[Unarmed] Raimbow (CI+GR+RT+US+IR+VP) Templar Build

Hi all, i write here to show you and ask for feedback about this Templar build. The main idea starts in the Unarmed thread in the Marauder Forum (thanks @Zalmoxis).


This all works around this item, and that’s the reason because we don’t use weapon (we just can use shield/quiver) and we can’t use most of the PoE skills:



This glove gives nearly +1000% physical damage. So each item with "add X-X physical damage" give us around 10 times more that damage (a simple iron ring with 1-4 phys damage means 10-40 approx.), and we should build around these stuff.

If we get 2 decent iron rings, the facebreaker gloves, and maybe a neck/quiver with physical damage, we can 1shot any mob until mercy, but if you have "Megi belt"(10-20phys damage) you can smash anything pretty easy. Btw its extremely fun when you're at lvl 16-20 1shoting lvl 28 chars in pvp punching his face.

Some good item for us:


Skills we can use Unarmed:

Damage skills- Infernal blow/Dominating Blow are the 2 damage skills we can use without weapons, infernal blow mainly.

Blood Rage- Perfect for us, we haven’t good aoe but we can 1shot anyone so attack faster its they way we can kill faster. We take all the good stuff but no the downside because we are immune to chaos because CI (plus we have inner force)


Molten Shell - extremely good defense and offense combined and gives some aoe damage.(plus we have inner force)

Warlord's Mark - use with molten shell for extremely high survivability

Spell Totem ( optional) - can be used with Warlord's Mark, so you won't have to curse the enemies all the time

Endurance Cry - same as above

Auras:
We can aim for Clarity, Hatred, and the ES and Armour ones (plus we have inner force).



Passive Skill Tree (75points):


Endgame:

I a chose CI build, we can’t use weapon elemental support gem because we have no weapon. But with CI we can use %melee damage gem AND %damage gem on full life because we are always at 100%hp (1/1). That means we going to need good Energy Shield chest/shield/helm/boots, maybe the hardest part in the build its the gear.

We haven’t life but we have good lifesteal with Bloodrage so we need GhostReaver.

We haven’t HP so VaalPact haven’t downsides and help us surviving. So we can use just granite flasks (plus we have inner force).

We need attack for the life leech value, if we got stunned we probably die, so US seems pretty cool, and anyway if we use the Peak helm we can’t even evade yet, so no downside again.

And we take IR to give evasion some value.

Unarmed can’t improve the crit chance with items, so seems obvious we want RT.

Later we can aim for Zealoth oath.



This is mostly theorycraft, now im only lvl 35 in 2 days, i have 1k dps with infernal blow and I 1shot the mostly all enemys. I write the post for share my idea but first of all because i think i need some feedback. So i would appreciate any help. Thanks for reading and i hope u enjoy Facebreaking!

Thanks for reading and (i hope) for your future feedback/help.

Advices please! >.<

Wow I really like your ideas for the build. If i get a facebreaker I am gonna try this out myself. Seems like it could work. Only downside I can see is that it is very gear dependant for the defensive stats.

Yep the main problem is the gear dependant, despite the other unarmed builds this dont need megig belt cause we dont use HP but we need good ES chest/shield/helm and good physical damage rings+amulet. Really specific items.

Im in act 3 cruel 3k dps lvl 52 and i havent problems in any point but i need solve the problem with infernal blow and the lifeleech/manaleech because the half of my dmage its fire(non physical) and dont works with the leech. Maybe i should use frenzy as main skill.

I dont know how i can link my items here so i cant show you my gear :(

You will be melee and you will use CI, you will not have enough survivability unless you somehow get around 8k ES, which would need incredible gear.

You dont ahve enough resistances from passives.

I cant understand why you didnt take Catalyze.

Elemental Adaptation , dont know why you didnt take that node, its extremely good.

And most importantly you dont have nearly enough ES nodes to survive anything lategame.

Catalyze = weapon element dmg
without a weapon its useless

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VictorDoom wrote:

You will be melee and you will use CI, you will not have enough survivability unless you somehow get around 8k ES, which would need incredible gear.

