[3.1] RAIDER Tanky Crit Reave/Blade Flurry Dagger/Claw AR+EV+Block NO MIRRORED GEAR

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Ashnal wrote:

I was searching for builds and I came across two slightly different ones. This one and another that uses shadow and a similar equipment setup using Wild Strike to get elemental procs everywhere.

I was wondering, how well do you think the build would work replacing Reave with Wild Strike?

No idea, never tried wild strike, but you'd definitely need to change your support gems.

Wild Strike drops in nicely with this great build IMO (thanks OP). I'm currently 64 in Tempest with it.

Got lucky with a 5L drop chest. All self found except dagger.

Gem Setup is a bit different other than Wild Strike.

5L: Wild Strike - Blood Magic - Melee Physical - Multistrike - Faster Attacks

Auras: Grace or Hatred / AA / HoT (liked with cast on crit Assassins Mark) - reserved 100% of mana.

CWDT: Enfeeble / Tempest Shield / Immortal Call

Rekoning and WB setup is same.

well done for going armour + evasion. Wouldnt be an ar+ev build idea without the "why dont you go acro/iron reflexes?" responses :D

honestly this should be great to level with, your ar+ev so whatever u feel you need you just equip, you can get a titicus span or whatever theyre called while leveling. If you feel you need more armour then put more armour on. You are only speccing dagger late game right? I feel like you go to duelist first, so u get a lot of 1h stuff in ranger, then 1h stuff in duelist, then come up and get phys damage and then 1h stuff in shadow... then you go out through the cirt and get into dagger specifics... Up to that point you can use claws, daggers and swords, whatever the best thing u find. When its down to your choice, doing rustic recipe on a base etc Id be picking life on hit claws and then life and mana on hit claws through normal and cruel. The LoH while leveling is so gg, claws are absolutely king for leveling 1h melee, but u find a gg unique leveling sword or something? Great, use it if the dips is better. Dagger is the last thing I would chose to use for leveling unless I found a really good one.

You have that freedom with a build like this, until youre getting near endgame you are not specialized too much, you can wear ar, ar+ev, ev, you have 3 weapon bases open to you, everywhere you go on the tree has good clusters of life and damage so its a very even, consistent leveling process.

I like the look of the build, its quite close to a lot of builds ive made along the same lines. Builds like this are great for self found, before you come out of the top of the shadow youre all 1h, you got claw nodes right there, you got dagger nodes right there, but you have sword nodes too. You can stop at assassination going up from shadow, get the ranger sword horseshoe beside spirit void and then you can even come down and get fatal blade, if you suddenly find some opop crit sword early merciless maybe thats how it ends up. Dagger is ideal endgame but even if u trade, buying a 300 pdps crit sword for the same price as a 200 pdps crit dagger is probably going to give you more damage.

Personally I would have done the tree slightly differently but going the shield defense way is cool. JahIthBer89 and I were talking about ar+ev builds a while back and he was showing as sick build he had going where the armour was all coming from a giant shield and shield defense nodes, very cool build, I knew shield defense nodes were strong but didnt appreciate just how much they can carry.

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ToplessMan wrote:

I have a pretty insane dagger, decent gear. I feel overall though that reave needs some love. The clear speed isn't actually that great compared to most other FoTM builds. The reason I started a Reave character up was due to the mini boss in the dom fight that uses it. They make it look a lot cooler.

I dunno man reave is pretty nuts. Its like any attack skill though, its down to the weapon. You got a good weapon u will faceroll, if you dont you wont. But when you get into faceroll zone reave is one of the top melee skills imo. I made a video of a reaver the other day

http://plays.tv/video/55ba4629d45712011d

thats not even a dps spec, its got significantly less damage specced than the build this thread is about. Thanks a tanky reave, you could get double the dps that car has with a different setup. I feel like when you actually stop to loot dropsm that breaks down clear speed in a manner where theres maybe 5 or 6 endgame melee skills that can go beyond a clear speed thats capped when you loot, and one of them is reave. I believe a dps focused crit rave spec would probably be the fastest melee clearing in the game right now in a gorge run type situation. None of that matters when you pick up loot, my reave, cyclone and frostblades melee all clear at the same speed because I always pick up loot.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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ToplessMan wrote:

I have a pretty insane dagger, decent gear. I feel overall though that reave needs some love. The clear speed isn't actually that great compared to most other FoTM builds. The reason I started a Reave character up was due to the mini boss in the dom fight that uses it. They make it look a lot cooler.

