*** [2.0] Gellig Mortezzah's level 100 Aegis End-Game Melee Life Boss Tank ***

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Vadler wrote:

Block is capped at 75%, you can't go higher, so there's no real point to use BoR over Kaom's in this build (unless you want to skip on some of the block nodes on the tree).

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BIGLITRO wrote:

Hi , i got a question...

I dont hav mirror swords or legacy kaoms but i got good gear like legacy soul taker and such things, so i was thinking about using a good hibrid chest like 700 armour and 550 es with 100 life and good res plus a vertex instead of going kaoms, so my life and es would be like 5000 life and 2000 es, my armour atm is 30k so i can sustain the es pretty good.

what do u think about going that route? why people mostly choose bringer of rain instead of a good hibrid chest and helm?

thank u in advance c:

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Felifix wrote:

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwEBAecEhwSzBS0GOQkzCpsLYQxfDPcNzRPJFCAUTRUgGJEY1xm0Gj4aVRutG_ocziFgJd8oKimlK1Atgy5TL8wyTjboPAU8LT0PPeI9_ECgRmlHfkjuUEdRYFOlValXDVhjXz9hIWLsZU1lp2ebaGVo8moBcql07XTxeK55OXrvfNl-4oIHg1-E2YTvi0-Mz4-Zl3mXtJ7NogCkGacwqZWsr62Nrj6uUK9sr6e2LLaKvJ-9Nr6nwGbAv8GCxPbGrsbYz37RNtIh02_Tftlh2sHiLORR5wrp1e8O73rvfPAf8kHzBvOb9kj2o_cy-6r8S_5U_ms=

Currently level 88, and running the tree.

I saw lots of you did not take soul of steel, or unrelenting (running soul taker but still the best life wheel around). I am going for around 5-5.5K life and 800 ES with Aegis.

Are there any nodes/clusters that would would respec or recommend to change and why?

P.S. I run cyclone in a BoR thus i chose to not take unwavering stance to use that blind and while cycloning i cannot be stunned anyway.

Thank you in advance

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Grindrix wrote:

I've played cyclone version of this build for a long time with a sword and aegis, the tree varies on your gear. I also chose soul and steel and Iron Reflexes just so I can not have to run Immortal call or enduring cry all the time. Enduring cry is hard to keep up, i run 80% damage reduction with Grace and Determination + Soul of Steel all the time. With cyclone, it was imperative for me to drop Immortal call and enduring cry as much as possible. With reave you are fine with Mortezzah's options. There is great variance of how you want to go about things. Iron reflexes with grace gives you max es on hit every time if your gear is tuned towards it. I can still use enduring cry with 3 endurance charges to get 90% very easily. But most of the time I don't need it. For DPS with cyclone I use a Quicksilver flask, the movement speed is extremely good but tricky to master for some people. I've currently beaten every map boss, haven't hit the core map yet and just skipped malformation (cough)(yeh be careful).

ON UNWAVERING STANCE: I suggest you take Unwavering still, even with cyclone, there are many times you might get trapped that you can't cyclone out of. I finally accepted this fact a year ago after experimenting and learning from this thread.

This is my new current tree, it's really based on this build but I've drastically changed it to suit my gear and needs since I'm not 100 yet. If you have questions, I can answer them as this is quite different still than Mortezzah's guide as

I use
Spell Block Lazhwar
spell block jewels.
Corrupt Spell block aegis

jewel examples:

For DPS:
Quicksilver Flask
Punishment with CWDT (I want to see more people use the new Punishment, it's very good for this build)
Blood Magic Cyclone (I like having the variant of choosing between a mana skill(HS) and blood magic skill (Cyc). Being able to use both doubles the kinds of map mods I can tackle as well like low regen maps. It has it's advantages. Or use soul taker and remove all mana problems.

Single Target Heavy Strike

I finally acquired mana gain on hit on a jewel, it was suggested by others in this thread, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon, as this will help with mana problems and let you avoid taking mana regen nodes. a 0.4% ML and +2 Mana Gained on hit is very good. My heavy strike hits at 8.5-9 atks per second which is +18 mana per second since 9x2=18. With mana regen on the tree, at best my base mana regen was 10.1 and at best 14 per second with 30%+ mana regen. A +2 mana gained on hit will make that like 28 mana gained per second instead. That's total of +8 mana gained on block, 0.4% ML, and +28 Mana gained per second. That is extremely good for this build. I recommend everyone get it with the mana leeched per second single target reduced in 2.0 Quite happy with this result, it's almost mandatory for certain map mods.

The only difference to mana regen is whirling blades for me, since that is my main movement skll. I Run WB as blood magic so I can skip the mana regen node again. I found this better for the majority of my gaming.

I also play as a duelist, as a Marauder you can actually get better stats overall with jewels.


I also ended up taking Barbarianism for for the +1 Max this time because of all the detonate dead users and the Rogue exile Minara Anemina with her exploding minions. IN EXAMPLE: 78 Springs Boss can 1 shot you if you're not careful, the beyond Unique boss with Vaal detonate dead as well.

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