Sean's DW Blood Tanky DPS

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Saery wrote:

You 75 point build is pretty much where I am now at level 62 - end of A2 Merc. Only problem I face at this point is chaos damage, which can mostly be avoided with good movement. Also you missed extra endurance charges at that point - Im running 5 charges which gives extra 25% resists and 25% melee reduction and makes life a lot easier.

So far its fun and working. Looking forward to Act 3 - hopefully today.

About weapon choice - I prefer axes even tho I do not take special axe passives, just because that added base dps. I took Resolute Technique and my DPS went about 15-20% higher.

Good luck!

I have to be honest, I got to lv30 and I am struggling staying alive. I have decent resists, and I am over-leveled for the areas I am in, but I am constantly near death and having to run away, spamming health pots. I have felt this way since around 28-ish and it has been an uphill struggle since. I may have to abandon this character/build, I am not sure it suits me.

Good luck with it tho.

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lordroy wrote:

I have to be honest, I got to lv30 and I am struggling staying alive. I have decent resists, and I am over-leveled for the areas I am in, but I am constantly near death and having to run away, spamming health pots. I have felt this way since around 28-ish and it has been an uphill struggle since. I may have to abandon this character/build, I am not sure it suits me.

Good luck with it tho.

Post your items, I had simillar issues until i discovered that if i equip items with +Health on them my health pool goes thru the roof and all is easy again.

Same with weapons. Try to kill white mob with Dual strike. How many hits it takes for you to kill one using Dual Strike only ?

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Golfik wrote:

Try to kill white mob with Dual strike. How many hits it takes for you to kill one using Dual Strike only ?

What's the ratio to know that we're good ? one, two hits ?

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Nakhla wrote:

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Golfik wrote:

Try to kill white mob with Dual strike. How many hits it takes for you to kill one using Dual Strike only ?

What's the ratio to know that we're good ? one, two hits ?

The ratio to know when you're good is when you don't get one-shot.

If you can't die, the monster will eventually die.

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xiderek wrote:

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Nakhla wrote:

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Golfik wrote:

Try to kill white mob with Dual strike. How many hits it takes for you to kill one using Dual Strike only ?

What's the ratio to know that we're good ? one, two hits ?

The ratio to know when you're good is when you don't get one-shot.

If you can't die, the monster will eventually die.

if I am to live thru a white mob attacking him 10 times then it will take me eternity to level ;)

For DPS i use 2 Dual Strikes rule to know when i need to upgrade my weapons.

For gear - one hit is a benchmark aginst bosse :) but no white/blue/yellow mob should ever ever one shot you unless your resistances are very bad for his attacks.

Wont quote, but will try to share my experience.

Lordroy, at level 30, I felt like unstoppable monster. Probably because of gear advantage (had few pieces ready in stash). So I guess only thing you need is to upgrade your equipment a bit.

About "dual strike test" - for me, 2 hit-kills of average white mob is the level where I want to be. One-shotting them is not necessary, but 3 hits (or even more) is way to much when you get into trouble.

Also is important to remember that LS is based on physical damage. The more phys damage dealt, the more life returned. With this build, damage is actually one of factors to survivability (being able to get full life with 1 or 2 cleaves feels important to me).

Using:
Dual strike + faster attacks + melee phys dmg + life steal
Cleave + faster attacks + added cold dmg + life on hit
+4% flat life steal (passive + gear).

Keep HP and DPS high and you should be progressing up to A3C without serious problems. After that point, I had to start using endurance charges. But still, as long as I have something to hit, I am usually alive.

wondering which one is better to use for charge?
warlord mark or enduring cry?
might need to reroll my duelist because didn't know what I was doing since he is my 1st character.

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Laststranger wrote:

wondering which one is better to use for charge?
warlord mark or enduring cry?

I personally prefer Enduring Cry. Charges are guarantied and you can keep them up in boss fights without adds. Also if you start on huge pack without any charges, you can sometimes get 3 in one cast.
Dont have free slot on my bars, but guess combination would be best because of Warlord Mark's other effects.

guys, should i have armor on my gear or eva?

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Decadurabolin wrote:

guys, should i have armor on my gear or eva?

If you run Iron Reflexes, it doesnt matter.
If you dont, I would say balance it (because of combined +%eva +%armor nodes). But no experience with that.