[2.6] Sweep/Sunder Hegemony's Era Berserker (Shaper down with video)

Sunder


Sweep

Increased AoE


Conc Effect

Pretty straightforward weapon. Your next upgrade would cost you enough to buy a house.
6L is pretty important for the build. If you can only afford a 5L I would recommend ditching Faster attacks and using Sunder as your main skill. Without good attack speed, Sweep can feel really bad and make dodging stuff a pain.

Here you can go for either a rare chest or a Kaom's heart. I wouldn't recommend Kaom's though because we're already socket starved. Overall a pretty flexible and cheap slot to fill. You'll only need 6 sockets and a 4 link. Btw I have Vaal Lightning Trap socketed with my AW in the 5L but during the Shaper fight, you can sub in Increased Critical Strikes since Shaper is immune to shock. Blood Rage is there for the extra attack speed, leech and frenzy charges to make the build feel super good. With the amount of life regeneration we have, even with Abyssus we barely notice Blood Rage's degen.

Motherducking Abyssus.
Anyway be sure to get a maximum of 40% reduced physical damage taken and a minimum of 200% melee crit multi on this bad boy to make it feel worth it.
Pretty standard movement skill setup. Just be sure to use Leap Slam to proc Forify as much as you can.

This is the most important piece for the build. Leech is our biggest form of defence so if you cannot afford these, I would highly recommend you swap to a Slayer instead.
Now, for the auras. A pretty standard physical aura set up. Arctic armour is there to help with the mitigation since you're gonna be standing still while Sweeping or Sundering anyway.

I cannot stress enough how awesomely overpowered these pair of boots are.
1. Stun immunity. Absolutely important for leech based builds.
2. Freeze/chill immunity. Saves us a flask slot.
3. Temp chains immunity. Saves us a Chaos.
4. Loads of HP
5. Corrupt Frenzy charge

Keep a lookout for accuracy on at least 2 pieces of gear. It is imperative we have enough accuracy because of how critical strike chance works. Try to aim for no less than 87-88%.
Flat physical is pretty nice to have so if you can afford a pair of steel rings, go ahead. I must warn you though; due to the amount of uniques we have in the build, capping resists can be a real bitch.

High life, resists, rustic sash. I feel like Reduced flask charges used is a good affix to have.
You can however opt for another resist to lighten your load on capping them.

Your main 3. Honestly, a legacy Taste of Hate is not required. I just picked it up since its about 4ex more than a standard one, and I had spare currency lying around. Same goes for Rumi's.


Last 2 slots are kinda flexible but I would strongly advice on having a bleed immune flask at least. I currently run a shock(life flask) and bleed(diamond).
Some of you might be wondering why I run a Diamond flask. With power charges I'm sitting on around 85% crit but we gain power charges by knocking enemies back (10%) or on block (10%). Against bosses that cannot be knocked back like Shaper, it becomes really difficult to sustain power charges through blocking alone. So with the help of Diamond flask, we crit more consistently, thus we are able to leech instantly.

I prioritse attack speed with staves and life on all my jewels. More attack speed makes the build feel so much smoother and leveling a lot more bearable. For the suffix, you can get either Area damage, Melee damage, Crit multi or Increased damage.

Physical Reflect - We deal too much damage and with Abyssus, it makes this mod impossible to run.
Elemental Weakness - Always bring a Bismuth flask
Minus Max - We have a lot of physical mitigation but not enough for elemental. Depending on the other mods, it can get real sketchy
Vulnerability, No regen - Try not to use Blood Rage in these maps. If you do, you either chain packs or remove Blood Rage from your socket if you're not killing anything. Remove HoA for no mana regen maps.
Cannot Leech - Do not run