[3.0] Dark Pact Berserker - Farm All The Content!

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Nuclearic wrote:

My current items are these but i cant seem to hit more than 400k dps on pob, any clues? sorry for the noob qn :P

Edit: my Pob: https://pastebin.com/rhibkxVh

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PREZIDENT7MG wrote:

Why this build is so hard and very weak in endgame? I died 140 times before i reach 69lvl and i could use my gear. I lvlup and try some hight tier maps (12-13), it was hard to farm it and i have problems with bosses. Ok, i lvlup more, upgrade my gear and try t16 Phoenix and fail it. Ok, i lvlup again, made 6l and now i have 7776 life.

I rolled t15 Dark Forest Map double boss, but easy mods. First time i face with 2 bosses while they using streams of wolves, i attack 2 bosses but my leech didn't help me and i died. Second time i fight with 1 boss only, i survived wolf form and begin attack him, but my leech was 0 and i just killed myself. Later i killed 1 boss, but cant kill second and fail.

I try to farm t15 Core 8 mods, it was easy until i have reached the main boss. His Teleport Slam always one-shot me and i have some rips from other attacks. I killed Malachai on my last portal.

I go t16 Hydra, not hard mods, i got 2 rips and killed boss. It wasnt so hard, but i made some mistakes.

I go t16 Chimera 8 mods, i farm map - no problem, i facetank boss - no problem. But white mobs on boss arena killed me 2 times! I killed unique snake and die one moment after. I always die one cloud stage, my Whirling Blades didn't help me. I fail this map. If i dont died from mobs maybe i can kill Chimera.

None of these maps i cant finish without rips. I can upgrade my gear, i have many options: jewels, chaos damage on rings, more spell damage on shield. But damage is good, i need life! Not 8k, i think i need twice of it, 15k or more. I dont know how i can survive with 8k life pool. I have 229 deaths now, i tired from this shit! WTF??? What is wrong?

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PREZIDENT7MG wrote:

Why this build is so hard and very weak in endgame? I died 140 times before i reach 69lvl and i could use my gear. I lvlup and try some hight tier maps (12-13), it was hard to farm it and i have problems with bosses. Ok, i lvlup more, upgrade my gear and try t16 Phoenix and fail it. Ok, i lvlup again, made 6l and now i have 7776 life.

I rolled t15 Dark Forest Map double boss, but easy mods. First time i face with 2 bosses while they using streams of wolves, i attack 2 bosses but my leech didn't help me and i died. Second time i fight with 1 boss only, i survived wolf form and begin attack him, but my leech was 0 and i just killed myself. Later i killed 1 boss, but cant kill second and fail.

I try to farm t15 Core 8 mods, it was easy until i have reached the main boss. His Teleport Slam always one-shot me and i have some rips from other attacks. I killed Malachai on my last portal.

I go t16 Hydra, not hard mods, i got 2 rips and killed boss. It wasnt so hard, but i made some mistakes.

I go t16 Chimera 8 mods, i farm map - no problem, i facetank boss - no problem. But white mobs on boss arena killed me 2 times! I killed unique snake and die one moment after. I always die one cloud stage, my Whirling Blades didn't help me. I fail this map. If i dont died from mobs maybe i can kill Chimera.

None of these maps i cant finish without rips. I can upgrade my gear, i have many options: jewels, chaos damage on rings, more spell damage on shield. But damage is good, i need life! Not 8k, i think i need twice of it, 15k or more. I dont know how i can survive with 8k life pool. I have 229 deaths now, i tired from this shit! WTF??? What is wrong?

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synix09 wrote:

I have actually a little less life than you and I can do all the content just fine. Maybe it's because you're using a 6L Covenant. That Blood Magic can be painful. Try using a Seething Divine Life Flask. Also, your skill gems are different than the guide. You can't say this build is weak when you aren't really using it. Try getting rid of Arctic Armor + Portal and put in Blasphemy + Temp Chains/Enfeeble for survivability or even Warlord's Mark if you can't sustain your sacrificed life + Blood Magic.

I think the OP build is just fine and not weak. I hate to say it, but there are other reasons why it's not working for you. =\

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rpdnick wrote:

Same thing again. Apart from covenant with is the worst choice for this build, you have low level gems. Get rid of covenant, get all gems in 20 lvl and possibly dp on 21 and you will see the difference immediately.

ps: Chimera minions hit like a truck and this is well known

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PREZIDENT7MG wrote:

You simply saw, that i don't use exact copy of this build and you say that this my problem.

Bosses and mobs doing very hight damage to my berserker and i am dying. That is my problem!

Dark Pact spend 466 life, Blood Magic - 72. Bosses and mobs kill me in 2-3 hits. And you say Blood Magic killing me? Are you seriously?

Why Covenant is bad? It has same dps as 6l 5b1g Cherrubim's Maleficence, but cost much cheaper and i never have problems with mana. If bosses and mobs kill me before my hit - who cares about 72 life, that Blood Magic will spent on my next attack?

Bosses cause so high damage that i often have no time to place totem, just hold the dp button and try not to die.

My skill gems are not different than the guide, i only replace added chaos damage because the Covenant have this. Yes, my gems are not 20/20, but this will only give me more damage. I have enough damage, i need survivability.

Seething Divine Life Flask is useless, it restore very few, i am using Panicked Divine Life Flask. What about Forbidden Taste? It restore almost full life, but this chaos damage is painful. Maybe Enfeeble can help, will try it. I don't like curses because of 60%/80% penalty on bosses and maps mods hexproof and etc.

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synix09 wrote:

You have more life than me and I don't really have problems against bosses. You can see my videos in my signature for reference.

Covenant is fine. It's just hard to leech back the life if you aren't savagely hit. It adds another 15% to DP life cost in your case. You also lose out on armor and/or evasion.

You always have time to place a totem. There are gaps you can utilize during fights to place one. Try getting a high quality Spell Totem Support gem.

You say you have enough damage, I say you don't because you can't out-leech your 466+72 life cost without being savagely hit.

Seething Divine Life Flask restores enough for Chimera. If something hits you for more than 35% of your life, then Panicked won't help. Curses help a ton even if they are prorated. But DP is so strong that you really don't need curses for maps. For hexproof, you can always swap or not do the maps if you can't handle it.

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PREZIDENT7MG wrote:

I saw your video, your fight against Chimera. Mobs did not do a lot of damage to your, you always have 5k+ life in fight with mobs. Why? I cant understand.

I have in pob 54.8k damage per hit withot flasks, 1% of it is 548, dp+bm cost 538 life. Ok, mobs and bosses has some chaos res, but without being savagely hit i cant out-leech boss damage, and you cant too. But wait, if boss has chaos res i cant out-leech dp cost too! So you need being savagely hit by boss or you will die.

Maybe I will improve my damage (I now do not even have a desire to play poe because of this shit with build), but how this help me to survive? One second or half of a second not pressing dp button - and my hero is dead. I must to be extremely fast and very careful. It's very difficult to play like that.