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What augments do you slot in the slots in Twinblade and also your PDK shield? Assume 28th level.

What other weapon(s) when you're actually TWF?

I assume you use the PDK shield in tree-form?

Oh wow! That is inspiring! I was thinking LSM instead of ICE, not both!

Oh nice, you are using master's touch for bastard sword proficiency. To fit in completionist?

I like the PDK shield because I can hit block for +8 saves, and because, well, my gear, past lives, consumables, and twists are no where even close to yours!


If I were staying at 28 I would use Fire + Meteoric in Twinblade, and Force in PDK shield. But I ETR/TR so I use double meteoric in Twinblade instead, and devotion in PDK (replaces Wall of Wood at 26).

Just whatever you have for TWF. Oath Blades or First Bloods are great for level 20+, and CITW and all other raid weapons for after. It's not really that important.

that_arrow_guy wrote on Sep 17^th, 2015 at 2:23am:


Incorrect.

Has anyone bothered to grind out the details on a tree with Warlock? I'm assuming the optimal is 10 monk/8 Warlock/2 Pally.. but would love to see the bits and pieces worked out. Will probably spend some time on Lam seeing what I can figure out but was wondering if someone already has.

9 monk 7 warlock 4 pal?

Think you're missing the point. You need the warlock levels for aura to trigger tree tokens quick

Teth wrote on Sep 18^th, 2015 at 11:02pm:

ZooperDooper wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 12:34am:


You realize you can do warlock with barb right?  Just look at the cycle of cleaves a barb versus a monk can get.

-Whirlwind can proc main hand, off-hand, doublestrike, off-hand doublestrike, and an extra hit for centered (monk only)
-Great cleave same as whirlwind except minus the extra hit for centered.
-Cleave no extra procs (that im aware of)

Now barb can achieve all those sans the extra centered proc on whirlwind. However now we throw in supreme cleave.  Not even counting the fact you can split the tiers on supreme cleave and have multiples of them on your hotbar with separate timers, it can proc the same as great cleave (minus the extra +w dmg).  All of that on a 3 second cd.

So for cleaves in a perfect cycle its looking like a monk has 5+4+1 versus a barb that has 4+3+3+1 (and another 3 if you split supreme cleave). That's just one cycle, the cd on the barb cleaves will come up sooner since supreme cleave is a 3 sec cd, so in the long run the barb split gets more cleaves.

Of course there are pros and cons to both. I was just saying the benefits of a 9/7/4 split aren't as good as a 12/6/2 and in my opinion both are inferior to the barb split.

Teth wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 10:33am:


Shhh.

i went 10 fighter 7 warlock 3 barb..

good stuff...

3 more etrs and i will have enough fate points to have a  3/2/2/2 split

Prr will be 255 in heavy armor and tower shield and 230 in medium armor with large shield (i am -20 those numbers now since i do not have improved combat expertise twisted)

155 heal amp with heavy/tower...... 175 with medium/large
i am tweaking now for DOJ gear... ugh...

DnD wrote on Sep 25^th, 2015 at 11:38am:


This has been a great build thread.  I've been playing the barb version since I read about it here.  I've tried a lot of things (including your list), and I am getting the best overall results with the T3 TF.  Mainly because you can't always be in tree form, and having mortal fear and armor pen comes in handy.   But you really can't go wrong with any of the items you listed. 

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 11:44pm:


I was just realizing AoN isn't animal form, it is elemental form. Notice the 100% fort you gain, and stun immunity. Plus you can use metal gear. Exploit weakness should therefore work in AoN form. Anyone able to test this?

Another observation on this.  I replaced my [2d8] "Tireless aid" large shield with the new Demonic Slab tower shield - which is [3d10].  It seems like I'm seeing much higher numbers.

I did slot in exploit weakness last night and did a solo EE run in the new u28 stuff, but I saw the higher numbers before that. 

I was hardly ever using concentration anyway, so I just took that out in favor of exploit weakness and +3 action boosts.  I also took out extend since I'm constantly casting displace to keep my stacks up - replaced with competitionist.  This is the 10w/7lock/3zerk build. 

Previously, my AoN monk was always hitting harder, now it seems like the barb build is.