First things first, final PoB: https://pobb.in/6Md0lMDThvlI

Showcase Video (invitations + uber shaper + juiced maps): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKDl3CY4YwY

also if you have questions you can contact me in game: WeaselRage

I have been seeing a fair amount of posts about Cleave of Rage but they usually don't go past basic showcases and haven't shown it with more investment. I also feel they are far squishier than others are lead to believe, or I'm not as good at ubers and needed more defense to kill them. I wanted to share my take on the build which is a more defense-oriented version to make it easier to take on harder content. It still pulls 50m DPS, with ~250k eHP. That being said i want this to focus a bit more on gearing, and gear progression than the late-game setup. For that you can just copy the PoB that i'll link.

##Leveling I leveled with a 2h sunder setup, i'd recommend switching to boneshatter. This guy has a great video if you're starting fresh on how to level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvkBV447Lds

Once you are level 67 you can buy a Rigwalds Savagery and an Ichimonji, and switch to Cleave of Rage. Realistically you could do it before that if you wanted to, i'd personally just level with whatever twink items you have if its your second character.

##Early Mapping (~40c) 5m DPS, 26k eHP

Early Mapping PoB: https://pobb.in/jAi4N1VhnW40

For early mapping you really just need the aforementioned Rigwalds Savagery + A Sword (Ichimonji is cheap and works). For the most part we path along the bottom and take the dual wielding/crit nodes. The build can do ~5m DPS with a bunch of ~1c items that i'll link below: A couple of main notes on this:

1. Everything here is less than 10c, most are 1c items. Most expensive will be the vulnerability Tanu Ahi, but not really required.

2. Get a corrupted 6L. I basically left the chestpiece statless. Just get literally anything that is 5R1B. You will be replacing this with a ~2div chestpiece. (Fourth Vow)

3. Degen from all the rage is going to be an issue. When you get a few more levels you can path up to the recovery wheel by marauder. Life flasks will be helpful here as your leech/regen will pretty much sustain your degen.

4. Don't use cluster jewels. In most scenarios a normal tree outpaces cluster jewels until you get really good ones. There's lots of really great nodes for us here, take them

5. Try to get your Primalist ascendency to 6 points for the jewel slots. You can do this in low level areas to get up to 6 points. T14+ maps for final quest.

6. Mana will be tight at first, you can fix this with a "Banner skills have no reservation" jewel mod on one of the two in the PoB, or de-level Precision a little bit.

7. We will be stuggling for Int and Dex throughout a lot of it, however most of the dex is just blood rage - you can leave this lower level with minimal penalty. Likewise the int comes from Increased Critical Strikes. The difference between lvl 18 and 20 is minimal. De-level it if you have to. (gem + scour to vendor).

This setup is just to get you to the point where you can farm some of the biggest DPS/surviability items, and get everything online. You should be able to do T16s comfortably like this, probably not with much Juice though.

##Core Setup (~6 div) 15m DPS, 34k eHP Core Setup PoB: https://pobb.in/b9NWjNYrKN1e

We got off the floor with the initial setup, now we want to start buying our big DPS/Defensive items. We're now going to switch to the core setup of the build which adding Redblade Banner Weapon Swap + Saviour + Defiance of Destiny + Ralakesh Impatience.

The single biggest DPS increase you can get is going to be a saviour for ~4div (100% DPS increase). Literally any saviour. Likewise the best defensive increase you can get is going to be a Defiance of Destiny(~1div). I recommend getting both ASAP. Then Ralakesh's Impatience gives you about 20% DPS, and a bunch of defense from having charges up all the time. Finally get a 6L fourth vow + glorious vanity The order i'd get these upgrades is:

1. Redblade banner weapon swap: Honestly the most important part of the whole build. I wouldn't be able to stand playing it without it.
2. Defiance of Destiny ~1div: it is relatively cheap and gives huge survivability. Just a big QoL.
3. Saviour ~4div: Really this could be #1, the damage bump is huge and 4div for 100% damage isn't bad
4. Ralakesh impatience ~1div: Big defense + Damage in one item. Lets us rely on resistances from endurance charges which will be important.
5. Pride impale chance watchers eye (~40c)

##Transition to Fourth Vow (~6div) 18m DPS, 126k eHP. Fourth Vow PoB: https://pobb.in/Ej_SsUpJhko9

The Fourth Vow + Glorious Vanity converts half of our elemental damage taken to Chaos Damage, and then lets armour affect that damage. This is especially good because cutting the damage in half means two smaller values for your armour and makes it more effective since armour mitigates smaller hits better than larger ones.

The biggest aspect of this though, is many Pinnacle/Uber bosses have resist penetration for their associated damage type, but not Chaos Resistance. So a shaper ball with 40% penetration that is converted now has 0% penetration on your chaos resistance. The "half" damage that gets taken by the chaos resistance +armor is essentially negated due to this.

When we do this swap, we will drop a large part of the "right side" of the tree to optimize the Glorious Vanity we'll be socketing in. This lets us get two big masteries while still being able to focus on double damage nodes. I've included a search for Glorious Vanities here i think are good, however these all have at least one % life regenerated per second node to help with the degen. If you don't care about that... then you can get more DPS oriented ones here.

