Level 93 Crit Cleave of Rage Slayer^3.23

Notes

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // LEVELING // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**CHECK LEVELING PASSIVE TREES**

Level 1-12: Ground Slam w/ any 2H weapon
Level 12-end of campaign: Sunder w/ 2H axe 

Ground Slam links:
Chance to Bleed, Momentum
 
Sunder links: **(use Ground Slam links until Weaver killed in Act 2)**
Melee Physical Damage, Close Combat, Fist of War (Added Fire Damage until Act 4)

Movement skills:
Frostblink (buy from Clarissa) & Leap Slam

**LINK MOVEMENT SKILLS TO Lifetap**

Auras & Heralds:
Act 1: Precision, War Banner (buy from Clarissa)
Act 2: Precision, War Banner, Herald of Ash (add Herald of Purity too if enough mana)
Act 3-end of campaign: Precision, War Banner, Herald of Ash, Determination (and buy but do NOT use Pride & Dread Banner)

**ALLOCATE AURA RESERVATION NODES DURING ACT 3** 

Ascendancy Order:
Bane of Legends > Headsman > Brutal Fervor 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // POST-CAMPAIGN UPGRADE PRIORITY LIST // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WHILE performing these steps, farm Jun missions (Betrayal) to unlock these crafts
- hybrid chaos / ele res
- non-channelling skills have -x mana cost (Elreon jewelry) 
- %phys / impale 

Also, CAP YOUR ACCURACY ASAP. You can see how close you are to 100% accuracy in-game, in the Character Panel, under: "Offense > Chance to Hit Evasive Enemies"

Finally, you may need to drop the "25% increased maximum total recovery per second" Leech Mastery for the "Gaint 1 rage on hit" Axe Mastery. I've not actually tested Slayer - you may need that extra rage gen to lower the ramp time!
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**DO STEP 1 BEFORE MERC LAB**
1) [~2c] buy Cleave of Rage & use it on the Merc Lab Divine Font to gain as close to 20% quality as possible (but do NOT swap to Rage Cleave until Step 2!)
2) [~5-6c] buy Rigwald's Savagery AND enough GCPs to finish 20% qual on Rage Cleave (you need EXACTLY 20% qual to gain "+1 rage per enemy hit")
3) [~25-30c] buy  Bear's Girdle OR farm it yourself from Harvest (t4 purple)
4) [~20c] buy well-rolled 1H sword WITH OPEN PREFIX AND WITHOUT %phys (hybrid %phys/acc is fine!), then craft on %phys/impale. 
5) [~20c] buy cheapest WHITE 6L Body Armor (basetype: Armor or Armor / Evasion) & roll stats with alch/scour, essences or chaos spam.
6) [~10c] put at LEAST 10% qual on Assassin's Mark (power charge generation)
7) [~20c] get 20% qual on Rage Vortex (WAY more damage)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // BIG-TICKET THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- higher dps 1H sword with crit multi (and %phys/impale)
- Watcher's Eye with any of: "Pride, Impale additional hits", "Pride, Chance double damage", "Determination, Phys damage reduction"
- Armor / Evasion hybrid gear with spell suppress
- a SUPER well-rolled Psychotic Axe Heist basetype (seriously - it needs to be VERY well-rolled to beat Rigwald's Savagery...)
- Abyssus with "+1 maximum Power Charge" corrupted implicit (balls-to-the-wall damage - remember, Assassin's Mark quality generates power charges.)