[3.10] Sovyn's Lazy Pally - Tanky Templar with Max Block

What's the reason for all the crit and accuracy nodes while also having Resolute Technique?

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Lenox2288 wrote:

What's the reason for all the crit and accuracy nodes while also having Resolute Technique?

They would be for the % to damage and attack speed

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Lenox2288 wrote:

What's the reason for all the crit and accuracy nodes while also having Resolute Technique?

As above. These were the most efficient damage nodes available. The math was done. Not sure why folks keep getting hung up on this.

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Lenox2288 wrote:

What's the reason for all the crit and accuracy nodes while also having Resolute Technique?

The reason is quite simple. There are some better and pure attack + damage nodes around, but what Sovyn has done in his suggested tree, is focusing on one handed dps+attack without being restricted to any specific weapon. His tree is flexible whether u choose sword, dagger, claw, axe etc. But if anyone wants to emphasize on any particular weapon he can take better nodes as alternative. For example, if u are focusing on sword only, there are some juicy nodes near Resolute Technique that provides dps+ 12% life + Strength :D

It's all up to u really. Sovyn just laid out a neat template for everyone to build on.

Cheers all.

Thank you for elaborating, archzin. :)

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Sovyn wrote:

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Lenox2288 wrote:

What's the reason for all the crit and accuracy nodes while also having Resolute Technique?

As above. These were the most efficient damage nodes available. The math was done. Not sure why folks keep getting hung up on this.

I can't speak for others, but I'm just trying to learn the game. Was trying to understand. Thought maybe I understood Resolute Technique incorrectly.

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archzin wrote:

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Lenox2288 wrote:

What's the reason for all the crit and accuracy nodes while also having Resolute Technique?

The reason is quite simple. There are some better and pure attack + damage nodes around, but what Sovyn has done in his suggested tree, is focusing on one handed dps+attack without being restricted to any specific weapon. His tree is flexible whether u choose sword, dagger, claw, axe etc. But if anyone wants to emphasize on any particular weapon he can take better nodes as alternative. For example, if u are focusing on sword only, there are some juicy nodes near Resolute Technique that provides dps+ 12% life + Strength :D

It's all up to u really. Sovyn just laid out a neat template for everyone to build on.

Cheers all.

Good explanation. Thanks.

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Lenox2288 wrote:

I can't speak for others, but I'm just trying to learn the game. Was trying to understand. Thought maybe I understood Resolute Technique incorrectly.

Great! Welcome to PoE. :) If you have any further questions, just let us know.

wow, thanks for this amazing build and your feedback to all those question. This is outstanding!

I used to play this guide 1 year ago. I haven't played in a while but I guess I will give it another try.

I was looking for suitable Items and I'm still unsure which shield to use. found a Saffell's Frame in my stash with 107% block chance to spells. So there would be no need for rathpith, stone of lazwar, rainbowstride since they dont give other usefull nodes. Is it worth taking it? I would lose the ability to block attacks. Therefore I am concerned that my HP-bar will be too small, saffells doesn't have life nodes.

Lioneyes Remorse or a high evasioin shield could maybe be better. Yes, no?

Have you already tried Atziri with this build?

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Dooobs wrote:

wow, thanks for this amazing build and your feedback to all those question. This is outstanding!

I used to play this guide 1 year ago. I haven't played in a while but I guess I will give it another try.

I was looking for suitable Items and I'm still unsure which shield to use. found a Saffell's Frame in my stash with 107% block chance to spells. So there would be no need for rathpith, stone of lazwar, rainbowstride since they dont give other usefull nodes. Is it worth taking it? I would lose the ability to block attacks. Therefore I am concerned that my HP-bar will be too small, saffells doesn't have life nodes.

Lioneyes Remorse or a high evasioin shield could maybe be better. Yes, no?

Have you already tried Atziri with this build?

Hi Dooobs! Welcome back!

The build is better than ever!

Saffell's can't be used full-time, you have to use the weapon switch and have two decent weapons of the same type. X key to switch when you see a strong pure spellcaster boss or rogue. I don't think this approach is as good as the one I have chosen, that is, capping block at 78% and spell block at 76% full time. This way I'm able to do mixed content with ease. It's not that expensive either. See my current gear section. I spent less than 5 ex total now at a time when most people spend that or (much) more on one item for their high level character.

I have not had time to try Atziri. Sitting down for a couple hours straight to make a serious first attempt is not in the cards atm. The build is very strong though and should have as good a chance as any melee build out there.

Hmm... I just reached lvl 51.

I am a bit ahead of myself though, just finished piety (with ease btw) on cruel, so Im kinda on par with the map lvl.

This build is awesome. Block chance is really high, I also managed to get a 50% block to spell amulet, so I can block a few spells aswell. Awesome survivability.

Though I noticed a few things.

1. Att speed is still kinda slow (im using Multistrike + faster attack, but I still have 0.28s att speed, which is kinda slow for leeching. You can see the impact of not being able to alternate weapons, coupled with multistrike you get higher speed and control aswell. But it's not that big of a deal anyway, not something to brag about tbh.

2. the dmg sucks. Everything is dying veeeeeeeery slowly. And I'm quite decently geared for my lvl.

Gear:



Any ideas sovyn what to do?

Oh yeah, I'm using Hatred + Herald of Ash mostly for the additional dps, tho I recently switched to grace+tempest (still waiting for reduced mana gem to lvl up so I can run grace + determination) due to the fact that I got pwned in one of the vaal dungeons recently (only had 28 phys red and 26% evade chance, now its much better tho).

My resists on cruel are sitting all above 100%. So I have a very solid reserve for merciless. Except for chaos ofc.

The main problem (and the only one tbh) here is the damage. It is so low for most of the time, that I barely out dps mobs with life regen, while quite impossible to kill mobs with life leech combined with high damage + hp. He can't kill me too, but I imagine we could be smashing each other for 5 days and nothing would happen.

My tooltip dps is slightly under 1000, with hatred around 1.3k.

In comparison to my other char, dual claw shadow it looks like this: Attack dmg is swapped for brutal defense.

I was able to leech MUCH more with the shadow build (also had high dps, with worse weapons than the one in my current gear), I had high dmg ofc (around 4-5k dps on reave at lvl 61 and 8-9kdps on dual strike).

The only problem with my shadow was that it just cannot take fast big hits, leech is of no use there, cos the dmg is done faster than the leech happens. Otherwise normal clear speed was way higher.

Does this ever change here? Like, after lvl 60 ?

Edit: Forgot to say, although the dmg is currently low at lvl 51, I was able to facetank every white/blue/rare/unique/boss for now. Didn't even have to avoid the big hits, like vaals smash etc.

Although I was able to do the same with that shadow aswell (tested up to geofry merciless), with much bigger dps ofc. It was the rares actually that were blowing me apart lol. Like the bug laying queen with LMP mod and fast casting on merciless. Couldn't even get near the damn thing without being 2-3 hit killed. I would assume that it will be a whole different story with this though. It's just way more tanky than the previous build I had.