[INV #1 SHADOW] EXALTON'S BLOODSEEKER GUIDE

i actually tried to make a life build version
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAxthYYz38jM_2SF8_458nL-8OvJ-krPIvVEmoGGoe0iGezVcNpzDM25HOFHEUIHK7i0-77Q48UEe5zfcyQqOfyxiRoW1yqXYIrKp82VnzwBqQVWaep4T60ho4HRQXLzbp7DiPRmTnJKrjalfi0NCnCFXWGYV35TKJz2W4k4CkGmwEs1XG6-4MffPdFE3wHyj6EH-iALT5V8nGnjyO6rq0DJMnRnEc3OGIgwl_xh2qb54nqRGWykpabXC7GYbDOiQ82ROsR5u1p1wvb-ssGYpJUSpN-wkVIPbaLOkaj90NW6_8xU4qZ6AppYd2Sn1E54bRJLA=
what do you think?
you could drop discipline for determination to get a crapload of armour. or even get haste in there.

edit: just realised i spend 121 points in this tree :P

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Zavak wrote:

i actually tried to make a life build version
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAxthYYz38jM_2SF8_458nL-8OvJ-krPIvVEmoGGoe0iGezVcNpzDM25HOFHEUIHK7i0-77Q48UEe5zfcyQqOfyxiRoW1yqXYIrKp82VnzwBqQVWaep4T60ho4HRQXLzbp7DiPRmTnJKrjalfi0NCnCFXWGYV35TKJz2W4k4CkGmwEs1XG6-4MffPdFE3wHyj6EH-iALT5V8nGnjyO6rq0DJMnRnEc3OGIgwl_xh2qb54nqRGWykpabXC7GYbDOiQ82ROsR5u1p1wvb-ssGYpJUSpN-wkVIPbaLOkaj90NW6_8xU4qZ6AppYd2Sn1E54bRJLA=
what do you think?
you could drop discipline for determination to get a crapload of armour. or even get haste in there.

edit: just realised i spend 121 points in this tree :P

Nice :-) I think you could make it work if you started out as a Ranger instead, the problem with the current one you linked is that you end up with 5-6000 Life at most.

Even if you are Life based and have a lot of armor on gear - you still can't reach the armor that my CI build has, due to my character using so many % EVA and ARM nodes. You will not be able to use Melee physical on Full Life which adds 50% more dps - which scales with the leech and hatred as well. Also you can't really pick up the flask effect nodes over at the witch area.

But could it be viable? Sure. I have a friend that made a Life based build using Bloodseeker in invasion league as we found out how powerful it was.

thanks for the reply.
would you mind sharing some details about your friends build? did he also abuse the aura nodes or was he playing a more standard dual strike build with blood seeker?

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Zavak wrote:

thanks for the reply.
would you mind sharing some details about your friends build? did he also abuse the aura nodes or was he playing a more standard dual strike build with blood seeker?

What do you mean by abuse? I never use any snapshots or anything that's not meant to be in game.

He didn't use much auras, but also wasn't able to reach high resistances either. I think his DPS with a 6-link was 17k and around 12k armor 6.5k Life at level 90. Pretty much standard marauder build but with some dual wield nodes instead of block nodes.

abusing was the wrong word. do you still know how you lvld your char befor switching to CI?

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Zavak wrote:

abusing was the wrong word. do you still know how you lvld your char befor switching to CI?

Watch the video and read the rest of the thread. :-)

Nice build there. How much mana leech would you recommend if not using Soul Taker, as I'll be looking to use Dusk Mangler instead. I'd assume around 4%. Would obviously need to give up on 1 of the purities but I don't think that's a big deal.

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Flying_Petals wrote:

Nice build there. How much mana leech would you recommend if not using Soul Taker, as I'll be looking to use Dusk Mangler instead. I'd assume around 4%. Would obviously need to give up on 1 of the purities but I don't think that's a big deal.

Hey,
and thanks. :-)

I'd be very surprised if you needed more than 1% mana leech! Since you can't leech more than 12,5% of your maximum mana per second. With my dps you leech 150 mana per second using only 1% mana leech. This means that you need 1200 mana to be able to gain anything from going beyond 1% leech. (asuming 100% armor penetration)

If you do not use Soul taker I recommend investing in some mana nodes or get mana on gear.

Another tip is to switch out the Dual Strike gem with a level 5 gem --> this reduced your mana usage by roughly 30%!

Nice hacks btw ;-)

Just a tip to make you even more immortal! With Iron Reflexes "Increases to Evasion%" does not apply to Base Armour.

So you should on your flask be getting "Incread Armour during flask effect" instead. It will probably add another 7.5k Armour during that.

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Dared81 wrote:

Just a tip to make you even more immortal! With Iron Reflexes "Increases to Evasion%" does not apply to Base Armour.

So you should on your flask be getting "Incread Armour during flask effect" instead. It will probably add another 7.5k Armour during that.

Just a tip: You are wrong!

Might want to read up on the mechanisms before you school other players, haha. :)

It does increase most of my armor since most of my armor comes from evasion. %Increase does not stack from different flasks - thus I use 1 jade with evasion and 1 granite with armor. Hope that this gives you some clarity.