Hello everyone, and welcome to my guide on the Bleed Warder
This build has cleared all of Ultimate, BoC and even SoT on ultimate difficulty. It has done everything so far, except the Mad Queen, The Avatar and Nemesis bosses, i haven’t attempted it yet, but I’m pretty sure i can do them.
This build is designed to be a good starter build, easy to gear, and easy to play, if you are a veteran player or looking for an OP GG build with tons of shinies, this is probably not for you
If not, keep on reading!
Pros and Cons
Pros:
Easy to play
Beginner friendly
Doesn’t require a lot of gear
Tanky
Cons
Somewhat dependent on procs
Not the highest possible DPS for a warder
Bleed based, lower damage against Skeletons/Ghosts/Undeads
Active Skills and Devotions with explanation
Skill tree link, using grim calc: http://grimcalc.com/build/aSepsM4
Savagery: Our main attack, bleed proc and also some added OA and DA, spam this when everything else is on CD. We have “Falcon Swoop” added to this, since we spam it when everything else is on CD, we can get a lot of nice procs going from it, which does a good amount of damage.
Devouring Swarm: This adds a bleed dot, and also decreases the enemies resistance to bleed for the duration. We also use it to proc rend, our devotion ability, which adds a bleed dot and a resistance debuff. Please note that rend can proc off of the dot ticks aswell as the initial hit, making this ability amazing to proc rend on entire packs of monsters!
Blitz: Movement skills, charge in and go nuts, pretty self explanatory.
Blade Arc: This is our second DPS ability on a short CD, massive amounts of bleed and physical damage with some added Internal Trauma damage, use this all the time on packs and single target! We have cleansing waters to this because its a 100% chance on hit, so it always procs when we blade arc.
Wendigo Totem: This we put down at the start of our fight to get the healing going, this is mainly for healing, and a little bit of Vitality damage.
Gear, augments and components
First of all i want to say that NONE of the gear is mandatory for this build! But theres a few items that is VERY helpful for this build, however they are quite easy to get and not very rare.
Generally you want to try and max your resist when you reach ultimate, and try to balance your defense and offense. Don’t go too tanky, but also don’t go too squishy.
This axe is the first thing you should try and get, the physical damage is not the best, but the bleed damage is amazing on this one, BiS for this build.
For the component, theres two options:
You can either go Hollowed Fang, this will decrease your overall damage, but increase your life leech by a lot, only use this if you struggle to stay alive.
And the component i recommend: Severed Claw. It grants you extra physical damage and it gives you an ability called “Brutal Slam”. Its a good single target ability with a very short CD that you can help to get those bosses down a little faster.
For the augment, use the bleed/phys augment “Potent Olerons Fervor” (requires revered with Black Legion)
Pretty self explanatory belt, lots of damage and +1 all shaman and +2 Feral Hunger.
Good shoulders, bleed damage, some resist, some OA.
These gloves are very easy to obtain, but i think they are probably the best you can get, mainly for the good bleed proc that they give you.
Other than these few items, go with whatever you get, anything with bleed/phys damage or resist on it is good.
Augments for gear
I recommend going with the chaos/vitality augments on all your gear, unless you got amulet/rings/medal with it on, they require revered with Kymon’s Chosen to buy.
Levelling
Levelling is very easy and smooth, start soldier and go for blade arc, max it but don’t transmute it before level 35-40. Use it as your main attacks with a 2h weapon. Take Shaman at level 10 and get savagery and the passive.
When your about to start Elite you should have a decent 2h physical weapon, blade arc with laceration, you should have maxed shaman mastery and gotten Primal Bonds.
At the end of elite, you start taking devouring swarm, at elite the resist debuff really doesn’t matter too much, but on ultimate, monsters have a lot more resist. Max devouring swarm and your passives along the way, if you have the Guillotine, use that as well.
Overall its really easy and smooth sailing all trough normal/veteran/elite. I suggest you farm a bit of elite and get gear with resist up before going ultimate. I went to elite at level 45, and to ultimate at level 73 (i farmed a lot of elite before going to ultimate) but i did complete Elite at lvl 64.
Lets wrap up this short guide, hopefully it will help someone out, if you have any questions and or suggestions, feel free to post them!
Best regards \TheZwoop
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