(3.0)Berserker Ngamahu's Flame Cyclone(Breach Destroyer)

(3.0)Berserker Ngamahu's Flame Cyclone

-3.0 update,Cyclone pathfinding!
I haven't really played much of this since breach league (did play the raider version and I prefer the leech from berserker more), but everything is probably still the same.The price of the amulet currently makes it a little less budget though(almost 600c atm in Hsc).

But you could save some currency by grabbing avatar of fire instead by dropping points from somewhere like this

AOF passive tree example

Drop some damage nodes and get aof instead and save 600c if you want.GL

Also you should be able to activate cloaked in savagery on demand using Doedre's Elixir.
Have fun if you're still interested in playing this and try out other stuff that you think might make it better.


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Conents



0: Preface
1: Passive trees
2: Ascendancy
3: Gem Links
4: Bandits
5: Gear
6: Leveling
7: Videos
8: TOOLTIP WARRIOR DPS


0:Preface

Hello ! I haven't played the berserker ascendancy since it was buffed so I decided to play one this league.
Though originally this was supposed to be a normal cyclone build I stumbled upon the new Ngamahu's Flame Axe and oh boy...its been so much fun!

This build was made to be more focused on a soft-core oriented play-style in the Breach League but can possibly be made hc viable with other choices in gear/passives and ascendancy.Feel free to make your own :)



Pros
-Fun to Play
-Fairly affordable weapon (from 4c to 40c :/ )
-Easy to gear
-Can facetank bosses for style points
-Fairly Tanky (as tanky as a melee berserker can be with just stacking life)
-Insane Leech with Vaal Pact
-Manly Marauder
-Over 180% Increased life
-Easy & Fast t11+ mapping (red maps)
-Easy Breaching (4/5 Breach Lords down so far)
-Easy Atziri farming
-Meta



Cons

-Reflect/Cannot leech mods can be a problem
-Melee
-Can die from being hit by things off screen
-It relies on taking some heavy hits to survive =) so slow degens can kill you :(


-Cycloners can kill the toughest bosses and most nightmarish creatures but are easily defeated by one tiny thing..



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1: Passive tree

There are a few different trees to choose from.

Cloaked in savagery feels so op with vaal pact as it allows you to pretty much facetank a lot of bosses and other mobs but the choice is up to you.


You can go blood magic /vaal pact or blood magic without vaal pact or no blood magic and auras :/ I couldn’t decide,SO I TRIED THEM ALL(RIP REGRET ORBS)

Blood magic has about 1k more hp than the non bm version w/ a belly equipped and I had around 7k hp with bm/belly but could’ve gotten more with a kaoms heart.


I couldn't decide which one I liked :/
Choose your own destiny(bm might be easier tho~)
111points/level 90

180%+ increased life


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2:Ascendancy

For the Ascendancy I went berserker because it was fairly new to me and I wanted to play around Cloaked In savagery and vaal pact.






Crave the slaughter>Apect of carnage>Pain reaver>Cloaked in savagery

Alternatively you can pick up the Pain reaver node first in normal to get the leech to aid in leveling.


You can also choose to go the chieftan ascendancy,It's tankier and has fire resistance and endurance charge generation.



You could also play this as a slayer/raider or any other class you want :p
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3:Gem Links

What makes this weapon great is that you don't need links on it for it to work.All that matters are the sockets on it since everything you socket into it will get applied to the molten burst effect of the weapon(the molten strike projectiles).

Cyclone can be socketed into a 4 link item as it only serves as a means to proc with weapon's effect quickly but it can do alot of damage on its own with appropriate links.


NO 6 LINKS NEEDED

expand for gem setup



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4:Bandits:


Kill all or help Kraityn,Your choice




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5:Gear
There is only 1 REQUIRED item for this build and thats the weapon itself.



Without that its just another cyclone build.


A Xoph's Blood is a nice late game min-max item but it's not required.



Everything else can be just rare with High life and resists!

