Earth Shatter Juggernaut League Update: Axes and Exertion Dominance

The Earth shatter Juggernaut League start update: Level 88, comfortably in red Maps, build works well despite video flaws.

### Earthshatter Juggernaut League Start Update: Day 1 Progress and Build Adjustments
* 🎮  The player is currently at **level 88** after 24 hours of play, comfortably into **red maps**.
* 💀  They have died 28 times, mostly in the campaign due to a "**softcore mindset**."
* 🔨  The build has been adjusted from the original Path of Building (PoB) guide, focusing on **axes instead of maces** and not converting to **full elemental damage**.
* 🔥  The original plan to convert to fire damage was based on a specific weapon enchant that grants **extra physical damage as each element**, but this has not been obtained yet.
* 🧰  The build utilizes **four war cries with auto-exertion** and the Overexertion support gem for **significant damage boosts**.
* 🌲  The passive tree remains mostly the same as the original PoB, with adjustments to **avoid the fire conversion nodes** and focus on **axe nodes instead of mace nodes**.
* 📈  Cluster jewels have been successfully incorporated into this league start build, contrary to common belief that they are **not viable for early game**.
* 🛡️  The player's gear includes a **good axe**, basic **life and resistance stats** on other items, and an **Elemental Overload amulet**.

hello everybody, and welcome to an update to the Earth shatter Juggernaut League start that I put out. So, I am actually playing it right now. We are currently sitting at level 88. This is basically the end of day one. We're like two hours over, so basically it's like 24 hours into the league, level 88. I am pretty comfortably into red Maps right now. I'll probably finish them up tomorrow. We have died, I think, 28 times, 27 times, one less. A lot of that was in the campaign. Like, you just, you know, it's softcore mindset, who cares? So, before I actually explain the build and how it's pretty different from the path of building that I put out, and I want to apologize, by the way, for that League start video, the Earth shatter one specifically. I should have taken more time to make that video. It's just pretty bad, honestly, pretty bad video. The build itself, though, it works, and it works very well. So, let's just run a map here. We're running a 122.

Quant red map vulnerability ell weakness extra damage two boss like all this crap let's just play see what happens and while I explain some stuff to you I'll show you how the build performs and then I'll talk about it at the end of this video so the main thing is we are not specking into maces number one and number two Elemental damage we are not converting into fire damage and my idea if you are following the build if you're playing it and you're watching this update video because you want to see what I'm doing differently the idea in that original video was that oh the new weapon enchant that gives you uh extra Fizz as each element that's really powerful and you probably want to scale it with elemental damage right so I was like okay we can just uh therefore go pure Elemental right I never was intending to play this build as Elemental until I got that enchant and I just literally didn't mention that in the video so I am so sorry for that it was never my intention to go pure fire.

convert there's no reason to do that until you get the weapon enchant that says gain uh every single element as extra gain your physical damage as extra element you know it it's just not worth it so we're not doing that instead what we're doing is we're going axes and that's why you go maces I thought that enchant was going to be exclusive to uh maces turns out I believe I haven't seen the enchant yet but I'm pretty sure youve given all the other enchants that I can see it's going to be be able to apply to axes as well and axes are just straight up better than Maes now the only reason we might run a mace eventually and I will take this build to the pretty end of the end game if not like the very end killing the The Pinnacles and the Uber Pinnacles maybe we'll see uh the only reason why you would run around want to run a mace is the impact Force propagator mace which

says, Uh, you get two extra exerts, and that really is only useful for intimidating cry. Intimidating cry gives you double damage, which is very nice, obviously. So, that's the only one you would need the extra exerts on because right now, um, and speaking of another change, we're running four war cries that have auto-exertion, but you get six, uh, exerts minimum. Throw, what was that, gain 114 extra fizz as cold, that's quite a bit, and 39% as chaos. I'm not even capped chaos. I'm 26 chaos res. We're going to chalk that, hey, we're chalking that up to chaos res. I don't want to hear it. We're chalking that up to 26 chaos res. Laugh all you want, dude died in his update video anyway. Um, all of those deaths, by the way, the slash deaths at the beginning, 27, pretty much all of those were, uh, before I got into yellow and red maps. So, just like, you know, softcore mindset deaths. I really have not been dying, um, I

