Infernal blow +? facebreaker build, need help and suggestions.

Hi.

I need some help and suggestions on how to make an infernal blow build with or with out facebreaker.

Need the build to be able to run maps.

I checked some of the guides on the forums and I can't decide which class to pick, if go CI or health. I may have missed few topics, if someone can point me in the right direction it would be great.

I am not rich so I can't afford kaoms or soul taker etc. Would prefer to keep the build to relatively cheap to medium.

If someone can provide the following information:

Which class, some say marauder others templar or duelist.
Is facebreaker + bringer of rain viable at 70+ maps?
Item combination (full set).
Skill combination.

Any other information or tips that can help me.


Regards

CI Facebreaker is not recommended at all because you will absolutely need a fantastic ES shield and chest.

BoR + Facebreaker is pretty standard for a mix of damage and survivability in maps.

I would recommend Duelist over Marauder or Templar.

Infernal Blow + Blood Magic + Melee Splash + Added Fire Damage/Multistrike/Life Leech.

Gear is pretty obvious. Facebreaker, Lioneye's Remorse/rare shield with resists and life, Bringer of Rain, Meginord's, phys jewellery and nice movement speed boots with resists.

There are many Facebreaker threads for you to explore to find out your own passive skill tree.

Not a huge fan of Soul Taker Infernal Blow, if you had access to a Soul Taker, I would recommend Cleave.

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Acrosis wrote:

CI Facebreaker is not recommended at all because you will absolutely need a fantastic ES shield and chest.

BoR + Facebreaker is pretty standard for a mix of damage and survivability in maps.

I would recommend Duelist over Marauder or Templar.

Infernal Blow + Blood Magic + Melee Splash + Added Fire Damage/Multistrike/Life Leech.

Gear is pretty obvious. Facebreaker, Lioneye's Remorse/rare shield with resists and life, Bringer of Rain, Meginord's, phys jewellery and nice movement speed boots with resists.

There are many Facebreaker threads for you to explore to find out your own passive skill tree.

Not a huge fan of Soul Taker Infernal Blow, if you had access to a Soul Taker, I would recommend Cleave.

How is he survivability with out an armor if you BoR though?

Bringer of Rain easily has the armour total of chest and helmet. The only thing is resists, which you can easily get from the shield nodes near Templar.

Dragon585's Infernal Blow marauder build is a good one.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/384141/page/1
While the build wasn't designed around using Facebreakers, there are some comments in the thread from folks who have made some tweaks to it for using FB.

It focuses primarily on high block chance and Aegis Aurora. It can be a little difficult to gear and may not be the best for a first character. That said, once you get some good gear on it, this character can get absolutely insane.

As someone mentioned before, BoR with Infernal Blow + Blood Magic + Melee Splash/Added Fire + Multistrike is the way I went. Melee Splash for normal usage and Added Fire for single target. My survivability is extremely good compared to every other melee build I've ever played. I run 6 auras (Haste, Determination, Purity, Hatred, Grace & Anger) and have high block chance with high armor and maxed resists (other than chaos). With all of that I have 20k armor, ~70% block chance (will be max of 75% when done), 17k dps multitarget/23k dps single target and 80% maxed resists (will be 81% when purity levels).

Here is my current gear:



Swap to this for high spell damage bosses:

Use this for magic find kills on rares/bosses:

The neck and rings are the obvious weak spots at the moment. Next I plan to replace Carnage Heart with a neck that ideally has +phys, life, resists and life leech. I actually do fine with the single 2% life leech from physical node in my skill tree but I keep Carnage Heart on just in case.

Here is my current skill tree:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAdwEswUtDH0OPA6tEH8UIBRNFHEY2xkuGjIaOBv6HRQhYCXfJ-0otSkuKaUyCTbpOlI62D38QKBBqkOcTdhPfVBHUFBRYFRJVcZWBFhjWfNeE18_YEtgiGEhYVJlTWaebmlyqXTtdPF673y4fNmAVoFvhNmE74ZgjHaMz49GkFWePJ65n8uiAKQZpwinMKeEqZWsqqyvuJO53b6nwBrDhsaextjPZdDQ1I_a3eLq42rnUueR7DjvDu9O8i_z3fZI9zL3vvjr-tI=

With my next three skill points and some regrets I will change it to this:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAxthYYz38UFB8uIzPKS72SF8_VEnnUu8Oud3yL9SPGS4n7dlh892sqlcNcqlZ89IhfNnAGp7NZp6QVacwqZX60qeEAef3vhQgUWA26R0UGjg26FBHGjLjao9G7DhYr4BW0NCnCDrYeA1Pfc9luJPa3U3YvopVxgx9njyMdgHcEH-Bb6QZ4urGngSzG_phIRRNJd-E76IAhNleE3TtZU1uacOGeu--p-eRYEusrwUtQKDvTiFgMgkotXTxYIgY2565YVJDnJ_LDq0ppfuqoLQ=

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JohnNamikaze wrote:

I currently have 24k DPS with almost 16k armor (83% phy reduction), 400 life regen, 77/77/77 (Once I get Saffel's Frame to work, it will be 83/83/83) all res, -60% chaos (may be an issue, but can be overcome with life regen and life leech).

How the hell no chest character, with about 2400 armor+evasion from items, gets 16k armour in total, what gives 83% phys reduction, and this is not game breaking.

I have 22k armour with Bringer lol. I don't see why you think this is hard to obtain, shield + Bringer with Grace + IF + IR + Determination gives a crazy amount of armour. Infact, this has been nerfed from 30k to 25k when IF got nerfed, and 25k to 22k when IR got nerfed.

It's not game breaking because melee needs these values to contend with ranged survivability (and still lose in comparison tbh). If anything, Facebreaker is broken in the fact that you can get your DPS purely from your gear. And this has been discussed at length many many times.

I'm not saying this armour is hard to obtain, I'm saying it is OP. Far more than Kaom's.

It deprecates chests so much. In few weeks people will be no longer interested in buying 6L chest for absurd number of Exalts (which prices are fair when you count jewelers and fuses needed to craft them), since you can get same or bigger damage reduction without chest at all for 3-4 Exalts, and even having 7L. Plus sick block bonus. Plus huge damage bonus.

Sick , I say.