[2.5] Cospri's Will - Starforge - Vaal Pact - Lacerate Berserker

Chimera fight (Poison immune + dying 2 times because fails):


Minotaur fight trying to facetank (30+% Movement Speed, 44% Attack Speed):


Current Skill Tree (lvl 89 with 1 jewel socket to take at 90):


Hello there,

this time I will be talking about how you can make a lacerate Berserker work in stun league.
Vaal Pact.
THE END

For everyone who wants to know even more I will explain the idea of the build.

Lacerate usually seems pretty nice to play with but in the end lacks some damage to complete all content.
To make up for the definitely not T1 front loaded damage we will add poison as secondary damage to the attacks. To poison reliably we will be using a "Cospri's Will Assassin's Garb", which not only let's us poison cursed enemies, but also run two curses. I opted for Blasphemy Temporal Chains and a "Witchfire Brew" for Vulnerability, both scaling poison damage, latter also the initial damage.
Also the 40% More Damage from the Berserker Ascendancy double dips with our poison damage.

Starforge is a nice choice for this build, because it makes up for the missing life on our chest and also has high pDPS, scaling poison well in combination with our flasks.

Le Sword:

Les Flasks:


Ascendancy Points: The usual, Aspect of Carnage and Cloaked in Savagery. Went for Carnage first for damage but Savagery really is what makes this build enjoyable so consider taking it earlier.



Rest of the Gear:
Rings are shit but I don't have any better at the moment.

6-Link should be: Lacerate - Faster Attacks - Multistrike - Melee Phys - Increased AoE/Conc Effect - Fortify (Fortify saves us from oneshots by Minotaur or Chimera)

The Atziri's Promise scales really well off of our high pDPS.
The Lion's Roar is another big source of damage and will reliably knock our targets out of our blasphemy range, thus fucking with our poison.

Plateau Bosses suck.

We will be running a Determination Aura (Would do more if i had more armour on gear) next to the Blasphemy Temporal Chains to make this character quite tanky. Grace in combination with Iron Reflexes is good too, but when we press the "Lion's Roar", the Determination scales higher.
Vaal Pact makes Breaches pretty chill and keeps us at full life constantly when we press our Atziri's Promise.

I haven't tried Shaper, yet with this build but I think it won't be too big of a problem (At least not for the build. I tend to fail every now and then).

Warchief is doing well on a 5-Link with Bloodlust as the 5th link. Our bleed chance is not high but it is enough to bleed bosses reliably.

Be careful with Atziri. Multistrike may auto target the mirror add if you stand too close to it. Basically try to position yourself in a spot where you can only reach 1 add.

With mediocre gear this character currently is at 6.2k life with about 200 more to come.

On jewels look for attack speed, melee phys (Area Damage also works) and life, and some more attack speed. Attack speed is what makes Lacerate feel good to play.

Added flat phys doesn't really do much because the initial damage is that high already, so focus on Life, Resists and some stats you need on jewellery.

"Sin's Rebirth Stibnite Flask" would add a lot of damage too, but I don't know if it is possible to completely drop a staunching flask for it. Maybe run 2 Blasphemy curses and exchange it for the "Witchfire Brew". Leaves us without Determination though.




That's it for now.
faithfully yours,
DiscoveryChannel

Hello
I played on Slayer Starforge+Voidheart and it was rly good for T15, but without enough knowledge i was dying on guardians. Biggest problem for me in the slayer build was what i didnt have Vaal pact, how about life leech on berserker with Vaal pact, can it be tanky vs Mino and Chimera ? and what about poison immune bosses ?

p.s. Can you please upload some vid's mb?, anyway thanks for the build mb i try it later and gl with it.
p.s.#2 Sry for my English.

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how about life leech on berserker with Vaal pact, can it be tanky vs Mino and Chimera ? and what about poison immune bosses ?

Cloaked Savagery Ascendency Node basically gives you 100% of your damage leeched as life against guardians all the time. If it doesn't proc because you don't get hit just press your Atziri's Promise Flask. If you don't die to oneshots (Minotaur Burrow can kill you), staying alive is not a problem.
Keep in mind though, that you take 10% more damage, that's why solid armour on gear, Determination Aura and Fortify are needed in those fights (Also 6k+ HP).

Poison immune bosses are a bit annoying but still die. Poison is a good part of the damage but not as important as on other builds, since we deal much front loaded damage.

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Can you please upload some vid's mb?, anyway thanks for the build mb i try it later and gl with it.

Edit: Uploading Chimera fight right now.

Thanks for answer.
I really wanna check your fight's against guardians, but i have go to sleep cuz deep night xD
I will check your boss fight tomorrow, thanks you for your time.

Seems good, need to respec my char and try it out :D

nice build :D