Dagger Cyclone with AA + MoM + Carcass Jack [Bloodlines]

The main things driving this build are:
- Abusing almost all the available "increased shield defenses" nodes in the game and stacking ridiculous amounts of Armor and ES that way. No need for nodes that increase ES, just focus on shield defenses and some +% mana.
- Using Bino's Kitchen Knife along with Cyclone. Combining these two overcomes Bino's lackluster attack speed which usually makes it somewhat of a slow map clearer.
- Great sustainability with Mind Over Matter + Mana Leech + Bino's regen + Life Leech. In combat your life is going up by about 1000 per second (against some mobs bino's alone gives 1400 however) because of Life leech and Bino's regen. Mana is going up at crazy amounts as well because of mana leech and the base regen of 240+. Without Chaos res I do notice my mana almost running out with some otherwordly packs though.
- Surgeon's Quicksilver Flask of Adrenaline allows for incredible clear speed. You pretty much have permanent +100% movement speed. It feels dirty using these flasks it really does, they will most likely nerf them when act 4 comes (I really hope).

I'll be updating this thread as I level further in Bloodlines and add some gameplay footage.

Lvl 76 - Pier 70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEk6G6phstE

Lvl 85 - Plateau 75
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waY6JrGCwv8&feature=youtu.be

Lvl 88 - Shipyard 77
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-vHzUy9uFM&feature=youtu.be

111 point skill tree (lvl 94):

^ prioritize life, pick it up sooner rather than later. The way I'm going I'm actually picking Deflection last.


My Gear @ lvl 90:




Links:
- I've been a little skeptical about using Faster attacks but currently it is a ridiculous 40% more tooltip dps so I'm sticking with it. The fact that I don't have much attack speed from the tree makes its effect so multiplicative.


Flasks:


Bandits:
Oak Oak Alira

Looks good!

please put your video on youtube twich replay is hell

To my limited experience in playing hc poe i think this just isnt enough life. 3300 hp with mom puts you at 4290 effective hp assuming you have the mana for it, which you already dont, at best case scenario you have 4k effective hp. this is assuming you aren't hit straight after you cast cyclone. For reference my summoner has 5.3k hp and has nearly been 1 shot several times by ele damage ( lvl 17 aa and fully capped resistances) he also doesnt need to be anywhere near the fight.

I do enjoy that you're trying something a little different though so put in my 2c, try in your boots vengeance + reckoning + increased crit dmg + endurance charge on stun. This set up will help you maintain endurance charges while in the thick of things and while you may only have one or two up during a fight the phys dmg reduction can be invaluable. Another idea would be to try swapping out increased crit strikes for added fire/melee damage on full life in your main setup. Yet another idea would be to swap hatred with herald of ash, you'll lose a little dps for a fair bit of unreserved mana. With your guide it can be an idea to post a screen cap of both your offence (with and without charges) and defensive pages (eg the page without the regen from bino, then after).

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Stagsnetti wrote:

To my limited experience in playing hc poe i think this just isnt enough life. 3300 hp with mom puts you at 4290 effective hp assuming you have the mana for it, which you already dont, at best case scenario you have 4k effective hp.

I'm currently pickin up the Thick skin scluster, after which I will pick up Heart and Soul, maybe Heart of Oak as well. The life is currently the biggest issue, but it will get a lot better in the next 10 levels. My effective HP should be over 5K eventually. I will have 170% life at around lvl 90 + MOM (still little rippy for BL but what do).

I'm trying to grab something like Revenge of the Hunted as an addition but it's hard to remove anything at this point from the tree. I think it comes down to Deflection (the notable + the 40% block recovery) or Heartseeker (which I rather not remove).

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please put your video on youtube twich replay is hell

Yeah I'm gonna start doing that...just figured it out that you can actually RECORD in obs you don't have to stream then highlight :D

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Matlock0 wrote:

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please put your video on youtube twich replay is hell

Yeah I'm gonna start doing that...just figured it out that you can actually RECORD in obs you don't have to stream then highlight :D

I made an YouTube mirror video, hope you don't mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdS7qlaNfeA

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surVfate wrote:

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Matlock0 wrote:

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please put your video on youtube twich replay is hell

Yeah I'm gonna start doing that...just figured it out that you can actually RECORD in obs you don't have to stream then highlight :D

I made an YouTube mirror video, hope you don't mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdS7qlaNfeA

Thx for that.

Uploaded a new video myself as well, with the 5L clear speed:
Lvl 76, Pier Map
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEk6G6phstE

pier is level 70 not 76

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VictorDoom wrote:

pier is level 70, not 76

76 is my character's level, I assumed most people know what lvl pier is anyways.

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Matlock0 wrote:

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VictorDoom wrote:

pier is level 70, not 76

76 is my character's level, I assumed most people know what lvl pier is anyways.

oh lol, i thpught you mean map level


nice build tho, youre gonna get a lot of dps, sustain seems to be good too even though cyclone on mana can be a pain it seems that you can spam it pretty easy with eb and really high regen, what is your mana regen?