Dragon's Immortal Tank (Updated for 1.2)

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Juhazzz wrote:

Just reached lvl 90 like 1 hour ago :) Had to check /age of my character, i've created it 26 days ago, could be propably reached 90 faster, but kept doing Lunaris 3 runs for way too long..

Some notes during the leveling:

86-87 level: 4 Deaths
#1 Elemental Reflect
#2 Temple Piety with -max res and badly geared (30% lightning resistance with the gear)
#3 Temple Piety with -max res and badly geared (2 minutes after the first death here)
#4 68 Level map Springs with double bosses, first boss died and the second one exploded the dead boss's corpse; Baaaaym <<resurrect>>

87-88 level: 4 Deaths
#1 Elemental Reflect map mod, switched to Heavy Strike but it felt so slow, switched back to IB and 1 shotted myself instantly in a large monsterpack
#2 Temple Piety with -25% max resistance, went in with low 44% spell block, 2 hits without block, dead.
#3 Elemental Reflect map mod and -20% max resistance mod, switched for Heavy Strike but had auras on, somebody in party casts Elemental Weakness curse on Elemental Reflect monster (also map reflect) and 1 shotted myself with Heavy Strike
#4 70 lvl Pier map with -25% max resistance and +98% extra dmg as cold. Not a clue what killed me here, it was instant 1 hit (again the importance of blocking / spell blocking comes up, as there were no melee monsters around)

88-89 level: 0 Deaths
Not even a single close call situation after switched for Rainbowstride boots to get 63% Spell block

89-90 level: 0 Deaths
1 close call situation from last night, 76 level Crematorium map with -20% max resistance and i was a bit drunk and went for the boss without Ruby flasks, rest of the party was wiped instantly. And this would have been a LOT easier if i still had Unwavering Stance passive node, as i regretted it earlier, this is the only monster in the game where i miss Unwavering Stance. You are basically 40% of the fight stunned (without Unwavering) as the Firestorm keeps raining to you and rest 60% you are refresing your ES with block. So i strongly suggest thinking twice before going for the boss with rough mods if you don't have Unwavering passive taken.

This is a good place to test if you have enough Spell block, go there with the -max resistance mod and see what happens :) With Ruby potions it's not hard at all with 63% spell block. Or maybe it's better to test it in Act 1 where this boss is, but just a little bit easier version of it :p

Again I respecced a bit / lot, dropped my dps to 12K with IB + Splash + Faster Attacks + Multistrike + WED + Life Leech. But in change i gained 5000 armor and 350 ES. 12k dps is more than enough to play in party, as there's always the damage dealers when you do high level maps. And when you're doing solo, it's enough for any situation.

Now the stats are:

4390 HP (3850 after reserves)
1800 ES
26 300 Armour (ES refreshing by 1050 per block)
73% / 63% block
81-86-81 resistances.

Passive tree currently:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAecEswUtBjkOrRQgFE0WbxjbGS4ZhRoyGjgaVRv6HRQhYCSqJd8n7SjFKaUyCTboNuk62D38QKBDY0OcR35MNU3YT31QR1BQUWBT31RJVcZXDVhjWNtY9VnzXz9gS2EhZKNlTWaebmlxTXKpdO108XnAeu982YBWgW-E2YTvjHaMz49GkFWaz5uDncSePJ7NoLSiAKQZpzCnhKmVrKqsr7T5tzG53b6nwA_AGsOGxtjPZdDQ0iHSTdSP2WHjaudS55HsOO7Z7w7vTvAf8i_zvvPd9kj3vvrS-6o=

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Dragon585 wrote:

Hey guys and gals! I have been trying to keep up with your posts on my phone while at work, but I have limited time. I see some VERY interesting things of late. Especially with Soul Taker. This amazing axe has opened up some pretty insane change possibilities to the build. Particularly to the hp regen. Without being on BM, having a crap ton of regen is no longer necessary and I can absolutely see it being beneficial to swap out vita for determination and even drop the 2 1% nodes.

Ofc, before I would recommend it to anyone, I would want to test it myself and see if I feel like any defense was lost. But the great thing about it is, you don't need to wait for me since I see there are a few people already doing this and posting their results!

Like I said a few posts back, a couple of you guys are prob more qualified to continue this guide than I am. I have been really short on free time of late and haven't had much time to play with Soul Taker and make changes around it.

Glad to see some of you are having great success still! If I get some free time I will be making changes and updates to the guide, particularly concerning a soul taker version. Hope you guys are still having fun, and I hope to be joining you again soon.


-Dragon

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Juhazzz wrote:

Raggarn

Hello :) Well, i see that you don't have very high block yet, so without that and the fact that you're playing Onslaught, my opinion would not to unspec it yet.

Worst places are where you get hit repeatedly by high hp monsters, like the 76 map Crematorium Firestorm boss brings the shitstorm to your neck all the time, that's the worst place i've been after i specced out of Unwavering.

There's really not many situations you notice it's missing, specially when you're playing in party, but that's with 73% block. Mostly when you're soloing you can see the difference when fighting large monsterpacks and when you block, there's not anykind of "stun animation" or anything, just when the hits come through your block you get into the stun animation. So honestly if i was in your pants, i would keep it untill you get your block above 70% with Tempest Shield, and even then i would think twice before taking it off, it could be good to test on some easy place how does it feel without it.. Rhoa's and Blackguard melee dude's charge seems to stun almost like always.

And if (hopefully) you switch for Rainbowstrides, try to come up with the life you lose from rare boots from some other slot, like your other ring could be switched for Coral with 30 base life, that would compensate the loss quite nicely.

And the gear looks very very good for Onslaught gear, i can't even imagine how hard it has been to find all those nice items :)

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Synze wrote:

From the Melbourne meet: Melee splash is being discussed internally --- expect some changes at some point.

I blame you, Dragon.