PoE Duelist builds without Flicker Strike

Champion Blood Sacrament 7k life \~permanent adrenaline. Using 1 cast tick shots of blood sacrament at 52.66% life reserved to hit low life. just pop a flask to trigger adrenaline. very tanky. much better than the es versions I tried. anyone have something better working for this skill?

in light of the only flaw in my zooming ele hit build and the question post I sparked the idea of ele dmg reduction minmax. In game there's very few ways to reduce ele dmg, immortal call is the big one for 35% less dmg, with our readily supplied endurance charge it's 2s uptime can be mor

Not much to say. Seems like it could numerically, with max stacks on every dot thanks to the hit rates. You even get bleed-splosions thanks to Kinetic Blast and Pierce Sources (main reason to choose over Scion IMO). Lategame I'd go for the usual Life on Block shield and such. Not sure about the wand, or other potentially OP gear though.

STEP BY STEP LEVELLING: Act 1: Buy Frost Blades from Nessa after you kill Hillock. We?re going to use Frost Blades for clear and Double Strike for single targets. Buy a Paua Amulet for mana regeneration(we will need this until we get Life and Mana Leech on passive tree) and also craft movement speed boots as soon as you can. Pick up 3-colored items and sell them for chromatic orbs for first 2-3 acts. We will need them since we change skills through levelling. Keep on upgrading mana flasks especially until Act 6, we will be using them frequently. Also Magic weapon with added Physical Damage

Build: Main question I was hoping to get answered is the question of DPS. Because my god everyone says something different when it comes to acceptable DPS. 1 person says min 250K is the goal while another says 2M is the goal on league start.

400k dps per sentinel. Plays like a typical dominating blow build. No herald of purity. 52% life reserved with no enlighten, purity of ice is there to simulate 35% Petrified Flesh reservation. Low life Blood Magic Mortal Conviction simply to reserve Pride for nothing. Perfidy is nuts with this build, according to POB, placing banners doubles dps when you have two banners down. I'm not convinced on the bannerman notable actually doubling your dps, but that's what POB says. EDIT: After some testing, I have come to the conclusion that the damage boost from banner

Is it worth playing this build as a casual player? Yes. Tho I think it's weaker than ED or TR per example, maybe because the upcoming theme is "blood" it will be stronger in the upcoming league (usually that's not the case). Is it worth playing this build if you play a lot and you are an experienced player? No. No matter how much you invest, I had 6 tier 1 mods on every item besides bow and against bosses or extremely buffed maps you will die sometimes. Damage wise you will not do as much as other builds for the amount of investment. Not even close. I stuck with it cause I was stubborn a