[3.0] The Touch of Doryani: Elemental Unarmed Berserker. Punch your way through Wraeclast!
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The touch of God!
 Introduction Tired of using Meta Skill du jour? Try punching bosses in the face instead! This is an elemental unarmed build that uses Doryani's Fist. In 3.0 it now grants us the Doryani's Touch skill AKA Dominus' Touch of God ability. We use this to destroy bosses and use Shield Charge linked to Cast on Melee Kill and Shock Nova for trash clear. T15 Shaped Courtyard clear: https://youtu.be/t6sHDhuHGnY T13 Gorge clear: https://youtu.be/NpG61O83tWU (had some network lag in this one)
Build Mechanics
Like Facebreaker applies a large bonus to physical attacks with unarmed, Doryani's Fist gives us a large amount of flat lightning damage to unarmed attacks and spells. While before this boost was difficult to scale and didn't do a lot, making Doryani's Fist uninteresting and not very powerful, some changes in 3.0 helped out greatly. From the 3.0 patch notes: "Thanks to this change we can use the new Elemental Damage with Attacks stat on the tree and the EDWA gem to greatly scale our damage! Since Doryani's Touch has a 30% less attack speed modifier it's generally too slow to use to kill every single mob on the map. Instead we utilize Shield Charge (the only movement skill aside from Phase Run we get as unarmed) in a CoMK - Shock Nova setup to wipe out weak packs in one or two hits. For sturdier blue packs or rares we can use Doryani's Touch to quickly dispatch them.
Build Choices
Doryani's Touch is extremely expensive mana-wise so we need to sustain it with a lot of mana leech. Berserker is perfect for this and also gives us tons of increased attack speed to make it feel good to use. We take Elemental Overload as we're not using crit. I tried going crit utilizing Rigwald's Curse and Assassin but found the build too fragile and mana-starved for not a lot more damage. We're also already under a ton of gear pressure so going crit just makes it even harder to cap resists. Skill Tree Path of Building Pastebin link: pastebin.com/RX7gDczX Lv90 skill tree: poeurl.com/bvCt Kill all bandits for 2 extra passive points. Ascendancy: Take these in order:
Leveling: Leveling tree: poeurl.com/bvDA Put your Grand Spectra in the 3 jewel sockets, they'll provide the bulk of your damage early on. You can level as any elemental skill, but Firestorm is probably very strong (heck, I leveled with Facebreaker and Infernal Blow). Pantheon Major: Brine King. Being stunlocked as a leech build is extremely deadly so this helps a ton with preventing that. Minor: Ryslatha (good all around / for lab), Yugul (anti-reflect), or Ralakesh (reduces Blood Rage damage). Try them out, see which one you like best. Gem Setup 5/6L:
4L in Doryani's Fist:
Why not Elemental Focus instead of Faster Attacks?
We could use Elemental Focus for another More modifier to our Doryani's Touch damage. I tested both but went with Faster Attacks because:
Auras:
Other gems: (put these wherever they fit)
Toggling Blood Rage off
If you slot Blood Rage in your shield, you can double-tap your weapon swap key to switch to your alt weapon set and back to your main, which acts as if you unsocketed your Blood Rage and turns it off. Good if you're traveling a long ways to another pack and need to top off.
Gearing Required gear: Doryani's Fist, obviously, and Lycosidae makes us never miss which is a huge effective DPS increase. Recommended gear: Grand Spectra give us a whopping 36*3 = 108% increased elemental damage. Highly recommended, and not too expensive after the 3x limit was introduced in 3.0. Other gear slots:
My current gear
Flasks: At minimum you want a curse, freeze, and bleeding removal flask. I suggest these: The topaz will keep you from dying to random reflect rares that you decide to use Touch on. That leaves one utility flask slot open. I'm currently trying out Wise Oak and like it a lot, it has good uptime, a hefty ~10% dps increase on use, and helps out with ele weakness curse maps. You can use Taste of Hate, Atziri's Promise, or Vessel of Vinktar instead though. If you use Wise Oak, remember that if you're running a Topaz that you'll always have highest lightning resistance so just focus on keeping your fire/cold res equal (and don't worry about keeping lightning res highest since the topaz will make that happen). Jewels: After you've socketed 3 Grand Spectra, look for these stats on jewels:
Example poe.trade search: http://poe.trade/search/asusekomibasii Jewels without life% are a lot cheaper, so if you can't afford life+dps jewels try searching for 3xdps affix jewels instead.
Jewels I'm currently using
Mapping Most map mods are fine for this build. The two absolute no-go map mods are:
These mods are annoying but not impossible:
You may want to reroll if you get stuck with a resistance + hexproof/reduced curse map as it'll really slow you down since shield charge won't be able to take out weak packs as much, making you stop and Touch more often. Concluding Remarks This is the first time I've ever created and played my own build from scratch and it's been an absolute blast. Thanks to GGG for making this game and for TheAtlasDomain and /u/Nusterion for their ideas and feedback. If you have build questions or comments feel free to post them in the thread. Have fun punching stuff in Wraeclast! Last edited by Shearscape#7215 on Aug 28, 2017, 3:14:33 PM Last bumped on Apr 30, 2018, 10:02:52 AM
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Looks nice. Would be nice to know how far you can go endgame wise, shaper/uber lab.
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" Thanks, I'm hoping to do as much as possible. Did you mean Uber Atziri? I soloed Uber Lab very early, in the 70s or so. I took down Hydra but don't have that on video, gonna work on Guardians next. |
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That sounds good! I will try to level this build today. Want a Char for uber lab runs, maybe this is the one.
Edit: Did you try to use other skills for clearing? Last edited by Schroin#1442 on Aug 28, 2017, 1:20:14 AM
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To be honest this is not that great a character for Uber Lab since it is Vaal Pact and can't regen. You're probably better off playing a Slayer Sunder character or totem character if you want a dedicated uber lab farmer
Edit: As for other skills for clearing, I thought about Arc and Storm Call. Arc I ruled out because it doesn't gain any effect from the AoE nodes on the tree (which we have a lot of), and Storm Call has a delay that would mess us up Last edited by Shearscape#7215 on Aug 28, 2017, 1:57:28 AM
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Im running a similar build but im going with a scion and doing it crit based Im just hitting 65 with it now and am hopeful. From what im seeing it looks like it should be End game viable and Have a great time clearing maps.
Rather than the blaspheme setup have you looked into Curse on hit with a HoT setup? |
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" I tried some theorycrafting with Scion (Assassin/Raider, using frenzy and power charges as crit) in addition to creating and playing Assassin crit-based, but you end up having a ton of gear pressure for not a lot more DPS imo. That 40% more damage from berserker combined with EO is really hard to beat. I did try out HoT-CoH-Blasphemy and it'd be basically permanently active during a map, but I felt like the cooldown between HoT bolts was too long to feel like the curse was being applied often enough. That, plus not needing any less mana reserved, meant that I chose blasphemy instead |
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why do you took the minions damage notes?
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" Huh? I don't think I did. Where are you talking about? |
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