Crocodarrel's 2.1 Invincible Horde

Stats at level 90
Bladefall Totem DPS: 39k
Life: 4205 (132/s)
ES: 495
Defenses: Temp Chains aura, no other defenses to speak of.
MF: 114% IIR

Going to continue levelling this guy in standard, where I can use Maligaro's Virtuosity, which will get his crit chance high to prevent long bursts without crits from ruining his mojo.

Spells: Bladefall, Ethereal Knives, Glacial Casacade

Stats at level 90
Bladefall tooltip: 44k
Life: 3168 (101/s)
ES: 1385
Other defenses: None to speak of. 1600armour, 1300eva, Enlightened Temp Chains aura.
MF: 261% IIR / 122% IIQ

Stats at level 84
Ethereal Knives: 43k with 3 Power and Frenzy Charges
Life: 4350 (135/s)
Defenses: 39,323, +3 endurance charges



Using Slower Projectiles because this character relies on Warlord's Mark mana leech to sustain mana, and I don't want to attack mobs outside of it's range. Very tanky, but very boring to play. I prefer arcadey massive dps glass cannons. I'm going to return to this one some day and spec into less armour and more dps/mana, see if I can hit a more satisfying balance of stats.

Stats at level 88
DPS: 75k unbuffed, 129k with 3 power and 6 frenzy charges (Cold Pen)
Life: 3790 (142/s)
Other defense: 13,152 armour, perma Fortify, 39% block chance, 2% attack leech, 2.8% phys leech, 28% stun avoid, 60% stun recovery



Of all the builds I've made using this sword, this one has by far the best clearspeed. Definitely returning to this character to shoot for level 90+.

Stats at level 89
Siege Ballista DPS: 151k with Hatred and Herald of Ash, 4 projectiles
208k with Power and Frenzy charges, which are easily maintained with Doedre's Elixir
139k with Temp Chains aura (Enhanced Level 4'd) instead of Herald of Ash
185k with Temp chains aura and Power and Frenzy Charges
Life: 4967 (101/s)
Defenses: 3331 eva, 30% dodge, 28% stun avoid, 20% stun recovery, Enhanced Temp Chains aura

Of all the characters I've done in 2.1, this one is by far the strongest.







Also tried this build with Ranged Attack totem Blast Rain and Shrapnel Shot, both are very strong, but Siege Ballista is the only skill whose colours work well with my Glyph Mark, so the life on Kaom's wins out.

Stats at level 89
Kinetic Blast DPS: 68.7k
ES: 5567
Defenses: 5474 evasion, 31% block chance







It took me a while to come up with an efficient passive tree for this build. The central conceits were: 1) Get all the global crit clusters, since wander builds usually use power charges and 2) Get all the phys wander nodes, since I wanted to scale the phys as much as possible rather than building around flat elemental damage. A CI ES tree beat out a life tree in the end. I was concerned about survivability but Rumi's puts block at 71% and I pop a Fade flask at the same time and I haven't had any problems so far.

Great DPS, ok survivability, not very fun to play.

Stats at level 91
Ground Slam Tooltip: 111k (inc AoE), 170k (Conc effect), 94.4k (Fortify and Inc AoE)
Life: 6072 (415/s)
Defenses: 3 endurance charges, Chaos Golem, Arctic Armour, Fortify gem on hand for main attack if needed
Other: 50% movespeed, kind of just happened to get lots of movespeed from the tree. Doesn't have any stun recovery, but seems ok without it. Golem is linked to Cast when Stunned and he almost never shows up.





Staff crit on the right and left side of the tree worked out pretty well. Was going to use Assassin's Mark but ended up with 80% crit chance normally, so dropped in AA instead. I was concerned about the lack of armour, but so far endurance charges and AA are more than enough. I don't even feel the need to use Fortify.

Stats at level 87
Life: 1959 (after midnight bargain reduction)
ES: 1366
Defenses: Temp Chains aura with level 4 enlighten, Enfeeble aura, 30% curse effectiveness, Arctic Armour





This is my go-to build for maps which are rolled with mods too hard for any other build to handle.

