Cleric-Dragonlord. Melee DPS, CC & self healing. Full endgame build.

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Shear-buckler

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I like reading build posts so I thought I would post my own.

Class split: 14 Cleric 6 Dragonlord
Race: Aasimar

Goals:
The primary goal is to reliably and quickly solo R6+ by using AoE CC, AoE burst damage, face-tanking bosses and efficient self healing. No kiting, excessive clicking or any swapping. The secondary goal is to function well as a DPS, CC and off-tank in R10 pugs.

The build as posted makes use of maximum racial action points, maximum destiny points, maximum universal action points, +8 tomes and heroic completionist. On the flip side here is only one raid item required.
The build is designed to play perfectly on an x-box controller.

Key notes (all posted stats are outside of reaper and no special buffs or any pots):
14 cleric levels for the Heal spell and Holy Sword along with Divine Power and +7 DC/+4 to hit & dmg from War domain.
6 dragon lord levels for roar, +2 crit multiplier and strength trance.
Capstone in VKF for maximum DPS with kukri.
Aasimar for healing amp, PRR/MRR and extra HP.

Main offensive features: SWF, 14-20x5 crit profile, 100 Strength with strength trance, 300+ melee power, 95%+ double strike, 14 haste boost charges, Quick Cutter, Whirlwind Attack and Rapid Slash for AoE burst damage.

Main defensive features: 3600+ HP, 330+ PRR, 190+ MRR, 25%+ dodge, 40% HP multiplier.

Main self healing featues: CL 21 Heal spell with 320% healing amp, 400+ positive spell power, 26% positive spell crit chance.

Main tactics/CC features: Dragons Roar at DC 126, Improved trip with helpless at DC 132, Improved Sunder with -100% fortification and -20% AC at DC 127. Legendary Salt proc on weapon.

Weakness: Low movement speed, no dodge clicky except Action Hero. No LGS PRR debuff. Cleric symbol, if you join R10 LFMs people may expect you to be a party healer before they see you crush the kill count.

Notable trade-off: I am not picking up Crush Weakness or an artifact bonus to helplessness damage. I find +40% to be enough and helpless monsters are no threat anyways.

Playstyle:
Stun mobs with Roar and burst them down with rapid slash, quick cutter and whirlwind attack. Hit stragglers with improved trip and repeat.
For bosses pop Action Hero and face tank. Heal through the reaper penalty thanks to healing amp and spell power.


Starting attributes:
18 Strength
11 Dexterity (for dodge feat)
18 Constitution
All level-ups in Strength

Heroic Feats:
SWF
ISWF
GSWF
Offhand Versatility
Dodge
Mobility
Whirlwind attack
Precision
IC: Slashing
Tactical Training
Quicken spell

Epic Feats:
Overwhelming Critical
Impatience
Epic damage reduction
Eerie Aim

Destiny and Legendary Feats:
PSWF
Guarded Actions
Divine Warding
Legendary Toughness
Titans Blood
Scion of Arborea

1 drl1 SWF
2 drl2 F:Dodge
3 drl3 Mobility
4 drl4 F:WWA
5 clr1
6 clr2 Quicken
7 clr3
8 clr4
9 clr5 ISWF
10 clr6
11 clr7
12 drl5 precision
13 drl6 F:GSWF
14 clr8
15 clr9 Offhand versatility
16 clr10
17 clr11
18 clr12 IC:slash
19 clr13
20 clr14
21 OC
22 PSWF
24 Impatience
25 Guarded actions
27 Epic damage reduction
28 DW
30 Eerie Aim L:arborea
31 Ltough
33 Tactical Training
34 Titans blood

Enhancements, 18 Racial and 2 Universal:
18 Aasimar - Take all tiers of healing amp and Ascendant bond. I don't bother with Healing Hands or Divine purpose.
41 VKF - You have to grab almost everything in T4 and below to get the capstone. Haste Boost from here and not the Dragonlord tree. Strength in both +1 ability nodes.
35 Dragon Lord - Take every Tier 5 except Flight of Kings. Dragons Roar, strength trance, perma displace. Strength in both +1 ability nodes.
6 Stalwart Defender - Defensive stance with +25 PRR/MRR.

