PoE 3.17·Archnemesis·Berserker
Hopping on the venom gyre bandwagon... dawnbreaker trinity zerker VG - best version of VG?
by hc64 years ago2
- DPS
- 26.8M
- Effective HP
- 521.74K
- Life
- 5K
- Level
- 100
- Min budget
Overview
Hopping on the venom gyre bandwagon... dawnbreaker trinity zerker VG - best version of VG? is a Path of Exile Berserker build by hc6, made for the Archnemesis league (3.17). It is centered on Venom Gyre and plays as a dexterity, attack, projectile, chaos archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 26.8M DPS with 521.74K effective HP, 5K life, 126 energy shield. Key uniques include Taste of Hate, Bottled Faith, Dawnbreaker, Crystallised Omniscience.
Build Video
hc6's Notes
Seeing a lot of recent posts on different versions of VG, I made a version of it myself based on my dawnbreaker LS zerker and I think this is the best version of VG based on what I see from other's showcases.
PoB with no mageblood: https://pastebin.com/kfx8AiyJ
Pob with mageblood: https://pastebin.com/QpipmQ4Y
Video showcases: Sim 28-30 with no HH/Mageblood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktNa_RqVSEQ
Sim 29-30 with mageblood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mqgsch7m4Q) - mageblood is not required for this build, just makes the defenses slightly better (unlike some str stacking VG builds which rely on mageblood as crux for defenses)
77% quant elderslayers without mageblood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zhu6WDHvpw
Note: since I just started playing VG this weekend I'm pretty bad at namelocking whirling blades, but you can see how strong it is even when I mess up the whirlingblades sometimes.
Advantages it has over strength stacking venom gyre:
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Way higher EHP. This is the EHP/max hit of this build. Taking some top strength stacking VGs out there on poe.ninja, this has more than 2x the max hit and more than 5x the total ehp. Not to mention strength stacking berserkers generally have no elementail ailments as defense layers while this has chill (from skitterbots) and sap.
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Way cheaper - despite having some harder to craft items, this doesn't come close to strength stacking VG which requires 50ex+ to even get started.
In terms of damage - I think it's somewhat on par with strength stacking VG, this has about 25-30 mil dps per projectile, while it doesn't come close to the super minmaxed strength stackers on poe.ninja, it has enough for all content in the game.
I didn't bother comparing this with some of the deadeye/ranger variants, but I feel like they are way squishier than this, and I don't really see them having higher dps either.
Gear
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Skills
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Ring 2
Precision2W
Passive Tree


- Bandits
- Eramir (1 Passive Skill Point)
- Pantheons
- Soul of Solaris, Soul of Shakari
Character Stats
- Level
- 100
Damage
- Full DPS
- 0
- Combined DPS
- 26.8M
- Hit DPS
- 24.12M
- With Poison DPS
- 24.12M
- With Ignite DPS
- 24.12M
- With Bleed DPS
- 24.12M
- Damage over Time
- 3.58K
- Poison DPS
- 330.81
- Culling DPS
- 2.68M
- Average Damage
- 1.78M
Attack & Crit
- Attack/Cast Rate
- 13.52/s
- Hit Chance
- 100%
- Crit Chance
- 100%
- Crit Multiplier
- 630%
- Totem Limit
- 1
- Mana Cost
- 12
- Life Cost
- 0
Defence
- Effective Hit Pool
- 521.74K
- Life
- 5K
- Energy Shield
- 126
- Mana
- -602.93
- Ward
- 0
- Armour
- 4.6K
- Evasion
- 22.71K
- Phys Damage Reduction
- 90%
Mitigation & Avoidance
- Block
- 47%
- Spell Block
- 0%
- Spell Suppression
- 0%
- Evade (Melee)
- 85%
- Evade (Projectile)
- 85%
- Attack Dodge
- 0%
- Spell Dodge
- 0%
Resistances
- Fire Resistance
- 90% (+109%)
- Cold Resistance
- 90% (+102%)
- Lightning Resistance
- 90% (+50%)
- Chaos Resistance
- 55%
Recovery
- Life Regen
- 191.78/s
- Net Life Regen
- 20.43/s
- ES Regen
- 0/s
- Mana Regen
- 18.1/s
- Life Leech
- 1.72K/s
- ES Leech
- 0/s
- Mana Leech
- 146.2/s
- Total Degen
- 171.35/s
Attributes & Utility
- Strength
- 32
- Intelligence
- 14
- Dexterity
- 14
- Omniscience
- 997
- Movement Speed
- 204%
- Endurance Charges
- 3
- Frenzy Charges
- 3
- Power Charges
- 4
- Devotion
- 0