Staff build?

Not done a Marauder on Rampage yet but I think this is the best staff I've had drop period.I want to get good block but what sort of melee skill would be ideal for staff use?

This is what i use with my duelist: Passive skill tree build

Just dont take the duelist first point and start as marauder
i have 85k cyclone tooltip, 10k+ life (you should have around 7-7.5k without kaoms or belly) and huge regen (1k life per second)

normal difficulty take passive point, oak cruel, oak merciless if you want the charge if not just passive point.

run hatred, herald of ash and haste or some other 60% aura of your choice, wrath is pretty nice too since with crits you get 50% more damage form shock stacks

Heh I do have a belly.Whirling Barrier 10% block not worth getting?

Since it's got 18% start and block gets better(each % as higher value) the higher it is or not worth it if you can't get above a certain threshold?

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Kavlor wrote:

Heh I do have a belly.Whirling Barrier 10% block not worth getting?

Since it's got 18% start and block gets better(each % as higher value) the higher it is or not worth it if you can't get above a certain threshold?

its not worth it because you spend too many points to get an amount of block chance which wont be noticeable, you would have to sacrifice either life or damage to get it, youre better off without speccing into the staff block nodes, also since you dont have unwavering stance you can get stunlocked from blocking when you are not cycloning this will likely lead to a death since the animation will play every time you block something and you wont be able to move.

Currently working on a Staff build, but from Templar start.

Click me for 115 points marauder version
(in templar version, I just swap the starting nodes)
I'll probably not get to finish this build before the tree is reworked again though. ;)

It's a different defensive approach than VictorDoom's variant*, and I took every staff cluster + all power charges and a bit more crit.

Acrobatics is just too strong for twohanders, it's the only reason I travel all over there.
And while I'm there, the new Shadow starting zone is pretty insane as well. So take it. ;)

Bandits: Oak, Kraytin, Alira (isn't that nice? They all want to help)

*: Acro+LC+Block will statistically provide more survivability in the long run, I think, however it's all luck-based, so I'll be more troubled with potential fiaskos my 5-6k life pool cannot handle.

@Victor
Is this DpS number with the mirrored lathi you showed in the "defeated uber atziri" thread?

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Peterlerock wrote:

@Victor
Is this DpS number with the mirrored lathi you showed in the "defeated uber atziri" thread?

Yup the dps is with the mirrored staff

also you might want to get more life regen on that build, you cant really run bloodrage with it even with the templar 1%

I'll most likely not use Blood Rage.

I have gear for 4%+ leech, this should get me to leech-cap without Blood Rage.

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Peterlerock wrote:

I'll most likely not use Blood Rage.

I have gear for 4%+ leech, this should get me to leech-cap without Blood Rage.

hmm

You could get vaal pact then, ditch the regen completely and rely on life leech from gear and tree

Hegemonys would work pretty well with this build considering you get all of the power charges,you also wouldnt have to waste another link on PCoC, you can even skip some of the crit nodes and go to vaal pact since i think you will be capped at 95% crit pretty easily

something like this would work really well with that mind: Passive skill tree build



Altough vaal pact and cyclone is kinda... iffy to me cause of the big mana cost of cyclone, this might work a lot better with groundslam or sweep since the mana cost of these skills is low and they work with multistrike and you can also run them on mana. Better for vaalpact.

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VictorDoom wrote:

Hegemonys would work pretty well with this build considering you get all of the power charges,you also wouldnt have to waste another link on PCoC, you can even skip some of the crit nodes and go to vaal pact since i think you will be capped at 95% crit pretty easily

Hegemonys was considered and I would love to use it, but the price of that thing... 25+ Ex for 450-80 DpS? Urgh! ;)

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something like this would work really well with that mind: Passive skill tree build

Looks good, but I would have to stack a ton of Life Leech then.

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Altough vaal pact and cyclone is kinda... iffy to me cause of the big mana cost of cyclone, this might work a lot better with groundslam or sweep since the mana cost of these skills is low and they work with multistrike and you can also run them on mana. Better for vaalpact.

I actually plan on using Heavy Strike. ;)

The Selffound God is caring for me so far:
;)

I think it would be better to wait for the next patch. After all,GGG did hint at making staff passives better :)