What are your thoughts on Soul of Steel circle? I Currently have it on my lvl 80 cycloner but I'm not sure if its worth having. IC is almost always up with my CWDT set up. Read your earlier post on why you use LGoH and I agree it'll be more useful than added fire for a 6th link. How much chaos res do you like to have before you use blood rage? I'm at -60 I think with 6.5k hp and ~450 life/s and I don't know if I want to start using it or get more chaos resistance.
Yeah i dont think theres any point in taking that node, beside costing 4 points to get to the good bit(4% phys rez) you already get immunity from physical with CWDT.
With the purity of flesh node you should be at -40 by level 80, and you should have about 8% regen from tree by then also, so you could have started using it at like level 60, youre really safe to use it by level 80 in any case, you should be able to outregen it easily
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What are your thoughts on Soul of Steel circle? I Currently have it on my lvl 80 cycloner but I'm not sure if its worth having. IC is almost always up with my CWDT set up. Read your earlier post on why you use LGoH and I agree it'll be more useful than added fire for a 6th link. How much chaos res do you like to have before you use blood rage? I'm at -60 I think with 6.5k hp and ~450 life/s and I don't know if I want to start using it or get more chaos resistance.
Yeah i dont think theres any point in taking that node, beside costing 4 points to get to the good bit(4% phys rez) you already get immunity from physical with CWDT.
With the purity of flesh node you should be at -40 by level 80, and you should have about 8% regen from tree by then also, so you could have started using it at like level 60, youre really safe to use it by level 80 in any case, you should be able to outregen it easily
I just did some changes to my build and I'm loving the results. Changed my tree to
Essentially a copy of yours except I went for a 2h Axe for the extra weapon range. I used to leave marauder through the Armour nodes and I had Soul of Steel. Swapped those nodes for the DPS way out of marauder, lost the endurance charge/regen based on charges and went up for the hp/chaos nodes. Luckily quality blood rage is cheap as hell on Bloodlines and I was able to get a 19q one for 2 gcp(!).
Here's my gear so far
Spoiler
As for stats I'm capped res, 3168 armour, 7031 hp, 12,289 dps with inc aoe and 20,398 dps with conc effect. I feel like inc aoe is better for clearing maps while my map pool is stuck in the low 70's since everything dies so fast anyways. I think with my next 5 levels I'm going to go for the hp/reduced mana cost nodes or maybe Wrecking Ball down below duelist.
I'm playing in Bloodlines at level 69. I have ~2.8k armour, 4.5k life, max. resistances, 26% chaos resistance and 3k cyclone DPS (4L). I'm running Haste, Hatred and Blood Rage.
I also have CWDT level 1 with Enduring Cry level 5 and Immortal Call level 3 (+Increased Duration).
Now to my problem. I feel really squishy. My HP often drops to 50%. I almost died in Docks and don't feel like progressing to Lunaris 3. So as of now I'm still farming City of Sarn.
I've cleary not understood the defensive mechanics of this build. Could you please explain them to me? How do I survive in HC with this build?
You should link your gear and tree as well, i cant really tell what problem you have by knowing your stats, but in any case you should be farming catacombs or doing low maps by that level
You survive pretty much anything with this build because of high regen, life leech,d the life gain on hit gem combined with cyclone, it lets you facetank anything, and of course the cast when damage taken combination and resistance flasks, those are the defensive mechanics of the build, nothing special or complex about them, its just really starightforward as long as you hit stuff you dont die.
I'm playing in Bloodlines at level 69. I have ~2.8k armour, 4.5k life, max. resistances, 26% chaos resistance and 3k cyclone DPS (4L). I'm running Haste, Hatred and Blood Rage.
I also have CWDT level 1 with Enduring Cry level 5 and Immortal Call level 3 (+Increased Duration).
Now to my problem. I feel really squishy. My HP often drops to 50%. I almost died in Docks and don't feel like progressing to Lunaris 3. So as of now I'm still farming City of Sarn.
I've cleary not understood the defensive mechanics of this build. Could you please explain them to me? How do I survive in HC with this build?
You should link your gear and tree as well, i cant really tell what problem you have by knowing your stats, but in any case you should be farming catacombs or doing low maps by that level
You survive pretty much anything with this build because of high regen, life leech,d the life gain on hit gem combined with cyclone, it lets you facetank anything, and of course the cast when damage taken combination and resistance flasks, those are the defensive mechanics of the build, nothing special or complex about them, its just really starightforward as long as you hit stuff you dont die.
Should I level up CWDT? I don't want to risk it proccing too late :/
I'm level 69 now. Did Piety yesterday. HP went up and down in Lunaris 3...
