[3.1] Volatile Berserker (Poet's Pen + Volatile Dead) | 8-9K Life | Incredible DPS | Easy Leveling

Hello guys! :)

yesterday i finished the story and now ready to grind maps :D
would like to share my stuff to know if i should change something :)

Here my items:


Got an elder ring :D so if i farm maps i can just play with bodyswap and have 90% of the time Frenzy, Power and Endurance charges up :) (for bossed i swap to Conc of course)

i also moved my golem to my gloves, so i can let cwdt at lvl 1 for more procs and i can use lightning warp with faster cast. (i know golem needs to be cast by hand but ya.. it isn't that much pain :D)

for now i grind maps to get level ups because i miss the most life notes (6K at the moment) but i guess with the life notes i should easy get 7,5k+ :D

any suggestions what i could improve? :) got still a few Ex and chaos orbs in my chest :D

Thanks!

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JohnnyDesolation wrote:

Hey fellas, I need to know where to go next with my gear. I've got some currency available and i'd like to push this as far as i can.

Suggestions? (you can check out my gear/tree in profile)

Your gear is looking very solid. I'd focus on getting better jewelery and jewels.

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burned20022003 wrote:

this is the gear i got now , my question is since i am getting assasin's mark from the shaped ring should i keep the pcoc? Bodyswap is for speed clearing trash maps below t14.

I'd drop Assassin's Mark ring for a rare Opal ring and keep PCoC. PCoC is enough to maintain charges while clearing and during single-target fights.

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BadUncle23 wrote:

I got a Belt with 12 Cooldown reduction today, this means i can increase my APS to 4.0 + 12% = 4,48 APS right?

How does this involve the triggers per second? normally we have 4 Triggers per Second when we have 4 APS, with the Cooldown on the belt we have 4 Triggers per second + 0,5 = 1 extra Trigger every 2 seconds right?

I am kinda not sure how this mechanic works.

Yes, that's how it works.

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ygrenys wrote:

So I started doing this build and loving it so far! I'm level 86 and my gear is as following:

Am I going in the right direction? Any obvious upgrades or something else that I should change?

On a different note, I accidentally started building the Non Vaal Pact tree instead of Vaal Pact tree seeing as I don't have Atziri's Acuity gloves nor I'm planning to get it anytime soon.. is it that bad or should I actually respect a few things?

Thanks!

Your gear looks solid. I'd recommend Vaal Pact or Acuities, but if you can survive fine without either, than that's all that matters. If you feel you're reaching a point where you would benefit greatly from double leech, that's when I'd respec/buy Acuities.

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XenoPOE wrote:

Isn't using Power Charge on Crit kinda redundant when wearing Oskarm? Anyone got an idea what to substitute it with?

PCoC is great for sustaining power charges on single-target fights. Using PCoC allows you to replace Oskarm with a pair of rare gloves or something like Tombfist until you can affoard Acuities.

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Sedako wrote:

Maybe I'm reading into this too much, but regarding the 4 APS target, would that be with or without crave the slaughter proc? Without it I'm at 3.58, and with I'm at 4.04.

Aim for slightly below 4 APS with all your charges/procs active.

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newjuhbess wrote:

any tips for leveling the passive tree? (vaal pact and acuity?)

Grab Life and level with Poet's Pen. I'd recommend use either Vaal Pact or Acuities, not both.

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royc3wicz wrote:

Well, I see Author don't really play this char anymore and won't update the main post with any improvements...

Sad part if this build is when You need 15ex for acuities, 15ex for starkonja enchant and 15ex for anger leech watcher eye... :<

Why do you bother commenting when you don't know what you're talking about?

I regularly update the build whenever I change/improve something with the build and I'm currently working on overhauling the guide entirely. Making a good guide takes a lot of time and effort. I'm also in this thread pretty much daily/several times a day answering every question asked to the best of my ability.

I'm not playing Path of Exile at all at the moment.

The build also doesn't require any of the gear you mentioned. I started playing this build myself with 2 Poet's Pen and little else and accumulated gear as I played the build, I didn't get my final piece of gear(Acuities) until level ~91. We also don't use Watcher's Eye Anger leech in the build, one of the reasons I made a Berserker was to minimize the cost as much as possible without sacrificing too much strength compared to classes like Inquisitor and Asssassin. We use Anger fire pen Watcher's Eye, which isn't mandatory but is a nice damage boost, and that jewel currently costs about 2-2,5 Exalted orbs in Abyss league and was around 40-50c when I first made the build. Perfectly affoardable.

You really ought to have read through the guide before writing your comment.