Comments: This set-up requires +2 universal APs from tomes and racial completionist along with +3 racial APs from tomes. Flight of kings would be sweet but there are not enough points. The 25 PRR/MRR from SD is very good value when soloing. If you group a lot and don't want the extra aggro you can drop it and pick up Flight of Kings.

Epic Destinies 83 points:
Legendary Dreadnought 35: Take all cores and every T5. Take all mantle nodes, Armor of Dusk, Extra Action boosts, Strike with Fear, Esoteric Touch, Epic Tactics. One point in Action Boost: Tactics to proc Prowess and Guarded action if I every run out of haste boosts. Dire Charge is ignored completely.
Fury of the Wild 25: All cores. Quick Cutter, Primal scream. The Voice of Fury and Top Dog in T4.
Divine Crusader 23: All cores. Rend Armor in T4.

Comments: Top Dog and Rend armor grants Improved Trip and Improved sunder respectively, which synergizes with Sundering Swings in LD. Improved trip with helplessness and 7 second cooldown is very strong and complements Dragons Roar well by tripping stragglers. Improved Sunder with Sundering Swings and Sunder Evil gives -100% fortification and -20% AC, use it on bosses to never graze a hit or fail a crit again. Sunder also strips an elemental immunity via the dragonlord tree.

Gear:
Only once piece of raid gear, The Labrythine Edge Kukri. No rare MD loot.
Feather fall and Deathblock curses saves augment slots.

Legendary goggles of the warrior
Doublestrike +16%
Sight beyond sight (5% dodge bypass)
Quality combat mastery +3
Insightful armor-piercing+11%
Sun - 30 PRR
Green - Sapphire of false life
Colorless - Vitality named augment

Legendary pendant of crippling strikes
Combat mastery +12
Profane combat mastery +3
Kick em while down
Crippling
Moon - 15 Melee power
Green - Sapphire of resistance +11
Colorless - Diamond of wisdom +12

Legendary gloves of the strong
Insightful str +6
Quality will +3
speed +30%
Physical sheltering +37
Moon - 30 PRR
Green - Sapphire of healing amplification +50
Colorless - Diamond of dexterity +12

Legendary greaves of seasons warding
elementalt absorb 37%
Moon - 30 Healing amp
Green - Sapphire of riposte +6
Colorless - Diamond of festive str +2

Legendary periapt of constitution (trinket)
con +14
ins fort +78%
Force absorb +16%
Fort save +13
Sun - 30 Healing amp
Green - Legendary undying sapphire
Colorless - Diamond of festive con +2

Legendary University champions helm
Deadly +11
Accuracy +22
Armor piercing +22
Seeker +14
Set - Legendary Devils Infernal Dance
Green - Sapphire of good luck +3
Colorless - Globe of true imperial blood

Legendary university spellshield armor
Magical sheltering +36
Fort 156%
Insightful reflex saves +6
Spell saves +11
Set - Legendary Devils Infernal Dance
Green - Sapphire of Dodge +12%
Colorless - Masters gift

Legendary University Duelist cloak
Quality accuracy +5
Quality deadly +3
Insight armor piercing +10%
Insightful double strike +7%
Set - Legendary Devils Infernal Dance
Green - Sapphire of greater heroism
Colorless - Diamond of Heal +19

Legendary belt of the ram
Rams might
speed 30
quality str +3
Con +13
Set - Summer
Green - Sapphire of max dex bonus +2

Legendary lionheart ring
stunning +15
Action boost enhancement +3
insigthful armor piercing +9
insightful con +6
Set - Summer
Green - Topaz of Wizadry

Legendary dino artifact ring
Scale - 15 STR
Fang - Deception
Claw - 15 trip
Horn - Relentless fury
Green - Sapphire of Sunder+16
Blue - Essence of the litany of the dead
Yellow - Draconic soul gem

Legendary hallowed castigators bracers
Devotion +142
Healing lore +21%
Insightful sheltering +17
Green slot - Topaz of melee Power +10

The Labrythine Edge Kukri
Fetters of Unreality
Keen
Identity crisis
Enhanced bloodrage
Red -
Purple -

