Level 96 Crit Rage Vortex Berserker^3.25

Notes

Build Overview

	This build primarily aims to maximize the buff effect of Vengeful Cry, which requires taking a savage hit in order to activate
		We force it's activation via forbidden rite (and having less than 65% chaos res with Aspect of Carnage, 62% without) which counts as a savage hit on ourselves (automated through Battlemage's Cry)
		Using the Chieftain's Sione, Sun's Roar Forbidden combo, or using minimum power warcry mastery, this always pushes us over 100 rage and crazy rage regen
		Because we're already investing in Warcry buff effect, Auto Exertion is a waste (since it removes the buffs). Therefore we use the Eternal Apple shield
		To properly trigger warcries with the shield, you need to use the Enduring Composure cluster jewel notable, which generates an endurance charge every second if you've been hit recently (including hitting ourselves)
		You also need 2 sources of minimum Endurance Charges so that your minimum is only 1 lower than your maximum.

		With all of our warcries/buff effect, we use:
			
			Ancestral Cry: +6% all max res as well as extra over cap resistance (in the upper left socket so it procs first)
			Enduring Cry: 25% life regen
			Intimidating Cry: +45% movespeed
			Infernal Cry: 60% phys as extra fire damage (can swap for Seismic Cry to add 60% MORE armour, but loses dps)
			Battlemage's Cry: +6% to BASE Critical Strike Chance


Ancestral Cry, Intimidating Cry, and Infernal Cry are placed in the shield to proc once every 4 seconds each (warcry cooldown must be below 4 seconds, achieved through one cd passive in the warcry wheel, or 2 tattoos)

Battlemage's Cry is linked to a lvl 1 forbidden rite (this must be the first link clockwise from the Battlemage's cry gem so it procs on your first hit), vulnerability, and anything else you'd like (I do assassin's mark with whispers of doom anoint for more dps)

Enduring Cry and Vengeful Cry are linked with More Duration Support and are self cast. Vengeful Cry will be able to be cast every 3rd hit via your Battlemage's Cry Forbidden Rite trigger. 
		You can either link Urgent Orders Support here (preferable if you don't have the duration wheel/giong pure Armor), or War Banner for 20 seconds of 20% more damage (but also another button)
		Enduring Cry is important to self cast so you can force your shield to proc warcries (ancestral cry) without needing an enemy to hit. This allows you to keep up the max res during boss phases.



WHY RAGE VORTEX
	
		Besides the obvious synergy for rage and Rage Vortex, Rage Vortex also synergises with War Cries and duration
		The Rage Vortex only counts as a single attack for the purposes of exerts, so even though our intimidating cry only grants 2 exerted attacks double damage every 4 seconds (its proc rate), we still reliably get the bonus every attack
		Rage Vortex also lasts longer with the duration wheel, which gives the skill basically 100% uptime and allows you to manually dodge or sit on the opposite end of the screen
		Rage also scales AoE for Rage Vortex, so it feels very good for clear. 
		Other Notes: 
			-The gameplay is to use Enduring Cry (proccing the shield and Ancestral Cry), Battlemage's cry (3 warcries = 15 rage withe the rage mastery), then throw a small Rage Vortex. This exerts the Battlemage's Cry which casts forbidden rite (in the correct socket)
				Then you can cast Vengeful Cry and proceed to map/boss. 
			-You don't want to spam your Rage Vortex as it will lose the double damage exert from Intimidating Cry (average 1 rage vortex use every 2 seconds). This is only really relevant on bosses. 
			-Each level of Rage Vortex above 20 is worth about 1.5% more damage
			-Rage Vortex is unaffected by action speed (similar to brands), therefore the Exarch boot mod is mostly useless (and the temp chains curse is primarily beneficial)

		As an alternative, good old Boneshatter with a Frostbreath or high dps mace would also work, but you won't be getting intimidating cry procs, nor will you be able to reliably get many other exerts against single targets (for mapping ancestral cry should feel very comfy)




PURE ARMOUR VS SUPPRESSION

	The Armour version of this build has: 
		MUCH CHEAPER GEAR
		20% more dps
		A bit more phys max hit (from pure armour bases)
		9% more HP
		Easy source of Ignore Phys Damage Reduction (with 2 large clusters)
		Many extra suffixes, jewels, and megalomaniac options (though, it will be difficult to convert these suffixes into damage).
		Can probably slot in the new Rage Gloves to make Berserk feel smoother as it's falling off. 

	Suppression Version has:
		Suppression
		Decent Evasion (better than it seems since we have literally no other avoidance)
		HUGE QoL via the duration passives by Magebane (much longer duration of warcries and banner)


SWORD VS AXE

		Swords might be better in the very long run because they scale crit easier on the tree, and therefore could allow you to run Blitz charges instead of Aspect of Carnage. As it stands, the axe nodes are better for crit multi and accuracy, and crafting a high phys dps Axe has been easier
			Perfectly viable either way but I'm not honestly sure the optimal play (probably just depends on the gear you have available). 


