[3.25] The Warbringer Slaming Serker [League Starter | Cheap | Smash the Atlas | MELEE BUFFED]

Hey Oliver,

Can't actually see your PoB link here but congrats on getting to level 95. This league I've found pretty rippy so that's a decent achievement there IMO.

Had a quick look at your profile and really just a couple things pop into my mind initially.

It would be quite nice to get quality on your shouts as that gives them quite a lot of cooldown recovery. Means you can spam them more often.

Also depending on how often you have Intimidating Cry exerting your attacks that already causes your slams to deal double damage so the watcher's eye mod giving you an extra chance is less useful in those instances. If you just use Intimidating Cry as part of your warcry rotation then you do get more use out of that watcher's eye mod.

I'm with you with regards to the totems though for sure. I even more fully invested in to them on my build but it is annoying having to summon them so often. I only really have the Ancestral Warchief and Vaal version but it's just another couple of buttons to push on an already crowded bar. Still I got used to them after a while but I would be VERY happy if it felt like they were less mandatory to use.

That being said you shouldn't need to swap to the second mastery bar. As long as you set keybinds up for the second mastery bar that don't clash with anything else then you can just use the keybind and it will activate the skill whether you can see the second mastery bar or not. Just takes a while for you to remember what you put where but once you do it feels fine. But yeah, you definitely shouldn't be using alt or whatever to swap to the second mastery bar every time you want to cast something on it. That would drive me insane!!!

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oliverjl1 wrote:

Hi All,

Hope you're doing good.

So I just got to 95, and wanted to post my POB Here.

Just as context.. I'm not very good at POB and or very good at PoE, so there is likely a lot of mistakes have been made.

I decided to take a cluster jewel that gives Overlord and Feed the Fury - my theory was that i'm ALWAYS leeching mana when I spam slam - so the dmg and speed increase should be good (please let me know if this is wrong..)

I've also picked up a watcher's eye with 2x pride buff (double dmg and phys dmg - as well as a vitality buff to boost).

I feel as though something is off though. I'd love some inputs.

Also.. I'm sure someone can understand this, but I am absolutely sick to death of casting totems - my fingers are going to explode keeping swapping to the secondary skill tree. Am I doing this wrong?

Can you please post your skillbars so I understand how you guys are setting up please?

@Quariakas - I'm also wondering whether I could swap to a different weapon setup now. I have the money for it, I'd just need some guidance as well.

Thanks a lot guys, and sorry if my POB is super noob and there's lots of mistakes.. I'm mainly a d3 player, quite basic.

I actually like the piano style of play because it makes me feel more like I'm playing an action game than a point and click game. I played Righteous Fire for a few leagues and it was kind of boring that I could do it all with just the mouse. So about our skills. Did you know that weapon swapping allows you a full second set of bars? I use that for my auras so that I don't have to put them on the second set (which for me is +cntrl).

Here is my default bar


Here is my bar+cntrl. I only have one totem because I decided to skip the second DPS totem to include Molten Shell and Cast When Damage Taken for more defense. I have Herald of Purity here because it needs the int from Tidebreaker for me to activate. I am just used to hitting cntrl+F to throw out my totem because it is just used before I fight a boss, pop an expedition, or open a breach.




Ok, so here is the big one. I use a weapon swap to activate all of my auras but Herald of Purity. I swap to my secondary set, and this is my bar I use to activate all of them. The default swap key is "x" so you hit that, activate the auras, then hit "x" again and you are ready to rock.



So I am leap slamming with D because it is naturally the key I use easily.
Then, I pianoQ,W, and E while I fight. I will hit R and F when I need to refresh Blood Rage or pop Berserk. I only hit cntrl when I need to refresh the totem, which is only during harder fights.

Does that make sense?

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OUAriakas wrote:

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oliverjl1 wrote:

Hi All,

Hope you're doing good.

So I just got to 95, and wanted to post my POB Here.

Just as context.. I'm not very good at POB and or very good at PoE, so there is likely a lot of mistakes have been made.

I decided to take a cluster jewel that gives Overlord and Feed the Fury - my theory was that i'm ALWAYS leeching mana when I spam slam - so the dmg and speed increase should be good (please let me know if this is wrong..)

I've also picked up a watcher's eye with 2x pride buff (double dmg and phys dmg - as well as a vitality buff to boost).

I feel as though something is off though. I'd love some inputs.

Also.. I'm sure someone can understand this, but I am absolutely sick to death of casting totems - my fingers are going to explode keeping swapping to the secondary skill tree. Am I doing this wrong?

Can you please post your skillbars so I understand how you guys are setting up please?

@Quariakas - I'm also wondering whether I could swap to a different weapon setup now. I have the money for it, I'd just need some guidance as well.

Thanks a lot guys, and sorry if my POB is super noob and there's lots of mistakes.. I'm mainly a d3 player, quite basic.

