[3.10] Budget and SSF friendly Bladestorm Berserker in depth guide. Uber Elder on 5l.

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Mengele wrote:

Can someone explain how this work with Vaal Pact and no leech support gem !? I need to spam flasks.

Below vaal pact you have leech nodes for mana and life leech.
In the beginning you might have to spec into all the nodes for life leech.
If it still is too weak do not take vaal pact early. Keep it for later.
In the Path of Building you can select different trees for different levels. If you check that out you might see a better pathing for your current level.

Hi there,

I've just started playing yesterday and like the look of this build. In very new so confused aha could I use the start of the build with a 2h weapon until I get a good amount of DeX for dual wield. Sorry to be pain but what would you suggest for Beginner as I'm using a 2h main thing I use is ground slam with spikes. Would you suggest to start using dual wield now or wait a tiny bit. Sorry for the jumbled message and also I'm only level 14 :)

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KarmaJoe wrote:

Hi there,

I've just started playing yesterday and like the look of this build. In very new so confused aha could I use the start of the build with a 2h weapon until I get a good amount of DeX for dual wield. Sorry to be pain but what would you suggest for Beginner as I'm using a 2h main thing I use is ground slam with spikes. Would you suggest to start using dual wield now or wait a tiny bit. Sorry for the jumbled message and also I'm only level 14 :)

You are very welcome!
You can for sure start with a two handed weapon. Overall you have many possibilities in the early game and in the lategame even. (Builds just give you an idea of how a character can look like)
If you want to level with a two handed weapon make sure to not pick specific nodes that do not work for you.
For example you can always go for life nodes. But if you run a two handed axe, you do not benefit from sword nodes or dual wield nodes at all.
You can even transition over time to the other play style.
If you pick some two handed nodes early to deal more damage you can later on still use them to an extend. With level 28 you will get the bladestorm gem from a quest. Then you can swap from a two handed mace to a two handed sword or axe and keep the two handed nodes for now. And when you later pick up two good one handed swords you change your skilltree over. It is not too expensive tbh. (You get a few reset points through quests)
The smoothest leveling is with two one handed axes until early endgame where you get sword nodes and start using good swords. One handed axes have the best base damage of all weapons and dual wield nodes are very strong early on even.
Swords do excel at crit but in the early game you will not have enough crit chance or scaling to benefit from that anyways.

You can craft some good leveling weapons with:
1 magic weapon (Any weapon but preferably one handed axe)
1 magic or rare rustic sash (preferably rare for better value)
1 blacksmiths whetstone
You vendor these three items together to any trader and get a new blue weapon with 40-69% increased physical damage out of the recipe. Then you throw in an orb of augmentation
This blue weapon most likely is better than most rare weapons you will find with some lucky exceptions.
I could write a lot more here but I think this is enough for now. I feel like this turns to its own guide xD
Hope I did not flood you with too much information, have fun exploring the game

Moorhuhn

Can i leaguestart as this? Would it work okay in 3.9? Really want to play bladestorm, seems like a good guide to follow?

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PotionBlade3363 wrote:

Can i leaguestart as this? Would it work okay in 3.9? Really want to play bladestorm, seems like a good guide to follow?

That will be viable yes. I did not update it to 3.9 yet but not much has changed. It will deal slightly less damage and the swords might be a bit more expensive due to multicraft change.
I would recommend 2 Paradoxica for sure now

What about Gladiator's perseverance passive skill? Is that not worth it?

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rebellion_ wrote:

What about Gladiator's perseverance passive skill? Is that not worth it?

It is a decent node but if you check out the increase it is not worth it over other nodes

Is it possible to build this with axes?

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Augustus00 wrote:

Is it possible to build this with axes?

You can do this but I would recommend to go non crit then. Axes have very good dps but bad crit. And bad crit nodes on the tree.

You gotta do some adjustments to the tree though

hey thanks for the build, what is the best weapon combination in theory?
2 paradoxicas just because they are cheap or is it endgame viable?