[0.5] Woolie's LEGIONSTRIKER (one-button melee)

Strength-stacking Gemling Legionnaire using Brutus' Lead Sprinkler and a GIGA-fast Perfect Strike (via new Advanced Thaumaturgy)

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SKILL ROTATION

Clearing

1. click Perfect Strike
2. maybe Ferocious Roar too
3. Ancestral Cry (if you feel like it)

that's it

Endurance Charges greatly increase Ancestral Cry's duration and thus greatly increase your clear speed (second Perfect Strike) - you can generate them either via Magma Barrier (hold Raise Shield until you block) OR by using Perfected Endurance in Perfect Strike (requires good dmg to swap off Elemental Armament II)
however, Shapeshifting will CANCEL Ancestral Cry's buff, so, no Pounce / Ferocious Roar while it's active

importantly, you must SPAWN WOLVES (just Pounce on enemies and kill them) but only until you get your maximum amount (depends on your total quality) - this will GREATLY boost your single target damage (via the built-in Predator's Mark in Pounce)
thankfully, with Brutus' Brain, these wolves will never die OR despawn, so, once you have your max, they persist even through new maps, logging out, dying etc.

Single Target

1. Pounce (marks them with built-in Predator's Mark)
2. Ferocious Roar
3. spam Perfect Strike
4. Ancestral Cry (if you need it, when it's ready)

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🚨BIG SKILL ISSUE CHECK 🚨

you MUST "time" the release of Perfect Strike within the "perfect window" (hence the name) or you will have SIGNIFICANTLY less damage & area
the correct window is when you see the "yellow flash"

furthermore,Opportunity provides pretty much ALL of our HP recovery and is automatically used but ONLY after a "perfect timing"
it CANNOT be manually activated

therefore...

IF YOU MISS TOO MANY Perfect Strikes IN A ROW, YOU WILL DIE TO Berserk

so, don't miss :)

HOWEVER...

the cool thing is, if you get your attack time to <= 0.45s, you can literally JUST TAP Perfect Strike and it will be fully charged each time
no brain power necessary yay no more dying to degen yay

however, however - if your attack time gets TOO low, you will literally NEVER be able to "perfectly time"
I think this happens at <=0.25s

so, uh... don't get TOO much attack speed lol
pro tip: you can cancel shrines by right clicking their buff icons (Acceleration xdd)

finally, I recommend avoiding ALL sources of "conditional" attack speed, as they will more often than not mess up your muscle-memory for Perfect Strike
things such as Unyielding, mods like "%att speed if rare/unique nearby", etc

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GLOBAL +% Quality SOURCES

• Gemling Legionnaire small nodes = +6%
• Fox Idol in 80%+ Darkness Enthroned (body armour) = +9%
• Paragon instill = +5%
• "+%quality" Kurgal desecrated mod (amulet suffix) = +5%

TOTAL = +25%

Loreweave also rolls with global quality - I may experiment with fitting it in...

6/9 - added two new variants, Leveling and Early Endgame (budget)

6/10 - added HYPER Endgame variant with Paragon instill on amulet, adding in Magma Barrier, using Vorana's Siege and Rakiata's Flow in Perfect Strike and changing the passive tree a bit
UPDATE 2 - added Lifetap to Infernal Cry
UPDATE 3 - added Global +%quality sources to top of guide

6/11 - moved Ancestral Cry to both Weapon Sets (to avoid it being cancelled by Infernal Cry)
UPDATE 2 - added "recover 2% max life" jewel (i forgor to add sry lol)

6/12 - added Talisman (Amor Mandragora but really anything works) to Weapon Set 2 (removed Redblade Banner), allowing the use of Pounce and Ferocious Roar. importantly, you now must SPAWN WOLVES (just Pounce on enemies and kill them) until you get your maximum amount (depends on your total quality.) thankfully, with Brutus' Brain, these wolves will never die OR despawn - once you have your max, they persist even through new maps

6/13 - in HYPER Endgame, added Zerphi's Infamy to Ancestral Cry and swapped Elemental Armament II to Perfected Endurance in Perfect Strike (gives perma Endurance Charges to give giga duration to Ancestral Cry) - if u need dmg, just keep Elemental Armament II

6/14 - swapped Pursuit III to Window of Opportunity II in Late & HYPER Endgame variants only (if u are able to tap Perfect Strike, shortening the timing window is irrelevant) FULL GUIDE IS OUT BTW