Fisting in 11.1 HanFistedFirst - Lvl 81 Facebreaker/Bringer of Rain Melee Build [Updated]

Great build, few questions:

What shield is best? Daresso's Courage, Aegis Aurora or some rare one?
Why Carnage Heart amulet?

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Samuelino wrote:

Great build, few questions:

What shield is best? Daresso's Courage, Aegis Aurora or some rare one?
Why Carnage Heart amulet?

Shields:

Just took a look at Aegis Aurora, but I'm not sure how it would benefit this build where other shields can't. Daresso's is for easy resistances, while Lioneye's would be for life + armor. A rare shield can potentially trump both of them, but you'd need to have high rolls on virtually all the right stats.

Carnage Heart:

The life leech. Having a good Carnage Heart pretty much means you don't need to look for LL on any other item. Plus the stats and resists help, too, if only by that slight bit. Life takes a slight hit but it's probably possible to get 3k life even with Carnage (I've got 2.7k).

How about Anarchy where there is no Carnage?

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Samuelino wrote:

Great build, few questions:

What shield is best? Daresso's Courage, Aegis Aurora or some rare one?
Why Carnage Heart amulet?

aegis for easy god mode. 75% block / 62% spell block + 18k armor = 720 es restored per block. you can pretty much stand in the middle of a huge pack and and go afk - given it's not a chaos mob =P. Granted, you will still get taken down by map bosses if they manage to land consecutive crits on you (got taken out by dual boss mod lvl 72 jungle valley map)

Daresso for resis/physical dmg and a bit higher armor than aegis when used with iron reflexes.

But if you find a rare shield with +block chance, +max life, 2000+ ev, +resis, then that would be better than any unique shield out there.

I'm using lazhwar myself, for the 50% block chance applied to spells. Carnage heart has +attribute, + resist, and the extra life leech is helpful if you are running bloodmana

how do you deal with reflect maps?
i have 2.2k life, and 85 fire ress with phoenix. and i still die on reflect maps.

how do you deal with that?

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PowerToys wrote:

how do you deal with reflect maps?
i have 2.2k life, and 85 fire ress with phoenix. and i still die on reflect maps.

how do you deal with that?

It had been discussed. Just switch your inferno gem to dominating blow. Or try not to take the whole pack at once. Hope this help~

Thanks for the fast reply. leveling dominating blow ASAP.

with the changes to IR is it even worth having anymore?

That ring any good for this build because of the 5%?

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ryder911 wrote:

That ring any good for this build because of the 5%?

Not really because 5% is nothing compared to having +9-15 flat physical * facebreaker * all the physical % damage you have.


To give you an example (the damage is calculated on infernal blow) :

- Removing Daresso's (20%) reduced my damage by 1.5k.
- Adding a 10-22 physical amulet gave me 5k more damage.