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

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PetuSchokk wrote:

Comrade what is yours crit chance without charges and chance to hit rate ? I'm just curious

I'm not playing atm, but you can check that in the video linked in the first post of this thread.

Would this build (HC version) work with Glacial Hammer instead of Ice Crash? In 2.1 GH got reworked quite a bit and I like the high freeze chance on it.

Thank you for this nice guide.

I'm also wondering if glacial hammer would be a better choice for single targets rather than heavy strike (instead of fortify for the fourth link you could put WED in there instead). What do you think?

It's just my opinion but:

1) I tested a little bit heavy strike vs ice crash + conc effect. IMHO IC + CONC doing more damage than Heavy Strike setup suggested by Comrade, but maybe it's only for me.

2) I was thinking what can i do for another 5-6l setup and decided to make Leap Slam - PCoC - Faster Attacks - Fortify - Blood Magic. Now i really noticed that my fortify is constantly on, i can leap slam to every group of monsters for additional Power charges, and atleast it helps to sustain 6 charges always on per map and of course clear speed of maps is a lot more faster. Try it guys.

Sorry for my bad english didn't slept tonight :D

Comrade, I have a question regarding the armor what is better for more survivability to use Lightining Coil + Determ (Grace) + Purity of Lightining (also was thinking maybe get evasion items and spec to Iron Reflexes, since it's almost nearm) or to use Belly of the beast or ordinary high armor rate armor :D

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Noisette wrote:

Would this build (HC version) work with Glacial Hammer instead of Ice Crash? In 2.1 GH got reworked quite a bit and I like the high freeze chance on it.

Thank you for this nice guide.

As a main skill instead of Ice Crash, no, cause you would have to use melee splash. Your DPS would be significantly lower.

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ShinyGyarados wrote:

I'm also wondering if glacial hammer would be a better choice for single targets rather than heavy strike (instead of fortify for the fourth link you could put WED in there instead). What do you think?

You could try that, not sure if you'd get more DPS than Heavy Strike though.

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PetuSchokk wrote:

Comrade, I have a question regarding the armor what is better for more survivability to use Lightining Coil + Determ (Grace) + Purity of Lightining (also was thinking maybe get evasion items and spec to Iron Reflexes, since it's almost nearm) or to use Belly of the beast or ordinary high armor rate armor :D

Most certainly the first combo with LC + deter + PoL.

What do you think about taking the Whispers of Doom notable since we are 4-5 points away depending on how you path it? You could run determination along with blasphamey - enfeeble giving you 100% uptime on enfeeble and then run leap slam-blood magic-curse on hit assassins mark. Since Ice Crash hits in an AOE if even just 1 enemy gets cursed the crit chance will apply to all enemies in the aoe. Since monsters roll in packs 4-5 enemies will get cursed still giving you power charge generation. I just respec'd into this and am farming dried lake and aqueduct with little problem although I will need mana sustain from another source. I do not believe you will need much though since assassins mark gives you mana on kill. I am strictly a HC player and have only played since tempest so my views on this may be way off as I have never mapped above 75. Just wondering what you think of this idea.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwEAe4zG2FhjPfyMz_ZIXz_BBBQgeWjvDqluUEdYr3fjwBrkUTboAdx4DW87l3lnmwHnhNm18gmWrj4UTacwR36plDWSOQ7GrvxLn8u9Nodq_o_YvQthxPa8n2VNTeP-Cq9sr6dyqRiRvqemV_JFaPIczvcyrKo64fAfK1CSfVnzogANzdwj7UQaOHIPBLP-VJhvvJqQVZRvZp7AZuXPQXInL2ZU-tIWQDwFyWcdFBZvhX3vfJMHj0YkquNquUMTcZuhNumnpV6lRY4Yaliu-4t4L3zlWAc8LYNf

Sure, it's not a bad idea at all, if you're ok with sacrificing the stuff you had to ditch in the passive tree. I believe mana will be a problem for you, though, without Warlord's Mark. That's why it's there, without it, I'm not sure how you'll pull it.