A good idea is to never upgrade your leaping slam gem, it will still build up stun but not enough to proc heavy stuns and you are then basically guaranteed the boneshatter follow up explosion
Yea it’s a good idea, sucks when you overstun on leap slam. Also can save mana by keeping the warcries low lvl to save mana if that’s an issue as well.
Crushing blows opens up another playstyle, but it takes some testing because it procs weirdly. Rolling slam becomes your bread and butter since it counts the first hit as becoming a heavy stun, meaning that even if you "overstun" a mob directly into heavy stun, it procs "as you heavy stun" effects. I am using full armor break on heavy stun and explosion on full armor break hits and am murdering mobs right now, will see if it works through cruel. Then perfect strike on bosses as they are on the ground. Will be glorious to weave in that god hammer into the rotation as well.
Yeah, i can tell you, rolling slam + stun + armor break on stun + explosion on armour break cleans up all the way through cruel as long as your weapon is decent. I don't even have crushing blows yet, since i went for the aftershock branch first (and i'm 80% sure rolling slam aftershocks never hit because of some bug). I never expected rolling slam to clear like a dream, but here i am lol.
I like using rolling slam with the possible gain endurance charge. I get 3 pretty easy when hitting a pack as it breaks armour almost every time. Then warcry getting those extra empowered attacks.
I get why people aren’t taking it. In POE 1 you would do EVERYTHING in your power to just not get hit at all. I’m on tier 11 maps now at lvl 82 and I still tank little chip shots all the time getting the rage / attack speed when hit. Definitely seems worth it for now unless highest tier maps are crazy.
@Mdntech3000 you gotta try the giants blood with double cultists hammers for aoe splash, slot 2 life essences for the leeching on both and just turn into a meat grinder
I can’t wait to get to hitting this hard. I’m progressing slow but having fun. I only get to play an hour each morning because I work so much and dead ass tired when I get home late.
I know how you feel man. I work full time too and work on the side as well..get a bit to play a few hours each day and a bunch on the weekends thankfully. Luckily it’s really easy to get this damage later on!
couldnt you use herald of ash for better clearing since it makes the packs go kaboom, i use it for my titan / warrior and clear feels amazing but the lack of single target damage is bad
Single target is your strength, hammer of gods is crazy. When you break armor use the combo that I put near the beginning of the video. I might try herald of ash soonish
Reroll to another class may help with that. I know you may not take me too serious but I'm sure, if you reach even the beginning of act 3 you will change your mind.
This game punishes melee characters lmfao this game is trash compared to other tops a warrior should not die instantly I live longer on dark souls than I do fighting a regular mob on this trash game you can enjoy the game as much as you want to there's 0 defense for why they torture melee users on this game
Yea, like I said in the video you just get so much out of it. Offensive and defensive stats, utility- everything just gets so much better. It also opens up so many options when creating the tree.
@ wouldn’t it also mean more rage stacks? So far I thought the limit was 58 (if you had axes that is, can’t wait for them to be added) and the lvl 20 berserk skill would increase those 58 stacks effect by 49%. So 86.42% more dmg. However if hulking form increases all small nodes then it’ll increase those rage stack small nodes as well.
Yes! That’s kind of the whole point. When you seismic cry during the heavy stun, the next few empowered attacks ALL trigger an aftershock. This aftershock is not only guaranteed but SEPARATE from an aftershock proccing from the support gem, skill tree and ascendancy.
Yup! Can even trigger three times still which is huge if you get another proc, the seismic aftershock proc is guaranteed - but you can still get another proc from the tree / ascendancy as well.
No not really. You actually just leap slam around, that’s normally enough to proc boneshatter to clear the pack. Scrap up the rest with basic mace strike or earthshatter if you want. You don’t have to really cast your warcries ever while just mapping. You can earthshatter if you want instead of boneshatter to clear and warcry to explode if aftershocks don’t clear the packs. For the bossing part, it’s just seismic - infernal - hammer of the gods for the big burst. That’s really it, then you earthshatter to finish off if that doesn’t one shot.
