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Hi,

I´d suggest a

Lifebased Vaal Pact pure Evasion 2handed-Axe Critbuild













I hope you like this build idea. In my opinion it is rather weird...


best regards

Anvil Rain Cyclone Leapfrog

Link to Passive Skill Tree

Gear
Chest = none
Helm = The Bringer of Rain
Amulet = The Anvil
Weapon1 = Soul Taker axe
Weapon2 = Bloodseeker claw
other gear = rare, be sure to keep those resists up! Movespeed on boots is discouraged.

Skills
Helm: Cyclone + Multistrike + Life Gain on Hit + Life Leech
Gloves/Boots 1: Leap Slam + Faster Attacks + Culling Strike + [gem of your choice]
Gloves/Boots 2: Grace + Temporal Chains + Reduced Mana + Blood Magic
Weapons: Determination, Haste, Hatred and Purity, supported by one Reduced Mana each weapon

Facts
20+ attacks per second with Cyclone
78% dual-wield block chance
26% chance to blind on hit
2+ Leap Slams per second without Multistrike (fast movement)

Play Notes
Bloodseeker's unique ability combined with Life Gain on Hit support gives you lots of instant healing, allowing you to heal significantly even against Reflects Physical Damage a la Vaal Pact (which you don't take). Soul Taker allows you to convert your entire mana pool into auras, and two 5% reservation reduction nodes allow you to run four of them (without Soul Taker you just take the Blood Magic keystone and don't get percent auras). Leap Slam provides mobility based on attack speed, counteracting Anvil's drawback (and making movespeed on boots a liability as it makes Cyclone move too fast); quality on a leveled Culling Strike allows even faster Leap Slam movement.

Primary weakness is spells, since they bypass blocking and the blind status. Also, the build doesn't have a lot of life, because it usually doesn't need it, since it regenerates amazingly fast in battle... but it's a little vulnerable until it gets within Cyclone range.

Nice builds all over the place!

=)

marauder dual totem tank

passive tree




skill; dual Rejuvenation Totem, Enduring Cry, Determination, Vitality, Grace and Molten Shell.

unique gear; Pinnacle Tower Shield, The Anvil and Astral Plate.

flask: granite flasks x5

Skull Support
Requires a set group of 6 people(preferably friends)

Main item:

Supporting items:
Aurumvorax for insane allres. You will not be last-hitting (or hitting for that matter) so IIR is not important.
Lochtonial for Conduit
Atziri's Mirror to reflect curses at monsters (or you can just pick another Aurumvorax)
Windscream & Deodrex2 for +3 curses

Key skills:
Get all possible auras you can run, with reduced mana passives and gems.
Get 5 curses that synergises with your team.
Enduring cry

Passives:
+1 max curse
Aura radius
Buff effect
Rest: defensive abilities

Playstyle:
You are just there to help your team. You have 0 damaging skills, you cast 5 curses (preferably linked with faster cast) and run around spamming Enduring Cry. By using curses, your other teammates have more time to focus on DPS.

You will not be tanking the mobs, you are just doing it to get endurance charges and share them with your team. If you can, get 1 extra endurance node and help Oak for 5 enduring charges that should be on the all times. The main item (Leer Cast) will also further help your team.

Since I think you want weird, but viable, I present the witch tank.



Surviving:
Nobody thinks of witch for tank, but with iron reflex changes (no dex bonus) and molten shell being a huge boost to armor, it's perfectly viable. You will end up with armor that will most likely reduce physical by about 40% (because +60% armor), and block chance of 67% (tempest shield is important). That's a combined damage reduction of 80.2% for physical. Block chance doesn't get reduced by higher level enemies like evasion, so you don't get weaker as you face stronger enemies.

With +34 block chance and 75% increased defenses from shields, that one slot will determine the strength of the build instead of a weapon. The build doesn't leverage as much %ES as others (162%), but the increased shield defenses will cause the base ES to be good enough that the end result is high ES that life builds cannot achieve.

Damage:
Molten shell is the big hit and why the build goes for some cast speed and damage. Tempest Shield with culling strike is the finisher. With Elemental Equalibrium, they hit you to give themself -fire and cold resist, then blow the shell to make them weak to lightning again.

Why it's weird:
As for odd passive nodes, Bulwark is rarely used and yet very good for this build. The rest of the passives aren't odd, but witches normally go for summons or totems to keep enemies AWAY from them. This build needs to get hit.

