Berserker Slammer: Defensive Upgrades and DPS Boosts Summary

The character, now level 92, focused on defensive upgrades, added Light of Lunaris Jewel for significant damage increase and invested in AOE for better slams.

### Berserker Slammer Update: Level 92 Character Progress and Build Adjustments
* 🛡️  The character is now level 92, with changes made to the passive tree for **increased defense**, including dropping the **CDR wheel** and **War Cry cannot exert**.
* 💎  The addition of the "Light of Lunaris" Jewel has significantly boosted damage output, with a tooltip increase from **100k to 150k**, representing around **35% more damage**.
* ⚔️  The build now sustains endurance charges through charge duration, with a **20-second duration for endurance charges** when the banner is popped, providing **perfect uptime for frenzies and endurance in boss fights**.
* 🌐  A determination reservation wheel has been added to the build, although the skill is currently only at **level 19 and weaker** than in the previous league.
* 🏛️  Boss rushing with **mod tier effects** and **Maven destructive play nodes** has been a focus for early currency generation and Atlas progression, working towards **Maven and Uber Elder fights**.
* 🎯  AOE investment has been increased by adding three nodes for **40% AOE**, while dropping Fist of War in favor of **Awakened Melee Physical Damage** and **Awakened Brutality** gems.
* 💰  Awakened gems are currently affordable, with **Awakened Melee Physical Damage** and **Awakened Brutality** purchased for about **50c each**, and **Awakened Elemental Focus** available for only **10c**.
* 📈  Future upgrades may include a **rare chest piece for better armor**, a "**Doryani's Glorious Vanity**" Jewel, and a "**Massive Thread**" Jewel, with a goal of **improving Fizz mitigation and overall power**.

hello and welcome exil to the day 2 update to the Berserker Slammer. we are now a level 92 character. we have changed our passive tree around, mainly just trying to get a bit more defensive. I decided to drop the CDR wheel here and drop the war cry canot exert. this is should be fine for the most part. in terms of our seismic cry and our rallying cry, we will still have those while mapping, but it will mean we'll have a bit more downtime on intimidating for single Target. eventually I'd like like to add war cry CDR tattoos, so that way we do H still have intimidating cry for every single one of our attacks, but for right now I just wanted to get a bit more defensive with the character, get an endurance charge, get a bit more life, and so that's what we did there. I also added in what I would say is a very big upgrade, which is the light of meaning Jewel, the uh new king of the Mist drop is basically parandis pack from last

league, and this Jewel right here with this area is just massive value. If you can't really tell, we have a ton of nodes in here. Just look at the difference it makes on our tooltip. 150k versus 100K. It's like 35% more damage, something like that. It's a lot of percent damage works perfectly for the tree, and I think I'd recommend it as a high DPS upgrade that you get. And outside of that, we also added in charge duration onto our, basically, sustain now for our endurance charges. So when I pop my banner down, I have a 20-second endurance charge on or 20-second charge duration for our endurance charge, which it takes about 9 seconds for these to get generated, and we have perfect uptime for our frenzies and our endurance in boss fights if I choose to actually pay attention and manage it. And that's how we're sustaining endurance charges, and we also got this reservation wheel, which allowed us to fit determination into our build, although it's still level 19, not very.

well leveled up and determination is significantly weaker than it was last League. Not giving us a lot of flat armor, which hurts a bit with CMS. Eventually, I may decide to upgrade to a rare chest piece just to get a real armor number. I haven't fully decided. I kind of like having a little bit life number, but we'll see. There's some other things I plan to do with probably a doran's glorious vanity Jewel here, maybe a massive thread here, but for the time being, I'm fairly happy with how this character turns is doing so far, turns out turn so far, whatever. Anyways, I've also been doing a lot of Boss rushing. I have a bunch of mod tier effect, and I have the Boss Rush nodes for Maven destructive play, and this is what I've been doing for a bit of my early currency, as well as just trying to progress my Atlas and stuff like that, getting my way to doing Maven and Uber Elder, so that is the thing. I also invested into a bit more AOE investment.