@@Mdntech3000 Now i figured out, i am using earthquake with less duration nodes + splinter support, building stun and breaking armor very quickly. I just try explode fissures with seismic cry when its unavailible after use on heavy stunned monster, now i know just need to use infernal cry.
I can release an update today or tomorrow, do you have any specific questions? The big change I’m trying now is to be more rage focused. Getting the two max rage nodes getting me 48 max rage. With berserk this comes to around 72% more damage…I’ve been experimenting with the tree and tbh this just seems like the most logical choice. Rage gen when hit is super easy to cap rage quickly while mapping, although for Bossing it’s a bit harder. This also provides 48% increased armor while mapping which is no joke for a notable node.
@pikolightss3370 I have a four link with Earthshatter now, upheaval brutality aftershock and heft. Can’t afford to use heavy swing since the speed loss is so severe.
I will always love warrior and melee in general. The sound, visual effects, animations and everything combined is so god damn good. They did an amazing job with warrior in Poe 2.
How do you complain about Sanctum being the first "lab"? You just run through it, no need to kill stuff pretty much ever, and when you do its easy mobs. Easiest shit as a Warrior they've ever put in.
What else do we have? Literally what else does warrior have? We attack slow and are vulnerable during our slow animations. Everyone else gets to be fast but us so with all this investment we deserve our nuke builds because there is no other options.
Molten Explosion is strong@@draketurtle4169 I Play Warrior on Projectile damage And fire / Pierce Stun bar almost Instant full And good damage Most mobs are 1 Hit And Bosses Take Max 1-2 mins Good cleave too
You’re absolutely correct about the negative atk speed with the warrior class. I find myself getting constantly interrupted against flash mobs
Yup, that’s why I get so much attack speed on the tree. It’s not so bad anymore.
Stun treshold on tree and support helps alot😉
@@Eas_the_Planeswalker the passives definitely help. Do you know if there a cap of how much you can upgrade before wasting points?
@@asidp4s no idea
A good idea is to never upgrade your leaping slam gem, it will still build up stun but not enough to proc heavy stuns and you are then basically guaranteed the boneshatter follow up explosion
Yea it’s a good idea, sucks when you overstun on leap slam. Also can save mana by keeping the warcries low lvl to save mana if that’s an issue as well.
Crushing blows opens up another playstyle, but it takes some testing because it procs weirdly. Rolling slam becomes your bread and butter since it counts the first hit as becoming a heavy stun, meaning that even if you "overstun" a mob directly into heavy stun, it procs "as you heavy stun" effects.
I am using full armor break on heavy stun and explosion on full armor break hits and am murdering mobs right now, will see if it works through cruel. Then perfect strike on bosses as they are on the ground. Will be glorious to weave in that god hammer into the rotation as well.
Exatcly the information i was needing, i just unlocked perfect strike waiting for higher tiers skills
I can see the merit into that, the combo of triggering aftershock with that I’m sure is great
Yeah, i can tell you, rolling slam + stun + armor break on stun + explosion on armour break cleans up all the way through cruel as long as your weapon is decent. I don't even have crushing blows yet, since i went for the aftershock branch first (and i'm 80% sure rolling slam aftershocks never hit because of some bug).
I never expected rolling slam to clear like a dream, but here i am lol.
@@youradhere3476 Yeah, and then you add the 40% more dmg on heavy stunned enemies after crushing blow, and things just evaporate. Simple and fun!
I like using rolling slam with the possible gain endurance charge. I get 3 pretty easy when hitting a pack as it breaks armour almost every time. Then warcry getting those extra empowered attacks.
Just fyi, strength nodes do not count as small passives, its actually highlighted in the description. Thanks for the video!
You mean travel nodes. The strength on the small passive nodes count like the one besides Beef.
Damn he figured out the secret. Now everyones gonna do it lol. I took that node tree for the atkspeed too. Its bad ass.
I get why people aren’t taking it. In POE 1 you would do EVERYTHING in your power to just not get hit at all.
I’m on tier 11 maps now at lvl 82 and I still tank little chip shots all the time getting the rage / attack speed when hit. Definitely seems worth it for now unless highest tier maps are crazy.
