ReverendBizzarre: ele cleave templar [6k life, 45k+ dps]

Blood magic vs mana leech on cleave is w/e. It doesn't make too much difference which you use. If mana leech returns enough mana for you that you can spam cleave, it is preferable just because it means you aren't losing health. If, however, mana leech doesn't let you spam cleave, then obviously you want blood magic.

As for elemental proliferation - it is okay in bigger parties. In small parties or solo you're better off with something that increases your damage output (conc effect or increased AoE) instead.

Putting static cost auras on your health pool by using the covenant or malachai's is a no-brainer. The OP of this thread is running a bunch of auras too (5 I think), he may have them all on mana, but if you don't have a big enough pool moving them to health is just fine.

Inner force or not is mostly about gear. Inner force is really good if your gear isn't so great, and gets worse the better your gear is.

Starting as a templar gives you more flexibility, all elemental cleave builds need to go almost to the base of templar, but if you start as a marauder you're pretty well committed. So if you're unsure, I'd highly recommend starting as a templar. You can figure out as you go what customizations you want to put onto the core build. If you decide you like Kripp's build, you can go down into marauder and you're only out 1 talent point (40% mana regen at the base of templar).

Thanks alot for you explaining :)

Also doesn't inner forcus also kind of scale with gear?


Atleast the damage auras like anger and wrath gains xtra damage from weapon elemental right? or?

Reason I wanted to go marauder is I think templar looks a bit lame with dualwield :D

Anyway......decided to go Templar since I already got one at 46 in act 3 cruel.

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exile1985 wrote:

Also doesn't inner forcus also kind of scale with gear?

Atleast the damage auras like anger and wrath gains xtra damage from weapon elemental right? or?

%weapon elemental will scale up your aura damage yes. But the bigger damage scaling comes from adding +x-y lightning/cold/fire on jewelry and other items, which doesn't benefit at all from inner force.

Friends talked me in to making a farming char with them instead. So if anyone wants to buy sick tri-ele cleave swords look here :)


http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/387721

I'm sure the question was asked before but i can't commit myself to reading through the whole thread, so here it goes:

How do you deal with Vaal? If you get too close he kills you with one hit and i imagine with Cleave you have to get close to hit him.

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Malkor1 wrote:

I'm sure the question was asked before but i can't commit myself to reading through the whole thread, so here it goes:

How do you deal with Vaal? If you get too close he kills you with one hit and i imagine with Cleave you have to get close to hit him.

Avoid the grounslam with whirling blades, you can see that hes about to use it like 2 seconds before it hits so you have plenty of time, fi your reactions arent quick just use temporal chains on him.

With enfeeble on him you should also not get one shot. If you do get one shot with enfeeble on him, you do not have enough health.

Obviously you should try to avoid it anyway, but if you have 3k+ health, and 5 endurance charges, and enfeeble on him when you hit him on merciless, you will not get one shot.

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magicrectangle wrote:

With enfeeble on him you should also not get one shot. If you do get one shot with enfeeble on him, you do not have enough health.

Obviously you should try to avoid it anyway, but if you have 3k+ health, and 5 endurance charges, and enfeeble on him when you hit him on merciless, you will not get one shot.

hes got 12k damage on merciless(6k phys+6k fire) on groundslam, 4k lasers and around 2k rocks, i say its best to just avoid it completely.

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VictorDoom wrote:

hes got 12k damage on merciless(6k phys+6k fire) on groundslam, 4k lasers and around 2k rocks, i say its best to just avoid it completely.

As I said, you should obviously try to avoid it, but you should gear and plan to be able to take the hit. On softcore I guess it isn't a huge deal, as you won't be very high level yet so death doesn't mean that much, but a little spike of lag and you're dead, unless you can take the hit.

Of course now that they're nerfing curses on bosses in the next patch, I don't know if enfeeble will be enough to allow you to take the hit with a reasonably attainable amount of health at that level. Yet another indirect nerf to melee characters, weee.

Feedback/Progress report:

i started to play this char seriously when it was around lvl 20(before that i played maras/ranger, but as 2 of each class died in cruel, i decided to play a templer), it took me until i had the refund points from act 3 cruel to fully concur with VictorDoom's build. (yes, i had a pretty messed up lvl 20 templer back then)

now i'm lvl 67 and i just reached into the top 10k in the ladder

atm i farm city of sarn in merci

my gear......what should i say.....it is my first char in merciless, my first char above lvl 48, so some items are good because i bought them, some are good because i found them, but there are also some that are very bad because i haven't found any better yet and i still try to manage with a 4l until i have enough currency to buy a 6l.

relfect is no problem(yet)
biggest problem is when there is a rare which gives his allies "substantial extra phys dmg" combined with another which gives frenzy or "alies attack faster" (these two are almost the same i know)

my current goals are:
-getting a 5l or 6l chest with AR or AR/ES or AR/EV
- change the rest of my gear according to the new chest







all together i have to say, it's a great build with a bit of a hard time around lvl 50. Also the creator VictorDoom deserves a big compliment for answering all the questions i had(and probably will have) via PM.

With my status report i wanted to contribute a little bit to this guide and show that it is completely viable with 4l cleave (until my lvl at least)

i hope i helped at least one of you!

greets
CrazyJ0hn