Hey everyone, I'm nearly done with my league experience and as tradition I tend to post my league-start build that I take to end-game on here for others to potentially enjoy.

I had a lot of fun this league with a strength stacking berserker utilizing brutus led sprinkler with the battlemage cry + iron will synergy that is abused by most strength stackers these days. I cleared every run of the mill boss (uber elder, shaper, maven, exarch, eater, etc...), but did not attempt uber uber bosses or sim30 (so beware here).

My goal was to clear the base end-game and comfortably farm juiced t16 crimson temples and zerker is a great for that, rage + berserk = speed demon, paired with anomalous infernal blow explosions and +2 strike gloves, you often clear the whole screen. I threw on a HH for fun after the buff, but up until yesterday I used a %STR belt the whole way.

Here's the POB: https://pastebin.com/px21vHCh

Here's a quick gameplay showcase (took off the HH for the boss so you can gauge DPS -- note I didn't bother to swap in ruthless, which you would do for pinnacle bosses and is an additional 25-30% more damage): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqaTNyzOY-Q

The DPS is very high as is the norm with strength stackers. If we take IB DPS + debuff DPS (debuff goes off every 6 attacks or 0.8s whichever happens first), we're easily at 20mil+ under peak conditions (totems, high rage, berserk popped -- note that you're not always under peak conditions though hehe). It's very satisfying seeing a Guardian sometimes go from 80% to 0% when we get a stars-aligned DD proc + debuff explosion + ruthless hit. Reminds me of a slam build without fist of war, without the slow attack speed, and without the warcry rotation.

It was a blast playing this (I used to love playing facebreaker IB builds back in the archaic days), it's a very satisfying mapper. If you're looking for a MAROIDER strength stacking build that isn't centered around replica alberon's and chaos damage; I highly recommend this. Note that you can slide out Infernal Blow and utilize Consecrated Path, Ground Slam, or Ice Crash if you desire but I like Infernal Blow the most :). Note if you play IB you should use melee splash for mapping (ruthless for bossing), and make sure to bind battlemage's cry to left click move.