2h sword tree - hot or not?

Goals:

I want to wield one of those new 2h katana swords with 40% crit multi implicit.

I want some crit, but not go crazy on it (enough damage to kill monsters with normal attacks, but do some serious DpS when I get my crits)

I want to try the new BM passive.
I'll use HoA as only aura, which will be basically for free (25%/2 mana reserved, but +35% life).

I want to be armor based and have around +200% life.

Main skill will probably be static strike or ice crash with melee damage, added fire, WED, increased critical strikes (+Critical damage if I get a 6L). Or Cyclone maybe.
Secondary skill: Leap Slam, fa, fortify

So far I've come up with this tree:
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202% life
82% armor + IR (if I actually need it)
~350% damage and 50% attackspeed
~250% crit chance, 65% crit multi (will get me to about 35% crit with iis gem, I guess)
3 jewel sockets

...but I'm quite sure this tree layout is not optimal.
Any suggestions?

sword looks cool but i prefer mace and brutal power ;)

Thx for the free buff, but how's your post supposed to help?

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Lvl 50 now, at the start of Act3 cruel. Still using RT and no points in sword passives, since I'm playing selffound and have to use whatever weapon I find.
Current tree
3.5k DpS, ~2k unreserved life.
Glorious Items:

The mace is pretty good for selffound, and the amulet was a nice drop, too. Mostly need it for the stats and resists.

Maybe something like this:

-50% life
-60 str
-1 jewel
+50% crit, 25% multi
+20% life
+2 frenzy charges
+40 dex

Not so happy about the -30% life. And do I really need the frenzy charges? Have they been buffed?

Frenzy charges now give a 4% 'more' damage per charge along with the previous attack speed bonus. It gets pretty insane.

hi Peter, fanboy of your builds here. I hope you'll update this one. I want a samurai tank build (y)

Ty! :)

Lvl 59 now, start of A2M.
My gear is still utter trash, and I had a hard time in A4c, only managed to beat the heavy parts (Piety, Malachai, Daresso) with of health pot spamming (instant recovery on low life and such).



Bought this samurai sword for 2 chaos (it's not too great, but will probably carry me till A3M) and swichted to cyclone, which is pretty much for free with BM keystone.
I dropped Elemental Proliferation on HoA as the radius is just to small, no chance to set the screen on fire like last season.

Next goal is a 5L chest, once I enter lvl60 zones I'll farm the chaos orbs required for this.

Current tree
Rerooted it a bit to walk past Blade of Cunning, I'll also need the Hard Knocks +30 Int probably. Next passive points will be life and sword damage on the right, and the crit stuff next to RT.
Still pretty happy with the BM keystone, it's just nice to have no mana issues whatsoever.

Life ~3000, Cyclone DpS ~4500, Crit ~25%.

hi bro

i want to help you out whith this project so ill give you a tree and the reasons why i change some things
Tree



First of all two handed marauder with no endurance charges is a joke!You dont have shield you dont dual wield so 0 block chance!Get at least 2 of the 3 on the tree plus the oak reward whatever variant of the crit sword u want to try!

Secondly most crit is on the other side of the tree so a scion would have been better for this build in my view..But since u are a marauder u can make it happen with some travel points!

I pick unyielding armor nodes that are great for a bit tankiness and Iron reflexes so u can wear hybrid or evasion gear and it will all transformed into armor!If u want to use a unique like rats nest for example this will help you!

Also no matter how much life u stack its not gonna make the differnce unless you get huge %life regen..Armour is good for a base and the end charges will make the difference!Thats why i drop scion life will!End game u will be able to buy some unique flasks like taste of hate or a lightinng coil for a more tankiness!

Finally and most important u shall not use blood magic for this build!Blood magic is for low life users mostly and not for a player that wants to use 1 aura..Use your mana and half a mana flask and you are ready to go!My tree is aggresive but this crit will raise your dps more than taking tons of phys damage % nodes..

Have fun

I cannot look at your tree, it's for an old version of PoE.

So, just to answer what you commented:

I'll probably not use BM in lategame, don't worry.
This is not an allout crit build, I just want to enjoy some random crits some time. No need to walk all over the tree to collect all crit nodes. ;)
About Armor/Charges/etc: I'll pick that up on the fly if needed.