started mapping with 2.5k HP, which is kind of hilarious honestly, and I just wasn't dying. It's crazy, man. Juggernaut Master race anyway. So other than that, we're not really making too many differences. You can see my passive real quick while that thing spawns. So we are still pretty much following that passive tree from my original path of building so I don't get too frustrated 'cause it's like, Oh, this dude's doing something completely different than what he said his League start. Not really. I basically just didn't convert into fire. That's the main difference. Didn't convert into fire, and I kept using axes, and I didn't swap to mace. Those are the big things. If you know how to play the game, if you know how to follow League starters, there you go. That's all the info you need. Bada bing, bada boom. But again, I'll talk more about the character here in a second. Also, for Gylings, I was using close combat this entire time. I literally just

swapped to pulverize instead of close combat um, and I think P feel slightly better. I might go back to close combat though, we'll see. Other than that, I'm using melee physical damage and overexertion support. And again, I'm automating four war cries, uh, so I'm not reserving Pride. I'm not using Pride Aura, which is a lot of damage on the table, but, uh, being able to exert a whole another war cry gives me a lot more damage, like a lot more damage. I believe overexertion at level 20 is 18% more damage per war cry that you're exerting with. Like, it is a crazy support gem. On top of that, it also gives you just 10% more damage if you're exerting at least one war cry. So you get 10% more and then a separate 18% more per war cry. So, dude, it's such a busted support gem. So we're running, um, just purity of, uh, Herald of Purity. Sorry, Herald of Purity is I'm looking for the

physical damage. One, I'm running Blood and Sand for 15% more damage, and then we're running Herald of Purity for an extra, I think it's like 14% or something. What's Herald of Purity? It is 12%. That's pretty bad, actually. I might even drop that. It's a lot of Mana for just 12% more damage. I'll consider that. All right, let's find the boss real quick. I'll be done with this map, and then we will, uh, go into The Hideout. I'll explain the rest of the build. I might even. Oh, all right, again, we're chalking that death up to, uh, 23 chaos res when they have extra damage as chaos res. That is 100% why I'm dying. Oopsies. And vulnerability, honestly, I didn't realize I had vulnerability on. I only have 15K armor. That's, uh, not the most. Basically 16k. Oh, it's only 10. Look at that. It's even worse. Yeah, vulnerability, extra Fizz, chaos. That's rude, really.

bad watch this though. Watch this. Watch this. Yeah. Hey, I want to see your. I want to see your day one League start build. Not dying to that in 1 millisecond. Okay, at least I can kind of tank that boss. I will go back and kill that boss. By the way, I don't care about my XP bar. I care about killing that boss. I want to send a message. I'm sending a message. Okay, okay. Big mistake. Big mistake. Big mistake. Big mistake. Big mistake. Big mistake. Big mistake. I'm sending a message. I'm sending a message. Message being sent with the earthshatter spikes down. Run in a circle. This how you're supposed to boss. By the way, just freaking run in a circle. Let your spikes do everything, dude. Get away from me, man. Ah, almost hit me. Oh, get away from me. Get the heck away from me. Let's go, baby. Only three deaths. GG. Minus 30% XP. I got a vidiian jewel. My third freaking uh, desso salute. GG. That was totally worth.

it all right anyway let's talk about the build. So now you saw the build in action again. Remember this is day one, literal end of day one. Let's look at the path of tree. So it's very similar to the path of building if I pull that up real quick. So the path of building looks like this. Basically, all I've done is ignore this section right here. So Avatar fire, the fire damage nodes, the extra res. I have taken these war cry nodes. So everything is right here in the middle. I've ignored that and then I have cluster Jewels. Actually, I have and everyone was saying, dude, you can't get cluster jewels on a League start. What the heck? You can't do that. That's illegal. Oh yeah, look at this. I literally have the exact cluster jewels that I need right here. Look at that fearsome Warrior, Marshall Mastery, very good nodes and then freaking lead by example, rattling battle. I did this. I'll put the clip in if I can find it.

used a wisdom scroll and got these two like dude. It's that easy. What can I say? All right. We might have got. We might have got a little lucky on that regard. Anyway, so what we've done is essentially just ignore this section here. Um, I'm going for my cluster Jewel right now. You don't need the cluster Jewel other than that we specced into duelist a little bit. You can see right here in the original po. I say basically just ignore duelist here and anoint Vigor. Like this is also a stupid thing, man. Like why am I saying anoint Viger? That was so stupid in a league start video. You don't need to. You absolutely don't need this endurance charge. Um, and I should have just explained before you get to that point, you do want to path down here to get that extra endurance because you also get uh, bash and breaker, which is very strong node, wrecking ball, very strong node. You get a little bit of life and you get endurance charge. So it's absolutely worth the spec down here in.

