Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

crap.. guess I better get saving.

My Aegis is the one and only item I've traded for in PoE. I gave one exalt and one eternal for it.

I finally managed to get a aegis on anarchy for 4 exalted

i thought i should share my new build, combining high block, high dodge w\ the recent change to acrobatics, and decent->high armour mara build, use any melee skill you want :) will make a complete guide later i think

@lvl75

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just crafted this beauty earlier today.


not perfect but a big upgrade for me.


now if I could just chance me that new axe.... 35 down more to come.

Hi!
Dragon, thanks for the great build! :)

I'm playing on onslaught, but as duelist (atm lvl 80). And I have few questions regarding some map mods and bosses.



So far I'm skipping those bosses:
Blacksmith from Dunes - i think i have low armor
Penitentiary Incarcerator from Prison - low armor
Bramblemist from Wharf, Hybrid Widow from Spider Lair and Overgrown Shrine - I have low chaos resistance
Perpetus from Ghetto, flicker boss from Coves, Kuduku from Underground Sea, Piety.

At what point should be my defensive stats to be able to safely kill mentioned bosses?

And about map mods: how dangerous are vulnerability curse? Should I get at least 10k armor before trying to do maps with that mod?

Should I use determination instead of vitality to raise my armor?

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Incantator wrote:

Hi!
So far I'm skipping those bosses:
Blacksmith from Dunes - i think i have low armor
Penitentiary Incarcerator from Prison - low armor
Bramblemist from Wharf, Hybrid Widow from Spider Lair and Overgrown Shrine - I have low chaos resistance
Perpetus from Ghetto, flicker boss from Coves, Kuduku from Underground Sea, Piety.

At what point should be my defensive stats to be able to safely kill mentioned bosses?

And about map mods: how dangerous are vulnerability curse? Should I get at least 10k armor before trying to do maps with that mod?

Should I use determination instead of vitality to raise my armor?

I was gonna ask Dragon the same question!
Expt that I'm currently running determination instead of vitality as i think my regen is high enough with my low speed weap.

With 4k hp, 700 es 12k armor(27k flasked) 60% block none of those bosses even do much outside piety.

False god can't even break your energy shield as long as you have a stone of lazwhar.

I am running something very similar to this build, though I thorycrafted mine before I saw this thread a couple of months back [link].

My idea is:
- freeze the shit out of everything
- be in melee (i just love melee)
- high armor
- capped block, high spell block
- life based.
All these are kind of hard to achieve with 100 points but slowly will be getting there.

I'm 63 atm and my character is stuck due to lack of currency to but the required gear.



Current passives

Struggling towards this

The auras in my gear is kind of messed up right now, I am not sure about those yet. Something like Hatred, Grace, (Determination - optional, depends on armor level), Purity, Tempest Shield.

I know how awesome Infernal blow blows stuff up, but freeze seems the best CC.
Damage comes from scaling physical damage, not elemental(Catalyze used from passives). Using a mace as GH requires.

To counter the fact that Glacial Hammer lacks the inherent AoE of Infernal Blow I plan to use Carcass Jack unique with 4R2G, which is kind of hard to achieve.

The only problem is that I lack around 5-6 exalts to buy a good 1h mace and Aegis Aurora. Atm owning the 5L Carcass Jack and Stone of Lazhwar.

Atm it's not playable in Act 2 Merciless with 1.4k DPS, 1.7k DPS with Anger and Wrath. So I need a good 1h mace which is about 1-4 exalts.

This is my take on this build, currently on hold waiting to get rich to actually play it.

Cheers

So uh tomorrow's patch

Damage reflection has been reworked. All forms of damage mitigation should now work against it.

Spell Block and Spell Dodge now apply to reflected Spell damage.