Also I’m still not capped res lol and have low armor, well only get tankier as time goes on.
@Mdntech3000 you gotta try the giants blood with double cultists hammers for aoe splash, slot 2 life essences for the leeching on both and just turn into a meat grinder
I’d love to try this as soon as I can gather up enough strength!
Hulking form does not affect the Tavel nodes, so the 5 strength stays 5 strength, its still OP as Fu** with the 50% to all the small nodes
I can’t wait to get to hitting this hard. I’m progressing slow but having fun. I only get to play an hour each morning because I work so much and dead ass tired when I get home late.
I know how you feel man. I work full time too and work on the side as well..get a bit to play a few hours each day and a bunch on the weekends thankfully.
Luckily it’s really easy to get this damage later on!
I love the guide and I love POE2!
Thank you oneesama.
If u rolling slam cancel to dodge u can move rly fast
I realize now that rolling slam DOES scale with attack and skill speed.
I tried what using it a bit for mapping and it’s ok.
couldnt you use herald of ash for better clearing since it makes the packs go kaboom, i use it for my titan / warrior and clear feels amazing but the lack of single target damage is bad
Single target is your strength, hammer of gods is crazy. When you break armor use the combo that I put near the beginning of the video.
I might try herald of ash soonish
Lol. Single target is where warrior shines. Perfect strike was my go to for mid to late campaign, it was crushing every boss.
Would the Reduced Duration(8% reduced skill effect duration) cause aftershocks time to detonate faster?
I have no idea but in theory it should work.
Resolute Technique X Auto Crit when Armor Break (Sunder and Leap Slam).
How Works?
If you’re a sunder build I would just play a crit version then although you’d need a bunch of accuracy.
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Levelling as Melee is painfull AF.
Any advice?
I put it in the description, where in the campaign are you now?
Reroll to another class may help with that. I know you may not take me too serious but I'm sure, if you reach even the beginning of act 3 you will change your mind.
There could be a million things wrong. Equipment, passives, under leveled. Skills being used incorrectly.
This game punishes melee characters lmfao this game is trash compared to other tops a warrior should not die instantly I live longer on dark souls than I do fighting a regular mob on this trash game you can enjoy the game as much as you want to there's 0 defense for why they torture melee users on this game
@@Asuka0695 skill issue
The travel nodes are not affected by Hulking form
Was going to say that myself, still a lot of strong small nodes to 1.5x
That’s for the clarification, yes should still be good though.
@@Mdntech3000 still busted. I’m 100% taking it
Yea, like I said in the video you just get so much out of it. Offensive and defensive stats, utility- everything just gets so much better. It also opens up so many options when creating the tree.
@ wouldn’t it also mean more rage stacks?
So far I thought the limit was 58 (if you had axes that is, can’t wait for them to be added) and the lvl 20 berserk skill would increase those 58 stacks effect by 49%. So 86.42% more dmg.
However if hulking form increases all small nodes then it’ll increase those rage stack small nodes as well.
is split the earth not properly adding to the aftershock proc chance? it doesn't show up in the skill tooltip and its hard to tell
It doesn’t show but from testing it is definitely working.
can you get multiple aftershocks for the same hit?
Yes! That’s kind of the whole point. When you seismic cry during the heavy stun, the next few empowered attacks ALL trigger an aftershock.
This aftershock is not only guaranteed but SEPARATE from an aftershock proccing from the support gem, skill tree and ascendancy.
What inspired you to make this your username?
It’s my surname lmao. I get this question a lot.
Going to pick this up soon and try warrior. This build looks fun.
Out of the classes that are not released yet is there a Paladin kind if character?
No I don’t think so. Poe 1 had the Templar but in POE 2 I don’t know which character would fit that archetype tbh.
There is going to be a flail wielding class..I was assuming that would be the paladin type class
@@Mdntech3000 Templar is coming
@dlawc I def think some type of paladin arch type is coming, hopefully ends up being that flail class
what about stampede is it good for trash clear? Or damage in general?
You can use stampede instead of leap slam for sure!
