[2.6] Berserking Werebear --- Mauling Bosses and Content

+ A fucking giant bear.
+ Huge oneshot potential for bosses
+ Very high HP pool (8k+ without Kaom's)
+ Good clearspeed (all packs get oneshot from the blood explosions)
+ Strong movement abilities (whirling blades and leap slam)
+ Strong warcries that provide sustain for long fights.
+ No issues with elemental reflect.
+ Budget friendly (can get amazing damage and survivability with under 1Ex worth of gear)
+ Beginner friendly (easy playstyle with only a couple of skills)
+ Wallet friendly (very aesthetically pleasing playstyle and appearance even without any MTX)


- No Auras/heralds
- No CWDT setup/bloodrage
- No golems
- No Vaal auras (hurts)

Bleed:

Bleed is a debuff that deals 10% of the initial physical hit damage per second and lasts for 5 seconds. If the target is moving you get an additional +500% (!) More multiplier for the bleed damage. With enough damage stacking you achieve up to 30X of the initial hit damage while the target is moving. PER. SECOND.


Knockback.
The target is considered to be moving when being knocked back, that's why this flask is the core of the build.
Unfortunately some bosses cannot be knocked back so they have to be kited to maximize damage.


Curses
Since vulnerability curse is such a significant multiplier to our damage and we cannot use spells while using Gruthkul's pelt chest, we need another reliable way to apply it.
It can be done either with curse on hit corrupted gloves or the flask:

which also provides a decent increase to damage over time.


Damage:
The goal is to stack as many more multipliers and double-dipping stats as possible while maintaining a very high life pool.

Double-dipping modifiers for bleeds:
+ %increased Damage
+ %increased Area Damage
+ %increased Physical Damage (Note: This exact keyword and not '+%increased physical damage with Melee attacks/projectile attacks/weapons)

Because of this we're stretching our passive tree all the way to the shadow area to pick up the '+ %increased Physical Damage' nodes.

Look for the same modifiers on gear and get as many jewels as possible.


Double-dipping More Multipliers
The only multipliers that affect bleeds are '+% More Damage', '+% More Physical Damage', '+% More Area Damage', or 'Enemies take +% Increased ## damage'.
+ Concentrated effect
+ Frenzy charges
+ Aspect of carnage (Berserker ascendancy)
+ Vulnerability (Increases the initial hit, and benefits from both physical and DoT portion for the bleed (tripledipping!))
+ Intimidate (Champion ascendancy or Belt of the Deceiver).
+ Outmatch and outlast (Gladiator ascendancy)
+ Shock


Weapons:
Unless you have a huge budget and can afford a legacy voidheart, you need to use weapons with 'Causes bleeding on hit'.

Dual wielding option:

An incredibly good combination that provides very high damage and fast movement abilities. In legacy league they are very affordable as well (<20c for both).

Two Handed option:

If the enemy can be reliably cursed then it is the best possible weapon for inflicting massive bleeds. Has the highest base damage available but the abysmal attack speed makes it unsuitable for clearing. I personally use it as a weapon swap for bosses (+% 20% Damage increase over Rigwald's set).
Side note: The bone nova looks nice but it is completely useless no matter how you scale it, so you should not bother to make it work.

Other:
Atziri's disfavour - a more expensive option that can also be used for clearing and reliabilty but has lower bleeds than Uul-netol's axe.

Starforge - the sword has amazing damage and its downside does not affect this build at all but the lack of skills that exploit the double-dip scaling make it subpar.

Main Skill:
We use the buffed Sunder skill both for clearing and single target damage.
1. Sunder +
2. Melee Physical Damage
3. Fortify
4. Faster Attacks
5. Concentrated Effect
6. Increased AoE / Melee Damage on full life*

*MDoFL only works if you don't have the Blood magic keystone.

Even though earthquake could potentially provide higher bleed damage, after the AoE nerfs I consider it to be too clunky

Totem:
1. Ancestral Warchief +
2. Melee physical damage
3. Fortify
4. Concentrated effect

Used for dangerous bosses and for the constant knockbacks that maximize bleed damage.

Movement:
1. Whirling blades AND Leap slam +
2. Fortify
3. Faster attacks

Warcries:
1. Enduring cry
2. Increased AoE
3. Increased duration

Provides regen, flat 25% heal and keeps the endurance charges up with 2.5s cooldown.

Vaal skill:
1. Vaal ground slam +
2. MPD
3. FA
4. Conc effect

Since we cannot use vaal spells this is pretty much the only way to use souls.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAECAHX9Kk0UTQHnyBSpNPxLfNnb5xa_X7AOPDWS8NXVuXaCbIzqGEsKVYVtbLfZOuE9_IRvOlIYkSGQSsg_J4IHhMUV7fPdbqpcQF8_e4ymV2qMX9DvDlFMFCDfv7yf9kj4X9l8UEfQ0JaLdqxJUeoQFHFirPVv2L0yAZUuiq-P-ujWNugHHsM6naoxnmHi-OvPfpu14MMi6iW8kBGyGfcyeWjBBFhjNj3bT6XLtUh7w287wBpoZUcG5FHPeqxHtfLUQngNJpVVS-d0ykp9W4zPtMWtjcbYTeP-CsgMVL3yRf6PWK-pbg==

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