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Character Name: Me_Smash_head
Server: Hardcore
Deaths: 0
Level: 34 (at the time of typing)
Goal behind build: To be able to not give a darn about being attacked.
Passives used:
Skills used:
How my itemization helps me:

Character: Targuil_Istrong

So I made something most people would deem nigh impossible and unplayable: Ethereal Knives+bear trap templar with some tanking ability via high hp and armor.

Ethereal knives and bear trap are physical spells which techically makes them have many benefits over elemental spells. First of all added fire damage and hatred boost their damage greatly. Secondly, bigger the damage, harder for the enemies to resist their damage too! Thirdly: you don't have to waste your passive points on elemental damage nodes as It's uneffective, instead there are other efficient ways to do this to which I will come to later.

Now many will ask:

Bear trap just has ridiculous damage. (Will hit 10k damage soon)

But why stay with 1 knife spammer when you can have 3? Add totem and get extra totem passive and you're all set.

I would like to nominate my marauder : Grendelake

why i think this is build of the week material is the fact that i built the entire character around Shield Charge.

First off, i fell in love with shield charge when i realized i could play pinball in PoE. i thought it was hilarious , then decided to find out if it works or not.

because Shield charge "always hits" i decided to not focus on accuracy in any fashion, except for heavy strike for which i needed a litte boost from additional accuracy to make the combo work more effectively.

results: halfway through cruel, and am currently 1 shotting most enemies, giving me that pinball feel. i know he is not at full potential yet, but i have been using shield charge as my primary attack since i was able to use the skill gem.

Grendelake: currently lv 34 Marauder
800 life
1111 defense
276 base dps in character info screen


character focus:
blood magic
high hitpoints
high regen life for blood magic,
high damage reduction. (currently 75% with 3x endurance charges and molten shell.)

current skills:
shield charge: (primary and focus of build) linked with added fire damage, weapon elemental damage and increased physical damage. base dps at lv 34 : 531.9
heavy strike: ( secondary single target) linked with additional accuracy and stun.
Molten shell: (defense bonus and aoe dmg for sticky situations) linked with increased duration
Lightning strke: (not a huge help, but fun when its time to range as melee)
enduring cry: (everyone loves resistance and D.R.)
warlords mark: ( for sustaining endurance charges during large/long fights)
anger aura: (because the life reserved is not % based, it gives me more room to take hits and spend life for skills.)

my current equipment and skills are geared towards knockback and stun, all to aid shield charge. however, shield charge may be my primary attack, i do utilize a combo with heavy strike and shield charge when fighting bosses or in a full group because rare mobs tend to have enough hp to survive multiple hits, with the current knock back passives, heavy strike gives me enough distance to recover from the attack and then perform a shield charge for lovely damage. rinse and repeat. using enduring cry and warlords mark curse gives me the defense i need to survive the long haul.

current build:


current end game passive skill goal:


the reasoning behind the movement speed passive choices is that shield charge's movement from current location to target is based off your movement speed, by picking up Armor master and Celerity gives me a huge advantage against quicker enemies and the ability to charge large ammounts of enemies in a short period of time.

I hope this build makes the spotlight because i dont see enough people using sheild charge. it really is fun and if you focus on it, it may even be you main sorce of damage. (like me!) :)

thank you all.

Lortek lvl 43 Marauder.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAQEAANTk5gGWWiYBzjiLBlcPbAbmyYEXFRfWIBKibiRCnaAmkyM_MAh9QDQ-v1I0qAF5NN9LPDoc02M7xWUoPsBFuz77mSo_B54hVHnnAFvZNjhwI3fgdZ0axHhNAbp_TNIEhuaFD46nLqKPiBFZkN4HLJD-fL2SPryzojeodqh2tD2soUrBrcPaMbP11je0KCn6tNY747uv36C-g3zhwAzcYcoWDmfNsSBX1IvEq9YrD7jY3UXN3bR_EeWDW3TmgR7W_155vw==


This is my first character..I found a double strike gem pretty early on and decided I was going to use it. Everyone I asked told me double strike is trash and heavy strike is much better, therefore I set out to prove otherwise.

This did not prove to be the daunting task that others had suggested it would be when I found a life gain on hit support gem. Double strike attacks twice meaning I get double the life on the gem, add a faster attacks and an increased physical damage (or fire damage) gem and we are getting somewhere.

As you can see, Lortek is a pure sword and board warrior...pretty boring fare compared to an ice lance spitting totem but I gotta tell ya it's pretty fun. As you can see on my skill tree I went for as much shield block as I could get my hands on, enough attack speed to get me close to 2.0 attacks (gear does the rest) and some extra one handed and sword damage/speed.


Currently he has 820 health
3000 armor
and double strike is listed at a whopping 443.6 dps.. in case you did not know, that number is listed for only one hit of double strike meaning in theory I am striking you with 2 443.6 dps blows in the blink of an eye. This is comparable damage to heavy strike without the obnoxious knock back and slow swing.

Being a str/dex build has afforded me with plenty of accuracy allowing me to forgo Resolute Technique (another skill I was told every marauder should have) which means I have the option to stack some crit on my build if I so please. Another great thing about this is I am able to use skills such as flicker strike to close gaps quickly without taking unnecessary damage and whirling blades to trash groups if I so desire (although I don't need it).

If I find myself in a large group I can easily get myself three endurance charges by using enduring cry coupled with my life gain on hit I rarely use a life flask.

