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

hello,

playing and enjoying this build in SSF

What about Cluster Jewel?

I found this: is it good enough and/or interesting?

How should I manage those?

So i've been playing this build, got my char in lvl 91, and have gotten to the sirius fight. Regarding the defense aspect of this build, i started to wonder, where should i focus on more. I can't figure out what is most important at this stage. I'm sitting at 2k armor, only 5.5k Health, 2k evasion, and i still feel really weak. I struggle on T16 CR maps, as well as most conquerers.
My gems are 6-linked in a BoB, and i have the Bubonic boots, along with a stygian belt.

I'm adding a PoB link to help out, cause i really want to keep on killing with this char!

https://pastebin.com/KVNwVsXh

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DK_Rhino wrote:

So i've been playing this build, got my char in lvl 91, and have gotten to the sirius fight. Regarding the defense aspect of this build, i started to wonder, where should i focus on more. I can't figure out what is most important at this stage. I'm sitting at 2k armor, only 5.5k Health, 2k evasion, and i still feel really weak. I struggle on T16 CR maps, as well as most conquerers.
My gems are 6-linked in a BoB, and i have the Bubonic boots, along with a stygian belt.

I'm adding a PoB link to help out, cause i really want to keep on killing with this char!

https://pastebin.com/KVNwVsXh

This is very dependant on your budget. If you give me a slight overview I can look into your char later

The jewel is okish.

I would however recommend to get a large cluster jewel with not more than 9 passives and 3 notables + 2 further jewel slots.
You can chaos spam those fairly easily but need a base with ilvl 75+

Then you can stack 2 medium crit or area jewels with crit chance/crit multi and 2 small jewels with life

My thoughts on cluster jewels for this build..

Please keep in mind the linked tree is for SSFHC play and with theoretical items and for what I feel is a balance of safety and power (e.g., changed blitz ascendancy for the leech one for the max recovery on receiving a savage hit).

https://pastebin.com/6YVb3nD2

I tried creating 'POG' cluster jewel setup. What I got out of it?

Pros:
-about 10% more dmg (via chaos dmg and additional impale)
-poison immunity (damage over time debuffs are a huge problem for this build)
-huge chaos resist and added other resists

Cons:
-300 less hp (6100 to 5800)
-a big chunk of the damage is dependent on triggering unholy might (10% chance on critical strike), but is reasonable given the attack speed and crit chance to expect that it will probably be up consistently with little downtime.
-really need soul tether to truly take advantage of feed the fury notable

With these pros and cons I could probably change the gear a bit more to get some more DPS from it, but really my concern is how to get the lost life back.

TL;DR: With the right jewels, I'd use them, but the right jewels are unrealistic to obtain for SSF.

Edit: The problem with cluster jewels is the cost to socket jewels leads to you putting in passive points that grant nothing. This is difficult to overcome even if you get many notables for few points because our tree already has great, easily accessible notables.

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incredibie wrote:

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DK_Rhino wrote:

So i've been playing this build, got my char in lvl 91, and have gotten to the sirius fight. Regarding the defense aspect of this build, i started to wonder, where should i focus on more. I can't figure out what is most important at this stage. I'm sitting at 2k armor, only 5.5k Health, 2k evasion, and i still feel really weak. I struggle on T16 CR maps, as well as most conquerers.
My gems are 6-linked in a BoB, and i have the Bubonic boots, along with a stygian belt.

I'm adding a PoB link to help out, cause i really want to keep on killing with this char!

https://pastebin.com/KVNwVsXh

This is very dependant on your budget. If you give me a slight overview I can look into your char later

I'm currently sitting on 3exh and 250+ co. My current thoughts are to get a rare Astral, but i fear a significant amount of HP to disappear. I also have a 5L Carcass, but i fear the loss in tankyness will outdo the benefits from increased AOE/DPS?

I have had a similar experience with cluster jewels. Last night I took a bunch of respec points and played around with the clusters I had. The result was a reasonable amount more damage to a loss of 300hp.

I found it hard to take much out of the skill tree in this build that was justified by what I can get from clusters.

I treid some end game stuff last night. All the conquerors at AL 6 and Sirus. My second ever attempt at Sirus and had him at 1/4 health before I died so a lot of progress, Feels like it will be a lot easier that Uber Elder when I have learned the fight.

I got the final boss on wave 20 of Simulcrum to a sliver of health. I really thought I had it but died at the last second. :( Next time gadget. Wave 16 dropped a Nurse though, so I was happy.

If someone could cast an eye over my PoB I'd be grateful. I'm sure it can be improved but I'm running out of ideas.

https://pastebin.com/PYE7v6Su

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Preswylfa wrote:

I have had a similar experience with cluster jewels. Last night I took a bunch of respec points and played around with the clusters I had. The result was a reasonable amount more damage to a loss of 300hp.

I found it hard to take much out of the skill tree in this build that was justified by what I can get from clusters.

I treid some end game stuff last night. All the conquerors at AL 6 and Sirus. My second ever attempt at Sirus and had him at 1/4 health before I died so a lot of progress, Feels like it will be a lot easier that Uber Elder when I have learned the fight.

I got the final boss on wave 20 of Simulcrum to a sliver of health. I really thought I had it but died at the last second. :( Next time gadget. Wave 16 dropped a Nurse though, so I was happy.

If someone could cast an eye over my PoB I'd be grateful. I'm sure it can be improved but I'm running out of ideas.

https://pastebin.com/PYE7v6Su

I dont know your budget but you seem to be at a point where to think about conqueror mods.

Culling strike on gloves. Tailwind on boots. Phys damage taken on helmet and stuff like that. Another upgrade would be saviour which sits at about 14ex atm.
A stronger annointment could do much work aswell. While for that I would recommend an amulet that has crit damage and flat phys at least.

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DK_Rhino wrote:

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incredibie wrote:

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DK_Rhino wrote:

So i've been playing this build, got my char in lvl 91, and have gotten to the sirius fight. Regarding the defense aspect of this build, i started to wonder, where should i focus on more. I can't figure out what is most important at this stage. I'm sitting at 2k armor, only 5.5k Health, 2k evasion, and i still feel really weak. I struggle on T16 CR maps, as well as most conquerers.
My gems are 6-linked in a BoB, and i have the Bubonic boots, along with a stygian belt.

I'm adding a PoB link to help out, cause i really want to keep on killing with this char!

https://pastebin.com/KVNwVsXh

This is very dependant on your budget. If you give me a slight overview I can look into your char later

I'm currently sitting on 3exh and 250+ co. My current thoughts are to get a rare Astral, but i fear a significant amount of HP to disappear. I also have a 5L Carcass, but i fear the loss in tankyness will outdo the benefits from increased AOE/DPS?

I glanced over your char and you have lots of improvements to make other than your body armour.

You need flat phys on amulet and rings. life on all gear pieces. (rings 50+ amulet 70+). Crit chance and crit damage on amulet. strength is great as well in 30+ values because it gives flat life.
A Paradoxica would give you quite a damageboost. And one with % phys starts at 1.5ex which is quite fair.

those upgrades can be expensive though so focus on life and flat phys first and not all the stuff

Allright, i'll spend the weekend on farming and get to it. Thank you!

I'll update you on the process later on.