[1.3] "No Life Kripp Lives" - Sweep CI

• RRRBRGR Sweep - Melee Physical Damage - Melee Damage on Full Life - Increased Area of Effect - Multistrike - Faster Attacks - Added Fire Damage
• RRRRG Heavy Strike - Melee Physical Damage - Melee Damage on Full Life - Multistrike - Faster Attacks
• RGBR Leap Slam - Faster Attacks - Curse on Hit - Warlord's Mark
• RRR/B Herald of Ash - Reduced Mana - Determination/Discipline
• RRRR CoDT(7) - Endurying Cry(9) - Immortal Call(8) - Increased Duration
• G Blood Rage(10)
• B Vaal Discipline
• R Vengeance

Despite Multistrike giving better DPS then both Faster Attacks and Added Fire Damage, it does keep you stuck in place longer, so advise against it's use, you knockback more also so it's not that bad.

We can't afford to run more then one aura, so you have to make a choice between Determination and Discipline, they are both good and I have no conclusive data to backup the choice of one above the other, it depends on your gear also.

Blood Rage gem level is limited by the Dexterity you have on gear, I don't think it worth to grab Dexterity to go higher then 109 (Faster Attacks level 20), but if you do you should level it up more.

Vengeance is really lackluster, so I advise against it, don't try to fit it in your gem setup, use it only if you have a spare red socket.

Weapon

Armour

Jewellery and Belt

Flasks

Exemple

You can use Molten Strike or Heavy Strike for single target, and Leap Slam, Ground Slam or Sweep while leveling. That is, you can level up with the skills you will use at higher level or not, it's up to you, make sure you level up the needed skills at secondary weapon slot nevertheless. A high damage 2 handed mace is the weapon of choice, you can use an axe also at lower levels. Make sure to grab some life nodes, despite going Chaos Inoculation, we need life (and life gear) until we grab the Keystone and have good enough CI gear, you can respec out of it later. You can go for CI somewhere around level 60.

• 23 points skill tree
• 48 points skill tree
• 63 points skill tree
• 80 points skill tree
• 106 points skill tree
• 119 points skill tree

Differences from Kripparrian original concept. Kripp could afford to go with CI without any ES nodes at all because CI was overpowered, we don't have this choice nowadays, gladly we can go through the passive tree in a more effective fashion, so it's not that big of a problem. We also grab insane amout of increased area of effect nodes, which is new, reaching 84% increased area of effect Sweep (with level 15 increased area of effect gem), Sweep base radius is 20, so neaby 37 is reached, raising the clearing speed by a great margin. We can't stack auras, even investing a lot of passive points wouldn't solve it and would create mana problems, so we can run just one and just one herald, Herald of Ash is a big addition, sinergize greatly with all the area of effect nodes investiment, and then we opt for either Determination or Discipline. That makes Iron Reflexes a easy cut, since we can't run Grace anyway, we also cut Inner Force, that wount make that big of a difference. Phase Run was removed from the game. Vaal Discipline, Cast when Damage Taken and Curse on Hit are added.

Since Sweep attack time is fixed (1.15 seconds, modified by all attack speed, weapon mod included), the better weapon we can use is a high damage one, disconsidering it's innate base attack time (bonus attack speed still worth a lot).

Possible nodes at passive tree. Alchemist - Unyielding - Fending - Melding - Berserking - Exceptional Performance - Potency of Will - Other energy shield nodes.

Handling Physical Reflect. We have: some armor; Granite Flasks; CwDT + Immortal Call setup; Vaal Pact; life steal from Blood Rage, Warlord's Mark, gear, Atziri's Promise. Insane life steal and Granite Flask uptime is needed, so make sure you have Blood Rage always on, you are Cursing everything through Leap Slam and you have your Granite Flask up.

Fairgraves' Tricorne Tricorne and Shock. You got shocked really all the time, that's one of the reasons for running a core Topaz Flask, you also pot before incoming lightning damage, to avoid getting shocked as much as you can. You can't afford to drop the helmet slot since it's the second highest source from energy shield, so sadly, unless you want to risk running with a really low ES pool, you have to deal with shocking with smart play, good flask management and good positioning.

Vengeance is bad, not reliable at all at high internal cooldown, if you get a spare read slot for it it will do no harm, but don't worth a dedicated 4L. I actually tested it. Good for leveling though.