Dual Wield Lightning Strike

So basically I'm considering doing a Dual Wield Duelist based on attack speed and weapon damage.

The main damage skills I'm considering are Lightning Strike to kill large groups of monsters and Elemental Hit to focus on one target/monsters with lightning resist

For auras I'm thinking about using Grace, Haste and Discipline.
Should I use Wrath aura?

Updated skill tree



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Please give it a look and tell me where and why my build might fail so I can improve it =)

Wrath aura will complement your build accurate because it is based on the additional damage from lightning. Discipline Instead, try using Purity, so that you gain a lot of resistance.

So instead of Discipline I should use Purity.

Should I use a Blood Magic Gem to cast Lightning Strike?

What about the passive tree, do you recommend more survivability or some Sword Node to cause more damage?

Thanks for the opinion btw ;)

If you want to use Blood Magic you need to have very high rates of regeneration of health and health steal to survive what you will use when using the skill.

I was thinking about using life leech to have more sustain during combat.

suggestion: better to use weapon-specific attack speed nodes then just general ones. Weapon specific (particulrly sword nodes) give attack speed along with damage increase, and these 3% nodes are, as for me, quite useless

moreover, you can't evade in this build, why not to take Iron reflexes?

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cagecreed wrote:

suggestion: better to use weapon-specific attack speed nodes then just general ones. Weapon specific (particulrly sword nodes) give attack speed along with damage increase, and these 3% nodes are, as for me, quite useless

moreover, you can't evade in this build, why not to take Iron reflexes?

I wasn't sure the weapon specific node would affect dual wield. In that case I'll change my build and post a new one ;)

About Iron Reflexes, of course I'll take it, I probably forgot to put the point. As you can see I went down the passive tree just to get there xD

Thanks for the review ;)

Updated the passive skill tree

Got some Sword Nodes and Dual Wield Crit Chance (near Iron Reflexes)

Let me know your opinions ;)

why dont you take the two melee damage in the beginning? does it not contribute to LS damage?

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deadremix wrote:

why dont you take the two melee damage in the beginning? does it not contribute to LS damage?

The melee physical damage is different from physical damage in a VERY important aspect for this build: it does not contribute to the LS projectile damage, which will be all of the build's aoe dmg... so not very efficient (this is a big reason why most people don't like duelists for 1h builds).

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ChronoControl wrote:

About Iron Reflexes, of course I'll take it, I probably forgot to put the point. As you can see I went down the passive tree just to get there xD

I think this is a mistake... Picking iron reflexes indicates that you want to stack evasion, but what is the point of stacking evasion if you can't evade due to unwavering stance? I wouldn't take unwavering stance in this case so that you can actually capitalize on evasion armor. Otherwise, dont take iron reflexes and just use str armor without evasion (and higher base armor values).

Generally speaking, I think you spent way too many points in the beginning Duelist area which is notoriously not very good... This is the reason why most good players don't like Duelists!

I could carry on, but it's a lot easier to just point you to my own DW Lightning Strike Duelist passive build. Pls check it out and leave feedback in the thread linked below!

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/66751