Unfortunately you kind of need all of these items for the setup to work. As converting the damage with low chaos res will be worse than before. Items you need:

1. 6L The Fourth Vow (~2div)

2. A glorious vanity listed above (~1div probably a lot less)

3. You'll need a combine + rage warcry and Chance to fortify charm (1c) https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/2B2YDDdsk

4. Banner reservation + chaos resistance per endurance charge charm(10c) https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/vpdwqwjtE

5. %armour applies to elemental damage taken from hits Charm (100c) https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/RqWyBQOc7

6. A rare ring with ~40% chaos resistance and 16% to fire/lightning resist and some accuracy. Craft -7 mana cost to non channeling skills. (<1div) We will be replacing this ring very soon, don't go crazy on it. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/y2wD4wGiR

7. A 8 passive cluster jewel with "fuel the fight", make sure it's not in the back. The one i have in the PoB is ideal with "Run Through" as the other, but what's important right now is you have a source of mana leech from Fuel the Fight.

8. Two impale chance + crit multi jewels.

##Start to scale DPS (~16 div) 25m DPS, 120k eHP Scaling DPS PoB: https://pobb.in/SSUb4SFiSOhb

From here on, everything except ubers should be pretty trivial, and Ubers are do-able. We've been scaling our defense a lot, so lets switch and get some easy wins scaling our damage. The main things we're going to do is get the ability to slot in Herald of Purity and getting a better axe. To do this though we need more accuracy since we need to drop our levels of Precision. This will drop our max rage by 5, but overall damage will increase.

Things we'll be acquiring:

1. 300+ pDPS Psychotic axe (2div): Ideally with crit but they are more expensive. While not an ideal suffix, + dexterity on the weapon will save us a skill point and be helpful for blood rage levels. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/60MDnOdFG

2. Switching out Tanu Ahi for Rare Gloves with impale chance (~2div). The main things we want from these gloves are >=20% chance to impale, Accuracy, 40+ intelligence, and attack speed. This will finally let us level-down our precision and still cap chance to hit. You're going to want to buy a pair of rare gloves (make sure they have armour for +1 resist armour mastery) https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/4z0eOrkC9

You can buy the gloves then put impale implicit on after. Buy 1 Exceptional Eldritch Ember and use it on the gloves, doesn't matter what you get. Buy ~50 Grand Eldritch Ichor and roll until you get 15% chance to impale. Now you want to use an orb of conflict and hopefully bump up to 20% impale chance.. if not keep using unless it goes down to 5% chance to impale and start over. Orb of conflict weights which implicit to upgrade by how high it is, so we do the high level ember to increase the chance of success for our orb of conflicts.

3. Vulnerability on Hit Ring (~3-6div) Buy a rare ring with Applies Vulnerability on hit implicit, and craft a ring with >40% Chaos resistance and caps out your others. I recommend scouring this to white, buying 4 prismatic catalysts and applying them before trying to craft. Make sure you have a prefix for -7 mana cost of non-chaos. You'll be using this ring for a while. Probably worth it to lock suffixes when you get good ones -> veiled chaos -> craft mana -> unveil life + mana regen -> craft -7 mana cost. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/003dBQFg

4. Abyssus with 90% Cost & Reservation Implicit (~3div): This will let us run Herald of Purity with a level 3 enlighten https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Affliction/YD6VGV7UY

5. Level 3 Enlighten (~3div)

6. Bottled Faith (~3div)

##Final Setup (~50div) 45m DPS 240k eHP Final PoB: https://pobb.in/eKr-LZZo136b

At this point the big things that are left are pretty expensive. But we have a lot of unspent skill points that are going to go into our Cluster Jewels, finishing that setup also allows for us to go into a forbidden flesh/flame setup with Juggernauts Unbreakable, which will double our already high eHP.

At this point i've been writing this guide for hours getting tired typing all of this so just going to leave the final PoB. It's a bit of the "rest of the owl" but not too far from where we were. I'm surprised if you made it this far, feel free to ask questions about things i may have missed.

Things to acquire:

1. 8 passive cluster jewel with Run Through + Feed the Fury, make sure they are in the right order
2. 8 passive cluster jewel with Run through + Fuel the Fight
3. Forbidden Flesh/Flame with unbreakable
4. Swap our charm with % armour applies to elemental damage for one with instant leech.
5. Impale Watchers eye with either a damage mod or defensive mod
6. Progenesis
7. Mana reservation cluster jewel to let us run arctic armour, requires #8, #9
8. +1 Curse Defiance of destiny
9. Swap Doedre's Damning for a rare unset ring. Ideally you get a fractured % chance to impale and essence crit multi... They are pretty rare so i wouldn't plan on it.

Thanks so much for making it to the end, as i said i'll answer any questions as i can. Many of my recommendations are personal taste and tried to value defense over DPS where it made sense. A lot of this defense is really only needed for Ubers, so if you're just blasting juiced maps you could increase the DPS a fair amount.