BUILD OUT OF COMMISSION....NO LONGER VIABLE DUE TO IDIOTIC CHANGE TO IRON REFLEXES

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AthenaUS wrote:

will probably hit close to 2k LA.

SPECIAL NOTES:
In order to run those 3 auras without eating away to much at your life (since your using the blood magic passive) you will need to 4 link an armor piece with 1 Green 1 Blue and 2 Reds. This will allow you to keep all 3 auras to 1 reduced mana on 1 armor piece making it efficient. Level 20 auras on all 3 gems should max out around 360 reserved life, which can be further reduced on a level 20 QUALITY reduced mana.

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AthenaUS wrote:

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kuromahou wrote:

Here is my HC Duelest LA ranger.

Once you get this far, you can just spend remaining points grabbing adjacent 8% hp nodes that are available all around, or that last 8% eva/armor next to duelist start, or grab the body and soul node tho I think 36% all res innate is fine.

Hakuryuukou LA Duelist

I dont get marauder start stuff because I like stacking max ele damage, 110%, and you need the 18% each resistance nodes before it to get there, so without needing diamond skin its not really worth it to me to go there. Id also have to take the 2x 15% crit reduction nodes and again I dont find them worth it on a ranged character. But you can do some shuffling of skills and grab them if you like.

And ranger is not useless, you will have much more evasion bonus for grace with a ranger, and you can get the as/stk speed major node right by ranger start on a separate branch too. And you can still grab goodies from duelist start with a ranger as well.

I just wanted to make the chara duelist as you have a little more free points to spend then with the ranger version of this build.

Yes it is based on Nalaa's LA ranger.

My la duelist is currently lvl30 in HC, about to kill vaal when I wake up tomorrow.

I use elemental hit+weapon elemental+life leech+faster attacks for single target and LA+LoH+weapon elemental+LMP for groups.

You can compensate for the evasion bonus by taking the 8 and 24% added bonus to evasion passives right next to acceleration, so therefore the duelist is still on par..

Secondly the crit reduction is especially usefull on hardcore :)

The duelist is superior on every front

Also your point of attack speed is also false, if you look at the duelist and ranger starting areas, the duelist nodes offer slightly more speed. Also the duelist has access to acceleration very quickly in first 10 levels making leveling much more fun. The ranger would require extra points on a side by side comparison to duelist to reach the same attack speed, which would take away other important nodes like life.

My 83 ranger on HC with 20% LMP and the same build had 2.1 IAS while my duelist in the exact same gear (as they are both on default now) and the exact spec minus the starting area has 2.78 IAS base.



Duelist wins hands down and there's no denying it