ReverendBizzarre: ele cleave templar [6k life, 45k+ dps]

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VictorDoom wrote:

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lianyi163 wrote:

Hi Victordoom, Thanks for the build! Looks Awesome!

After trying your build on my Templar, I must say it works great; but I just cannot stand the appearance of the Character.

So I made a Ranger build which follows your ideas, but with more focus on life and using Blood Magic. I haven't actually try this but I think it would work.

I would not go BM with this build(also this build uses elemental damage so nodes that offer physical damage are not useful), the reason for this is that you can not use auras like vitality or purity when you need them, and auras in OB reserve a lot of mana, so you would lose quite some life for basically for nothing.

Blood magic does not bring any advantage to this build, because it already uses a mana leech gem, paired with concentrated effect and the mana regeneration nodes that i have taken with the templar you have NO mana problems at all.

If you are interested in doing this build but with a different class i suggest you use a shadow, that is the class where this build originated from in closed beta.

This would be the shadow version of this build:Passive skill tree build

It has less life than the templar but more damage, more attack speed and 32% chaos resistance just from nodes, it is pretty good and i bet it would work.

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lianyi163 wrote:

Thanks VictorDoom for the shadow build, I will look into it.

One Reason I use BM is the end game map. Conditions like 'cannot use life or mana regeneration' or 'use blood magic', or something similar could bring some trouble and therefore having BM can be an advantage. But I agree that lacking mana affects the use of auras, which does bring quite a lot of benefits, is a major downside.

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Antisocialz wrote:

Hey,

Solid build, been a breeze so far (cruel act 2), would like a few pointers and the thought process behind some choices though.

1) Why swords? - aren't the + accuracy and crit chance wasted stats? Game kept de-syncing when I tried out Whirling Blades (getting me killed in the process, /ragemodeon it's worth mentioning that those were the ONLY 2 times I managed to get killed so far, both thanks to this god damn skill /ragemodeoff) so I simply skipped it.

2) Weapon speed - I'm not too familiar with the game's mechanics (been playing for 3-4 days), I'm thinking slower = better since 90% of the time you have to position yourself and cleave once -> stutter step -> cleave -> stutter step rinse and repeat, so wouldn't a slower heavy hitter make more sense? I understand the majority (if not all) of the dps comes from the elemental damage portion so perhaps you simply can't get a higher +ele dmg mod from a slower hitting weapon hence faster > slower.

3) When to switch from a 2 hander to dual wield? - A 2-hander just seems a lot easier to keep up to date, currently lvl 45 and still haven't managed to get 2 decent 1-handed weapons, is the dps output from dual wield worth the time & effort/cost to keep them up to date?

4) Soul Siphon - It's 7 points away from your layout and opens up the possibility for a 5 point investment for a +40 int / +12% aoe radius and opens up the gem slot of mana steal for more damage (added fire damage comes to mind). On the other hand, it would be semi-useless vs boss-like conditions (no trash adds to get mana from and increased cleave cost due to the extra gem so it might even force a mana flask slot). Thoughts?

That's all I could think of for the time being, thumbs up for the music as well :D

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Luckyfer wrote:

Here you go for some dex nodes wherever you can and you can start using swords/axes with elemental damage.
Build at around level 40:Passive skill tree build

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But you don't take any Dex nodes in your build at this point?
Can you avoid all the Dex nodes cause of your equip, or am i missing something

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Aurell wrote:

Awesome build right there! 2 questions tho:

1. Could you please update your current gear? (you have 114 DEX atm, and your weapon requires more?)

2. What do you do when you encounter elemental resist mobs? Switch to 2 hander? or something else? (i find it quite difficult to kill high hp and hard hitting mobs with elemental resists)

Kind regards,
Aurell