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Hey guys, I am having some trouble staying ahead of the mana leech requirement. Am I doing something wrong? I am level 71 and my gear is not terrible, I have the mana leech nodes.

I have to take the fire damage gem out and sub in blood magic currently, and i would really like to have that 6K something DPS from the gem.

Any ideas what wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg gear wise? I tried picking up an additional ring with extra mana leech but even with that which bring me to 4% on my gear I still cant stay mana stable. What is the mana leach requirement to be stable?

Thanks!

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Ch3cksum wrote:

Hey guys, I am having some trouble staying ahead of the mana leech requirement. Am I doing something wrong? I am level 71 and my gear is not terrible, I have the mana leech nodes.

I can think of a few things you can do:

- drop some attack speed passives and get more phys damage, dps should stay roughly the same but slower attacks means less mana/sec

- change your weapons to a lower attack speed base, like a vaal blade

- curse enemies with warlords mark for extra mana leech

- equip slitherpinch gloves for mana leech

Fiqst, I've been comparing your build vs x2p's and my own,
mine does even less damage but has more health than either which I find has saved my assets on several occasions..
On a side note, I can run Blood Rage with no degeneration on my build and do gain a nice bit of leech and a little dps..

with my gear

x2p's build 6pts left
43k DPS
3200 health

Fiqst's build 9pts left
36k DPS
4300 health

My build - 9pts left
30k DPS
5300 health

there is a definite trade off here, and we can't have the best of both worlds.. with 5300 health I regen 240 health/sec and leech plenty to keep me alive without using LGoH. although I keep one on me just in case.

for what it's worth I still tank lvl 78 maps.
Did you have any issues running a lower health pool?
My tree was closer to yours for a while, and with 4000 helath I was taking one shot RIP's too often, now it's a rarity with over 5k.. but I come close enough to make me think there's something missing..

Also I kept the axe and sword damage nodes since it gave me a fair amount of both DPS and Life compared to other options even with a scepter in my off-hand.
Have another look and let me know what you all think I should change..
https://www.poebuilder.com/builds/g3n3r1c-my-duelist

hi g3n3r1c,

i think your build is great and should be the new benchmark and if i still used my blender i would change it to your tree.

I'd like to share this fun fact:

g3n3r1c is very smart to use Doryani's Catalyst in his build. The pdps is 317, which is great in itself, is made even better because of the increased elemental damage, which scales really well with the Hatred aura and added fire gem. In fact, the dps of the catalyst is similar to a mace with a pdps of 377, and with the sword/axe nodes in the tree, a sword/axe with a pdps of 360.

Honestly g3n3r1c, I believe this guide is totally outdated and there is a lot if confusion in the ancient details here, such as broken trees, legacy soul takers and BoRs, and un-updated and wrong gems. Why don't you create a new Blender 2.0 guide? I would prefer to continue this discussion there rather than here.

I haven't written a guide for POE, but with 3 seasons worth of Blender tuning I can manage something.

What you said about using Doryani's Catalyst with this build is exactly why I'm using it, about the best off hand weapon I can think of for this build for the price. And you get Lvl 20 ele proliferation which is great with Leap Slam/increased area of effect and the Soultaker's chance to chill, mobs are nice on ice :)

Fiqst/g3n3ric i was wondering if the 111pt dualstrike tree is stil viable or is there a new tree that would suit dualstrike better

I think its still viable but the tree takes up nodes in the sword/axe wheel, so if either of your weapons aren't a sword or axe, you might be wasting your nodes.

Please post your items and tree so far.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQAAdwB5wUtEdUSIBcdFz4YTRv6Hcog8CFgJJsl3ycvKaUxnjIJNJM1kjboOJZAoEF0ROdHfkrITeNOKlPfVw1Xl1ivWNtbr16LXz9gQWBLY3BlTWeAah5qO2xGbqpybHTtdit4DXhJeu-AioN8hNmE74jxmSubLZuDnrmkGaSspleoB6gYqW6rxbXytkG3F7yfvYG-ir6nwA_BBM_40EfSIdJN3Q3f7-Of7w7v4_Iv9033vvzF_o8=
items:

I've posted a rudimentary guide for my Blender 2.0
I'm not a writer and will be adding to it over the evening so no complaining :)

Hi, may I know what are the maps or bosses(if any) that drops BoR nightmare bascinet and soul taker siege axe?