High DPS 1-Hand Lightning Strike/Multistrike 3 Aura Tank Duelist Guide by Ler [1.1.0]

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Gear:

Defensive Screen:


Offensive Screen:

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Introduction:
As you progress in cruel and merciless, effective hit points will be more and more important to avoid one shots.
You going to stack survivability passives like + %life, +% Resistances and %lifereg. Later on, you will add more DPS passives.
The gear you choose will require high evasion, resistances, life and strength.
Since Lightning Strike scales with physical damage, high physical damage one hands are needed.

This build can also start as a Marauder.

Pros:
+ High survivability (236% life / 20k armor).
+ High DPS.
+ Shocks everything.
+ High life leech and life on hit.
+ Can overcome any map mode.
+ Can do dps from range, if the situation is tricky.
+ Flexible build in late game.

Cons:
- Can get heavy damage from lightning thorns.
- Needs to be level 75 to get everything working.
- Expensive build.

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Endgame Build:
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Core passives:
Iron Reflexes
Iron Grip
Resolute Technique
Point Blank
Static Blows
Inner Force

Attributes:
+333 to Strength
+163 to Dexterity
+114 to Intelligence

Life:
240%~ life - Can get more if you want.
3.5% of Life Regenerated per Second
+72 to maximum Life

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Weapons:
Aim for 2.0+ attacks per second and high physical damage.
This will make your life leech/Life on hit more efficient, since you will do more hits in the same amount of time. This will result in more life per second.
Keep in mind, that life leech is capped to 20% of your maximum hit points per second.

High end Weapons:
- Corsair Blade, 1.65 APS
- Eternal Sword, 1.6 APS
- Jeweled Foil, 1.7 APS

Suggested weapon Stats:

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- High Physical Damage
- High Attack Speed
- Attack Speed
Adds:
- Strength
- Life leech
- Resistances
- Dexterity

Armor:
Aim for high evasion armors, since it will get multiplied with your agility.

Suggested armor Stats:

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Shield:
- High Evasion
- Life
Adds:
- Resistances

Helm:
- High Evasion
- Life
Adds:
- Strength
- Resistances

Chest:
- Evasion
- Life
Adds:
- Strength
- Resistances

Gloves:
- High Evasion
- Life
- Attack Speed
Adds:
- Strength
- Resistances

Boots:
- High Evasion
- Life
Adds:
- Resistances
- Strength
- Movement Speed

Belt:
- Life/Strength
- Weapon Elemental Damage
Adds:
- Strength
- Life
- Resistances

Rings:
- Resistances
- Weapon Elemental Damage
Adds:
- Life
- Life Leech
- Strength

Amulet:
- 20 Attributes
- Weapon Elemental Damage
Adds:
- Strength
- Resistances
- Life Leech

Necessary Uniques:
- Alpha's Howl (If you want to run a third aura, else drop all resrve nodes and just run 2).
- Any blood magic unique to buff auras to your life if you want to do that.


Flasks:
Use two Granite Flasks, two Life Flasks and one quick silver.

Granite Flask
Name: Perpetual Granite Flask of Iron Skin
- Increased Armor
- Charge recovery

Life Flasks:
Name: Seething Hallowed Life Flask of Grounding
- Curse Immunity, Removes curses
- Instant Recovery

Name: Seething Hallowed Life Flask of Warding
- Dispels Shocked
- Instant Recovery

Quicksilver Flask:
Name: Perpetual Quicksilver Flask of Adrenaline
- Charge recovery
- Movement Speed during flask effect.

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Main Skill:
Our main attack will be Lightning Strike. If you melee, you will do 120% of your damage.
From range, you will do less damage through missing the initial hit.
Hitting more targets will result in more life on hit proccs.

Auras:
When it comes to auras, there is several information you want to have.
At first, you are able to run 3 Auras with this build, but you need Alpha's Howl(unique) to do that. Calculations how it is possible to run 3 Auras can be found in Section 9.

There are three main Aura setups which can be run.

