Regnar's dual wield sword ranger build, now with Blood Magic!

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Ceto wrote:

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ransagy wrote:

One thing i still didn't understand in this build, After looking at the revised video and tree - How do you keep up the cost of Blood Rage? The tree seems to give 3.3% life regen from what i saw, While BR costs more. What am i missing here?

Also, I noticed a few times its being referred as a crit build. You don't seem to have too much crit mods on your tree and gear (aside, of course, from Maligro's which might in itself make it an enabling item for a crit build, i guess) - Why not use the crit gem supports?

1. Between my life regen and life leech the cost of BR is a joke.

2. Where did I claim this was a crit build? I would LOVE to know! =P

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Desbris wrote:

You indeed have a really efficient DW build there Ceto, I think both you and Epsi are right in stating this is likely one of the most efficient DW builds you will get.

I made a HC Duelist DW build not too long ago and I have just killed merci vaal with 2k HP at level 58 which was not easy because I wanted to see how viable my build would be if used for open beta with no stash items.

So I have been using all self found gear and have not traded anything and it was extremely difficult but exciting, once i was in merciless, health spiking constantly down to 25%, 80% of the time, haha.

I would be interested to know how you geared your char ceto, meaning, I can probably assume if you did it during a 1 week race you likely traded regularly for certain pieces to help? I also noticed you did not have BM when I first saw this build but I chose it for mine, as I really could not be bothered with the mana issues.

I feel once you hit merciless, DW starts to feel really gimped unless you have very nice gear, it relies on good HP, Regen & life leech, and positional play, for hardcore at least. I am gonna continue to test maps now and see how it goes, but it is pretty fun playing a dual wield in HC because I found it more difficult than a lot of other builds.

One could also make a good argument which epsi pointed out that Ranger is more efficient than Duelist if building similarly.

Also if a duelist was after my build, he would not be able to hit both mara and ranger starts. But taking his damage nodes and mara start zone he can build very similar.

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xDEKOIx wrote:

Would this build be able to work with axes instead of swords?

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EpsiIon wrote:

The issue lies solely in how the two classes are expected to mitigate damage, while ranger is literally drowning in life nodes, duelist is drowning, so to speak, in armor/evasion nodes.

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krelian81 wrote:

I'm playing a shadow with CI+GR and daggers right now but I would prefer a DW ranger/duelist with BM for OB.

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EpsiIon wrote:

The issue lies solely in how the two classes are expected to mitigate damage, while ranger is literally drowning in life nodes, duelist is drowning, so to speak, in armor/evasion nodes.

If I compare those two builds, Ceto's ranger and ransagy's duelist, there are five 8% life for the ranger and three 8% life and one 1% life reg for the duelist. So those two 8% life makes this build so much more efficient?

Ceto's Ranger:
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgIBAdEB5wLQA4cFLQbuDq0UIBR1GNsZLhutIWAj9iftKLUppTIJNDU1hjWSNug4ljpSOrM67UCgQ5xGaUjuSlNKfU7IUEdQUFRJVgRW-lcNWGNYr1pIW69fP2BLYIhhUmMXZ6BwcnTtdPF253iueu-GYId2jM-QCpVml3Cdqp65ns2fy6cwr-u3F7nNud3BB8bY0iHTftRS1I_Xftlh21XdDd-_51Ltg-4O7w7vTu_w8i_z3fZI_MU=

ransagy's Duelist:
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQBAecEsQUtBu4OrRLhFCAUUhR1GNshYCi1KaUshTIJNDU1hjboOJY6UjqzOu1AoEOcR35KfUxgUEdQUFPfVElWBFcNWGNY21oaW69fP2BLYIhhUmMXZU1noGoedO108XrvhNmE74Zgh3aMz5HOl3CZK5stm4Odqp65ns2fy6LqpzCoGKvFtxe5zbndu-3BB8bYypDM29Ih1FLXftlh3Q3fv-dS7w7vTvIv9kj3vvzF