[0.10.3b] What's cooler than being cool? Ice Cold Templar

First character, picked this build just because of the title.

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showtime0314 wrote:

(snip) Those two do not equate to that much of a health pool which is a deadly mistake in merciless. (snip)

2500 ES, Merciless? Time to grab that CI node and say buh-bye to all that Chaos damage. That's what this build is all about! You do not need HP cause you do not have any.

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2012 wrote:

First character, picked this build just because of the title.

Very happy to hear that. You made my day!

Anyone have a layout of their build around level 30 ? I'm pretty poorly geared and having trouble surviving. Let me know, any help is much appreciated !

Hello,

Im playing with this build from lvl 1 to 51 (current lvl)

And im a little bit out of dex and there is a note at lvl 70 or something I dont know

I cant lvl my gems anymore -_- so maybe you can help me :)

And if i want a onyx amulet (What i have now) im getting out of mana Because i dont have my +74 Mana regen Amulet

Like the post above me, my real problem with gearing is that I need gear with high dexterity on it to even continue using most of my gems. I had to take two +30 Dex nodes to use GMP and LMP with my other abilities.

Do you have any suggestions as to where to find gear with the extra dexterity? Rings/amulet?

I will say that if you pick up the increased buff effect nodes, you don't really need much mana regeneration at all.

This has been answered I'm sure, but is this build viable for hardcore?

My highest heroe is kDosh, lvl 50 Cool Templar !

Thanks for you skill tree, im taking some str/dex nod (+30) for lvling some supp gem though.
But really, really nice to play. I can solo without any problem in cruel and my friends who were laughing about following a guide are dying cause they went all dps in normal :D

/played = 2 days of fun.

Can you make the passive tree in steps?

Example:

From: 1 to 30
From: 30 to 60
Etc.

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Crystalx wrote:

Can you make the passive tree in steps?

Example:

From: 1 to 30
From: 30 to 60
Etc.

This is what I did for the lvling progress. I started with the melee nodes and used ground slam, and after I got the elemental nodes and switched over to lightning strike.



This is is where I am atm, lvl 29. I was thinking of getting the life nodes too because the low life is bugging the shit out of me, but it would require more respec pts so I said fuck it and just built it like the original. Trying to compensate with more hp/es on gear.


Currently 500dps with lightning strike and 620 with heavy strike, but I have Geofri's maul wich helps alot... Also using leap slam for getaways and just for fun:) Waiting untill I get more ES/HP/Spell dmg gear before I do a 180* and go ice cold.



But I have a question, Mr. OP! Thinking about the CI and various situations I might be getting myself into, would we not get instagibbed if we got frozen/stunned/gagbound etc..? Already now during the lvling progress I feel the monsters with cold dmg and people who stun/knock back really can be a pain in the left ear. Other then that I'm looking forward to see how this build evolves :) Hope my lvling spec helped you out abit Mr. X.

I noticed that this build was picking up critical strike talents AND spell critical strike talents.

I'm a noob so - can someone tell me why?