I actually like the piano style of play because it makes me feel more like I'm playing an action game than a point and click game. I played Righteous Fire for a few leagues and it was kind of boring that I could do it all with just the mouse. So about our skills. Did you know that weapon swapping allows you a full second set of bars? I use that for my auras so that I don't have to put them on the second set (which for me is +cntrl).

Here is my default bar


Here is my bar+cntrl. I only have one totem because I decided to skip the second DPS totem to include Molten Shell and Cast When Damage Taken for more defense. I have Herald of Purity here because it needs the int from Tidebreaker for me to activate. I am just used to hitting cntrl+F to throw out my totem because it is just used before I fight a boss, pop an expedition, or open a breach.




Ok, so here is the big one. I use a weapon swap to activate all of my auras but Herald of Purity. I swap to my secondary set, and this is my bar I use to activate all of them. The default swap key is "x" so you hit that, activate the auras, then hit "x" again and you are ready to rock.



So I am leap slamming with D because it is naturally the key I use easily.
Then, I pianoQ,W, and E while I fight. I will hit R and F when I need to refresh Blood Rage or pop Berserk. I only hit cntrl when I need to refresh the totem, which is only during harder fights.

Does that make sense?

This was super helpful mate, i'd actually completely forgot about X! That makes my town-life so much easier - thanks.

I've also moved some skills around to different keys to make my life geenrally easier too.

I'm going to look into a different Eye now.. I can't believe I thought that the cry only had a chance of Double Dmg! Damn, I need to pick up another one now. Probably +Phys +Crit reduction

Thanks also for the cry quality reminder.. I totally meant to buy them last week and just completely forgot.

I've noticed on your PoB btw you don't use Vaal GS, is there a reason for that, and if so - where would you place it on your skillbar if you did?

I really appreciate the help mate. Really good tips

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oliverjl1 wrote:

This was super helpful mate, i'd actually completely forgot about X! That makes my town-life so much easier - thanks.

I've also moved some skills around to different keys to make my life geenrally easier too.

I'm going to look into a different Eye now.. I can't believe I thought that the cry only had a chance of Double Dmg! Damn, I need to pick up another one now. Probably +Phys +Crit reduction

Thanks also for the cry quality reminder.. I totally meant to buy them last week and just completely forgot.

I've noticed on your PoB btw you don't use Vaal GS, is there a reason for that, and if so - where would you place it on your skillbar if you did?

I really appreciate the help mate. Really good tips

I don't use the Vaal skills ever because I never had a good place for them on the bar! Now that I use the weapon swap technique I am going to try it out and put it on ctrl+R.

Brill - that's actually similar to where i've put mine. I'm testing CWDT and MS now and god I much prefer the 1 (+vaal) totem and everything just feels so much smoother at my fingers!

Holy shit. I don't know if I had changed my hotkeys years ago but I never knew you could activate the secondary skill bar without seeing it. I feel like that's going to improve my combat effectiveness by like 15% ooh baby. Thanks!

I feel pretty strong now. I just need to craft my gloves and boots better. Been spending divines worth of veiled orbs trying to get exactly what I want. :)
Do you guys have any suggestions or critiques for me? If I switched to str fire dmg, would I really get that much more damage?
Specifically the weapon. I haven't really seen anyone provide a strong answer lately as to when we should forgo tide bringer for a different weapon. Ever? Lol. I have inspiration and increased phys as the implicits on mine. Feels smooth.

Does combust from infernal cry actually scale with our damage? Or is it essentially a .001% boost? I have 5 warcries with second wind in my body armour. With ancestral cry in my offhand. (I know the offhand exerts will disappear when I swap back to my mainhand. I just use it for "each time you have warcried recently. Basically useless logistically)



Edit: POB: https://pobb.in/U2VEHLuDl3nI

I think Brother @Frawrst has abandoned us for the real world and his responsibilities therein.

Can't believe he's not getting RSI like we are 24/7!

hey im wanting to run this build, is there a flask setup that i can use for cast when charges full? so much buttons i wanna make that part easier :P

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DrHarvey12 wrote:

Also just started levelling this yesterday. So far it's been nice and smooth. Still in the tweaking stage to work out how much attack speed I need to make the build good vs other types of damage nodes / toughness.

I'm deviating a little bit in that I'll be using an axe instead of a tidebringer. I'll still have a 7-link though as I'll be grabbing the Tukohama's War Herald Chieftain ascendancy from a Forbidden Flesh / Flame Combo. Hopefully that will work out ok.

Also using the Gull & Blunderbore combo for a lot of extra AoE. Hoping I can then use Conc Effect without feeling like I'm sacrificing too much AoE. I'm trying to make it so there's less variance in the damage each hit so not planning on using a Ryslatha's or the Ruthless support gem. That might all change later down the line though if necessary.

blunderbore is one of my all time fav combos for speed mapping. the chieftain jewels are neat too, but i think i prefer shadow slams vs the fist of war

once you hit a good amount of dmg for mapping, i generally go more aoe/attackspeed/defensives. i used awakened inc aoe alot since it has a more dmg multi too iirc