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

I'm wondering if we should take Soul of the Brine King as the Pantheon major god? I heard we get stunned more easily if we block a lot.

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tkensei wrote:

I'm wondering if we should take Soul of the Brine King as the Pantheon major god? I heard we get stunned more easily if we block a lot.

I don't think Sovyn actually discussed which Pantheon powers to get; most probably because it boils down to how you play. I prefer Ryslatha and Lunaris myself.

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malakhglitch wrote:

I am using this build again on Bestiary (my second league) and I have this gear.

Looks fine except ancestral call doesn't work with blade flurry, so you'll want a more effective support there such as phys to light, added fire, concentrated, or dmg on full life.

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Ishkabibble wrote:

Sovyn:

Back on 11/23/2013 I put together my first post responding to your build - and personally I have found this build to be one of the easiest builds to play, get gear for and meet just about any challenge this game has to offer. This is my fourth go around with your build.

Thank you.

I remember, welcome back!

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tkensei wrote:

I'm wondering if we should take Soul of the Brine King as the Pantheon major god? I heard we get stunned more easily if we block a lot.

It doesn't matter that much. These are extremely minor.

Actually, we don't get stunned by blocking any more than any life based build. This issue is mostly for low life or CI builds.

I went for soul of solaris and soul of tukohama.

Ok thanks!

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Sovyn wrote:

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malakhglitch wrote:

I am using this build again on Bestiary (my second league) and I have this gear.

Looks fine except ancestral call doesn't work with blade flurry, so you'll want a more effective support there such as phys to light, added fire, concentrated, or dmg on full life.

Man this is probably a stupid question, but why phys to lightning?

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frenzul wrote:

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Sovyn wrote:

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malakhglitch wrote:

I am using this build again on Bestiary (my second league) and I have this gear.

Looks fine except ancestral call doesn't work with blade flurry, so you'll want a more effective support there such as phys to light, added fire, concentrated, or dmg on full life.

Man this is probably a stupid question, but why phys to lightning?

Because we scale damage based on elemental to a large extent (note:not elemental damage nodes) so this gem converts more to elemental which can be scaled with elemental damage support. Try it, your tooltip will go up over added fire, etc. Also, shock is a nice damage increase, so doing a lot of lightning damage will shock more often.

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Sovyn wrote:

Because we scale damage based on elemental to a large extent (note:not elemental damage nodes) so this gem converts more to elemental which can be scaled with elemental damage support. Try it, your tooltip will go up over added fire, etc. Also, shock is a nice damage increase, so doing a lot of lightning damage will shock more often.

Thanks man. I will check it out. I got damage a little better but i'm still struggling. At least the single target is doing better.

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frenzul wrote:

I got damage a little better but i'm still struggling. At least the single target is doing better.

Looking at your character, I suppose it's just a testing setup but you have two attack gems on the same links, you'll have to pick one to optimize it. Faster attacks could drop in there if you stay with ice crash, or added fire for the blade flurry option.

With a more budget setup like that, I would choose a bringer of rain. I know you'll have to regear, but it's not expensive and it will do more damage.

You are also missing the basic unique damage flasks.

Also, since you went with a defensive ascendancy, you shouldn't expect top damage, but it's not too late to try inquisitor again.

Finally, I see some inefficiency on your tree, probably hoping for more life, really a little more life is unlikely to make a difference, I would scrap a lot of stuff there are just get brutal blade and fatal blade like right now. I think you'll be happier.