[Lighty] (2.2) Sword BoR Dualstrike - HC Perandus

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Build Summary:
Essentially its a 1 button build with a ton of layered defenses

• Block
• Evasion
• Dodge
• Arctic Armour
• Blind + Smoke Cloud
• Perma Fortify
• Whirling/Leap

You End up with 5.5-6k life and very strong single target dps, the aoe is pretty shit.

Leveling Tips:

• Any leveling uniques will make getting to 67(BoR) easier and less painful
• Early leveling sucks as melee but I used [Molten strike + Flametotem + Fire Trap ] until lv38.
• Stone Golems OPOPOP at low levels and worth putting in a 3L [ Golem + Minion Speed + Melee Phys ]
• 38+ [ Dual strike - Multistrike - Bloodmagic - Melee Splash ] and make sure you grab RT at some point, no reason to level without it.

Passive Tree:

• Dualist Final Tree

Champion Subclass: Free fortitude and move/attack speed

Required Uniques:
Only Required Unique is Bringer of Rain which grants an easy 7L and good life & evasion/armour; prevents you from using a body armour
Ideal Swords:
Corsair Sword is best with 1.55 aps. Below are the best prefix/suffixes you could ask for.

• % Phys
• Hybrid % Phys
• Flat Phys
• Attack Speed

Gems & Links:

• Dual Strike - Multistrike - Bloodmagic - Melee Splash/Added Fire(single target) (Inside Bringer of Rain)
• Whirling Blades - Leap Slam - Faster Attacks - Bloodmagic
• Cast When Damage Taken(1) - Immortal Call(3) - Warlords Mark(5)
• Hatred - Herald Of Ash - Arctic Armour
• Riposte - Vengeance - Bloodmagic - Bloodrage

Bandits:

• Help Oak - 40 Life
• Help Kraiten - 8% Attack Speed
• Kill All - +1 Passive Point

Enchantments:

• Helm: Dualstrike Attack speed or DPS
• Boots: 5% spell dodge when hit with a spell recently.
• Glove: any "of war" animate weapon on kill enchant.The weapons based on your mainhand so put your best pdps weapon in that slot.

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Very good Lighty! I'm probably going to try it on HC.

One thing, though: In your tree you choose to be a Slayer but in the subclass description you advise to select a Champion.

Furthermore, a Slayer woudn't need Melee Splash due to his innate passive one.

Thanks for posting dude, Ill probably give this a try soon as the leagues open

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tanfodelmale wrote:

Very good Lighty! I'm probably going to try it on HC.

One thing, though: In your tree you choose to be a Slayer but in the subclass description you advise to select a Champion.

Furthermore, a Slayer woudn't need Melee Splash due to his innate passive one.

Good catch, was supposed to be champion since the slayer had shitty melee splash and a 2h node which was wasted.

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JusSolus wrote:

Thanks for posting dude, Ill probably give this a try soon as the leagues open

dope buddy. I'll be posting updates after every stream day and a week of progress. Most likely day 1 - 7 with gear and basic updates.

126% life? Iron reflexes with acro?

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Raspbery wrote:

126% life? Iron reflexes with acro?

Had the wrong tree up. 165% life with 3 jewel sockets so 180% min and maybe dropping ir but keeping acro, not sure yet.

Adding to Favs so I can keep an eye on it. Still haven't decided what I'll start tomorrow and this seems as a candidate.
Expecting any updates and great work as always buddy!

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franronin wrote:

Adding to Favs so I can keep an eye on it. Still haven't decided what I'll start tomorrow and this seems as a candidate.
Expecting any updates and great work as always buddy!

Not sure what else i'll be adding to the guide until I start playing it. What info do you feel is missing or would like to see?

Thoughts on using 2x Tiger Hooks instead for 6% more dodge chance?



Potential to go to the Scion life rectangle as well instead of up past RT. You drop the gem slot on the way up the left side and pick the one up heading to scion and end up with 1% more life plus 20 flat life. Also leaves a point to take another 5% life if you want.