List of item effects
doublestrike +16%
Insightful double trike +7%

Armor piercing +22%
Insightful armor-piercing+11%

stunning +15
Vertigo +15
Profane combat mastery +3
Quality combat mastery +3

15 strength
Insightful str +6
quality str+3
Rams might

magical sheltering +36
Physical sheltering +37
Insightful sheltering +17

elementalt absorb 37%
Force absorb +16%

Fort save +13
Quality will +3
Spell saves +11
Insightful reflex saves +6

Deadly +11
Quality deadly +3
Accuracy +22
Quality accuracy +5
Deception

Seeker +14

Fort 156%
ins fort +78%

speed +30%

Con +14
insightful con +6

Devotion +142
Healing lore +21%

Action boost enhancement +3
Kick em while down
Crippling
Sight beyond sight (5% dogde bypass)
Relentless fury

Set bonuses (and sun/moon augments)
Profane:
15 MP (moon)
30 HAMP (moon)
30 PRR (moon)

Artifact:
30 MRR (summer)
30 PRR (Sun)
30 HAMP (sun)
+3 ability scores (set)
+15% double strike (set)
+30% fort bypass (set)
+15 MP (set)

List of augments
False Life - blue
Vitality - colorless
resistances +11 - blue
Wisdom - colorless
Dex - colorless
Festive str - colorless
festive con - colorless
Draconic soulgem - yellow
imperial blood - colorless
Healing amp - blue
masters gift - colorless
Wizardry - yellow
essence of the litany of the dead - colorless
insightful saves - blue
sunder DC - blue
legendary undying sapphire - blue
Diamond of heal - colorless
sapphire of good luck+3 - blue
sapphire of greater heroism - blue
melee Power +10 - yellow
Dodge - blue
max dex bonus - blue

Filigree
Dreadbringer x5
Prowess x5
Suckerpunch/one against many x2
Purity/Touch of grace x2

Weapon (10 slots):
Suckerpunch/one against many +2 str
Dreadbringer +1 str
Dreadbringer +1 tactical DC
Dreadbringer +3 MP
Dreadbringer +3 PRR
Prowess +1 str
Prowess +3 PRR
Prowess +1 hit and damage
Prowess +2 seeker
Purity/Touch of grace +20% healing amp

Artifact (4 slots):
Suckerpunch/one against many +2 str
Dreadbringer +1 tactical DC / +1 str (Depending on even/uneven str)
Prowess +1 str
Purity/Touch of grace +20% healing amp
 
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Zvdegor

Zvdegor

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Great build and guide! If you allow me I suggest a name to your build: 'The Sacrosanct' because it's holy and invulnerable :)

Action video pls!
 
axel15810

axel15810

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Nice build. I did something very similar but with FVS instead of Cleric, for a FVS past life. And THF instead of SWF (just personal preference, I enjoy strikethrough even though its worse single target DPS). These divine/DL splashes are very strong. Pally/DL was too when I did that. Really strong combo having holy sword plus the +2 crit multi in DL, plus DL CC and trance. These builds just about do everything you would ever want.
 
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intravenous

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im confused about the benefit with holy sword- its listed as competence bonus on wiki so that means it wont stack with either vistani tree multi/range NOR the 2x multi from DL. unless there was a change thats not on the wiki. im also unsure how youre getting 14-20 x5 because without holy sword im seeing 15-20x4. i see that it also gives a +1 enhancement bonus. cool, but im still wondering where the last multiplier is coming from. im using kukris and gettign 15-20x4 with DL x2
 
Spook

Spook

Ghostly Troll
intravenous said:
im confused about the benefit with holy sword- its listed as competence bonus on wiki so that means it wont stack with either vistani tree multi/range NOR the 2x multi from DL. unless there was a change thats not on the wiki. im also unsure how youre getting 14-20 x5 because without holy sword im seeing 15-20x4. i see that it also gives a +1 enhancement bonus. cool, but im still wondering where the last multiplier is coming from. im using kukris and gettign 15-20x4 with DL x2
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HS will give +1 range to Kukri as the +1 range in Vistani only applies to daggers (and throwing daggers)
 
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Shear-buckler

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intravenous said:
im confused about the benefit with holy sword- its listed as competence bonus on wiki so that means it wont stack with either vistani tree multi/range NOR the 2x multi from DL. unless there was a change thats not on the wiki. im also unsure how youre getting 14-20 x5 because without holy sword im seeing 15-20x4. i see that it also gives a +1 enhancement bonus. cool, but im still wondering where the last multiplier is coming from. im using kukris and gettign 15-20x4 with DL x2
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Vistani does not give crit range to kukris. So the missing crit range is from holy sword. The missing crit multiplier is likely from the epic feat Patience.
 
