Berserker Slammer: Ascendancy Changes and Map Progression

The Berserker Slammer's update focuses on optimizing ascendancy choices and utilizing war cries for sustained rage and double damage.

### Berserker Slammer Update: Improved Ascendancy Path and Skill Adjustments
* 🔨  The player decided to prioritize **Crave the Slaughter** over Warbringer as the first Ascendancy, due to the **fun factor of increased attack speed** and the **importance of maintaining rage**.
* 💧  Swapping out of Blood Magic was made possible by adding a **Mana Leech source** through a jewel or ring, allowing for **more flexibility in gem choices**.
* 🗡️  Utilizing level 1 Exerted War Cries, which provide the same benefit as higher levels for the player's purposes, due to **focusing solely on exertions**.
* 🛡️  Current defensive setup includes **Herald of Purity** and **Blood in Sand**, with plans to switch to **Herald of Purity** and **Determination** for **more tankiness**.
* 📊  The character maintains a **minimum of 10 rage**, combined with **Rage Mastery**, to ensure **consistent rage generation** during boss fights and map clearing.
* 🔥  The player effectively gains **18 war cry** with **20% increased Valor gained** in about **9 seconds**, allowing for frequent use of **War Banner** and **charge generation**.
* 📏  Plans for future skill tree development include **grabbing endurance charges**, **jewel sockets**, and eventually transitioning to a **staff build for increased tankiness**.
* 🏆  The character has been successfully **one-shotting bosses up to Tier 10 maps**, demonstrating strong performance and player satisfaction with the **Berserker Slammer build**.

hello and welcome back to Day One update for the Berserker Slammer using ground slam of Earth breaking. Currently I have worked through some things that I decided I like a lot more in the character. Number one, while I was leveling, I decided I was actually going to go for crave of the slaughter as my first ascendency instead of the warbringer. So I switched the order of those two because the attack speed just seemed like it'd be really fun. And then also rage loss happens very fast and this 2 seconds is actually quite important, I believe, to make sure you maintain rage. So that felt better for a first lab in my opinion. And I waited on the exert nodes until I was ready for cruel lab, so that's a significant change. The other big change is we swapped out of blood magic and all it took was one Mana Leech source. So I have a jewel with Mana Leach. You can get Mana leech on a ring, those two options Fizz attack leech ring or Jewel both

will work, and then all you need is these two points. Maybe get a reservation or reduce cost. And then if you put on three exerted war cries as level ones, they give you basically the same benefit at level one as they do level 20, 'cause we only care about the exertion portion, and thus they're very inexpensive to cast, and they're not really that much of a problem for us considering our Manalee sustains our attack and those war cries and our leaps suing around, and it works quite well. We also have currently um Herald of Purity plus uh Blood in Sand. I'm probably going to end up swapping this to Herald of Purity plus Determination. Eventually I'm going to get a little bit more reservation efficiency on the character, but right now the tankiness is completely fine for just cruising through white maps. I'm just not too worried about it. Um, currently I will also say we are doing a few things that I like quite a bit, which is number one.

we have a minimum of 10 rage, and we've combined this with the rage Mastery. This means any downtime of boss fights in the initial part of the map. We always get our getting rage from our war cries cuz they three war cries getting, and this means we're never going to lose rage. We stay at 50 rage very consistently, and then if we want to start using berserking, that plus all of our rage on hit feels very good. Outside of that, I also have something I like right here, which is gain five Valor when you war cry with the 20% increased Valor gained. I actually get 18 war cry from the total of the three war cries going off all at once. So, within about what's the cool down on these things right now, the cool down is 3 seconds. Within about 9 seconds, I get full 50 Valor, which means I can place a fully full effect War Banner for damage. I might end up swapping this to going for suppress or some of the

other options. Just go tank. I might end up doing just for security of it, but that also procs endurance charges and frenzy charges, which I'm eventually going to grab the Mastery here for 100% charge duration, and that's going to be how I end up having permanent uptime on my endurance and my frenzy. Going to start grabbing endurance charge here, juwel socket here, here endurance charge here, and all that other stuff is going to help us out for a lot of our mitigation. One thing I want to add eventually is fortify. I am planning to be a staff build eventually because I think um eventual aity Rod scaling with endurance charges will be a lot more tanky. I wanted to go axe to begin with just cuz it's better damage, but I want to swap to that stuff eventually. Speaking of early Mastery, I recommend the rage on hit when you're initially starting, but once you get through the campaign, I would swap to enemies. Kill from the rage gain once you have the basically once you get the rage.

from your war cries that sustains you enough that you can afford to do a Mastery like this. And this will take care of annoying porcupines which I died a couple times too. And then I clicked this Mastery and I said porcupines don't matter anymore. Outside of that early uniques tanu Anis. I'm not sold on this. Is just something I wanted to try out feel out it's okay. I'm probably going to go rare a rare instead cuz rares are really good now. Um I'm doing Vols and Immortal Flash. This solves the D gen from ride of Ruin by itself and gives you a little bit of Nets to stand on top of it. I just like these two items early on. They're very strong. And then I did a comms. This is not going to be our late game but early game a th000 life. I I looked on trade it was 4C. I was like yep I'm buying that for 4C a th000 life Legacy comms two.