Stats at level 87
Cleave DPS: 80.8k
Minions: 8 Zombies, 4 Revenants 165% minion damage
Life: 3109 (64/s)
Defenses: Enlightened Temp Chains aura





Needs more life, even for softcore, but as of this writing I wasn't willing to give up any offense, because I finally got a nice balance where the weapon damage and spectre damage feel like they balance each other out.

Stats at level 89
Glacial Hammer Tooltip (Hatred, Ice Golem): 104k
Life: 3840 (156/s)
Defenses: 4920 armour, 6206 eva, legacy lightning coil, 25% block, enlightened temp chains aura, and mass freeze from main attack

The fallen Templar, he has lost the path of righteousness and now uses frost and curses to crush the minions of the beast. When he explores more dangerous dreams, he will switch the Temporal Chains aura, Herald of Ash, Warlord's Mark or Arctic Armour as the situation warrants.

Stats at level 84
11 Skeletons, dps against a single target feels like around 100k
Life: 9030 (866, 1047 or 1228/s)
Defenses: 4733 armour, Redblade Helmet, high level CwDT Enfeeble/Chaos Golem/Molten Shell (7k ar w/Molten)

Stats at level 81
Rain of Arrows tooltip: 96k normal, 112k with 5 Frenzy Charges from Blood Dance
Life: 3720 (136/s - 322/s w Frenzy Charges)
Defenses: 11683 eva, acro/phase acro, Blast Rain totem

Of all the weapon based AoE skills, Rain of Arrows is the best at hitting a very wide area for truckloads of damage very quickly. Ground Slam, or maybe just the staff/mace I use with it, took a lot more investment and sacrifice to reach similar DPS levels, and still lost a lot of effective DPS from being surrounded and aiming in random directions.

Stats at level 79
Frost Blades Tooltip: 97k (Hatred, Herald of Ash, Cold Pen)
Life: 3519 (143/s)
Defenses: Lightning coil, 8418 eva, 17% block, acro, phase acro

Stats at level 75
Spark Tooltip: 25k with HoT/Wrath/Ice Golem, 33k with 5 power charges
Life: 3295 (no regen, Skyforth boots)
ES: 934
Defenses: Not much. Just some endurance charges from Curse on Hit/Warlord's Mark.

Stats at level 78
BV Tooltip: 13.3k (Hatred)
Life: 4061 (122/s)
ES: 399
Defenses: Redblade Helmet+Cloak of Flame=Fire Coil, instant damage leech from Warlord's Mark aura+Atziri's Acuity, Endurance Charges

Stats at level 90
Glacial Hammer Tooltip (Hatred, Ice Golem): 128.9k
Life: 4110 (267/s)
Defenses: 2460 ar, 6370 eva, 18% block, 40% dodge, 30% spell dodge, lightning coil

Despite it's poor reputation, I really enjoyed permafreezing everything with Glacial Hammer. The God-tier sceptre helps.

Stats at level 77
Spectral Throw APS: 1.56
Life: 3815 (137/s)
Defenses: 1091 ar, 2683 ev, Arctic Armour and dual cursing with Enfeeble, Temp Chains, Frostbite and Elemental Weakness depending on the situation.

Trypanon is a cool unique that lets you do CoC build without investing into crit. The plan was to use ranger projectile nodes and Deadeye's +1 chain for maximum chaining CoC action. This worked well, but has pretty poor single target damage. To solve this I switched to +1 projectiles and LMP, and switched to all Cold spells and two offensive curses. This still doesn't help very well against bosses.

Stats at level 84
Bladefall Totem Tooltip: 25.8k (Hatred)
Life: 3794 (189/s)
ES: 802
Defenses: 2767 eva, 418 ar, Temp Chains aura

Reprising my build from last league. The Bladefall changes seemed to weaken it a bit, but not by much.

