[3.1] JUGGERNAUT/BERSERKER 1H+Shield Max Block&Spell Block Tank, Atziri Killer+a BoR version

RF is a completely different build, and it's hard to surpass it in DPS, especially since RF uses snapshot.

You should be more tanky than the standard RF build. The main source of tankiness here is block chance, which is relatively low for you. You should acquire more block chance from the tree.

Saffell's is good only for bosses that deal spell damage ONLY. For the rest, you want your aegis. (But even for spell bosses, saffels isnt always better than aegis - an example is the fire dog boss in cells map. With aegis, you can literally afk facetank that boss, as he will just constantly regenerate your ES.)

You shouldn't run vitality at all, it offers nothing for this build. Your standard setup for auras should be either determination + hatred if you have soultaker or use blood magic gem for infernal blow, or determination/hatred + tempest shield if you use mana for infernal blow.

You need a minimum of around 7-8k dps for atziri, imo.

I do not run any purity auras, determination/hatred/tempest are better. (Unless for Atziri, ofc.)

Shock and horror is easy if you know that you have to hide behind the pillars when she lasers you. Also, when doing bosses, swap your melee splash for added fire or some other single target gem.

Chaos resistance is very good, but I don't think you need to max it. If you can get 20-30%, that's already a lot. If you can get more dps or life from gear if you sacrificed some chaos res, you should do it.

true , i was using vitality to cover the manna costs using blood magic gem. But running with just hatred and determination and using warlords mark, blood rage im able to do the same
its just that hp drops outside of big attacks seem not pleasing to the eye.. but i guess the mana cost reductions of skills should help this in some part... also the forsaken masters will make it easier to acquire life leech on gear. which should help a tonn too.
Ive actually removed immortal call from my setup to have more consistent endurance charges ... they seem to be of longer duration than immortal call.

how can i set it up to have lots of enduring cry procs's on cwdt ... I currently have 2 but i get the feeling only one of it proc's... though im not sure.

my gear

Enduring Cry has a cooldown of 4 seconds, that's why:
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Enduring_Cry

This cooldown is shared between all enduring cry gems you use. So if one of your EC gems procs, your other EC gem also goes on a 4 second cooldown. That's why it's pointless to use 2 on CWDT.

What you can do, however, is just support it with spell echo, it will cast twice on 1 proc.

I thought the enduring cry gems linked to CWDT and the separate enduring cry are counted differently..
Yesterday Ive had a huge boost in my gear ... got a perf roll alpha howl's managed to do some trades and my gear now has aegis and rainbow-strides .


Oddly I noticed i was not able to run 3 aura... determination+ hatred + tempest shield unless i actually wear an alpha howl permanently on the headgear... must be the aura fix ..
Missing a lot of life on my gear but the essential gear for this build is down..
My priority is in grabbing the block nodes.

My tree

There was no change to how auras work yet, this will happen with the Forsaken Masters expansion patch 1.2. on 20th August. You were never able to run deter+hatred+tempest with only a lvl20 reduced mana.

The other enduring cry and immortal call are for manual casting when you're doing Atziri. You should take you IC from cwdt out then.

Gratz on the gear!

Since a ton of people have been asking me if this build works with Bringer of Rain, I've decided to add a section only for that. The answer is: yes, it works.

Your gear has to be something like this then:


BoR 4-link: Infernal Blow - Melee Splash - Multistrike - Weapon Elemental Damage
(for single target DPS, swap melee splash with added fire; if you don't have Soul Taker, use either mana leech or blood magic gem instead of weapon elemental damage)

It is a lot more harder to get resistances, so you can't use Meginord's belt, you have to use a tri-res one. Your rings have less chance of having flat physical as well, so you lose some DPS and life on your gear. The good thing of using a BoR is that you don't have to buy/craft a 6-link chest and that you get 15% extra block, which is insanely good for this build, and which means you can lose some points from block nodes to put them elsewhere. Unfortunately, since with a BoR, your armour sucks, you more or less have to go for Iron Reflexes, so you don't gain actually any extra nodes from a BoR.

The passive tree for BoR (you'd have 74% block with this tree) would look like this at level 92:


You take the shield resist nodes over at the templar because it helps a lot with maxing your resists.


So, overall, using a BoR instead of a chest and normal helmet means:
PROS:
- More block chance (74%)
- Cheaper to gear (since no 6L)
- DPS remains almost the same

CONS:
- Forced to take Iron Reflexes (IR)
- Less armour even with IR
- Less life
- Harder to cap resists

nice update.
I guess more or less i am using the same tree due to my armor. I did find I am much more tanky with grace + determination hitting upto 70% flat physical dmg reduction. ( my grace level is low due to less dex on gear.. but Its given me something more consistent to fall back on for the hits that dont get blocked.. that with molten shell im at 72 physical reduction w/o endurance charges.

One key point of this build i came to understand is to let the little critters stay alive while you tank the boss and kill it.. to proc the block more and keep the es shield up.

In my case having over 20k armor helps recover 400 es with each block .. since the new aegis recovers only 2% of armor as ES on block.

This leaves me lacking in dps boost from hatred .. looks like there isnt any way to escape the trouble of choosing the aura's to use without too much compromise on skill points or insanely expensive gear choices...

The new tree is fked up...

My god, getting the new tree right will be so hard. There are SOOO many block nodes now! It seems to me this build will now be able to get max block (75%) easily.

I'll post when I have a first version of the tree for the build.

yeah getting max block 75% is easy but not much scope for life nodes.