My Frenzy Charge Duelist Build [1.1.3]
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This is what I did in Anarchy. It’s a pretty tough character. I rarely die. I took on "twinned" bosses, a yellow mob, a blue pack, and a rogue exile all at the same time with this build.
I use the Blood Dance boots along with Frenzy charges for big life regeneration, approximately 12% currently, along with high block chance for defense and Frenzy with Melee Splash for offense. Build:
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Blood Magic
Block Chance/ Defenses/ Frenzy Charge / Iron Reflexes Life Block Chance/ Frenzy Charge / Life Damage Fillers Endurance Charges / Resists / Unwavering Stance My current build. It has some respeccing. I didn't spec out of Blood Magic, until I got a Soul Taker. I also didn't run any auras, aside from Grace, until I specced out of Blood Magic, which you can't really run any auras anymore until speccing out of Blood Magic. Skills:
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Frenzy: Melee Physical Damage, Melee Splash, Life Leech, Added Fire Damage. Multistrike is fun in the sixth link. Weapon Elemental Damage, if you need bigger hits for leech.
With a Bringer of Rain, I use Frenzy, Melee Splash, Added Fire Damage, and Multistrike. If I need the leech, I switch out Multistrike for Life Leech. If I need bigger leeches on something like Dominus, I also switch out Melee Splash for Weapon Elemental Damage. Purity: Reduced Mana. Tempest Shield: Culling Strike. Enfeeble, Enduring Cry, Fire Trap, Blood Magic. Leap Slam where ever. Used for traversal, mostly. Other Auras: If you need armour: Determination: Reduced Mana or Grace: Reduced Mana Whichever, gives the most armour. If you don't need the armour, go with: Hatred: Reduced Mana for the damage.
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Cyclone: Added Fire Damage, Weapon Elemental Damage, Concentrated Effect.
Leap Slam: Culling Strike, Item Rarity. Cast When Damage Taken: Enfeeble, Enduring Cry. Auras: Hatred, Purity of Elements, Vitality, Reduced Mana. Equipment:
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Weapon: High physical damage one hand. I used an alright axe that I found until I got a Soul Taker, which I also found.
Shield: High block chance, 30+. Higher armour/evasion. Life. Boots: Everything else: High armour/ evasion, life and cap your resists. More damage on gears helps, too, of course. Flasks:
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I need to optimize these, but...
I have 3 health, a quicksilver, and a mana flask on my bar. The mana is to replenish for faster recasting of Tempest Shield between maps. Three health flasks is overkill for this build. I never run out of charges on one. Rarely ever have to use any. You could go with more quicksilvers and/or some defensive flasks. One of my flasks is "of Grounding" to dispel shock. The rest are just what I had lying around. Bandits:
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Normal: Skill point (Kill all) or Health (Oak). I took the skill point.
Cruel: Skill point (Kill all), physical damage (Oak), or attack speed (Kraityn). I took the skill point. Merciless: Frenzy Charge (Kraityn) Character Screen:
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These are with my charges and auras. No defensive flasks are being used.
 
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These are with Frenzy and Endurance charges.
  Current Gear:
Added rarity swaps
The jewels could use more rarity and I want a Wheel of the Stormsail eventually, but here are the rarity items. Videos:
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Kole
Piety Run. The Piety fight starts at about 12:30. Dominus - Rarity My YouTube channel is mostly videos of my Duelist doing Maps. Feel free to comment, critique, ask questions, etc. SynTrSr - Trickster Soulrend/Bane Last edited by generaldave#2914 on May 8, 2014, 12:37:28 PM
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Updated my current build, even though there seems to be no interest in it.
Also, there are a bunch more videos of it in action on my YouTube channel. I'm currently half way through level 68 maps, but don't have the supply of 69 maps. SynTrSr - Trickster Soulrend/Bane Last edited by generaldave#2914 on Oct 12, 2013, 12:28:41 PM
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Updated my current build, character screens, and added "Current Gear" section.
SynTrSr - Trickster Soulrend/Bane
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Updated skills, tree, equipment, character screen for 1.0.0.
Also updated current gear. SynTrSr - Trickster Soulrend/Bane
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Why iron reflexes and not Phase Acrobatics + Ondar's? It would be just a few skills away and would prolly give u a better all around def.
I am building towards something like this: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQBAecEfgSxBbUM8hLhFCAV8Bm0GlUa2xutHOcg8CECJd8q9izpMBkwcTB8Nug6QjpYPeI-z0TnR35I7kp9S3hMYFBHUUdT31cNWNtaGmEhZKNlTWegah5qO2qTbmlwPnTteK57jH11fyuE2YTvhxmHdo19jb-QdJHOlWaZK5uDns2gtKLqpcunMKgYqn-quKvFrK-vp7ZBt9O7472Bvea-p8APxqLK09Ih0k3TftQj1e3WitfL2WHdDd2o5FHnru968i_2o_e--WP7qvzF_ro= The only thing I fear is it may be too low damage to be effective but time will tell. Last edited by paul232#3504 on Oct 28, 2013, 10:27:14 AM
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I don't want high evasion or dodge chance because I want to be able to block. The Culling Strike on Tempest Shield works pretty well against bosses. Otherwise, while not using Grace, evasion and dodge would be a lot more beneficial.
The defense from Iron Reflexes is minimal really, with my current skill set up. And the character is beefy enough as it is. I could probably drop Iron Reflexes for more damage though. SynTrSr - Trickster Soulrend/Bane Last edited by generaldave#2914 on Oct 29, 2013, 2:56:54 AM
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Updated for 1.1.3.
The "old" build is still with the old passive tree, but it at least gives you an idea of how to go about leveling the build. Edit: I know this is old, but I just started playing with him again today. Working on setting him up for solo Dominus runs. SynTrSr - Trickster Soulrend/Bane Last edited by generaldave#2914 on May 8, 2014, 12:40:07 PM
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