[1.2.0] Dominus + All Maps MF Dual Striker

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poyozzo wrote:

Hello,

I talked to you in game, maybe you remind me (Faalks). I'm lvl75 duelist, following your build now. I've been farming Piety a lot, not only for drops but because of exp on the way to her area; I found that doing so is faster lvling than custom maps.
I was planning to start Dominus runs now, I still dont have all items you post in your guide, but I find it very hard to kill Dominus first form without dying (several times). The second one is quite easy, so maybe you could tell how is your strategy to kill him. I am able to farm him, but I do some runs whenever I level up, so I won't lose any exp.

Also, I'm posting my items below, maybe you could give some advice on what to get next; I got 65~75% on all resists with the items below. I know my flasks are probably the first thing to improve though ;)
Thanks for your help so far.

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trimagnus wrote:

For someone who doesn't expect to afford a Bringer of Rain or other expensive items (Soul Taker, mostly), does this build still hold up (until a decently high level anyway)?

Also, seconding another reply: is there a recommended leveling path? Like, rush to resolute technique, then the other keystones, filling in other nodes as needed? Something else?

Thanks for taking the time to write this build. Looks pretty solid!

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gghydra wrote:

I'm new to POE. Can you post a leveling guide showing which passives to get by level 30, 50, and 75? Also, what skills/items can be used to help you level the character fast and easy?

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Griever114 wrote:

Just curious if there have been any changes to the build. im leveling a duelist right now. :)

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Mongeese wrote:

Hi, thanks for this build thread. I used a lot of the ideas you came up with to make my second character for Rampage. I wanted to make a magic find character, but I don't enjoy doing boss runs too much. I also didn't want to have to do any gear swaps to get my rarity up for bosses and such, other than the alternate weapon swaps. This would mean wearing 2x andvarius while mapping (including solo), so that pretty much confined me to the bottom left part of the tree, which has the scion and marauder +resist nodes. This was the only build i found that looked like a build I would enjoy playing. (I have tried flame totem before, and I did not like the playstyle.)

I played a bunch on my first character in Rampage, getting about 15 exalts worth of currency in the first 2 weeks or so, which allowed me to go straight to the soul taker version. While Bringer of Rain would be awesome to use, I can't make up the resists elsewhere, so I just use Belly of the Beast and an okay rarity helm.

Being an extremely greedy MF mapper didn't come without problems though. 75 and up maps are pretty difficult solo. I spend so many points getting resists, I end up lacking heavily on many of the important points for the build. I can farm 73s and 74s pretty easily though, which I'm happy with, since you only miss out on the very top tier mods this way. You can also just run the highest level maps anyway, if you dont mind using a few portals (not viable for hardcore while soloing using this version of the build haha.)

Here's my current gear: (297/18 culling on normal rares, weapon swap to 378/34 for unique enemies)

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helm and belt can be improved eventually if needed. Offensive auras on weapon to create a mana deficit while weapon swapped, allowing for Distillate use. (I don't really use distillate on normal rare monsters.)

And my passive tree (lvl 87):

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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQBAF4B5wUtCC4JWAqbDjwR1RQgFFIVIBcdGJEY2xmOGlUi4iSbJvgnCycvKaUqTSzpMHc0kzboOlI_J0F0QqNE50ZpR35H4kp9SshOKlBHU99XDVeXWK9Y21uvXLBfP2BBYEthIWNwZKNlTWWnZ6BqHnKpdO12K3jreu982YCKguSDtoTZhO-HdoqvkAqQEZHOlZuZK5stm4Ofy6Q5pKynMKgYtkG77byfvYG-p8EEwYvQgdIh037T_Nun3Q3iYeOf5wrtg-8O73rv4_Iv9zL3TfzF

Obviously change tree as needed for resists.
You need high level reduced manas to be able to run Grace, Hatred, and Herald of Ash together. (along with the reduced mana reserved nodes) I have lvl 20 reduced mana on my hatred and HoA, and lvl 19 reduced mana on my grace. This leaves me with 0 mana unreserved.

possible improvements:
-I use cleave as my culling attack. To be honest I did not think real hard about what the best melee culling skill would be. It's possible that cleave is suboptimal.
-craft a different 1h axe that has good dps AND has a resist. this would allow me to drop some resist on another piece of gear, to make upgrades easier.
-need more INT for the build. I'm already stretching pretty thin on INT nodes to take, and would like to remove the crafted res on my amulet for some INT also.
-could try some fancy culling stuff in the alternate weapon slot. Possibly use a dagger with +50 INT to be able to use a higher level item rarity gem. Craft the dagger with "gems are linked to lvl 1 blood magic" (I think vagan can do this), and use reave, culling strike, item rarity to cull while using wheel of the stormsail.


Thanks again for the build thread, helped a lot when playing my character. Sorry if this is too long-winded >_>

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shadowscion wrote:

Nice build, it's the first character I've made that can both facetank dominus and kill him quickly. Two questions though...

Is 20% iiq from goldwyrm really worth more than the stats you could get on normal boots? Is a level 20 reduced mana gem and 4% less reserved from tree enough to run grace, hatred and herald of ash?