3.11 [HARVEST UPDATE] One with Nothing Zerk. 12-22m dps Cyclone 7.6k Life

TLDR: Build lost 30% damage (but berserk is much more reliable to make up for it), and gained shit tons of defense. Much easier to gear. Almost tempted to call it buffed overall since damage was never an issue.

Harvest PoB Stats at lv 97:
7.6k HP
12.2 mil pure phys dps (~18mil with 11 second berserk, 22mil with Pride Watcher's Eye)
78% chance to evade (with jade flask and Wind Dancer penality; 85% if hit recently)
48%/38% Dodge/Spell Dodge
50% phys damage reduction (should be extra reliable from imbalanced guard)
1213 Dex
13% Block
76/76/76 Res
10% more damage taken
20% less damage taken if not hit recently

What changed?

One with Nothing jewel itself was not changed for Harvest, but we were still nerfed (mostly. there are a few buffs):

- Dual-wield lost its 20% physical damage bonus

- The warcry node on zerker was gutted, so this build loses some more damage% and the life recovery from warcries.

- Impale (Deep Cuts) is no longer available on cluster jewels. This means we have to rely on the tree for impale stacks (which isn't so bad because of where the new node was placed)

- Mob Mentality no longer gives rage, so there are less ways to stack perma berserk for the 50m dps version, but the berserking nodes again helps with this. Now you can maintain 11 seconds of berserk without any jewel nonesense.

- Split Personality stacking is limited to 2 (another good change, imo), so super high budget version of the build is slightly nerfed (my build used 3, so it's not much of a loss).

My opinion on this is that all is justified (except for the warcry node on zerker: that one is just silly). One With Nothing was flat out OPOPOP, and is still OPOP even with these changes.

However, there are a few buffs:

- The revamped berserking nodes next to the scion life wheel (which we already path past) are great pickups for +10 max rage, and 40% longer berserk uptime.

- The new Forceful Skewering impale nodes (also pathed by the life wheel) helps make up for the lost deep cuts, and since it has 20 strength within out Fluid Motion jewel, it gets converted to Dex.

- The new Imbalanced Guard keystone synergizes amazingly with the hybrid armor and evasion playstyle, and likely makes picking up Acrobatics worth it as well for much better defensive layering.

- The now accessible Wind Dancer keystone also works perfectly with this defensive layering, and it doesn't cost any extra points since we have to drop a cluster jewel anyways, freeing us to path next to it. With this change, I would pick up an abyss jewel with life and blind on hit.

- We naturally get much more reduced physical damage reduction % (overwhelm) for our hits from the tree.

Out of all of this, my general feeling is that early gearing is going to be much easier, our defenses got hugely buffed (except for the warcry life recovery), but there is a slightly lower damage ceiling.

You must use the One with Nothing Unique Jewel on an outer cluster jewel socket. This jewel gives a massive 14-20 phys per 10 dex to our attacks while we have no weapons or gloves. It also gives a nifty 60% more attack speed modifier, and gives use Dual-Wield bonuses (even more attack speed
.

Because of this, we want to scale dex as much as possible.

The main conundrum of the build is how to compensate for the loss of sockets (you only get your 6l and 2 4ls), as well as get enough defenses to cover the loss of life/block from shield and gloves slots. Because of this, some people choose to go Glad or Champ to get other defensive options, but we're choosing the highest dps build as a Berserker. Despite Aspect of Carnage, Berserker actually has two built in defensive layers from ascendancy alone: Warcries have a 2 sec cooldown and restore 25% of your life and mana, and the triple rage effect from Rite of Ruin grants 30% increased movespeed, which is obviously quite beneficial for cycloning out of delirium explody effects quickly. And honestly, I feel the higher dps from zerker actually is the best defensive layer available.

There is another reason to go with a Marauder based ascendancy which I'll get into later which gives a lot of bonus hp, but all in all, I feel Berserker is the proper way to build Hallow Palm fisting builds.

NEW HARVEST POB (lv 97 rough guide):
https://pastebin.com/4kR8DvqM


OLD 3.10: My Lv 92 tree (no Pride watcher's eye, but large budget). This check the trees drop down menu in the bottom for leveling setups (basically rush so you can use the jewel, and level any dual-wield to get there): https://pastebin.com/fTJtRkZ5

Lv 81 tree (lower budget): https://pastebin.com/YRnAU7ZR

As you can see from the lower budget tree, split personalities with just dex are already an 8% damage increase each, so try to get some that give evasion or armour as a stand in for life. Also, this budget tree still gets 5.6k life and 12mil dps, so it's not like you need expensive gear to make the build feel good.



If you're not feeling savvy enough to prioritize what to level before a high level tree, let me know and I can put in a more detailed leveling section

You have many options for how to create your end skill tree. I would say that the frame is quite set in how you travel across the tree, but there are a few nodes you travel past which you may want to consider.

Resistances: Depending on your resistance situation, Diamond skin (Marauder start) and Cloth and Chain (south of Duelist) are close, easy ways to grab large amounts of %All Res. Survivalist (east of Ranger) is another good option, possibly even for your final tree, as it grants evasion, all res, and max cold res.

Battle Cry (just left of Duelist start): For 3 points, you can make warcries instant. This is entirely based on your preference. I personally don't mine the .25 cast time as an instant flask replacement and proc refresh (once every 8 seconds at least). I bind my warcry on my left click, and don't think this node is worth the 3 points, but it's entirely based on how you feel it interrupts your cycloning.

