HiltLess CWDT Berserker Build. I Hurt Myself today.. To proc my CWDT...

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Also, another quick question: Why do you focus so much on physical damage nodes in this build instead of spell/elemental stuff? Aren't your procs what are actually doing all the damage and helping you clear so fast? My guess is the reason is so you can take on bosses better, is that right?

The physical damage works both for cyclone and the physical damage spells. The reason you are not proccing as fast at higher levels is because the CWDT gems are getting higher and at level 18 they need something like 2600 hp to proc. With your sword you would have to hit mobs 26 times for the spells to cast. It started getting slower for me at higher levels. (this is why the OP started using scold's helmet, because he could actually do more damage to himself)

Now if your health is 5k you would have to take a hit of 750 hp for cloaked in savagery to start. That does not happen with the sword and the more HP you have the bigger the hit you need to take. My guy has like 8k hp and I have to take a hit of around 1200 to trigger cloaked in savagery so I can start leeching like a madman. Now you can wait around for something to hit you hard enough, but bosses like Izaro and some other map bosses can start hitting for well over your max health. (Izaro actually one shotted me when i have 7600 hp) So getting your leeching ability to trigger becomes more tricky at higher levels without being one shot. Here is where the OP started to use scold's helm again because he could increase the cost of his cyclone to 300+ and with scold's that is increased by 400% and you take damage that way, which will trigger spells and cloaked in savagery nearly 100% of the time.

The OP even started using fortify at higher levels to avoid being 1 shot.

Hope this helps.

That does help! Thanks a lot for the clear explanation.

Is it possible to use other skills besides cyclone to proc ? Like lacerate or that new skill blade flurry...

What do we need to change in the build ?

Unfortunately there are not many melee skills that have lots of mana cost. I have actually changed my build into a spell caster instead of melee because there are plenty of spells have have expensive mana cost. I use glacial cascade because the base mana cost is like 26 which i can easily ramp up to 400 if i need. but this is only if you are using scold's helm.

The reason I went spell caster is because i could not afford fevered mind jewels at the time and did not want to give up the 6% or 7% life i had on each jewel.

So the conclusion is that at high levels you MUST get a scold's in order for this build to work.

Damn...I wanted to try this build in the new Breach league. Probably the price on a scold's will be a couple of ex at least :/

May I ask Ichtus what kind of build do you have with glacial cascade ?

This is my other account that I play at times. My CWDT build name is Hichthus. Has all the same principles of this build except a different tree and I carry a wand or scepter. post if you cant see his items or tree.

I cannot see it. Can you please make the characters public ?

Or just post his items/tree in this thread if you are worried about privacy.

http://poedb.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAEAAQQHBLMI9AthD6sUIBZvFr8aOBpsG8gfAiL0JIskqiaVJy8qODWSNj02xTbpOlg62DrhPAU8LT1fPfxFnUmxTLNN41BCUEdSU1M1U1JUR1VLVcZWSFhjXfJfP2HiYqxmVGebaPJqQ2wLbIxtGW1sgpuDX4PMg9uExYV7jDaMz5BVkyeXlZf0mjua4Ju1naqdrp7En9-hL6IAplemvqcIrj6vbLc-vOq-isBUwGbDOsauxtjP3dAf1abXz9gk2L3jauQi5FHr7uw47TzvDu9874jv6_Af8YryRfZI-Tf-Cv6P

Pretty excited about the new base weapon ranges buff, it will help the build pre scold by tons.

I will start of breach with the build and most likely update the guide the week after in case someone want to know.

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JohnOldman wrote:

Pretty excited about the new base weapon ranges buff, it will help the build pre scold by tons.

I will start of breach with the build and most likely update the guide the week after in case someone want to know.

I also want to try this build in Breach. Do you have any leveling tips ? I tried various melee skills and they all feel so bad:
- sunder has good aoe but abysmal single target
- eq needs less duration otherwise seems so clunky....
- ground slam feels weaker than sunder on aoe damage and the single target is nonexistant...
- cyclone is great but only if you can manage the costs of it