Yo, just wanted to do a quick little video talking about the Apple Slammer that I've been playing on my stream, as I get some questions.

It'd be nice to have one little video where I can kind of talk about what's going on, how I've solved some problems and everything with the build.

There will be gameplay at the end, worry not. You see I've got the scarabs here with the strategy I've been doing from Milky, you know, my Milkman, uh, doing Glacier with Anarchy.

Uh, it's a really tough one so I might die. I don't know.

I'll do the Conor thing where it's just like, we're doing it live, you know, like, uh, so yeah, whatever. But it's Glacier, you're doing Anarchy, there's going to be, you know, a bunch of ghosted Exiles, a up light with only bosses, but whatever.

Okay, to the build, Apple Slammer. Uh, so what's going on here is Rue posted a POB for a build concept in his Discord before league start.

I thought it looked really cool, so I wanted to try and gear out, you know, grind all the currency, get the gear for it and swap from the old Slammer, right?

Just like a generic ground slam Berserker, which I was still having a bunch of fun on, right?

It's not why I swapped, and I actually was having even more fun on that, as you'll find out, because there's a lot of little problems and little quirks to solve on this one.

It's, you know, it's not like the most busted build in the world or whatever.

Uh, it's not going to be like the best build this league, but it's really fun and now that I've solved a lot of those problems.

I am really enjoying it. Uh, you know, despite all of that stuff, uh, this is definitely not a budget build, but it's quirky, it's fun.

You can learn some cute little tricks, you know, it's like the Path of Exile inspiration.

You can see all the little tricks used on this build, maybe use it on yours, but definitely do not try to recreate this on the budget.

Uh, it's going to be rough, it's probably going to suck, and it's going to be a bad time. So if you do want to kind of play this, you definitely need to have currency and you have to have like a problem-solving mindset.

Okay, so I'm just going to leave my path of building for my character below, uh, just because the original POB from R was just like a concept thing and you know, it's not it's not my build, okay?

It's not my build, uh, originally, you know, although I added ITB it. Um, but no, uh, yeah, just so that if you do want to try to follow along, um, you have like a lot of the little problems solved.

So let's get into actually what's going on here, uh, instead of just me sitting here and uh doing a bunch of whatever.

Okay, so the pros, what's going on with the build and why I played this over the normal Slammer, okay?

So number one is you get 90 max res pretty easy. We'll talk about that later.

A ton of recovery pretty easily also talked about in a little bit. Fun Earth shatter instant pops, okay? Earth shatter, if you don't know, you have to war cry to pop them.

Uh, a lot of the default ones will just be like doing it manually with auto exert and general cry on the Berserker or whatever setup for auto exert setups, that's how you would do it there with like General's Cry having a lower cooldown, auto-exert popping those up for you.

Uh, but with this, we have such low cooldown that we don't even have to use General's Cry.

Uh, you get a bunch of max rage. So what's actually going on here, uh, and the one weakness of the build will be chaos res, and we'll talk about that in a little bit.

What's actually going on and the interesting part of the build is that we're using the Eternal Apple Spirit Shield.

So this triggers a socketed war cry skill when you lose an endurance charge with a 0.25 second cooldown, and you lose endurance charges when you reach max.

So you'll see I have two minimum charges, I have one minimum charge here and one minimum charge on my amulet, and so we only have three max charges, two min charges, so we just need to get one endurance charge.

How we do that is enduring composure, and I've added this recently as it is fairly necessary.

And this is one of those like little quirk things, but mob mentality as well. Uh, this gives us frenzy charges too, which is really nice, uh, because we don't have frenzy charge generation anywhere.

It's just, you know, attack speed, more damage, uh, but this as well. But originally, you know, just enduring composure, and this is, you still want enduring composure and it is still really nice to ensure you always have that endurance charge guaranteed every time without fail.

