[3.1] BERSERKER/JUGGERNAUT 288k DPS Ice Crash/EQ Crit Staff AKA "The Shattering Karui"

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CorranHorn wrote:

Sorry man, i built this character when 2.0 released and it simply wasn't viable in a few ways.

Mana cost of Ice crash is too expensive.

I had over 1 percent mana leech(which is dog crap, but it's a lot of point and gear investment) but of course its only phys leech and Ice Crash splits your damage so you leech a teensy little amount and i had to run a mana potion. Which is silly for a melee build.

I had specced into 7 endurance charges, had a koams heart and a 6 link pledge with a legacy rumi's pot and IR off the tree.

With charges, grace aura i was around 75 percent physical mitigation, with rumi's, i had 61 block and whatever that armor increase amounts to.

Level 75. In a 68 pit map. I'm ice crashing away on the boss and he multi strike crit cyclones through all my rumi's, my OTHER granite, a double tap of an insta pot, my "leech", all while being chilled and critted before my initial rumi's pre pot runs out with no pertinent damage mods on the map.

It's silly to play melee now against certain bosses and situations.

Ice crash is only viable with blood magic and physical mitigation does not do enough actual mitigating because of the negative returns on high armor amounts and big physical hits in higher maps(and some lower ones).

I switched up chars after this. It was brutally, terribly disappointing in the end game as a character as you HAD TO STAND IN MELEE RANGE AKA DIE TO EVERYTHING.

Staff nodes are far, far, far too spread out on the tree. This build is way too skinny for not much reason. GGG needs to consolidate.

I ended up just revamping a crappy little crit/dodge character and it's fine. I do high maps with little trouble. Being a big, slow, fat marauder with no access to movement speed, leap slamming short distances slowly and being "tanky" is vastly inferior to simply avoiding most of the damage on the screen by being ranged, and by being fast. Until GGG changes the simple truth of that statement, melee will continue to be dog crap in this game.

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Bakaman wrote:

While trying to chance a Hegemony's I ended up getting this staff! I plan to use it while I can't afford the aforementioned unique, so I ask your opinion on what I should craft on it.

All my options:

No crafting: 331 DPS/6,6% crit

Flat phys: 392~440 DPS/6,6% crit

Attack Speed: 370~381 DPS/6,6% crit

Crit chance: 331 DPS/8~8,4% crit


If I tried Elreon 8, I wouldn't be able to craft either attack speed nor crit chance because of that damn lighting damage suffix, so I don't think it's a wise idea... I could craft something like flat phys+ blood magic which would be quite good, but I don't plan on 5~6 linking this item so...

Also, would adapting this build to a Shadow be viable? I just like them more ;p It would mean a considerable hit to HP and it probably would be focused on evasion/acro instead of armor, but it would have better crits...


Thanks in advance!

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CorranHorn wrote:

The issue was that i too had 35-40 K damage, but only like 3k physical!!! Between the WED gem, quality on ice crash and Hatred, you end up doing like 80 percent elemental damage, which is poo for leech.

Do me a favor, take a look next time you are on the char and mouse over your damage, how much actual physical damage do you do?

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CorranHorn wrote:

Sorry man, i built this character when 2.0 released and it simply wasn't viable in a few ways.

Mana cost of Ice crash is too expensive.

I had over 1 percent mana leech(which is dog crap, but it's a lot of point and gear investment) but of course its only phys leech and Ice Crash splits your damage so you leech a teensy little amount and i had to run a mana potion. Which is silly for a melee build.

I had specced into 7 endurance charges, had a koams heart and a 6 link pledge with a legacy rumi's pot and IR off the tree.

With charges, grace aura i was around 75 percent physical mitigation, with rumi's, i had 61 block and whatever that armor increase amounts to.

Level 75. In a 68 pit map. I'm ice crashing away on the boss and he multi strike crit cyclones through all my rumi's, my OTHER granite, a double tap of an insta pot, my "leech", all while being chilled and critted before my initial rumi's pre pot runs out with no pertinent damage mods on the map.

It's silly to play melee now against certain bosses and situations.

Ice crash is only viable with blood magic and physical mitigation does not do enough actual mitigating because of the negative returns on high armor amounts and big physical hits in higher maps(and some lower ones).

I switched up chars after this. It was brutally, terribly disappointing in the end game as a character as you HAD TO STAND IN MELEE RANGE AKA DIE TO EVERYTHING.

Staff nodes are far, far, far too spread out on the tree. This build is way too skinny for not much reason. GGG needs to consolidate.

I ended up just revamping a crappy little crit/dodge character and it's fine. I do high maps with little trouble. Being a big, slow, fat marauder with no access to movement speed, leap slamming short distances slowly and being "tanky" is vastly inferior to simply avoiding most of the damage on the screen by being ranged, and by being fast. Until GGG changes the simple truth of that statement, melee will continue to be dog crap in this game.

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CorranHorn wrote:

No, i didn't forget about Melee Phys.

I don't think you are following my point here.

How much actual physical damage does your skill do?

You can have an inflated tooltip of 35-40 K, like we both had, but if you only have a few thousand physical, and your leech is only physical, then it's very reasonable to say that leech may be an issue.

Perhaps it works just good enough on your char because you have less attack speed, or are on a 5 link instead of a 6, i'm not sure.

Nevertheless, i appreciate the replies.