[3.0] The Azure Knight (Flurry/Frost Blades/Multi-class/Budget/Crit/Life/Conversion) Shaper/Uber

Hello. Do you have the sample skill tree for Berserker?

I've started a draft of berserker thread last night, when I finish work I'll post it in marauder section, my apologies for the delay (this question comes up a lot and I didn't have much time recently)

edit:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1943111
Passive tree and updated PoB pastebin included.

Hi, thanks for the awesome guide man :)

i have one question, can elemental focus be switched for hypothermia of some other gem for high freeze chance, could it work on bosses in endgame or we are better with higher dps and no crit aliments? if that is the option for bosses, it would be really nice

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grindermann wrote:

Hi, thanks for the awesome guide man :)

i have one question, can elemental focus be switched for hypothermia of some other gem for high freeze chance, could it work on bosses in endgame or we are better with higher dps and no crit aliments? if that is the option for bosses, it would be really nice

I haven't tested Hypothermia yet, but if I understand it correctly, every crit should apply chill for 2 seconds (even it if its only <1% slow). Focus has more dps, but Hypothermia might increase survivability.
As I haven't had the time to play a lot this league, I didn't get to the end game yet (I'm only level 77 and just finished my Merc lab now). Once I do, I will definately update gem section, unless other people post their experiences first :)

Thanks for the info, will definitely keep an eye on the forums. Really having fun with the build, looking forward to experimenting :)

I can't help either as I'm only lvl 84 with the shadow version of this build but why would we want more chill on bosses ?
If I'm not mistaken we already have Vortex linked to CwDT that leaves chilled ground and applies 10% chill. Also since 3.0 endgame bosses are not immune to chill anymore so it's going to apply to them too.
Correct me if I'm wrong but that's what I understood from the patch notes.

I understand the chill part, but could we also freeze them? this build has high crit chance, crit damage and full cold conversion, i imagine everything would be frozen most of the time, just dont know if that would work on bosses

Elemental Focus is better for max dps against bosses (more damage then Hypothermia), but Hypothermia is also alright since it is easier to colour your armour if are on a budget (3G 2R 1B on Perfect Form instead of 2/2/2).

I don't think Freeze mechanics were changed in any way (I might be wrong here), and I'm not sure that we have enough raw damage per hit to freeze Guardians (Blade Flurry is a very fast attacking skill, not a big hitting one), so Hypothermia would most likely be useful for chilling/freezing trash while leveling and gearing up (slow/freeze -> added survivability -> easier leveling).

I have had high hopes of using Hypothermia with Pandemonius amulet, but by the looks of it it dps seems to be almost the same against bosses as with my Standard amulet and EF. Pandemonius means constant Blind on everything (and Freeze 100% of the time unless its a boss), so even more defense while mapping, but against bosses we can always use Warchief/Golem + Blind support for same effect.

So, for Hypothermia to be useful, someone would have to test it against bosses to see if it they can be frozen with fast attacking build like this one.

According to the patch notes, endgame bosses can't be frozen.

You're right about the coloring, I spent 700-800 chrom getting 2R 2B 1G on a 5L Perfect Form :[

Just hit 36 challenges playing cold version of your build and I must say it's fun to play although the dps is noticeably lower than in 2.6 (I rolled the necro scourge ci during 2week turmoil race). I'm not sure if the perfect form is worth colouring if it's possible to clear T16 maps in cheap corrupted 6L but I've spent over 100c just to colour and 5L it and it (obviously) feels like I'm lacking some dps (dropped 21/20 cold pen). On the other side having the perfect form works really well with abyssus but I'm switching it with starkonja sometimes (e.g. uber lab; 5 key runs are np but pretty slow due to vaal pact and traps) as I've been doing when I had corrupted 6L. Guardian fights can be pretty long (except Minotaur which u can facetank without moving for a whole fight) but I'm used to that so it doesn't bother me. I'm going to try killing shaper tomorrow as I have farmed a couple of sets and see whether I need to swap singularity with doryani and/or the wasp with rare claw.

btw. gloves are converting 50% of dmg and we get 40% from the tree but how about the remaining 10%? can we convert it or have I missed something and it's already 100%.