[3.10] Sovyn's Lazy Pally - Tanky Templar with Max Block

I too am ing mana issues weighing me down =\
It might be because I don't have a huge amount of physical dmg, because I have a ton of mana leech. Slitherpinch+ 2% ring and I think I have some more.. how can I combat this while running glacial hammer? I am level 55 and, I only run one aura and I still have to absolutely chug my two mana pots

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KnightOfTheLost a écrit :

Hello again Sovyn, and fellow exiles! Today I've come here to make a pretty long post, but if you have the time.. especially Sovyn, I would appreciate it.

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KnightOfTheLost, thanks for taking the time to write such a thoughtful post.

Dilemma 1 - I see you have 53 mana remaining after the two auras. I have 57, not that it's much of a difference. What is your total cost of using heavy strike? It must be pretty high. You have a few options, none are ideal:

- Buy a soul taker
- Use only one aura, whatever is most needed
- Run clarity on blood magic
- Try 4% mana leech on gear, or the mana leech support, but I don't think it will help due to queue
- Get mana regen on gear
- Get int/+mana on gear
- Mana/hybrid flasks since you don't need 5 life flasks anymore
- Use The Anvil for the mana gain on block, you will be rather slower though
- Buy a level 20 reduced mana gem for your auras (don't spend anything extra for quality reduced mana, quaity does not help with auras)
- Buy a quality reduced mana and put it on your Bringer in place of added fire damage or splash
- Use melee physical damage on full life instead of slash or added fire
- Use stun instead of splash (it's really the splash multiplier that's killing your mana there)
- Use Curse on Hit with vulnerability instead of splash/added fire as I don't think this trigger gem uses mana
- Spend 4 passive points on Sovereignty

Some combo of the above will solve your issue.

Dilemma 2 - Daresso's Courage over Lioneye's Remorse, IMO. Pretty close though. Neither shield would be good without the BoR blocking bonus.

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nbriles2000 a écrit :

I too am ing mana issues weighing me down =\
It might be because I don't have a huge amount of physical dmg, because I have a ton of mana leech. Slitherpinch+ 2% ring and I think I have some more.. how can I combat this while running glacial hammer? I am level 55 and, I only run one aura and I still have to absolutely chug my two mana pots

I'm afraid that mana leech on gear does not work with elemental damage, only the mana leech support gem. I know you are still doing a little physical damage, but not much. Some of the tips I just posted for KnightOfTheLost might help you too! :)

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Sovyn a écrit :

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nbriles2000 a écrit :

I too am ing mana issues weighing me down =\
It might be because I don't have a huge amount of physical dmg, because I have a ton of mana leech. Slitherpinch+ 2% ring and I think I have some more.. how can I combat this while running glacial hammer? I am level 55 and, I only run one aura and I still have to absolutely chug my two mana pots

I'm afraid that mana leech on gear does not work with elemental damage, only the mana leech support gem. I know you are still doing a little physical damage, but not much. Some of the tips I just posted for KnightOfTheLost might help you too! :)

I really like the clarity on blood magic idea... that sounds like it might actually work! I think I'm going to try to look for an Anvil, too even though walking around that slow sounds like a massive pain in the ass >.<
Would swapping out WED to melee physical dmg help?

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nbriles2000 a écrit :

I really like the clarity on blood magic idea... that sounds like it might actually work! I think I'm going to try to look for an Anvil, too even though walking around that slow sounds like a massive pain in the ass >.<
Would swapping out WED to melee physical dmg help?

It feels slow, yes, but you can compensate somewhat with leap slam/shield charge and 30% run speed boots. The attack speed reduction is a bit of a DPS nerf. But overall, the amulet's strong points are better than it's minuses.

I'm not sure what the interplay between GH and WED or MPD would be. It sounds good, in theory. Test it and let us know. :)

I'll test it out tonight, but I think the results will be basically inconclusive because I don't think I have anything but a level 1 mpd gem. If I can sustain mana regardless of the big dps drop, at least ill know what I need to do!

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Sovyn a écrit :

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siontheman a écrit :

And yes I am TRYING to find a Vaal Buckler but he just will not drop LOL.

They drop somewhat often in 67 maps, but forget trying to find a decent rare one as a drop -- have to craft it if self found or just buy one ready to go. Corrugated Buckler works too if the evasion roll is OK (400 is good).

I see there are 6 bucklers for sale on standard and 3 for sale on Domination that meet my critera. Some have low evasion, some have life, maybe 1 or 2 are pretty nice.

Or you can roll a high item level white vaal buckler with chaos or alch/scour until you land at least 5% block affix (6% is ideal). This can get expensive, but not bad if you are lucky at all. Cheaper would be alterations, see my shield as an example:

Ignore the blind gem, I'm just leveling it.

Believe it or not, this is an excellent shield when wielded by a lazy pally.

Thanks a bunch dude <3 Ill look out

Ok so I just tried out a Melee Physical Gem in place on WED. I lose like 150 dmg and it seems like my mana problems aren't as bad. I thought I would lose waaaayyy more damage considering i'm going from a level 14 gem to a level 1 gem... I dont get it! O.o
Looks like i'm going to swap out one of my mana flasks for another HP flask or armor flask finally!

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nbriles2000 a écrit :

Ok so I just tried out a Melee Physical Gem in place on WED. I lose like 150 dmg and it seems like my mana problems aren't as bad. I thought I would lose waaaayyy more damage considering i'm going from a level 14 gem to a level 1 gem... I dont get it! O.o
Looks like i'm going to swap out one of my mana flasks for another HP flask or armor flask finally!

Great! Melee Physical Damage gets even sweeter as it levels up. Keep it up. :)

Not sure if this was asked but, why not kill Oak in cruel for 18% physical damage increase? :O