Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

The only time I had to play yesterday was when the servers decided to crash every 10 mins so I lost a lot of maps and gave up. Got 2 of the masters so far...just not enough free time. At any rate here is my before and after.

Before
DPS: 25821.1 --> 23058
LIFE: 3803 --> 4008
ES: 1323 --> 1157
ARMOUR: 26127 --> 24573

FR: 75%(138%)--> 75%(160%)
CR: 80%(110%)--> 80%(132%)
LR: 75%(144%)--> 75%(166%)
CR: 27%(27%)--> 47% (47%)

CTBA: 75% --> 75%
CTBS: 65% --> 56% <--FUUCKK!!??

Here is the tree



Offence and defense stats are buffed with Grace, Hatred and Haste on.

Please cast a fresh eye on my tree and see if there are better nodes having the following in mind:

I'm willing to drop 200HP for DPS
Willing to drop shield nodes that have all resist stats on them for shield nodes with ES stats.
And fkn spell block tho! FML

I feel that for a build that does not do Atziri (yet?) 4000HP is too much, the AllResists are too heavily overcapped and DPS is lacking so a new balance need to be found.

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Dragon585 wrote:

And the more maps I run, the more I come to understand just how OP tempest shield linked to curse on hit/warlords truly is! Free leech on block is amazing.

I might actually give this a shot, maybe I can spec out of some block nodes for DPS. The dps on this build is becoming really really low, not sure if Bitch 4 tits is doable? The DPS will lack even more if you sacrifice that for HP.

4k health seems to sustain 20\20 blood rage and DPS pop up to 34k when running 3 charges, so I'll have to link that to Tempest?

Can you help out with the gem levels required for setting up Tempest Shield -> Blood Rage -> Warlords -> CoH (if this setup will even work with BR)

Ideally run 3 frenzy and endurance charges with 100% up time!

Indeed ive been using warlords mark and temptest shield on block coh.. it just got more OP with the patch because now its total dmg physical + elemental.

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Zinja wrote:

Indeed ive been using warlords mark and temptest shield on block coh.. it just got more OP with the patch because now its total dmg physical + elemental.

Are you able to please link your gear piece with this setup in the slots?

if i ever manage to get a dual curse lahzwar that last slot would be filled with enfeeble.

warlords mark + tempest shield + curse on hit.

The reason i use warlords mark+ blood rage previously was because i had no LL on my 6L setup.

Now i find myself rarely using bloodrage ... or using bloodrage for dps boost rather than for survivability... or skill costs.

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Dragon585 wrote:

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chopesz wrote:

The build is gone from builder, any chance to post it again ?

Poebuilder seems to be broken atm. As well as the poe site. I cannot access the passive tree right now. As soon as I am able, I will post. Once I am sure of the best build, I will also update the guide. For now, I am pretty unsure that my proposed changes will work. I have been noticing that my armor is too low but I dislike the idea of sacrificing hp to get more.

The problem is, do I build around insane bosses like dom and atziri? Or do I build around the other 99.9% of the game and just skip those bosses? I had planned to build so that I could potentially conquer atziri, but I REALLY don't like the fact that my es on block will not keep my hp intact on certain mobs.

So, TLDR; I have lots more testing to do, and don't really know which path to take atm.

Yeah ive just had a run in with carnage and i was lazying around with one hand on the mouse to dps it. i died in 2 3 short hits... they were slow and they hit hard... to my shock i realised i was running hatred and tempest shield... which was not getting back the es quickly enough and for those 3 slow and hard hits that did not get blocked i got squished like a bug..
got me mad and then i ran determination + grace and now tanking it was a breeze even with slow hits ..
safe'st defensive setup is grace+determination+tempest shield ... will an alphahowl +20RM gem grant me that without the use of any mana reservation passives ? It would give me the chance to spend points on other things.

also Dragon and aqualord
Does cyclone give more dps than infernal blow? and how much dps can get with my weapon and gear on your build

I tried Tempest-CoH-Warlords-BM and can understand the true potential, but to be honest it is not for me. I have 6% life leach on gear anyways so if I want to increase leach I can just run Blood Rage. Plus with the Tempest not on BM I'm losing 10k armour so no point. Will have to find my way around Wraeclast with flasks. Might set up anther build for Atziri.

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Zinja wrote:

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Dragon585 wrote:

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chopesz wrote:

The build is gone from builder, any chance to post it again ?

Poebuilder seems to be broken atm. As well as the poe site. I cannot access the passive tree right now. As soon as I am able, I will post. Once I am sure of the best build, I will also update the guide. For now, I am pretty unsure that my proposed changes will work. I have been noticing that my armor is too low but I dislike the idea of sacrificing hp to get more.

The problem is, do I build around insane bosses like dom and atziri? Or do I build around the other 99.9% of the game and just skip those bosses? I had planned to build so that I could potentially conquer atziri, but I REALLY don't like the fact that my es on block will not keep my hp intact on certain mobs.

So, TLDR; I have lots more testing to do, and don't really know which path to take atm.

Yeah ive just had a run in with carnage and i was lazying around with one hand on the mouse to dps it. i died in 2 3 short hits... they were slow and they hit hard... to my shock i realised i was running hatred and tempest shield... which was not getting back the es quickly enough and for those 3 slow and hard hits that did not get blocked i got squished like a bug..
got me mad and then i ran determination + grace and now tanking it was a breeze even with slow hits ..
safe'st defensive setup is grace+determination+tempest shield ... will an alphahowl +20RM gem grant me that without the use of any mana reservation passives ? It would give me the chance to spend points on other things.

also Dragon and aqualord
Does cyclone give more dps than infernal blow? and how much dps can get with my weapon and gear on your build

Spoiler

What is your character's IGN? I'll pop your gear on my tree using POE Builder and get a rough estimate.

Also, cyclone shows only half the actual dps on the tooltip. But with infernal blow, it is the actual explosion that explodes everything around it. But the tooltip will be the actual dps whilst attacking and not including the explosion. So both causes a shit load of dps, probs up to you what you prefer.

Dragon and I should do a run through Gorge and see who completes if first :P:P

I should perhaps not bitch about the low dps anymore, just slaughtered a guy who invited me to PvP while he's on Twitch. He did 136k dps with some kind of dual strike\discharge build but I survived long enough to get through 6k es and 4k life (dunno about his armour) LOL died the first round as I didn't expect a fuck load of hell in my face.