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Hey, few more thing then - what were your leveling priorities? Iron reflexes > Resolute technique > Unwavering stance > aura nodes (while grabbing ES/life on the way)?
Plus, you didnt take many damage nodes - what is the clear speed in maps? Okay?
Does Iron reglexes provide enough armor not to worry about heavy hitters (Kole/Blacksmith and such)?
And out of curiosity - at what level you managed to kill Atziri for the first time?

Edit: In b4 wall of text, lol sorry.

It's kind of hard for me to answer this accurately because When I started this build I already had a level 82 shadow with a respec, so I got a head start on the tree and did not have to start out life based.

But I will still try and answer :)

Iron reflexes is very great, but I would not say it's as important as the other until later on nearing end game, also good flask usage can cover quite a bit of your armor needs for the most part as well as the immortal call setup. Also having some evasion in the early game helps a lot.

I would prioritize heading to resolute technique as I feel this is vital, when you have a character that relies on leech, hitting 100% of the time makes a big difference and what keeps you alive.

You can use Eye of Chayula until you can make it to Unwavering.

This build does pretty good damage without many points into damage nodes (which is one of the reasons I went with it) mainly due to being able to run Melee Phys gem (a multiplier) and melee on full life gem (also a multiplier and as CI you are always at "full" life)

I would say the clear speed is fantastic when solo, above average with half of a party, and 'decent' with a full party. When I did run in a full party the massive DPS guys loved me though because I could just facetank the boss while they DPS'd it down from safety. As mentioned, when solo, everything died really fast.

I feel 25kish DPS on a full on tank build, in hardcore, is pretty good :)

I honestly don't remember what level I was when I did Ziri for the first time but I do know I could have done it much much sooner and with even less of min-maxed gear, even though I was very scared my first time, it was actually really easy.

I think once you can reach around 7k ES or better (most likely can be done with even less, but this is where I would feel safe), have the major keystones (unwaivering, Resolute, and Iron reflexes), and have a good amount of leech % you should be able to handle Atziri runs at that point regardless of your level.

Once you reach decent ES pool and good amount of leech you can tank pretty much anything as long as it cannot 1 shot you because your leech is so crazy that you will be at full ES as soon as you hit and this build has crazy high attack speed.

I had a friend who played this build, I believe he did an atziri run with it at like level 79 or something, and with a 5 link even, but if it's a hardcore league try not to get into too much of a hurry, the more points you get and the stronger you become the more it makes the Ziri run easy.

Hope this helps, as always feel free to discuss any other questions you may have

Another thing I want to mention that makes a big difference for boss fight is swapping out melee splash for life leech gem.

As mentioned this would only be for a single target boss, but it makes you damn near invincible as long as you are attacking something.

Thanks for your reply :3 Im leveling with infernal blow/FB, and low attack speed is annoying me big time, especially since I dont hit every attack, so I guess Ill just roll torwards RT, grabbing life nodes on my way there... Gotta add faster attacks to that.
Ill try skipping some auras for now and running with a 300 dps claw until I get me a soultaker. Less dps, but not that expensive...

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benjiwoosh wrote:

Thanks for your reply :3 Im leveling with infernal blow/FB, and low attack speed is annoying me big time, especially since I dont hit every attack, so I guess Ill just roll torwards RT, grabbing life nodes on my way there... Gotta add faster attacks to that.
Ill try skipping some auras for now and running with a 300 dps claw until I get me a soultaker. Less dps, but not that expensive...

No problem, glad I could help

Claws are great options! I highly recommend them, the leech on them is great. They are hands down the second best option. I actually ran with a claw for a while there until I got a ST :)

Soul taker just enables more auras but in the end you will want a soul taker if you can get one eventually because auras are awesome :)

I know, thats why I decided to run this build xD Ill prolly just skip hatred until I get soultaker, planning to run maps with a friend, so he can provide one or two auras for me.
I never ran CI char before, so I dont know exactly how tanky they are, and I dont want to rip in some dumbass way with soultaker on me, especially that this build doesnt use max block (or any block, in fact)

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benjiwoosh wrote:

I know, thats why I decided to run this build xD Ill prolly just skip hatred until I get soultaker, planning to run maps with a friend, so he can provide one or two auras for me.
I never ran CI char before, so I dont know exactly how tanky they are, and I dont want to rip in some dumbass way with soultaker on me, especially that this build doesnt use max block (or any block, in fact)

It has some block, not much, but dual wielding gives you an inherit 15% block chance :) May not be much but it does help :)

The tankyness of this build comes from:

Insane leech
CDWT immortal call setup
Armor
(also high res if/when you turn on some purities during a boss fight that has ele dmg.)

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whoismiked wrote:

The tankyness of this build comes from:

Insane leech
CDWT immortal call setup
Armor
(also high res if/when you turn on some purities during a boss fight that has ele dmg.)

I never really trusted armor, Ive read you need insane amounts of it to be actually usefull against heavy hitters like hillock, warden or cole...
Tell me something else tho - for how much armor/es should I aim on my armor? As much as I can get, sure, but how much would be reasonable (Id like to know before switching to CI)?

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benjiwoosh wrote:

for how much armor/es should I aim on my armor? As much as I can get, sure, but how much would be reasonable (Id like to know before switching to CI)?

Just try and get the best you can but prioritize ES over armor, heck even a full es chest could work ... but it's nearly impossible to get the right colors on a pure ES chest so Armor/ES hybrid are the best option. Having decent armor on your chest does help, but it's not really "needed".

Also, you are correct that armor is less and less effective the bigger the physical hit is, this is true, but every bit of mitigation does help some. Armor is helpful, the more the better, but high armor is not a priority. ES, Phys Damage & leech % are your main priorities.

Also I hope that video guide I sent you via PM was helpful :)

Cheers!

Hey, one lil question - Im around lvl 70 now, about to grab RT, but IDK what to take from now on - rush unwavering to unlock necklece slot? grab some mana reservation nodes? focus on aura effects?