Official Blender Post! Lets theory craft for 1.2! 123k Cleave DPS!

With the new changes i don't even know if it's worth to make this build on invasion league i really wanted to make it because it seems really fun, but not sure if it's still good for the job |:

Vaal Cyclone ftw!

There's like no reason this build shouldn't work anymore.
Just go for it. boR is still great just because of free 6L and 15% Block.


@Xcellers
The melee physical damage gem actually provides more damage, which is far superior to increased damage.
Not that it really matters in the end, but your maths is wrong because of this. ;)

Whats better for cyclone weapon ele damage or concentraded effect?

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SaiyanZ wrote:

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Peterlerock wrote:

There's like no reason this build shouldn't work anymore.

I think he meant skill tree wise. The tree is getting massive changes to the area this build uses. The Marauder and Duelist area. It won't be able to get Elemental Adaptation anymore. It might not be worth it to go into the Marauder area at all.

We will know more in 10 hours, but I think they won't kill every useful node in the marauder zone... ;)

Well new skill tree is available thanks to chris for the offline calculator.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1zlt62/updated_for_110_offline_skill_tree_calculator/

Since we are less than a day away from the new tree, i started looking at the new tree (and yes, to the keen observers, work/uni is going slow these days, so i have too much time on my hands)

Changes in the Talent Tree 1.1


*"Vaal Pact"
(located just below the strenght node, that connects to "Berserking")
has moved, instead of costing 3 Passive points from our current route, it now costs one

* Life cluster nerf
(located just below the "Path of the Warrior"
The 7 x 8% Inc. Max. Life nodes has been nerfed to 6% on the right side
The 2 x 8% Inc. Max Life Nodes has been removed
The 1 x 12% Inc. Max Life Nodes has been nerfed to 10% Inc. Max Life

*Elemental Adaption
(located a few nodes right of "Resolute Techniques")
Has been removed

*Marauder Cluster
(Diamond Skin, Heart of the Gladiator, Trolls Blood, HP nodes)
(located at the Marauder starting area - left side)
Whole area has been reworked, and the previous 12 points spent there problematic to integrate optimally in this area

Essentially, when following the basic outline from the previous tree, we are now left with 16 free passive points

Leaving us with this:
http://poebuilder.com/#character/AAAAAgQAAdwDhwSzBS0R1RIgFE0XHRc-G60b-iFgI00l3yftKaUxnjIJNJM1kjiWOuE8LUA2QKBEckd-SO5KfUrITP9N404qU99Xl1jbW69c-V6LYEFgS2NwZU1noGxGbqpwcnJscql07XdieA14rnjreu982X11gziExITZhO-HdojxlWaZK5stm4OeuaIApBmmV6luq8Wsqq9stPm18rZBtxe3Pr2Bvoq-p8APxPbFisauypDP-NBH0k3TftyC3Q3nCu9673zv4_Af8kX8xf4K_o_-ug==

Putting the last pieces together


Initially my approach will likely be to invest these 16 points in the following:

-4 points to reach: "Warriors Blood" (20 Dex, 30 Str, 2% Life Regen/Sec)

-5 points to reach: Life and Armour (Marauder Start) (16 max life, 24% Inc. Max life, 24% Inc. Armour)

-4 points to reach: Life node, left of "Heart of the Warrior" (+10 Str, +30 max life, +24% inc. max life)

+2 points by removing the two 6% to all resists (-12% Fire res, -12% Light Res, -12% Cold res)

-3 points to reach: Light/Cold/fire Res nodes above "Sentinel" (18% Fire res, 18% Light Res, 18% Cold res)

-2 points to reach: "Diamond Skin", near "Heart of the Warrior" (15% Inc. flask rec, 10% Fire res, 10% Light Res, 10% Cold res, +1% max Fire/Light/Cold res)

Leaving me with this:
http://poebuilder.com/#character/AAAAAgQAAdwDhwSzBS0LYRHVEiAUTRcdFz4brRv6IWAjTSXfJy8n7SmlMZ4yCTSTNZI4ljrhPC09_EA2QKBEckd-SO5KfUrITP9N404qU99Xl1hjWNtbr1z5XotfP2BBYEtjcGVNZ6BsRm6qcHJybHKpdO14DXiueOt5aHrvfNl9dYLkgziExITZhO-Hdojxiq-Mz5ARlWaZK5stm4OeuaIApBmkrKZXqW6rxayqr2y0-bXytkG3F7c-vJ-9gb6KvqfAD8EExPbFisauxtjKkM_40k3TftyC3Q3jn-cK7w7veu987-PwH_Iv8kX2SPzF_gr-j_66

Comparison of the final trees:
*** "valueable stats only" ***
*** Old/New ***

293,5/298,5 Max life
248%/226% Max life %
46%/60% Cold/Fire/Light Resi
2%/1% Max Resi
87%/87% Melee Physical
313,6%/332% Increased Physical (all)
72%/79% Attack Speed (all)
18%/18% Block (all)
4%/4% Movement

Essentially the new tree is mainly a HP% nerf when looking at the main stats, so the general approach still seems solid, but the last 16 points are quite tricky, my approach is one thing, but i for one would love to hear about more ideas, my approach is largely defensive / ease of life adjustments (eg. resi´s can be capped with just a single good rolled prismatic ) but there may be radically different approaches, such as the Vaal pact method, as there are no wasted points.

