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Hi, I've been trying out this build since I wanted to make a dual-wield Duelist and it looks pretty great, but I've been running into some serious problems so far (I'm currently lvl 69) and I'm wondering if it's my fault or my abysmal RNG.

This is where I've gotten to so far with my skill tree:



And this is the gear I'm currently using (I can't afford anything better, I promise):



I'm having trouble even farming Docks right now, and I've pretty much had to skip every Rogue Exile (I'm in Anarchy) I've found since Act 2 Merciless. If you can give me any tips that don't involve upgrading gear (since I can't afford to) I would love to have them, because as it stands now, I'm getting beat into the ground every time I go into a map, and having a lot of trouble farming anything at all in Act 3.

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malarix1222 wrote:

Hi, I've been trying out this build since I wanted to make a dual-wield Duelist and it looks pretty great, but I've been running into some serious problems so far (I'm currently lvl 69) and I'm wondering if it's my fault or my abysmal RNG.

This is where I've gotten to so far with my skill tree:

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQBAecFLQ6tEdUSIBQgFHUXHRjbGS4aVRv6IWAl3ymlMgk26DiWOu1AoEOcR35KfVBHUFBT31RJVw1Xl1hjWNtbr16LXz9gQWBLYSFjcGSjZU1noHTtdPF463rvhNmE74d2jM-QCpHOmSubLZuDnrmezaQZpzCoGKvFtxe53b2BvqfAD8bYz_jSIdJN037Uj9lh3ILdDecK51LvDu9O73rv4_Iv9kj3vvzF

And this is the gear I'm currently using (I can't afford anything better, I promise):

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I'm having trouble even farming Docks right now, and I've pretty much had to skip every Rogue Exile (I'm in Anarchy) I've found since Act 2 Merciless. If you can give me any tips that don't involve upgrading gear (since I can't afford to) I would love to have them, because as it stands now, I'm getting beat into the ground every time I go into a map, and having a lot of trouble farming anything at all in Act 3.

i would suggest to take some of your dps nodes and get some survival nodes like HP and Armor/Evation you used up 5 points for 17% attack speed when you could of got 18% life and 30 str with 4 points

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Kindred1 wrote:

i would suggest to take some of your dps nodes and get some survival nodes like HP and Armor/Evation you used up 5 points for 17% attack speed when you could of got 18% life and 30 str with 4 points

Well I would try that but unfortunately I feel like even 2-300 more HP won't really make a difference when I'm getting killed by blue Voidbearers in Docks in less than 2 seconds.

I know my resists leave something to be desired, but I don't feel like giving up a ton of damage or health for a minor increase in resists is a good trade-off. I also feel my defense is lacking too, but the best upgrade I can think of would be on my chest, and I'm just not willing to give up a 5L for 2-300 more defense, especially since it would probably mean I would have to drop my LL gem, which would be a bigger hit to my survivability than that amount of defense would offer.

I just feel like I'm stuck since I can't get the things that make this build shine like a BoR or a Soul Taker. My crap RNG is making it feel like this is a build I just can't play until I build up a relatively high amount of wealth playing other characters before I can even attempt to come back to this.

you need life and Fire resists for voidbearers use purity aura if you cant afford to get gear with resist also in mercy you have more problems with elemental damage than physical so i would suggest to get your resists maxed as soon as possible dont worry to much with armor/eva/Dps for now if you get a BoR youll make nice damage but it has no resists so you will still die and the same with Soul Taker

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Kindred1 wrote:

you need life and Fire resists for voidbearers use purity aura if you cant afford to get gear with resist also in mercy you have more problems with elemental damage than physical so i would suggest to get your resists maxed as soon as possible dont worry to much with armor/eva/Dps for now if you get a BoR youll make nice damage but it has no resists so you will still die and the same with Soul Taker

Well I have to say that make sense, but as it stands now if I do a white Dunes map, I get 2 shot by the Unique, and doing maps seems like my best bet on getting any of the items I'm going to need to do harder content as well.

I think if I tweek stuff a bit I can get to 60+ on all my resists, but I'm pretty sure I don't have enough Int to run purity, and even if I did it would mean dropping both of my current auras (Grace + Hatred) because of mana constraints.

I guess I just don't understand how people seem to have so little resist on their gear and still have like 80+ resist and a crap load of damage reduction.

Having the same problem now except im only lvl 45.
Im in act 2 cruel and im starting to die alot.
Im assuming the issue is that I only have 700 or so HP, even though I have almost 3k armor and decent resists.
I already have iron reflexes, should I be waiting until a higher level to get it? My dps is great but i hit a room full of skeles casting sparks and kept getting demolished. It was frustrating but I dont want to give up on this build.

My gear, looking for any suggestions I can get, I know the chest is bad but i havent been able to find a decent 4 link armor with the colors I need.


My passive tree so far, again taking any suggestions I can get.

Hey there, I'd love some help on my character ^_^ I'm currently lvl 67 and I'll be upgrading my gloves as soon as someone messages me back. This is my current Gear.

My passive tree so far

My life seems to be quite a bit lower than his(2k) and my DPS is only 22k atm, which is, unfortunately going to go down as I have to change out my necklace for max resists soon..

I was trying to follow the passive build on this post for dual swords, but it won't load for some reason... Anyways, any help would be much appreciated ^_^

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Esoteric187 wrote:

Having the same problem now except im only lvl 45.
Im in act 2 cruel and im starting to die alot.
Im assuming the issue is that I only have 700 or so HP, even though I have almost 3k armor and decent resists.
I already have iron reflexes, should I be waiting until a higher level to get it? My dps is great but i hit a room full of skeles casting sparks and kept getting demolished. It was frustrating but I dont want to give up on this build.

My gear, looking for any suggestions I can get, I know the chest is bad but i havent been able to find a decent 4 link armor with the colors I need.

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My passive tree so far, again taking any suggestions I can get.

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQABS0G7g6tEdUSIBjbG_ohYCXfKaUyCTQ1NJNAoEOcR35T31jbW69ei185YEtjF2NwZU1noG5pdO108XrvhNmE75dwmSubLZuDnrmkGb2BvqfAD8EHypDP-NJN1FLXft0N3ePvTu_j_MU=

One piece of advice I can give to you is that Melee Splash does not work with Cleave, so you'd be better off putting a Melee Damage gem or Added Fire damage gem in there.

Hello. I'd like some advice on what I should be working on farming for. So far my gear is this:



It's decent stuff that lets me farm merc docks pretty well but I sit at around 63-67 on the 3 main resists while Chaos is at a -60. I also have on the side but I'm unsure of what to remove because removing something makes the resist balance a little wonky. Slots are also a problem as I have no fusings and even then I'm not sure if I want to jewel/fuse these into something manageable for better gem placement.

My build is also as this:




tl;dr What gear should I work on upgrading first? I'm pretty much broke besides maybe a chaos or two.

edit: im also level 58

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x2P wrote:

Don't use faster attacks in BoR, it is already built in, they don't stack. If you use cyclone, get rid of multistrike, as instead of making you attack 3x faster, it makes you cast it 3 times quickly just lowering your DPS and causing desync.

Are you sure you aren't looking at your auto attack APS? I have pretty much that exact same setup and have 11 APS before frenzy charges.

I don't know if your statement about cyclone is accurate. It does make you attack faster, and then after you make your first pass it makes two more passes to targets it chooses. And dps with multistrike on cyclone is amazing. However you are correct in the desync is horrendous.