*Revenge for the Avenger? But who will avenge the Revenger?
Foreword
Tired of your Avenger getting nerfed all the time? Are you not a new reworked Upheaval believer? You think that health regeneration is for cowards and set builds are boring? Well then, I do have a build just for you!
Continuing the theme of serious two-handed bonking builds this is a build that came to me in a dream during a full moon that turned out to be much better than I was expecting. I think It’s an incredibly simple and satisfying build to play.
The build
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Big bonking questions
Hmmm, so what’s point of choosing it over Avenger? It doesn’t have cowardly health regeneration!
It has a diferent set of wps, both of which have faster frames than what Avenger has (Feral Hunger + Markovian’s Advantage are both faster than Zolhan + Upheaval). Plus it has more upfront leech than Avenger due to big Feral Hunger.
I just noticed that it has ZERO reflect resist!?
I have tested it in Steps of Torment on Ascendant difficulty and against Voidmarked Chests with a juiced up altar and never really came anywhere close to dying due to reflect. However I did die once by smacking some random Reflective Crab hero in Ugdenbog. Depending on your setup you can always use one Titan Plating (and should probably use it if you want this build on Hardcore, together with Owl devotion and get missing cc-res elsewhere).You can see how build performs against reflectors in the videos below.
Why no Deathstalker relic, I thought it was the golden standard on Physical builds??
Deathstalker is still a great relic but here extra skills find us the most crucial hard caps such as Markovian’s Advantage and Brute Force. Also get us a Savagery breakpoint.
Gear/skills/devotions/levelling
On one hand build rocks a pretty simple setup with quite a bit of legendaries, on another hand a lot of those legendaries are crucial in order to reach our WPS hard caps and other important breakpoints. Core items are Troll Bonecrusher (Bleeding item, I know, but with FoA’s tech of manipulating affixes it doesn’t matter anymore), it’s important to roll a lot of attack speed on it (of Alacrity is just a bit worse than of Fury). Markovian Stratagem medal opens up an arc multi-target attack on one of our two WPS, it’s a core item here too, along with the Fleshwarped Casque (low cooldown on War Cry is still very important for efficient farming) and The Crimson Claws gloves (Savagery breakpoint + crucial Feral Hunger mod). Ring slots and amulet slot are all very flexible. Overall try to reach same levels of attack speed and stats with your set of items. Ascends should help us cap our WPS pool with just two wps (if you are not there yet just use Oleron’s Blood in weapon) and get more attack speed and stats.
Skill distribution is standard. Put more points into Decorated Soldier if you need to hard cap your Slow Resist. I chose devotions with Oleron because it’s a great aoe proc and a passive healing source when you have pet scaled pets like Wind Devils.
This is the endgame build. It works as advertised once you equip required gear at character level 100 and repeat my grimtools as close as possible. For levelling/beginner guides look at this forum.
EDIT: A short levelling guide by @Legrad
Gameplay
You facetank everything and try and avoid fighting inside fumble pools. Health will jump but such is the life of a melee. Your best bet is always to facetank and dish out damage and leech back, unless there is a big fumble pool or Null danger, build’s max hit and leech should allow it. What this build is great at: SR 34-35 farm, Ascendant Altar farm, Ravager, Callagadra. What this build is not great at: Mogdrogen and Beronath fights on Ascendant can be a bit annoying (unless you know their potential one shot attacks really well), probably Crate (didn’t try, but always a pain on a melee), Crucible “naked” with extra spawn wave 200 specifically.
Stats
General (including temporary buffs)
Videos
Physical 2h Warder vs. Ravager of Flesh 31 seconds kill
Physical 2h Warder vs. Callagadra 54 seconds kill
Physical 2h Warder vs. Avatar of Mogdrogen
Physical 2-handed Warder farms Voidmarked Chests, Ascendant Altar 3 ashes + 2 asters
Physical 2h Warder vs. Ascended Beronath
Physical 2h Warder vs. SR 34-35 4:27 run
Physical 2-handed Warder farms full altar Ascendant campaign till it dies
In Conclusion
I want to share a couple of very potent Werewolf builds but waiting on Zantai to fix permanent Untamed Rage bug.