And we want that because we are going to be triggering vengeful cry and ancestral cry and enduring cry. So vengeful cry, this requires us to take a savage hit, and we, we'll talk about that in a second, but when we do trigger this, we get a ton of rage, and we are scaling buff effect on this, right?

Uh, and so the whole TLDR on the build is we're triggering every war cry.

We get a ton of war cry buff effect, a ton of duration for our war cry buffs, we get a ton of war cry cooldown recovery rate, and this allows us to have constant war cry buff, uh, buffs from, from our shield and from seismic, which is the only button that we're pressing.

We get a ton of war cries popping all the time so that we have our attacks always exerted even though we have a ton of attack speed, and our Earth Shatters are always popping even though we're not manually doing it ourselves or even using general cry.

Uh, we have like a ton of attack speed, a ton of rage. Uh, it's just like pretty fun and then, you know, a bunch of recovery on top because of all the recoup that we're getting.

And so with Vental Cry giving us a lot of max rage, but requiring a savage hit, how are we doing the savage hit?

So how we actually do the savage hit is going to be a battle mage cry with forbidden right now.

This will only trigger on attack, and we can kind of trigger it a little bit. I'll just turn the volume down. We can trigger it a little bit through echoes.

You'll see even though I'm not hitting anything, I will be be able to trigger vengeful cry.

Um, but the consistent trigger while we have our flasks up and our seismic and with a ton of armor to always have it be a 15% will be the battle mage forbidden rite.

Even if we get a lot of PDR, even if our flasks are up and all of our armor wouldn't allow Echo to hit us for a Savage hit, um, because of our mitigation and whatnot.

The Forbidden Rite will always do it because we have less than 60 chaos res.

Uh, mine could be a little bit closer. I think it's, it's 61 or 62 is the threshold for a 15% Savage hit.

Um, but yeah, 53 chaos resistance here, that is what allows Forbidden Rite on the Battle Mage to consistently trigger Vengeful Cry to a Savage hit, and then we get our endurance charge from Mob Mentality, or we're getting it from Enduring Composure, right?

Both of those sources, and we want kind of both of them.

Maybe we don't even need Enduring Composure. Uh, I'm going to mess around with that, and that's one of the things where you're going to have to tune in if, follow along if you want to know the little updates and how I'm solving all the other little quirks.

Um, but Vengeful Cry is a little bit hard to maintain consistently, uh, with only Enduring Composure.

And so that's one of the things that I've been messing with just because of not having the endurance charges line up with the little cool, right?

You can only use it during that window. It's got a two-c window where it's usable if you're endurance charge you know, whatever, like something's can happen, it might trigger a different one.

You know, there's like some weird little trigger stuff going on where Vengeful wasn't up as much as I wanted it to, but Mob Mentality does ensure that it is, and so we get a absolute crap ton of rage, and with all of the rage effect that we have on a Berserker, going from like 42 rage here, I'll go, uh, we'll go trigger it.

actually going from 42 rage to 97 with all All the Rage effect and getting a bunch of rage not only from Ville which does give us rage when it procs, but also from our war cries granting us additional rage from this mastery here.

Uh, and then this tree is, it's a a work in progress, right? I just unspec these, but, uh, it does look silly the pathing and whatnot.

Uh, it's better in the POB because I'm just messing around with stuff, but that lets us get a ton of rage.

All the buff effects, we can keep berserk up a lot and so vengeful cry is like an 80% damage boost in the POB. It's absolutely bananas how much this gives, right?

55 max rage with all the effect with the attack speed, eventually I'm repicking up once I level up the rage mastery that gives us move speed, so then we get like 50 move speed while that's up too.

It's like you get so, so, so much um, it's really neat and that's like a really cool thing.

Another really neat thing with all the buff effect that we're getting and I should mention this is part of why the build is not budging um and how we're getting max power and all of that.

Uh, we're doing the Chieftain seon Suns Roar and this is the 30 war cry buff effect and war cries have infinite power um Chieftain node and this is how all of our war cry buffs are so huge, right?

