[1.1.0 BUILD] Low Life || 1-h Axe || Infernal Blow || Crit (130,000 DPS & 6,500 ES at level 75)

+114 to Strength
+293 to Dexterity
+113 to Intelligence
+116.5 to maximum Mana
+119 to maximum Life
Evasion Rating: 53
+4 Maximum Endurance Charge
+4 Maximum Frenzy Charge
+4 Maximum Power Charge
4% Additional Elemental Resistance per Endurance Charge
4% Physical Damage Reduction per Endurance Charge
5% Attack Speed Increase per Frenzy Charge
5% Cast Speed Increase per Frenzy Charge
50% Critical Strike Chance Increase per Power Charge
29% increased Attack Speed
11% increased Movement Speed
140% increased Physical Damage with One Handed Melee Weapons
3% increased Cast Speed
144.6% increased Evasion Rating
96% increased maximum Energy Shield
255% increased Critical Strike Chance
120% increased Critical Strike Multiplier
30% increased Energy Shield Cooldown Recovery
+16% to all Elemental Resistances
15% increased Power Charge Duration
2% of Physical Attack Damage Leeched as Mana
5% reduced Mana Reserved
24% additional Chance to Block with Shields
26% increased effect of Auras you Cast
Life Leech applies to Energy Shield instead of Life
100% increased Defences from equipped Shield
4% increased Evasion Rating per Frenzy Charge
17% increased Attack Speed with One Handed Melee Weapons
4% additional Chance to Block while Dual Wielding or holding a Shield
20% increased Melee Physical Damage
20% increased Accuracy Rating
Converts all Evasion Rating to Armour. Dexterity provides no bonus to Evasion Rating
154% increased Physical Damage with Axes
72% increased Accuracy Rating with Axes
9% increased Attack Speed with Axes
18% increased Endurance Charge Duration
Cannot Evade enemy Attacks
Cannot be Stunned
Life Leech applies instantly. Life Regeneration and Life Recovery from Flasks have no effect.
+22.6% Energy Shield
+22.8% increased Melee Physical Damage
+586 Accuracy Rating

- Insane DPS from the stupid amount of attack speed with Low-life + Blood Rage [+ lvl 3 Enhance] in conjunction with the massive base DPS of axes. This is the highest DPS Infernal Blow build you can attain without sacrificing your shield.
- Half of your DPS will be in fire damage due to the nature of Infernal Blow, which makes this build very good in either physical or elemental reflect maps.
- 90%+ accuracy and very high critical chance. An important note is that the tooltip critical chance only applies to the single target of Infernal Blow. The critical chance of Infernal Blow's explosion is calculated separately (with respect to its 7% additional critical strike chance).
- Constantly keep up Endurance, Power, and Frenzy changes (from CWDT + Enduring Cry, Power Charge on Critical, and Blood Rage)
- Constantly leaching 100% of your ES back with every hit due to your massive deeps alongside Ghost Reaver and Vaal Pact. This synergizes well with iAS (therefore, using a Siege Axe is optimal and going low-life for the blood rage iAS passive is really recommended).
- With the correct gear, you should pass the 8K ES mark, which, when considered alongside your leech, makes for a very durable build.
- Can run three auras, which makes the build very adaptable. (See the different combinations below)

Obviously I made this build with perfect or near-perfect gear, but it is extremely functional with sub-optimal gear. Even if you cut the DPS in half, you still FAR outclass your typical facebreaker IB builds.

With my gear, I will have approximately 8K ES and 150K DPS end-game. With suboptimal gear, you will have approximately 6-6.5K ES and 60 - 75K DPS.

The reason this build works on less-than-perfect items is because most of the scaling comes from low-life + Blood Rage mechanics, main-skill gems, and crit chance/multi nodes.

Moreover, half the gear you need are uniques (The Taming is a fantastic substitute for the second ring because you scale a shit-ton from WED), which means you don't have to pay an arm and a leg for mirrored gear just to make the build viable (obviously it's nice to have, though :P)

Prioritize: 6L Shavs > Axe > Auxium > Shavronne's Revelation Shield > Helm > everything else (Shield > Helm because you take some nodes that give you increased stats from shields.)

Infernal Blow: Multistrike, Added Fire Damage, Melee Physical (or Melee Splash), Faster Attacks (or Additional Accuracy), and Increased Critical Damage (or Power Charge on Critical). You would need a RRRRGB Shavs, which is unfortunately 5 off-colors.

However, I understand that a 5 off-color shavs is not feasible for everyone. Here an alternative setup for a 4 off-color (RRRGBB):
Infernal Blow
Multistrike
Added Fire Damage (or Melee Physical)
Faster Attacks (or Additional Accuracy)
Added Critical Damage
Power Charge on Critical (or Increased Critical Strike)


I also have Flicker Strike linked with Additional Accuracy, Power Charge on Critical, and Endurance Charge on Melee Stun. This lets me build power and endurance charges extremely quickly. Some may find it annoying to use two skills, but I find the playstyle more active and less boring than spamming 1 skill. It's actually quite fluid too: Flicker Strike to 5 Power Charges, Reave, hit Flicker Strike hen 1 second left on Power Charges, Reave, etc.

For physical reflect maps, this setup is fine because IB converts 50% of your pDPS to fire damage. For elemental reflect, in order to prevent yourself from getting blown up by your own explosions, I swap Infernal Blow with Lightning Strike, Added Fire Damage for Life Leech, and Increased Critical Damage for Power Charge on Critical. You may be able to get away without doing the latter two swaps depending on how high your DPS and ES pool are.

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