the dualist and then up here I'd expect in Templar obviously not grabbing the elemental damage nodes because I'm not doing Elemental damage scaling. Uh to grab the endurance charge duul soet a little bit of extra life other than that the PO is very similar. Again, we did not grab the mace nodes, we grabbed axxe nodes instead, which gives us a lot of rage generation dude. The rage feels so good, so so so good. Also, I added in this rage cluster here. I believe that's not on the pass Tre here, no it's not, so definitely add in this rage cluster, get both of them. I take the bottom one here for plus six Max rage for that plus one on hit plus one on hit. So you get five Mele, uh, or sorry, three rage on hit, six Max rage, and then up here gives you 10 Max rage and additional two on hit, and then axe gives you one plus two as well. So you get a total of 53 maximum Rage, which is 53% more attack damage and you

get basically 16 rage per second. So you, you'll rage, your rage will shoot up to maximum when you're fighting something. It takes no time at all. It feels so, so, so nice. Other than that, it's pretty much the, uh, exact build in the PO, right? Just don't go Elemental. Stay with axes. That simple. Go element, don't go Elemental. Stay with axes and run over exertion support. This thing is so busted, so beautiful of a support Gem. And I'm running pulverize personally. You can run like Coast combat or maybe even, uh, brutality if you want, but I would, I would just go pul, honestly, for the extra AOE. Maybe close combat. Um, I have a pretty good axe here. I'll just show you all my gear briefly here. So the helmet is just nothing special. Just life, a little bit of resistances. This axe is crazy. Thank you very much. Hey, you know who you are. Thank you very much for hooking me up with this one. Uh, we got life resistances on gloves, life resistances on Belt, life movement speed.

a little bit of res on there. My I need to upgrade my armor. This thing is garbage for what it is. I can get a massive upgrade there. Uh, ring. I finally got Elon jewelry. Uh, today just farmed it myself. So this Ring's pretty bad. No life but just, you know, some res on there. Elon enchant life res LR enchant and then life res and stats on the amulet. And that's our current setup right now. So hope you guys enjoyed the update. The quick synopsis once again is do not convert to Elemental. Just don't even bother until you get the weapon enchant, which is going to be way later on. Uh, don't go maces stick with axes and other than that you can pretty much follow the path of building. It is very accurate. So there'll be a link in the description below of this exact character. You can see exactly what my character is doing right now. So you can compare and contrast if you get a little stuck. Other than that thank you for watching boys and expect another update video once we

get you know couple more days into the league peace out thank you for watching

JUGG EARTHSHATTER Update [BIG CHANGES] (PoE 3.25 Settlers)

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Update on Earth Shatter Juggernaut League Start

The player is currently at level 88, comfortably into red Maps after 24 hours into the league, having died 27 times.

The build has been modified to focus on axes instead of maces and is not speccing into elemental damage, contrary to the original video.

The player apologizes for the previous build video but assures that the build is working well with the changes.

Optimizing Exerted War Cries for Increased Damage

Using extra exerts for intimidating cry provides double damage, while overexertion support offers significant damage boosts for each exerted war cry.

The character's passive tree remains consistent with the original path, with the main difference being the decision not to convert into fire and to continue using axes instead of maces.

Swapping to pulverize from close combat and automating four war cries allows for a significant damage increase, outweighing the potential damage from reserving Pride Aura.

Optimizing Damage and Survival in Path of Exile

Running Blood and Sand for 15% increased damage, considering dropping Herald of Purity for its low 12% damage boost, and struggling with survivability due to low armor and vulnerability.

The build focuses on the middle section of the skill tree, incorporating cluster jewels for increased effectiveness, despite initial skepticism from others.

The player successfully demonstrates the build's potential in action, despite some challenges.

Ignore the irrelevant sections and focus on speccing into duelist for extra endurance charges and rage generation.

Prioritize the rage cluster for increased attack damage and rage generation.

Choose the right support gem, like Pulverize, for the extra area of effect, and prioritize gear with life and resistances, focusing on a powerful axe.

The speaker is planning to upgrade their armor for a better version and has obtained a new ring with life and resistance.

They advise against converting to Elemental early on and recommend sticking with axes instead of maces in the game.