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 About the build: Plenty of reave builds around now, so i'll just toss this one into the mix. Reave is, without a doubt, the best melee skill at this moment. The reach offered by Vaal Reave gives the player an excellent way to output great damage damage to everything on screen at once while at the same time creating a defensive death zone all about the player. The clear speed outshines even flicker strike nowadays and the since nothing ever gets near enough to attack you, the tankiness outshines a lot of ranged builds. Bill the Butcher is a combination of the Shadow Nitoryu reave build and Cyclonus. It shares almost the same tree is Cyclonus so players wanting to convert skills can do so easily. And i recommend converting because reave is superior to cyclone. Current Stats: 4781 life 81k dps in town 116k dps with auras 206k dps with charges 543k dps with flasks, Vaal Haste and Conc. Effect Videos: 77 Plateau Key items: Bino's Kitchen Knife On top of the multi-tiered defence, we can achieve significant regen from Bino's with Conc. Effect:  zero to full in less than a second. Doryani's Catalyst This build utilises a lot of elemental damage and the Catalyst just sweetens the damage. There is more ele reflect danger, and reflect map mods should be avoided, but reflect mobs can be ignored. Daresso's Defiance / Lightning Coil Daresso for the Endurance charge generation, extra dodge and free Onslaught. Lightning Coil for superior defence. Keep in mind, it is extremely difficult to equip this item. The build uses many uniques and maxing resists and INT while using LC can be quite expensive. Maligaro's Virtuosity / Atziri's Acuity Acuity is the best, of course, and will save you 3-4 nodes from the tree, but it's unnecessary as Maligaro is more than sufficient for this build.
Optional Offhands:
Death's Hand Very nice mace with some great uses. The power charge on stun is great and allows you to consider a curse other than AM. The constant Unholy Might adds significant chaos which is unreflectable. Soul Taker Free mana. You can reserve 100% so you can add another 25% herald. The best option, IMO, is to equip Arctic Armour. Couple AA with an LC and a taste, you have the ultimate mitigation. Other notables: Character Sheet:  Daresso's Defiance RRRBBG Reave Melee Phyisical Damage Weapon Elemental Damage Multistrike Physical to Lightning Increased AoE / Concentrated Effect Abyssus RRGG Vaal Haste CwDT Immortal Call Increased Duration Vaal Haste last 10.44secs Maligaro's RRGG Whirling Blades Faster Attacks Fortify Blood Magic Boots BBBG Herald of Thunder Curse on Hit Assassin's Mark Hatred Bino's Kitchen Knife RGG Vaal Reave Ice Golem Fortify Catalyst RGG Blood Rage Inc Duration Vaal Grace Vaal Grace will max your dodge for 10.44secs Tree and Bandits: Current 113 point tree with jewels
Tree Stats:
4.4% of Life Regenerated per Second 183% increased maximum Life 26% increased Physical Damage with Attacks 20% increased Physical Damage 84% increased Physical Damage with One Handed Melee Weapons 48% increased Physical Weapon Damage while Dual Wielding 80% increased Melee Physical Damage 22% increased Physical Damage with Daggers 280% TOTAL 20% increased Elemental Damage 10% increased Attack Speed while Dual Wielding 28% increased Attack Speed 12% increased Attack Speed with One Handed Melee Weapons 4% increased Melee Attack Speed 90% TOTAL 20% increased Accuracy Rating 125% increased Weapon Critical Strike Chance while Dual Wielding 140% increased Critical Strike Chance 70% increased Critical Strike Chance with Daggers 135% increased Melee Critical Strike Chance 470% TOTAL 60% increased Critical Strike Multiplier with Daggers 55% increased Critical Strike Multiplier 15% increased Melee Critical Strike Multiplier 130% TOTAL OAK / ALL OAK / ALL Alira Notes:
Unique Jewels
These are optional. Chill of Corruption This makes Vaal Reave cycle 40% faster, and i can maintain max reave distance for more time during a map. The option is there to use multiple Vaal Skills more often. Very nice jewel. Inspired Learning You can equip this easily in this part of the tree:  This jewel is just a luxury item that doesn't add much to clear speed. But its quite fun to see how many buffs you can get at the same time. So many strikes within one breath. But only one strike needed, for certain death. Last edited by fiqst on Aug 28, 2015, 11:08:11 AM
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cyclonus
chest cyclone mpd wed conc effect p2l hypothermia bino soul taker vengeance flame golem snakebite hot coh am enlighten lvl 3 abyssus hoa ele prolif hatred inc burn boots cwdt inc dur ic blood rage needs 4% reduced
LL cyclonus
shavs GGRRBB cyclone mpd wed p2l conc eff added fire helm BBBR CoE hot coh am bm gloves boots cyclone fortify coc am dragon GGG wb fa ice golem soul taker BBR bm disc enlighten =============================================== So many strikes within one breath. But only one strike needed, for certain death. Last edited by fiqst on Jun 20, 2015, 3:00:45 AM
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Why no endurance charges? using an abyssus makes this such a good choice; add endurance charge on stun on your 6L and gain even MOAR damage mitigation- less DPS tho which, imo doesnt matter as you are already doing well over what normal ppl can achieve.
I divined the bino from 9.96 crit to 10.13 and I gained 900 dps; so yea what you are saying about having the highest crit chance REALLY REALLY matters. I proc my power and endurance charges from cyclone as well then I hit them with double strike or reave (DS when a single boss is near and reave for mobs)Item Rarity in there now as I was farming sarn and do not need power charges for single smash skeles lol. This build is amazing tho!! Best roll on abyssus I've ever seen. Mine is 141/40. I use a bino instead of mirrored dagger cause that is how I roll :p I really like your CWDT setup; I didn't realize just HOW powerful that curse is as I am usually a RT player. POE is life. POE is ♥. Last edited by KonaLuvsPOE on Aug 14, 2014, 10:52:24 AM
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If it bleeds
cleave mpd multi bloodlust blood magic conc effect leap slam faster attacks curse on hit vulnerability blood magic fortify hatred hoa ele prolif inc burn cwdt ic inc duration phase/flame dash So many strikes within one breath. But only one strike needed, for certain death. Last edited by fiqst on Jul 23, 2015, 12:31:39 PM
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shadow sword ice crash
RRRGBB Ice crash MPD WED Hypothermia conc effect Crit strikes GGGG flicker coc fortify phase RRRG ice golem cwdt ic inc duration blood rage enhance wb hatred hoa ele pro hoi coh am So many strikes within one breath. But only one strike needed, for certain death. Last edited by fiqst on Jul 6, 2015, 8:04:20 PM
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Really pleasant to read with such effort in paging etc...
I've a lvl91 Mara i was thinking to try smt new with and i think your build would be easy to adapt to a mara start. But if you could give me your point of view on the start area...would it be better to start from the life/ar (17%;+16/24%) path or the mele dmg one (55%) ? Also, did you considered using : Have inbuild 20/20 MDoFL (60%), some sweets res and a bit of range...? | |
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conan
checklist flame golem hatred hoa ic blood rage RRRRRB ice crash mpd wed added fire conc effect fire pen GRBBB+R flicker splash coh ele weakness flammability +flame golem Devoto: GRBB hatred hoa ele prolif enlighten lvl 2/3 Windscream: RRGG cwdt IC enhance blood rage Gloves: RRRG leap slam faster attacks fortify vengeance So many strikes within one breath. But only one strike needed, for certain death. Last edited by fiqst on Jul 7, 2015, 6:57:05 PM
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oki thanks, just a few pieces left to grab (need to add links to my belly) and i'll go spin around ;)
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