DOMINATRIX – ultimate melee warior (GUIDE v1.11 and videos)

Hi,
Yes, I don't use critical hit because I have resolute technique keystone. Abyssus is extremely good just because it double my dps and also life leech and mana leech. Without it 4% mana leech from passive and ring is insufficient.
"Low life" version could be really cool but I see some problems. Shavronne's is pure ES so it will be really hard to have red socket in it for DB. Your ES will be weaker without ES shield. Without Abyssus your dps will be low. In other side your survi will be better with Starkonja's Head.

I played about 20 maps and I died only once. This build is going to be really strong and I have only 72 level with 61% block. Today I will hit 65%. Minions are really good because monsters prefer hitting them not my witch and two times I had a situation that map boss was killed by minions without my help :)

I added new video from map to OP.

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looking for a destroyer abyssus now to try this one day

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Bloodygrey wrote:

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looking for a destroyer abyssus now to try this one day

It is really good, I think the most important item without counting Facebreakers

PS
I improved the whole build a lot

It seems a great build and character but man is it expensive !
I have 988% facebreakers and was trying to theorycraft a witch
but around crit chance to benefit from facebreakers multiplier.
Who knows I might give it a try.

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LeMing wrote:

This is my first build. I’m really looking for feedback.

Are you kidding me? Well, if thats the case or not, respect!

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Schinski wrote:

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LeMing wrote:

This is my first build. I’m really looking for feedback.

Are you kidding me? Well, if thats the case or not, respect!

Thanks :)
Well, this is my third character but first two was just copy-paste from other guides. I have 83 level Lighting Arrow marauder and lower level elemental sweep duelist.
In this thread I posted build which I theorycrafted and made myself. This build is my first CI build and my first build ever. I decided to make a guide from it because I discovered that it is much better than sweep duelist and for me even better than LA ranger. I don't play hardcore because I don't like to be careful and with bowman I could kill faster but I was vulnerable to Rhoa or shieldman charges and I was dying sometimes. With my witch I can go in the middle of almost any pack and survive because after 1-2 hits half of the pack is fighting for me. I can tank bosses up to 69 map level (I haven't play 70+). Machine gun monsters from 3 level of temple heals me instead of hurting :) . I died many times in second difficulty level but on maps only two times (for about 50 maps) both by puncture I didn't seen.
Tomorrow I will add the cost of all items in GCPs

I tried the build a bit, and i have to say, its nothing in comparison to the common cookie cutter builds.

It looks very easy in the vids, but its hard work to single click so many enemies.

Additionally, you have to build up the minion army again and again.

Nevertheless a great build.

But like i said nothing in comparison to other builds, ggg jst wants melee to be fucked forever.

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Schinski wrote:

I tried the build a bit, and i have to say, its nothing in comparison to the common cookie cutter builds.

It looks very easy in the vids, but its hard work to single click so many enemies.

Additionally, you have to build up the minion army again and again.

Nevertheless a great build.

But like i said nothing in comparison to other builds, ggg jst wants melee to be fucked forever.

Hi,
Did you try this build with every pieces on? Especially Abyssus is important. If you had to rebuild the army again and again it could be because of low killing speed. I always have at least some minions if I do not using portal. And minions are just addition to you defense and offense.
About the hard work of clicking single enemies it is truth but this is what melee should do :) and with Melee Splash you are doing only half of the job.
It looks easy on videos because it is easy. I’m not kidding that I’m dying much less than with my LA elemental bowman (83 level with 6L chest and 6L thicket worth 10 exalted :)

Whats your infernal blow dps with facebreakers?

Yeah my test char is only level 25 atm, abyssal needs level 60.

You get practically never hit in your videos..did you try and tanked really heavy mobs alone without minions?

This self heal is awesome, but my concern would be, that es and armor arent really fitting together..I mean you can wear es/ar gear -> your es might be too low..you can use pure es gear (at least pure es chest) -> your armor is too low to really profit from auroras self heal..you know what i mean? I mean..you have a mixed chest..is the block so insane that you can run around with that low es (low in the sense thjat you would have much more es wiht pure es chest)

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Schinski wrote:

Whats your infernal blow dps with facebreakers?

Yeah my test char is only level 25 atm, abyssal needs level 60.

You get practically never hit in your videos..did you try and tanked really heavy mobs alone without minions?

This self heal is awesome, but my concern would be, that es and armor arent really fitting together..I mean you can wear es/ar gear -> your es might be too low..you can use pure es gear (at least pure es chest) -> your armor is too low to really profit from auroras self heal..you know what i mean? I mean..you have a mixed chest..is the block so insane that you can run around with that low es (low in the sense thjat you would have much more es wiht pure es chest)

I’m using Dominating Blow (not infernal) and in 5L with Added fire dmg is 11k without frenzy charges. With melee splash I have like 7k dmg (9k with frenzy charges).
Level 25 is really hard. The whole cruel is a nightmare. I was dying a lot and I had to take CI in the middle of 2 act because of chaos dmg. But from the beginning of merciless all was going better and better. The build is shining from level 60 when you add Abussys. If you add me ingame (LeMing) I can gieve/sell you same good leveling items.
About the armor/es: I cannot use pure ES chest because I need at least 5L RRRRG. It’s impossible in int chest. But with my gear I have almost 6k ES and 5K armor. It is more than enough. Body and Soul nodes are perfect for this combo. Aegis Aurora is perfect also. I have about 30% damage reduction and heal 200es points per block. If something is going wrong I’m using granite = much more dmg reduction and much more heal from block. The first video when I’m not dying standing in the middle of monsters was done WITHOUT granite and with only 67% block.
You are wright, I can’t tank really heavy mobs or even casters (low spell block) without dealing damage. But with life leach from attacking is possible. I can start map with attack to pack of bears. I was trying cyclone for some time and it was OK, I was really safe even without minions but killing speed was lower.