[3.0] The Honest Barbarian (Blood Magic, Starforge)

Hello, I have 88 lvl over 90k Buffed dps on cyclon, I have no bigger problems with anything. @Peter and maybe you are not using Increased area of ​​effect anymore. To improve the range of the Cyclone, check out "Daresso's Salute Citrine Amulet" how its work :)

greetings Peterlerock

i just started the abyss league with your build and i was wonder if you could update the tree with the new vl position please

thank you!

With Vaal Pact in Duelist Area, I suggest to skip the Shadow zone in the tree, and instead take the usual stuff in templar (AoE, life).

I haven't tested yet how horrible the changes to Berserker+VP have been.
Maybe the build is dead. Maybe we just need some small adjustments.

Ok, thought a bit about 3.1 changes.

TL;DR: Stuff is not working out as before. Probably still a fine build, but nowhere near old power levels.

1. We lost Witchfire Brew.
We need Vulnerability, not Despair.
Add CWDT Vuln to one of the 4L.
Either replace Phase Run with Vuln, or do a 4L like this:
Leap Slam, faster attacks, CWDT, Vuln.

2. Surviving will be a lot harder.
(read as "Build is probably dead, why do you even try?")
With around 8500 life and Vaal Pact, we can leech ~4000 life per second.
This is nowhere near old leech with ~8000 leech per hit.
And this was the whole point of being a berserker (to be practically immortal without any defenses except life and leech).
We will have to deal with a lot more trouble now.
We maybe also want something like Enduring Cry now (omg, I don't want to press buttons).

3. I'm not sure Cloaked in Savagery still is a good idea.
I easily reach the leech cap in PoB with some basic leech from the tree (any leech will do).
Instead we should probably take Rite of Ruin for some Boss fight attackspeed and reducing the berserker drawback of "10% increased damage taken" to 4% against normal content.

4. Skilltree
www.poeurl.com/bGAL
This would be a version without the shadow zone. Gained a bit of life and damage in duelist, but lost a ton of damage.

www.poeurl.com/bGAJ
This is like the old tree, but traded the scion life wheel for vaal pact (dropping to 8k life).
Damage is about the same as before.

I like neither of them, will have to think about it a bit longer.

I also experimented with skilltrees that take the "outer highways" between Marauder, Duelist and Ranger, but that's way too costly, and we especially loose the easy jewel sockets leading to Scion.

I didn't experiment with "drop crit for ...", as my jewels all have sweet crit multi. ;)

I'm hoping you'll update this for 3.1 one day, without the theory crafting that is. This is practically the only build of this kind that I've found around the forum (2H, Berserker, Cyclone, Blood Magic).

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Danteska wrote:

I'm hoping you'll update this for 3.1 one day, without the theory crafting that is. This is practically the only build of this kind that I've found around the forum (2H, Berserker, Cyclone, Blood Magic).

I think if you follow this build, you'll still have a fine berserker with tons of DpS and life.

The only problem is that we cannot "trivialize" content anymore after VP nerf, you'll have to actually play the game. ;)

Can someone tell me can this buld with 200k dps (on 6 link in pob) kill shaper?
Im kinda new in game, and...dunno, is it enough damage?

How the hell do you only deal 200k DpS?

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Peterlerock wrote:

How the hell do you only deal 200k DpS?

I just opened PoB and saw this numbers, as i said - didnt play cyclone at all and i dont know if this a normal damage for it or no, and if u can explain me where im wrong and give some real numbers would be nice

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I just opened PoB and saw this numbers, as i said - didnt play cyclone at all and i dont know if this a normal damage for it or no, and if u can explain me where im wrong and give some real numbers would be nice

With my current gear, flasks and warchief up and a somewhat realistic "configuration", my berserker has...
*600k Cyclone DpS with 5L + fortify gem.
*1.2 million Heavy Strike DpS (1.7 million when I check "shocked").

https://pastebin.com/cSNuiRnW

This is the kind of numbers you can expect, maybe +/- 100-200k.

A lot depends on the quality of your gear, gem levels/quality, 5 or 6L starforge, character level etc.

But you can probably get ~500k+ Heavy Strike DpS pretty easily, and this should be Guardian/Shaper viable if you know the fight and have some sort of "sustain".

Even ~200k can be fine for some people, it just prolongs the fights and makes them a lot more dangerous.
Below 200k, I would advice against entering these fights.

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But again, as written above:
The main purpose this character was created was to play "blindfolded" due to the extreme survivability of "8k+ life + 100% leech + vaal pact". This probably isn't a thing anymore in 3.1.
I haven't touched the berserker since the patch since I play in leagues only, so I'm not 100% sure if playing him still "feels good".