[2.6] Cast on Weapon Swap

There have been versions with skeletons, but the insanity weapon seems like the thing that allows to hurt yourself really bad, really fast. I don't think you need to swap for skeletons, you just need to reach the skeleton cap. Which means that you will also probably keep casting without targets, which can be painful.

1) Mitigated damage does not count as CWDT, you still need to take the damage on health, mana or ES, and leech or regen it back up.

2) Yes the damage of the 3 minions count as 3 hits.

3) Usually it's because your spells or cwdt are too high. You need to trigger them in 1 swap, cause the counter seems to reset on swap. Sometimes they might trigger due to mob damage but if you only take self damage they will not proc if too high.


Working version for 3.0: Mine works, char is public. Have done everything except shaper and uber atziri, smooth and fast for mapping, bit painful for bosses. Some deaths expected for guardians, mostly chimera clouds and one shot mino. Still have ideas for improvement, maybe i'll manage shaper/uber, but some shit are hard to find (damn equal resists for wise oak).

thank you very much!

All perfectly explained.

Thinking on giving up the berserker idea since i cant make myself that much dmge to trigger savage hit :(

EDIT: BTW what areyour asencancies? I have a lvl 50 scion mybe i give it a try, ill say u go for the crit but no idea what else.

I thought about templar instead of scion for the virtual 5L on helm gloves and boots, plus the endurance charge generation in case i want to run discharge, you tried it?

Discharge sucks, eats your charges so it reduces the damage of all other spells. Doesn't do enough damage to justify it and also it makes you prone to die to reflect, cause the damage is still bigger.

Endurance charges reduce the physical damage taken, so not good either.


Right now, I still think berserker is the best ascendency. Used to run an assassin for the dps in legacy, but without ES, and with all the nerfs assassin took, it's way below now.

The main reason to take berserker is pain reaver. No other ascendency gives you reliable leech and you don't really want to put life leech gem in all slots. Cloaked is a great panic saver, and also works when pain reaver doesn't work well enough, meaning against bosses.

Only other ascendency I'd consider is pathfinder, cause you can find leech on pots, and probably can have them up at all time with the 50% chance to get a charge on crit. But i'm not sure how much life you'd get, so that's the main issue. Also as soon as you're out of pots, or if you meet a nullifier, you're dead :p.

i saw ur running mom, isnt that bad as it reduces your damage taken?

You still take the damage with MoM. It counts for CWDT.

Doesn't count for savage hits, but I don't rely on savage hits, 3% on multiple targets from pain reaver is way above what's necessary to sustain.

Only issue is vs solo bosses with no adds, where I just try to get hit every 4s by a savage hit, which is not that hard.

HI, be nice to have updated version for 3.0, it is still viable?

I would be interested in a 3.0 update.

Quite unlikely to have an update the build owner seemed to have stopped playing this build a few month after the thread start.



Anyway Killed shaper today :).

Took me 3 sets but it's probably doable with few fails with some practice.
Not the best build for it though, i prefer to sell my sets now...

Failed uber atziri twice. Close but i get raped in split phase all the time, not sure why.

3.0 still work?

hey, i have 5k hp and 3k ES, how can i survive with it? Life leech instant only to life, and its make me squishy