http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/228841

I'm doing infernal blow, multistrike, melee splash and faster attacks with 600 dps at level 43, it's pretty fun. My main problem is survivability as I always want to sit still and hammer away at things when I should be dodging arrows and stuff. Also starting as templar is probably a mistake as I don't have the dex to pick foils and stuff. Definitely a nice change from normal melee.

Hmm, elemental equilibrium looks like a good skill to be getting. I'm doing a fair bit more fire damage than the other two but when I'm hitting five times a second presumably this isn't such a big deal. Does it just work for the next hit or is it on a short timer? If the latter then it's pretty good - it effectively gives everything -25% resist to all without me needing to spend any mana.

But then you also need a different element to attack with first. I feel like it's kind of a hassle.

You shouldn't because every hit is with three elements anyway. e.g, at the moment with each main hand hit I do 9-17 cold, 27-71 fire, 16-43 physical, 2-53 lightning. With off hand I do 16-29 cold, 38-98 fire, 12-42 physical, 2-27 lightning.

Unfortunately elemental equilibrium doesn't work that way (it is not explained very clearly in the game). When you have EE and hit an enemy with an attack, they gain +25% resistance to each element you hit them with and -50% resist to each element that you did not hit them with. The buff lasts 5 seconds or until the next EE buff is applied.

If you hit them with fire only, they get:

+25% resist fire
-50% resist lightning
-50% resist cold

If you hit them with fire and cold (but not lightning), they get:
+25% resist fire
+25% resist cold
-50% resist lightning

The way to get the benefit is to alternate hits. If you go fire->lightning->fire->lightning then each hit after the first will get the benefit of -50% resists.

Sadly, if you hit with all 3 elements it doesn't do you any good at all, they get this...
+25% resist fire
+25% resist cold
+25% resist lightning
... because there are no elements that you didn't hit them with, so they get no -50% buffs.

Also worth noting is that totem abilities do trigger EE and minion attacks do not trigger EE.

The wiki description is actually correct right now, based on current dev posts: http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/E...al_Equilibrium

Bah. Ok, thanks.

I'm pretty sure I had the worst PoE death ever last night. Even worse than my afk death. I had a blood magic gem linked to vitality aura which ups the reservation to 96% of my hp. I obviously wasn't using the aura or anything linked to the bm gem, but I had it equipped to level for later usage. Sooo yeah when my other aura leveled I went to turn it off and on again to get the added bonus and instead turned on vitality for 96% hp reserved and insta died. I should write the manual on how not to play hc...this is the 4th character between 40 and 49 that I've lost this week. I really need to stop playing when I'm tired so this ******ation ends and I can finally do some maps.

****, I'm an idiot. Just died at 53 doing solaris temple when I was really taking much too much damage to do so. Aaaargh.

So. Frenzy + faster attacks + multistrike + life on hit? Plus both frenzy charge points and increased cold freeze, increased lightning shock, maybe some increased stun? I guess I'll need lots of armour too...

U will need ****load of mana regen for that, lvl 1 frenzy with those supports is around 45mana per attack and fully charged ull get to 3+ attacks per sec so 140+mana/sec if u want it to be sustainable.

I finally decided to throw some $ at poe, they really do deserve it. With the stash deal going on you can get 4 tabs for $10 with 16 points left over. It seemed reasonable I guess given how many hours I've put in. The stash daily deal ends in like 8 hours I think.

I think I've bought the stash bundle three times... Hard to care about the other effects. I think they need to think of a couple more ways to monetise the game without affecting the gameplay though, but can't think of any off the top of my head.

I had 50 currency units left over so I bought 2 more stash tabs.

Finally made it to merciless with my Ele Cleave duelist

God my resists are in the ****ter... I don't even want to try prison for fear of running into a pack of blue skeleton mages that just instagib me... Might swap out anger/wrath for purity until I can find some better resist gear I guess.

Is ele cleave even viable end game? Builds that don't have CI or shavronne's or kaom's just seem gimped but idk.

if i remember right nugi took an ele cleave templar to 80+ in one of the 1 week races, all solo, so i would say yes.

I think it'd require great gear for anger/wrath to be viable. Better to go for defensive auras.

Well you can run a bunch of auras by using the "feature" where you equip a blood magic unique and cast them then unequip.

LOL Didn't know about that! I'm sure it will be patched soon but until then...

WTB Malachai's Simula

The thing is with the offensive auras is that they apply twice - one for each weapon, so they're actually a pretty significant boost to DPS, and with life leech it adds to survivability. As long as there are enough mobs around I can face tank most bosses and blues. The problem comes when they start doing chaos and elemental damage right now.

In a few more levels I'll have +28 more resist to all, and my gear is mediocre at best so once that improves I should be in great shape.

Ele cleave for duelist sucks until around 70 because that's when you start enjoying all the Templar nodes. I just hit 60, it's been a fun ride.

Ele cleave is insane, as lvl 44 marauder i do 1.1k dps with cleave and 1.55k dps with dual strike atm and ill get iron reflexes soon so ill be basically immortal till merciless vaal .

I plan to switch to rain of arrows for endgame tho.

My duelist had physical cleave, and last I checked was around 8k dps on cleave. But I haven't played in quite a while now.

His cleave dps is actually higher than dual strike because of concentrated effect.

Bah died again.

Forgot to equip my fire ring when i entered docks and first voidbearer i met was ofc rare and i died almost instantly (~25% fire resist :P).

Had 1.4k dps with cleave @lvl48

I dont wanna know how much players died to one of the rare voidbearers when entering docks for the first time lol. When they has LMP its like a oneshot, you die instantly even with 75% fire resi. Sucks as much as dying to alchemists or flicker rares in sewers...