POE 3.7 Important Berserker Build – Full Phys Shield Trow Detailed Guide

INTRO:
This make is often a Life-based crit impale/brutality Spectral Shield Throw Berserker marauder. This develop is rapid, tanky, and tons of entertaining, clearing all content material up to and which includes Shaper on ultra-budget gear.

Spectral Shield Throw is often a projectile attack skill that scales its base damage from the combined armor and evasion of your equipped shield, with bonus base important strike likelihood scaling in the power shield worth on your equipped shield. My build uses pure armor shields for the added defensive utility of Molten Shell’s armor scaling, but you can make a powerful case for any mixture with the 3 defensive stats on SST. The key projectile appears like your shield and can fork and chain but not pierce.

Rage and Blitz are the two stacking buffs granted towards the build by the Berserker ascendancy, which bring about the build to grow to be exponentially more effective since it stays in combat for longer until they reach the cap of 50 fits of rage, 20 blitzes. Blitz charges all expire simultaneously should you don’t get yet another every five seconds, but also can be gained simultaneously.

PROS & CONS:
Fantastic mapper on a price range! All on the uniques in this build are so off-meta that the POE community has forgotten they even exist, which makes gearing a breeze. Probably league-start viable (but to be fair this was NOT my first build of Legion league so I certainly can’t verify this); the only 100% required unique is the threshold jewel and the others are all couple chaos at most.
Devastatingly effective at Monoliths, Delves, and Betrayal encounters. I’ve played a lot of skills this league (Legion), like ED/Contagion, Cyclone, Flickerstrike, Tornado Shot, and Vaal Ice Nova, and SST outshines them all when it comes to Monolith farming. ONLY ED/Contagion is better at mass-unfreezing trash mobs, and SST is much better at freeing generals in higher tier maps.
Absurdly tanky. Facetank shaper guardians? Yes. Eat Shaper slams? You betcha. Faceroll 8-mod T16 Maraketh legion rares without even noticing that they’re attacking you? You better believe it. Deliberately leap slam into the overlapping portion of an attire double flame blast just so you may laugh at her?
100% HC viable (see Hardcore section).
Very flexible: map mods. Can’t do physical reflect, but that’s honestly it. I rolled a Minotaur with the worst possible mods for this build defensively (reduced armor and block possibility) and could still facetank overlapping earthquakes.
Great uber lab farmer, if you’re one of those weirdos like me that likes that sort of thing…
Cannot do attire. Not even normal Atziri. Don’t try it, you will die at the split phase. Even should you take out the threshold jewel, you cannot reliably avoid hitting the mirror clone with the shards.
Not super console friendly. Aim actually matters with SST, so I can’t imagine playing this without a mouse. But if you’re super good at Helldivers and/or Geometry Wars, please give it a shot and let me know what you think because that’s honestly some feedback I could use! 😀
SSF Viable, but certainly not SSF-friendly. I’ll put far more details in the section below, but the TLDR is that SST just doesn’t feel good without the threshold jewel, and Divide and Conquer is not one of your jewels that you get in Act 5.
Momentum-based, so the most ridiculously delayed phased bosses can be miserable experiences. T16 Eradicator was significantly harder for me than the Shaper was because I simply could not create up enough rage before it went back into the stupid “can’t take damage for the next 10 years” phase.

ASCENDANCY:
Flawless Savagery – Crave the Slaughter – Rite of Ruin – Blitz