[3.1] BERSERKER/JUGGERNAUT 288k DPS Ice Crash/EQ Crit Staff AKA "The Shattering Karui"

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Sorites118 wrote:

So I'm currently using Hegemony's Era with this build. I've found that the inherent power charge generation is very lacking. What's essentially 10% PCoC is kinda meh. On the other hand, I don't really want to use the actual PCoC gem in my main skill now that I have the Era. My solution was to change up the utility flicker strike.

Flicker Strike - Multistrike - PCoC - Fortify - CoC - Curse

Curse on Hit is great, but its a 3 gem package for Flicker Strike. Just plain CoC and the curse costs just 2 sockets. It's slightly less effective, maybe 90% as good as CoH, but that PCoC makes a world of difference.

My current gear, tree and gem setup for reference. I'm still tweaking it. Experimenting with other gems in Added Fire's place:

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https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwEAAdwEswUtB3UJlgthDc0TcRQgFKkWQBZvGF0aOBzOHRQhVSSqJy8rUDGeMfs0MTSONZI26TkOPAU9_ECgQXJG10d-TeNQR1YtVylYY1iuWfNeE16lXz9lTWaeZ5to8mvZbztxhXIPcql07XfjeA14enloeu9_44TZhO-FfYY7h2qPRpBVkn2XeZhvogCmV6knqW6plKyqrfGuPq9sr6e18ryavTa-p8AawGbApsEExFjE9sauxtjJZ9i92sHcI9w942rkUeXP7UTvDu988B_2SPcy-tL7i_5U_o8=?accountName=Sorites118&characterName=RainOfTalons

I still didn't get an era, so I can't rly say anything on this yet. If I also determine the era "pcoc" is inadequate, I will change the flicker strike setup.

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Q: Why did you take Celestial Judgement? Is the penetration that important?
It is. When you add the elemental damage from Hatred and Herald of Ash, you actually end up doing more overall elemental dmg than physical dmg.

U didnt skilled it....
I can not see it on ur skilltree link

Awesome build, works well even after all the nerfs.

Sorites, I love seeing the endgame setup! Have you considered replacing added fire damage with cold pen? Also, what if you switched fortify into the leap slam linkage in place of blood rage, and placed blood rage in the flicker strike setup? That'd give you CoC curse and blood rage. It'd be less control, but wouldn't require self-cast. I'm not sure if that'd appeal to you.

I'm not using flicker strike at the moment because I simply don't have the links. I needed a lot of resists to progress to merc, and the solution for me was to buy high res/life boots without movement speed. To compensate for no run speed, I just leap slam everywhere. I'm trying to figure out how best to run this build with two 5L, since getting my 6Ls will be a lot simpler if I have a fully functional farming build for endgame content with just 5Ls.

I believe you are hugely underrating Jewels in your skill tree. There are multiple spots where you could pick up Jewel sockets for 2 skillpoints along the way.

If you would take your HC version and remove a few of the 5% life nodes you would get something like this:

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAdwB5wSzBS0IsQmWC2ENzRNxFCAUTRZAFm8YXRiRGjgczh0UJKonLytQLlMx-zQxNZI26TkOPAU8LT38P_xBckbXR35QR1W1VylYY1iuWfNepV8_ZU1mVGaeZ5to8m87cYVyD3KpdO1343gNeHp5aH_jg1-E2YTvhX2HaozPj0aQVZJ9kweUb5d5mG-ezZ_LogCnMKelqSepbqmUrKqt8a4-r2yvp7XyuUO8mryfvTa-p8AawGbBBMT2xq7G2Mln02_YvdrB3CPjauRR5c_oZu1E7w7vfPAf9kj3MvrS-4v8S_5U


With a good Jewel the trade would be 10% life (2 nodes) for 7% life + 10+% increased damage + 10 str + potentially up to 16% increased damage (regal)

Even if you dont regal a the perfect Jewel something like;
10% life vs 7% life, 20% increased damage, 10 str
is very achievable and it probably would make a better softcore variant then the actual softcore tree.

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Q: Why did you take Celestial Judgement? Is the penetration that important?
It is. When you add the elemental damage from Hatred and Herald of Ash, you actually end up doing more overall elemental dmg than physical dmg.

U didnt skilled it....
I can not see it on ur skilltree link

Not sure where you were looking, both the SC and the HC passive trees spec into Celestial Judgement.

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jbmcarth wrote:

Sorites, I love seeing the endgame setup! Have you considered replacing added fire damage with cold pen? Also, what if you switched fortify into the leap slam linkage in place of blood rage, and placed blood rage in the flicker strike setup? That'd give you CoC curse and blood rage. It'd be less control, but wouldn't require self-cast. I'm not sure if that'd appeal to you.

I'm not using flicker strike at the moment because I simply don't have the links. I needed a lot of resists to progress to merc, and the solution for me was to buy high res/life boots without movement speed.

To compensate for no run speed, I just leap slam everywhere. I'm trying to figure out how best to run this build with two 5L, since getting my 6Ls will be a lot simpler if I have a fully functional farming build for endgame content with just 5Ls.

Blood rage doesn't need coc help imo. It lasts like 20 seconds when linked to duration gem, plus refresh on kill means I usually only cast it once or twice at most per map. As for leap slam, I'm actually not a big fan of it other than when I use it to cross gaps and escape from immobilizes. For one, it actually takes time to use it in battle to apply fortify, whereas flicker feels instantaneous and makes combat feel really fluid. Also, it feels like the range is shorter than it used to be before 2.0. not sure if it's my imagination or if they really nerfed it though.In any case, for getting around, I think Phase Run is great, but I don't know if it's faster without moves peed on your boots.

I'll give cold pen a shot. Don't have a high level one though, so it'll be a bit before I can tell.

For your two 5Ls, if you don't have Era, I think the OP covers the links in that situation very well. If you do have Era, then use my 6Ls, minus added fire and fortify, which you could move to leap slam.

I'm also experimenting with higher level cwdt and immortal call. it's going off very frequently right now, and often when I don't need it. back when you could have ec in there as well, there was no cost, but now I'm trading 3 hard-earned charges for about 1 second of physical immunity when I probably don't even need it. Will try level 10 maybe.

Would you recommend a physical or cold doryani's belt for this build?

Hey, not sure if anyone has asked this before, but for me that CWDT chain with increased duration and Phase Run does not work for some reason. All gems have the correct levels, lvl 42 and lower as determined by CWDT. But your Phase run is lvl 16? I dont really get it xD

thx in advance

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Xardas1988 wrote:

Hey, not sure if anyone has asked this before, but for me that CWDT chain with increased duration and Phase Run does not work for some reason. All gems have the correct levels, lvl 42 and lower as determined by CWDT. But your Phase run is lvl 16? I dont really get it xD

thx in advance

I personally use it self-cast, if you want to use it as a trigger on CWDT, you have to adjust the level accordingly.