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buy a shield and stop duel wielding. not worth the time and effort in the end of a3 to go duel wield imo. go find a shield with 24% dodge some crit and dex/vit or a gem slot and you will do more than fine. i have a bit less stats than you sword and board and i faceroll through the entire game, after attempting duel wield for a very long time. just not worth the aggrivation, this is a tanking class imo even though you can build offensive. just go offensive tank build, using overawe instead of hard target and go with transencende instead of resolve. youll be surprised how fast u kill shit. honestly, save the dps for when pvp releases, your not a rogue

i forgot to add. when i attempted d/w into a3, i was sitting at around 30k dps, 690 resists, 23% crit chance and 160 crit dmg with 700 loh. my gear is probably worth around 90 mill, give or take a few. this is because of the inflated ah, but hey that doesnt really matter. it will continue to be inflated while you shop for your pieces. just some food for thought.

to the OP: i ventured into a3 roughly 3 weeks ago aor so, sitting at similar stats as you. i was also eaten alive by most things, particularly elemental dmg. i watched one of my buddies cut through mobs dwing tornado build on his barb and thought wtf this is dumb. i am sword and board farming a3 now fairly efficiently, dieing to a pack once in a while. i attempted to roll duel wield, but unless you have at least 50+ million to spend on the gear that is required, i will honestly say it just isnt going to happen. i was living in the void zone thinking i could do this, and ya, maybe you can clear some mobs, but the amunt of invested time and gold in order to get through a full a3 farm route simply wont be worth it to you. you will find that for the time being, sword and boarding into and through a3 will be far more efficient, and also that you can run a fairly offensive build if your weap and shield are rolled well. with sword and board using overawe, i sit at 24k dps, 21% crit chance and 130% crit dmg. i run a standard tank build, minus mantra of evasion, and i sit at 720 resist with 7.8k armor using defensive enchantress build. i actually kill things at a much faster rate using my s/b, because the kiting is far less severe. use a s/b build to farm through a3, pray for a drop, or jump back into a1 and make some quick gold to buy upgrades. but honestly like i said comming from experience. It isnt about the build, it isnt about the skill really, it is about the necessary gear and it will cost you big time to convert over, much more than you really even realize until your too deeply invested into the ah.

i have slowly been switching over from physical resist to resist all only pieces instead of both stats on one peiece. reason being, you want higher dps, you simply cannot afford a item with 2 resist stats rolled instead of a single resist + some sort of dps stat or life. im still rolling with one with everything at the moment because of a single piece of gear i have left, but think about it. dropping one with everything and using resolve AND transencende along with sieze the innitiative would be ideal. and honestly, when you get to the point of duel wield, having 670 resist all is really not that hard to achieve.

P.S transendence over resolve all day long, made the switch last week and it has been amazing. try it out

P.P.S. im running 450 loh sword and board off of a neckpiece and ring which i picked up. use a 790-800ish dagger with dex and vit and that small amount of loh will make a huge difference. im clearing a farm run of a3 with a handful of deaths in around 45 minutes. duel wield will take me probably 2+ hours.