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Hey everyone,

my name is Alohaa and I posted a foulborn ghostwrithe energy blade build last week. It has gotten pretty popular being pushed by larger streamers. Now I am afraid that this item will be extremely expensive and I do not want my community to pay for an overpriced item. As an alternative, I made a build for the same class marauder (berserker), which is in the mid range budget (5-10 div to start). It is a life stacking Static Strike Berserker using a Greywind axe.

Grey Wind axe has added fire damage equal to 12% of your max life, but has terrible attack speed (1.3) and base crit rate (5%).

Why Static strike?

To overcome the downside of the low base attack speed I chose static strike, which shoots out beams at a set rate and the projectile part does not scale with attack speed. Furthermore, static strike is getting buffed in 3.28 resulting in 25% more area of effect, 16.7% more damage of beams and 33% more duration. This build is a 1 button build for mapping and you only need to press 1 button every 7.2 seconds. This means you only need 9 apm!

Why Marylene and how to crit cap?

Marylene gives 48% less crit chance and 288% crit multi with catalysts. We can still cap our crit with ambush, which gives 35% base crit and 138% crit multi. This leads to a base crit around 20%. Ambush exerts the next attack only, but for static strike the ambush buff will last for the entire duration it. This means for the next 7.2 seconds you will shoot out beams with 35% base crit and 138% crit multi.

Damage scaling, assuming 10k life:

1.2k added flat fire dmg from Grey Wind

750% increased attack dmg from rathpith + crown of eyes

700% crit multi 100% crit chance with ambush without crit flasks

Up to 200% Penentration with Sap of Seasons

Defenses:

Overleech + 30% insta leech

Fortify

Massive HP pool

Purity of Elements

Endurance charges in maps

Downsides:

Need to press mana flask every 7 seconds or use autohotkey for automatic usage (join discord for help). If you dont want to do either, just use a magic tincture and press from time to time.

Can I play this as X class?

Yes, you can play this as Juggernaut, Slayer, Gladiator, Elementalist

Progression:

Level with slams (sunder or earthshatter) as berserker and swap once you have grey wind and rathpith and crown of eyes.

Is this a last second bait?

No it is not a bait. I playtested it and it works just fine. Try it and let me know what you think.

Happy leaguestart everyone!

Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZDWiLFkts_E

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/alohaatft

Discord: https://discord.gg/j6VZjpAuGz

I think most of the concepts in the build are fairly well known. Shoutout to all the people who have made a similar build or made these interactions possible.