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Armorstacker Berserker - tanking Uber Eater explosion and Uber Maven brain bomb

Berserker

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0:42 Uber Eater explosion

1:25 Maven brain bomb (I tank all memory games and brain bombs)

I wanted to tank Uber Eater's explosion, the hardest hitting ability in the base game (pretty sure a juiced one with % increased damage does more damage than deep delve Aul), without any weapon swap or flask swap cheeses, so far I haven't seen any footage of anyone tanking it other than Vincent who did it in Standard and NNN who allocates Transcendence for the fight (he has no phys taken as elemental otherwise).

From poedb, this ability (GSTangleUltimateNuke):

  • can't be evaded

  • can't be suppressed (not a spell)

  • can't be dodged

  • can't be blocked

  • occurs out of combat (no on-hit effects like sap/fortify)

Obviously to do this, you need Transcendence with a sizeable amount of armour for mitigation. One easy way to scale ludicrous amounts of armour whilst maintaining high max resists is to play an armour aurastacker. At the same time, I need to convert as much physical damage taken as elemental damage, and I have 2 options:

  • Tasalio (Chieftain node)
  • Taste of Hate

I'm too poor to play the Pathfinder variant, and I didn't get a +3 max cold relic either so I just decided to play a Marauder. I figured that Berserker is great for this as Defiance gives a lot of % increased armour and sort of helps with recovery, which these builds typically struggle with, due to the increased max leech recovery rate. At this point I had 2 choices:

  • Ashes of the Stars + Kaom's Spirit and opt for rage + Berserk
  • Leadership's Price + blitz charges

I chose the second option because I didn't want to give up my life regen, especially when I don't have overleech on this build, and Leadership's gives more max resists than Ashes does. Overall, I ended up with a pretty fast build (once blitz charges are active) that's virtually unkillable and has average damage. Threw in a bonus Uber Maven run as well where I tanked all brain bombs and memory games.

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Life

4320

Mana

24

Energy Shield

238

DPS

38M

Effective Hit Pool

1.69M

Chaos Res

75

Fire Res

80

Cold Res

80

Lightning Res

80

Armour

2M

Evasion

0

Block

46 | 0

Crit Chance

84%

Crit Multi

367%

Rage

0

Strength

270

Intelligence

159

Dexterity

270

Ward

0

Item Quantity

0%

Item Rarity

0%

Movement Speed

84%

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Flawless Savagery
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Unwavering Stance
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Barbarism
Barbarism
Blade of Cunning
Blade of Cunning
Bloodless
Bloodless
Champion of the Cause
Champion of the Cause
Devotion
Devotion
Divine Wrath
Divine Wrath
Golem's Blood
Golem's Blood
Heart of the Warrior
Heart of the Warrior
Influence
Influence
Juggernaut
Juggernaut
Prismatic Skin
Prismatic Skin
Purity of Flesh
Purity of Flesh
Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Warrior's Blood
Warrior's Blood
Whispers of Doom
Whispers of Doom
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Exiliahh

Divinia collected this build from this reddit post.