Defensive:
+ Determination
+ Grace
+ Wrath

Offensive:
+ Haste / Anger
+ Wrath
+ Hatred

Mixed:
+ Grace
+ Haste
+ Wrath

Its up to you which you want to run. All of them have benefits and weaknesses.
I run the mixed variant.


Combat:
When it comes to combat, position yourself to hit as much as possible with lightning strike.
Make sure, nothing is behind you, otherwise multistrike will start to hit front -> back -> front. This can result in a quite high dps and life on hit loss.
If your Chaos resistance is positive, you can start to use blood rage. Make sure, its always up.
Do not forget to keep Enduring cry up at maximum stacks all the time.

Full Gem List (Skill and Support):

Skill Gems:
Lightning Strike (Quality Recommended)
Leap Slam
Conductivity
Blood Rage (Quality Recommended)
Grace
Anger
Wrath
Hatred
Determination
Purity of Elements
Haste
Enduring Cry
Immortal Call (Quality recommended)


Support Gems:
Faster Attacks (Quality Recommended)
Life Gain on Hit (Quality Recommended)
Faster Casting
Multistrike
Blood Magic
Weapon Elemental Damage (Quality Recommended)
Reduced Mana
Cast when damage taken

Skill Support List:

Lightning Strike
+ Multistrike
+ Weapon Elemental Damage
+ Blood Magic
+ Faster Attacks
+ Added Fire Damage / Life on hit on ele reflect, no regen

Aura link 1:
Haste
Wrath
Grace
+ Reduced mana

Support link 1
Enduring Cry
Blood Rage
+ Blood Magic
+ Faster Casting

Support link 2
Immortal Call
Enduring Cry
Enfeeble
+ Cast when damage taken

Support link 3
Leap Slam
Enduring Cry
+ Blood Magic

Support link 4
Conductivity
+ Faster Casting
+ Blood Magic

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6-Links:
- Lightning Strike (Red Red Red Red Red Green)

4-Links:
- Aura 1 (Green Green Red Blue)
- Support 1 (Green Blue Red Red)
- Support 2 (Red Red Red Blue)

3-Links:
- Support 3 (Red Red Red)
- Support 4 (Red Blue Blue)

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Bandits Quest:
Normal
- 40 Life (Dont kill Oak)

Cruel
- 18% Physical Damdage(Dont kill Oak)

Merciless
- Endurance Charge (Dont kill Oak)

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Armor vs Evasion:
Lets assume some values:
100 Dexterity on your character screen.
Item got 100 evasion rating.

This rule applies:
5 Dexterity -> 1% increased evasion rating.

100 Dexterity/5 -> All sources get 20% increased evasion rating.
100% = 1.0, 0.2 = 20%
1 + 0.2 -> Factor 1,2 for evasion rating.
100 evasion rating * 1,2 -> 120 real evasion rating.

This rule also applies:
Iron Reflexes converts all your evasion rating into armor.
120 evasion rating = 120 armor

If you would take an item with 100 armor instead, you would lose 20 armor.

This shows why items with evasion rating are superior in comparison to armor items.

Aura Reserve Calculation:
In this section I explain how it is possible to run 3 Auras.

3 * 60% Auras = 180% Mana reserved.
-> 180% * 0,71(level 20 Reduced Mana) = 127.8% Mana reserved
-> 127.8% * 0,84 (Passive tree reserve Reduce Nodes) = 107.352% Mana reserved
-> 107.352% * 0,92 (Alpha Howl Mana reserve reduce) = 98.76384
-> 98.76384% < 100% Mana
-> 3 Auras :)


Life on Hit vs Life Leech:
// Coming soon
// Lets assume some values:
// 1 Target hit
// Skill used: Lightning Strike (Initial hit 120%/Projectiles 70% damage effectiveness)
// No Point Blank
// Life Leech Gem, 8,8% (no quality)
// Life on Hit Gem, 42 (no quality)
// 10 Attacks per Second
// 1000 Damage per Hit


Attack Speed modifier:
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Physical Damage vs Elemental Damage:
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Blood Rage:
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Physical and Elemental Reflect:
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Unwavering Stance and Block:
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Point Blank:
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DamageIncorporated wrote:

1h and shield is gimpy damage. period.