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MY DUAL CLAW AUTO-ATTACKER BERSEKER BUILD

By Imada

A fun and well designed build for a great class!

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Guide Index

Overview

TABLE OF CONTENT:

1 - SKILLS:

2 - SKILLS ANALYSIS:

3 - LEVELING:

4 - ROTATION:

5 - HOTKEYS:

6 - STATS:

7 - SPELLS:

8 - PET SPELLS:

9 - TIP:

10 - BEST-IN-SLOT ITENS:

11 - BEST SOCKETS:

12 - ENCHANTING:

13 - VIDEO

14 - OTHER GUIDES

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TABLE OF CONTENT:

1 - SKILLS
2 - SKILLS ANALYSIS
3 - LEVELING
4 - ROTATION
5 - HOTKEYS
6 - STATS
7 - SPELLS
8 - PET SPELLS
9 - TIP
10 - BEST-IN-SLOT ITENS
11 - BEST SOCKETS
12 - ENCHANTING
13 - VIDEO
14 - OTHER GUIDES

1 - SKILLS:

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HUNTER
Howl 15
Blood Hunger 15
Executioner 15
Rampage 1

TUNDRA
Stormclaw 1
Iceshield 10
Shatter Storm 1
Rage Retaliation 11

SHADOW
Shadow Burst 15
Battle Standart 15
Shred Armor 15
Red Wolf 15

SKILL POINTS LEFT: 3
You can use these points to increase rage retaliation or frenzy mastery
You can also take 12 points from blood hunger, leaving it at level 3, and along with these 3 skill points, get eviscerate 15 or ravage 15, but then it won't be an auto-attack build...

2 - SKILLS ANALYSIS:

Howl is a great buff/debuff. Every berseker build should maximise it.

At late game we'll fill the charge bar very quickly, so most of the time the berseker's auto-attacks will be critical. This makes blood hunger a valuable source of healing and Red Wolf a nice skill.

Executioner is very important for an auto attack build with dual weapons.

One point in rampage is enough to trigger it ocasionally.

Stormclaw helps hitting multiple targets, one point is enough.

Iceshield is a great defensive buff against ranged and spellcasters, at level 10 it grants 100% reflection.

Shatter Storm is a great crowd control even with a single point.

At level 11, rage retaliation has no cooldown, which means that for each attacker, every one second their attacks will be retaliated, and it also works against ranged attackers. It's a great skill at level 11.

Shadow Burst is the main source of healing. This skill is extremely important to keep you alive.

Battle standart has a great buff in an area. It's a must.

Shred Armor is one of the best passive skills bersekers have.

WHY NOT Battle Rage?
1 - The physical damage reduction is just for physical damage, which is not the biggest bersekers' problem, and at late game with the right sockets and equipment we'll reach 70% or 75% damage reduction.
2 - The bonus damage is not that great at late game, it's equivalent to +20 str for each monster hit, and at late game with the right enchantments we'll reach at least 1000 str. Also, the worst bosses comes alone.
3 - each skill added to the rotation of skills exponentially reduces the rotation effectiveness

WHY NOT Shadow Bind?
1 - extra damage from criticals are not transfered. This build relies in criticals.
2 - each skill added to the rotation of skills exponentially reduces the rotation effectiveness

3 - LEVELING:

As soon as possible, take the skill point form eviscerate and put it at shadow burst.

Skill priority:
1 - getting level 1 of any skill
2 - increasing the level of active skills while you feel confortable about mana
3 - increasing the level of blood hunger, executioner and shred armor
4 - spend points as you wish

It really helps to have another char some levels above your berseker and level them simultaneously, so you can farm better equipment, specially claws, for your berseker. It's needed only if you're playing elite with this berseker build.

When at new game +, you'll really need to farm 14 riechliu and 6 limoany before going to new game ++. Research the metods to farm the phase beast challenge "avoid the lava" for riechliu and "protect the crystals" for limoany.

4 - ROTATION:

1 - before going to battle, stormclaw
2 - shadow burst to geat near your enemies
3 - battle standart
4 - howl
5 - iceshield if there are ranged or spellcasters near
6 - auto-attack for 10 to 13 seconds. If your HP goes low during that, shadow burst only until you recover some HP, then return to auto-attack. After 10 to 13 seconds, return to 1 if stormclaw is down, or return to 2 if you are far from enemies, or return to 3 if your last battle standart is far away, or return to 4.

5 - HOTKEYS:

I like to put Dervish, pet food, potions and Stormclaw at the bar, so I can easily cast them (it also helps remembering to cast them). At the right click I rotate between skills using the hotkeys F1 (shadow burst), F2 (battle standart), F3 (howl) and F4 (iceshield). The left click is for auto-attack, movimentation and picking up itens.

6 - STATS:

Every level, put 4 points in STR and 1 point in DEX.

STR is the main atribute, it increases physical damage and critical damage.
DEX is useful for dodge chance, flumble recovery and to increase critical chance while the charge bar is not full. Also required to use Draketalon set.
FOCUS is useful for execute chance, but at late game with the right equipment, some enchantments and the skill executioner, we'll reach the execute cap.
VIT slightly increases HP. We don't need VIT, we'll increase our HP with sockets.

7 - SPELLS:

Dervish VI
Dual Wielding VI
Weapon Expertise VI
Armor Expertise VI

8 - PET SPELLS:

Heal All VI
Silence VI
Web
Summon Skeleton VI or Zombies VI

9 - TIP:

1 - Keep any VENDOR BOON SCROLL to use it only when you have a lot of money (at least 700000 gold) and at an area level 100 or more (like Tarroch's Tomb at new game +). Then you may have the chance to buy many best-in-slot itens.
2 - Use a town portal at the beginning of each dungeon before adventuring in it.
3 - Don't be surprised if you die a lot of times. It's ELITE difficulty.
If you're dying to much on a boss, grind before facing him again. Explore all the map, do other dungeons, so you can gain some levels and find some items. If it was not enough, re-roll your map starting a lan or internet game with this option active, and grind some more.

10 - BEST-IN-SLOT ITENS:

Claws:
I really like the netherrealm claws for their extra sockets, but you can use any legendary claw you find.

Armor and trinckets:
Draketalon set with Harbinger shoes.

11 - BEST SOCKETS:

Weapon sockets:
if you're using the netherrealm claws, for each claw you should use 1 rambren and 3 vellinque in your off hand and 4 vellinque in your main hand.

Armor/Trincket sockets:
adding extra sockets to itens with less than 2 sockets, we'll have 20 sockets. With the draketalon helmet, we'll have 20% damage reduction. Also, bersekers have a natural 25% DR. So we'll need 6 skulls of limoany to get 75% damage reduction (the cap damage reduction). Fill the rest with riechliu.

12 - ENCHANTING:

With Boris the stout, enchant your itens until you get at least 291 DEX and 1000 STR. Try to get the most DEX as possible from enchantmens in yours Harbingers trinckets, to be able to use the draketalon equipment. If there's any enchantment slot left, use it to increase your FOCUS. Do NOT spend enchantment slots with VIT.
Then enchant your weapons with 3 enchantments of + ice damage each (NOT ice damage per second) with Panosh of the North.
After that search for Karzoki the All-Powerful and give each of your itens any random fourth enchantment. You'll need at least 10 million gold to get all enchantments you need.

13 - VIDEO

BEATING TARROCH'S TOMB 10 WAVES WITH THIS BUILD

https://youtu.be/rmnTQELmXXs

14 - OTHER GUIDES