AURAS

		I highly recommend using Determination and Blood and Sand, plus Precision linked with arrogance. Then you can take either Pride or Grace (if you're suppression). Pride makes pob look better but during actual boss fights, I'm not sure how much time you're in range.
			Since you can often throw the Rage Vortex and then run away, it might make less sense to run Pride and could instead swap to Grace, which gives the huge benefit of damage avoidance (our only defensive weakness).

		There is a third option, which is to run Herald of Purity and Flesh and Stone, swapping in Rallying Cry instead of a different Warcry (or just adding it if you want to press another button). 
			This is the highest dps set up but requires 1 or 2 additional sockets and be in super close range to the boss. Might be best if you have an unset ring or using war banner is bad

MANA VS BLOODMAGIC
		
		I used bloodmagic for a long time. The most annoying part of the swap is that you needs rings with BOTH - mana cost of non-channeling skills AND +1 to minimum Endurance Charges.
			You can find rings that are unveiled and therefore have an open slot to craft the other mod (much easier to do this when you are doing the Pure Armor version of the build as you care less about other ring suffixes)
			Alternatively, you can use homemade rich man Kalandra Jewellery with 1 doubled mod on each ring and other good stats (definitely the long term plan).
		
		Other than using more auras, swapping away from bloodmagic gives you access to the +1% max res from the aura mastery.


DEFIANCE OF DESTINY
			
			This amulet is very good to have, but not essential. Since we lack any avoidance, it's difficult to deal with rapid hits. 
					After getting the amulet I immediately noticed the difference. Especially after swapping to suppression meant I only died to uber bosses and bad T17 map mods (or greedy greedy altars). 
			You can try a different amulet if you have a jade flask/evasion scaling or lots of life gain on hit, but I wouldn't recommend it otherwise (for pushing ubers, I mean). 


AILMENTS
	
			Either Brine King, Storm Cloud + Abyss jewel and Boots, or Ancestral Vision + Boots (much easier on Pure Armor version). 
					Flasks with "Avoid Being Shocked" suffix works with Stormshroud most of the time once you get perma flask uptime.
					Glove "Extinguish on hit" solves ailments 90% of the time for the low low cost of one glove implicit (budget starter option if you don't want to take Brine King).
			Ignites are insignificant due to life recovery and 90% fire res. 


FLASKS AND HUNTER BELT

		We can get 100% uptime on utility flasks with the mod "gain a flask charge on critical strike". This mod shares a global cooldown with all other sources of this effect (including those that can roll as a flask prefix). 
				The cooldown is 0.100s, or 10x per second. Since our hit rate is so high, this should be stacking very reliably, generating at least 8 charges per second. With 50% charge recovery on each flask, this should be enough to keep flasks basically always up
				You can use a tincture to supplement your flasks if you have a source of phys damage leeched as mana. this will help the flask uptime. However, regular old phys damage gets shafted by tincture options so there's not a ton of good choices. 

		Crafting the belt:
			1) buy a stygian with T1 life, 2 open prefixes, and 1 open suffix (this is a 3 mod belt, so it's normally easier to find one with T1 life as the only prefix and 3 suffixes and then anul 1 suffix). This step costs like 10c
			2) slam a Hunter Exalt after using the crafting bench to craft a random suffix. If it hits T1 % life, keep. Otherwise, sell it for 99% the cost of the Hunter Exalt and repeat Steps 1 and 2.
			3) craft "prefixes cannot be changed" and use harvest reforge crit. This is always result in the flask charge on crit mod
			4) craft "prefixes cannot be changed" and use harvest to reforge chaos (chaos res, keeping in mind you must have below 65%) or phys (ignore PDR) until you have a decent roll (50% to get ok roll)
			5) craft "can have 3 crafted modifiers" and "prefixes cannot be changed" and use a veiled orb, hoping it doesn't remove the non-crafted suffix (if it does, unveil and exalt slam. if it doesn't look good, repeat Step 4)
			6) block trap throwing speed and unveil (aiming for hybrid resistance). If you don't get resistance, pick cooldown reduction and sell the belt to some CoC build for mega cash.
			7) craft on your final chosen suffix



CHANCE TO IGNORE PDR 
I have this in 4 different spots in pob, but you only need in 2 sources total. This mod is important if you want to do bosses or tackle extra map mods (though I think getting close to 90% is good enough given budget constraints)

	You will always get 50% from Iron-Breaker Large cluster notable.
	The other will come from
		1) Your Megalomaniac with a second Iron-Breaker node 
		2) Eater of Worlds Glove implicit
		3) Hunter Stygian (reforge phys has 50% chance to give ignore PDR)
		4) Tincture Suffix
		5) A second Large Cluster Jewel with Iron-Breaker



BAD MAP MODS
	
	NO GO
		
		Phys Reflect
		Ele Reflect (if you're using Infernal Cry)
		Reduced Life/ES recovery rate
	
	DANGEROUS BUT DOABLE (in decending order of badness)

		Buffs on Player Expire X% Faster
		Less Cooldown Recovery Rate 
		Cannot Regen (RV natively costs life, so if you have mana leech, you can do this mod)

	OTHER NOTES