Cetus: Supreme Bladeforged Fighter Reborn

[Cetus]

What greataxe are you using here? It seems to be a fire one?

It's riftmaker, just have a skin on it.

[adrian69]

Its interesting you mention this, I was originally going to roll 12 ifghter / 6 monk / 2 paladin again, but as far as defenses went, I wanted more saves than just +8, as there's no real DPS difference between that build and a 12 fighter / 6 pally / 2 monk - so I rolled that instead.

It did horribly compared to 18/2 on the DPS test kobolds. It seems that the 20 melee power, extra feats, and one cut is more significant of a DPS boost than I was getting from the extra pally levels. I think I did like 4-5 beatdowns and saw how much longer it was taking.

It makes more of a difference that players are giving it credit.

gearing seems like its going to be hairy with the addition of the new stuff...just so much that is a must have...

thinking:

executioners helm
warriors focus
ring of power
ring of prowess
knife boots
animated rope

are the must haves, meaning youve got trinket/chest to choose for profane bonus and goggles, cloak, bracers, gloves wide open. if you assume 2 slots for lgs hp bonus the only two big stats i see that are missing are doublestrike and fortification, which if you keep the avenger docent knocks both of those out, then spending the last 1-2 item slots on u32 crafted items you can get the 3 piece slavers set bonus (assuming the named helm/ring count, they do if i understood correctly) and finishing off any stats youre missing/need from there.

I am trying to set my gear up so that I can switch to back to ranger easily for a few months, and then just to play around with monk if it is revamped with 33.

Thinking about this:

Celestial Avengers
15 might of 15 con bracers
executioners helm
warriors focus or pendant of quiet movements (ranger)
ring of power or strange tidings
ring of prowess with Globe of True Blood (lol)
knife boots with Golem's Heart
animated rope with highest spell point augment, still 150 I think.
New Trinket
Honestly, I think you can get +2 profane on Slavers craftables if you want to put time into that, otherwise there is so much stat in game now, that +2 just doesn't matter to me.
Probably Triple HP LGS gloves
Khopesh with Vacuum
Khopesh with Dex probably

So I'm not ready to write up the U32 improvements yet, but here's a bit of a taste so far =D



I'm glad I caught that lol

Nice. Someone was giving me grief because I admitted to consistantly seeing 24k in LD. Glad you put this up. I just didn't care about defending my claim.

I think he is saying that Smite Evil for TWF breaks animation delays. Not sure, but that is what I got from it.

Yeah, I was wondering if that is what he meant, but I didn't know he was trying to quietly voice something fun when TWF.

[Cetus]

Added this video to OP with new gear setup (haven't posted yet):

LE Shroud Portal DPS:



The portal at 8:50 took a 15,080 point crit =D

[Fedora1]

The portal at 8:50 took a 15,080 point crit =D

Pffft. Big deal. Now if you had said 15,085, well then I'd be impressed.

Seriously though, wow.

[JOTMON]

and people were complaining about warlocks...
its not the class that's the problem its Cetussssss.

#nerfcetus

[Zoda]

I just watched about a minute of your tempest spine run with fast forwards and seen you falling into lava.

Was worth checking the forums after.

[Eryhn]

#nerfcetus
#bufflava ?

[Cetus]

I just watched about a minute of your tempest spine run with fast forwards and seen you falling into lava.

Was worth checking the forums after.

You're alive!

[Cetus]

Alright, so I finally posted the gearset for this build. This is the best I was able to come up with given the vast number of attributes that now exist. I have been running with this for about 2 weeks now, and seems to work great (this is the setup in that portal DPS video).

If anyone has any recommendations, let me know.

There is still 7 melee power left to be acquired before maxing out. Need a bust for one of my slaver items for +3 melee power, a +4 mythic riftmaker is another +2 MP, and a +3 trinket would be an additional +2 MP for a grand total of 7 extra melee power.

This would place me at 163 melee power unbuffed. This means 253 MP fully buffed with blitz and opportunity attack.

[Stoner81]

Ruby of the Vampire Slayer would be a better fit for your axe since it adds 1D4 Light damage on hit and still grants the Silver bypass, of course finding one is somewhat harder to do

Stoner81.

[Phil7]

I can't find your boots or wrists. Your Slave Lord Shackles cover one of the 2 slots.

How about Epic Litany and Celestial Docent? You would lose 2 accuracy and 5% blur, but get fort/prr/mrr/dbs/saves
That would free up alot of slots, to add again the insight con +7 and more

Goggles with +15 wisdom instead of concentration? Better saves for you and your concentration is already hurt from your Quiver anyway.

Perhaps add Spell Resistance in the Belt instead of Parrying and sneak in Insight Spell Resistance somewhere else aswell.
+76 Spell Resistance might work in LE, no idea

If you do use Devil Commander Boots, then perhaps +4 quality con in your Slave Lord Ring instead?

[Mr_Helmet]

So how do the earth-stance and other changes in U33 work with all of this?

[Cetus]

Alright, these recent changes are very interesting.

I'm currently experimenting with the idea of building a 12 fighter 6 paladin 2 monk maul-wielder with the new deity bonus feat at level 6 pally. Using divine might would make gearing easier as insightful strength will no longer be needed.

I'll post my thoughts once I had sufficient time playing with the build.

EDIT: Nevermind, I guess bladeforged are getting discriminated here.

[Keybreaker]

Alright, these recent changes are very interesting.

I'm currently experimenting with the idea of building a 12 fighter 6 paladin 2 monk maul-wielder with the new deity bonus feat at level 6 pally. Using divine might would make gearing easier as insightful strength will no longer be needed.

I'll post my thoughts once I had sufficient time playing with the build.

EDIT: Nevermind, I guess bladeforged are getting discriminated here.

Yeah, you'd have to go PDK for the Beloved of Silvanus feat. Note that the feat currently gives +2 crit multiplier instead of range, on Lam.

[Garix]

Quick question. (Be gentle with me. I generally prefer Spellcaster and Ranged to melee!!)

Racial reconstruct.

Is it interuptable?

Or does this build require outside help for healing during combat? Or is the Concentration high enough (through Con bonuses I guess). Or just back out, heal up and head back in...

Probably a dumb question but I have a spare +1 heart and this looks interesting

[Mr_Helmet]

It's an SLA, SLAs cannot be interrupted.

[Garix]

It's an SLA, SLAs cannot be interrupted.

so the last par of my statement was correct. It was a dumb question

Cheers

EDIT: WAI? Or bugged and may be fixed?

[Eth]

so the last par of my statement was correct. It was a dumb question

Cheers

EDIT: WAI? Or bugged and may be fixed?

WAI. SLAs don't have concentration checks.

[Garix]

WAI. SLAs don't have concentration checks.

Thanks

[maddong]

Are you switching to PDK in preparation for Reaper mode eventually? It seems to be a pretty big disadvantage unless you are running in a group of 6 bladeforged.