Stats at level 83
Frost Blades Tooltip: 97k (Hatred, Ice Golem)
Life: 3863 (231/s)
Defenses: 710 ar, 9275 eva, 17% block, acro/phase acro, lightning coil

Stats at level 87
Flame Golem life: 45k
Life: 3982 (187/s)
Minion Stats: 326% damage, 276% life, +52% all minion resists from tree and jewels
Defenses: Enlightened Enfeeble, Temp Chains. 9% phys reduction from zombies. CwDT Immortal Call, Phase Run

Strongest summoner I've ever had, both offensively and defensively.

Stats at level 87
Cleave Tooltip: 178k (Hatred, Herald of Ash, Flame Golem)
Life: 7665 (628/s)
Defenses: 1963 av, 925 ev, Redblade helmet, perma Fortify

Stats at level 88
AP Tooltip with zero totems out: 39k (Hatred)
with 4 totems out: 29k
Life: 6086 (365/s)
Defenses: 1323 ar, 1072 ev, chaos golem, temp chains aura or Arctic Armour

So lame!

Stats at level 77
Crit chance: 95% with Ice Golem
APS: 2.48
Life: 3301 (208/s)
Defenses: 1520 ar, acro/phase acro

Stats at level 86
243% Minion Damage, LV21 Anger for Mages Hatred for Zombies
Life: 3714 (189/s)
Defenses: 13%phys reduction from zombies

Stats at level 86
Reave Tooltip: 65k (Hatred)
Life: 4395 (325/s)
Defenses: 71%block/spellblock which goes up to cap as soon as he blocks something, 15k armour, 16% spell dodge, Arctic Armour/Tempest Shield/Molten Shell

Stats at level 83
Blade Vortex Tooltip: 23k (Hatred), 37k (3 power and frenzy charges)
Life: 4328 (303/s)
Defenses: 30% phys taken as fire, chaos golem, high duration phasing/immortal call

DPS calculator says it's doing 600k at 50 stacks. I believe it too. It's really nice how the increased crit from ascendancy makes those legacy Surgeon's flasks even better.

Stats at level 82
Arc DPS: 24k
Storm Call Avg: 10k
ES: 13.8k (1408/s)

Stats at level 79
Earthquake: 85.8k
Life: 3679 (250/s without Stone Golem)
Defenses: Champion Fortify, Acro/Phase Acro, 4000ish armour and eva

Goddess was interesting I guess. Not motivated to level this guy any further.

Stats at level 90
Life: 4500
Defenses: Impassable wall of tanky clones, 6 zombies, should probably use CwDT/IC
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Stats at level 86
DPS: 219k (Hatred, Ice Golem), 337k with 3 power and frenzy charges
Life: 4742 (350/s)
Defenses: Acro/Phase Acro, Lightning Coil, 12%block, Champion Fortify

Stats at level 83
DPS: 156k (Hatred, Flame Golem), 247k (+3 power and frenzy charges)
Life: 7971 (996/s)
Defenses: Fortify on main skill, 3500 armour

Only played up to t10s so far, but was still shock stacking bosses. Planning to return to this characters to see how well it can do in harder content after trying a couple other builds.

Stats at level 85
DPS: 90k (Hatred, Ice Golem), 122k (+3 frenzy charges)
Life: 4357 (245/s)
Defenses: 11k eva, 19% block, Acro, Phase Acro

Build

Stats at level 90
Geared for IIQ.
DPS: 32.5k (Hatred)
Life: 3584 (114/s)
ES: 1615
Defenses: Temp Chains aura, 15% block

Stats at level 82
DPS: 136k (Hatred), 200k (+3 power and frenzy charges)
Life: 4003 (214/s Stone Golem)
Defenses: Lightning Coil, Acro/Phase Acro


Strong, especially with those uber projectile speed wands, but I just wasn't into it. The playstyle this shares with skills like EK, Ground Slam and Earthquake seems to get stale pretty fast for me.

