[3.10] Budget and SSF friendly Bladestorm Berserker in depth guide. Uber Elder on 5l.

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JSquare wrote:

Is there a benefit to using dual Paradoxica's? I would assume so...

I guess I do not understand the purpose of Paradoxica + high pDPS foil. I figure that the bladestorms deal damage according to the attack that generated it so Paradoxica's double damage doesn't apply to the high pDPS foil in offhand.

SSF HC so I doubt I'll get double paradox let alone one. Just want to understand the mechanics better.

Enjoying the build so far - items modified a bit to actually have some chaos resist for survival (big hole in the PoB as it is).

It mostly is for convenience.
Paradoxica is very slow and a quick 2nd weapon with the "ambidexterity" node on the tree you get very quick paradoxica hits while having smooth attack speed over all.

I've progressed fairly far with this build now and wanted to share my experience and give some feedback. Playing in SSF. Here's my PoB (LocalIdentity branch): https://pastebin.com/QsL2aUM1

Overall it's a fairly solid build, and functions well in SSF context as long as you start yourself off with some decent weapons. In my case, I happened to find a near perfect Scaeva on a previous character which I'm still using now.

I've killed Elder several times and Sirus twice without much issue, the latest at A6. Trying to farm up fragments and watchstones to do A8 Sirus, Shaper, and Uber Elder.

Haven't had any success crafting a great jeweled foil or farming paradoxica, but my current weapons suffice.

I've made the following modifications to the build:

• Aspect of Carnage instead of Rite of Ruin. Rage generation takes too long to get good value out of Rite of Ruin in many situations, and once at max Rage and with everything else popped I'd sometimes be bordering on OOM and missing some attacks because of it even while hitting a target the whole time (due to very fast attack speed). In addition, it makes the opportunity cost of using Berserk much higher.
• Various other passive tree changes. The Gladiator's Perseverance cluster instead of Vitality Void as it just seems like a higher value version, and the Brutal Blade cluster instead of a couple jewels since I don't have good jewels to use.
• Running Blood Rage - basically free damage and can be turned off with a weapon swap if necessary.
• Culling strike on Ancestral Warchief Totem - very good for bosses.
• Steelskin on left click supported by inc duration and blood magic. As of last patch, you move AND use instant abilities all in one click so this is amazing for Steelskin uptime as it's just automatically activated on cooldown. Blood magic seems necessary to avoid ooming yourself while walking around not leeching.

My main issue right now is that I haven't been able to complete wave 20 of the simulacrum. It's possible I've just been getting unlucky with damage mods on that wave so I'm going to keep trying. However, I have identified the issue as specifically being stuns resulting from the very high damage. As soon as I get stunned once, I'm almost guaranteed to get stun-locked to death. I tried spec'ing Rite of Ruin, but because it takes almost 4.5 seconds to reach 25 Rage and activate stun immunity, it just wasn't reliable enough. Unwavering Stance isn't really an option because giving up the 50% evade change from blind is extremely bad.

If you have any suggestions for that please let me know. Thanks for the build!

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Dolmur wrote:

I've progressed fairly far with this build now and wanted to share my experience and give some feedback...

Thanks for the extensive writeup mate.
Its hard to judge how well a build functions a few patches after I created it and your progression sounds very good to me :)

Next steps could be tailwind boots or culling strike gloves.
Steel ring crafting with crit multi essence might give good results too.
For the belt you might want to try a warlord or hunter slam when you find one of those or craft a stygian vise with catalysts for life or resistance.

Greetings

I am currently leveling this build, almost 60. I did manage to get a paradoxia Just need to get the dex for it by the time I can use it. I did want to know though the sword says it does double damage is that also the damage that is rolled on it i.e if it has 89% physical damage it does double that as well as the attack speed or just the damage roll..

Any other pointers would be great not having any trouble at all so far. Just wondering how it will do in end game. and such for this league.

so far its fun though.
thanks for the build

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sojurne wrote:

Greetings

I am currently leveling this build, almost 60. I did manage to get a paradoxia Just need to get the dex for it by the time I can use it. I did want to know though the sword says it does double damage is that also the damage that is rolled on it i.e if it has 89% physical damage it does double that as well as the attack speed or just the damage roll..

Any other pointers would be great not having any trouble at all so far. Just wondering how it will do in end game. and such for this league.

so far its fun though.
thanks for the build

Paradoxica double damage is the last damage source that applies.
All damage modifiers, flat damage and anzthing else from other sources will be applied first. And that will be doubled.

This build can do all content?

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bernera wrote:

This build can do all content?

With enough investment it should. Yes

Hey,

great job on the build. I'm really enjoying it. It's very well balanced. So far I've done only Uberlab and Atziri and both were basically right-click and watch stuff. Just got my 1st Paradoxica so now i'm thinking about offhand.



Should I pair it with another paradoxica or use 400 pDPS foil? Can't test both since I don't have enough ex left. Right now I have Scaeva in my offhand and 6l chest.

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JohnMoron wrote:

Hey,

great job on the build. I'm really enjoying it. It's very well balanced. So far I've done only Uberlab and Atziri and both were basically right-click and watch stuff. Just got my 1st Paradoxica so now i'm thinking about offhand.

Should I pair it with another paradoxica or use 400 pDPS foil? Can't test both since I don't have enough ex left. Right now I have Scaeva in my offhand and 6l chest.

A Paradoxica will provide more dmg while a 1.7+ attack speed foil will feel much smoother. In the end it s preference but I think the smoothness of a fast foil is too good to give up. Only thing I would take over a fast foil in offhand is a saviour.

Thanks for the build it's done pretty well on the whole and it is a lot of fun leap slamming and raging around. I@m at the point I'm thinking of minmaxing for the rest of the league and thinking how to spend currency now. A better second weapon to complement the Paradoxica and good helm enchant, maybe some better gloves.

I'm not sure what cluster jewel to go for. The one I have slotted in seems substandard.

https://pastebin.com/rLvcTJMJ

Any advice is appreciated.

I tried Sirus for the first time and although damage was good I died very quickly, this is probably due to not knowing the fight more than anything else. Has anyone managed 20 waves of simulcrum with the build?