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Ayrill wrote:

Hello guys! :)

yesterday i finished the story and now ready to grind maps :D
would like to share my stuff to know if i should change something :)

Here my items:

Got an elder ring :D so if i farm maps i can just play with bodyswap and have 90% of the time Frenzy, Power and Endurance charges up :) (for bossed i swap to Conc of course)

i also moved my golem to my gloves, so i can let cwdt at lvl 1 for more procs and i can use lightning warp with faster cast. (i know golem needs to be cast by hand but ya.. it isn't that much pain :D)

for now i grind maps to get level ups because i miss the most life notes (6K at the moment) but i guess with the life notes i should easy get 7,5k+ :D

any suggestions what i could improve? :) got still a few Ex and chaos orbs in my chest :D

Thanks!

Your gear is looking solid. I'd recommend grabbing Atziri's Promise and a Wise Oak unique flask though to boost your damage even further.

Can I use Astramentis instead of rare amulet?

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sqvirel wrote:

Can I use Astramentis instead of rare amulet?

You can, but I wouldn't recommend it as an end-game amulet.

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eJonKou wrote:

The build also doesn't require any of the gear you mentioned. I started playing this build myself with 2 Poet's Pen and little else and accumulated gear as I played the build, I didn't get my final piece of gear(Acuities) until level ~91. We also don't use Watcher's Eye Anger leech in the build, one of the reasons I made a Berserker was to minimize the cost as much as possible without sacrificing too much strength compared to classes like Inquisitor and Asssassin. We use Anger fire pen Watcher's Eye, which isn't mandatory but is a nice damage boost, and that jewel currently costs about 2-2,5 Exalted orbs in Abyss league and was around 40-50c when I first made the build. Perfectly affoardable.

does this mean that poet pen VD inquisitor is the go-to-class when we have enough curr for acuity and watchers eye leech gem?

Thoughts on enchant +1 Corpses vs. 40% Damage?


I'm trying to figure out how this ability works, is it 1 Orb = Tooltip DPS or does it account for every orb?

At this point I'm not sure which enchant would actually yield the best gain. Anybody tested this?

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khody1337 wrote:

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eJonKou wrote:

The build also doesn't require any of the gear you mentioned. I started playing this build myself with 2 Poet's Pen and little else and accumulated gear as I played the build, I didn't get my final piece of gear(Acuities) until level ~91. We also don't use Watcher's Eye Anger leech in the build, one of the reasons I made a Berserker was to minimize the cost as much as possible without sacrificing too much strength compared to classes like Inquisitor and Asssassin. We use Anger fire pen Watcher's Eye, which isn't mandatory but is a nice damage boost, and that jewel currently costs about 2-2,5 Exalted orbs in Abyss league and was around 40-50c when I first made the build. Perfectly affoardable.

does this mean that poet pen VD inquisitor is the go-to-class when we have enough curr for acuity and watchers eye leech gem?

Watcher's Eye Leech opens up the possibility to use any Ascendancy class. Though which class that would be best is up for debate and highly dependant on what you want to achieve.

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Abletto wrote:

Thoughts on enchant +1 Corpses vs. 40% Damage?


I'm trying to figure out how this ability works, is it 1 Orb = Tooltip DPS or does it account for every orb?

At this point I'm not sure which enchant would actually yield the best gain. Anybody tested this?

+1 Corpse is by far the stronger enchant.

Tooltip is useless in builds, you need to use a 3rd party tool such as Path of Building to accurately calculate your DPS.

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eJonKou wrote:

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JohnnyDesolation wrote:

Hey fellas, I need to know where to go next with my gear. I've got some currency available and i'd like to push this as far as i can.

Suggestions? (you can check out my gear/tree in profile)

Your gear is looking very solid. I'd focus on getting better jewelery and jewels.

Any suggestions on specifics? hard to judge what's a "minor" and a "major" upgrade at this point.

thanks again btw, love the build.

Is it normal to go low a lot? I'm just holding frenzy and hoping the balls off screen the monsters, but when I do get hit it HURTS

Hello :D

got another question :) right now i run the Anger + Hast setup but i saw a few player here run Anger + Herald of Ice or Thunder setup.. i got an Enlighten lvl 4 gem, how would the damage be if i run Thunder AND Ice instead of Haste?

I like the Haste part because i got perma Phasing by my jewel, but if the damage is "better" with both Herald then i would think to change my gems.

Maybe something like Gloves: Anger -> Herald of Ice -> Herald of Thunder -> Enlighten
and Boots: CWDT -> Immortal Call -> Flame Golem -> Flame Dash (using Lighning Warp at the moment but don't know.. without faster cast it feels not that smooth for me)

Anyway, how is double Herald vs. Haste?

Thanks for your answer! :)