Poor level 70 looking for build/gear guidance on 2h melee build

[[SIN] Kryadan]

I was aiming for health/resistance and pick up any dodge or block nodes along the way. I am on 79 Expedition and the bosses can down me, though I haven't died. I was reading the forums and so many people are doing like 150+ expeditions and I have no idea how they got there. Is it my skills that suck, my gear, my passives, all of the above. I'd like some help.


My main skill is Anvil's Woe (critical weapon damage, critical chance score, Weapon Damage, Smite enemies)
I use Sovereign shout to get rage and drop health globes (+All resistance, +Health globes,+global life leech, +Critical chance, +movement, increase duration and effectiveness of buffs)
Wings of Ishmir to avoid stuff (+crit,+damage, Wave of damage, flight speed, cooldown, +Rage )
Bladestorm I have equipped to level but never really use it
Juggernaut I use to protect myself and occasionally just blow it up to clear packs. (grant Rage, +Damage absorption, -Rage Cost, -Cooldown)
5th skill slow still locked.

Average Damage 4249.4
Attack Speed Bonus 2.4%
Critical Chance (Weapon) 12.3%

Weapon Damage 2934-4066 (mostly physical at 1568-1736)
Ailment -> Bleed chance 8.1%

Rage on Hit 270

Health 61204
Health regen 1455.8
Force Shield 596
Attack life leech 4.0%

Block chance 29.6%
Block Efficiency 22.4%
Passive Dodge Chance 12.5%
Movement Speed 6.7 m/s

Material Resistance -> 4323.3
Elemental Resistance 4730.0
Occult Resistance 4361.1

Rage on Hit 25
Rage on Kill 35

Passive Tree[imgur.com]

Gear[imgur.com]

Sorry for the terrible images.

[[SIN] Kryadan]

Well, just got a drop from a gold beetle and got myself a new hammer. I also used the jeweler to roll 3 offense sockets. This was a lot cheaper than I thought it'd be.

So my damage went from 4294 to 4930 I think and crit chance and damage jumped a couple numbers. Not a world of difference, but every bit helps/

[OsuTea]

your hammer not really well need new one with 450-700 damage(now i get from drop the max damage)
Belt must be 27-30% damage add
Better have new other items with tougness or the first 1
Ring get the Critical Damage
if you reach lv140-1XX you can get material damage up to 40-45% just farm and farm

if you want rebuild the gate of fate and add your own style with others build i was do that,no need to copy all the buff but they build almost end game,hope this help you

after u fix you can easly get more than 30k damage on physical
im bladestorm build
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2028741845

[OsuTea]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2028836137
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2028836330
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2028836457

already did my best,max damage was 200-250k this skill cant hold 100+ or maybe other people have more good build,hope this help you

P.S:level 16X mobs HP more than 800-70m HP so im not suggest this skill to get you to the end game

[[SIN] Kryadan]

Thanks! Someone had privately set me up with a new build I am trying out. So far it is far better, changed Anvil to bleed skill and totally new passives. So far I kill MUCH faster.

Thank you for the help though! :)

[Gomer Pyle]

just right off the bat, i can see you are all over the place with your gear and passives.

You say you want "I was aiming for health/resistance and pick up any dodge or block nodes along the way." then these are the things you should be focusing on.

• there are so many wasted nodes in the solider career. wow. is there a reason you need so much rage generation/conservation/cost decrease?
  
• if you want hp, resistance, then block/dodge, why ddi you spec into life leech? you skipped teh +18% resistance nodes in pretorian entirely...
  
• why does your belt, helm and ring amplify occult damage when you do no occult damage? Just because the gear is legendary, doesnt make it good for you build. Youre better off sticking with gold gear if it better suits your build
  
• you speced into converting physical to rend dmg(blood reaper), but then you dont spec into greater rend damgage (sundering precision in Arms Maester).
  
• you have 1 point into whirlwind of steel +10% melee attack, but you left the +16% one alone. if youre only gonna get one, why did you get the +10 and not the +16???
  
  You need to spend some time on your own build, or just copy and paste. This build is a hot mess.

[[SIN] Kryadan]

Originally posted by Gomer Pyle:

just right off the bat, i can see you are all over the place with your gear and passives.

You say you want "I was aiming for health/resistance and pick up any dodge or block nodes along the way." then these are the things you should be focusing on.

• there are so many wasted nodes in the solider career. wow. is there a reason you need so much rage generation/conservation/cost decrease?
  
• if you want hp, resistance, then block/dodge, why ddi you spec into life leech? you skipped teh +18% resistance nodes in pretorian entirely...
  
• why does your belt, helm and ring amplify occult damage when you do no occult damage? Just because the gear is legendary, doesnt make it good for you build. Youre better off sticking with gold gear if it better suits your build
  
• you speced into converting physical to rend dmg(blood reaper), but then you dont spec into greater rend damgage (sundering precision in Arms Maester).
  
• you have 1 point into whirlwind of steel +10% melee attack, but you left the +16% one alone. if youre only gonna get one, why did you get the +10 and not the +16???
  
  You need to spend some time on your own build, or just copy and paste. This build is a hot mess.

Yeah someone privately sent me what they think is a build that fits my preferred playstyle. I am using bleeding edge as main attack now and they said the same along the lines of a piece with 3 preferred stats is going to be better than a mix of 6 I don't need. My original thinking was aiming for the resistance number first. I don't remember the soldier line, but I felt I wasn't doing any damage and had no trouble (at the time) staying alive so I started hitting ferocity or damage%/melee% nodes. Life leech was again just to help keep me up, not sure 2% was worth the node after all lol. With the new build I learned a lot though, and up to 112 expeditions. Still have to upgrade gear to move further in.

[Mizar]

What helped me from being stuck at 110-ish expeditions to do 180+ expeditions easily was this:

• Get the passive nodes Immortal Offering, Furious Appetite/Frenzied Blows, Merciless Lethality (+60% crit dmg) and Dawn's Pious Striker/Sudden Death for the big damage (Which Time Cannot Heal is also good but it's only non-crit dmg, I don't use it personally)
  
• Get the passive nodes Salvatory Anchor/Elevated Gain, Dire Juncture and Disallowing Vessel/Secure Parry for the survivability
  
• Look for +ferocity/+toughness and +material dmg% on gear, also you need high rage cost decrease% on all shoulder and glove pieces.
  
• Reroll sockets on weapon until you get three offensive 1 slots, and put three tier 12 material dmg gems in it (physical, toxic or rend dmg)
  
• Get a heavy chest and helm piece with as much resists as possible, rest should be mostly bruiser gear for the health

Do this and you're pretty much set, for 175+ expeditions you probably need to craft a 2H weapon with two flat material dmg bonuses plus a material dmg% bonus. Bleeding edge is bread and butter melee skill if you use the Astral Orbit rune (axe follows you as you move), Anvil's Woe is too clunky. Bladestorm is also an option.

[[SIN] Kryadan]

Yeah thank you, I did use Immortal, I don't remember the rest offhand though. I am clearing 187. Only small struggles not being downed by the bosses, and I cannot out dps the one that has adds healing him. So, just farming for gear now :)

Bleeding Edge with the axe following me is my main skill. I also use Wings, juggernaut, blood for blood, and tracker for the other skills.