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

Looking forward to an updated version of this after patch.

waiting to complete downloading the new patch. i hope there wouldnt be much changes.

I was wondering, wouldnt taking those bow phys damage and speed nodes at the bottom right corner of the tree be quite beneficial now, at least for Lion's version, instead of static blows and inner force? i imagine it would boost LA damage by quite a bit.

Would love to know what you think about it as im sure uve been at it for a lot longer than i have :)

If someone would be able to post their before and after stats, that would be awesome.

It doesnt look like the new patch is going to affect this build very much

Is there an updated talent tree for patch 0.11.0 yet?

Athena said that she would update the build after a couple days of testing it. Looking forward to it!

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Route1 wrote:

Hey, level 33 into this build and I love it, but I'm having serious mana troubles. I can only use LA about 5 times in a row before I QUICKLY run out. I've followed the exact skill tree path as well.

Do you have blood magic yet??
Once you have blood magic and life gain on hit linked with your LA you will be able to spam mobs with LA.
gl!

Thanks for all the inquiries guys. At this time, the build is staying the same. The changes to the game didn't affect this build all that much. The only thing that got hurt on my end was about 800 DPS Frenzy loss and 1k Bear Trap loss. So once they introduce the ability to undo bandit rewards and chose new ones, I will definitely be getting the extra frenzy charge. Anyone new to the spec, I would recommend to grab the frenzy charge on Merciless.

In response to the bow physical damage nodes at the bottom right of the tree, I tried them out, and they are complete trash even for lionseye users. They are a HUGE point investment for literally not that much benefit. Elemental Damage is still supreme in this game and you will be much better off with +elemental damage on jewelry and gloves, + elemental % damage on quiver, belt etc.. to scale with your ele passives in the tree. Inner Force can be bypassed now as the damage increase from auras is small, but Static Blows is a MUST no matter what.

I don't plan on leveling another LA character or any character for that matter anytime soon, even when the new leagues come out, as I am pretty bored and sick of leveling in general, so in terms of the order of points, I wont change anything because I wont know monster damage changes. I suspect the early levels though will give people less emphasis on life so maybe, especially softcore users, to not rush for all the life nodes so quickly. Ultimately you will have to figure that out.

As far as LA itself goes, I only lost about 30 dps which is nothing and its still an incredibly powerful ability.

My plans are to keep my build the same, I shifted a couple 6% life nodes into other life clusters that had a 10% node instead. But after doing a few maps and lunaris farms, I was still getting hit fairly decent, but it was much less spiky and much more consistent which ultimately is better overall. I still plan to push for a koams and at this time I have no interest to go into a more glass cannon spec. I want to keep my life pool above 4500 which it currently is and get it up even higher with koams.

TLDR:
-Nothing really changed, build stays the same.
-If you want to spec more glassy, just re-allocated some of the life nodes into the elementalist/celestial walker nodes, grab the lightning damage nodes in templar.

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strewen wrote:

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Route1 wrote:

Hey, level 33 into this build and I love it, but I'm having serious mana troubles. I can only use LA about 5 times in a row before I QUICKLY run out. I've followed the exact skill tree path as well.

Do you have blood magic yet??
Once you have blood magic and life gain on hit linked with your LA you will be able to spam mobs with LA.
gl!

Nope, don't have BM yet. I suppose that could be the solution to my mana problem.