on the tree. If you'll notice, our slam should be consistently larger. I grabbed these three nodes for AOE here, which gives me about 40% AOE, and I dropped Fist of War. Fist of War had a 1.8-second cooldown. I really like the animation of it, but at the end of the day, it's just not very good when you have an attack speed of like two times per second, which means basically every one in four attacks we get off with which would not be a very good consistency. And I swapped it out for Awakened Melee Physical Damage, which I am now leveling, same with Awakened Brutality. I'm also leveling that as well right now. Awakened gems aren't very expensive. I bought both of them for about 50c each, so we'll see if that remains to be the case. But if you're looking for an upgrade to your character, Awakened gems are currently fairly cheap. I even dropped an Awakened Elemental Focus, a gem that normally I think is like a multi-Divine gem. I checked on trade, it was

only 10c on trade, and I was like, I'm not even going to sell this. I'm just going to hold on to this and use it for a future character type of thing. So just a little shout out if you're looking for upgrades for your character, awaken gems are just really, really affordable right now. We'll see if it stays that way. I think they'll probably rebound and get more expensive, but that's just the current thing that's going on. Um, yeah, but as you can see, it's really chill. I am quite happy with the big AOE and just get good slamming these guys, get a nice little slam on or stun on this dude from a leap slam alone, and then, oh, and then not die. You were fine one shot this other guy that came in for maven's witness, but it all worked out okay. This map had 150 gain as extra. These are no joke Maps. I'm obviously doing a bunch of mod rating on it. I'm going to continue to increase.

that as I get more Atlas completion and whatnot, and uh, hopefully we keep leveling, we'll see how that goes. Is at the very least, it's been working pretty well. Um, yeah, this is the day two update. I'm once again tired, and I'm going to go to bed. Hopefully you guys have enjoying the league, and uh, hopefully this gives you some insight of how to continue to upgrade the character. I think the goal for tomorrow probably going to be looking at getting some better rares. Like, for example, a big rare belt would be fun to do, getting maybe, for example, a, um, oh, the Uber shaper slam helmet. The thing about that helmet is I need need to solve my Fizz mitigation, so I'm still working out the details of how I can do that, which the details are probably, I might have to say goodbye to my Cal's heart, which I don't really want to do because it's so much life, but at the same time, it is forcing us to give up a lot of sockets, which

could give us more power and uh a big thick armor chest piece goes a long way for mitigating Fizz our biggest weakness on this character right now anyways hopefully you guys enjoyed excuse me as always take care and have a good one peace out Exiles

Berserker Slamming Into Endgame Day 2 Update

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The character is now at level 92, with a revised passive tree focused on increasing defense.

The addition of the "Light of Meaning" Jewel has significantly boosted damage output by approximately 35%.

Charge duration has been incorporated for better endurance charge sustain during boss fights, and the determination has been added to the build using a reservation wheel.

Reevaluating Character Build and Gem Choices in Path of Exile

Considering a switch to a rare chest piece for higher armor values and potentially adding a Doran's Glorious Vanity Jewel for more life.

Boss rushing and investing in AOE on the skill tree for better slam consistency.

Replacing Fist of War with Awakened Melee Physical Damage and Awakened Brutality gems for improved attack consistency and currently affordable Awakened gems.

Reflections on Current Gameplay and Future Upgrades

The speaker plans to keep an awaken gem for future use rather than selling it due to its current affordability.

They share their satisfaction with the game's AOE and their character's performance, including surviving tough battles.

The update also includes plans for future upgrades, such as obtaining better rare items and solving Fizz mitigation issues.

Improving Character Strength and Defense Against Fizz

Prioritizing a big, thick armor chest piece can significantly help mitigate Fizz's impact on the character.

The focus should be on gaining more power to address this current weakness.

It's important to prioritize these aspects to enhance the character's overall performance.