, with more critical and area of effect, or as Champion for more impale and fortify passive.

I'm currently lv 87 doing red maps. Will try to keep going with RT and perforate as main skill.

I feel the same about Slayer now, at 85, hitting a wall.

Also mana-sustain is horrible. Even had to take a +30 int-node just to keep going.

I did go for Gladiator because of the power of block and arena challenger. So I still don't think that either champion or slayer would be a better choice.

Crit and Impale are just two ways to scale the damage and imo every build which focuses on physical attack damage should go for crit and impale atm.

Hm that is strange... I never had mana problems. If you like you can change your privacy setting and I take a look at your char.

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CrankyFranke wrote:

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Encapuzado wrote:

What unexpected turn from Resolute Technique and block to critical and impale.

Now feels like you should have ascended as Slayer, two-handed, with more critical and area of effect, or as Champion for more impale and fortify passive.

I'm currently lv 87 doing red maps. Will try to keep going with RT and perforate as main skill.

I feel the same about Slayer now, at 85, hitting a wall.

Also mana-sustain is horrible. Even had to take a +30 int-node just to keep going.

Originally I got along with The Peregrine Visored Sallet while leveling for the mana leech. Once I dropped the helm I had to pick up a point on the tree for the leech. As long as you're hitting mobs then you're fine.

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Originally I got along with The Peregrine Visored Sallet while leveling for the mana leech. Once I dropped the helm I had to pick up a point on the tree for the leech. As long as you're hitting mobs then you're fine.

Indeed, I need to keep hitting mobs to sustain mana (Delve is just perfect).
I took a point on the tree and added some mana/INT points on the gear simply for comfortability. If I spin on empty, I basically run dry within 1-2 seconds.

PS:
My profile should be public now if anyone wants to check (I did not go crit, as of yet)

The guide looks good. I'm going to convert my league starter over to this as I wasn't happy with my build of choice.

How tanky is this build? I'm trying to get farm 4 way Legion battles and need a good dps build that's also quite tanky for Uber Elder.

Is a 10 exalt budget doable for this or no?

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Windfuriouss wrote:

The guide looks good. I'm going to convert my league starter over to this as I wasn't happy with my build of choice.

How tanky is this build? I'm trying to get farm 4 way Legion battles and need a good dps build that's also quite tanky for Uber Elder.

Is a 10 exalt budget doable for this or no?

Well max. block with Gladiator can get quiet tanky but unfortunately does not work against damage over time effects. Check out build guide video which I posted in guide and see what the build can do with 200 chaos investment. You nearly have 10 times that. I did about 1m Shaper dps... with 10 ex you should be Able to get about 2 - 3 m and also about 1k more life, etc. So yes I think UE will be possible but UE has a lot to do with avoiding dmg and knowing the fight.

Melted red elder with this build. Loving it so far. But got destroyed in my first attempt against Shaper. Any suggestions regarding flasks, pantheon, etc in order to help me survive him?

Hi, I'm a fairly new player, started playing like 2 weeks ago. I'm liking this build (chose it completely randomly though, didn't know what I was doing at the time), it feels smooth and fast, but I'm struggling against some bosses (im at tier 11 maps atm). I got a bit lucky and rn I have 16 exa budget, what could I improve?

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Holcombsy87 wrote:

Melted red elder with this build. Loving it so far. But got destroyed in my first attempt against Shaper. Any suggestions regarding flasks, pantheon, etc in order to help me survive him?

The problem with Shaper is that most of his attack can’t be blocked. So the best way is to don’t get hit from his beam etc. At all what is not to hard and know when you can do damage safely (when he is channeling his beam).

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Nem4siS wrote:

Hi, I'm a fairly new player, started playing like 2 weeks ago. I'm liking this build (chose it completely randomly though, didn't know what I was doing at the time), it feels smooth and fast, but I'm struggling against some bosses (im at tier 11 maps atm). I got a bit lucky and rn I have 16 exa budget, what could I improve?

Hi, I just check your gear real quick and saw some room for improvements:
1) 6link body armour: good options are mentioned in the guide
2) rare gear: every rare gear piece should have high life and resistances on them. Additionally try to get on jewelers phy. Dmg to attacks, attack speed and crit multi.
3) get quality on your flasks and skill gems