And what next: Pump Soldier mastery to get Field Command (1) and Squad Tactics (max) and Oleron (max) or: http://grimcalc.com/build/Rozexw
For Elite what should I prioritize - more HP or more res? I am playing self - found so I do not have uber equipment. If I go HP i sacrifice res, if I chose res I sacrifice HP.
I chose Blade Spirit as it is now dealing approx. 1000 dmg and it has proven a superb levelling skill so far! I just love the way it clears trash mobs
Get Veil of Shadow to rank 10/10 - it helps immensely with survivability, also some ranks in Night’s Chill will help with damage. For Solider what you want most are Mastery Points (gives great raw health), Military Conditioning (even more health!), Oleron’s Rage (OA, cap’d runspeed) after that Scars of Battle and Field Command with a few points into Squad Tactics.
Also as you transition into elite and eventually ultimate (and get some +nightblade skills items) you may want to experiment with 1 point into both blade trap and devouring blades. It is an unabashedly anti-trash skill (does NOTHING on most bosses) but crazy powerful. Also you’ll likely want 16/16 into shadowstrike eventually as you’ll find yourself adopting more hit and run tactics vs bosses in late elite/ultimate (also it lets you drop essentially 3 executes on command every 4ish seconds)
Get Pneumatic and Night’s chill to max, they are both awesome sources of DPS. Don’t bother with any DW proc (leave each at one) except Execution.
HP - 5032, DPS - 3830 (buffed, Empowered piercing aura from vicious spikes + BoS), res - pierce and poison maxed, elemental approx. 30, secondary all approx. 30.
Health is fine, should go much higher once you max the soldier mastery. Pierce resistance is only important in act 2, poison in act 1 and the caves in act 3. Keep any gear that gives those resistances in inventory to switch if particular areas give you trouble. Otherwise, focus on elemental and vitality, with chaos/aether on switch depending on the enemies you face.
DPS is horribly low for a lvl 50 BM, should be at least 8k. This should also improve once you get the appropriate skills (Pneumatic for one).
Devotion: Lion, Harpy, Assassin, pumping Throne to get later Blades of Nadaan and Unknown Soldier.
This is fine. If you have Mistborn talisman (you should have it by now, farm Voldrak, the troll in smuggler’s pass, if you don’t), Pick up Bull because you want to start levelling it and because it will drastically improve your aoe damage which you will lack once you drop Blade spirit.
Sell your soul for an Avarice of Androneus amulet.
And what next: Pump Soldier mastery to get Field Command (1) and Squad Tactics (max) and Oleron (max) or: http://grimcalc.com/build/Rozexw
For Elite what should I prioritize - more HP or more res? I am playing self - found so I do not have uber equipment. If I go HP i sacrifice res, if I chose res I sacrifice HP.
I chose Blade Spirit as it is now dealing approx. 1000 dmg and it has proven a superb levelling skill so far! I just love the way it clears trash mobs
Cheers!
Btw, currently farming hive for dermapterans’
Get that soldier mastery asap, it will give you a ton of health on it’s own. Field command is better than squad tactics. So is Oleron’s rage. You need decent OA once you hit elite, especially since most of your procs activate on crit.
Something like this should be good enough for finishing elite (I’m assuming +1 to all skills).
Don’t bother with Derp slicers, they will become obsolete very quickly. Farm the ultimate versions if you have to use them, but stick to blue swords or shopped (tyrant’s/officer’s of alacrity/rifthound or something should be easy to find) for now.
As for resistances, same as before except more of it. Elemental is a must, vitality is important, Chaos/Aether depending on specific enemies (carry one sword with Purified salt, one with Imbued silver and switch as needed). Don’t forget that the Legion shop armor/helm become equipable at 50, so see if they are useful to you.
If you can get your hands on at least two pieces of the Praetorian set, it would solve a lot of survivability problems for you. Either way, don’t forget to get your armor absorption as close to 100% as you can (2x Scaled hide and 1 level in Scars of battle will get you 100%), physical damage will become significant in act 2 elite and onwards.
Gameplay-wise, you should probably level to at least 60-63 by farming Cronley-related Devil’s Crossing bounties, you can kill humans incredibly quickly with lvl 5+ Anatomy of murder and you want to unlock Fabius so you can farm him for legendaries later.
Another important thing in elite is that the Tyrant’s hold blacksmith becomes available, and he crafts random legendary items. He requires Brains, Hearts and Bloods for that, which you can easily farm trough the Blood grove portal, so you want to unlock that as soon as you can. Once you get to Blood grove portal, keep going to the mill, but turn east after the bridge and follow the river until you see a waterfall. You can pass there and reach the Shrine of the forgotten god secret area which always has a Treasure trove. These usually drop rare crafting components and often drop epic/rare items as well.
Zolhan does not use 2 weapons, so don’t touch it. Markovian’s doesn’t give almost any bonuses at low levels so it’s meh until you get Belgothian’s sigil.
get exalted with rovers + homestead + kymon. get those green boots/gloves from homestead and rovers, they are op as hell. remake game lots of times to get good rolls on them before u purchase.
put kymons will on ur neck and 2x rover enchants on rings, cap out res with rest of slots and ult should be fine. its just about resists really.
