PoE Dual Strike Build 3.25 – Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur

The Dual Strike build is an excellent choice for players who enjoy fast-paced, high-damage melee combat. This build focuses on delivering powerful strikes with both weapons simultaneously, making it ideal for dual-wielding enthusiasts. With significant bonuses to critical strike chance and damage against enemies at full life, Dual Strike can decimate foes quickly and efficiently.

Dual Strike Skill Mechanics

Dual Strike (Level 20):

  • Type: Critical, Attack, Melee, Strike
  • Mana Cost: 14
  • Attack Speed: 70% of base
  • Attack Damage: 442.4% of base
  • Effectiveness of Added Damage: 442%
  • Quality: +20%
  • Requires: Level 70, 68 Strength, 98 Dexterity
  • Skill Effects:
    • Attacks with both weapons, dealing the damage of both in one strike.
    • Dual wield only. Does not work with wands.
    • 100% more Critical Strike Chance against Enemies that are on Full Life.
    • 90% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against Enemies that are on Full Life.

The primary advantage of Dual Strike is its ability to deliver the combined damage of both weapons in a single strike, making it highly effective for burst damage.

PoE Dual Strike Build 3.25

Building a Dual Strike Character

Key Skill Interactions

1. Critical Strike Chance and Multiplier: Maximizing critical strike chance and critical strike multiplier is essential to fully leverage the bonus damage against enemies at full life.

2. Physical Damage: Boosting your physical damage will significantly increase the base damage of Dual Strike.

3. Attack Speed: Increasing your attack speed will allow you to deliver more strikes in less time, enhancing overall damage output.

Passive Skill Tree

Focus on Nodes that Enhance:

  • Critical Strike Chance and Multiplier: Essential for maximizing the bonus damage from Dual Strike.
  • Physical Damage: Boosts the base damage of your attacks.
  • Attack Speed: Increases the frequency of your attacks.
  • Life and Evasion: Improve survivability through increased life and evasion.

Ascendancy Choices

1. Assassin (Shadow):

  • Ambush and Assassinate: Grants increased critical strike chance and multiplier against enemies at full life.
  • Noxious Strike: Provides increased damage over time and chance to poison on critical strike.
  • Toxic Delivery: Enhances poison and bleeding effects while reducing damage taken from critical strikes.
  • Opportunistic: Increases damage against unique enemies and grants movement speed.

2. Raider (Ranger):

  • Way of the Poacher: Increases attack speed and frenzy charge generation.
  • Avatar of the Slaughter: Boosts damage, attack speed, and movement speed per frenzy charge.
  • Quartz Infusion: Grants dodge and phasing, enhancing survivability.
  • Avatar of the Veil: Increases elemental damage and provides elemental status immunity.

Support Gems

Main Skill Setup:

  • Dual Strike: Primary damage skill.
  • Support Gems: Multistrike, Melee Physical Damage, Faster Attacks, Increased Critical Damage, Ruthless.

Utility Skills:

  • Ancestral Protector: Increases attack speed while active.
  • Blood Rage: Grants increased attack speed and life leech.
  • Summon Ice Golem: Provides increased critical strike chance and accuracy.

Gear and Accessories

1. Weapons:

  • Dual Wielding: Use fast one-handed weapons with high physical damage and critical strike chance.

2. Armor:

  • Body Armor: Focus on life, resistances, and increased physical damage.
  • Helmet, Gloves, and Boots: Prioritize life, resistances, attack speed, and critical strike chance.

3. Accessories:

  • Amulet and Rings: Look for increased physical damage, critical strike chance, life, resistances, and attack speed.
  • Belt: A Stygian Vise with high life, resistances, and increased physical damage is ideal.

Flask Setup

1. Life Flask:

  • Instant Recovery: For emergency healing.

2. Utility Flasks:

  • Diamond Flask: Increases critical strike chance.
  • Lion’s Roar: Grants increased physical damage and armor.
  • Atziri’s Promise: Increases chaos damage and provides life leech.
  • Silver Flask: Provides Onslaught for increased attack speed.

Combat Strategy

1. Engaging Enemies:

  • Use Dual Strike to deliver powerful bursts of damage, especially against enemies at full life.

2. Maximizing Damage:

  • Activate Blood Rage for increased attack speed and life leech.
  • Summon Ancestral Protector for additional attack speed.

3. Positioning:

  • Utilize your movement speed and strategic positioning to stay out of harm’s way while delivering rapid strikes with Dual Strike.

Example Build

Assassin Dual Strike Build:

  • Focus: Increased critical strike chance and multiplier, physical damage, and attack speed.
  • Key Passives: Ambush and Assassinate, Noxious Strike, Toxic Delivery, Opportunistic.
  • Support Gems: Multistrike, Melee Physical Damage, Faster Attacks, Increased Critical Damage, Ruthless.

Conclusion

The Dual Strike build in Path of Exile 3.25 offers an exhilarating and high-damage melee playstyle. By focusing on critical strikes, physical damage, and attack speed, you can create a powerful character capable of efficiently clearing maps and taking on challenging end-game content. Equip your gear, activate your skills, and dominate the battlefield with Dual Strike in Path of Exile.

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