Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

Juhazzz, I just watched your video with that Soul Taker. Um, Wow...

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Dragon585 wrote:

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Argdel wrote:

I don't know if anyone has asked this already, but any thoughts on which gem is best to upgrade first? Melee Splash or Infernal Blow? Or should they be brought up equally? For us poor folk who have to pick and choose our 20%'s :)

OOOO... that is a good question! Glad you brought it up. Melee Splash is the best choice to level up first. Simply because with a max q splash gem, you can now use other abilities in place of Infernal Blow for those pesky ele reflect maps and still have pretty impressive radius.

What do you use in the case of ele reflect maps? I am curious. I was thinking Dominating Blow.

Ok so i have leveled my marauder to 70 and im loving this build so much ! Even though my ib is only 7k dps atm and i dont have all block /dps passives yet its still extremly fun to play and it looks like it will get even better as i get more levels.But once again i have few question for you guys.First of all what stats should i take on belt/rings. just go for pure hp ressists or elememenalta damage/physical?Also same question goes for weapon pure phy or elemental damage? I hope you guys will help me here thanks.

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Argdel wrote:

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Dragon585 wrote:

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Argdel wrote:

I don't know if anyone has asked this already, but any thoughts on which gem is best to upgrade first? Melee Splash or Infernal Blow? Or should they be brought up equally? For us poor folk who have to pick and choose our 20%'s :)

OOOO... that is a good question! Glad you brought it up. Melee Splash is the best choice to level up first. Simply because with a max q splash gem, you can now use other abilities in place of Infernal Blow for those pesky ele reflect maps and still have pretty impressive radius.

What do you use in the case of ele reflect maps? I am curious. I was thinking Dominating Blow.

I've been using Dominating Blow for the whole day today, just to get a bit of change to playing and it really is funny and entertaining atleast to play, there hasn't been anything that could be called a close-call situation so far, no matter what mods there's been in map / monsters.

It's nice to Dominate a rare monster with Allies Have energy shield mod, my 950 Energy Shield jumped to 4500, i was like what the hell ! :D

But your damage will go down compared to IB, but it brings a lot lot of safety to your playing, as you'll be having a huge meatwall with you, taking all the hits and some even giving you bonuses like huge ES, not to forget what kind of things you can gain in a map that has "Area contains many totems" :)

But afterall, I'd say it's the most important to change IB in Ele-reflect situations into something that doesn't deal any elemental damage, heavy strike, glacial hammer ? Well they might require specific weapon types, but my opinion would be to clear yourself out of elemental damage for the maps duration, or untill you've killed the monster.

Well Glacial Hammer still does elemental as it converts physical to cold. And I use a 1hand sword so I cant use heavy strike (not that i want to as multistrike+knockback suuuuuuucks) So I find my choices are limited without trying to re-color my sockets which I wont be doing between maps :)

I will probably give Dominating a try. Only other option would be Cleave, swapping out Melee splash for like life leech or something.

Hey Can someone answer this question for me please?

Is a Amour/ES chest piece necessary for this build? Or is it optimal? I'm new to this build and can't decide if I should get an Armour/ES chest or just use Bringer of Rain.

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jtrand wrote:

Hey Can someone answer this question for me please?

Is a Amour/ES chest piece necessary for this build? Or is it optimal? I'm new to this build and can't decide if I should get an Armour/ES chest or just use Bringer of Rain.

Well, it's not a must-have, i played for a long with AR+EVA chest staying at ~550 Energy Shield, you'll get quite decent ES from Aegis Aurora + Discipline aura, that's where my ES came before the chest. It's all up to you, if you can afford AR+ES chest and of course, if you can find one, go for it, there's never too much of ES, but you'll do quite fine without too. (expecting that you have atleast 400-500 of ES)

If you wanted to add a few dps nodes, where would the best ones be along the tree?

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safredAAs wrote:

Hi Dragon,

i really have to say ty for your awesome guide! So fun to play and really easy to understand!!

My friend found a really good weapon, dunno if it fits all you need for the build:

Thoughts on that?

Wow... that axe is truly great for the build! Like I said before, the hp nerf a few patches ago has really put BM users in a tight spot, so IMO it is better for this build to use high damage weapons and not focus on higher APS. Ofc, the new Soul Taker is amazingly optimized for this build so if your rich or lucky, get one!

Hey Juhazzz :D
thanks for helping out with all the questions people are posting here. I've been moving/working the last week. I won't be this busy all the time, it is just a case of needing to get several thing done all at the same time that had me absent lately.

Your gear is looking so amazing! I am incredibly jealous :P

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Argdel wrote:

Well Glacial Hammer still does elemental as it converts physical to cold. And I use a 1hand sword so I cant use heavy strike (not that i want to as multistrike+knockback suuuuuuucks) So I find my choices are limited without trying to re-color my sockets which I wont be doing between maps :)

I will probably give Dominating a try. Only other option would be Cleave, swapping out Melee splash for like life leech or something.

It's kind of funny about the dom blow thing you guys mentioned. It is actually pretty entertaining, but when I tried it I found that my killing speed combined with my run speed made me outrun my minions. They were skellies so maybe that played a huge part, but either way I felt it was a waste of time.

So I actually prefer to use double strike in ele reflect maps. You can use anything really. The actual elemental damage reflect from attacks is not all that dangerous unless you have lower than max resists. What is dangerous is the corpse explode from Infernal Blow, combined with the fact the a whole pack usually all die at the same time. This causes extreme burst damage that can sometimes 1 shot you.

I will have to give dom blow a try in a non-undead map and see how I like it. At the least, it could be a cool party trick lol. Oh, and in case you were wondering how I sub a green skill in for a red one, I replace my Faster Attacks gem with Double Strike and my Inernal Blow gem with Melee Physical Damage. Double strike really doesn't need the inc attack speed since it hits twice. I actually really like it. I would still use glacial hammer if I had a mace but DS is working well.

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saridonas wrote:

Ok so i have leveled my marauder to 70 and im loving this build so much ! Even though my ib is only 7k dps atm and i dont have all block /dps passives yet its still extremly fun to play and it looks like it will get even better as i get more levels.But once again i have few question for you guys.First of all what stats should i take on belt/rings. just go for pure hp ressists or elememenalta damage/physical?Also same question goes for weapon pure phy or elemental damage? I hope you guys will help me here thanks.

Hi, glad to see your enjoying the build :D
For belt, if you can afford to... focus on high hp and resists. Ele damage is also great to get if you can, but I am always in favor of defense before dps. For rings, it is my personal favorite to get high hp and lgoh. You will also need some int/dex on your gear in order to max your auras and rings are usually a good place to get these. So, ofc, in a perfect world you would want coral rings with added hp, physical damage, all resist, int, dex, or all stat. But good luck finding that! I suggest you try to get as many of the optional stats as you can, as well as getting the stats you NEED. So, if your not overcapped or even maxed on certain resists, get those capped. If you still need some dex to max out grace, look for that... ect.

For weapon, physical damage is what we are after. It doesn't hurt to have high physical and ele damage, pref fire. But this isn't an ele cleave build. We don't want all ele damage and high attack speed.