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

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ngek1982 wrote:

what is RT?

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Pentinor wrote:

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Isky wrote:

I find that mana is a lot bigger of an issue with this build, especially if you don't have BoR or soul taker (obviously no problems with this), and would love if someone came up with a great solution to it.

With both grace and hatred running, even with some a moderate amount of +int and mana, your mana pool is only around ~100. If you are running dual strike in a 5-L armor with melee splash/multistrike/melee physical damage/and faster attacks or added fire than your mana cost is like 50-60 with a leveled dual strike. My damage is noticeably lessened as some regular attacks go off sometimes as my character is out of mana somewhat often.

The main difference is the melee splash gem in the combo has a huge mana multiplier (180%), which is what bring the mana up so much.

Right now it seems that the primary solution is to slot in a blood magic gem instead of faster attacks or added fire on the 5-L (or 6-L if you are rich, but then you should just have a BoR). I've noticed that with just 4 linked gems, I have enough mana regen with leech (2%) to support the combo, so rather than slotting the blood magic (and losing life to cast it), I put in an item quantity to get a bit better loot, but this is not ideal and I would much rather slot another damage gem if someone can neatly solve the mana problem without paying for a super high end item.

Try getting another % or 2 of mana leech and running only grace. Just got into Merciless doing that and have 4k dps and 2.5k health...but then again I did get a pretty godly roll on a dagger (off dominus in normal) that sure helped alot...9-16phys dmg, 149% phys dmg increase, +17% attack speed 0_0.

But yea...try only running grace and see if that helps some.

Edit: Heres my gear, all just self found, trading is too much of a hassle =/.

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patryk7883 wrote:

Midle and late-ish trees are empty in my browser, is there something wrong with those links?

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Sidewinder7 wrote:

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ngek1982 wrote:

what is RT?

Resolute Technique

(from wiki) is a keystone passive skill that will raise the chance to hit to 100%, ignoring all accuracy and evasion stats of the attacker and defender respectively, at the cost of reducing the attacker's global critical chance to 0%.