Also a point to note is that jewels with the *increased Physical damage* mod scale both cyclone and the balls unlike ones with *melee physical damage* which only scales the damage of cyclone ,so keep that in mind when searching for jewels



Recommended Gear







my gear atm

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6:Leveling

Leveling is pretty much the same as any melee.I used sunder and Earthquake until I was able to equip the weapon at level 55 and switched to cyclone and never stopped spinning but if you can't/don't want to wait that long you could use a thief's torment ring to help sustain mana until you get the leech for cyclone worked out.


Some cool leveling weapons to help you speed through to end game.




Point progression


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7:Videos

Adding as I do stuff



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8: DPS

http://poe-profile.info/profile/slothx/KarnageQuake

DISCLAIMER;Please keep in mind that my gear is better than average(wed on rings and belt,almost good jewels) and pretty good overall.
Yours might not be.

Tooltip isn't exactly a good way to determine dps since it doesn't take into account my fire pen(76% from items and the tree and the gem ) and other stuff.


Anways,Cyclone in hideout has 77k but my gems are around level 10 currently since I just flipped them to 20 quality*.Easily reaching over 100k in combat with charges. As for the molten burst its was at around 15k(?) but currrently its under 10k because the gems are low level.





* If you didn't know If you trade a level 20 gem to a vendor along with a gemcutters prism they will trade you the same gem at level 1 with max quality.


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Changes



-3.0 rehash

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-Updated the trees with Vaal pact to a more efficient pathing thanks to kelongngu!
-added a quick atziri run
-added Maze of the Minotaur and fixed some things
-added playlist for all guardian boss fights 4/4 done..shaper soon(tm)

-Might not be playing that much till the new league or 3.0...xb1bb
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Thank you for checking it out! GL

whats about chieftain?

Hi, i took a look at your BM/VP tree and made some adjustments.

I originally wanted to play Zerker cyclone but decided to play Slayer this league instead.

anyway

http://tinyurl.com/hkru2u9

For the same amount of points:
You lose the following:
Sentinel (10% resistances and 24% armor)
Reflexes (kinda useless since you don't have Iron Reflexes?)
Jewel socket (this could be huge if you have nice jewels)

but you gain the following:
Finesse (attack speed)
Heart of Oak (4% movespeed from small node, some life, some stun recovery)
Ballistic Mastery (more damage for your balls)

Your original tree would make more sense if you plan to take the build further and pick up Iron Reflexes later.

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kelongngu wrote:

Hi, i took a look at your BM/VP tree and made some adjustments.

I originally wanted to play Zerker cyclone but decided to play Slayer this league instead.

anyway

http://tinyurl.com/hkru2u9

For the same amount of points:
You lose the following:
Sentinel (10% resistances and 24% armor)
Reflexes (kinda useless since you don't have Iron Reflexes?)
Jewel socket (this could be huge if you have nice jewels)

but you gain the following:
Finesse (attack speed)
Heart of Oak (4% movespeed from small node, some life, some stun recovery)
Ballistic Mastery (more damage for your balls)

Your original tree would make more sense if you plan to take the build further and pick up Iron Reflexes later.

Thats interesting I didn't think about going that route at that time!

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toliard28 wrote:

whats about chieftain?

You can play it as that too

I am in the process of rerolling into Berserker coming from Raider to deal with my reflect issues and planned a BM/VP tree.

http://poeurl.com/VxB


Key difference is that I also pick up Point Blank on the tree and add Added Fire in the axe. This is for level 81. After that I am picking up remaining 5% life nodes and the two point jewel sockets. Potentially I also spec into the Celerity cluster for extra 9% movespeed. Will probably decide when I got to play with it.

Here's my planned tree, it's a bit different since I grab Crit and use a Romiras Banquet... I have around 87% chance to hit without Resolute Technique.

Working pretty well so far (lvl 78), heres my gear setup:

hc viable with RT?? looks super fun

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blizaro wrote:

hc viable with RT?? looks super fun

Fair word of warning: Ele reflect rares can be really rippy under some circumstances. Even with capped res.

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tzuiop wrote:

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blizaro wrote:

hc viable with RT?? looks super fun

Fair word of warning: Ele reflect rares can be really rippy under some circumstances. Even with capped res.

true that ^^,I even tried with sibyl's lament+ purity and that stuff was still catching me off guard