What I lack in AOE I make up for in resilience, speed and lethality.

The only real problem is that he is mana hungry, thing is he attacks so fast that he gets the full amount from his mana flask so it really is a non issue.

I have not died since I got my elemental resists up.

I have yet to see anyone like him, you should give him a whirl it is quite fun!

My char is about boring Lightning strike spam so probably wont qualify xD, its very effective in chaos tho Name: Ungabadunga L:69 (if i remember correctly) Marauder

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Halfaddict wrote:

Lortek lvl 43 Marauder.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAQEAANTk5gGWWiYBzjiLBlcPbAbmyYEXFRfWIBKibiRCnaAmkyM_MAh9QDQ-v1I0qAF5NN9LPDoc02M7xWUoPsBFuz77mSo_B54hVHnnAFvZNjhwI3fgdZ0axHhNAbp_TNIEhuaFD46nLqKPiBFZkN4HLJD-fL2SPryzojeodqh2tD2soUrBrcPaMbP11je0KCn6tNY747uv36C-g3zhwAzcYcoWDmfNsSBX1IvEq9YrD7jY3UXN3bR_EeWDW3TmgR7W_155vw==


This is my first character..I found a double strike gem pretty early on and decided I was going to use it. Everyone I asked told me double strike is trash and heavy strike is much better, therefore I set out to prove otherwise.

This did not prove to be the daunting task that others had suggested it would be when I found a life gain on hit support gem. Double strike attacks twice meaning I get double the life on the gem, add a faster attacks and an increased physical damage (or fire damage) gem and we are getting somewhere.

As you can see, Lortek is a pure sword and board warrior...pretty boring fare compared to an ice lance spitting totem but I gotta tell ya it's pretty fun. As you can see on my skill tree I went for as much shield block as I could get my hands on, enough attack speed to get me close to 2.0 attacks (gear does the rest) and some extra one handed and sword damage/speed.


Currently he has 820 health
3000 armor
and double strike is listed at a whopping 443.6 dps.. in case you did not know, that number is listed for only one hit of double strike meaning in theory I am striking you with 2 443.6 dps blows in the blink of an eye. This is comparable damage to heavy strike without the obnoxious knock back and slow swing.

Being a str/dex build has afforded me with plenty of accuracy allowing me to forgo Resolute Technique (another skill I was told every marauder should have) which means I have the option to stack some crit on my build if I so please. Another great thing about this is I am able to use skills such as flicker strike to close gaps quickly without taking unnecessary damage and whirling blades to trash groups if I so desire (although I don't need it).

If I find myself in a large group I can easily get myself three endurance charges by using enduring cry coupled with my life gain on hit I rarely use a life flask.

What I lack in AOE I make up for in resilience, speed and lethality.

The only real problem is that he is mana hungry, thing is he attacks so fast that he gets the full amount from his mana flask so it really is a non issue.

I have not died since I got my elemental resists up.

I have yet to see anyone like him, you should give him a whirl it is quite fun!

I killed Merveill with Lortek and he was quite tanky with his life on it + double strike.

Laio - Elemental Equilibrium Caster

Features:

Firestorm
+Inc. Duration
+Lightning Damage

Freezing Pulse
+Faster Projectiles
+Lesser Multiple Projectiles
+Lightning Damage

This basically allows both skills to keep neutral damage at all times with Equillibrium. However, when I cast firestorm and then spam freezing pulse into it, I get a +50% bonus (technically more) damage each time! The fast cast speed of pulse and fast fireballs of firestorm allow it to go back and forth quickly :)

How To:

Cast Firestorm in front of you (where you anticipate mobs to be) and then spam freezing pulse into that firestorm. If there are only a couple mobs/all small mobs freezing pulse alone should do the trick.

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EDIT: GGG: please at least try this character. You'll see that I can kill just as fast if not faster if I just use Freezing Pulse and Firestorm INDEPENDENTLY. I really think you need to buff Elemental Equillibrium: even at it's best it's no better than casting Elemental Weakness. I discuss the drawbacks in this thread:

Elemental Equilibrium Discussion

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Chris wrote:

Also, if anyone has a good Discharge character, let me know.

As someone who ran purely Discharge for a long time, I feel like I can give some valid feedback about the current situation.

I threw together a Discharge build the other day on an alt account that had not spec'd passive points since the last patch and I found Discharge to be rather worthless (too much work to kill anything but whites in Merciless), but I'm leveling the gem up on my main account to see if the gem being level 15 was the problem.

When I'm using a 6L ES chest and other crazy gear (Hrimnor's resolve, Maligaro's Virtuosity, 2x Kaom's Sign) and it's still not terribly strong, it's not a good sign. It's one of those things, Discharge almost has to be too strong when maxed (all the perfect gear) for it to be viable without the perfect gear. It's also tough to build around it when you can't even use it until level 24.

I'll give it another go in the next couple of days, and if it seems usable, I'll probably build a character from scratch on my main account (with a more appropriate name) or possibly wait until the skill tree is reset and use the first character I made post 0.9.9 that was intended to be a discharger.

Character: Mptan


Class: Duelist

Combat preferance: Hit and run with ground slam, heavily specced into movement speed, life and aiming for more life regen (as current level is ~30).

The major part of the tactic is using phase run to quickly enter and exit combat, using the totem to regen life where necessary and occasionally blood rage to speed up attacking.

In my opinion a perfect melee survival build :)