Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

Hi, have a question about the gem choices, from what ive seen in your videos you stay at full life a lot, was thinking if the gem Melee Damage on Full Life would be better dps, since its like 80%+ of the time you have full life. If dmg on full life is better, which would u recommend swaping for? and have you tried added fire dmg vs faster atts/WED? Answers would be appreicated tyvm

How does reflect from the corpse explosion work? Is every mob that is hit count seperately, resulting in lots of small reflected hits or is it just a single big one?

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Hi, have a question about the gem choices, from what ive seen in your videos you stay at full life a lot, was thinking if the gem Melee Damage on Full Life would be better dps, since its like 80%+ of the time you have full life. If dmg on full life is better, which would u recommend swaping for? and have you tried added fire dmg vs faster atts/WED? Answers would be appreicated tyvm

Well I use Double Strike instead of IB (I like not having to care about ele reflect) and I have it connected with Melee Damage on Full Life (other links are Splash, Multistrike and Melee Physical Damage). Works pretty good, only in maps with chaos dmg per second I switch to Added Fire Dmg, as there you never are full life.

For maps with many necromancers I occasionally swap DS for IB with Splash, Multistrike, Melee Physical and Faster Attacks. I'd probably use WED/Added Fire/Melee on Full Life instead of Faster Attacks, but I don't want to chrom my armor everytime I run such a map.

Hey there, loving this build so far quite fun to facetank stuff, however my question is: How is your dps?

I'd like to compare my dps with you guys since I find my 4300 dps on my IB kinda low-ish

This is my current gear:


This is my current build as level 76
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEBAecCcQSzBS0UIBZvFy8ZLhoyGjgaVR0UJ-0oxTboNuk62ECgQ2NHfkw1TdhQR1BQUWBT31RJVcZV1lcNWGNY21j1WfNfP2BLYSFko2TnZU1mnm5pcH1xTXKpdO1253rvfNmApIFvhNmE74cpjHaMz49GkFWaz5uDnjyeuZ7Nn8uiAKcwp4SplavFrKqsr7T5tzG53b6nwBrDhsbYz2XQ0NIh1I_ZYeNq51Lnkew47w7wH_Iv8772SPe--tI=

What can I do to increase my dps any further?
ofc. getting a 6L would help

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Panthe0n wrote:

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Hi, have a question about the gem choices, from what ive seen in your videos you stay at full life a lot, was thinking if the gem Melee Damage on Full Life would be better dps, since its like 80%+ of the time you have full life. If dmg on full life is better, which would u recommend swaping for? and have you tried added fire dmg vs faster atts/WED? Answers would be appreicated tyvm

Well I use Double Strike instead of IB (I like not having to care about ele reflect) and I have it connected with Melee Damage on Full Life (other links are Splash, Multistrike and Melee Physical Damage). Works pretty good, only in maps with chaos dmg per second I switch to Added Fire Dmg, as there you never are full life.

For maps with many necromancers I occasionally swap DS for IB with Splash, Multistrike, Melee Physical and Faster Attacks. I'd probably use WED/Added Fire/Melee on Full Life instead of Faster Attacks, but I don't want to chrom my armor everytime I run such a map.

Thanks for replying, so aside from chaos over time maps, melee dmg on full lifes works fine?
ill just swap to WED/Added fire for those maps, and last slot would be faster atts since i think getting 6Red sockets on a saintly is hard.


What about the Abysus unique helm? would this built be able to use that helm?

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RestyPad wrote:

I'd like to compare my dps with you guys since I find my 4300 dps on my IB kinda low-ish

My dps is 15k.

U need all gems 20% quality. U also can take attack spped on increase weapon elemental damage on ur rings, and weapon ellemental damage on belt. That will increase ur dps.

Get Soul Taker and remove mana/life leach gems. And ofc get 6l chest.

Would Lightning Strike be a viable replacement for Infernal Blow? i don't really like Infernal Blow that much.

im also thinking of going with double strike instead of IB.i was using is old build pre release and was using double strike and i liked it more but what bother me alot if the dex requirement of it.you need lot of +dex from gear if you want to max double strike...

double strike have a lot of good side to it,better leech,no more 1 shot on ele reflect,vulnerability work really well for better dmg.i think better actual dps then IB.IB corspe explosion effect is nice but bring bad side with it.....

between does they changed tooltips dps of double strike last patch?im trying double strike atm and damn,tooltips dps is low as fuck.i have 2k double strike when i had 3k5 infernal blow

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Thanks for replying, so aside from chaos over time maps, melee dmg on full lifes works fine?

Works fine for me, only problem are chaos over time maps as mentioned, or maps with loads of chaos mobs. But if you find yourself on a map where many attacks ignore your ES it is no problem to quickly switch gems.
Probably it would not work so well if you do not have enough ES to take some hits before it scratches at your life. I am at ca. 960 ES now with 24k armor and it happens really rarely that any non-chaos attack punches through my ES.

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im also thinking of going with double strike instead of IB.i was using is old build pre release and was using double strike and i liked it more but what bother me alot if the dex requirement of it.you need lot of +dex from gear if you want to max double strike...

For me that is not really a problem as I intend to use lvl 20 Grace which requires even more dex. In fact I never before realized that DS needs so much dex, really shocking:)

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between does they changed tooltips dps of double strike last patch?im trying double strike atm and damn,tooltips dps is low as fuck.i have 2k double strike when i had 3k5 infernal blow

Yes, DS seems to be affected by the change in display of tooltip DPS. Before last patch I had 5.4k DPS with DS, now I am left with 1.8k. But I do not really feel a difference, so it really is just a change in DPS displayed, not in real DPS. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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BlackSacrament wrote:

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Panthe0n wrote:

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Hi, have a question about the gem choices, from what ive seen in your videos you stay at full life a lot, was thinking if the gem Melee Damage on Full Life would be better dps, since its like 80%+ of the time you have full life. If dmg on full life is better, which would u recommend swaping for? and have you tried added fire dmg vs faster atts/WED? Answers would be appreicated tyvm

Well I use Double Strike instead of IB (I like not having to care about ele reflect) and I have it connected with Melee Damage on Full Life (other links are Splash, Multistrike and Melee Physical Damage). Works pretty good, only in maps with chaos dmg per second I switch to Added Fire Dmg, as there you never are full life.

For maps with many necromancers I occasionally swap DS for IB with Splash, Multistrike, Melee Physical and Faster Attacks. I'd probably use WED/Added Fire/Melee on Full Life instead of Faster Attacks, but I don't want to chrom my armor everytime I run such a map.

Thanks for replying, so aside from chaos over time maps, melee dmg on full lifes works fine?
ill just swap to WED/Added fire for those maps, and last slot would be faster atts since i think getting 6Red sockets on a saintly is hard.


What about the Abysus unique helm? would this built be able to use that helm?

xD i actually ended up getting 6Red Sockets with a few chroms, got lucky. Has anyone tested the Abysses helm? would it be viable with this build?