I dunno man reave is pretty nuts. Its like any attack skill though, its down to the weapon. You got a good weapon u will faceroll, if you dont you wont. But when you get into faceroll zone reave is one of the top melee skills imo. I made a video of a reaver the other day

http://plays.tv/video/55ba4629d45712011d

thats not even a dps spec, its got significantly less damage specced than the build this thread is about. Thanks a tanky reave, you could get double the dps that car has with a different setup. I feel like when you actually stop to loot dropsm that breaks down clear speed in a manner where theres maybe 5 or 6 endgame melee skills that can go beyond a clear speed thats capped when you loot, and one of them is reave. I believe a dps focused crit rave spec would probably be the fastest melee clearing in the game right now in a gorge run type situation. None of that matters when you pick up loot, my reave, cyclone and frostblades melee all clear at the same speed because I always pick up loot.

That aoe looks nice, why doesn't this build use that?

Ok so I just respecced from a shit build into this sweetie in Tempest. Cost me a shit ton of chaos to get those regret orbs lol.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwIAAF4EsQUtBbUILg2NFSAV_Ra_GY4ZtButI_Yk_SaVLYMvzDB8MgE2PTqtPeJF9Ed-SO5KfUxgTUZNklFHVUtW6FuvYeJirGLsZK9lTWegbIxtbG9Xb4R07XgZeK567311hNmE74d2ijiMC4w2jX2Nv5VmmyabjZ2qn4KjiqZ_r-uxs7IZtMW1SLl8vTa-p8FJwYLC7Mjcz3rTftfL2sHdDeCV45_nVOjW6xTssO1B7YPvevaj_h3-uv8c_94=?accountName=believers&characterName=InspecteurII

Only got 7.2k with the golem out, gems underlevled tho.

Should I have specced in another order? Please help, ty.

Gear not optimized yet ofc, but decent:

Anyone?

Is carcass armor good for this build?

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believers wrote:

Ok so I just respecced from a shit build into this sweetie in Tempest. Cost me a shit ton of chaos to get those regret orbs lol.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwIAAF4EsQUtBbUILg2NFSAV_Ra_GY4ZtButI_Yk_SaVLYMvzDB8MgE2PTqtPeJF9Ed-SO5KfUxgTUZNklFHVUtW6FuvYeJirGLsZK9lTWegbIxtbG9Xb4R07XgZeK567311hNmE74d2ijiMC4w2jX2Nv5VmmyabjZ2qn4KjiqZ_r-uxs7IZtMW1SLl8vTa-p8FJwYLC7Mjcz3rTftfL2sHdDeCV45_nVOjW6xTssO1B7YPvevaj_h3-uv8c_94=?accountName=believers&characterName=InspecteurII

Only got 7.2k with the golem out, gems underlevled tho.

Should I have specced in another order? Please help, ty.

Gear not optimized yet ofc, but decent:

Spoiler

Seems completely fine :)

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mpamiolos wrote:

Is carcass armor good for this build?

It's nice for the aoe, but you lose a lot of evasion and armour...

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ComradeSerge wrote:

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believers wrote:

Ok so I just respecced from a shit build into this sweetie in Tempest. Cost me a shit ton of chaos to get those regret orbs lol.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwIAAF4EsQUtBbUILg2NFSAV_Ra_GY4ZtButI_Yk_SaVLYMvzDB8MgE2PTqtPeJF9Ed-SO5KfUxgTUZNklFHVUtW6FuvYeJirGLsZK9lTWegbIxtbG9Xb4R07XgZeK567311hNmE74d2ijiMC4w2jX2Nv5VmmyabjZ2qn4KjiqZ_r-uxs7IZtMW1SLl8vTa-p8FJwYLC7Mjcz3rTftfL2sHdDeCV45_nVOjW6xTssO1B7YPvevaj_h3-uv8c_94=?accountName=believers&characterName=InspecteurII

Only got 7.2k with the golem out, gems underlevled tho.

Should I have specced in another order? Please help, ty.

Gear not optimized yet ofc, but decent:

Spoiler

Seems completely fine :)

Ok great :-)

What do i need to get 30k++ dps? Just more crit nods and some more crit gear? seems hard to swap out my jewelry since I need both the str and int on them :-//