The 30 buff effect is nice, but the infinite power, that's the big part.

We don't have to be nearby anything, we don't have to scale war cry power, it's infinite so it's always maxed out.

all the time uh you know no minimum scaling and then going from there and so we also get to use ancestral cry which gives us all resistance but more importantly, Max resistance.

And so you'll see I have 90 Max res um without ancestral cry I'm even capping my res with ancestro cry.

Um, ancestral cry is giving me six Max res, uh, which is kind of crazy. Uh, it's a little bit scuffed, but really at the start of the map I just like make sure I hit a little bit and then it right like I just hit the ground.

Echo counts as a hit and during composure prox ancestral cry easily because it's not on some cool down Savage hit meme.

Um, so you know as long as I've have attacked in the last like 5 seconds or something, uh, it's you know trivial to keep that up, but that is one more Quirk of the build uh just cuz I can't be asked to cap my res if I just attack once at the start of the map I'm totally fun, but it gives us a bunch of Max res and that's really, really cool because then we have 90 Max res without having to use flasks, so we get to do a bunch of other neat stuff with our flasks uh and we get to only only need this investment um plus a double two Max res Jewel and plus two Max cold res on our gloves here uh and you'll see why I don't have it on my body armor in a little bit, but that's really neat and one last thing is enduring cry.

Now, because of berserker getting all of that rage right, getting getting 97 Max uh total rage and it's even going to be more than that once I pick up battle trance and I could even do the seven max here, right?

So Really, it's going to be 107 or 114 rage, which is just bananas, but we're going to lose 0.1% of our life per second, uh, while we have all of that rage and so that's a lot of life for degen, right?

That is a ton, uh, and during cry even though we have all of the buff effect, even though we've scaled it like gig hard and it's max power, uh, we get like 1,200 regen from this and a lot of that, most of it, almost all of it is eaten up just by that, uh, life degen node because of our rage and so that is one little quirk of the build that needed to be solved since we are triggering forbidden, right?

Since we're hitting ourselves with Echo and since we're not only doing that, but we're also taking damage, right? If we're going to be a tanky build, we're going to be taking a lot of hits, we're going to be taking damage, right?

And so we need not only to sustain the Forbidden, right, and the Echo and the rage degen, but to also over sustain enough where taking damage is comfortable without having to like sit here and pop life flasks all the time or a bunch of other random stuff and so that's where I had to add a bunch of recoup and I might be working, changing, or whatever, but the way I have it now is pretty comfortable um and it's why you can't have two max res on the body armor and why you have to use the jewel and the pit because I wanted this 15 damage taken recoup as life.

Uh, this is like upgraded as well to exceptional, so it's a, you know, a bigger number. Uh, we have that here on the Vermilion.

I rolled this to have big life and big recoup. Now I'm going to have to roll this at some point, but I was just getting so tired of sitting there and running through my currency crafting and I spent like six hours on stream crafting all of the gear, and then I was like, oh crap, I'm taking too much damage.

I need to retool the whole build and I spent like another like hour getting recoup everywhere.

I was just like, just like, just whatever, T3 life, fine enough for now. It's got the recoup on there.

So we have recoup here, recoup here. We anointed infused flesh to get recoup up here as well and we took the—I love these notes this league.

Uh, we took the attack speed leech with the 25 damage taken recouped his life if my life leech filled my HP.

And so whereas on the zerker, we had overleech, on this build we have, I believe it's like 75 or like 73 to 75 recoup and that with the life recoup occur over 3 seconds, you know, and these regen masteries with the enduring cry is really nice, right?

Regeneration, R, uh, is really, really nice with all of that. So it worked out really well, you know, it doesn't even feel like wasted points.

All of that was enough where the build feels comfort except when I take chaos damage, which I'm going to squeeze, you know, that last little 7% chaos resistance in there.