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EinarMal

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Shear-buckler said:
Vistani does not give crit range to kukris. So the missing crit range is from holy sword. The missing crit multiplier is likely from the epic feat Patience.
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Can you comment on The Labrythine Edge Kukri vs. Undying age kukri? They have weird names but it basically has Vacuum and Salt?

I could make the Undying one, but don't run PN as much how much worse would it be?
 
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Shear-buckler

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EinarMal said:
Can you comment on The Labrythine Edge Kukri vs. Undying age kukri? They have weird names but it basically has Vacuum and Salt?

I could make the Undying one, but don't run PN as much how much worse would it be?
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Sure. The Undying Age Kukri is in most cases a better option as you can add Legendary Dust to it for a massive DPS increase (-35 PRR debuff to the target).
The Labrythine Edge Kukri has Legendary Salt which slows enemies. It also has Enhanced Bloodrage for a nice buff. It is very nice, but it is hard to pick it over 35% more DPS.

I used the Labrythine Edge Kukri because that is the only raid tier Kukri I have.
 
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intravenous

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do you use an orb or anything? is it worth it to use the melee orb from vecna? does the offhand versatility going from the stat to dmg and changing to 1 imbue dice make a big difference that the orb itself wouldnt make up for? i dont know the numbers on it to say either way.
 
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Shear-buckler

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intravenous said:
do you use an orb or anything? is it worth it to use the melee orb from vecna? does the offhand versatility going from the stat to dmg and changing to 1 imbue dice make a big difference that the orb itself wouldnt make up for? i dont know the numbers on it to say either way.
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Using an orb would lower your damage. 1 imbue dice is not worth much and shield bash requires some more investment to pay off.

If you take the feat Improved shield bashing for +20% bash chance, +15% from Divine Crusader and +22% from the orb, with ~2 attacks per second you end up at getting ~0,8 bashes per second.

The orb has charisma to damage and int to-hit and poor crit profile so it will be pretty low damage and will miss often.

Having an empty off hand with 100 str grants you +11 damage that scales with the 14-20x5 crit profile and doublestrike and is applied to active attacks (which is a large percentage of attacks you will be doing).
 
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intravenous

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Shear-buckler said:
Using an orb would lower your damage. 1 imbue dice is not worth much and shield bash requires some more investment to pay off.

If you take the feat Improved shield bashing for +20% bash chance, +15% from Divine Crusader and +22% from the orb, with ~2 attacks per second you end up at getting ~0,8 bashes per second.

The orb has charisma to damage and int to-hit and poor crit profile so it will be pretty low damage and will miss often.

Having an empty off hand with 100 str grants you +11 damage that scales with the 14-20x5 crit profile and doublestrike and is applied to active attacks (which is a large percentage of attacks you will be doing).
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i didnt even see the stats for hit and dmg on the orb. that is annoyingly bad. thanks for clarifying. i wasnt really even looking at it from the standpoint of shield bashing, more just the extra slot - the set on the orb-extra weapon augment, the stats themselves on the orb (qual doublestrike and whatever else).
 
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intravenous

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If you could pick undying age kukri or Maw, the dracoliths bite - which would you choose? The guardbreaking is phenomenal (i had it on kinesis on a monk life) but sovereign vorp/dripping would be a nice dps boost. i dont have the fully slotted jewels to do both, but i suppose the maw would be great for clearing trash and the undying for bosses.

also, does the sanctified fervor religious lore MP on smite work on Divine crusader smite? if so, thats a HUGE 1 minute melee power buff to use on a swap for a very minimal ED point investment in a tree we are ALREADY going into.
 
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Shear-buckler

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intravenous said:
If you could pick undying age kukri or Maw, the dracoliths bite - which would you choose? The guardbreaking is phenomenal (i had it on kinesis on a monk life) but sovereign vorp/dripping would be a nice dps boost. i dont have the fully slotted jewels to do both, but i suppose the maw would be great for clearing trash and the undying for bosses.

also, does the sanctified fervor religious lore MP on smite work on Divine crusader smite? if so, thats a HUGE 1 minute melee power buff to use on a swap for a very minimal ED point investment in a tree we are ALREADY going into.
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I would pick Maw. Guardbreaking is great.

The idea for smite and sanctified fervor should work great if you don't mind another maintenance button.
 
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