[2.4] How to smash Heads. Extremely detailed guide about the Facebreaker gloves and builds!

@renroval
Check out the "My facebreaker build" section for the screenshots of my offenses and defenses. 51k cyclone without flasks and onslaught and 90k with them. Keep in mind that my build is pretty much the most defensive one out there. i won't explain for 12123123 time why more damage than that is pointless (you can read my thoughts about in my big post on page 254 for example ) But If you like big numbers you could always use Concentrated effect ( and loose Area of effect radius ) for big dps boost, or you could use the Old One's Ward ( and loose huge amounts of defenses ), you could get rid of determination and use HoA or Haste ( and loose huge amounts of defenses ) or you could respsec defensive passives for more damage passives. It's up to you in the end.

@gosuion
This build provides huge amounts of life regen and Blood rage gives you plenty of leech. I mean cyclone costs 70-something life on cast ... i have ~5600 life and 500 life regen per sec ...

@ShotgunHeavy
Yes the monsterr damage is boosted a bit but also our armour is boosted, the armour equation is much beter now and we have fortify. Overall the build even with the buffed monster damage is much tankier than before. Abyssus? Not an issue, don't forget that abyssus is factored in after everything else, so the 40% increase is really nothing to be worried about.

Again guys ... Abyssus downside is a joke ... you can't feel it at all. It doesn't matter if the hit is big or small because, i'll say it again, the abyssus increase is calculated AFTER the damage reduced by armour. If you take a 1000 damage hit ( and if you don't block, evade or dodge it ) first of all 300 of it is converted into cold. Second the remaining 700 damage is reduced by fortify (20%) so that leaves 560 physical damage. Third it is reduced by the flat 12% physical damage reduction from endurance charges and that leaves 493 physical damage. After that it is reduced by your armour .. now it's hard to calculate the reduction from armour but come on it's safe to say that it will further reduce the damage by 50% so that leaves around 250 physical damage ( from initial 1000 ) and now that damage is multiplied by the 40% increase of abyssus which increases that 250 damage with 100. So you end up with taking 350 damage from that 1000 with abyssus on.

"Monsters hit harder". Yes they do but now you have a flat 20% reduction from fortify ( which is calculated BEFORE armour which means that it makes the armour that more effective , also the armour mitigation equation was greatly improved and now armour is much more effective, on top of that personally my own armour was greatly increased due to some passive skill tree changes. On top of that we get more block ( again due to passive tree changes ) and 6% block from Daresso.

And an interesting fact - after 2.0 i have died - because of elemental bearers + lag + inability to see the ground effect fast enough + me being stupid to not look at the monster mods and once due to volatile flameblood in a high extra life map + giant rare skeleton with extra life mod + reduced max resists.
That's it ... no deaths related to physical damage.


As for blood rage and life regen. In the end you end up with 7.5% life regen and blood rage drains 4% of your life, so that's still 3.5% life regen per second. With let's say 5000 ( again i do have more but 5000 is very easy to achieve )that's still 175 life per second with Cyclone that costs 70 life per use. With 40% less life regen map you still regen exactly 100 life per second ( more if you have more life of course ) And on top of that we have life leech from blood rage ( at least blood rage .. Daresso gives leech, and in my case my ring gives leech ).

Well sudden drops ... of course you'll experience sudden life drops ... i mean .. you do take damage from time to time ... what do you expect to be at 100% all the time and to reduce 100% of all incoming damage ? Permanent Divine shrine ?
Blood rage refreshes when you kill ... are you using quicksilver flask ?
Anyway as suggested in the guide you could always link it to increased duration to pretty much double the duration of blood rage.
And you cyclone costs more because you are using different support gems from me.

Yes i use Saffell after 2.0 in the exact same situation that i was using it before 2.0.
Poacher's Mark as a way to get charges ... well ... it only works if you self-cast the curse every single time when you face a pack ( which i would never do ) Besides Blood rage is not good just because of the charges, it also gives huge attack speed boost on it's own and very nice life leech. With blood rage even though it's just 25% chance to get a charge .. it's really all that you need. SO in my opinion there is no need for Poacher's mark at all.