I'd suggest trying to find new rings/amulet/gloves. Try to find some with decent resists and 60+ life. Also, I highly recommend getting some 20+ MS boots. I looked up 400+ dps swords and they seem crazy expensive for such low DPS so I'd suggest respeccing your sword nodes into the duelist weapon range/hp/attack speed nodes and get a Kaom's Primacy. Its a good starter weapon that will cost you 3-4c. A 5l should also be only ~5c and will help a lot with clear speed but that's secondary to getting HP on your rings/amulet and getting a better weapon.
Edit: Also, get rid of combat stamina if you can survive without the regen. I personally use vitality to help with that and those 3 points can be better spent elsewhere.
I'd suggest trying to find new rings/amulet/gloves. Try to find some with decent resists and 60+ life. Also, I highly recommend getting some 20+ MS boots. I looked up 400+ dps swords and they seem crazy expensive for such low DPS so I'd suggest respeccing your sword nodes into the duelist weapon range/hp/attack speed nodes and get a Kaom's Primacy. Its a good starter weapon that will cost you 3-4c. A 5l should also be only ~5c and will help a lot with clear speed but that's secondary to getting HP on your rings/amulet and getting a better weapon.
Edit: Also, get rid of combat stamina if you can survive without the regen. I personally use vitality to help with that and those 3 points can be better spent elsewhere.
Thanks for your suggestions! I've looked into them and bought better gloves, so I could spec out of Diamond Skin. As of now I'm also looking for Movement Speed boots with life on them.
The thing is that swords have nice APS. Mine has 1.6. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not think that APS of 1.6 can be reached by a cheap axe. This mean that my Life on Hit will proc less often which I kind of don't like...
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I'd suggest trying to find new rings/amulet/gloves. Try to find some with decent resists and 60+ life. Also, I highly recommend getting some 20+ MS boots. I looked up 400+ dps swords and they seem crazy expensive for such low DPS so I'd suggest respeccing your sword nodes into the duelist weapon range/hp/attack speed nodes and get a Kaom's Primacy. Its a good starter weapon that will cost you 3-4c. A 5l should also be only ~5c and will help a lot with clear speed but that's secondary to getting HP on your rings/amulet and getting a better weapon.
Edit: Also, get rid of combat stamina if you can survive without the regen. I personally use vitality to help with that and those 3 points can be better spent elsewhere.
Thanks for your suggestions! I've looked into them and bought better gloves, so I could spec out of Diamond Skin. As of now I'm also looking for Movement Speed boots with life on them.
The thing is that swords have nice APS. Mine has 1.6. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not think that APS of 1.6 can be reached by a cheap axe. This mean that my Life on Hit will proc less often which I kind of don't like...
Yes, you'll have less LGoH but I've had no trouble keeping myself healthy with life leech. Not to mention the quicker you kill them the less time they have to kill you. Also, if you can sustain blood rage ATM or have leech on items you can just drop LGoH with a better weapon and add faster attacks or conc effect/inc aoe.
Essentially a copy of yours except I went for a 2h Axe for the extra weapon range. I used to leave marauder through the Armour nodes and I had Soul of Steel. Swapped those nodes for the DPS way out of marauder, lost the endurance charge/regen based on charges and went up for the hp/chaos nodes. Luckily quality blood rage is cheap as hell on Bloodlines and I was able to get a 19q one for 2 gcp(!).
Here's my gear so far
Spoiler
As for stats I'm capped res, 3168 armour, 7031 hp, 12,289 dps with inc aoe and 20,398 dps with conc effect. I feel like inc aoe is better for clearing maps while my map pool is stuck in the low 70's since everything dies so fast anyways. I think with my next 5 levels I'm going to go for the hp/reduced mana cost nodes or maybe Wrecking Ball down below duelist.
Nice, your stats seems to have gotten a lot higher, and your gear is pretty sweet, everything is looking pretty great for you. From that point on in your build you should go for the regen nodes, then flat life and as soon as your Reduced mana gem hits level 20 you grab the 4% mana reduction node at the templar area so you can run the 3 auras.
Should I level up CWDT? I don't want to risk it proccing too late :/
I'm level 69 now. Did Piety yesterday. HP went up and down in Lunaris 3...
Alright i see the problem there, none of your gear as a high life roll, and 3 parts are missing life rolls completely(rings and amulet)
You first want to focus on upgrading your rings and amulet to ones with nice life rolls, at least +60 max life, you should change your boots also to movespeed and high life ones, your chest to belly of the beast if you can find one cheap, if not just a high life chest like mine will do fine. Helmet also should be changed, you can find much better ones pretty cheaply.
Basically, just upgrade everything to as much life as you can, by level 70 you should have around 6k life. And quute a bit more dps, just try to buy a cheap 400pdps sword, you can find some nice ones, the attack speed doesnt need to be at 1.6 APS, 1.4 is good too, the difference is not so big.
And as CWDT goes, yes, you can level it to around level 6-7 now.
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Not sure whether to use conc eff, inc. aoe or added fire.
Grats!
conc effect would give you the most dps
use AoE instead when youre running low maps with easy mobs
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