[1.1.7.1] The Big Bad: 5:45 Crucible Gladiator 150-170/SR 75-76 farmer no greens 2h-melee Physical/Bleeding Witchblade [c+][sr+][vid]

[Wacopiper]

Thank you!

[romanN1]

Build recently tested. Still consistent around 5.00 - 5.15 without double rares. Definitely worth playing and stable.

[agmcleod]

Giving this a try, just leveling up. At 50 i switched from Forceweave to Blade Arc. Due to short range i am having more survivability problems, should I go back to FW until much higher levels? Or is blade arc leveling okay?

[Evil_Baka]

Give the below guide a look for levelling 2-handed BA Witchblade:

[1.1.7.1] Beginner's Physical Two-Hand melee Blade Arc Witchblade, suitable for first character

[addtext_com_MDkzNDQzMTM3Ng] Introduction Witchblade (Soldier + Occultist) is one of the class combos available since base game. It’s not very versatile class but have few very good builds, one of them is 2H physical Blade Arc. 2H melee beginners guides are real rarity and there’s demand for them. Also some players want to level Soldier based character with different skill and not Forcewave. So this guide will show you how to build Witchblade from the scratch. I will provide leveling tips, …

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I’d swap into mad_lee’s Big Bad later when you start getting more of the gear it uses (Bloodrager’s set and Gutsmasher being core items for damage, Gladiator’s Distinciton would also be great for passive sustain)

[supertolik]

1190 UPDATE
actual GT : GRIMTOOLS
changed Ring and Medal to MI version, move some points to physique. Feel free to spend more points to phys/cunning depending on your damage/survivability needs.

Still good, tested in 75SR:

[Ulvar1]

madlee is posting updates to his builds from the other side

[sp00ky]

madlee is posting updates to his builds from the other side

Long live the king

[Ulvar1]

1.1.9.1 mad_lee ban duration gets nerfed

[sp00ky]

They should just hire him at Crate to be a mechanics designer/tester. Put that obscene amount of knowledge to use

[Ulvar1]

You do realize that this game has like 2-3 small patches / hotfixes left?

[sp00ky]

You do realize that this game has like 2-3 small patches / hotfixes left?

You do realize there will probably be another ARPG in Crate’s future? The kind of mind he has carries over.

[Ulvar1]

I pray that it will be impossible to cheat in that game

[sp00ky]

I pray that it will be impossible to cheat in that game

Honestly, they should allow for both. I’ve been saying it forever, but if they just had a normal mode like we have now and a seasonal mode that is always online, it would solve a lot of problems. I love to stash builds to see the potential limits of this game, but I do all my 100% legit play on HC, so I can understand both sides - in particular, how rewarding legit play is. Wouldn’t hurt to just have ladder resets, and then those chars go to non-ladder and can be played offline or stashed after. I’m a competitive guy too so I want some metrics by which to judge high level play.

[Ceno]

They should just hire [ML] at Crate to be a mechanics designer/tester.

[grey-maybe]

at the very least i’d be confident that 50 points skill with full set support won’t lose to arbitraty component with the very same itemization and skill points distribution

/offtop

[sp00ky]

at the very least i’d be confident that 50 points skill with full set support won’t lose to arbitraty component with the very same itemization and skill points distribution

Yeah, I don’t see why more developers can’t get their heads outta their rectums and do things more like Capcom, where they scouted the best FGC players who were also active in the community and making tech vids and such to join the company and help to develop future titles (like Combofiend). Why not get people on, who are inventive and think about things in a different way, rather than just paint them as arrogant POS people and try to downplay and minimize them?

[Ceno]

Why not get people on, who are inventive and think about things in a different way, rather than just paint them as arrogant POS people and try to downplay and minimize them?

#offtopic (volume warning)

[sp00ky]

I won’t keep going off topic, just saying, judging by the traffic on his posts, I’d say the dude helped more than he hurt. Back on topic, the new version of this build seems great. I’m also play a BA DK lately, and I’d like to take this one as far as that one (deeper SRs.) Wondering if I should make a more defensive setup and how that might impact the DPS of this build.

[banana_peel]

[deathcon92]

I’m not really sure which build to use, banana_peel and madlee have both posted updated grimtool links. is Banana_peel’s the most up to date?