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

I've been playing this build through 2.4 in SC essence and currently lvl 73. I'm just getting into mapping and running only a 4-link reave setup. Despite that, the build is still pretty strong. There are a few things I've done differently that suited my playstyle more and other players may find fun to mess around with too.

Here's what I did:

- Grabbed mana flows once I got to duelist part of the tree to deal with mana issues (may change this later)
- Instead of using herald of ash, I linked blashemy + assasins mark to keep power charges up
- Was using binos, but just bought a touch of anguish (claw) for 3c which has a bit lower crit, but higher pDPS and has life gain on hit for survivability.
- Using frenzy gem to maintain frenzy charges for boss fights
- Using enduring cry for even more survivability in big packs.

Not sure if this will fare as viable in higher maps, but it's working well for now.

I haven't played since before the Awakening and was running a similar build to Oos's. Got the itch to play again and didn't realize how much has changed in PoE. Will this gear still suffice with your build? Kinda worried about HP so I might change it around and grab more life nodes and replace the one ring for one with more life. When I played she had around 4.7-4.9k life and run Acrobatics...guess that out of the question in the new meta?

Thanks for the guy comrade! I really want to make crit varunastra version of this build and this is the tree I came up with. Basically I'm trying to combine leech from claws and crit from daggers/swords. Sacrificed some nodes there and there but stayed at decent health and crit (not sure if I accidentally sacrificed something too important). Currently planning to use lioneye remorse, varunastra, facebreaker, and can't decide on chest: coil and kintsugi are nice mitigations, daresso have great stats and works well with cwdt-IC, belly of the beast just gives a lot of life and resists. Can you please take a look, and tell tell if there is something I'm missing? I'm only playing actively since beginning of essence league and never did a tree myself, so I might make some dumb mistakes. Thanks!

How would you feel about some slight changes, instead of going for +defenses from shields you go for pure block % and instead of Lion's eye you use a rare evasion shield, and use free points to spec into acrobatics and spell dodge and then as a chest piece use Kintsugi or Lightning Coil, that way you would have a couple layers of fleshed out defense with Dodge, Evasion and block?

Also would you ever want to use Rat's Nest for this build or is a yellow better 100% of the time, or could it be a good unique for early mapping?

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Reaven1911 wrote:

How would you feel about some slight changes, instead of going for +defenses from shields you go for pure block % and instead of Lion's eye you use a rare evasion shield, and use free points to spec into acrobatics and spell dodge and then as a chest piece use Kintsugi or Lightning Coil, that way you would have a couple layers of fleshed out defense with Dodge, Evasion and block?

The reason why this build goes Lioneye's + some increased defences from shields nodes is because it gives you around 5k armour just from the shield. I prefer armour+evasion+block much more to dodge+evasion+block, simply because when you DO get hit, which will happen eventually, you don't get one-shot.

You can use a rat's nest if you don't have a res problem with it.

Was looking around for some inspiration for a reave build in 2.5
Any thoughts on reave in the current meta?
As for chestpiece, whats your take on it?

Well, compare to Blade Flury in its current state... :D but I believe they'll nerf blade flury a bit.
Aside from that, Reave is one of the few "melee" skills which are pretty safe and fast.

You can do all sorts of stuff for a chest, from rare armour like the one listed in my build, to a bell of the beast or something else. It's up to you.

Hey ComradeSerge, nice guide. I'm a returning player pre-ascendency and was just wondering any good lvling uniques you can recommend? Not counting the daggers you've listed of course. How's Crest of Perandus for example?

EDIT: Also is there any gems where we have to stop at a certain lvl?

Crest of Perandus is fine, although it's not as good as it was way back in 1.0. For other leveling uniques, there's nothing special to recommend, just use whatever makes your leveling easier and faster :)