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

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Markuchi wrote:

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iNNet wrote:

Heya :) I'd have a few things to add to your build if you don't mind.

1. Definitely don't use Herald of Ice and not even Anger (if you'd try it out you'll see those are barley adding any dps. For example I lose round about 1k dps at lvl 77 if I turn both off) but instead use 4 points to take Mind over Matter and the 3 nodes behind it for even better survivability and kinda double Life Leech cuz you also leech mana which acts as life with MoM. And in this case of course take Deep Thoughts north of Witch start which we are alrdy traveling by.

2. Don't go for Kaom's Heart because you alrdy have alot more survivability when using MoM. Better go for first a 5-L, later a 6-L (armor/evasion would be best probably, with high Life and decent resistances of course) with following links:
Frenzy
Faster Attacks
Greater Multiple Projectiles
Curse on Hit
5-L: Enfeeble until you got MoM and all your Mana nodes, Flammability afterwards.
6-L(options):
CHAIN for a better spread of your curse
BLIND for more evasion
LIFE GAIN ON HIT for even more leech.
(Life gain on Hit not rly needed anymore since you have double Health Sustain because of MoM with Life+Mana leech alrdy)
You can still decide to swap in Enfeeble for Flammability when you're playing a dangerous map or one with dangerous mods because they are both blue gems.

With theese simple changes you'll have more survivability + more DMG and on top of that the traps in Lab won't do anything to you because their dmg is calculated by the amount of Life and ES not by Mana. GZ you got an Uber Lab farmer now!
In Addition you can use a Lightning Warp setup to move really fast with following links:
Lightning Warp
Reduced Duration
Faster Casting
Swift Affliction

Would love to read your opinions :)

Got to add that I'm an HC player started playing the build and found those changes really helpful in both ways, defense and offense. It really isn't any kind of citicism, I love your build and the idea behind it.

Probably makes sense if you are going to do this to use the carcass jack as you get more damage though area damage. You lose defenses though from the armour loss but gain some evasion.

If the bug with the poets pen is fixed and we can scale attack speed as much as we want then 6 link using all the gems that can provide attack speed to frenzy would make this build pretty crazy.
Something like frenzy+PCoC+Culling+GMP+FA+? Multistrike? Not sure if it will work?
Get blood rage and cloaked in savagery on there also and you will be about 5.9-6.0 per second + multi strike.

We should be using empower on unearth to scale the life which provides much more damage.

DD should have fire pen instead of concentrated effect. Anything that has any form of resistance to fire you will severely suffer in damage. Better clear speed with fire pen also since white mobs will die instantly anyways.

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Viperesque: I did a LOT of testing with Barrage and old Cast on Crit to investigate similar issues. If you want the long version let me know, but the short version is that it seems like hits aren't checked/calculated in perfect real time, probably at some set tick rate. So you can get fluctuations in the precise timing of the procs, which can fuck with your cooldowns. Have to live with it.

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eJonKou wrote:

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Markuchi wrote:

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iNNet wrote:

Heya :) I'd have a few things to add to your build if you don't mind.

1. Definitely don't use Herald of Ice and not even Anger (if you'd try it out you'll see those are barley adding any dps. For example I lose round about 1k dps at lvl 77 if I turn both off) but instead use 4 points to take Mind over Matter and the 3 nodes behind it for even better survivability and kinda double Life Leech cuz you also leech mana which acts as life with MoM. And in this case of course take Deep Thoughts north of Witch start which we are alrdy traveling by.

2. Don't go for Kaom's Heart because you alrdy have alot more survivability when using MoM. Better go for first a 5-L, later a 6-L (armor/evasion would be best probably, with high Life and decent resistances of course) with following links:
Frenzy
Faster Attacks
Greater Multiple Projectiles
Curse on Hit
5-L: Enfeeble until you got MoM and all your Mana nodes, Flammability afterwards.
6-L(options):
CHAIN for a better spread of your curse
BLIND for more evasion
LIFE GAIN ON HIT for even more leech.
(Life gain on Hit not rly needed anymore since you have double Health Sustain because of MoM with Life+Mana leech alrdy)
You can still decide to swap in Enfeeble for Flammability when you're playing a dangerous map or one with dangerous mods because they are both blue gems.

With theese simple changes you'll have more survivability + more DMG and on top of that the traps in Lab won't do anything to you because their dmg is calculated by the amount of Life and ES not by Mana. GZ you got an Uber Lab farmer now!
In Addition you can use a Lightning Warp setup to move really fast with following links:
Lightning Warp
Reduced Duration
Faster Casting
Swift Affliction

Would love to read your opinions :)

Got to add that I'm an HC player started playing the build and found those changes really helpful in both ways, defense and offense. It really isn't any kind of citicism, I love your build and the idea behind it.

Probably makes sense if you are going to do this to use the carcass jack as you get more damage though area damage. You lose defenses though from the armour loss but gain some evasion.

If the bug with the poets pen is fixed and we can scale attack speed as much as we want then 6 link using all the gems that can provide attack speed to frenzy would make this build pretty crazy.
Something like frenzy+PCoC+Culling+GMP+FA+? Multistrike? Not sure if it will work?
Get blood rage and cloaked in savagery on there also and you will be about 5.9-6.0 per second + multi strike.

We should be using empower on unearth to scale the life which provides much more damage.

DD should have fire pen instead of concentrated effect. Anything that has any form of resistance to fire you will severely suffer in damage. Better clear speed with fire pen also since white mobs will die instantly anyways.

Poet's Pen isn't necessarily bugged and the issue of losing a cast when nearing 4.0 APS seems to be a fundamental issue with the game and not the item. Here's the best explanation I could find:

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Viperesque: I did a LOT of testing with Barrage and old Cast on Crit to investigate similar issues. If you want the long version let me know, but the short version is that it seems like hits aren't checked/calculated in perfect real time, probably at some set tick rate. So you can get fluctuations in the precise timing of the procs, which can fuck with your cooldowns. Have to live with it.

If this is fixed, we still can't scale our APS as high as we want since the CD is still 0.25s, meaning 4 casts a second. The only way to circumvent this is to try to gain as close to 8 APS as possible, which is going to be difficult(probably impossible) to achieve on a Berserker but is doable on Raider and Necromancer from my limited testing.

The corpse explosion from VD is meh and isn't close to being our main source of damage. Fire Pen is also less damage than Conc. Effect.

Multistrike only works with certain melee skills by the way.

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merovech1986 wrote:

my tooltip dps on Vd just droped more than 12k anyone have any ideea what is going on ?....i had 42k in/ho with lvl 19 gems ...once my gems reach lvl 20 i go check how much dps i gain and surprise ..instead 42k i have only 30k dps...i didnt change anything no items no auras ..NOTHING ..if someone have any ideea pls answer me :)


nvm i just found this : Volatile Dead now displays average damage, rather than damage per second.

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eJonKou wrote:

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GraissE wrote:

Hello guys!

Quick update on my gear:

I believe the priority is Acuities, but how can i boost my damage?

gl to all :)

Helmet enchant, Diamond flask, better jewellery.