Sarlaiel's DW BM Duelist Build. High life/dps/aoe/regen/block. The perfect DW build

Man this looks same like my marauder leap slam build, only diff is i got few 2h nodes and u 1h.. :D so basically you can make a DW maraduer or 2h duelist.. :D but both connect to each starting area. anyway.. why i make a post here is i think DW Maraduer looks BETTER :P :D

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hugorx wrote:

Man this looks same like my marauder leap slam build, only diff is i got few 2h nodes and u 1h.. :D so basically you can make a DW maraduer or 2h duelist.. :D but both connect to each starting area. anyway.. why i make a post here is i think DW Maraduer looks BETTER :P :D

Duel Wield Duelist has a ton more survivability over 2h Duelist due to block. 39% block rating allows me to jump in combat with many more mobs than I would as a 2 hander.

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SunofaB wrote:

I see that Winterfel grabbed BM at lvl 45-46.

When do you recommend grabbing BM?

Grab BM when you have at least 60-80 life regen and/or you are consistently running out of mana. Currently I have around 270 life regen, so 60 isn't really hard to get. BM doesn't really become mandatory until you start using 5L and 6L items in my opinion...

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BlackSwordsman01 wrote:

whats your main means of health recovery? and what sort of potions do you have set?

I use life on hit gem for most of my healing. I honestly haven't even tested out life leech because my life on hit works so well(due to being instant heal). I'm leveling up a life leech as we speak. When it gets high lvl, I'll try to use it for my healing.


As for my potions. I have 2 low health instant health flasks, 2 high health "slow" flasks, and quicksilver flask with additional run speed + charges. The 2 high health "slow" flasks I use 90% of the time. The 2 low health, instant recovery flasks I mainly use when I have a dot on me(chaos damage).

my impressions from newely respecing into this build.

The build itself has been beneficial to me. I had no direction with my build and wasn't really planning anything out ahead so i hit a brick wall halfway through act 1 merciless. i'm lvl 60 and now i just plowed through the rest of act 1 with relative ease. doing more damage then i was doing and have more health and resists. Of course my EQ is pretty bad, I have a lot of room to improve there as well. but the core idea is solid.

do this build work in hc?

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IgotHackedsonewaccount wrote:

do this build work in hc?

I wouldn't hesitate to use this character in HC....

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Tygerwoody wrote:

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hugorx wrote:

Man this looks same like my marauder leap slam build, only diff is i got few 2h nodes and u 1h.. :D so basically you can make a DW maraduer or 2h duelist.. :D but both connect to each starting area. anyway.. why i make a post here is i think DW Maraduer looks BETTER :P :D

Duel Wield Duelist has a ton more survivability over 2h Duelist due to block. 39% block rating allows me to jump in combat with many more mobs than I would as a 2 hander.

Yeah i didnt mean it this way, i mean you can play marauder with 2h (leap slam) just pick diff race (duelist).. it takes lvl 40 or so before the classes tree connects, so this way you can play dw duelist ..your build, but pick maraduer race, so you look BIGER ..:-)

Yea. Marauder could work with this build. You could actually have better survivability early on with marauder, but much less dps. I like the duelist tree because it gives you that jolt of dps in the very beginning to level fast and then survivability in later levels when you need it.

Man this build sounds like so much fun...I have been debating on starting a duelist and this has convinced that it will be fun. The only issue I have would be what gems/support gems I would need for this build. I mean it would be nice to see some gear stats, but I can see why you might not want to. I also think you're onto something good with this build that can show a duelist as a solid end game toon. Hopefully you might let us in on your gear/gems would be super great-full and I think so would the PoE community.

Cheers