Twisting Blades Leveling

This is the standard melee leveling build to progress towards endgame builds such as Poison Twisting Blades.

1. Cast Dark Shroud for Damage Reduction and Movement Speed.
2. Cast Shadow Imbuement.
3. Cast Caltrops/Smoke Grenade for more Damage against Elites/Bosses.
4. Cast 3x Puncture -> 1x Twisting Blades.
5. Cast Dash and Shadow Step for Mobility.

Later on when we can spam Twisting Blades, we drop Puncture and add Shadow Clone for more damage.

Remember to press your Health Potion for Unstable Elixirs and YaxGar.

Twisting Blades is a Leveling build for those who don't for some reason want to play Dance of Knives and want to level as melee. It is still fun and strong but it's really hard to beat Dance of Knives when it comes to leveling.

I recommend you level doing Helltides and the Seasonal Mechanic: Escalating Nightmare Dungeons, when possible.

Chaos Perks

A Beast Cornered + Marred Guard is used for damage and survivability.

Ennervating Strikes provides even more damage.

Accelerating Chaos allows us to refresh our Cooldowns faster.

Mercernaries

We use Subo because being able to see where monsters are on our Minimap is invaluable while leveling.

Raheir is used as a Reinforcement for Damage Reduction.

Runes

Early on, when we only have access to Magic Runes, we will use CirLum and YaxGar.

CirLum will allow us to keep up with our Energy demands and YaxGar will provide us with a lot more damage.

Later on, we will transition to PocLum, which is a better CirLum, and CirThul to Freeze and get [x]15% more Damage.

Elixirs and Incenses

You should always try to use Elixirs and Incenses while leveling as they increase the Experience you gain and give you powerful stat bonuses.

For Elixirs we use Elixir of Advantage for Lucky Hit Chance and Attack Speed.

For Incenses we use Spiral Morning for Dexterity, Song of the Mountain for Armor and Soothing Spices for All Resistances and more Armor.

Endgame Builds

You can find Endgame builds to transition to HERE.