1.3 Blitz Diarrhea | Static Strike | Feb 3. Major Update!

Sorry if my reply sounded harsh, didn't mean to.

As I said, it's all up to you. With my gear, mostly arm/eva, respeccing out of IR really hurts me defeinsively. I'd personally say 10k armor doesn't sound that good, so if I were you I'd get the keystone anyway. But it's your choice at the end of the day.

I had a 23/26 phys/WED% belt with 94 life and Meginord's was slightly better after 1.2.

If you're playing mostly solo it's easy to swap gems before certain fights. I sometimes swap auras, Herald for Purity for example.

Atziri... my problem is, the community has gone completely crazy about doing being Atziri viable. As Zeno said once "Willy's posting a low level PvP build and people seriously ask him if it's gonna be Atziri viable, it's just crazy". In my book doing Atziri is what it's supposed to be, a challenge. You've done it all before, killed 78 Dominus, rolled over the Courtyard bosses, you want to check how strong you really are. If I wanted to make an Atziri farmer, I'd do it. So if you ask me, can I do Atziri with this particular build, I'd say "you can definitely try". You don't need crazy DPS to do it, just get the right auras (both Purity of Fire and Lightning), get the right skills (Vaal Grace!), flasks, items (Saffel's!) and make sure you watch some Atziri vids if you've never done it. You're probably gonna reep if your 1st try, but it's ok since you're not playing a hardcore league.

With this league's end on the horizon, I thought I would give my review of this pretty cool build.

I have to say this is one of the best Tank builds I have tried out melee wise. I plan to get 92/93 to finish out the build with a few more dps nodes/shield.





I have 5072 Life, 17.7k dps with main gems 20/20 besides multistrike. 70/74 block and 86 MF really seems enjoyable and the rain of yellows is fun got a few GG items this league. and usually get 4-5 hype-crushing uniques a night. I mainly do Dom runs/master farming now, and make 40-60 alterations, 5-10 chaos from recipe for 1-2 hour Dom sessions. Takes 3-7 minutes per run.

17.7k Dps is perfect with 6.8 aps on all things but high fire resist/curse immune mobs taking longer to kill. Being able to not have to move out of touch of god without dying so far so that is always fun. Only issues I seem to have is 1% leech seems harsh when I run into packs of chaos bombers/spike dogs. and having to stack alot more Int that I would have liked to run Rathpith.

I have a question, What is the best Health potion to run if I have 50% life recovery from tunic, and 20% life and speed recovery from passive? I am thinking Saturated but I am not sure. My potions are,



So in closing, I chose to go block cap and run 86 MF and 17.7k dps with a 5l is perfect for Dom/map solo farming for xp/currency. Zana daily groups is only time dmg lacks in clear speed but with everyone running mjolner or crazy puncture, being able to hold his own on bosses/exiles when other glass cannons die is a great feeling.

Should I run immortal call instead of molten shell?

It's up to your preferences really.

Was looking through your gear posted for 1h/shield, and I'm wondering what your reasoning is for choosing level 7 for the Cast when Damage Taken gem. Any particular math behind it?

Just wanted to say that I'm using this build to level my first character and I'm loving it. I'm only lvl 28 so far, but it's very fun to play. I don't have all the gems yet but I just got molten strike and hatred the other night and playing through normal is a joke now, lol. I can't wait to get to the harder difficulties to see how it does there. Btw, I'm a duelist and running the dual weild build. I like how it has a good helping of defense unlike a lot of other dual weild builds I've found. Let me know if you have any tips on using this build to level please. So far my only issue has been mana starving, but I m assuming that's because of my low level. I just pop mana potions a lot and I can keep spamming. What support gem would you recommend for me for my hathatred and molten str8ke? So far I have wed and nothing else, but I'm not sure if I should work on getting a different one for when I'm leveling. Thanks for the fun build!

Hello,aiming to do this build in the next temp league and really pumped about it,have a couple of questions though.

1)How come this build doesn't take lava lash?Seems really ideal for the build and quite a damage increase to me(50% fire damage with weapon in total),dunno if Im missing something.

2)Is pyre worth pairing with proliferate(from doryani's)?I ve looked into it but i can't really get a clear answer,apparently since corpses are destroyed they don't proliferate but the inc burning damage and the full hatred conversion might be worth that.

Sorry if these have been answered before and thanks for this great build :).

@Bonkuraazu: I leveled up CwDT to level 7 to get a bit more from Flammability.

@MeatyDemise: I included a leveling guide in the OP a while ago, you may want to take a look. ;)

@Scarmad: Lava Lash is 4 STR passives away and takes 3 passives itself. 7 points to get 50% incr. fire damage isn't worth it IMO. Burning damage is only a bonus on top of melee/projectile dmg dealt by Molten Strike. Hatred and Pyre is too much of a deeps boost to cut it.

Thanks for the quick answer,appreciated :).Since the tree is getting another rework in 1.3 we might get some changes into the build,maybe an RT buff or so,lets hope it ll work out in our favor.