I have reached level 22. Since my planned build has more skills that will reserve a portion of my mana bar, i've invested 2 attribute points in energy, to get an additional 80 mana. I might put 2 more later



Here's the build situation and the new skills so far. Art of the Hunt is a passive that reserves mana. It adds to piercing and bleeding damage, and has increased damage against beasts and beastmen. It also has great synergies that i'm going to talk about when i reach them



Herbal Remedy is a duration buff that takes care of my poison resistance. When i max this skill i would have one less damage type to worry about. One point for now is enough, will be maxed on epic difficulty. The only problem with this skill is that i have to remember to re-cast it from time to time.



This post was edited by KillingIsMyBusiness on Nov 6 2020 02:13pm

The passive Wood Lore skill that i already talked about. That much flat DA bonus for normal difficulty is very OP, with my regular DA it makes my character very dodgy.



And here's the Defense tree situation.



This post was edited by KillingIsMyBusiness on Nov 6 2020 02:20pm

Aktaios quest kill. He drops me a really nice pair of double affix rare greaves with elemental resistances and movement speed

The Tekine farm was disappointing, no upgrades for act 3. At least my resistances are solid and i should be able to improve them more before the battle with Typhon...

Now that i don't need this, it drops immediately of course



At level 24 i get Call of the Hunt, a duration skill for boss killing. I will max that later along with its first synergy. The second synergy is useful too, but i'll be short of skill points for it. I did the math, to build the skills that i want, i need to be around level 67-68 and that includes the skill points from quests. Anything extra, like the tier 7 skills, will require levels above 70, which will be unreachable if i try to complete this around the 100 hour mark



My job here is done. Time for the act boss

Chimera - not hard but can be very dangerous with low fire and lightning resistance

I've spent some time farming the quest Ichtians in the Babylon Outskirts looking for this exact item



I think it's the only rare spear in the game with average base attack speed, all others are either slow or very slow. I've also got a nice damage affix on it.



As you can see, the DPS says it all... the legendary version of this thing might end up as my endgame weapon. There are a few nice MI spears in Act IV, can't wait to compare them with this one. They will be slower, but can be better depending on the roll