Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

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q3masl wrote:

Hi!

First i wanted to thank you for this awesome guide. I started in the anarchy league following it because i was stoked about the idea of doing high dmg and being nearly invulnerable.
I did not have any problems in normal (at first i used geofris baptism) and cruel. Later on in merciless i had some serious worries because my dmg wasn't high enough and i have gotten frustrated. This was my gear back then.

another random ring, belt an boots.

You see, i just had a 4-linked armor and i guess that's the reason why my dmg output wasn't that high. I went for the bloodmagic passive to link my helmet with infernal blow, melee splash, multistrike and weapon elemental dmg. Well, i did not want to spend my currency for some bad 5-linked armor just to get the fifth link. No, i wanted to save it and buy something awesome. I had luck with some drops (2 eternal, 1 exalted) and made some good trades and finally i could afford a bringer of rain helmet. It wasn't cheap (5 ex) but it had close to perfect stats.

So, all i needed was aegis aurora and i was lucky too. I don't know if you are playing anarchy, but there aren't many of these around, at least not for sale. Poexplorer doesn't list any most of the time. Well, as i said, finally i was able to buy one for 3 ex + 1 eternal.

My dmg was good, i can't remember - i think about 6k with infernal blow and i was tanky as hell.

But i wanted to enhance the build and my gear for even more damage at a low cost.

I was fascinated by this facebreaker build too, and so i tried to combine the best of both builds.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/407618/page/9

I bought myself a well rolled facebreaker

and the result was awesome. Since the latest patch I was dealing around 14k damage with infernal blow and facebreaker. It was hard to get enough resistance, because i don't use an armor and facebreaker. So all gear slots I had left to provide res were my boots, and rings. I forgot to say, that i switched to meginords girdle, because of the insane dmg boost with facebreaker.

As for the boots, i bought rainbowstride.

That decission was easy, because i really needed resistance and more energyshield to profit from aegis aurora.

And i guess this was the moment, when i asked myself, how much stone of lazhwar is really needed.

I'm still not sure if I will use it again in later maps (piety and stuff), but currently I'm not using it anymore. I wanted an amulet with res, life and maybe lifeleech, because i only had 2% from passives.

Baaam! Bought this baby for 10 gcp and it provides all I need. Life, energy shield, res, lifeleech and a decent amount of rarity.

Well, after writing all this I'm asking myself what I want to say. I wanted to thank you for this build and the idea with aegis aurora and stuff.

I just speced out the nodes in the duelist area, since i don't benefit from the 1-handed nodes anymore (with facebreaker) and my dmg is high enough, even without the 12% attack speed 20 dex node, and put the skill points in the armor/energy shield nodes on the left of the templar area and some block nodes. With my next passives im going for the life nodes right of the duelist area.

I tried to change your build for my special needs, and I think I did a good job, and now I'm really enjoying playing may character.

My core stats are:

2988 Life
991 ES
11905 Armor
185 life regen

Fire Res 77%
Cold Res 82%
Light Res 77%
Chaos Res -60% (I know I have to work on that)

74% chance to block attacks
23% chance to block spells

Infernal Blow DPS 12330

Current build:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAecCcQSzBS0OrRQgFE0WbxjbGS4ZhRoyGjgdFCFgJKon7Si1KMUppTIJNug26TpSOthAoENjQ5xMNU3YT31QR1BQUWBUSVXGVgRXDVhjWPVZ81uvXz9gS2CIYVJmnnFNcql07XTxeu982YBWgW-GYIcpjHaMz49GkFWaz53EnjyeuZ7Nn8ugtKIApzCnhKmVrKq3MbndwBrG2M9l0NDSIdSP2WHdDeNq51LsOO8O707wH_Iv877z3fZI97760vuq

My gear:

Auras: grace and discipline on blood magic (malachai), determination, vitality, hatred and tempest shield on mana.

Bandits
Normal: 40 life
Curel: physical dmg
Merciless: endurance charge

Thank you and good bye.

q3masl



p.s. I'm sorry for any misspellings and textual errors. English is not my first language. Guess I just wanted to say that.