[2.4] How to smash Heads. Extremely detailed guide about the Facebreaker gloves and builds!

Then, they have changed it, because the release date, I most certainly used a pair of facebreakers + Molten Strike to level from 16 to 28.

I used Molten Strike, the molten strike in this chest actually.



Coupled with these facebreakers



Until I was high enough level to equip



That weapon. Which I only did, because I absolutely hate not having a legitimate movement skill with facebreakers.

My apologies. It is some sort of undocumented change then. If I were at home I could link to the actual SS I took of balls of flame leaping forth from my hand. Hence, why in my original post I mentioned

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I goofed with it in the late teens, in Ambush, and it seemed at least as viable as IB. Wasn't sure how it fared in the leveling process though.

Because I really did use my Molten Strike with Facebreakers the day that the skill was released.

AS to why there are three posts? NO FREAKING CLUE. I posted once, and then edited the post. I'll chalking it up to trying to post from my phone.

I'd really like to see some movement to go with FB. I have a 66 FBer in standard, left over from Domination, and I hate traveling via Lightning Warp.

Honestly? I'd love to see them change up Shield Charge to be usable with FB. Or, a Shield Slam type ability to go with it. Thematically, I'd love to have a character that wailed on people with a shield.

It's from my WoW past. I played a Paladin from 2.1 through 4.0, and then main changed to a Death Knight, but I always had a Warrior twisting in the wind as an Alt, purely because I LOVED smashing things in the face with a shield.

If I were able to put together the cash, I'd most definitely try and design a unique shield that would count as a weapon, could be used in the main hand, and could be equipped with another shield. A Dual Shield wielding, smash you in the face, tower of power. With it counting as a weapon, (or... a shield that counted as a two handed weapon...) it would allow you to use attack skills with it, without being crazy.

Thx for your build ! I'm currently playing a 76 facebreaker dominating blow in Ambush League.
12K DPS
Amazing build, very cheap and insanely strong.

Gear

hello,
pls help me i can't do maps... i die rly fast. i have problem with my gear ?


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tkz

Was just about to write something along those lines, becuase when followed, this build is bullet proof. Or maybe arrow proof. ;)

Currently lvl 80, and I can more or less go afk in maps... atleast answer the phone and play casually with one hand. (Only thing lacking is the MF, but getting rings, anmmu and boots with some of that, could help. But since you run so quickly through the maps, it kind of compensates...)

I also think the BoR version of the build is better. Hade some close calls when using Abyssus. That ~40 perc extra damage hurts.

Started out a facebreaker build. Got pretty far when I wandered into this guide and found I'd mostly followed it. My build ended up taking pretty much all the nodes this one does. Thanks to the OP for putting this guide together! It really is quite excellent.

One thing I've not seen mentioned, and I find really useful with the Abyssus version of the build, is a slightly unintuitive chest piece: Daresso's Defiance. My overall gear is included below.





Now that the numbers are out of the way, here is why I find Daresso's hugely helpful in this build. Defensively, the build relies heavily on block. You're blocking 72% of incoming attacks, which means that 28% of attacks get through. Those you have to resist with your elemental resists and your armor. But what if you could drive those hits down even further? A lot of your gear is spoken for (gloves, head, belt, shield), so you have limited options for additional damage mitigation, with the biggest being your chestpiece.

Daresso's is a hybrid Armor/Evasion piece that can get you around 900 Evasion at the high end. It also provides 6% Dodge (separate from Evasion) and 3% Life Leech. It also does interesting things with your endurance charges, which will bound on and off a lot with this chest piece, but can give you a solid 3k DPS boost via Onslaught at times.

So, we know that we're mitigating all attack damage 72% of the time. But if you add in 25% Evasion (you are taking some Evasion/Armor mixed nodes as a part of this build anyway, which gets you up there) and 6% Dodge, that 28% number starts going down.

Now you have (1 - ( (1 - .25) * (1 - .06) * (1 - .72) )) = 80.26% chance of taking no damage. If you manage to get your block up to 75%, the numbers change to 82.37% chance of taking no damage.

The biggest problem with using Daresso's is that you need some serious resists from your boots, rings, and amulet. I actually managed it with what I got in the tree, my boots, and my rings, which freed me up to make my amulet a little more utilitarian.

I've found myself able to solo most things in the game (haven't tried Atziri yet) with this particular setup, and thought people might enjoy giving Daresso's a whirl with this build.