3.24 "Old Man Yells at Vortex" | Rage Vortex of Berserking | Berserker | All content viable!

T17 map clear

Minotaur map clear on lower budget

10-15 div budget: https://pobb.in/oOmoOO0F4SPI

Endgame (~50 div): https://pobb.in/-L3VObOZvhUF

Ruetoo’s super high investment version (mageblood): https://pobb.in/vpsESthBlREx

Rage generation
RVoB and Berserk both consume Rage per second. The higher your Rage generation, the smoother your mapping experience will be.

Beresker's War Bringer node allows warcries to generate Rage per enemy power. Redblade Banner causes your warcries to have infinite power (i.e. infinite Rage generation). General's Cry has a low inherent cooldown and this build uses warcry cooldown tattoos to get the CD to ~1 second. Every 1 second, you will gain max Rage if your Rage has dropped below 25. The end result is, you can end up sustaining RVoB for over 30 seconds. Demo video.

Snapshotting
RVoB will snapshot the buff from warcries, Ambush, and the damage buff from War Bringer. These buffs will affect the ENTIRE duration of RVoB. This build automates General's Cry so it is constantly consuming and gaining rage to take full advantage of War Bringer's damage bonus. Ambush is used before every cast of RVoB in order to get a huge amount of crit chance and crit multiplier.

Phase Run
While the primary duration of Phase Run is active, you will get a 30% damage boost to your RVoB. Even though the gem text says the buff is only active during the secondary duration, this is NOT the case with my recent testing in patch 3.24. Demo video.

In order to sustain Phase Run 100% of the time, this build uses Blood Rage while mapping, and the Sword mastery against bosses (8% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge when you Hit a Unique Enemy).

Using any ability while Phase Run is active will cause Phase Run to deactivate. However, triggered skills (Call to Arms, Automation, and Cast when Damage Taken) do not deactivate Phase Run. If you wanted to make the build even smoother, you could Automate the majority of skills in this build, including Berserk, in order to keep Phase Run active at all times.

Playstyle
Activate Blood Rage & flask buffs at the start of the map.

1) Use the "Main Combo": Ambush - RVoB - Phase Run.

Repeat throughout the entire map when these skills are off cooldown. Since these 3 skills are ALWAYS used together, it could be a good idea to put them right next to each other on your skillbar.

2) Against a tanky rare monster or a boss, switch to Blood Stance, place your Ancestral Warchief/Protector totems, then Berserk. Then, repeat the Main Combo.

3) Throughout the fight, repeat the Main Combo every 4-5 seconds.

Note: Recasting your Main Combo while you already have your RVoB active will cause your RVoB's Rage drain to reset to 3 Rage/second.

This build is not designed for league starting. As a second character, this build is most easily leveled using Hollow Palm technique. If you want to run as sword and board the whole way, you level with splitting steel.

You can switch to RVoB around level 70, after you have acquired the minimum required gear (see next section) and have roughly this skilltree. (The Deep Breaths wheel can be replaced once you have enough warcry CDR tattoos)

Minimum required gear
Redblade Banner
Marylene's Fallacy
Tattoo of the Tukohama Warcaller (as many as possible. Ideally x18)

Upgrade priority for 10-15 div budget
Tides of Time belt
3 divine sword (see crafting suggestions below)
Gear to cap spell suppression
Chaos resistance gear (aim for >0% chaos resistance on character)
Lightning coil

Upgrade priority for endgame/aspirational gear
3 mod large cluster jewels
Forbidden Flesh/Flame
Watcher's Eye with Pride Impale mod
If you cannot find Watchers Eye with the purity of fire mod, find a Lethal Pride with %phys taken as fire.
The Green Nightmare
Ancestral Vision & ailment avoidance gear
Lightning Coil corrupted with reduced crit damage taken
Endgame sword (see crafting suggestions below)

3 divine sword
Start with fractured jewelled foil with T1-T2 added physical damage
Deafening Essence of Zeal
Orb of Annulment to remove all prefixes and leave one open suffix
Benchcraft Can Have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers, %phys / chance to impale, Hits Can't Be Evaded

Endgame sword
1) Start with fractured jewelled foil with T1 added physical damage. Perfect fossil to 30% quality.
2) Deafening Essence of Zeal until you hit T1 global crit multiplier
3) Orb of Annulment until you have only attack speed & crit multiplier on the sword
4) Suffixes cannot be changed
5) Veiled orb.
6) Craft %inc fire, cold or lightning damage to block caster mods
7) Unveil %phys/chance to impale. If failed, craft "suffixes cannot be changed," scour, and go back to step 4.
8) craft Hits Can't Be Evaded
9) Tempering orb until desired mod