[1.1.0] Spectral Melter (Spectral Throw Crit Shadow )

What is the consensus on DW vs shield? I'm really not sure how things scale in the late game but the question to me seems to be
- 10% more attack speed
versus:
-armor/evasion of a shield (which seems to amount to about a third of your base, e.g. roughly "33% more evasion and armor")
-the extra block chance, or ~15%.

The other stats have a defensive slant but should but should be roughly equivalent in budget/value, no? Plus there is the practical advantage of being able to use your best weapon.

10% is 10%, but that is linear, whereas daggers end up scaling quadratically through crit - and you need some defense somewhere, why not take that single, large low hanging fruit of the shield?

Im lvl 68 atm, doing 3500 dmg with ST and 34k dmg with dual strike.
Im a glass canon, i can tank most things, but docks dogs and piety miscreations(those that fire darts) i rather not, i kill piety in 3-5 seconds if i chain my crits right, um using volls protector because i dont have a 5 link to get power charge on crit for ST yet, when i do i will faceroll pretty much anything :D

I am also doing 66-70 maps already, playing safe its quite easy to clean those maps :D

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RoMeRx wrote:

Im lvl 68 atm, doing 3500 dmg with ST and 34k dmg with dual strike.
Im a glass canon, i can tank most things, but docks dogs and piety miscreations(those that fire darts) i rather not, i kill piety in 3-5 seconds if i chain my crits right, um using volls protector because i dont have a 5 link to get power charge on crit for ST yet, when i do i will faceroll pretty much anything :D

I am also doing 66-70 maps already, playing safe its quite easy to clean those maps :D

Mind linking the dagger you're using? I'm getting up to around 1.2k ST and 4.9k Double Strike (With 4 Power Charges up) at Level 61.



This is my current dagger.

Reached level 60 with this build, just farming fellshrine in merc right now but my dps is kinda weak :| only around 500 dps on the tooltip with LMP but I went on the tanky side first with the passive tree



current wep
the rest of my gear is pretty weak sauce at the moment


@_@ I have a hard time finding gear

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Gunslingerx64 wrote:

Reached level 60 with this build, just farming fellshrine in merc right now but my dps is kinda weak :| only around 500 dps on the tooltip with LMP but I went on the tanky side first with the passive tree

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYBBH4FfQX5DkgRlhXwFr8a2x4aI_YkPCaVJ6koKimlMFQyATiWOlhJUUp9TipVS1bqVvpaSFptW69h4megapNte3BSf8aHGYd2h9uMNplXmyado6OKpn-nXLGzshm1SLZBtxe-p8APwFHN6s960k3VANXt3Q3e9uOE51TndOjW6f7rFO1B7g7v8PPq-WP8q_zF_5M=

current wep

the rest of my gear is pretty weak sauce at the moment

@_@ I have a hard time finding gear

You should drop Mana Leech gem and pickup Mind Drinker node, then run FA or something else.

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Phatty2phat wrote:

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Gunslingerx64 wrote:

Reached level 60 with this build, just farming fellshrine in merc right now but my dps is kinda weak :| only around 500 dps on the tooltip with LMP but I went on the tanky side first with the passive tree

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYBBH4FfQX5DkgRlhXwFr8a2x4aI_YkPCaVJ6koKimlMFQyATiWOlhJUUp9TipVS1bqVvpaSFptW69h4megapNte3BSf8aHGYd2h9uMNplXmyado6OKpn-nXLGzshm1SLZBtxe-p8APwFHN6s960k3VANXt3Q3e9uOE51TndOjW6f7rFO1B7g7v8PPq-WP8q_zF_5M=

current wep

the rest of my gear is pretty weak sauce at the moment

@_@ I have a hard time finding gear

You should drop Mana Leech gem and pickup Mind Drinker node, then run FA or something else.

shoot I fixed the skill tree. I do have mind drinker. still having issues with mana a bit. but yeah I just need the right color sockets and ill swap it out.

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fr00t wrote:

What is the consensus on DW vs shield? I'm really not sure how things scale in the late game but the question to me seems to be
- 10% more attack speed
versus:
-armor/evasion of a shield (which seems to amount to about a third of your base, e.g. roughly "33% more evasion and armor")
-the extra block chance, or ~15%.

The other stats have a defensive slant but should but should be roughly equivalent in budget/value, no? Plus there is the practical advantage of being able to use your best weapon.

10% is 10%, but that is linear, whereas daggers end up scaling quadratically through crit - and you need some defense somewhere, why not take that single, large low hanging fruit of the shield?

Im still wondering... some more opinions?




BTW.
I find dodge/evasion build be really effective (at least while leveling).
Im still geting quite much life nodes and hell lot crit nodes.
Im thinking about adding EK on crit for some more dps.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYABX0OSBGWFr8c3B4aJDwmlSepKlswfElRUUdVS1bqWm1h4mKsbXtwUn8rf8aH242_naOdqqZ_pzSnXLGztUjAUdIZ1p3W0d7244TndOjW6f7rFO1B8Xbz6vyr_5N-Waxm2HYs4Y6K0DkX2F76cNUFtdQj3ajGojBxS3g6QtaKqriqf419myYyAbIZz3ph63pTtMU=


At level 21 you are able to get both Acrobatics and Phase acrobatics.
What with gives you extremaly tanky stats. I was able face tank almost everything up to third act. Its normal for now but i haven't seen anything like this before even with hp/armor tak maruder.

What is the armor progression like? Is it normal stuff like Health. Armor and Resists or should I look out for particular stats?

Not sure how OP is chosing armors, but in my case I am taking only evasion gear. Best with HP and resistances.