[1.1]Reave Duelist - Cheap, Effective, End Game Farm

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Thank you so much for updating... I have been trying to follow this build with my duelist and loving it thus far!! Again thx :D

Why do you go for accuracy (not RT) without any crit?
Isn't this just making things harder than needed?

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Peterlerock wrote:

Why do you go for accuracy (not RT) without any crit?
Isn't this just making things harder than needed?

Are you talking about versatility?

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heroine4life wrote:

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Peterlerock wrote:

Why do you go for accuracy (not RT) without any crit?
Isn't this just making things harder than needed?

Are you talking about versatility?

Not only about that.

The passive tree in the guide doesn't use the keystone Resolute Technique.
This means you have to get accuracy on items and skillpoints.

Usually this is considered a bad tradeoff, if you don't go for some crit.
Even if you get up to "90% chance to hit" (you're only sitting on 86%), with a 5% crit chance weapon and 150% multiplier it is still less damage than "100% hit, no crit".

You can make it worth it by grabbing crit nodes and a little bit of multiplier, but right now it is just a sacrifice of DpS.

You would do about 15% more overall damage with RT.

Guys what's your reave dps?

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Peterlerock wrote:

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heroine4life wrote:

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Peterlerock wrote:

Why do you go for accuracy (not RT) without any crit?
Isn't this just making things harder than needed?

Are you talking about versatility?

Not only about that.

The passive tree in the guide doesn't use the keystone Resolute Technique.
This means you have to get accuracy on items and skillpoints.

Usually this is considered a bad tradeoff, if you don't go for some crit.
Even if you get up to "90% chance to hit" (you're only sitting on 86%), with a 5% crit chance weapon and 150% multiplier it is still less damage than "100% hit, no crit".

You can make it worth it by grabbing crit nodes and a little bit of multiplier, but right now it is just a sacrifice of DpS.

You would do about 15% more overall damage with RT.

The number is actually less then 10% and makes several false assumptions.

First that the build gets accuracy nodes. It has 3 nodes with accu modifiers. Versatility, a sword one required for blade master, and finesse. Finesse, even without accuracy is a great node due to the placement and the large attack speed %. Even on other builds that do get RT it is frequently picked up. The other one before blade master is unavoidable if you want to pick up one of the strongest nodes on the passive tree. The final one versatility. I think you are confused why I pick this up. The build requires a certain amount of int (66 for reave and hatred). There is one other +30 int node that would cost 2 points to get or I could get versatility for 2. In the end you still require like 2 int from gear this way but you get other benefits. Also, as it should be clear, this is the 77 build. If you want you can get crit, 80+ is easily achievable. The amount of points that it would take to get RT could be spent on crit, and come out well ahead (I used a free respec to do this, I ended up against it as I wanted more survability). I encourage you to do what you think is best. These are just the reasons and conclusions I came to.

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Malwin wrote:

Guys what's your reave dps?

With similar gear to what I posted originally (the chest is now 5L), my reave is about 11k.

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heroine4life wrote:

The other one before blade master is unavoidable if you want to pick up one of the strongest nodes on the passive tree.

For 4 point you get:
48% damage, 10% attackspeed (and accuracy).
That's "12% damage, 2,5% attackspeed" per node.
Pretty nice, but not amazing.
And for sure not "one of the strongest nodes on the passive tree". ;)

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The final one versatility. I think you are confused why I pick this up. The build requires a certain amount of int (66 for reave and hatred).

Oh, I'm not confused at all. I understand your reasoning.
If you check my signature, I wrote a guide with almost the same skilltree, but starting from Marauder.

It is just:
If I don't go for some serious crit, I go RT. 100% of the time.

Keeping the accuracy at ~90% to hit requires item affixes that become very expensive if you want it combined with other stuff (like a ring with solid life, resist, phys damage, acc, that's 3+ exalted orbs easily).
Accuracy opens up a Pandora's box. Everything gets so fucking expensive.

So I'd make a decision: crit or RT. Doing neither looks kinda weird to me.

i changed the shield cause i got some good drops ;D
what do you think of this setup: (i want to mention im still 69 lvl)


with this im able to do piety merc already :) no problem (still looking for some better rate blood dance)