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

I get the block nerf but why nerf physical damage too?Even life on the left side took a hit.
So you don't think 1h/shield is salvagable in any way?It just blows my mind that they would nerf melee builds even more...

I did some testing and I got a tree where we'd get:
- 41% incr effective pdmg compared to 1.2;
- 43% reduced melee pdmg compared to 1.2;
- 38% reduced life compared to 1.2 (which can be replaced by Belly);
- 24% reduced block;
- 4% reduced attack speed.
So yeah, maybe I was too quick in pronouncing 1h/shield dead.

Still is bs though,that a regular non op build would be hit this hard when we were expecting poor duelist to get a buff...Have been testing since yesterday,here's a version I've come up with.

https://www.poebuilder.com/character/AAAAAgQAuR0V7Irw6UbKkITZL8zBgkd-vTZlTb6nAdyE73Tteu8FLWBLXhNAoMC_qZWsrwz3dPEhYBjbW69OKimlFHWkwlb6_MVnoId2Sn2jiu4OTZIj9kxg18s94kjuG62-ingNqW618mxGMglybDWS2L3-Crc-xq4cpwxfU6U8LcT2xBVyqfcyfNnqGFHmnsU7O3dTz352rMAaJy-QVRo47Dh35e0g4XOiAHy7JIsGOfuq8wZRYFfiZp4Wb_rS42odFK-NTUZi7IKbPQ-0LyE0QT86nRT2hjt4rtN-

Tried to get as much life as possible (at 160%) but increased physical(not melee) is pretty low at 178%.Take a look if you have the time,hope it helps.

This is what I was thinking about.

Looks pretty solid,seems you can still get some 1h physical from other sources.Life seems quite low at 140 but looks viable nonetheless

140 is indeed low, but if you switch to Belly from a rare chest you can get additional 35-40%.

I'd wait for new skills before making too many changes to the guide/claiming anything to be dead :p

Hey Jul, wassup? You realize the DW tree you posted is straight-up awful? :D
- playing evasion/dodge with basically no physical mitigation is gonna get you killed an awful lot of times, you'd need more life and probably perma IC to survive an avalange of physical dmg (especially spells), but that's losing points and skills;
- you'd end up with a rather low dps as for a DW Diarrhea, you waste 8 points to get to Iron Grip that stands for 2-3% of your total damage (calculated some pages back).
So, this is how you DW Diarrhea:

10% or so less life, but who cares, since Belly is so good after 1.2, much more dmg, decent block and prolly around 10-11k armor, which is enough, especially since armor mechanics may get a huge buff in 1.3.

I... feel embarassed. I still think armour is completely useless for this build and the point about iron grip... I didn't look into it that much but don't think it saves more than 1 point. Why I feel embarassed? Well, getting Ondar's with result technique doesn't work. So drop that instead, with my skill tree you get enough dex and accuracy anyways to not need it if you get some accuracy on 1 gear piece.

Do feel free to explain your choice of armour/IR, I'm not expecting much though~


edit: drop IG and go through scion towards RT, drop RT and get berserking cluster

Also for the tree you posted.. how could you waste 6 points on blade derwish instead of getting thick skin?! Generally a lot of nodes you pick up are just really inefficient use of points. 6 points for swagger? Really?

1H/Shield Version
I was going to quit until 1.4, but it seems maybe the build isn't dead...

I've been messing with the tree and I kept wanting to go under the marauder tree for bloody bludgeon, bloodless, and solidity (6% block), but it just seemed like I couldn't do it without sacrificing too much. Then I saw your tree, and if I were to make any small changes I think I would take out sovereignty for arsonist and run tempest. Maybe block will be stronger than before because of how hard it is to get now.

I think if nothing else changes in the new passive tree, I'll be trying something like this.
https://www.poebuilder.com/character/AAAAAgQAuR0V7MSCivC9NmVNvqewq4TZR34Y20CgIWB08ayvDPeplcC_o4ruDlb6TZIj9j3i18tMYJVmBLEyCXJsbEapbv4K2L01krXyU6UMXxynxq63PnzZ9zJyqcT2PC0kiz0PhjsU9jqd8wb7qgY5UWAdFPrSZp7AGlnzrKqvjZBVGjitjc9-dqzqGItPm2qFUtlhnsU7O3dTUeZBPyE0tC-bLaTCFHUnL8GCL8xNRmLsBS1gS14TdO2E73rveA1KfYd2Z6D8xTiWZFpc-bcXvooB3An21HwGDift42oWbyfV

54% block with tempest

The reason why I don't pick up IR this time is because 3pts and most of my gear will be armor anyway.

It's really unfortunate we can't make use of the hybrid shield nodes because they are all melee physical, do you think something like a cyclone variant of this build would be stronger? I remember you mentioning one...