[3.2 Raider - Cyclone] Aggnog's flaming meatball massacre

hi, what do you mean you don't need to 6-link the axe? is 6 socket enough? all 6 support gems supports molten burst all at once?

Yep

You guys should try Berserker instead.
Same if not more attack speed, way more single target damage. Of course you lose out on movespeed which hurts clear speed a bit but you gain tons of life leech and and some mana leech. You then travel through scion to get vaal pact to benefit your insane berserker leech and you become almost unkillable as long as you don't get one shotted.
Avatar of fire is free for the picking also. Don't need to spend $ on Xoph's amulet. Grab elemental focus near the witch too after that and drop RT. Choose a few accuracy nodes near templar and now you're rolling.
You also don't need Blood magic because of the mana leech which means even more extra damage with Blapshemy+Flammability, Herald of Ash and you can also use Arctic Armour which helps and chills everything around you when you spin around or get hit. You don't get damage mitigation from it tho.

Running fast is fun with Raider but with the Berserker's leech and extra damage you can kill bosses way easier and you don't need to worry about life flasks at all. Trash mobs are going to die regardless sooner or later.


Let me know what you think. It's basically clearing build vs insane leech single target dps killer.

Here's my build:

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hellzer wrote:

You guys should try Berserker instead.

Avatar of fire is free for the picking also. Don't need to spend $ on Xoph's amulet.

The Avatar of fire as itself is actually not that good. The most important bonuses from the amulet are fire penetration and the unqiue affix.

Still, i also think berserk will be better, even though i play as a slayer myself)

Thanks for making this build. I'm curious on what you think about Mathils passive tree compared to yours? I've asked him as well if you could give your input here is the link to his. I'm just trying to figure out what is better for this build. http://poeurl.com/V3x

Mathil just dropped acrobatics and some life for more damage. You can do that if you want but its less safe. His pathing at marauder might be more efficient if you don't want the aoe from templar but its a personal choice.

I wanted to facetank all bosses so I got max dodge and it worked out even on t16 bosses. Everything in this game is just a trade off.

Thanks!! This is really nice build. However, I wonder is Culling strike necessary?
What if I replace it with some golem ... maybe stone golem?

Awesome build man. Is this good for farming uber lab?

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Aggnog wrote:

Mathil just dropped acrobatics and some life for more damage. You can do that if you want but its less safe. His pathing at marauder might be more efficient if you don't want the aoe from templar but its a personal choice.

I wanted to facetank all bosses so I got max dodge and it worked out even on t16 bosses. Everything in this game is just a trade off.

Thank you for the quick response. I loved your video, so it has inspired me to make this character. It was honestly just hard to figure out which was the best between slayer, raider, berserker. I'm just coming back from a long break away from this game, and it seems a lot of ppl say those 3 are the best. I started with slayer and got part way and then seen your video

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Aggnog wrote:

I wanted to facetank all bosses so I got max dodge and it worked out even on t16 bosses. Everything in this game is just a trade off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86KFt6bHKE&t=4m28s
https://www.twitch.tv/aggnog/v/106657528
https://www.twitch.tv/aggnog/v/106663076


Except that this is not facetanking. You run away from daresso when he isn't even regenerating, you run away from pheonix to kills his adds, you definitely can't tank twinned malachai either and I am not even talking about his 1st form smash.

Evasion/dodge builds aren't facetankers and never were designed to be in the first place especially when they don't have vaal pact. I don't blame you. They just rely on a chance to dodge/evade aka luck whereas armor/block builds are more consistent.
A berserker version could possibly facetank them because of 100% damage leeched + vaal pact which means your HP goes back up immediately to full if you get hit.

But again we're talking about bosses only.