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

Hi Sovyn,

Enjoying the build so far. When you have time can you look at my char _NailDriver_ and make any recommendations to improve. Really only the second build I've done as I'm still new.

thanks!

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kevinhays wrote:

Hi Sovyn,

Enjoying the build so far. When you have time can you look at my char _NailDriver_ and make any recommendations to improve. Really only the second build I've done as I'm still new.

thanks!

On the tree, you would definately want to get testudo long before a lot of those other things.

Flasks, you need a staunching.

gloves, both rings, belt, I would replace with items similar to the budget setup in the guide.

Boots, you can go for rainbows for the spell block or a rare with high life.

Helm, you can either go with a bringer of rain or a high life rare.

Thanks Sovyn!

I'll keep that in mind on the Testudo and I've got a rare helm right now with high life and spell resist's, but I wasn't sure since it dropped my armor down by like 2400. I'll see if I can't get them replaced one by one :)

On the Bringer of Rain, how will that affect my chest piece which has BF in it?

Thanks again,

Kevin

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kevinhays wrote:

On the Bringer of Rain, how will that affect my chest piece which has BF in it?

You have the option of using a bringer of rain or a 6-link chest. The bringer of rain tends to be what I use in the budget setup, it's not expensive to try it - 5 chaos for a decent one, last I checked. It has nice chunk of physical damage which tends to be better until you have all 20/20 gems.

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Sovyn wrote:

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kevinhays wrote:

On the Bringer of Rain, how will that affect my chest piece which has BF in it?

You have the option of using a bringer of rain or a 6-link chest. The bringer of rain tends to be what I use in the budget setup, it's not expensive to try it - 5 chaos for a decent one, last I checked. It has nice chunk of physical damage which tends to be better until you have all 20/20 gems.

Ahhhh, OK. Yeah that's no problem then. Thanks for the tips!

Kevin

In the new patch notes it looks like Earth Quake is getting its AOE nerfed. Does this combined with IceCrashes slight damage buff push IceCrash to to the front of the line?

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jackal917 wrote:

Does this combined with IceCrashes slight damage buff push IceCrash to to the front of the line?

Ice Crash was already slightly faster at killing monsters than earthquake, so yes. The only issue with ice crash is elemental reflect will kill you, especially in parties. For a while there, I ran level 20 purity of ice with aegis for the high cold resistance to combat that problem. I was still doing enough burst damage that it could be unsafe. In that sense, earthquake is safer. For overall safety, blade flurry is clearly the best.

But flurry is getting nerfed as well, so.. Also its only EQ's initial hit thats getting nerfed, not the secondary shockwave - by 2 points no less. Sorry I've been on EQ since I started this build, bit of a fanboy ;)

I would switch to ice crash if its far and away the better skill though, at least its the same general style. Being able to hit the ground and trigger the skill is something I use quite a lot.

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velcroshooz wrote:

But flurry is getting nerfed as well, so.. Also its only EQ's initial hit thats getting nerfed, not the secondary shockwave - by 2 points no less. Sorry I've been on EQ since I started this build, bit of a fanboy ;)

I would switch to ice crash if its far and away the better skill though, at least its the same general style. Being able to hit the ground and trigger the skill is something I use quite a lot.

Before ice crash was buffed twice, it cleared a map around 10 seconds faster than earthquake in my last round of testing. The time differential should be more now, since earthquake was nerfed twice and ice crash buffed twice since then. But if 10 seconds is valuable to you, switch. If not, don't. In any race, there is a winner. The issue with ice crash is that it hits slow and for a lot of elemental damage, so reflect is more of an issue, IMO.

Blade flurry is even a little bit better, but that's just because you don't have to move as much to clear and you are out of melee range, so you are just safer overall.

Any of the skills work fine which is why we have options in the guide.

Hey i admire the work You have put in this guide ;D
I would like to use Your build for self found in next liege i hope it works ;D