[1.2] 30%+ Instant Leech Dual Claw Guide

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fireSD wrote:

Ok, I respecced my char now and went with the second tree slightly variated: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQAmSubLb2BFx1HfleXFFJgQWVNEdWE2b6nWNsl3-_jU98b-mNwm4OkGTSThO8B3LZBdO2-ik4qeu94DVuvKaVgS1ivqW7dDQUtNui18vzFOlI1klb6Z6AOPP6P2L3uDod2QqOfyxRxTeP-CqOKSn0nC_jrpzCmV_JFI_ZMYIO26hgUIDrhMZ5Nko19BLH3MlBHMHyVZnKpGJFRRwOHfNmNv3ByG60FtdN-wux9dbTF_roV_WKsjYGKOJ2qbIxLHGSvj8FF9NYHb1e77ZHO4JUISbLcVug=

I'm not so sure about:

1. Resolute Technique on crit-favoring weapons like claws.
Especially since a big part of your tree walks on Dex nodes, I see no real reason to grab RT.
What's your Chance to hit if you remove it?
I guess you're only gimping your DpS that way (20k is very low for Dual Strike, considering you are running some damage-heavy gear).

2. You're spending a ton of skillpoints (6 travel points and 9 points in the cluster itself) to reach the claw cluster in upper right.
I'd probably rather take the Dual-Wield Cluster in bottom, which adds more damage and some sweet block on top. Do you really need the additional leech?
(Life could be found near RT, and you'd free up some more points)

3. Why lower your DpS with using a Bloodseeker Claw, when you actually sit right next to Vaal Pact?
I've always considered Bloodseeker to be a "poor man's Vaal Pact" (you don't have to travel there in the skilltree, but severly limit your DpS by using it).

4. I've never been a fan of taking the 5 mediocre dual wield starting node in Duelist. You could save 4 skillpoints if you just took the 8% mana node to connect (even though it's wasted), but this is personal preference, I guess.

I'd probably go for something like this:
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What you are suggesting is like a completely different build (and I am not saying it is worse then mine).

1. I have 1k Accuracy and my hit chance without RT is 79%, since your tree looses a bit dex and has no extra Accuracy if I'm not mistaken it would be even lower. Also my off hand claw has only 260 pdps and the damage-heavy gear I have is flat phys on jewellry and a rustic sash, so I won't say it is that damage-heavy. But yes, I know my damage isn't to high (it's 25k after patch btw, so a bit higher), but this is more like a tank build, so it is to be expected.

2. Since leech is the whole point of the build, I would say I need the 8% leech from that area (there are 2% in the life cluster). But I haven't tried it without it, so it might not be needed.

3. Without Bloodseeker and the leech cluster, I lose 14% leech. Without Blood Rage because of no regen it is 24%. So with VP I'm left with 2.4% life leech (6% * 0.4 VP effectivity). I won't get 10 times my current damage to make up for the lost leech.
With your tree and no crit on gear it would be 33% crit chance with 173% crit multi. With like 78% accuracy it's only 26% crit chance (Crits are rolled twice against Evasion, first the hit, than the crit). With better gear it'll probably end up more in favour of crit.

4. Yep, might be true that the starting nodes aren't the best. Might think about other distribution of the points later.

Also a note on your tree: I would not go for three auras with Alpha's and BM gem with a crit claw build but for mana leech, so the aura nodes can be skipped (also since vitality would be useless). A proper crit claw build would probably be totally different then my RT claw build.

But as I said it would be a totally different build, trading much more and more consistent leech for damage and that's a build I want to do in the future myself. There are also guides around for that kind of buid.

Hi there,

I have one question, maybe stupid, regrading the life leech mechanism with the Dual Strike skill. Can you please help me?

I know the Dual Strike will use both main hand and off-hand weapons. On the bloodseeker, the modifier is "Life Leech from Hits with this Weapon applies instantly". I am just wondering if the life leech can leech the whole damage or only a potion which made by bloodseeker?

Many thanks

Dual Strike applies both the main hand and the off-hand damage as one hit with your main hand. Since the main hand is a Bloodseeker, all leech from dual strike applies instantly.
This is the main idea behind this build.

Sorry for the late answer, kinda forgot this thread.

update for 1.3 ?

Can you update skill tree patch 1.3 ?

Is this still working ok in ascendancy