A suggestion for a skill tree change to boost the Duelist

Give us this:



Instead of this:



Reasoning: Duelist almost has no resistances and already great access to life nodes. Taking away the 3 life nodes and the anti-status nodes and trading them for resistance nodes would be a good trade.

Looking forward to feedback, but if you disagree please give at least a few lines of reasoning.

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No.

Duelist has +15 res. all Diamond skin, +6 with 2x +15 just there semi-visible in your sec pic., another such cluster on the other side and quite easy access to 3x +18 at the center.

That's plenty of resist.

General resistance is NOT the problem with duelist. In fact taking away those life nodes will do more damage than it would help.

EDIT: And to help drive that point home...I don't even have all the resist nodes around us yet and...

Fire Ring equipped...


Lightning Ring equipped...

This doesn't prove much because this is almost certainly cruel and the rest of your statistics aren't shown. Also, who's to say you don't have 3 endurance charges up? Or flasks?

Actually, take a look at my current gear. Keep in mind this is my first character:

massive light resist/health

bit of cold resist

massive cold resist

massive fire resist

massive life, fire resist

dual resists with life

weapon

massive health belt

trash gloves

And I have these flasks which are situational:









...but I still don't have enough resists and some areas are unplayable.

Yes that is on cruel. And you're expected to change your elemental resist rings on the fly to combat enemies. You should have a pair of 30% resist rings that have additional resist on them for each element. is one of the rings I use for dealing with lightning element users. I can also assure you that those stats are not under the effects of flasks nor endurance charges. I can also tell you that I still have yet to pick up diamond skin and the last cold resist passive(which is my highest resist lol). The primary problem I see with your gear is that it's like half blue lol. Your gear is outdated as well if you're on merciless. Hell my gear in cruel is better than your gear.Feel free to compare your chest to mine. All I see is you not focusing hard enough on resists and you want the skill tree to compensate for you not having it on your blue gear. Going to need a more compelling argument than that.

I have rings like these as well. It doesn't matter, you don't have enough resists for things such as a2 pyramid. What kind of magical talents are you using that you can do a2 pyramid solo? Or are you 10 levels above the monster level?





Btw your chest isn't that great, in fact, mine is probably better (extra health certainly outweighs the extra armor/evasion and more sockets outweighs fire resist)

Better? Yours gives 49 more life, combine that with 150% life from passives is 122.5 life. It would come down to what element we're fighting and where you currently sitting at on said resistance. If you have 0% resistance and fighting lightning, my 3% more lightning isn't going to out-do that 122.5, however if you're at 57 fire resist and put my chest on(42% damage reduction), it provides WAY more even on each hit, much less against a group of fire damage dealers. As to socket count, it depends on just what you need. Your sockets aren't even linked. If that was a 5L, you could make that argument, but it's not.

I am in cruel act 3 level 49 running level 50-53 areas, solo. If you mean a2 merciless, I know I don't have enough, however, by the time I do get there, I'll have my diamond skin and cold resist passives. I very rarely die to elemental damage. It is much more common for me to die to a charging enemy or just straight up high physical damage enemies.

EDIT:
You asked about my skills...
Infernal Blow
Cleave
Dual Strike
Viper Strike
Leap Slam
Flame Totem
Blood Rage(Probably going to drop this)
Warlord's Mark
Anger
Hatred

Btw, reinforcing my earlier point:



And I meant your passive skill tree, this one is mine:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQAAAYEsQUtDq0UUhR1FfYY2yFgI_YotSmlMgk1hjWSOlI6szrtQKBDnEd-Sn1MYE7IU99WBFb6WNtaSFuvXQBgS2CIYVJieWVNZ6B07XTxeu-E2YTvhmCHdpAKmSubg52qnrmfy6vFuc2-p8APwdjKkMzb0O7STdN-1e3dDd-_7g7vTu_w96P8xQ==

I've got the resists to the right of my starting area which are close by and I haven't gotten yet, but after that the closest are to the left of me and at the center.

Btw, I don't know the monster levels, but a2 pyramid on cruel was impossible when I tried it and so was church dungeon (my character level was equal or +1 to the monster level as I remember). It surprises me you don't have diamond skin yet. I'm also wondering what areas you are running and if you are running them solo.

EDIT: Another way to go would be to use blood magic on my two main attacking spells and warlord's mark and then run all the auras (including the allres aura, purity isn't it?) from my mana.

My passive tree at this time is...

Which will soon be changing shortly after I get IR and US. The final build will look something close to...



As to a2 pyramid cruel, it was pretty easy for the most part. The only challenging parts were the chaos snakes and the boss himself. As to the church, it's a joke if you're capped on fire resistance since that's all they do. For the record, the difference between 50% and 75% resistance is as big as the difference between 0% and 50%. I don't really remember what my level was back then though, sorry.

As to your thoughts towards blood magic use, with my build, warlord's mark, and mana leech gem attached to my dual strike, I have infinite mana, so I don't see much point in using blood magic /shrug. As to using purity, that is indeed an option if you can't find gear with enough resistance.


EDIT: Oh I should probably mention I'm still tweaking that final build. I'm probably going to end up dropping the twin terror chain. Just haven't decided where to move the points to yet.