[1.0.1] Double Point Blank - RoA Dual Totem build. Updated!

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Pallas wrote:

Working my way up this build, I finally have a totem and am working toward the blood magic keystone. Wish I had more time to play, but it's been fun so far. My totem ate Merveil for breakfast and I just hid around the corner recasting.

Nice, good luck with your leveling :)

This is still going pretty well, was able to take down Cruel Crematorium Piety without a death and negative lightning resists. It took some sneaky playing, but I still melted her. I just can't wait till lvl 62 when the damage starts to build up :-D

Just hit 64 and killed Piety, so the annoying part of the game is done. (Hate barracks) I'm going to docks/lunaris run some levels, and then it'll be time to start testing maps. I really need to get my resists and life up first, so hopefully I'll be able to purchase some gear to get fully ready to roll. It is easy though, I have to say, the double totem life nodes makes a hell of a difference in totem survivability.

Thanks for posting this build, it's been fun to play so far!

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Pallas wrote:

Just hit 64 and killed Piety, so the annoying part of the game is done. (Hate barracks) I'm going to docks/lunaris run some levels, and then it'll be time to start testing maps. I really need to get my resists and life up first, so hopefully I'll be able to purchase some gear to get fully ready to roll. It is easy though, I have to say, the double totem life nodes makes a hell of a difference in totem survivability.

Thanks for posting this build, it's been fun to play so far!

Nice!

Yeah, I would suggest not running maps until you have 3500+ health, max resists, and at least 6000 armor.

I also would try to get a hold of a non linked/rolled Chin Sol. You can buy a bad/medium rolled one for a few chaos.

You can get a Caracass Jack once you have your resists and hp set up.

I have a 5L Chin Sol and a 4L (5S) Carcass Jack that I got for cheap. My main focus now is my other gear, using a 50% blackgleam for my quiver, and just looking for new jewelry, helm, boots, gloves and belt.

Those pieces need resists, life and of course evasion or armor for the armor pieces, so those are my new goals. (And weapon ele dmg on the pieces that can get it)

My current tooltip DPS is only in the 1200 range, but at close range, it does a decent job of killing things quickly. (I went RT and BM in the tree, so no crits or BM gem)

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Pallas wrote:

I have a 5L Chin Sol and a 4L (5S) Carcass Jack that I got for cheap. My main focus now is my other gear, using a 50% blackgleam for my quiver, and just looking for new jewelry, helm, boots, gloves and belt.

Those pieces need resists, life and of course evasion or armor for the armor pieces, so those are my new goals. (And weapon ele dmg on the pieces that can get it)

My current tooltip DPS is only in the 1200 range, but at close range, it does a decent job of killing things quickly. (I went RT and BM in the tree, so no crits or BM gem)

Yeah, keep in mind that 1200 is actually really good, when you take into account your double point blank + having 2 totems. It does not calculate the damage of two totems, only 1. So before counting in the mutiplictive properties of Chin Sol + Point blank passive, double your DPS.

It's kind of hard to get capped resists with Carcass jack, since it only gives your 12 to all, instead of 20-30 to 1-2. So usually before hitting maps I advise not using it until you are capped resists and are getting a hold of a good chunk of currency to buy better resists gear to supplement it's low resists/hp.

RT/BM keystone is best and most fluid spec - you only really want to switch to BM gem when you have top-notch, best in slot gear and your DPS will not budge through minor upgrades. But, now with the whole aura fix and such it might be even more difficult to pull off the BM gem spec then before.... I do not know since I have not tested it.

Getting better, my resists are now 75/50/75 which is close, but my armor is really low as is my health. I think I'm sitting at 2300hp and about 3400 armor. So still a long ways to go, but I'm getting there bit by bit.

I'm still wearing the Carcass Jack, just because I feel like the extra radius alone is worth it when dealing with packs of voidbears, since I've been farming a lot of docks.

Still having a lot of fun with this, and it is quite effective, I'll be excited to see it in map action.

(I have taken a couple of my 66 maps out and run them by myself just for S&G's and haven't had a single issue clearing them out)

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Pallas wrote:

Getting better, my resists are now 75/50/75 which is close, but my armor is really low as is my health. I think I'm sitting at 2300hp and about 3400 armor. So still a long ways to go, but I'm getting there bit by bit.

I'm still wearing the Carcass Jack, just because I feel like the extra radius alone is worth it when dealing with packs of voidbears, since I've been farming a lot of docks.

Still having a lot of fun with this, and it is quite effective, I'll be excited to see it in map action.

(I have taken a couple of my 66 maps out and run them by myself just for S&G's and haven't had a single issue clearing them out)

I'd suggest farming catacombs - since you get better drops and more maps. It's just about as easy as docks.

Besides that, cool man - glad you're liking it still.

Sadly, I've never been in Catacombs, just ran it today, and totems shine in rooms with doors (obviously) for the safety level, so that's nice, and no voidbears is even greater!

I'd gonna try a low-life Shav twist on this. I'll let you know how it goes.

Buils should look like (can also start as a Templar, I suppose).
Build

Got some gear:

Any suggestions? Plan on using 5L: Totem + BM + Conc. Effect + WED + RoA
Another 5L for: Split Arrow + Chain + Life on Hit + Culling + IIR
Low Life Blood Rage + Q BM gem = +69% IAS :)