S10 Lancer - honed defences

Season 10Lancerarcane

A build guide by KomPo

01 pros and cons #


The Good

  • Easy leveling
  • All arounder. Very good single target and clear
  • Good endgame potential
  • projectile immunity, 2 life passives
  • 0 buttons autobomber

The Bad

  • valor lancer looks like a male ingame
  • ST requires skill tree swapping (there are keybinds for this in the settings)
  • it can get quite expensive if you want to push for lategame+ (cheaper compared to other arcane casters)
  • karp is going to kill you

02 what has changed #

Nothing has changed other than a few AoE node nerfs which should not matter
You won't be able to spam teleport anymore.

03 leveling filter #

first filter is for normal acts, highlights important stats.
early acts pick up all attributes and int and life/res items
(you can reduce the highlighted tiers by right clicking the entire column if you feel like too many useless highlighted items are dropping. especially armor and int)
later on you can swap to more stricter filter mostly for charms and common bases (not needed)


  • all attributes, life, res, damage, leveling early acts

    soft filter, removes nothing, only highlights

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  • only satanics (all) with mythic belt, ring and amulets

    shows common bases, highlights charms

    Open the filter Download .txt

04 important stats #

Attributes

400 spent 0 / 400 left
  • Strength 0
  • Dexterity 0
  • Intelligence 0
  • Energy 0
  • Armor 300
  • Vitality 100
swap from int to armor only after level 100
  • all attributeshoned defences scales from both armor and int
  • intelligencethis will be used as our main damage scaling before we can swap to armor at level 100
  • ignore arcane resistancethis is required to be well over 60% for inferno
  • armorwe are going full armor at level 100 for honed defences' "deadly resistance" small node and later on other scaling options from incarnation tree

Star levels

When you start getting multiples of your S-tier Satanics, it might be time to attempt some star leveling. Star leveling S-tier Satanics requires Destiny Shards — used at the crafting bench, each shard has a chance to:
62%Upgrade by 1 star
26%Downgrade
12%Corrupt — all stars removed
Each star increases the stats of an item, including orange-text abilities and bonuses. It can also increase +Skill rolls that are NOT +All Skills — so +Elemental or +Physical skills can be scaled this way.

This can be done to SS-tier items too, but it requires higher-tier materials — not suggested until you have established yourself.

05 Leveling and endgame tree #

it is important for you to go through the tabs as everything is going to change bit by bit.

glory and last stand are optional to get if you want more buttons for more damage.

We are going to be using battle charge all the way to level 15 as it has strong AoE damage and it is the only option that the game offers for damage.
this may feel hard to level with for most people if you are used to playing stronger skills on other classes or playing ranged skills.
for gurag, if you are struggling you may have to level up to 16 which is not ideal, but it is very very possible to kill even at level 8 using battlecharges AoE overlaps

A MANA POTION IS A MUST , BUY ONE FROM TOWN NPC AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

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06 #

EVERYTHING IS BASED ON S9 TREE

we are rushing the "From Defense to Wizard" node, this will be a major damage buff. before you can reach there you can spec points into magister's intellect and  the 4 big attribute nodes.

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07 Gear #

THIS IS BASED ON GEAR AVAILABLE IN S9

look for good stats like all reses, all attribs and life, these D tier satanics are great example

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Alternatives

  • Weaponanything with good stats
  • Off-handanything with good stats
  • Helmanything with good stats
  • Body Armoranything with good stats
  • Glovesanything with good stats
  • Bootsanything with good stats
  • Beltanything with good stats
  • Amuletanything with good stats
  • Ring Ianything with good stats
  • Ring IIanything with good stats

08 Mercenary #


This is an alternative set that, while it may have some magic find, also focuses on keeping the merc alive as well as providing you with different auras that help buff your early stats. Depending on the class these items could change.

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