Iron Will Keystone Finally!

Oh man...this is the biggest buff that melee got in years.

You can literally double-dip your STR melee bonus just by taking this keystone and using Battlemage's Cry, preferably with Redblade Banner. There have been meme builds doing this in 3.15 using Repentance, but due to its high stat requirements and taking up glove slot, it wasn't meta.

Now, though...

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openup001 wrote:

str stack caster still unplayable coz u have 0 cast speed

That's why I was thinking something that spams a bunch of different DoTs. But as people have said if such an archetype was good it would've been good with -1 link (only ~30% less damage these days) and people would already be playing it.

Probably not even worth shooting for if a ton of players are chasing STR gear to play some Battlemage's Cry buffed melee builds.

I've played strength stacking Marauder casters and although it's not as appealing as most other options, I enjoyed the playstyle.

The existence of this node will likely put me back on the Marauder track to start even though I wanted to try out a hybrid ES/EV right side build.