Perz' Reave Shadow
" yea you can start your reaver with this gear. " sick claw, good shield and boots. IGN: Perz | Reaver: view-thread/523959 | Wander: view-thread/742525 | Cycloner: view-thread/804489
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I really like the idea behind Lightning Coil. Perz mentioned that I should bring this up in the thread. My idea is running a full evasion life based version of the build but with a Lightning Coil and a purity of lightning aura. This would give us all the benefits of evasion but with the "armor like" damage reduction from Lightning Coil when hits get through. Has anyone considered or tried this? I am curious to how big the damage sacrifice would be without Carcass Jack and whether the mitigation would be worth it.
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" i really like this idea for the life-based build. the problem about evasion in general is that if physical hits get through, the damage will be really high due to low armor. this way we will have 40% of phys dmg converted to lightning dmg which will almost be nullified due to high light res. also it helps vs reflect. the 12% dmg loss of carcass jack is not a big deal. although the aoe range might be a problem if we use conc effect. thus we could try to go for reave+fa+multi+melee+melee on a 5l and add the newly buffed added light dmg gem on a 6l. since we hit fast and do crits, we can now shock mobs. anyone want to give it a try? it sounds quiet good to me. IGN: Perz | Reaver: view-thread/523959 | Wander: view-thread/742525 | Cycloner: view-thread/804489 Last edited by Perz#2458 on Jan 9, 2014, 5:28:27 AM
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But who cares about phys dmg, most dangerous things for us are slowing curses and spell dmg.
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" gl against vaal without phys reduction IGN: Perz | Reaver: view-thread/523959 | Wander: view-thread/742525 | Cycloner: view-thread/804489
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Great guide, I have been following the life / evasion version on nemesis. A few questions:
1. How do you generate frenzy charges on the life based build? I assume that you don't. 2. Why reave and not frenzy + melee splash? Conc. Effect probably reduces the area enough to make them comparable. |
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" 1. yep 2. i like the game mechanics of reave. you can as well use frenzy+splash if you like though. IGN: Perz | Reaver: view-thread/523959 | Wander: view-thread/742525 | Cycloner: view-thread/804489
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" i use viper strike + melee splash + fast attacks+ damage on full life as a support skill. just like your character take tons of damage from chaos (unless your CI of course ;-) monsters without chaos resist take lots of damage from viper strike too. voidbears in particular die _really_ quickly to viper strike, as do the vomit things in the imperial garden. I'm so, so tempted to try a shadow with full DoT, chaos damage support + viper strike. |
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One other question: how do you deal with vaal pact without ES? I thought about it and a life/evasion character must rely on life steal only correct?
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" Ghost reaver ________________________________________________________________________ Ok, I am in desperate need of help at the moment. I recently switched out of Invalesco's CI crit dagger build because I felt lightning strike was way too underpowered. Yes, I know, it's a dagger build =\ however, the problem for me right now is not reflect mobs, but rather I keep getting 1 shot by bosses and areas with huge amounts of burst damage. Stats (with hatred + grace, but no charges): 23k DPS (no charges), 33k with frenzy charges 88% chance to hit 51% crit chance 668% crit multiplier 10% life leech from blood rage (I'll switch in a life leech gem for phys reflect maps, granite flask is enough to deal with normal phys reflect mobs) 49% Evasion 4.7k ES Max resists Mana: 150 (430 reserved, so 580 total) Gear:
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Passive tree:
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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYABX0FtQ5IEHsRLxGWFdcWvxjbGdUa2x4aIWAnqSgqKLUqOCsKLL8s4S9vMFQzDDY9OJY74T7PQKBHBlFHVmNW6lb1Vvpbr19qbRlwUnBWcLt08X3jfll_xoauh9uIQohri3qMC42_joqQG5fQmVeZmpoTnaOio6XLpn-nK6c0rGaxs7TFtUi297cXuT65fL3mvjrBAMHFwfPC7MNt14bXy9h22RPbGttu29TdDeL344Tp_usU62PsGOyw7UHuDu9O8-r1S_lj_Kv8xf4r_5P_3g==
IGN: _FuRi Last edited by Shadowfuri#7564 on Jan 14, 2014, 2:13:25 AM
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