[3.1] JUGGERNAUT/BERSERKER 1H+Shield Max Block&Spell Block Tank, Atziri Killer+a BoR version

Intuitive leap has the shortest of the 3 ranges. Just hover with your mouse over the jewel slot here and you'll see the range: http://cb.poedb.tw/us/passive-skill-tree/

I initially planned specing into it, but it actually isn't worth it. If you want more survivability, it's much better to simply go for Soul of Steel.

Checked up on it, The radius is indeed small... The fking crap POS jewel .... hardly saves us one or two points

It allows you to get Revelry, which is quite a nice notable. I'll have to see if it will be necessary at all, though. Mana might be completely fine without any other mana nodes except the reduced mana cost of skills + life ones at templar.

What about aura's? now that tempest shield is a buff ... I am running tempest hatred and herald of ash.

arctic armor is now at 25% reservation
Hatred, Haste, 50% reserved
Discipline - 35% reserved
, Herald of * - 25% reserved

Hatred arctic armour herald of ash?
It would be nice to run haste but the higher attack speed and the mana would get over pretty quick...

There's a lot of things to choose from, and it comes down to personal preference. With the good gear I have, I believe I'll go with hatred + herald of ash.

Hey, I recently decided I liked playing a tank type character enough to throw down basically ALL of my currency and find pretty nice gear to play this build that you made.

However I am seeing a lot of comments about physical damage reduction on a few of the core gems in this build. Will such a huge phys damage reduction break this build? Are there tweaks I/you can make to compensate for these changes? Or perhaps theres something else that you think might work with similar gear/tree for the expansion next week?

What is the future of this build in the awakening expansion?

Infernal blow was only slightly nerfed in terms of AoE, but otherwise, I think it's equally viable as before, especially since the corpse explosion damage does not reflect anymore.

However, since the last few melee gems GGG released are simply mechanically better since they do not require melee splash (Static Strike and Ice Crash), I will make a Static Strike and a Ice Crash version of this build, along with the Infernal blow one. The gear remains completely identical, the passives are almost completely the same. That way, the core of this build (extreme tankiness and survivability) is preserved, while there will be more choice over which skill to choose.

for the new leagues?
Cool will be something to try out.

Im not really happy about theese jewels either, they look a bit useless to me.

Btw can you use melee skills with soul taker if u have 100% mana reserved?
In that case i think i will invest in one, the only drawback is it has less dps than my current axe.

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krenderke wrote:

Im not really happy about theese jewels either, they look a bit useless to me.

Btw can you use melee skills with soul taker if u have 100% mana reserved?
In that case i think i will invest in one, the only drawback is it has less dps than my current axe.

You're always free to not invest into any jewel nodes :)

Yes, you can use melee skills with ST and 100% mana reserved. It is definitely a viable option.