Stats at level 85
DPS: 46.5k (Hatred), 60k (+3 frenzy charges)
Life: 7592 (622/s)
Defenses: Fortify (30% enhanced), 9.5k armour, 18% block chance

Stats at level 92
ES: 8362 (1173/s)
Defenses: Fortify on main skill, 14k armour, 60% block, 32% spellblock normally or 67% spellblock with Stone of Lazhwar, Chaos Innoculation, Legacy Aegis Aurora. Overcapped resists.

Build




Tactical neck options


Flasks


Found the best possible corrupted Romira's

Stats at level 86
Firestorm Avg: 5,359 (Flame Golem, Anger), 5,985 (+3 Frenzy Charges), 8,388 (+Elemental Overload)
Life: 10,217 (1461/s)
Defenses: 3792 armour, 12% block





Needed lots of Jewels to cap resists.


Alternate gems for bosses and hard maps

Stats at level 83
Using +1 Quiver:
8 Arrows DPS: 64k (Wrath, Herald of Thunder), 90k (+3 power and frenzy charges) GMP
6 Arrows DPS: 75k, 106k LMP
4 Arrows DPS: 107k, 152k Slower Proj

Using legacy quiver without +1
7 Arrows DPS: 72k, 101k GMP
5 Arrows DPS: 85k, 119k LMP
3 Arrows DPS: 121k, 171k Slower Proj

Life: 3931
Defenses: Vaal Pact, Acro, 7k eva

Just wanted to quickly try out Mathil's Voltaxic LA build. Noted down tooltip DPS at with different combinations of quivers/LMP/GMP/Slower Proj to reference for other builds. For LA chain I think 7 arrows with the legacy quiver is the sweet spot. DPS numbers are a little higher than what I currently have, since I switched out Maligaro's for rare gloves.

Build

Stats at level 85
Tooltip DPS: 34.6k (Lightning Golem), 37.4k (+Shaman's Dominion), 51.1k (+3 power and frenzy charges)
ES: 11,801 (118/s)
Defenses: Chaos Innoculation, 31% block chance, 12% stun rec, 55% stun avoid when casting

Build

Stats at level 74
Tooltip DPS: 9366
Life: 7256 (638/s)
Defenses: Regen, Endurance charges, leech

Will swap out Warlord's for Assassin's Mark, when I have enough mana to sustain BL. Was originally created to use Call of the Brotherhood, but freezes were adding very little value.

Stats at level 88
Tooltip DPS: 52k (Hatred, Golem), 78k (3 frenzy charges, Onslaught)
Life: 4247
Defenses: Lightning Coil, Fortify, 19% block, Acro/Phase Acro, 14k eva (Arrow Dancing, Avatar of the Chase), Endurance Charges from Warlord's Mark

Experimented with tri and dual totem variants, with ES ranging from 11k (Soul Mantle) to 15k with a Vaal Regalia.

Since Occultist's ES regen doesn't work with totems this build was DoA.

Stats at level 87
DPS: 34-120k depending on Abyssus, Crit Strikes/AoE gem, and Added Fire vs Fortify gem
Life: 4915-5026 (80/s)
Defenses: Acro, Redblade Hat, Arctic Armour, Fortify

Crit version of this build

Tried with Sunder, Heavy Strike, Ground Slam and Earthquake and wasn't really enjoying any variant of this Stun-focused Juggernaut.

Stats at level 76
Life: 4078 (245/s)
Defenses: Zombie phys reduction, self casting Enfeeble

Really wanted to use Spectral Throw even though Cyclone/Bladefall/Blade Vortex seems like the stronger option.

Stats at level 83
Heavy Strike: 196k (Hatred, Herald of Ash), 298k (+4 Frenzy Charges)
Cleave: 157k, 215k
Sweep: 114k, 173k
Life: 6859 (614/s) will hit 7400 (700) with level 90 and higher level Stone Golem
Defenses: Fortify, Acro/Phase Acro, Arctic Armour