Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

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echelontee wrote:

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

There are 2 ways you can look at it. First, you can grab some non weapon specific nodes and second you can grab nodes specific to the wep you are using.

Since I don't know what type of wep you are using I will just mention the non-wep specific nodes that I think offer the best dps inc per point.

If you only have 1 point to spend, I would grab the 15% physical dmg node at the mara start. If you have 2 points to spend, I would take the 2 duelist physical nodes, 12% and 15% +12 hp. I actually favor those 2 nodes highly b/c of the 12 hp :P

There is also the fencing node 24% 1h physical near the iron reflexes area. It is also 2 points but I think you get more out of the 2 points in duelist.

Now, if you are willing to take some of the weapon specific nodes, and potentially spend 3-4 points there are some REALLY good dps boosts along the builds pathing. You just have to look :P

Hey Dragon, I'm not sure if this was addressed ( I don't think this was addressed specifically in your guide), but how do you deal with single target dmg and bosses?

Hi Dragon. I really like ur build. Question~ What % of the quality for IB and MS combine would be the minimum requirement? The price of the high Q melee splash is pretty high and very hard to find nowadays. Thanks in advance!

yo dragon i would love to pvp you, i have a AA build i came up with

hit me up ingame

ign: shmear

im lvl 79 atm

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jtrand wrote:

Hey Dragon, I'm not sure if this was addressed ( I don't think this was addressed specifically in your guide), but how do you deal with single target dmg and bosses?

For bosses that are actually difficult, I swap in my LL gem for melee splash. For other bosses, I just left click :P

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zanosaur wrote:

Hi Dragon. I really like ur build. Question~ What % of the quality for IB and MS combine would be the minimum requirement? The price of the high Q melee splash is pretty high and very hard to find nowadays. Thanks in advance!

You know it used to take 20Q on both gems to make Infernal blow perform like an actual aoe, but now I would say 20q combined would be more than sufficient. Try to get as much Q on splash as you can though, since you sometimes need to sub in other attack for Infernal Blow vs ele reflect maps.

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DutchRudder wrote:

yo dragon i would love to pvp you, i have a AA build i came up with

hit me up ingame

ign: shmear

im lvl 79 atm

I don't PvP. I suck at it, I don't have fun when I lose, and on top of that I would lose my auras each match. Maybe if they had open world duels, but for now I just steer clear of the arena :P

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zanosaur wrote:

Hi Dragon. I really like ur build. Question~ What % of the quality for IB and MS combine would be the minimum requirement? The price of the high Q melee splash is pretty high and very hard to find nowadays. Thanks in advance!

You know it used to take 20Q on both gems to make Infernal blow perform like an actual aoe, but now I would say 20q combined would be more than sufficient. Try to get as much Q on splash as you can though, since you sometimes need to sub in other attack for Infernal Blow vs ele reflect maps.

thx for the fast reply!

got another question. i wont be able to afford a 6L chest for a long while. so with a 5L chest piece. wat would u suggest i should sub out if i need a life steal gem in there most of the time? TY.

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Dragon585 wrote:

For bosses or 1v1 scenarios sub out splash. If you need LL for a whole map, sadly you must sub out WED. You can sub out multistrike, but it really makes the clear speed slower.

yeh i was thinking that. i just dun have good enough gears to fully take out ll as i dun have those gloves n rings hehe.

thx agian~

Don't be jealous, it's only pixels ^_^ (tho, i mostly get jelly over pixels)

What comes to the Ele Reflect gemswapping, well the Dominating Blow is very very slow indeed, compared to the normal killing speed with IB, my dps in example is almost cut in half with Domi Blow, but it's just the extra superhyper ultra2k safety what comes along with it, as there is a huuuuuge meatwall walking with you, so if there's a map with extremely badly mad mods, i suggest giving a test for the dominating blow.. It's very nice to get all the mods what rare monsters have, like 4k boost to your energy shield, not to mention "Allies can't die" -totem in a bossfight at your side :pp

Actually find out what might be even worse than Elemental Reflect in some cases.
Lightning Thorns + 3x Shocked, died to it yesterday, died to it the day before that.

It's so hard to see that you're shocked when there's so many auras up and running and drinking from quicksilver, removing curses from flask etc, they bring new icons beside auras, can't pay attention to the upper side of screen that much. And I don't even know if you can see from anywhere if the monster has Lightning Thorns casted on it ?

These both times i died to it, i didn't realize (in time) i was triple-shocked, just kept hitting an enemy, first hit; ES goes down, second hit; 1/4 hp gone, third hit; half of the hp gone and then you start to think "Wtf, am i just standing still, idling" as you know you've life leech gem and still hp goes down and then you just keep smashing in hope the life goes up again, but instead you kill yourself to it.

So from now on, everytime i see Blackguard Mages somewhere, i'm gonna switch to Dominating Blow, no matter if it's a bit slower, but if i can't play enough carefull, losing the 15% xp just slows things in a long term.

editing again:

I dropped Vitality aura away with the new axe (no more BM) it's not so needed to have huge regen, as I'm using Life Leech gem all the time, i took Determination instead for huge 5k armor boost.

I was thinking about the next levels and passive skills, well next level is going for 6% life, but after that, i really don't know. I thought about the "node-ring" of 8% armor + 6% ES, 5x those smaller nodes and last is bigger node for 20%armor / 16% es / 8% allres, so that would make once all nodes taken: 60% Armor, 46% ES and 8% Allres. Not after any more dps, because it's easy to kill myself with the current dps on certain cases, so no more dps is, as the kill speed is good.

Hi,

I love how you write and explain. Thank you.

I'm just level 8, and not miss my build, I have long search a Build, good realized, for a tank style.

I just have one question:
How, with 8 Auras, can we have the mana for others active Skill.
I noticed that we Aura reduces the mana, he stock.

Another thing, I play in a duo with a duelist, specializing in bow and attack speed (DPS).
You think this is a good duo? For the HL.

Thank you very much,