[3.25]The BLOCKMAN

I've been using your build and came here just to post that I'm having fantastic success with the Saviour.
It definitely made this build come alive. Delving, mapping and bossing are rediculously easy.

I am using this build but some bosses keep killing me (although I did wave 20 Simulacrum without any issues).



(I am in the process of leveling up some of my gems, but the build is complete.) I don't know if it's chaos DOT or something else. I have poison immunity through the Pantheon, though. I have 5.3k life. So, I'll ask a general question since I am new to the game: when you do bosses, do you just facetank them by standing next to them? I would assume so due to blood rage and you know... using a melee skill. Do you also try to avoid their mechanics? What happens if you see your health starting to go down over time? Do you run away? Or is every boss different?

Glad to see this build back up on the front page. It really is a good build. I had asked in a previous post about increasing bossing damage and got a couple of suggestions that I have put to good use.

On the defensive side of things, switching my main pantheon to fully upgraded Arakalli has helped with DOT. I'm also going to hunt for some more chaos resist but that is going to be hard to fit in with everything else and capping resists. My life is a little low as well at 4700, but honestly, the block is so good Im rarely worried about it even in the thickest/nastiest of map content. Oh, and a corrupting blood gem helped greatly too.

My next project with the character is to craft some tailwind boots with maybe elusive on them. Thats going to hit resists hard unless I get really lucky but I'll give it a shot.

Also trying to decide between the paradoxica I am using and another I have for sale. They have similar dps numbers on the swords, but the difference is increased crit on one, and attack speed with unique/rare nearby on the other. I think the crit feels better but Im curious on other thoughts.

So, overall, really good build and I love being able to dive into content I should not be able to handle and surviving. One shots still happen but I think that is just the nature of this league for melee characters.

Hey all, has anyone successfully added in a cluster set-up to the build?
I'm loving the build and I want to try to adapt some of the league's cluster mechanics into it.

Running this build and saw some people questioning how he gets more dps with the same gear and I think I may have tracked down a bug in PoB. Delete his Pride gem from the skills tab and add one manually of the same level and quality.

Not sure why but the pride in this PoB is bugged. Removed everything and triple checked, it is definitely Pride.

Other than that, enjoying the build. Other than some 100ex Guilts, not too sure where to go for upgrades, t16 80% Kosis was kicking my ass. Thinking about maybe a better chest with some res so i can get a better ring/boots. Im not too sure how everyone is capping res with steel rings and elusive/tailwind boots. What am I missing? Feel like I need a TONNNN of res on my ring/boots to cap, and im like 5% over w/o end charges. What does everyone think about running Savior over Paradoxica? Is it worth the extra clear/QoL of boss damage while dodging degens and such?

Edit: Upgraded chest, crafted some elusive/tailwind boots, got a slightly better Guilt. Just need to get the 29ms craft and possibly a better steel ring. Still torn on Paradoxica vs Savior...

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Tripartist1 wrote:

Running this build and saw some people questioning how he gets more dps with the same gear and I think I may have tracked down a bug in PoB. Delete his Pride gem from the skills tab and add one manually of the same level and quality.

Not sure why but the pride in this PoB is bugged. Removed everything and triple checked, it is definitely Pride.

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Tripartist1, regarding pride, someone in this forum mentioned the reason before - it's because his pride is set to maximum effect. On the left-hand side, change the 'Main Skill' settings to the pride cluster, and change pride from 'Maximum effect' to 'initial effect' and then go back to the cyclone cluster, and you'll see DPS go down by a million.

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Crusader370 wrote:

I am using this build but some bosses keep killing me (although I did wave 20 Simulacrum without any issues).

(I am in the process of leveling up some of my gems, but the build is complete.) I don't know if it's chaos DOT or something else. I have poison immunity through the Pantheon, though. I have 5.3k life. So, I'll ask a general question since I am new to the game: when you do bosses, do you just facetank them by standing next to them? I would assume so due to blood rage and you know... using a melee skill. Do you also try to avoid their mechanics? What happens if you see your health starting to go down over time? Do you run away? Or is every boss different?

Crusader370,

Every boss is different but:
- I tend to either stay dead center where the boss is if I know I can tank easily. Examples: Veritania, Drox, Baran, Al-Hezmin and most random map bosses.
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- try to move in circles around the boss or directly try to get behind them. Examples: Sirus, Kosis, Omniphobia, and Shaper. Doesn't mean I succeed all the time but that's what I keep trying.

Also, I assess if I can handle any DOT but the truly dangerous ones I do not tank. Examples: Uncreated's ground degen (mini-boss in shaper realm), shaper's beam.

Shaper's a good example - you always want to get behind him (keep moving towards his back) so that he doesn't hit you with his shaper beam.

Hope that helps.

sefishbrat, thanks, that helps! Just killed Sirus level 6 (not deathless though) after miserably failing last time.

Really enjoying the build. Stuff dies really quickly and I'm moderately tanky right now, and I'm only lvl 88! I decided to try out Stampede boots for the extra annoint, which means I guess I could drop the quicksilver flask. This is only temporary to try out, I have a ring with high res and chaos res that puts me at -17 chaos res. Any recommendations on what I should look for next for upgrades?

Hi guys, I just got a second copy of Paradoxica but I struggle to know which one is better...