And so with that now the build was comfortable, now the recovery was solved. Now I'm still undecided on if I want the Leap slam to be exerting stuff, um, because you'll notice I don't have the I I don't have the war C cannot exert.

Travel skills craft nor the mastery, uh, and that's just so that my leaf slam is exerted, the echo uh hits myself when I use leap slam and it triggers my enduring composure and it could also trigger the Forbidden right, triggering, you know, all my other stuff, uh, you know, with the endurance charges and whatnot, uh, and that's kind of just like an extra little safety thing, although it does waste some exerts.

It will just ensure that my stuff doesn't fall off and you know, like, especially with ancestral cry, you'll see, like, if ancestral cry is down, I have 69 res, uh, until I get like my resistances more solved, you know, that's just it is what it is, um, but I'm fine, you know, cuz like all it all it takes is me attacking and I'm running around attacking while I'm mapping anyway, um, but that's like one little thing and then all I've got to press outside of this right?

I have you see I have Earth Shatter here and then I've got seismic cry and that's it.

I just press seismic cry and this gives an absolute ton of armor again with all the buff effect that we have with our war cries and whatnot, uh, is really, really nice, but there's a lot of little things that I'll be changing around with the build, I'm sure as time goes on, uh, many little problems, many little quirks, um, extra little min maxes, especially as I gain some more levels and not do such crazy rippy stuff, but I think that's about covered.

I I'll go over all of the gems and my gear and whatnot um quickly and then we can look over the PO and we'll do some gameplay.

So helmet, obviously echo of creation, you know, I've got the top damage roll uh, you know, for skills deal damage and then it's a little bit lower, right?

It's like 17, it's 15 to 20 for how much damage I take. Um, but it honestly isn't even that big a deal.

I have so much armor, Fizz, and whatever going on, plus I have 75 recoup now anyways um okay so for this uh in the body armor we've got seven PDR, some life regen, uh big life and then some armor, right?

And the implicits, Fizz shift and Rec coup, those are pretty important. Amulet is Big Life, big int, some all reses and mid endurance, right?

You got to have M endurance. This ring, you know, you need some strength. Oh, because oh, I didn't even mention it. Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, there's just so many little things in this build.

I'm so sorry. Uh, I mentioned a lot of war cry CDR. We use 16 of these tattoos, okay?

16 tattoos. These are like 80 chaos each. This was bananas. I could not believe how expensive all these tattoos were um and because of that we're giving up so much strength and because the new armor bases require so much strength uh I got a T1 fractured strength roll on my Vermilion uh just because we give up so much tattooing away all of our strength uh and then this amethyst ring I need to roll this more um you know it's like what it's all attributes and Chaos res right cuz uh I didn't want to have to take any other random nodes and getting enough dexterity to use V Hatchet, which I enjoy more than the lower attack speed bases.

Um, you know, I just, I like the higher attack speed bases, especially on this when I have so much war cry cool down recovery rate.

My attacks are already so exerted at this point, it's okay that you know, my Leap Slam feels a lot better, uh, especially while the rage is like in that ticking down stage where I'm like losing rage.

Uh, this makes it feel a lot better. This axe isn't like too crazy, but it's, it's pretty nice. You know, T6 hybrid T3 uh percent, you know, definite, and then fractured, and I crafted decks on there cuz, you know, I just couldn't recraft my gear to fit this on there after I didn't like the other axe.

Um, yeah, apple, we already covered. It's got corrupted with reduced extra crit damage, which is nice combined with the armor Mastery.

Uh, the boots I use for shock immunity, uh, that's really big, right? And they've got big life.

I got hybrid on there as well as the fracture, a little bit of life regen, a Big Res, and then the avoid being chilled, right?

So chill immunity here, shock immunity here, freeze immunity from Brine King, uh, which frees up my minor, uh, because I don't have to care about ignites actually nor poisons.

Um, so my minor Pantheon will be five additional physical damage, uh, uh five reduced physical damage uh taken because I'm hitting myself and this counts and does stack up.

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