[2.6] The Death Knight, melee witch that delivers pain <Guardians+Shaper videos>

Updated flask section (again), thanks to advice of a kind soul.
Sorry, I forgot your nick, as I was in a rush to leave the house. Hope you got nice drops from that Core map :)

Also, added basic boss tips section.

edit: added another Shaper video, to show how easily it can be done deathless if it wasn't for random freezes and lag (aka stupid death whirling onto bullet hell and freeze on the last phase during twin laser/golden bullets).

After consultations with some people regarding Grace+Iron reflexes, I have to say that Hatred setup is better in general.

It deals (and leeches) up to 40% more damage against poison immune Guardians, and has only 15% less overall damage from poison. Since end game bosses have modifiers that reduce effectiveness of curses and poison duration, it means that even against non immune bosses, we deal 10-15% more damage in total.
We do lose armour, which makes us a bit more fragile against one shots from Minotaur, or reduces our survivability in the Chimera smoke phase, but ability to leech es back faster makes up for it.
Mapping experience is also better, since normal monsters die in 1-3 hits anyway, poison doesn't have the room to shine. Dealing more front loaded damage means that we clear packs much faster.

For this reason, I changed the build to not include Grace passive setup.
Apologies for any inconvienience, but remember that even with Grace setup, you can do all content. By no means do I say you HAVE to change your tree if you are running Grace, only that Hatred is slighly better and is recommended. You could also use Haste for movement speed and slightly less damage, but still comparable with Hatred.

Also, added a video reaching over 110 million dps in Path of Building, using perfect gear. That doesn't mean that gear in that video will be BiS, as you only get 1 choice between anti-freeze and anti-bleed, you also lose a bunch of ES and resists, so I don't think that setup would be playable. I only made a video to show how much dps you could do if you really wanted to.
After recording it, I managed to get 130, and later 170 million dps. For science!



edit: Added another Shaper video, and all Guardians+Shaper video. A lot less laggy then previous videos, and a lot smoother performance on my part.

Do you plan to adjust the tree with the release 3.0? It is interesting to play through your build, and what skill can be removed for 5 link?

I have two ideas in mind in case Poison gets hit hard, one elemental based (phys->light, WED gems etc.), one just going pure physical. Gear should be more or less the same, mostly gem changes, tiny changes on the tree.
First though, I want to see how new changes impact the build. Hopefully ES/VP changes won't be as drastic, I'm currently lobbying for a way of nerfing ES/VP without affecting melee and short range skills as much :D

In 5-link, I'd suggest dropping Increased Critical Strikes, as it is the "weakest" gem, so:
BF
Melee on Full life
Melee Physical
Inc AoE/Conc
Poison

Sorry I've missed the second question, I thought it was a statement for some reason lol.
Yes it is fun to play with this build, I've had a few people message me in game saying it is really fun. One person also said they've achieved their fastest shaper kill with my build.
Feedback like that makes me happy :)

following the guide

There was a problem how to increase, so to speak the range of the skill, because I can not reach the archer .... therefore I like the spectral throw , it covers the screen :-)

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Changed the stone from concentration to AoE and immediately began to get to the archers :-) let's go on to pump it means)))

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TornadoWP wrote:

There was a problem how to increase, so to speak the range of the skill, because I can not reach the archer .... therefore I like the spectral throw , it covers the screen :-)

upd

Changed the stone from concentration to AoE and immediately began to get to the archers :-) let's go on to pump it means)))

I'm a bit lost :D what archer are you refering to?

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Bristoling wrote:

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TornadoWP wrote:

There was a problem how to increase, so to speak the range of the skill, because I can not reach the archer .... therefore I like the spectral throw , it covers the screen :-)

upd

Changed the stone from concentration to AoE and immediately began to get to the archers :-) let's go on to pump it means)))

I'm a bit lost :D what archer are you refering to?

Sorry, this is all an interpreter :-), it's bad when you do not know the language))

I could not reach the mob archers ..... because of the wrong stone :-) I now punish archers for insult :-)

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TornadoWP wrote:

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Bristoling wrote:

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TornadoWP wrote:

There was a problem how to increase, so to speak the range of the skill, because I can not reach the archer .... therefore I like the spectral throw , it covers the screen :-)

upd

Changed the stone from concentration to AoE and immediately began to get to the archers :-) let's go on to pump it means)))

I'm a bit lost :D what archer are you refering to?

Sorry, this is all an interpreter :-), it's bad when you do not know the language))

I could not reach the mob archers ..... because of the wrong stone :-) I now punish archers for insult :-)

Oh that's fine :) I see you are using Hand of Thought and Motion for leveling, I've never even thought about using them - what is your experience with them, is the leveling easy/smooth?