[HC] Warbringer Sunder Totem Tanky build

Build on Hardcore around crazy defences - no energy shield - off meta
Currently lvl 92 on HC

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Pros&Cons
Pros

- Tanky
- Budget
- Decent DPS
- Lazy Gameplay (1 button)


Cons

- Not fast (-10% move speed from shield)
- Lazy Gameplay (1 button)
- Leveling as a melee warrior is a pain on HC

Skill Tree + Gems

Gear
Two Hand Mace - +6-7 to Melee Skills
Gloves - +2 to Melee Skills
Amulet - +2-3 to Melee Skills
Shield - The Wailing Wall (works great with Renly's Training - 40% base block chance)
Body - Cloak of Flame (40% phys go to our 86-90% fire res)
Other pieces - HP, flat phys dmg, res, mana

Defence explain
The Wailing Wall + Renly's Training = We can block ALL hits with 40% base block chance, so we can easy get 75% block

Cloak of Flame + Unnatural Resilience + max fire res from tree and jewels - We don't need to stack armor anymore, we got 40% of phys damage taken as fire (90% res)

+4 max res from tree

Wooden Wall - 20% of Damage from hits is taken from your nearest totem's life before you

Ancestral Spirits - take projectiles, aggro, gives us buffs

Options
1. Titan can be much better if you get corrupt on The Wailing Wall gives increased block chance (33% in base, so we don't need Renly's Training)

2. You can try weapon swap with +7 and +7 to deal much more damage

3. Gear min max (hard on HC) - max flat phys roll on rings and gloves

Last edited by Mrork#5799 on Jan 8, 2025, 8:51:14 AM
Last bumped on Jan 8, 2025, 9:52:28 AM
Looks fun. How did you level? Did you level with totems? That is really my only concern about trying it out because I play HC as well and melee can be a pain to level in HC.
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Bowtye#7246 wrote:
Looks fun. How did you level? Did you level with totems? That is really my only concern about trying it out because I play HC as well and melee can be a pain to level in HC.


You can use Hrimnor's Hymn from lvl 1 - it doubles totem damage (you can keep him till late game)

Take The Wailing Wall on lvl 21 and Renly's Training from 1st ascendancy- gives nice survivability (Giant's Blood needed)

Then just flat phys on gear, + gems on gloves and amulet

It's hard in general to level, but i bet any warrior build is hard to level on HC.

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