[3.9] Krovah's Berserker Frost Blades |In-Depth Guide| - Annihilate the Atlas, Shaper & FPS

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ericchongws wrote:

I have some question on the weapons. I'm currently trying to find a good sword with high aps and pdps. However, according to PoB, the foils that can actually out dps my ahn's might dual wield costs up to multiple exalts. Are Ahn's might so powerful or is PoB calculating stuff wrong?

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Krovah wrote:

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Warnic16 wrote:

Hi, want to inform you that i finally kill my first uber elder with this build.
I'm a very casual gamer so i haven't try uber elder in any league lol.
I immediately switch my cyclone build when i saw you on youtube 3 days ago xD.
Very impressed how this build can kill guardians in 1-3 seconds which i never done before, depends how many ascendancy stacks you have.



I switch up spiked gloves to tombfists just like you said, and the dps difference is not a big deal, but losing 67 health, 631 armor, +1 melee range, 16% attack speed and some fire & cold resistance. Maybe the big difference is having elemental weakness?, since intimidate damage are 10 %.
Here’s an example the dps difference. (I'm using buffs, taste of haste and lion's roar flask in my hideout.)

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Right now i need some decent life on helmet,boots,belt to reach more life.

Hey again Warnic! So, first things first! I actually just wrote up again on these gloves which you can read below:

Why Tombfist?

So, first I want to address your red text. Losing 67 health can be a bummer for sure, but you already regain that back (if not more) from %health due to the gloves. Resistances are something that can be found elsewhere for sure, but can suck if you're struggling to balance them! Melee range, especially +1, is a nonexistent stat for us! +1 would push us from 39 to 40, which would be 10% more range IF we only had 10 range, but we (basically) have 4x that, which means the value is reduced 4x to 2.5% increased range increase from that +1, so basically again it's a dead stat.

Now that attack speed! If I go to my calculations tab I can see I have a total of almost 270% increased attack speed, so 16% added on is really actually going to be almost a 4% increased attack speed boost in all reality.

Now, Tombfist. Intimidate does NOT effect your tooltip! It's added on AFTER all of your damage calculations, it takes all of your penetration, all of your more damage multipliers (which become less efficient as they stack) and then give you a number. Then that number gets slammed with a big ol' "Heres an extra 10%!"

Hopefully this helps!

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Varesh wrote:

im sorry for the noob question, or maybe im just blind, what about pantheon and bandits?

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sn0rf wrote:

Really great work on the write-up so far! Appreciate the effort you put in to the video breakdown. Frost Blades has been such an underrated skill for so long, it's good to see it get some love every now and then. With the new and improved Berserker, the build has definitely reached new heights in 3.7.

I threw a bunch of currency at the build and, unsurprisingly, it crushes every single piece of content the game can throw at you. The fact that I'm peaking at around 20 mil DPS fully juiced up, as pure Frost Blades, is a real testament to how far we've come in terms of power/optimization.

One tip I have for anyone looking to pick up some solid foils or upgrade their current ones, try to search for ones with a decent cold roll on there. You might be surprised at what you can find: a lot of people completely undervalue the cold roll, which allows you to get a foil that can outperform a pure phys. variant for pretty much the same cost. This is especially relevant as you start to approach the ~500pDPS mark, where the price jumps are severe. It's worth playing around with different foils in your setup to see how they stack up - don't count out a good cold roll if you want to get a good deal/push your weapon one step further for minimal cost!

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ericchongws wrote:

I have some question on the weapons. I'm currently trying to find a good sword with high aps and pdps. However, according to PoB, the foils that can actually out dps my ahn's might dual wield costs up to multiple exalts. Are Ahn's might so powerful or is PoB calculating stuff wrong?