THE MOST ETHICAL WARRIOR BUILD [UPDATED FOR 0.3.0]

Still in the process of rewriting this guide, especially with so many changes in 0.3.0 so bear with me.

I started 0.3.0 with one goal in mind: How early can I force Herald of Ice chaining.

I started the moment I got in act 2. I do not recommend this. I recommend waiting until act 4 before you swap to this setup. Because of this, I recommend following the standard boneshatter build that is well documented until act 4.

My herald of ice is not chaining?

#0 Make sure you are playing Warbringer, since other ascendancy will require a different setup

#1 Make sure Herald of Ice (and your Leap Slam) has above 30% chill magnitude in the tooltip

#2 Make sure Herald of Ice has enough damage to break armour (check with this)

#4 Make sure Armour Explosion is not being evaded at 9+ meters (I am at 92%)

#5 Make sure Herald of Ice has enough area of effect

#6 Make sure Herald of Ice is killing targets.

How to fix this? Almost always it will be: Get a better weapon.

Bossing options

• Sunder + Toxic Growth + Infernal Cry (EARLY GAME STRAT)
• • EXTREMELY cheap, zero investment, and incredibly high damage
  • Feels clunky on fast bosses and falls off for pinnacle content
  • MAKE SURE Infernal Cry AND Sunder ARE HIGH LEVEL
  • 20% quality on Toxic Growth and Infernal Cry
  • How to do combo
• Shield Wall + Fortifying Cry (MID/HIGH END STRAT)
• • Needs a high armour shield and some passive tree investment
  • Incredibly easy, high damage, and fluid
  • 20% Quality on Fortifying Cry and Shield Wall
  • Combo is walk up to boss, spam Shield Wall then Fortifying Cry
  • Use Sunder on Pinnacle bosses the moment you break armour for the increased damage.
• Earthshatter + Infernal Cry (HIGH END STRAT)
• • Can one shot T4 xesht
  • Expensive gear needed (minimum 1 div per mace)
  • Not as safe as Shield Wall because you are dual wielding two handed maces.

IF YOU WANT THE OLD VERSION

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ASK ME IN DISCORD

ENDGAME SECTION AND DISCUSSION

Chase items?

• Headhunter will definitely be going in the fully juiced endgame setup, rare mods are just too juicy to give up.
• A good Rite of Passage will most definitely be in my charm belt late game.
• Two handed mace, likely Tawhoan Greatclub since lowering enemy PDR helps alot. High pDPS with Gain % Damage as Cold, +7 lvl to attack skills (this can only be done through Sanctification), Onslaught on kill, and likely +Strength or Reduced Attributes
• Attack speed gloves, with 3 attack speed runes, 100% increased effect of socketed items, +2 melee skills. Life + Armour for Prefix.
• 65% increased movespeed boots.
• Body armour with Armour applies to Elemental Damage, High life, High armour, and maybe Physical taken as Chaos/Notable Passive skill, and probably Hits against you have Reduced Critical Damage Bonus.
• Shield with High Armour, Armour Applies to Ele, Armour applies to Chaos or +1% to all maximum Resistances.
• Amulet with +3 Melee skills, %increased armour, %increased global defenses/flat life, %maximum life, +Quality (although Reduced attribute is also pretty good)
• Vaal Pact From Nothing diamond
• High rarity obviously

Super endgame

• The only change I see from my current setup will be swapping from Leap Slam to Shield Charge.
• • Shield Charge has the potential to move faster than 230%+ increased movespeed
  • Its damage is comparable to Leap Slam with the assumption you have moved enough during Shield Charge
  • Stomping Ground can also help us get some benefits from our main hand weapon.

I will likely make a passive tree to accompany this section at some point.

HUGE OVERHAUL AND UPDATE FOR 0.3.0