Items:
It's not very item specific and really just needs a good shield to work. No uniques are required, but the build certainly gain benefits from many of the unique shields and Stone of Lazhwar amulet for both block chance to spells (making it 62% total) and even cast speed.

Important Skills:
High quality Molten Shell (+life leech, chance to ignite, faster casting, optional: fire pen, elemental prolif or concentrated effect)
Enduring Cry (+faster cast)

Auras:
Tempest Shield (+added lightning, lightning pen, culling strike)
Grace
Determination
Discipline

@Skullchukka

Do "Leer Cast, Festival Mask`s" stack up if more Group members use them?

Contest still running!

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xdjamakx wrote:

@Skullchukka

Do "Leer Cast, Festival Mask`s" stack up if more Group members use them?

Yes. Tested this with a friend.

Fists of Flame:

Core:
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAnEEswUtDjwOrRJpEuEUIBRNFHEXHBjbGS4ZhRo4GmwhYCSqJ-0otSlPKaUt0jIJNYY26TpSOrM62ECgQ5xKfU3YUEdQUFRJVgRXDVhjWfNbr18_YEtgiGFSZ6BxeXKpdO108XrvfNmBb4KbhmCHdox2jM-QCpBVkc6dqp2unjyeuZ7Nnz6fy6IAouqnMKeErKq5zbndu-3AGsbY0iHUj9lh3Q3jauQi51LsOO8O707wH_Iv8932SPzF

Final:
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAnEDxgSzBS0GDgn2DjwOrRJpEuEUIBRNFHEXHBjbGS4ZhRo4GmwhYCSqJa0n7Si1KU8ppS3SMgk1hjbpOlI6szrYQKBDnEd-Sn1N2E4qUEdQUFRJVgRXDVhjWfNbr18_YEtgiGFSY_1lTWegapNuaXF5cql07XTxeu982YFvgpuE2YZgh3aMdozPkAqQVZHOmSudqp2unjyeuZ7Nnz6fy6IAouqnMKeEq8WsqrZBuc253bvtvYG-p8APwBrEuMbY0iHSTdSP1e3V-Nlh3Q3jauQi51LsOO8O707wH_Iv8932SPzF_Qs=

Bandits:
Life
Physical Damage
Endurance Charge/Passive

6L Chest:
Infernal Blow
Increased Burning Damage
Chance to Ignite
Elemental Proliferation/Melee Splash (depending on if you one-shot them or not)
Added Fire Damage
Melee Physical Damage

Hatred - Determination - Purity - Reduced Mana
Grace - Anger - Reduced Mana - Blood Magic
Enduring Cry - Enduring Cry - Flammability - Blood Magic

Uniques needed:
Facebreakers (as perfect as possible)
Blackgleam (as perfect as possible) or Chernobog's Pillar (for added defense)
Meginord's Girdle
Cloak of Flame

The point of this build is to convert as much of the insanely high Facebreaker physical damage into fire/burning damage. To do so, we use Infernal Blow (50% conversion) and either Blackgleam (up to 50% conversion) or Chernobog's Pillar (25% conversion). Blackgleam increases our damage more but Chernobog's is a viable alternative if you wish to have more defense. We use Meginord's because it adds the most DPS for Facebreakers out of other belts.

In addition, since we take Resolute Technique, we need a way to cause burning without criticals. Chance to Ignite gives 44% chance on hit at lvl 20, 20% Increased Burning Damage adds another 10%, the unique Cloak of Flame provides another 10% (while also increasing Ignite duration), and the Flammability curse adds a final 14%, for a total of 78%. This makes getting burns off very reliable.

Though at first it may seem like Cloak of Flame decreases our survivability when compared to an end-game armor chest, by converting 20% of incoming physical damage to fire damage, it reduces the impact of heavy hitting physical attackers by reducing the amount they penetrate armor while simultaneously allowing your 81% fire resistance (with Purity/Elemental Adaptation) to reduce the converted amount by much more than your armor would.

Melee Splash vs. Elemental Proliferation is a matter of preference. If you instantly kill a single target with Infernal Blow, the corpse will explode, and will not proliferate. However, if the fire splash damage ignites a nearby enemy, that damage should proliferate. On the other hand, Melee Splash allows you to directly Ignite the main target/nearby enemies.