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Deykari

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Level 9 Shadow so far, glad I played closed beta so I don't make the noobie mistakes I made with my previous build. :P

Little tip, whilst you -can- refund passive skill points you've already spent you only get a small few of them throughout the game and the orbs that can let you do it are very rare, so plan carefully!

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There are lots of different builds that work well but the general consensus is that even the most offensive of builds need to work a good bit of defense in there. Most people will tend to focus on 2 or 3 main 'defences' out of life, evasion, armor and energy shield. You can have dual-wielding rangers with swords that switch to elemental bow damage at close range or marauders dual wielding wands doing heavy spell-attack damage. It's hard to recommend anything in particular, just if you do what I did and and try to be a bit of everything (and lacking in defensive stats) you end up pretty weak at it all in the later difficulty levels.

I'm a shadow, going dual-wield daggers aiming for critical hit chance/critical hit multipliers, taking the Chaos Innoculation passive (maximum of 1hp but 50% more energy shield and immunity to chaos damage, which becomes my primary source of absorbing damage). This works perfectly with an aura skill that gives you increased damage output but at the cost of life/second in the form of chaos damage. Stacking tons of energy shield and evasion for defence. The forums have a lot of build suggestions in the class sub-forums.

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I'm a shadow' date=' going dual-wield daggers aiming for critical hit chance/critical hit multipliers, taking the Chaos Innoculation passive (maximum of 1hp but 50% more energy shield and immunity to chaos damage).[/quote']

Didn't they nerf CI so it doesn't give 50% ES anymore?

Passive Skill Balance:

Chaos Inoculation now grants no additional energy shield bonus. Its complete immunity to chaos damage, synergy with Blood Rage and other skill combos are deemed sufficient upside to counteract the life penalty.

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