Vaal Pact Keystone: Doubles your leech rate, but removes your regen. This is annoying if you have the mob mentality notable on your medium warcry cluster jewel as it causes you to not lose rage, and thus suffer from berserker's hp loss. However, it's a very large amount of leech/recovery, so perhaps throw it on, see how your survivability feels, and just remove it for 1 regret if you feel the degen too badly.

Acrobatics/Phase Acro: Acrobatics is an entirely viable choice in this build. It scales well with all your evasion gear, and phase acro protects against spells (something which we're weak against). There are a few reasons I don't choose this in my build. Firstly, it's 5 points, which is a lot, but could be worth it for what it gives you. However, we already path through quite a bit of armor scaling: Marauder start and Soul of Steel, and Acrobatics would half that. We also will be using a Lion's Roar granite flask, which would again scale this. Because Berserker has such fast life recovery, I think it's better to take more hits but less damage from them so that we can recover in between instead of getting one-shot. It's a tough call, overall.

Iron Reflexes: The opposite of Acrobatics, but only requiring 2 extra points as opposed to 5, IR provides much more physical damage reduction and powerful molten shells at the expense of our dex bonus to evasion and ability to evade. While this may be powerful for molten shell alone, I don't think it's worth giving up our naturally high evasion rating from dex stacking.

Here is the gear I'm currently using. Some of it can still be quite heavily upgraded, but it's close to what you'll be aiming for.

You almost *must* use the following uniques:



These are almost always going to be the BiS items for your build. Luckily, because they are all quite common, lesser rolled ones will never run you too much. You save tons of money on the 6l alone (I payed 90c for mine and then did the prophecy myself to upgrade it). I only recently upgraded my chest to this (throwing off all my res balancing in the process)


After these items, you want to focus on getting as much res on two rare jewels as possible, as well as a blind on hit abyss jewel (while still getting life). Then get rings and a helm which can fill up your res. If you're struggling (and you will) you there are some great 2 pointer +%All Res nodes on the skill tree for you to pick up before finding the perfect gear).




For your flasks, I recommend a granite and jade flask. The reason being that hybrid defenses are extremely strong, and stacking evasion combined with the Marauder start/soul of steel cluster gives a lot of armor.


Finally, you can and should be making the most out of the new cluster jewels.



You want to place the large cluster jewel in the proj damage socket above acrobatics. Because of how point hungry we are, only the best nodes get chosen out of these. The best nodes you can have on large jewels are Deep Cuts and 2 Jewel sockets: nothing else matters (they're just nice bonuses). If you look at the PoB, you can see that we don't take the 5th notable on one of our large jewels, simply because it's the only one which requires 2 points to get and it lower in dps gain per point.

Jewel Aquisition Guide:

Your medium jewels can have some diversity, but I personally advocate for Rapid Infusion as it gives More % damage after gaining infusion from Cyclone, as well as 5% movement speed. Hex Breaker is also an option. If you combo this with Enduring Focus, you no longer need Cry Wolf as a mod on a warcry medium jewel and don't need to use enduring cry. The warcry jewel can offer you a way to intimidate (roughly 8% more damage) and more Phys damage reduction and damage. I've recently started to use the mob mentality notable, as it gets us 5 rage whenever we use a warcry. This effectively allows us to stack up rage before engaging a boss (very useful for Sirius, as it's hard to get to full rage against him).

Finally, assuming you can get them for a good price, these star jewels then go in the sockets of the medium cluster jewels, as well as in 2 other sockets on the tree:


All of these give 55 life and 55 dex (except 1 which gives 43). It might not seem like a lot, but these are *huge* values of our two most essential stats. Because of these jewels, you can push over 7k life and 1400 Dex. The downside is that their prices fluctuate a lot (they were 100c earlier today, and now the only ones online are 5ex), but if you can get them for 1 or 2 ex each when you're at that point in end game gearing, they are well worth it. The Glad and Champ version of this build cannot get the same utilization from these jewels since they start closer to the eventual jewel sockets. However, I should note that while these jewels are BiS, they are by no means necessary and regular jewels with life and res are going to be very good for you in the meantime. Also, using a jewel with dex and evasion or dex and armor isn't too bad either, as it will still give the amazing dex bonuses, as well as about 400 of either evasion or armour.

(Please excuse my potato lag)

Drox Kill: https://youtu.be/GoYf2N51Yng
Baron Kill: https://youtu.be/kPSLyBjw1jI

Sanctum (slow aura + lag + playing like an idiot was brutal last phase, but deathless is doable): https://youtu.be/4vsinNrfJl8

T15: https://youtu.be/OEq5TihJV5M

T16 80% Delirium Deathless (despite the server's best efforts)
https://youtu.be/15ECN7WeL5s

Smooth and Buttery Elder https://youtu.be/cImxcE1pMss
Deathless Uber Elder https://youtu.be/VzFca87EJa0

More coming soon

Frenzy Version: Using almost the same gear as what I have now, and with a little investment in frenzy charges, I get 37m dps, but if you construct the build specifically for frenzy, you will hit more. You might be required to have a -15 mana cost chest for this, but I haven't tested it to know if just rings are enough for mana sustain. https://pastebin.com/ktWigYSt