[2.5] Explosive Gladiator - Blade Flurry / Max Block - One shot T15 bosses!

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Icaros escribió:

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korynx escribió:

Hi. I wanted to try a max block character and decided to roll with this one. I'm new to this game so don't mind some noob questions. Three things:

1. It's difficult to survive with less life(since we are using Cospri's). Can I use another armor like "Belly of the Beast" ? Or "Lightning Coil" ?

2. How can I truly make this build immortal? Like we have adequete defense against small hits from trash mob packs. But what can I do to tank large hits? I'm guessing something like "Formless Inferno" + "Lightning Coil" + arctic armor ?

3. Pack clear speed is very good, but I'm lacking single target dps. How does varunastra scale in late game?


-Thanks

You can use another chest, but the second curse, free poison and bypass hexproof are much more valuable than a small bump in HP.
Nearly all one shot mechanics can be avoided, so practicing manual dodging is important. This build is very tanky, but only CI/vaal pact builds can facetank everything.

You shouldn't really struggle with survivability until Guardians. If you're hitting a wall, you could run Enfeeble in place of temp chains.

There is no "truly immortal" life build. You could try to stack armor, endurance charges and arctic armor but then you'd be playing a different build. Offense is defense. The best way to stay alive is to kill things faster.

you're lacking DPS because you need:
levels
gem levels and quality
Atziri's Promise
damage jewels (see jewels in first post)
rustic sash as belt
Ancestral Warchief
Blood Rage
Flat phys and/or chaos damage on jewelry once you get all those in place
Also, make sure you're swapping in Concentrated Effect on bosses.

Elemental damage doesn't contribute to bleed or poison, so using hatred and herald of ash with this build is counter intuitive.
Bleed, poison, vulnerability and temp chains don't show in your tooltip, but together they do somewhere in the range of 5x more damage than your DPS without them.

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mattislouie escribió:

Now would legacy black heart be godly for this build?

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wde97 escribió:

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mattislouie escribió:

Now would legacy black heart be godly for this build?

I'm not the expert on this build, but IMO I think you would be better off with a good rare ring. It might be good during leveling until you get Ascendancy points and a Cospri's. The main bonus of the legacy Voidheart is the 100% bleed/poison. However, you get 100% poison from Cospri's, and 25% bleed chance from Gratuitous Violence passive. Voidheart would give you 100% bleed, but at the cost of the flexibility of a rare ring. A good rare ring could give you much more physical damage, a high life roll, str/dex/int, and most importantly, elemental resists. Using another Unique would make it really difficult to get capped resists.

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Icaros escribió:

Bandits: Oak, Oak, Oak or Kraityn

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tainium escribió:

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Icaros escribió:

Bandits: Oak, Oak, Oak or Kraityn

Can you please explain the rationale on the third bandit choice?

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Wow, that jewel this build is based upon is really expensive!