You dont ahve enough resistances from passives.

I cant understand why you didnt take Catalyze.

Elemental Adaptation , dont know why you didnt take that node, its extremely good.

And most importantly you dont have nearly enough ES nodes to survive anything lategame.

Catalyze dont work with unarmed, i dont need elemental WEAPON damage if i dont use weapons :P

The elemental adaptation.. ye i maybe should take it. Im just focusing first the important nodes now that i have all of it i can spend some points in that kind of nodes so probably i should take it.

And the resistances.. now im on cruel with 75% all resists, i think i only take 25% all resist by nodes with the suggested build but we have really easy acces to atleast 2/3 points of 6% all resist so you can get if u are short of resistances. I just dont pick it yet cause i have 75% right now but in mercy looks like the next priority.


And about the enough ES.. thats where i really apreciete the opinions and if u can show me any kind of better skilltree or give me advices.. i have in mind take more ES nodes but i dont know if take the body and soul templar ones in the left (and maybe zealot oath, u think it worth it with my low regen?)or the evasion+ES nodes near ghost reaver ( u know if that +% evasion works with iron reflexes?

Ty really, i need that advices.

Right now i have arround 3k dps(with hatred) 1500 ES and im on lvl 52 with 13% lifeleech (thanks to blood frenzy)and thats how i survive :/

What auras you think are better? now im running hatred+grace+the ES one, i dont remember the name :/ tempest shield its better maybe? i use purity when im lack of resists but as i say right now i have 75% each

Yey new facebreakers! Yey 987% and 4L :P i need reroll the colours but sweet! :D




Im just on act1 on mercy now and im fine with my 2300ES by the moment..(i havnt a ES helm and my shield is just.. meh) I link you some of my items:

If not for aesthetic reasons, I really would suggest not starting as a Templar if you aren't going to get the armor/energy shield nodes that are very close by. The Marauder is closer to RT and has a shorter distance to travel to the rest of where you headed on your 75 point tree.

That said, I would suggest dropping stuff like buff effect and area damage nodes and fire damage nodes for anything energy shield that you can get your hands on.

Amplifying damage via skill nodes should be the least of your priorities as a facebreaker build. Especially as a CI facebreaker build because skill points are so precious to you. You have to travel a LOOOOONG ways to even get the build off the ground.

I love building facebreaker builds. Here is a BARE BONES version of the 75 point Templar I just took a few moments to see what I would optimize. Just friendly suggestions and subject to immense change depending on gear choices.

--- I kept it at 75 points to stay somewhat parallel to your build.

--- I assumed you wanted to still be a Templar for peace of mind or whatever personal reason (which is cool i love Templars) so i started from the Templar. But it should be noted that even more points could be saved using the below template if you started as a Marauder.





--- From here I would head upwards near the Templar starting position to the shield cluster and the armor/energy shield cluster. Might want to pick up some extra block chance and the 12% block spells node maybe useful.

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Lhigtingtopo wrote:

i have in mind take more ES nodes but i dont know if take the body and soul templar ones in the left (and maybe zealot oath, u think it worth it with my low regen?)or the evasion+ES nodes near ghost reaver ( u know if that +% evasion works with iron reflexes?

Alot of this is dependent on your gear. If your endgame gear is loaded with resist without sacrificing energy shield, you won't have much need for elemental resist nodes. Or you might want to pick up a few elemental resist nodes to give you a little leeway on gear dependency.
Also, if you are doing armor/es gear more than evasion/es gear I would consider dropping the es/evasion cluster of nodes.

Vaal Pact and Zealot's Oath will conflict with each other so you only want one or the other. Vaal Pact seems more viable seeing that ZO would only be noticably helpful if you picked up pretty much all the regen nodes (which is a lot of points for questionable viability)

I believe your evasion is calculated using the evasion of gear+dex from the % nodes and then after all that is done, your iron reflexes converts it. So really its a matter of what your gear has more of. Pick up the templar nodes if you have more armor, and the shadow nodes if you have more evasion. (or both for endgame anyway since you probably want to aim for 7k+ ES)