POISON BOULDER - S12

• Welcome to the Boulder build. Here you’ll find a detailed guide on how to sweep through the Sanctuary with those spinning rocks you love so much.
• This build is perfectly positioned for FARMING, PUSHING, and ALL CONTENT in general. It’s a great all-around option you can take full advantage of if you have everything this guide will teach you

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• Bloodied items will be under testing during the season, and I’ll be adding them as I try them out. For now, good options are attack speed, crit chance, and movement speed.

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FARM VERSION

• So let’s first see the farming version.
  The truth is there’s nothing special here, as you can see we just activate Hurricane and start casting our Boulder all the time to wipe everything in our path.
• Petrify is usually used when there is a large number of enemies and to apply the CC of the skill rather than applying more damage, since we have enough damage to kill them.
• As a defensive skill we will have Earthen Bulwark to become Unstoppable and in this way take advantage of Tibault's Will. In addition, Earthen Bulwark helps us absorb damage.
• Cyclone Armor will be used passively on our skill bar, since it gives us non-physical damage reduction just by having it there

PUSH VERSION

• We continue with the push version, as I said before the important thing is to have Hurricane duration as high as possible, meaning with GA. That said, it is not necessary to have masterworking on this affix.
• Let’s see how it works, first we stack Quickshift using Claw and Boulder up to 6 stacks, alternating these skills.
  Then we activate Hurricane and quickly activate Grizzly Rage.
  After that we start casting Boulder as fast as possible and we will be able to advance in the Pit.
• You will see how this time is enough for Hurricane to remain active while Grizzly Rage is also active. When we are outside of Grizzly Rage you will see how we can activate Hurricane again and start the same loop once more. That said, you have to be careful to not activate Hurricane too early before activating Grizzly Rage, since if you do you will lose the effect and you won’t be able to activate it while you are in Grizzly Rage.

• Dolmen Stone will allow us to use our Boulder with the Hurricane skill. And these Boulders will spin around us. And we can have a maximum of 10. And for each Boulder that is rotating at the moment, the damage increases by 50%, therefore if we have all 10 it would be 500% more damage. So the most important thing when looking for a good amulet is that the percentage of its unique passive is as high as possible, since it is the most determining factor in terms of damage.
• We also have another item just as important for this build, which is Vasily's Prayer, which adds the Werebear skill tag to our skill. Therefore we will be a Werebear while casting our skill and it will benefit from nodes and passives related to being in that form. In addition, Vasily's Prayer gives us very good defensive affixes and willpower.
• Let’s move on to the key aspects for this build.
  The first will be Aspect of Metamorphic Stone, which adds the Core Skill tag to our Boulder. This way they will now cost spirit and also deal more damage. This aspect is important, since it removes the cooldown from our Boulder, so we can cast them all the time.
• And the Aspect of the Rabid Beast aspect that increases our damage by 80% and converts it into poison damage. Remember that this aspect can be used without needing to use Grizzly Rage since in this build we will use Petrify for farming.
  Finally we will use Tibault's Will to increase the damage of this build when we are Unstoppable. And we achieve this with Earthen Bulwark and when we activate Grizzly Rage in the Pit push version. In addition, these pants have excellent affixes to cap crit and also increase movement speed.
• I want to talk and make clear before moving to the loop the two temperings that will be extremely important in this build, which is Hurricane duration. We absolutely need both temperings that we will have on gloves and boots to be with GA. Since especially when we want to push we will use Grizzly Rage. And in Grizzly Rage we will not be able to use Hurricane, since it is a Storm-type skill. So we need the Hurricane to last as long as possible while we are in this form. Then when Grizzly Rage ends we can cast it again.

3/5/2026

• Preparing the build for Season 12, adjusting gear and parts of the text (subject to change)