Duelist crit sword build help

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MasterBLB wrote:

Well,1st make plain build link to be viewed on main PoE site instead that ExileCraft garbage.
2nd,what exactly you need help with?

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1453R wrote:

Your crit character has very little crit, you're using Iron Reflexes/Unwavering Stance on a character with minimal investment in armor or evasion, and your tree is all over the place looking for sword nodes it doesn't need whilst mostly ignoring the one sword cluster it does need.

First of all: both your swords have the default base 6.5% crit chance. The single most important crit modifier for a crit build is the weapon's base crit chance - going from 6.5% crit chance to 8% crit chance on each sword is a massive upgrade, as that base number magnifies all your other crit scaling. The swords are otherwise not too bad, but crit build needs moar crit. See if you can get somewhat comparable swords with at least 8% crit chance, though they will be expensive. Frankly Dual Strike is often better with daggers than with swords, but good attack-focused crit daggers are not cheap.

Second - you might really want to think about killing everything west of Master of the Arena, in your tree. That's forty-one nodes you're using to, basically, hit the Scion life wheel and the Marauder's sword wheel. Even just trimming down to the fifteen nodes you need to hit the life wheel and the jewel socket gets you back twenty-six nodes you can use to do things that actually benefit your build. Filling out Fatal Blade would be a good start, pick up some of that leech you want but aren't currently getting. Drop Iron Reflexes - it's a specialized build thing now, not the default way to use evasion. Run up to Revenge of the Hunted, grab Heartseeker and Acuity, maybe pick up some frenzy charges if you decide on a frenzy charge generator somewhere. Get some crit, and just as importantly accuracy, on your crit build.

Third - your links are a bit of a mess. 6L Belly of the Beast is awesome and helps but some of your skill set-ups look...weird. Heavily supported ice golem? No Fortify anywhere? Weak ancestral Protector over strong Ancestral Chief? I dunno. I've never done a Dual Strike build, but I don't know as this is how I'd do one if I did. Inc. Crit Chance is really good now and helps patch up builds with spotty crit weapons like those swords, or tips builds with really good crit weapons into the 80+% crit chance range if the rest of the build falls in line. If you're going Gladiator with the Bleed nodes, an Ancestral Chieftain totem with Melee Phys, FA, and Bloodlust deals huge deepz against targets you bleed and can also be used as an AoE clearing tool if you want to drop Melee Splash from your Dual Strike.

Get Portal on your CWDT set-up for better coverage there, ensuring that you should have a portal right to where you left off if something manages to get you and/or have a portal ready if you're really struggling and want to head to town to flask up. Or if you're using it just to avoid carrying Portal scrolls...carry Portal scrolls, or stuff the Portal in a gemslot on your weapon swap. Gem slots are too valuable to waste on stuff like a main link setup Portal.