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

ComradeSerge, first of all, thank you very much for providing an update for such a great build.

Currently running the Community Molten Strike AoF 1h+shield build, and often check out this thread for new ideas gear/aura/spell-wise.

Well, truth be told, I'm trying to combine the best of both builds, and need your advice :)

After reading up on your aura choices, it helped a lot with survivability.

My gear choices, as they are now, are a must for the stuff I am using ( weapon, gems, stats, res cap... ). Is there a way I could optimize a bit more? Mostly spell block.

For bosses, I use 80% block Saffel's, but am unable to use SoLaz since my intelligence drops too low for Doryani's Catalyst. And with Saffel's, armor drops to 7.5k. That's when I switch to Determination ( hence, having it in the helmet ).

Should I remove 1 point from my path to Catalyze, and respec it towards an intelligence node and use SoLaz amulet? Even if I lose some resists?

I also recently bought Aegis Aurora with 19/95 rolls, but since I'm broke as a church mouse now, it's on stand-by since it needs linking and chroming :)

If not being on a piece of s**t workplace computer, I would post my in-game stats. Will do that later.

Armor is around 12.5k, 10.5k tooltip dps, 5.6k life with this setup ( if I remembered correctly, not really sure ).

GEAR:


PASSIVE:

This is a more effective pathing for you:

Same amount of passives you have atm, so you'll need only 6 regrets for the respec.

If that's not enough INT for you, then I'd recommend ditching the 1 ele node above Elementalist - it's a waste taking it anyway, not sure why you took it. Your tree would look like this then:

Thank you very much for taking the time, and going over my build. Especially for posting the changes needed.

1 ele node above Elementalist is there because I was trying to go for Amplify. Good idea?

What would you do with, let's say, 2 or 3 points more? Life?

EDIT:
Changes proposed by you work much better than expected. Huuuge thanks! At 89 I'm gonna get that intelligence node.

Sure, Amplify isn't bad for Molten Strike, but you can get there much more efficiently from Retribution, since you already speced into it:


I'd proly go for Purity of Flesh too since you're there already.

You are a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you for you time.

Glad to help :)

Hey! Been hearing a lot of nerfs around IB, do you think it will end up being worthy of using above something like cyclone? I've always loved the skill and was planning to build a character in the new HC league with it but the things I'm hearing really just put me down.

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Buks wrote:

Hey! Been hearing a lot of nerfs around IB, do you think it will end up being worthy of using above something like cyclone? I've always loved the skill and was planning to build a character in the new HC league with it but the things I'm hearing really just put me down.

Nerfs? It actually got buffed because the explosion damage cannot be reflected anymore. The only nerf is the smaller AoE of the corpse explosions. I tried it in the beta and it was still the same skill, worked fine.


Now, comparing IB to skills that don't need melee splash... yeah, in 2.0, all skills that don't need melee splash are ahead of the ones that do. It's simply an extra DPS gem slot. Especially with the introduction of Ice Splash, which doesn't need both melee splash AND multistrike - that skill simply wipes the board with any other melee skill IMO. You could literally do this exact same build, same tree, same gear, just use Ice Crash with Hypothermia instead of melee splash and conc effect or inc aoe instead of multistrike, and you'll get much more dps and clear speed. In short, it's simply incomparable. Why GGG has decided to streamline people into doing non-melee splash melee skills, I don't know. But that's a different issue.

Thanks for the quick answer! I don't have a beta key and I don't really want to spoil act4 before it's released so I'm not gonna play the beta, I'm just hoping everything will turn out to be great! I want challange and more difficult stuff but just don't nerf everything to bad...

Some things are bound to get nerfed, some to get buffed. As for this build, block got slightly buffed in the tree, and IB got buffed because it can't be reflected, so this build will still be pretty good in 2.0.

Only thing is, as I've said, there will be better skills than IB.