Physical DW Mana Sword Duelist

I spent quite some time theorycrafting this and came up with this build... feel free to give input.

Physical DW Mana Duelist

Or there's this:

DW Mana Sword Duelist mk2

if your gonna go for a build using mana, you'll want some int, some mana nodes, and most importantly mana regen.

you can get an easy 60% with the 3 node cluster of 20% mana regen, that with mana flows will give you 100% mana regen boosting your base to 3.5% of your max mana regen per second.

secondly you might want to think about what skills your going to use. I would suggest getting blood magic support gems for your 2 main single and aoe abilities, while your using your mana for all your auras and support skills such as blood rage, molten shell, curses, anything of that sort.

and also you dont need THAT much life, its best to get the more efficient life nodes and spend the rest on others. plus try to avoid small nodes if possible, the 10% attack speed for 2 nodes from the beginning of the tree could have been spent better else where.

but with a lack of theme or idea of what skills you plan on using, its hard to tell what your next direction should be

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DarkenDragon wrote:

if your gonna go for a build using mana, you'll want some int, some mana nodes, and most importantly mana regen.

you can get an easy 60% with the 3 node cluster of 20% mana regen, that with mana flows will give you 100% mana regen boosting your base to 3.5% of your max mana regen per second.

secondly you might want to think about what skills your going to use. I would suggest getting blood magic support gems for your 2 main single and aoe abilities, while your using your mana for all your auras and support skills such as blood rage, molten shell, curses, anything of that sort.

and also you dont need THAT much life, its best to get the more efficient life nodes and spend the rest on others. plus try to avoid small nodes if possible, the 10% attack speed for 2 nodes from the beginning of the tree could have been spent better else where.

but with a lack of theme or idea of what skills you plan on using, its hard to tell what your next direction should be

I had some INT in there... +94 of it. I need more? And there was already 72% increased mana and 40% mana regen. I did see that other cluster of 20% mana regen and those are viable instead of extra life as well. I was going to play it by ear there on which I needed more.

As for skills, I am kinda waiting on the details of cyclone. I was going to use BM on the single target and AOE as you say with mana for auras. I was not too sure exactly which skills would be best though.

I think part of your link got cut off cuz it shows only 3 8% mana nodes taken an mana flow, the top cluster of mana nodes you only taken 1, but if you said you took 72% then chances are that cluster isnt showing for some reason

for supports im sure your getting grace, anger, hatred, and maybe vitality. I'd also suggest getting molten shell for armor buff, and if your getting that much str, you might want flame trap with iron will in it to handle any pesky groups of casters.

you'll want at least 1 method of mobility, since you are getting int, you can look into getting whirling blades or get leap slam to go up cliffs.

also with that much health and life regen, you could use blood rage to help get more life leech and a way to generate frenzy charges.

getting warlord's mark as a curse will help you get the mana and life leech to keep things going as well as provide endurance charges to help survivability. but it wont help against bosses unless theres minions to kill.

you could do battle cry instead for endurance charges as well.

and you'll want something to help handle the bosses a little quicker, I find viper strike does a great job, just to put 4 stacks of poison on. hope that gives some ideas