Rage Cleave is a CRAZY Leaguestarter (PoE Necropolis)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // LEVELING // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **CHECK LEVELING PASSIVE TREES** Level 1-12: Ground Slam w/ any 2H weapon Level 12-end of campaign: Sunder w/ 2H axe Ground Slam links: Chance to Bleed, Momentum Sunder links: **(use Ground Slam links until Weaver killed in Act 2)** Melee Physical Damage, Close Combat, Fist of War (Added Fire Damage until Act 4) Warcry (CHOOSE 1): Intimidating Cry for more damage Enduring Cry for more defense / regen Movement skills: Frostblink (buy from Clarissa) & Leap Slam **LINK MOVEMENT SKILLS TO Lifetap** Auras & Heralds: Act 1: Precision, War Banner (buy from Clarissa) Act 2: Precision, War Banner, Herald of Ash (add Herald of Purity too if enough mana) Act 3-end of campaign: Precision, War Banner, Herald of Ash, Determination (also buy but do NOT use Pride & Dread Banner) **ALLOCATE AURA RESERVATION NODES DURING ACT 3** Ascendancy Order: Aspect of Carnage > Crave the Slaughter > Rite of Ruin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // POST-CAMPAIGN UPGRADE PRIORITY LIST // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHILE performing these steps, farm Jun missions (Betrayal) to unlock these crafts - hybrid chaos / ele res - non-channelling skills have -x mana cost (Elreon jewelry) - %phys / impale Also, CAP YOUR ACCURACY ASAP. You can see how close you are to 100% accuracy in-game, in the Character Panel, under: "Offense > Chance to Hit Evasive Enemies." You can eventually drop the "Eagle Eye" passive cluster to save 3 points, once you find enough accuracy (flat and %) on gear. I recommend speccing into "Hearty" to HEAVILY mitigate Rite of Ruin's degen! You may ALSO eventually be able to drop "Versatility" to save a further 2 points but that requires QUITE a bit of accuracy (and Dex / Int) on gear and won't be achieveable until a good amount of investment has been made into your gear. Finally, DO NOT FORGET MANA LEECH! You only need ONE roll and you can find it on: gloves, jewelry and jewels. -- **DO STEP 1 BEFORE MERC LAB** 1) [~2c] buy Cleave of Rage & use it on the Merc Lab Divine Font to gain as close to 20% quality as possible (but do NOT swap to Rage Cleave until Step 2!) 2) [~4-5c] buy Rigwald's Savagery AND enough GCPs to finish 20% qual on Rage Cleave (you need EXACTLY 20% qual to gain "+1 rage per enemy hit") 3) [~25-30c] buy Bear's Girdle OR farm it yourself from Harvest (t4 purple) 4) [~20c] buy well-rolled 1H sword WITH OPEN PREFIX AND WITHOUT %phys (hybrid %phys/acc is fine!), then craft on %phys/impale. 5) [~20c] buy cheapest WHITE 6L Body Armor (basetype: Armor or Armor / Evasion) & roll stats with alch/scour, essences or chaos spam. 6) [~10c] put at LEAST 10% qual on Assassin's Mark (power charge generation) 7) [~20c] get 20% qual on Rage Vortex (WAY more damage) -- After you get both 20% qual on Rage Vortex AND a Bear's Girdle, you can actually swap Rage Vortex over to your 6-link and run Rage Cleave on a 4-link (now used only for ad-clearing and rage generation.) You should net more dps this way, especially on bosses. Experiment with the best links for a 6L Rage Vortex but they should be a combination of: Brutality, Melee Phys Damage, Multistrike, Impale or Increased Crit Strikes. Remember to move Maim on over to Rage Cleave. Do NOT remove Rage support from either skill. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // BIG-TICKET ENDGAME THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERY rough-idea ENDGAME PoB --> https://pobb.in/fs1urfMUxCJ5 - higher dps 1H sword with crit chance, crit multi AND %phys/impale (can still craft it if open prefix) - Redblade Banner AND swap "Flawless Savagery" (Ascendancy Node) for "War Bringer". Use Redblade Banner in your WEAPON SWAP, then swap to it and wait for Enduring Cry to gain max rage. - Watcher's Eye with any of: "Pride, Impale additional hits", "Pride, Chance double damage", "Determination, Phys damage reduction" - Armor / Evasion hybrid gear with spell suppress - Tanu Ahi with "Attacks +% crit chance" corrupted implicit - Abyssus with "+1 maximum Power Charge" corrupted implicit (balls-to-the-wall damage - remember, Assassin's Mark quality generates power charges.) - a SUPER well-rolled Psychotic Axe Heist basetype (seriously - it needs to be VERY well-rolled to beat Rigwald's Savagery...) **CHECK ENDGAME PoB LISTED ABOVE FOR EVEN MORE UPGRADES**