[2.5] Leech/IC Tank Pledge Poison BV Berserker (guardians, uber lab, 1.7M peak dps)

Lag-proof Pledge of Hands Double Dipping Poison Vaal Pact Immortal Call Blade Vortex Berserker

Because of my computer's poor performance (a lot of fps lag), this is the only build I feel satisfied leveling above 90 because of Berserker's built in anti-lag mechanics. Unfortunately, as a result of recent performance patches, I can't record video anymore.

Build Summary
- Use Pledge of Hands with Kaom's Heart for a damage 7L with ~7.3-7.5k life at level 91.
- Get Cloaked in Savagery and Vaal Pact for instant leech when you take heavy damage.
- Use a high level CwDT setup to instaleech to full life in tricky situations (also makes build very lag resiliant).
- Use poison double dipping mechanics to scale good damage (Berserker's 40% more is great).
- Two setups: pure damage and physical mitigation (luxury).
- Physical mitigation setup combines Voll's Devotion, Romira's Banquet, CwDT Immortal Call for almost 100% uptime on Immortal Call. Note that this is a luxury setup to make heavily physical bosses very easy.
- 1.5ex to easily clear any T15- map (except maybe Core and Dark Forest)
- 4.5ex to get the Guardian killing physical mitigation setup running.

What have I done on this build?
- Minotaur (deathless, just sit and facetank with physical mitigation setup)
- Chimera (deathless, just sit and facetank with physical mitigation setup)
- Hydra (deathless, physical mitigation setup)
- Phoenix (not deathless, I'm bad at dodging his charge up attack)
- All T15's (deathless)
- Regular Atziri (deathless)
- Uber Lab (full key runs, see section below)
- Vaal Temple (not deathless. Completed on 2 player HP with no help from other player, but this was before I had the physical mitigation setup)

Things I'd like to try
- Shaper (probably possible with some practice)
- Uber Atziri (first attempt failed at last split phase. Vaals/Trio are easy, Atziri is hard.)

Budgeting and Suggested Gear Progression


Map Mods


DPS


Gem Links


Passive Tree and Bandits


Gear


Uber Lab

Reserved.

This seems like a fun build to try out, although, one of the things im wondering about is your physical mitigation setup. With the ring, you gain power charges from bv, but how do u get rid of them so u can get endurance charges with volls if u just keep getting charges from the ring while using controlled destruction? Secondly, is there a preference to path either left or right to get vaal pact while leveling?

@billions911

You get rid of the power charges by critting, which removes all your power charges via Romira's secondary effect. I've updated my passive tree to spec into an extra power charge to make endurance charge generation more consistent (removed the reduced flask charges used nodes).

You'll end up with a crit chance of around 13% with all 4 power charges. Against bosses, you'll be hitting 5 times a second, so you're expected to crit and gain 4 endurance charges once every 1.5 seconds or so. There's a 12% chance that you don't crit at all for 3 seconds in a row, so occasionally you might find yourself with no endurance charges - however, there's a very large chance your instant leech will save you regardless if you get hit.

I respecced this character from one of my level 82 marauders I found lying around, so I haven't experienced leveling myself. My best guess as to how to level this build would be the following:

1. Head straight for the Templar area nodes
2. Grab the duration nodes
3. Get Vaal Pact
4. Grab the damage nodes in the Shadow area (but not the ones leading to shadow start)
5. Get the Witch area nodes
6. Get all remaining life
7. Get the shadow starting damage nodes

Ascendancy order should be Cloaked In Savagery -> Aspect of Carnage (instant leech makes Uber Izaro way easier).

Two to three good jewels will help a lot while leveling! The damage nodes on our tree lie mostly in the shadow area, and we won't be getting them for a while.

Edit: Added leveling trees to passive skill tree section, though I've never tested these personally.

"Bandits:

Kill Oak in All Difficulties"

Who you help then? Or you kill all?

"

kaatis1 wrote:

"Bandits:

Kill Oak in All Difficulties"

Who you help then? Or you kill all?

That should be help Oak in all difficulties. My bad.

Thanks for the explanation, I didn't realise the crit chance was that high to proc voll's. One of the things I noticed is that we opted to not path to unwavering stance (and thus,potentially bloodless). Is the immunity to stuns not worth it for bv since your tanking hits so often?

Personally, I find that stun immunity isn't needed at all on this build. Your leech CwDT defense still procs when you're stunned, and Blade Vortex also continues to do damage (allowing you to leech) even if you are stunned. Since you have enough cast speed to stack your blade vortex above 20, being stunned once in a while by a boss doesn't prevent you from maintaining max stacks.

Just tried Uber Atziri and failed on the last split phase. Vaals, Trio, and Trash are all very easy, but you have to dodge every flameblast and the lack of a movement skill makes that pretty difficult. I'm pretty sure with some practice that I'll be able to do Uber Atziri, though deathless might be a bit of stretch (really comes down to skill).

I actually cleared everything up to Atziri using a level 2 blade vortex (I was practicing on normal atziri with it earlier). Added Chaos damage can carry hard.

replacement for the talisman on BSC?