[1.0.3] Bringer of Entropy - 22K AoE DPS, 74% Block and Spell Block, 77% All Res Tank!

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Kozakuren22 wrote:

Hey you should add a section in gear about INT costs. You dont put any nodes into int but about 100 is required. OFC you get the int needed from gear but people probobly wont notice(like me) at first glance

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greepnakpathofexile wrote:

What happens if you use an appearance transfer item on a WOE? Do both hands take a new appearance or only the one?

Why no Berserking, also?

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Kozakuren22 wrote:

Hey you should add a section in gear about INT costs. You dont put any nodes into int but about 100 is required. OFC you get the int needed from gear but people probobly wont notice(like me) at first glance

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Raggedvise wrote:

You have so much +dex do you still think RT is necessary?

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Kelsier0 wrote:

I burned through quite a few regrets this morning and bought a few pieces of gear to try this out. When I got my Wings, I modified the blender build I had been using to work with them, basically removing 1H nodes and adding 2H and Axe nodes, and swapping some things around. It had been working really well, clearing maps through the 75s with not much trouble except occasional bosses (I was finally able to kill residence Dom with easy mods, but had to skip him vast majority of the time). Figured I'd try out the block/spellblock build and see if it would give me more survivability and still maintain close to the same clear times.

The build I'm using now is pretty close to what you have here, there's minor differences mostly with life and resist nodes, not worth getting into really. I've got 74% block and 71% spellblock (Rainbowstrides aren't perfect), 4k life, 22.8k dps. DPS is about the same as what I had before, because I was using Blood Magic before instead of Added Fire Dmg, so pretty much evens out with losing damage nodes for block nodes. I also had to downgrade my gloves/rings quite a bit in order to get ones with mana/life leech.

Need more time to test it out before I can decide whether I like it better or not. A couple things I've noticed:

Definitely can't run Grace along with Hatred, I constantly ran out of mana with 4% leech from gear. But running Purity instead of Grace seems to solve the mana problems, and like you said I don't really seem to miss the extra armor from Grace. I can stand there and let a pack of rhoas charge me and it's no big deal.

Serious mana starvation issues when trying to do a map with 50% reduced regen. I'd assume no-regen mod is even worse. This sucks because it seems like at least half the maps I roll have one of these mods on them, so I really don't want to have to constantly reroll them. How have you handled these? With my previous build, these mods were just free quantity and I didn't even notice them because I didn't use mana, and I had my Carnage Heart giving me tons of life leech. I tried putting the blood magic back in, but then I had life issues, the 2% life leech just can't sustain blood magic. Maybe for these maps I can just put the Carnage Heart back in along with blood magic and just forgo most of the spell block.

Anyway, thanks for posting the build, and I'll try to give more feedback once I have a little more experience with it. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to kill all the remaining bosses I haven't got to yet with this build, although I only map solo so we'll see if its possible.

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Raggedvise wrote:

Also my other question was

If you arent using BoR what would you reccomend being your 6L set up?

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Kelsier0 wrote:

Just tried Crematorium for the first time, with +monster damage and extra cold damage. Boss wasn't too bad really. I couldn't completely facetank her, had to leap out of the fire a few times. I'm pretty sure I would've died fast with my previous build though.

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Jedmiester wrote:

Yea, if she stacks a few Firestorms in one spot it's probably wise to jump out the way just in case, but it's surprising how much you can tank her. I used LGoH instead of Added Fire when I fought her, which negated 1 or 2 stacks of Firestorm damage but anything more than that and I jumped away just incase.