[1.2.0] Dual Claws Are Cool

Hey, awesome guide and awesome build. I've adapted the idea and it works great so far. I've spent max. 1 chaos orb per part and I can easily farm piety in merciless (I'm running vaal pact tho since I could not afford a bloodseeker).
Standing in a really big bunch of monsters is a thrill. However, I do have some questions on how to improve.
1) Due to very high aps I do sometimes run out of mana, and thats a death sentence if I'm not using a potion fast enough. I also have a health potion as a 'panick' button. What I'd like to know is what other flaks I should use and what affixes on these flaks I'm looking for.

2) The 'new' Bringer of Rain seems to be quite affordable (price is one exalt atm). I think it's still a valid choice. What do you think?

3) If I'd buy a bloodseeker I could respec 9 points. I could use these points for damage and crit chance. Do you think my damage would be better with this setup?

My Gear

My passive tree

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I took a break once the game went live. Anybody have an update to the skill tree for a ranger? I know there was an original ranger builder posted in this thread based on level 60. I got to 50 so I'm close and have started to piece together where I want to go from there, but I need a complete redo to get current again. Thanks.

tree at level 84 duelist - doing something slightly different this time, but you can clearly tell that the tree as linked in the OP still works. Move the 5 starting points from shadow to ranger and voila, ranger build.

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Hey, awesome guide and awesome build.

Thanks!
1) level 9 clarity solves it for me, and my claws are 1.5 and 1.8 aps.
2) yep
3) of course. I mean, personally I'd spend the points on HP and block, but 7 points and getting your full leech amount off? Totally worth it.

This was my setup in the 1month leauge, I quite playing though when I just kept dying in high end maps. Can't kill bosses, despite max res, max chaos res and 24k DPS. Was very fun for a while though!

Made a video showcasing this build!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wME90aB3z3s&feature=youtu.be

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Kirielis wrote:

Tentative 1.2.0 skill tree

hmm. why aren't you taking Soul Raker notable? (big claw circle on the right with 6/2% Life/Mana Leech). It's 4 points away, but you could skip Mind drinker notable and save 2 points. And two 15% claw phys dmg nodes are quite decent imho.

Yeah, I have this habit of missing the obvious. Was wondering where my 12% leech circle went. Thanks!

What do you think of this? I'm not that good at making builds but here is what I have in mind.

And what would you instead drop for those 5 points it takes to get that?

Also, what skills would you recommend to lvl a shadow up to lvl 30-40 before actually using dual strike? It's pretty damn slow at lvl 20 or so, I can barely even kill some beyond bosses.

One thing crossed my mind when I was checking the tenactive tree... Why sword dmg nodes?

Kirielis, under the list of relevant 1.2 changes in first post you wrote about Viper Strike.
Are you considering a VS variation of the build? If so I have decently geared 83 shadow (pure EV/dodge variation of your build) available for testing.
I'mn theorycrafting a VS build too. Not sure about the weapons - daggers might be better, but dual claws are so cool! ;)