[3.2] Bobby's 2h Tectonic SLAM Zerker | Shaper/Elder viable | 800k dps

Intro:

Hey guys, Bobby Googus here with a forum guide for my Tectonic SLAM Berserker. This was mostly an experiment to see how the new Berserker Rage mechanic felt. Long story short- it works well, but it requires quite a bit of mildly-to-very expensive gear to get around the berzerker degen+10%inc. damage taken. But THE MEMES MUST FLOW. I leveled this character as a JUGG (like everyone else who isn't completely bonkers did)....and got bored and respecced, because on paper (in Path of Building), just going zerker and ignoring the 18% more damage from endurance charge consumption on Tectonic Slam was a massive dps increase (but a huge blow to survivability.
So I should probably explain what Tectonic Slam is quickly. It's a melee skill that will try to consume an endurance charge. If it can (meaning if you have one available), it will hit in a bigger area, as well as get 18% MORE damage. The downside to this though is that....it eats all your endurance charges. So my idea here was to completely ignore the End. Charge mechanic entirely and instead just build around the base skill. So why didn't I just do this as Earthquake or Sunder you might be wondering? Well, uh...because Tectonic Slam is a brand new skill, as well as having built-in Fire Conversion and I felt like playing an Avatar of Fire character, which makes full conversion very easy. Now onto the build!


Pros/Cons:
Pros:
+ Good AoE.
+ Fast trash clear speed.
+ Rage = insanely fast attack speed & amazing damage.
+ Cannot be stunned if we have at least 25 Rage (which is always).
+ War Bringer lets our Warcry generate Rage stacks, which lets us sustain Rage during bossfights/while moving from pack to pack.
+ Completely obliterates Blue packs, Rares, Abyss, & Bloodlines packs.
+ War Bringer lets our warcry heal life and mana by 25% INSTANTLY (this has saved me more times than I can even count).
+ Great movespeed, even better attack speed.
+ Berserker = ultra hipster.
+ Deals an incredible amount of damage when compared to JUGG/Chief variants.

Cons:
- Elemental damage is a problem because of the fixed map mod scaling + 10% increased damage taken.
- The Rage degen is something that cannot be ignored. It must be built around.
- Because of how bad the degen is, the effects of our Life Leech aren't felt as strongly as they would be on another ascendancy. It still helps, but it mainly combats the degen instead of topping us off in a bad situation.
- Way, way, way less tankier than the JUGG variant.
- Way too expensive. But memes.

Damage:
Because people like staring at numbers. Note that these are 100% accurate- this is a snapshot with my current gear/tree/passives. Imported the character and snapped it as-is (meaning I didn't craft unobtainable mirror rares and sneak them in).


Offensive Mechanics:
• Tectonic Rectangle AoE clearing.
• Swords = some implicit accuracy = easier gearing.
• Almost 11 attacks per second with our Rage stacks.
• 800k clear dps.
• 575k Shaper dps.

Defensive Mechanics:
• Large life pool; 7.7k with a Kaom's, 8k if you ditch the Devoto's in favor of a rare with high life and strength.
• Arctic Armour.
• 1% additional Fire Resist from the Barbarism node.
• Permanent Fortify as long as you remember to Leap Slam onto enemies every few seconds.
• Some evade because why not?
• Lots of armor.

Videos:

Skill Tree - Bandits - Ascendancy:

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Gear:


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Leveling a Melee Attack Character:


Passive Tree:

Well, that's about it! I hope this at least helps point you in the right direction. Tectonic Zerker is very fun to play, but to be honest, the Zerker isn't in the greatest spot right now, which is why the JUGG is probably a much more viable option...but that being said, it's still incredibly fun (and more than capable of doing endgame content). Give it a shot and let me know what you think!
Thanks guys.