So I have been trying the build and I am thoroughly impressed as I expected.
As a side note, and as I previously mentioned, I have a predilection towards uniques and I found some that along the way I just Had to try out with this build after I reached level 30. I found two Rainbow Edge swords in the Wraith Dunes which I paired with the Prism Wraps chest piece for extra crit and elemental damage and elemental damage resist (not exactly resist but it lessens all elemental damage by 30%) and the gloves Avarice for the great leech which when added with Prism Wrap’s leech gives a lot of leech because of the swords built in elemental damage. Now you might think that’s not much elemental damage BUT the swords have built in HIGH crit multipliers. One had 66% and the other had 33% plus between the two of them they have 140% chance to chill, ignite, AND shock targets… doing all three at the same time. I also paired them with a Ring of the Third Eye for high crit chance to actually aid in using that crit multiplier.
Aside from those elemental boosts, in order to take advantage of our build’s Leverage node that we discussed, I have used Vipertail (which boosts dodge and melee attack speed in addition to other things), Quicksilver Coil ring (which doesn’t help a whole lot but it boosts melee attack speed and gives a lot of health regen, and a decent chance to haste for 1 second per melee hit), and my lovely Lessons of the Metropolis boots (which give +dex, a LOT of dodge if you have recently been hit, a % increased to dodge rating, an additional boost to movement speed and less damage while moving which works like a charm while using Dancing Strikes and Cascade; plus the dodge bonuses later translate to glancing blow bonuses! YES!).
I am still early in the game, new character, and I was literally one hitting or two hitting EVERYTHING in my path… EVERYTHING. Right before the fight onboard the Jauggernaut ship with the giant lobster boss (yes I am trying not to spoil), I made one change to the setup… I switched out the lesser of the two Rainbow Edge swords (the one with 33% crit multiplier) and kept the one with 66% multiplier and put that in my off hand and put in my main hand Gladiator’s Oath. Now, right now I am level 33 so I only have unlocked 3 of my 5 master skills. I have chosen Shift, Smoke Bomb, and Shadow Cascade. I hit 35 in two levels and will get Dancing Strikes. Gladiator’s Oath works hand in hand with Dancing Strikes. It increases melee attack speed (which aids in Leverage’s damage node even further), increases your crit multiplier even further, increases the area of hit for Dancing strikes, and here comes the lovely part, every 3rd hit of Dancing Strikes creates a very visible and VERY large circular zone around you which is called the arena. The arena lasts around 3 seconds, maybe four. Enough to use Cascade for at least four good strikes in a row and Cascade’s large roundhouse attack hit’s almost the entire round circular zone area. The catch is that everything in that Arena is a 100% critical hit while the zone is active.
Against the “lobster boss” dropped four three arena and cast Cascade four times each in the arenas. That is 9 seconds basically. I had that boss dead in 9 seconds. No dancing around either. I tanked him. The elemental leech was high enough from Prisms and the gloves that there was no health drop At All. The tool tip says Cascade does 2411 with Gladiator’s Oath and one Rainbow’s Edge. With two Rainbow’s Edge it goes up to 3071… the elemental leech would skyrocket so you would be tankier but you would lose the Arena’s critical hits. Of course, if you care less about the crit’s and more about the leech, you can also then lose the ring of the Third Eye and do what I had earlier and put on a second Quicksilver Coil to further boost your melee attack speed and give another Very high boost to your health regen. Thanks to Leverage the damage would go up even higher and the ring’s health regen, in my case at least is a 56% health regen boost. My other ring is a 41% health regen boost. not bad. At this level it’s kind of hard to kill me lol.
Now I know that things will change as I level up and I will grow out of this gear… possibly, but right now at least it looks like this gear could take me to at least Majasa.
I have been to Majasa before. I fought her to her third stage before saying I think I am going to try Monoliths lol.
I honestly believe this build can take me all the way to the end. I am going to try at least.
