Shoju's 1.0 Stuff.

[MonTy]

MonTy - Im absolutely phobic of Blood Magic Keystone. Mainly, and probably unjustly so, because My first char was a blood magic keystone marauder, and I just got absolutely destroyed once I hit A2.

That was probably more due to first char, bad gear, bad everything, as opposed to something else, but it just left an awful taste in my mouth

It's harder to pull off due to armor, so just have to make sure you can find decent armor pieces. You're losing Determination or Grace, but at the same time you're taking more armor talents. You gain a TON of DPS from not having to use BM Gem and adding in a DPS skill gem instead.

This is my current gear in Nemesis, he's currently finishing up Act 3 Merciless. I'm glad to say eight of the ten pieces were self-found, most from Merciless Merveil.

*edit - Ouch, my first major character death in over a year. This one stings as his gear was pretty good. Had 4k armor, 41% block, 4 end charges, molten shell, but I got one shot by +phy damage rare Colossal Skeleton in the Archives. I didn't granite or enfeeble in time, so that was my mistake.