Are these tank builds any good?
" What? Oh my god. Just. I don't even know what advice to give you. Your understanding of the game is so poor and absolutely wrong in so many places. This is exactly like a kid who doesn't know how to add and subtract, trying his hands on brute force solving a quadratic equation. Just go look at how ANY OTHER build is done. You're not learning a single thing. |
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http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Game_mechanics (because the forum thread is no longer updated)
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ok so, energy shield (es) is NOT a defense, it is an extra hp pool with its own behavior. everything that damages health, damages energy shield equally but BEFORE hp if es exists. exception is chaos damage which skips energy shield, reason a lot of people like CI (chaos indoct).
armor reduces physical damage taken, period, doesn't matter if spell or attack and as mentioned above, reduces damage taken towards es just the same as damage to hp. using both armor and evasion (mentioned below), hoards of monsters barely matter that much... but there's still bosses and self recovery to still deal with. evasion can NOT be alone as you will be hit "eventually". you need hp and/or es and dodging/blocking/both. regeneration or leeching typically solves most health issues after taking hits, but if you don't have 2k of either hp or es, then most people will struggle if they don't have any means to get monsters off themselves. granted there are some builds dedicated to regeneration or leeching... but i never seen them play. Last edited by soul4hdwn#0698 on Jun 24, 2014, 11:04:29 PM
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OK, would this work as the strength tank;
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEBxthYYz38UFAu_6IPjM_2SF8_458nL-8OvJ-krPIvROcc56gYah5qOyDw0iH3vp7NpzAUIFBHGJFyu7nNoW3zBqC0-6rkUVcN2WEZLja68pwLKG6XlPsn7cT2PC3GrmbZGNc0vrRzDPfp1SQlr2zFivAfBLMCcYFvnjxN2Ix2ogC3Pv4KOuGmV03j_o81kojxtfKpbtE2CTNBh_noaHTaYpSg2E062Ow4GjinhJBVwBpmnnFNms9DY7cxWPWdxPrScH2AVqmVT30aMlFgNukkquNqGYUdFEw1KMXjgucL874abJ2uMZ6IujWAFE0xAQ== I've taken NOTHING but life, shield and armour, so it should be tanky...? EDIT: Sorry, forgot to actually link the build. Everything is armour, life, shield, life regen and energy shield Last edited by Mick182#1029 on Jun 25, 2014, 6:54:11 AM
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" I'm pretty sure you're trolling at this point, but okay, I'll bite. It doesn't matter if you can stack to 10k health. If you have no way of regenerating it back it's absolutely useless. And even tanks need to do damage. Damage should also give you good leech to regenerate your life in most good builds. |
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I'm not trolling.
I also took every regen passive I could, so there is a lot of life and regen in that build. The reason I'm asking these questions before building my character, is that I don't want to waste years leveling a character high, then realizing my build sucked from the start, and having to start from scratch. I assume the passive tree is permanent like in Torchlight 2? At most, you will be able to refund 1-3 skill points? (By which stage, it will probably already have been too late...) |
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Here is the latest intelligence tank;
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMBVysHY-aBc1N5AzGICPQRULvWO-Hi96crbRnB86Kjf8ZabSQ8p1xJUewYw22P-hzckye0DOq6NAo3Ziympus3g1fJPI4o-uvuuJOnCBVQna4abBmFJKo26eNq-tIdFEw1KMXjgucL3rDzvtgkNsUfAuZ8hcV-4isNcH2AVqmVT30aMlFgZp5xTZrPQ2O3MVj1ncTAGpBVp4QaOOw4wcVPv0NUHdk62E3YnjyBb4x2BLMCcRRN8B-iAMWKr2zp1Qz3JCWPRtDQm6H318y8hWAQl6rERARNuUjniLrxdjWAMQGCx_noaHTaYsBUz2VVxhZv I decided not to take chaos inoculation. Everything is spent on energy shield, life, life regen, chaos resistance, and shield, with a tiny bit on minion life as well. |
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Stop. Please. Play the game.
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Funnily enough, you actually COULD make a tank in closed beta with nothing but life and life regen in your tree, and Catalyze for 110% elemental damage with weapons. Had a ResTech lightning arrow bow templar that did very well like that (Lightning arrow had shock chance built in, and WED gem was twice as strong).
Had nearly 7k hp with no kaoms. Fun times. Last edited by Xendran#1127 on Jun 26, 2014, 4:38:50 AM
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You are obviously trying to put the effort in, so you are at least trying.
My suggestion is to go to the character subforums and pick up a build from there. As you play, you'll understand the game mechanics a lot more. Otherwise, you'll do what I did way back in closed beta and have a LOT of shit builds before getting better. " your first characters are going to suck no matter what. It's a steep learning curve. But after you keep playing you learn the easy ways to level, and you can hit 60 within a few days easily. " To an extent. You can get around 20 skill refund points from quests, and there is a consumable currency that can give you more refund points. The currency are pretty expensive however, and usually aren't worth using for more than a few fixes. Good luck. "Minions of your minions are your minion's minions, not your minions." - Mark Last edited by ciknay#1000 on Jun 26, 2014, 4:52:57 AM
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" Now you just substitute Catalyze with RF Snapshotting. |
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