[2.4] The Dy'Ness Tank

Greetings And Salutations!

I think I am the only one I've seen running around like this, and finally figured I would share. (BTW, the name is pronounced Die Ness)



Love to drink? Love to play PoE as well? Tired of waking up with a hangover and wondering where all that lovely XP went? Then this build is for you. Welcome to STUPIDITY, redefined.

A couple notes to begin with:
1) Don't go complaining that I have too much ES... etc... because I have spent almost all my points on defense. You spent yours on offense and have some nice damage...
2) This has been a work in progress and yes some of the gear is expensive. But the idea started with lower end gear and you can make it work too.
3) Pi2rEpsilon has taken this idea and built his own variation: Scionic Flametank (CI-ZO 13%+ ES regen, Incinerate, newbie-friendly) http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1271604. It should do rather well and he has posted he skill tree through various stages of leveling up.
4) Updated: 20161004 Screenshots. Check out the screenshots... Rest will come in a few days.

Backstory:
My first toon in POE was a summoner witch based off of Rathik's at http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/479976. Credit where credit is due.

I got the idea of a regen based tank with that toon. And ultimately that toon is where this tank was born. From there, I thought, what if I added damage to this kind of regen? I love firestorm and the rest has been many adjustments and corrections over the course of time.

My starting armor:


The Basics:
There are a couple different ways of tanking in POE. Block, dodge, leech and regen. This is a regen tank taken to the max...

[2.4] Stats in Sarn Arena:
ES: 21,406
ES Regeneration: 4,784.2 (22.34%)
ES Regeneration Spike: 10,167.8 (47.49%)(See Screenshot)
Armor: 4,637
Chaos: 100%
Fire: 75% (109%)
Cold: 75% (176%)
Light: 76% (204%)
ES Recharge: 5779.6

The first part of the spike comes from the boots. The second part is produced by the endurance charges and the third comes from the gloves and absorbing a couple of critical strikes.

[2.4] Primary Gear:


[2.2] Alternate Gear:


[2.4] Flasks:


[2.4] Skill Tree:


[2.4] Screenshot:


Playstyle:
Stand there and drop firestorm. Literally, almost nothing can kill you. Including Mirrored (Reflect) Maps... Since I hit 95, the only boss I really need to move for is/was a 78 Dominus.

The build is based on the idea that you regenerate faster than they can deal damage to you. It uses several Cast When Damage Taken (CWDT) to return damage and allow you to face tank almost everything. This is not a reflect character. You have to take the damage and then something can trigger. There is a good side to this though. Corrupting Blood, Elemental Reflect mob, Elemental Reflect MAPs are all easily done. I dont notice most of the CB and reflect mobs I run across. And on a reflect map, I just have to be careful and am not really slowed much.



It uses mana leech and now a corrupted Shav ring to recover mana to use with firestorm. The build has 2 casts of firestorm before it is mana dry. With the addition of the corrupted Shav ring, as long as I get hit by something, I tend to remain at full mana.

Damage:
Firestorm - FirePen - Spell Echo - Conc Effect - Mana Leech - Empower
Firestorm is an under appreciated spell in my opinion. Some people will complain that it causes their computers to lag. But its damage is rather nice for being a spell you can get at a low level allowing you to power up the gem throughout the course of the game.
Currently my firestorm does 1136-1708 (1480 average) per ball that drops. It may sound low, until you consider 29 of them drop per cast, with spell echo and a double cast is 58 per click. Each one has a small AOE and not all will hit any one target. But I have had no issues clearing 78 maps and their bosses with this damage. I have finished the 81 Shrine map, was able to make it to the final boss in the 82 Core map with no issues.

On top of firestorm, this build uses 4 sets of CWDT. The old setup was:
LVL 21 CWDT (3580) - LVL 21 Fireball - LVL 21 Molten Shell (On Scepter, L20 Elemental Prolif)
LVL 21 CWDT (3580) - LVL 21 Ice Spear - LVL 21 Cold Snap - Cold Pen
LVL 20 CWDT (3240) - Arctic Breath - Glacial Cascade - Added Lightning
LVL 20 CWDT (3240) - Enfeeble - Arc
New setup will be posted after I enter the Hall of GM.
Also, the specific spells do not matter so much as they are all different, and provide a useful function. The problem with 2 spells being the same, is they cannot both trigger at the same time.

Each spell with CWDT is on its own timer and I tried to use different spells for different things. I found that it was easier to get more bang for the buck with the higher CWDT gems.

A few key pieces for this build are the Chaos Inoculation and Zealot's Oath key stones with the Discipline and Vitality auras. Both auras are running at an effective level of 26. Zealot's Oath converts all life regen % to ES regen. And if you noticed on the tree, this build has gone out of its way to grab as many regen % as it could.

Armor:
This stat has been secondary to ES on my build. It reduces the overall physical damage taken as well as reducing the amount of damage you will take from effects like Bleed and Corrupting Blood. This is one of big reasons I choose to use a LVL 21 Molten Shell (+1,040 Armor) instead of a lower level one. If they actually cause enough damage (1,664 physical prevented by armor and block) to pop the shell, then it leaves a nasty surprise. Otherwise it is 14.5 seconds of increased armor. This is also the reason I run 2 Granite Flasks.

Leveling Help and Other Things:


Hall Of Grandmaster Submission:


PvP on Patch Night:

Responses To Questions/Posts:


Videos:


PvP Flavor of the Moment:


Elaynes_Dy'Ness (Talisman League):


Enjoy!
~Dy'Ness
Queen B*tch Of The Universe (QBotU)

SWEET BUILD. went up against you with my max block build which wins 90% of all pvp and i couldnt even put a dent in ur awesome regen ability :D

This tank is impressively scary.

Im playing this game for 5 month n this is my 3rd chr bt never see someone with 17k ES that's unbelievable and the 3k Reagan most player will not keep up to kill this build. 2nd nice think about this build is Firestorm has less damage bt U have 3 20lvl Cast When Damage taken gems, if one 20lvl CWDT gems do 6k damage then 6*3 18k damage and 900 per fire ball damage total 18900k approximately that much damage can give back to their enemies. its seems like also offensive build too.........If someone like defence I think this is the right build

Can't explain it quite yet,

but my 307k DPS heavy strike could barely put a dent in this guy. Crazy shit

This is the tankiest build i've seen so far.
Couldn't even put a dent in it in pvp.

Could this be scaled down for a cheaper build and PVE?

Would this build be good to pick up the skill Ghost Reaver on? It seems like it would benefit from keeping the shield up at a much greater pace.

Greetings!

Questions were answered in a section called: Responses To Questions/Posts at the end of my build. Thank you for the input!

~Dy'Ness

It's an interesting build and I like being tanky, as long as my dps doesn't suffer from it. Could you post some videos of your build running through maps (Preferably the more tougher ones) to show the clear speed and tankiness?