PoE 3.29 - SSF Boneshatter Hydrosphere Berserker League Starter!!!

IMPORTANT NOTES: 1. YOU MUST GO BLOOD MAGIC PETRIFIED BLOOD EARLY ON TO SOLVE MANA AND GIVE OVERLEECH!!! WITHOUT THIS, YOUR BUILD WILL FEEL LIKE SHIT!!!! 2. YOU SWITCH TO THE ENDGAME MANA-BASED VERSION WHEN YOU HAVE EITHER SOUL TETHER (IMMORTAL AMBITION) OR REPLICA SOUL TETHER (CORRUPTED SOUL) OR BURDEN OF TRUTH (SIRUS BELT). - SOUL TETHER CAN BE EASILY FARMED USING BREACH (IT IS T3. IF YOU GET LUCKY YOU CAN ALSO GET FOULBORN 10% INSTANT LEECH IN ADDITION TO IMMORTAL AMBITION. DONT USE IT IF IT DOESNT HAVE IMMORTAL AMBITION!!!) - note: divine shield will not work with normal soul tether. - REPLICA SOUL TETHER CAN BE FARMED IN HEIST BLUEPRINTS, 1/100 OCCURRENCE RATE PER WING. - YOU CAN ALSO FARM LEGION FOR CORRUPTED SOUL (DORYANI) GLORIOUS VANITY, AND PUT IT @ ETERNAL YOUTH KEYSTONE. BUT WHO WANTS TO FARM LEGION ON BONESHATTER???? - burden of truth/replica soul tether (with defense catalyst and properly divined) is very similar in terms of power, you can use one or the other. normal soul tether should only be used until you get one of the other belts 3. DONT GO COMPLEX TRAUMA UNTIL ENDGAME, WHEN YOUR GEAR IS LOCKED IN AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF DEFENSE. OTHERWISE, YOU WILL TAKE A LOT OF SELF DAMAGE AND LIKELY FAIL TO OPTIMALLY MANAGE TRAUMA. 4. WHEN USING COMPLEX TRAUMA, MAKE SURE POB "SUSTAINABLE TRAUMA" = 8!!!!! IF IT SAYS 9, YOU WILL HIT AND GO TO 10 TRAUMA AND LOSE ALL YOUR DAMAGE!!! IF IT SAYS 7, YOU ARE GIVING UP DAMAGE, AND NEED TO GET MORE ATTACK SPEED (OR MORE SKILL EFFECT DURATION). - note: pob may round up to 9. maybe it is OK to have 9; just test it out in game to see if you overflow 5. SHOOT FOR ~3 ATTACK SPEED. IN ENDGAME, VAAL AXE IS THE BEST IN TERMS OF BALANCE BETWEEN HIT DAMAGE AND ATTACK SPEED. EARLY ON, ITS OK TO USE DESPOT/EZOMYTE AXE AS YOU WONT HAVE ALL YOUR ATTACK SPEED BOOSTS YET. ENDGAME CRAFTING GUIDE: Note: You will need 1 roll of mana leech somewhere on gear; you can get it on suffix of: axe, gloves, amulet, ring. Axe Recombinate flat phys/hybrid phys/attack speed, bench craft or veiled exalted orb phys+impale (high tier %phys without impale is better but harder to hit) Helmet Use any method to get 2 res + 3 good life/armor prefixes, then bench craft DEX/INT Body Essence of Insanity spam for triple armor prefixes, pray you get lucky and also hit percent phys Gloves Use any method to get high attack speed and 2 res, and 2 good life/armor prefixes, then bench craft damage while leeching Boots Use high tier DEX essence until 2 res, then lock suffix veiled orb to get high life and movement speed+cannot be chilled Amulet Recombinate high life and all attributes (or DEX), then multimod -cost and damage while leeching Ring Harvest reforge chaos until high life, then multimod -cost and (warcries cannot exert travel skills on one ring, and reduced effect of shock on the other.) Belt Farm heist blueprints for this. Occurrence rate is 1/100 wings. Runegraft of Treachery is from Pondium PROGRESSION NOTES: This is a strong build, but you have to progress it a certain way (in SSF). This is not a super OP meta build where you can crush all content with trash gear. Focus on building your character first, and only take on end-game content when you are ready. This is my personal recommendation for progression order: - level until 2nd lab with sunder, and do the boneshatter swap. take the "destroy" axe mastery for cool red visual effect. - brine king and garukhan pantheons will give you freeze and shock protection, so try to complete them ASAP - in early maps, gamble for gear. gambling priority is something like: - a reasonable axe (attack speed/flat phys/%phys, T3-T4 ideally, T5 is maybe OK) --> body armor 1k+ armor --> boots with 20+ MS --> 70-100 life + res on every other item --> 5link body armor - early on, go for despot axe. ezomyte is OK too. you want a fast axe for trauma ramping. only go vaal axe for a late game craft once you have complex trauma. - look out for useful bench crafts that can be found in maps (the map may change every league). - MS/cannot be chilled, and phys/impale on weapon are most important to find early - this should get you to T16. - around the time you enter T16 maps, try to have every life node and maxres node. otherwise you will be squishy - atlas tree at this point should be: https://poeplanner.com/a/6ZSo (don't have to follow this exactly. take what you want.) - essence --> maps --> unwavering vision --> maps --> packed with energy --> huck --> exarch altars --> breach - dont take shrines, the accel shrine will kill you and echo shrine prevents exerts - exarch altars is a great source of GCP's in SSF. these will be very useful for quality-ing warcries. also vaal orbs for more atlas points and corrupting essences for ess. of insanity. - exarch altars also gives +1 strike on gloves - at some point, go do uber lab. take off all life reservation (except vitality) and swap pride for determination so izaro/traps don't one-shot you. - when you get your 2nd atlas tree, take all the blight nodes and farm the Berserking anointment (clear/sepia/opal). - this anoint is rather cheap and it's worth anointing even a mid turquoise amulet. - my recommended AFK blight setup is to build lv. 3 empowering/frost/earth towers in chokepoints to perma stun everything, then lv. 4 meteor tower to kill. - go for meteor tower burning ground/empowering tower effect anoints on rings. (sepia+azure, indigo+violet) - anoint maps with whatever you want, reduced movement speed and bonus loot anoints are good - on 2nd (or 3rd) atlas tree, take harvest and farm amethyst rings (reforge chaos) and a better turquoise amulet (and vaal axe reforge phys). focus on yellow juice. - +1 phys gems on amulet will make you do a small bit more damage but also make you take more trauma damage...use at your own risk...prioritize life/attributes - farm breach until soul tether with immortal ambition - use breach to get optimal armor bases in each slot. save eldritch currency for these good breach items - taking brinksmanship and +0.3m strike range, and using ancestral call/cry (autoexert or selfcast with urgent orders) will help a lot for breach. - prefer doing hive/fortress, but you will need to do some unstable for all the point unlocks - three choices: - farm heist for replica soul tether (i prefer this, you might high-roll some other good stuff for SSF) - farm sirus for burden of truth - farm legion for corrupted soul (not recommended as then you cannot take deli bloodline later) - complex trauma swap can be done whenever; as long as you do not die while using it it is better than normal boneshatter. recommend 15k-20k armor and lv. 90+ before swap. - a good time to push 4 stone and start doing some endgame content is after normal soul tether + endgame setup + complex trauma - deli bloodline is last step of progression. don't even attempt it until you have everything else maxed out, lv. 95+. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNlLoWRDnistw