Heavy Strike, Shield Bash, Ground Slam?
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All,
Is it viable to build a purely physical character based on weapon+shield, using the active skills of Heavy Strike, Ground Slam and Shield Charge? By viable I mean "able to finish merciless". I am willing to run auras but I dont want to pump elemental passives. I just want a physical brute. How much max life% and mana/life leech% would such a character need? Thanks! |
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Try ES for melee on full life, it gives you an extra physical support gem to run
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Ground Slam is pretty OP as a skill. You can concentrate on stacking block since you will be a sword and board character. I have done a sword + Crest of perandus + infernal blow with 1500 hp and 53% block, but I think it is still a bit dangerous. You can shoot for max block + 3000 hp by merciless, then see if you still need more hp.
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I am not sure what ES is. I am new to the game. But is a ground slamming shield charger viable generally, without pumping elemental nodes or auras?
Thanks! |
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I have a mara that does it using life regen upwards of 300 per second, 8 endurance charges, 75% block.
Ground slam and heavy strike. Standard Forever
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1 hand pure physical with no auras is not viable. Elemental damage, especially for 1 handers is much more powerful than physical. Your DPS will be awful, and won't be leeching enough life to stay healthy. Either go 2-hander, elemental, or use auras.
Bullshit, you get the game for free.
-Qarl |
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Pure physical is a bad idea because of phys reflect mobs. But you can make a build with those skills.
Best support gems would be Added Fire, Melee Phys dmg, Blood Magic, Life Leech (or a lot of regen) For auras you can use Hatred, Purity, Haste, Grace(if you take Iron Reflexes). Tempest Shield is also an option for the +block chance. IGN: GojoMojo
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Its kind of frustrating if that is true. I like characters based on concepts, and you would think that as the most basic concept of all, "pure physical sword and board" should be one the devs ensure works.
So, if I simply must run elemental auras and use elemental weapons to be viable for sword and board, does that mean I have to take all the elemental damage passives and the elemental weapon damage passives? Thanks for the help! |
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" You don't have to use ele weapons. Here's a build that could work, i know it's 111 points but you can drop anything you dont need, like the aura reservation nodes if you don't want to use 4 percentage based auras. Also it isn't really that you must run elemental auras, but Hatred and Added Fire gem are the best supports for physical based builds. IGN: GojoMojo
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Still Full physical builds will die to physical reflect in merciless and i dont see the big damage potential if you go full physical, because the stronges passives are obviously "elemental damage" nodes, because they buff your damage 3 times (if you use 3 different auras for example). And Aura damage combined is much higher than physical damage of the weapon, so i dont see the point in a non crit physical build. Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
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