Moosifer's 2h Sweep Duelist

My guess is that this build works for everything that is two handed, right?

Really cool and interesting build, great post.

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boneraiser wrote:

My guess is that this build works for everything that is two handed, right?

yes, on purpose so I can use the highest DPS wpn I get while questing. Then I start getting axe passives late game.

Although with this mace in the race



I don't foresee myself getting axe passives (or a better axe for cheap) for a while.

I did the build for this guy differently putting myself away from the 2h wpn passive so I got an extra endurance charge, the duration and for 77/78 I'll get the mara charge and life regen w/ charges.

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Moosifer wrote:

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boneraiser wrote:

My guess is that this build works for everything that is two handed, right?

yes, on purpose so I can use the highest DPS wpn I get while questing. Then I start getting axe passives late game.

Although with this mace in the race

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I don't foresee myself getting axe passives (or a better axe for cheap) for a while.

I did the build for this guy differently putting myself away from the 2h wpn passive so I got an extra endurance charge, the duration and for 77/78 I'll get the mara charge and life regen w/ charges.

Hey, do you have a link to your current build right now? Thanks. You got alot of great info on the Duelists 2H builds.

Current Build

I'm not sure if the 3 3% IAS nodes are worth it. With frenzy charges I have over 100% IAS, even with a 1 a/s (mine is 1.2) I don't think it will be that noticable. I might respec out of it.

In hindsight going the path that follows blood magic to mara was a bad idea. I have access to mace passives but the general 2h passives you can get from the other side, also I'm closer to that big axe wheel, which I can't get until in my 80s now.

I'm probably close to respecing out of the lighting resist nodes. I had all of those earlier on but as gear gets better I got rid of them. Goal is to toss the AR ones too.

I'd like to do a version of this build without going to mara but it depends a large amount on RT, LL and having those resists so I'm a little free to get more life on gear as I can over most of my resists with rings, chest and one or two resists on other pieces. The goal there is to get triple resist boots (30% or higher) and maybe a quad resist ring w/ life and with my chest that should cover all my resists, if not I can sacrifice the ring slot.

I'd rather have an IAS ring w/ life and phys dmg. Not entirely sure what a good dmg ring looks like for this build as I've never gone this far with it before so we'll see what I figure out in my trip into the 80s.

Nice to see you are doing so well in the race with a duelist build. :)

3% IAS nodes are definitely not worth it, get damage or another endurance charge or whatever else. 3% is just way too small an increase to make a difference you can feel.

You can make optimizations to your current build - remove 1 node of strength between golem's blood and endurance charge - yay 1 free point. Also remove 2 of the 3% IAS nodes and pick the bloodless and smashing blows behind the 12% life nodes - you get 12% damage, 6% attack speed and enemies cant leech you as the cherry on top.

didn't even notice the extra str. Got that endurance charge late, nice catch.

Great suggestions, thanks.

Moosifer, what are your chances of trying out another bow Duelist? I've been really interested in the idea with an Ele Bow build, but slightly intimidated by the constant screech of "staple" Ranger/Shadow builds that claim to do it so much better.

Ask DDT about ele bow builds, he did one in the 2nd 1week race and came up 2nd I believe.

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Kuyen wrote:

Moosifer, what are your chances of trying out another bow Duelist? I've been really interested in the idea with an Ele Bow build, but slightly intimidated by the constant screech of "staple" Ranger/Shadow builds that claim to do it so much better.

Probably not. The real power behind bow builds is crit and duelist just doesn't have the same crit potential while keeping survivability. It's very fun to like 60 and in early maps but when I switched my 76 from S&B to bow I struggled hard with 63+ maps.

Granted most of my game knowledge is related to tanks so I'm not exactly sure what is good for a ranged character yet (probably should learn I guess) but after watching epsi in this last race even with twice the armor that I had (me 6k w/o endurance, him 14k w/o endurance) and he had about 2.5k life (ceto had about the same and was as tanky as I am w/ 3.5k life), Epsi was still struggling to stay alive. He depended heavily on his dps, which I think is connected strongly to his crits.

It was fun having him around to pop a diamond flask when we face a boss, 1-2 rare and a pack or two of blues to just have him one shot the whole board though. That's why I want to make a crit build badly, duelist of course. Finding it very difficult though.