[2.0 BETA] HeaT's Ice Crash Facebreakers Build

Resolute Technique:
Being unarmed you cannot crit, therefore to maximize damage you want 100% accuracy. As a note, at the time I picked up the keystone it increased my tooltip DPS by approximately 16,000, that’s how legit accuracy is.

A note on gear: Facebreakers’ damage is scaled by having flat physical damage on your gear so you want to have as many pieces of gear as possible have a flat physical damage mod. It’s most common to have flat physical on your jewelry, specifically rings and amulets, however this build utilizes 2 uniques that have flat phys which is not common on their particular gear slots. Lastly, you need mana leech somewhere on your gear or from the tree, I opted for mana leech on a ring. Using the noteable “Mind Drinker” on the tree is a good alternative until you can get mana leech on your gear, but respect out of it because it’s an inefficient passive for this build.



Notes on the most important pieces in the build:

Notes on Ice Crash: Ice Crash’s damage circle has 3 stages of damage, doing less damage on the outer part. Essentially the closer you are to the enemy the more damage you will be doing.

(Chest)Ice Crash – Faster Attacks* – Melee Phys – Conc Effect – Increase AOE
*Ice Crash has a significant penalty to attack speed (25% less, not reduced), therefore I think faster attacks is needed. It helps with stutter stepping and clear speed. If you did not have attack speed, clear speed would be impeded because of its inherent slowness, additionally it would leave you MORE vulnerable to damage because of how long it locks you in place. If you happen to acquire a 6L I would recommend Added Fire as the 6th gem.

(Helm) Blood Rage – Increased Duration – Enduring Cry* – Herald of Ash
*Having a large number of endurance charges helps mitigate the physical drain damage from Blood Rage.

(Gloves) Increased Duration – Vaal Haste – Vaal Grace – Enfeeble*
*Enfeeble was used to help mitigate increased physical damage taken. Enfeeble becomes increasingly more important in high end game maps with dangerous mods.

(Boots) Ice Crash – Increased Duration – Fortify – Faster Attacks
I used another full 4 link setup for Ice Crash in order to proc Fortify. This is a questionable choice, but the reason behind this decision is I didn't want to sacrifice a DPS gem for Fortify. Is that worth sacrificing a 4L? To me it is, but that's a decision you have to make.

(Shield) Hatred - Arctic Armor - Flame Golem

Refer to my google sheet doc under the Gear and Links tab for specific flasks used.
http://tinyurl.com/o4qluba

Some notes on Flasks:
Taste of Hate is not required but I feel it’s the best in slot for any physical based build. I was lucky to have it drop. Granite and an elemental flask that compliments the mitigation mechanic from your chest, in my case Ruby, Topaz if you were using Lightning Coil are important flasks for physical mitigation. At least one seething or bubbling life flask is recommended for a life build. Everything else is preference.

http://tinyurl.com/phn2g68

One of my goals was to hit as many jewel slots that only required a max 2 skill point investment. AOE passives are also very important to increase Ice Crash’s reach which results in an indirect increase to DPS. You don’t need many offensive passive skills on the tree to garner high DPS, that’s why you don’t see many on my tree, most of the damage is scaled from flat phys on gear. The only passives that will work with unarmed are “Melee Physical” and “Physical Damage”, any weapon specific passives will not work.

Good mods to roll on your jewels for this build.

-Martial Artistry Unique Jewel is extremely beneficial
-Attack speed
-Physical Damage
-Melee Physical damage
-Area Damage
-% increased max life