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

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Hercanic wrote:

@Orzi:

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The_x_ile wrote:

how about use Bringer of Rain with this life builds?
a lot less life than kahoms.. but... it is like 7l for dps, and on block u get endurance charges .. which is GREAT for defance, + 15% block from helm, so u will need less nodes of blocking and will be easy to get to 75%, and have high EV + armor, so it can stack armor like an 1500+= armor chest... (and u look so cool like that ).

any thought?

Now here I know you're talking to me, since I'm the only one who posted a Kaom's build. =o) I did look at Bringer of Rain, but it's half the DPS.

Facebreaker gets everything from +physical damage mods. Bringer of Rain offers 20-30, while Abyssus is 40-60. Ignoring other modifiers for the moment, Facebreaker basically multiplies this by ten. 200-300 vs 400-600.

Does 47% more melee damage and 42% faster attacks make up for this? Now, in my build, both of those gems are already used, which can be level 20 and have 20% quality (= 3% more melee damage, 10% increased melee damage, and 12% increased attack speed), so what would you fill those two empty sockets with instead on Bringer of Rain?

a) Added Fire Damage = damage multiplier.
b) Multistrike = attack speed multiplier.
c) Increased Duration = potentially more minions over time, just don't stare at loot too long.
d) Culling Strike = easier conversion.
e) Added Chaos Damage = increased minion damage, regardless of type; on you it will only be multiplied by attack speed and Le Heup of All rings.
f) Item Quantity / Rarity = farming, because... lewt.

Since we're losing so much base DPS with the helm change, I'm looking at A and B to make up the difference.

On the defensive front, holy hell does Bringer of Rain bring it! Where Abyssus increases the damage we take (not so bad with high armor, since it is multiplied after mitigation), BoR gives free Endurance Charges and a massive amount of block! The block alone is worth ~7-8 passive points, not including any travel points.

The neat thing about the Blind mod is that it will transfer to your minions. However, you cannot take Unwavering Stance if you want to benefit.

The evasion/armor it adds is more than Abyssus and Kaom's Heart combined, but it's fairly close. 564 armor vs. Kaom's 553. 812 evasion vs Abyssus' 662 armor. Because it's evasion, Dexterity will boost it by another 31%.

I like the helm, I really do. I'll have to plug the numbers into my spreadsheet and calculate the differences.

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Caliginosus wrote:

Great build and interesting discussions in this thread. Thanks! :)
It would be great if you could update your usage of auras and your new favor for Multistrike. :)

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For high ES and armor. Can have red sockets (this one was really expensive (7 exalted) but 5L 600arm/400ES I bought for 6 gcp)

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Caliginosus wrote:

Thanks to the total respec, I was able to reroll my first character (which sucked anyway :D).
This spec is awesome!
I have a lot of problems with desync, but that's ok. The worst thing is the expensive gear. People just offer me Rainbowstrides for ~20 Gcps... -.- And then there are still the Aegis Aurora and Abyssus.
But it's funny to think of carring so many uniques in the future. :D

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For high ES and armor. Can have red sockets (this one was really expensive (7 exalted) but 5L 600arm/400ES I bought for 6 gcp)

Wow, I would even pay 6 Gpc if it wouldn't be 5L, but no chance to find something like that. :/

Mana is also quite an issue, but that's ok.

Is it really necessary to use Eye of Chayula and the Dream Fragments? It would mean buying 2 more expensive uniques and I don't really like them. :D I would prefer to use random loot.

Anyway, again, thanks for sharing. It makes really fun to congregate an army of minions with such diversity. And even without most of the uniques I feel overpowered. :)