[POE2 EA] CheapBunny's Sunder Totem Warbringer | Armour Breaker | Zealot's Oath
 Introduction I wanted to make a pure physical Shield Wall build and utilizing Warbringer ascendancy break armour to negative to deal massive damage, but it was quite underwhelming, both Shield Wall and the Warbringer's ascendancy node (Imploding's Impact), I might try the build again if it get any buff in coming patch. Then, I find Sunder is quite potential because of the 100% crit on fully broken amrour enemy, but the downside is its super slow attack speed. I thought totems can somewhat mitigate the downside of Sunder, and boom, here's the build. As what I expected, this build has substantial single target dps, but lacking a bit in map clear. This is a rather simple build, doesn't have much complexity in it, but it is definitely a fun build to play with if you are not a zoomer, have fun :). Build Thought
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The build started with Sunder, I thought that it has very high potential damage wise, because of the 100% crit on fully broken amrour enemy, so I wanna make a build with it.
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 Why Totem?
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Sunder has super slow attack speed and it does not feel good for mapping, multiple totems can mitigate that. Sunder itself also cannot break armour, totems allow the character to use another skill to apply fully broken armour after placing the totems down. How to apply Fully Broken Armour?
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This build cannot really ultilize break armour equal to % of damage dealt, because it relies on totem to do damage, and does not do much damage on itself. Therefore, a flat armour breaking skill like Armour Breaker is good choice to apply Fully Broken Armour, it also got bonus attack speed while dual wielding.  Build Mechanic
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Damage Scaling - Double Dipping on Melee Skill Level
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In this build, the melee skill level plays a crucial role, offering significant damage boost. Unlike in Path of Exile 1, skill level now notably increases attack skill damage. The Sunder Totem setup, which utilizes both Sunder and Ancestral Totem, scales multiplicatively, essentially double dipping the melee skill level. At higher level, each additional melee skill level provides approximately 20% more damage. In short, you want to get melee skill level on every possible gear (weapons, amulet, gloves). Zealot's Oath and Life Regeneration
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In POE2, pure armor isn't great at the moment, so I went with Atziri's Disdain to get a good amount of Energy Shield (ES) along with some armor. Since ES recharge is hard to come by in this build, a solid recovery method is needed. The answer is Zealot's Oath. The Warrior has great access to life regen, I got around 220 life regen (660 with the second weapon set) which get convereted into ES regen when life is full, providing a reliable source of both Life and ES sustain during combat. 2nd Weapon Set (Defensive stance)
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This build puts a lot passives into life regen and block chance with the second weapon skill/set. With 660 life regen, it can get back to full health from 0 in just 6 seconds, and swapping to this set also gives 66% block chance. Dropping totems and switching to the second weapon set gives a huge defensive boost while still letting the build deal damage, making it a solid mix of offense and defense. Defenses
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1. 3.9k eHP 2.7k Life + 1.2k ES 2. 260 life regen (660 life regen/66% block in 2nd weapon set) 3. Zealot's Oath 4. 7k Armour 5. 70% Chaos Resistance 6. 20% Damage from hit taken from Totem (Ascendancy) 7. 10% Physical Damage Reduction from Jade Heritage (Ascendancy) Videos
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Early Access Standard League The Trialmaster https://youtu.be/y4BkI2ZWWYM T17 + Difficulty 4 Map Boss https://youtu.be/u_MuQN_HJy8 Breachstone + Difficulty 2 Xesht https://youtu.be/0JTkTLQodg8 T16 Difficulty 4 Stone Citadel https://youtu.be/E8Lp7-ofU_4 Difficulty 1 The Arbiter of Ash https://youtu.be/wNPgkbKavK0 Skill Tree, Gears & Gems
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(The tree is the final tree of the build, do not follow the nodes taking order) 1 Jan 2025 - [POE2 0.10] 92 lvl character (Latest) https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/z115630v Ascendancy
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 Answered Wall -> Wooden Wall -> Jade Heritage -> Renly's Training My other build guide
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Last edited by cheapbunny#0890 on Jan 18, 2025, 9:35:46 AM Last bumped on Jan 20, 2025, 9:39:10 AM
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