Good to know Seismic Cry gives me double earthquake.
Yup! Can even trigger three times still which is huge if you get another proc, the seismic aftershock proc is guaranteed - but you can still get another proc from the tree / ascendancy as well.
But its very narrow window to cast all of this... heavy stun>seismic cry>earthshatter>earthshatter(?)>seismic cry - i am correct?
No not really.
You actually just leap slam around, that’s normally enough to proc boneshatter to clear the pack. Scrap up the rest with basic mace strike or earthshatter if you want.
You don’t have to really cast your warcries ever while just mapping. You can earthshatter if you want instead of boneshatter to clear and warcry to explode if aftershocks don’t clear the packs.
For the bossing part, it’s just seismic - infernal - hammer of the gods for the big burst. That’s really it, then you earthshatter to finish off if that doesn’t one shot.
@@Mdntech3000 Now i figured out, i am using earthquake with less duration nodes + splinter support, building stun and breaking armor very quickly. I just try explode fissures with seismic cry when its unavailible after use on heavy stunned monster, now i know just need to use infernal cry.
is there a way to respec aside from gold? great video btw
Nah I believe that’s it. I’ve probably spent 100k in gold constantly re speccing trying to sort out the tree for this video lol.
Beo any update to this build ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I can release an update today or tomorrow, do you have any specific questions?
The big change I’m trying now is to be more rage focused. Getting the two max rage nodes getting me 48 max rage.
With berserk this comes to around 72% more damage…I’ve been experimenting with the tree and tbh this just seems like the most logical choice. Rage gen when hit is super easy to cap rage quickly while mapping, although for Bossing it’s a bit harder. This also provides 48% increased armor while mapping which is no joke for a notable node.
@Mdntech3000 what support are u using right now can u tell me did u upgrade your skill slot?
@pikolightss3370 I have a four link with Earthshatter now, upheaval brutality aftershock and heft. Can’t afford to use heavy swing since the speed loss is so severe.
Hey, nice to see someone playing warrior, it's very OP. The game has been a blast.
I will always love warrior and melee in general.
The sound, visual effects, animations and everything combined is so god damn good. They did an amazing job with warrior in Poe 2.
Op my God damn ass this piece of shit dies instantly to a blow in the wind
Agree. Warrior is awesome. So many peeps whining that it is unplayable have no idea what they are doing apparently.
Cant u just do ultimatum in act3 to get all ur ascendancy? Thats what they said
I’ve done sanctum and ultimatum for my first two sets of points. Not sure how to get the rest tbh.
@@Mdntech3000 u have to do the higher level versions of them , u can just do ultimatum to get ur entire points if u want
Got a link to a written build?
I don’t know any websites or the like that can have a written guide, I’m sorry. If you have questions I’ll try to answer
@@Mdntech3000 mobalytics, very easy to create it and to follow what you did !
@thomasr4380 someone actually reached out to me from Mobalytics, not sure if it’s a scam or not lol but might end up writing one on there.
How do you complain about Sanctum being the first "lab"? You just run through it, no need to kill stuff pretty much ever, and when you do its easy mobs. Easiest shit as a Warrior they've ever put in.
Not about the first run.
1 strength - 2 life. Not 4.
"there's alot of negativity around poe2" that's the first i've heard of anything bad. everyone is playing non stop
Just Reddit. Like always…
what negativity?
This nuke exists while they nerfed tf out of the only viable merc and ranger builds lol... gotta love it
What else do we have? Literally what else does warrior have? We attack slow and are vulnerable during our slow animations.
Everyone else gets to be fast but us so with all this investment we deserve our nuke builds because there is no other options.
I still haven’t seen what other classes are capable of. Really want to just experiment and find out on my own, I’ll try some other classes soonish.
Molten Explosion is strong@@draketurtle4169
I Play Warrior on Projectile damage And fire / Pierce
Stun bar almost Instant full And good damage
Most mobs are 1 Hit And Bosses Take Max 1-2 mins
Good cleave too
We have a backpack haha
I thought about doing a build revolving around around molten blast, I’m sure it’s cool