weeks ago on standard it was four MIRS. So pardon me, I will take that thank you very much. Uh, also life on rare s use the trade search weighted sums and that's how you search for those. And then I did the weighted sum search for 450 pdps a and then I scaled it up a little bit higher and this is the ax I got for about bu. I'm getting tired. I went ahead and did two sanctums. I did a quest sanctum and a level 75 sanctum. I did them actually fairly easily on this character. Surprisingly enough, I wasn't expecting to be able to do them on the S on the uh this character but it worked out pretty well. Let's get into The Silo map. I can show you how this character looks. We are at slpl 9 hours and 3 minutes and this is what the Berserker looks like. I'm very happy with this character. You probably can't tell cuz I'm kind of tired at this point. Well this character turns is is kind of just

doing really well. It's one-shotting basically every single boss. I haven't had a boss I haven't one-shot yet, and I've been all the way up to T 10 Maps, so life is going pretty good. And you can see right there how the rage, how the banner gets fully filled up, and then once it's at 50/50, I know I can proc it to generate some more charges. So I see my endurance charge drop, boom, proc the banner, more charges. League mechanic I really like, except for the verium ore. Why on Earth did they give us back the click and hold mechanic that no one liked from Crucible? Hopefully they can walk back that decision, 'cause it's a bad one. We have basically every single time we slam the gr, we have permanent uptime of our double damage war cries. Like here, I'll show you real quick what this looks like if I scroll over our six war cry exerts. We're just always proing War C. If we full-on spam, we eventually run out, but it's pretty good.

up time. That's the advantage of the Berserker versus other ascendancies. They can't do that. They will lose their double damage. Unlucky to them, I guess. And I need some unveils, so I'm buying those, okay. But anyways, I'm just hopefully this is showing it pretty well for you. The idea of where we're like really slimming around but we are just pretty much completely sustained. Go kill this real quick 'cause I can. We're just completely sustaining the double damage hits. You can see a counting down. We there's like a if we if we full spam eventually it won't be up but it's very little like you don't have to think about it and it's basically every hit is a double damage slam as for seismic um and rallying those are always up and then look at this okay. Well I chose a boss with phases but we would have killed him in in half a second. I have been one-shotting basically every single boss I've run into this whole.

time and it's just it's so dang satisfying. This character, I am just having a lot more fun than I really thought I was going to be. Yes, see HP bar is gone. He's going to go to his next phase and uh, that'll be it for the video. I, uh, I want to go to bed. Uh, you know, 9 hours in, we put in our time. I'm ready to go to bed. Tomorrow, we can try to go and push for like, you know, some other bosses and stuff, got some M completion, did two sanctum successfully. I'm pretty happy with how the day went. This is our Atlas currently 38 out of 150. Did do a ton and I'm going to go to bed. How good everybody.

Berserker Slams Are Amazing :D

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The character has made significant changes to their skill tree, prioritizing Crave of the Slaughter over Warbringer for the first ascendency.

They have also transitioned out of blood magic using Mana Leech sources, and are now using level one exerted war cries for cost efficiency.

The character plans to swap from Herald of Purity plus Blood in Sand to Herald of Purity plus Determination for increased reservation efficiency in the future.

Optimizing Rage and Valor Gain for Boss Fights

Combining rage Mastery with war cries ensures consistent 50 rage levels and allows for the use of berserking.

The 20% increased Valor gained from war cries, along with a 3-second cooldown, enables the quick accumulation of 50 Valor for maximum War Banner damage.

Planning to incorporate endurance charges, frenzy charges, and fortify for mitigation, with a future focus on staff build for increased tankiness.

Transitioning from rage on hit to rage gain from enemy kills is recommended after completing the campaign.

Review of Berserker Build Progress in Path of Exile

The speaker discusses trying out a new mastery to deal with porcupines and expressing a preference for using rare items.

They also talk about using specific items like Vols and Immortal Flesh to address certain challenges in the game.

Additionally, they share their successful completion of two sanctums and their overall satisfaction with the Berserker character's progress.

Effortless Boss Conquests with Berserker Build

The speaker has been consistently defeating bosses with a Berserker build, even up to T 10 Maps, due to the sustained double damage from war cries.

They express frustration with the click and hold mechanic of the verium ore in the league's Crucible.

The Berserker's ability to maintain double damage sets it apart from other ascendancies, allowing for seamless boss one-shots.

The speaker is unexpectedly having a great time playing a character in the game.

They are wrapping up the gaming session after 9 hours and feeling satisfied with their progress.

Despite the late hour, they are already looking forward to future gaming goals and achievements.