Struggling in lvl 70 arena

[Tal]

Hello everyone. I loved playing arcane warrior in Dragon Age origins and decided to play as a Spellblade as it reminded me of that Class.

i'm currently lvl 72 and was breezing through most of the content until i did the arena.

Choosing the final reward of arena key was winnable for me.

When i tried my next 3 runs I selected all the highest enemy stat increase for the better loot but stage 40 boss was just devastating. I lost all 3.

I though I can just outDPS him and keep my ward topped up but the stun was painful.

I currently have 950 stun avoidance and 1.2k HP. dual wielding swords with shatter strike* skill. resistances are between 40-60%
30k and 55k dps(enchant weapon)

Please let me know if I should just keep stacking resistances or get more HP or Stun avoid or carry a shield?

If harder contents at later stages are this strong, I might have to redo my build.

Thank you all

[trev]

maxroll (a LE website) has a lot of great guides for each and every instance in the game.

[AirSniffer]

Pro tip: Don't play a melee class at the moment. Doesn't even come close to some of the ranges.

[Knavenformed]

Are you running Flame Ward?
Spec that into activate on stun + 2 charges and it's a massive lifesaver, it negates the stuns and gives you a load of ward on activation

[Balm]

Originally posted by Tal:

Hello everyone. I loved playing arcane warrior in Dragon Age origins and decided to play as a Spellblade as it reminded me of that Class.

i'm currently lvl 72 and was breezing through most of the content until i did the arena.

Choosing the final reward of arena key was winnable for me.

When i tried my next 3 runs I selected all the highest enemy stat increase for the better loot but stage 40 boss was just devastating. I lost all 3.

I though I can just outDPS him and keep my ward topped up but the stun was painful.

I currently have 950 stun avoidance and 1.2k HP. dual wielding swords with Frost Claw skill. resistances are between 40-60%
30k and 55k dps(enchant weapon)

Please let me know if I should just keep stacking resistances or get more HP or Stun avoid or carry a shield?

If harder contents at later stages are this strong, I might have to redo my build.

Thank you all

hey man, the higher tier arena bosses are no joke
honestly come back when you are level 85 and with some decent gear
you need, probably at the bare minimum
- capped crit resist
- proper ward generation and sustain
- emergency buffer, use flame ward and spec into activation when you get stunned, it will save you
- higher armor, which you can get from empowered blessings
- ofc maxed physical resist


your only real option as spellblade is to face tank bosses, and so you need to have the stats to do that

btw I did T4 arena on a level 92 spellblade using shatter strike build. Basically the only time I could attack safely was when I had flame ward up, so I built into cooldown reduction as much as possible and was able to achieve 100% uptime on enchant and almost 100% on flame ward using the double charge version.