Notes:

1.1 Passive builder can be found here:

http://www.poebuilder.com/

Old Tree Summary:

http://pstree.tk/?pstree_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pathofexile.com%2Fpassive-skill-tree%2FAAAAAgQBAdwDhwUtEdUSIBcdFz4ZLhutG_ohYCXfJ-0ppTGeMgk0kzWSOJY64TwtQKBHfkjuSn1KyE3jTipQUFPfVElXl1hjWNtbr1z5XotfP2BBYEtjcGVNZ6BsRm6qcHJybHKpdO13YngNeK5463rvfNl9dYTZhO-HdojxjM-VZpkrmy2bg565pBmmV6luq8WsWayqtfK2QbcXtz653b2Bvoq-p8APxPbGrsbYypDP-NBH0k3TftSP3ILdDecK51LnY-8O73rv4_Iv8kXz3fZI_MX-Cv6P_rpM_69sxYrwHwSzFE20-aIAI01ANkRyhMSDOO98&pstree_url_cmp=

New Tree Summary:

http://poebuilder.com/#character/AAAAAgQAAdwDhwSzBS0LYRHVEiAUTRcdFz4brRv6IWAjTSXfJy8n7SmlMZ4yCTSTNZI4ljrhPC09_EA2QKBEckd-SO5KfUrITP9N404qU99Xl1hjWNtbr1z5XotfP2BBYEtjcGVNZ6BsRm6qcHJybHKpdO14DXiueOt5aHrvfNl9dYLkgziExITZhO-Hdojxiq-Mz5ARlWaZK5stm4OeuaIApBmkrKZXqW6rxayqr2y0-bXytkG3F7c-vJ-9gb6KvqfAD8EExPbFisauxtjKkM_40k3TftyC3Q3jn-cK7w7veu987-PwH_Iv8kX2SPzF_gr-j_66

Original post updated for some quick thoughts on 1.1.

I have made a alternatif if you can check that (For the new patch almost the same stat) :


http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQBAdwDhwUtEdUSIBcdFz4ZLhutG_ohYCXfJ-0ppTGeMgk0kzWSOJY64TwtQKBHfkjuSn1KyE3jTipQUFPfVElXl1hjWNtbr1z5XotfP2BBYEtjcGVNZ6BsRm6qcHJybHKpdO13YngNeK5463rvfNl9dYTZhO-HdojxjM-VZpkrmy2bg565pBmmV6luq8WsWayqtfK2QbcXtz653b2Bvoq-p8APxPbGrsbYypDP-NBH0k3TftSP3ILdDecK51LnY-8O73rv4_Iv8kXz3fZI_MX-Cv6P_rpM_69sxYrwHwSzFE20-aIAI01ANkRyhMSDOO98

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petden wrote:

I hate when people name their builds. Wasn't the name "blender" first used for physical Cleave? Now it's Cyclone. Fucking use "physical dual wield Cyclone Soul Taker + Bringer of Rain" or whatever. The "blender" name sucks anyways. It's especially annoying when someone posts this build somewhere (like on Reddit), and they just post "Official Blender Build". What the fuck?! Also how is this official in any way?

This is that original cleave build. My twitch viewers nicknamed my original build as "The Blender". I made this build way back when multistrike wasn't even around and everyone was HP stacking ranged characters. I call it official because I was the original creator of the build. This build was the one of the first popular ultra-high mobility builds. The blender became popular because everyone was HP stacking freeze pulse and lightning arrow. Nobody played melee, nobody dared play a non-tank duelist, nobody dared play fast attack speed/high mobility because it was all "unviable". I spent ages trying to make a fast paced duelist viable in maps.

After I finally made the build viable, I released a video on reddit which became very popular, just because it was so much fun to play. There were other builds that were much better than this, and this was only good for softcore in the beginning. Once GGG decided to repeatedly buff the Duelist and Melee in general, this build went from being the "semi-viable but very fun build" to an incredibly strong HC viable build. Just because the build has evolved around the patches does not mean I am going to ditch the original name that my viewers gave it.

Who cares if it isn't cleave anymore? It is a hell of a love more blenderish with cyclone anyways.