Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

People should really try out things out themselves, there is no "which is the better build". It's what suits your own playstyle. And with or without unwavering stance, it's 2 Regret orbs test.

edit. Indeed it's just one same build, with or without US.

Personal opinion is, it is very nice to have it, not that it causes any trouble by playing without it, but it's just plain annoying, specially on maps with Vulnerability curse.

Just made it to lvl 98 2 days ago, not many crucial nodes left lol.. And actually looking at the current standard top #20 xp players, i can't name any other melee character than myself. This Uter's character is just a joke like the guy itself, can't really call kaom + lioneye shield user + trap thrower a melee character who also gets 1 shotted by ele weakness Piety's lightning chain

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seradine wrote:

Yes i know, but he has 2 different builds. And in his FAQ he wrote, that he use Unwavering Stance.
The one build is max block with Unwavering Stance and the other with Soul Taker and without Unwavering Stance.
So my Question what is now the better build?

its one build

max block or as close as you can, of course its the entire basis of the build!

US is just 2 points ... try it out and see how you feel with and without it ... personally i think no melee besides cyclone should be without it, regardless (except kaoms users)

Soul taker is not a different build entirely ... just lets you spec out of bm gem ... you CAN play without it

hi

I just saw you have -31 Chaos Resistance !

-> i thought Chaos Resistance is so important you have to be at least +40 to survive high maps!
-> do you use Chaos Flasks?

There is also a Video by Kripparian who says that Chaos Reisst is very important ...
Or is Chaos Resist not that important like manny others say?

This build is zwsome. Period.
I made respec from my lousy leap slam build into this one at lvl 67. Bought few things (aegis and bringer of rain) with pretty much all my gathered wealth... and i never looked back ;]
Previously getting through city of sarns was pain, after change i soloed piety on lvl 68 with no real problem (had to run away once to regen life, due to low light res, but that was not big of a deal)
Around 3,5k armor, and 4k dps with lousy axe at 4,35 attacks per second... ok, not that good, but what do you expect with this gear?

Done few maps to try it, went pretty smoothly. Since i have not too many friends to get into maping with, went back on crappy iiq/iir summoner (pretty much my second best char, bit better then my try at spork totem witch) to farm some chances and scourings to try to get big score aka soul taker...
And guess what? Today when i was making arcade map i shit my self with bricks when i sow this precious brownish font saying 'Siege Axe'...

I got excited when i saw that dps went from 4,4k to 5,9 (without quality), then to over 6k with quality, and finally 8,8k when i took weapon elemental damage... lvl 1... and... i shit my self again with bricks (but this time not with those red regular ones, just with those big grey ones) when i saw how fast o got to piety, and later how easy some random lvl 66 maps was :D
Now sitting at 9k dps, 6 aps and it's just ridiculously insane how good this char is... and it's still far from numbers that can be done with this build (didn't took swashbuckler, lava lash and acceleration yet) + probably i will still have room to improvement judging how much worse then in builds my characters usually get :D specially in armor (and chaos res) department, since i do not have good 6 link...
Anyways, thx for this wickedly insane build. Now whatever happens, this will be my nr.1 choice for melee mara, and second that i will be making, right after i will pave way with some basic farming summoner to earn currency for basic stuff :D

Thank you so much for this amazing guide, it was so helpfull to a new player when i started 4 months ago! i wanted to ask your imput about these items that i am trying to apply to your build. they are bellow,



what do you think, and if you have time to throw together a build that would work for these item, or maybe a modified version of your build, i only ask cause you are the Dragon :)

this is my build
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAdwB5wSzBS0OrRQgGNsZLhoyGjgb-hznHRQhYCXfJ-0pLimlMgk26DrYPfxAoENjQ5xE503YT31RYFPfVw1YY1ivWNtY9VnzYEtmnmebbmlwfXFNcql07XTxdud3YngNeu97jHy4fNmAVoFvhGOE2YTvjHaQVZrPm4OdxJ48nrmezaC0ogCkGacwp4SoGKmVrKqsr7T5tzG53b6KvqfAD8Aaw4bEFcT2xtjSIdJN1I_ZYeTx55HsOO8O707wH_Iv97760vuq

Looks good, though I do not see the allure of that chest piece... or the ring for that matter.

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Dragon585 wrote:

Looks good, though I do not see the allure of that chest piece... or the ring for that matter.

The idea is that instead of reducing a 10k physical hit by ~60% armor reduction (4k damage taken), you reduce a 6k hit by 60% armor reduction and a 4k hit by 79% lightning resist (2400 physical and 840 lightning (3240 total) damage taken).

Of course, if you're Juhazzz you already have 81% damage reduction from armor, and have no need for this chest piece.

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seiferoth10 wrote:

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Dragon585 wrote:

Looks good, though I do not see the allure of that chest piece... or the ring for that matter.

The idea is that instead of reducing a 10k physical hit by ~60% armor reduction (4k damage taken), you reduce a 6k hit by 60% armor reduction and a 4k hit by 79% lightning resist (2400 physical and 840 lightning (3240 total) damage taken).

Of course, if you're Juhazzz you already have 81% damage reduction from armor, and have no need for this chest piece.

Should always have 90% using 7 Endurance Charges imo.

Been changing my EA marauder into this build with a few regrets and buying everything I could. I cannot afford a Soul Taker atm and this is my current gear:



I barely have 3500 DPS fully buffed. What do I need to focus on ? Farm a Soul Taker ?