Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

Hi all,
Firstly, thanks for the awesome build Dragon. It is very viable for onslaught since i am currently level 75. I might just tweak the build just a bit, take a few endurance charge and more hp. Also the Aegis aura is out of the question since it costs 7ex so i took a big massive shield meanwhile which is very nice actually, puts my armor to 11K which makes a huge difference.

Here is the build i am aiming for, thoughts?:
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAecCcQSzBS0OrRQgFE0Y2xkuGYUaMho4GlUdFCFgJKon7SjFKaUyCTKJNug26UCgQ5xHfkw1T31QR1BQUWBT31RJVw1X4lhjWNtZ81uvXz9gS2EhZKNlTWaebmlyqXTtdPF253fleu982YBWhNmE74zPkFWbg565ns2gtKIApzCnhKmVq8Wsqqyvud2-p8APwBrG2NIh0k3Uj9lh3Q3jaudS7DjvDu9O8B_yL_O-8932SPe--tL7qvzFZ6CHdkp9Jd8b-qQZEuFrKZHOu-2PRtDQz2VVxhZvxPY8Lcau_gryRedjtz56uK6Tplc64Yjx


So here is my current gear, which piece you think i should replace asap?:

hi

it is better to get first 6L chest or aegis?

ty

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flashhhhhhh wrote:

hi

it is better to get first 6L chest or aegis?

ty

6L ---> Damage

Aegis --> survivability

Question! The point of soul taker axe in essence is to give more dps. In dragons case he jumped from 10 or 11k to almost 20k. But why not just use face breakers and maybe meginords belt. Ppl who use that combination achieve 20k dps easily with some flat physical dmg mods on their gear. So am I missing something here?

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jtrand wrote:

Question! The point of soul taker axe in essence is to give more dps. In dragons case he jumped from 10 or 11k to almost 20k. But why not just use face breakers and maybe meginords belt. Ppl who use that combination achieve 20k dps easily with some flat physical dmg mods on their gear. So am I missing something here?

the first thing i can think of is the horrible base speed

and 'forced' to use stuff like meginords and bor / abyssus = no option for rare resist / life gear and no chest, etc

also forced to fetch perfect physi dmg jewelry etc

the base physi raw dmg is so much better with facebreaker tho (perfect one 1000% more physi and say 300% increases which are now scaling with unarmed dmg, and say 80 max physical unarmed dmg ... 11 x 80 x 4 = 3520 max dmg physi)

vs say a 250 max dmg weapon and maybe 30 from jewelry ... 280 x 4 = 1120 max dmg physi

no crit to take into account, and if one uses MPD gem its a constant 50% more dmg

yeah thats a good question tho, can it technically still be done, ie at least just built, with FB? or did i also miss something?

e/ also the real point of soul taker is for the removal of BM support, if i got it right

The whole point of soul taker is getting that extra gem slot and most ppl go for an extra dmg gem - but using face breakers will give the same dmg anyway so that's my question.

If someone uses a defensive gem like life leech, then that's something face breakers can't offer but that's the only case I can think of in which soul taker is better than just using face breakers

It's not all about damage in this game, i would never ever even think about using face(trash)breakers on my character, i even vendored one pair of 980% breakers, just because i don't like them. I rather use 480 evasion, 90 life, 16% attack speed, huge resistances, than the crappy face-gloves.

Sure you can run Lunaris 3 all day long with them and go with all-in damage gems but when you first time go to Temple map in example with -% max resistances and take the first hit without blocking it, you're gonna miss that Life Leech gem and Temple isn't even that bad because you can stack up with Topaz Potions and Piety doesn't have so much hitpoints. Soul Taker gave me the opportunity to keep Life Leech gem in the 6 link at all times. I tested out and my character hits 27k dps with all-in for damage, but i would never even think about playing like that, life leech is a must when you're doing 74+ lvl maps. Or any maps at all, even lower maps can be a challenge with harsh mods.

I was earlier today in a 76 Precinct map (Spinecrack as boss) and it wasn't my marauder that went down, it was the other one with Bringer of Rain, Face's and Lioneyes shield, 1 hit and baym, that's it. I even reccon him saying something about dps, typical softcore.

edit. Got myself a new helmet today, I like it. Sure looks ugly, but the stats compensate the looks :3

I'm currently using bringer of rain so I'm using weapon ele dmg, faster attacks, Merle physical dmg, blood magic, splash. So if I get a soul taker, you recommend me putting life leech over multistrike in place of blood magic? I have done lvl 73 maps fine without life leech but haven't done any higher ones.

hi

what do you think this chest?

I just bought




ty

i think it's good chest

i buy a pure 6L armor because there is no good 6l hybrid under 2X exa