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

Undecided on AOE for this build... LS I guess as it's not weapon dependent?

LS is weapon dependent unless you mean it's independet for weapon types.

What do you do against Rhoas and Shield Chargers (100% hit chance as far as I know) if you find armour to be useless ?
Granite is enough ?

^ good tactic is to summon decoy totem, let them charge at it, and then simply engage them in close combat to prevent them from charging

hi guys and hi tiger.
i'm playing my first duelist according to this build and I'm having fun :)
I need some clarifications and suggestions. please be so kind to help me.

i'm playing with dual strike and added cold damage as support gem. on second hand viper strike and elemental damage. at the moment i've got only weapons with 2 slots connected, but very fast. this is not my final selection because in the end i use dual strike and also lightining, but cannot fit correctly the weapons. in any case...

I have to choose a support gem as reward of a mission:
- stun: i've read that this build is based on stun, so it should be good to reduce monster's limit. isn't it? or it's not really necessary?
- melee damage on full life: does it have sense due to BM? i think no. am I right?
- chance to flee : (edit) a good way to use it could be with puncture
- additional accuracy : not needed because of RT
- fork: (edit)for bows etc
- added cold damage : already in my hands.

what do you advice me? in case no gems are good for this build, please advice one to be used for next characters.

thank you.

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Tygerwoody wrote:

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.

Block is random. You can block all hits, or can don't block 4 in a row and die. Therefore is quite shitty. Same as evasion.

Armor gives much more real, not luck-dependent survivability.

Especially because you cannot block spells.

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Evantis wrote:

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Tygerwoody wrote:

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.

Block is random. You can block all hits, or can don't block 4 in a row and die. Therefore is quite shitty. Same as evasion.

Armor gives much more real, not luck-dependent survivability.

Especially because you cannot block spells.

armor doesn't do much against most spells either, does it?

Yep. Last sentence was about block or armor choose.

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Evantis wrote:

Yep. Last sentence was about block or armor choose.

which makes it irrelevant when comparing the two. the question comes down to which helps the most with physical damage. blocking a fair amount of the hits you would otherwise take and then reducing the hits that get through by X amount. or simply absorb most hits by having a higher (hopefully much higher) Y amount of armor.

which means the 2H would have to focus on equipment with higher armor and probably use skill points to increase that armor value while the DW focuses skill points on increasing damage along with a couple of the increased block nodes.

personally, not trying to claim one is better than the other. would say it comes down to personal choice and how you play and how you want your character to look on screen. if I have my heart set on wielding a big 2 hand weapon, I go that route even if it isn't the biggest, baddest, most uber path to take :)

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Evantis wrote:

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Tygerwoody wrote:

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.

Block is random. You can block all hits, or can don't block 4 in a row and die. Therefore is quite shitty. Same as evasion.

Armor gives much more real, not luck-dependent survivability.

Especially because you cannot block spells.

Trust me. Block works fantastic. Coming from a guy who went from zero block to 39%, its VERY noticeable. I even got a friend of mine who uses 2 handers to switch from using maces to using staves instead purely due to block. The difference in his survivability is incredible.

I won't sit here and say I'm an expert of the mechanics of how block works. Because frankly, I'm not and I don't. I just know that block is a tremendously powerful stat to have in this game from playing. I never experience the "blocking animation" that people experience. Thats not to say that it doesn't happen, that's just me saying I don't notice it. Which means its so miniscule that it doesn't affect my play.

Do yourself a favor and play some PVP in melee. Those guys with shields(while I still beat them), can take a freaking beating. It takes me 3-4 times as long to kill a guy with a shield than without. My hits do enough damage that I'm pretty sure their armor stat does not matter much.

TLDR: Block works.

TLDR2: 2nd reason I don't want to give out my exact build is because it destroys in PVP. :)

Why even post this if you want no one to figure out your build?