Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

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Thaelyn wrote:

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Juhazzz wrote:

Gotta keep eyes open for the new unique axe, really looks awesome, blood magic, bye bye and i'll say welcome to attack speed ! Well while searching for the axe, i just upraded my chest and finally found ar+es chest !

Very nice chest. Don't suppose you'd donate it to the worthy cause that is me? ;)

No matter how much i would love to do so, i think i keep it for myself :p

Hey Dragon
Still loving your build. I have been using your gem setup exactly. I seem to be lazy with casting Elemental Weakness, so I have removed it from my weapon, replacing it with the Enduring Cry from my shield. This leaves my 3 linked shield with Tempest Shield -> Reduced Mana -> Open Socket. I was thinking, I could throw some sort of support gem in there that procs on tempest shield block. Blind, Chance to Flee, anything else? What do you think?

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SO what do you guys think about rainbowstrides with this build? Is it worth it or rare with hp is better?

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saridonas wrote:

SO what do you guys think about rainbowstrides with this build? Is it worth it or rare with hp is better?

I favor rare boots for sure.
You can get plenty of spell block from Stone of Laz and the Spell Block passive, rare boots are not only cheaper generally but you also get more gear flexibility with the life from rare boots and it's not hard to pick up double res to make up for 2/3rds of the resists from rainbowstrides.
Life on every piece of gear you can manage is so, so helpful.

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Cr0wF00d wrote:

Hey Dragon
Still loving your build. I have been using your gem setup exactly. I seem to be lazy with casting Elemental Weakness, so I have removed it from my weapon, replacing it with the Enduring Cry from my shield. This leaves my 3 linked shield with Tempest Shield -> Reduced Mana -> Open Socket. I was thinking, I could throw some sort of support gem in there that procs on tempest shield block. Blind, Chance to Flee, anything else? What do you think?

Blind won't work since you took unwavering. Really can't think of very many supports for Tempest. Added dmg, lightning penetration perhaps. Iron will is a option as well. Best one might be culling strike. You will get more out of culling than the rest imo.

What do you think of taking the 18% increased physical damage from Oak in Cruel, Dragon?

Is it worth it, or is the skill point better?

Thanks Rahven32.
Totally forgot about those mechanics. Kind of weird that Blind enemies hit you 100% of the time when you take Unwavering Stance. I guess its because of the not being able to evade anymore. But I would expect a blind enemy to run around like a chicken with its head cut off.:)

The damage Tempest Shield does is so minimal that added damage, and lightning pen are pretty much useless. And you are probably totally right about culling strike being the best possible support for Tempest Shield. The only other possible choices I could conjure up were Chance to Flee, and Knockback. But i think i will probably go with culling.

Damn ! I just got the new Soul Taker axe, it's 356 DPS and replaced Blood Magic with 15lvl Melee Physical dmg gem which i happened to have in stash, dps went from 10.6k -> 15.8k !

I'll record a video and upload it at some point today, really not much need for Ele Weakness curse now, as the physical damage is a lot higher than before.

Here's the video with new Soul Taker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWg9xaNVMBE

I'm so freaking jealous Juhazzz!! Where did you find it?