[PoE 3.11 Build] Glacial Hammer Marauder (Berserker)

prime December 9, 2019 [3.11] Harvest League Builds, Melee builds 3 Comments

Intro & build description

The build is based on pure melee name locking skill Glacial Hammer. GH can be used only with maces, scepters, and staves which narrows possible weapon choices. Although Glacial Hammer skill is super unpopular, it is insanely strong and can freeze everything that can be frozen for 4-5 seconds and it is a super safe map clearer and boss killer paired with insane damage provided by berserker ascendency.

Build Pros

Super tanky
Passive Endurance and Power charge generation while mapping
Excels versus high tier rare monsters and bosses
Culling strike at 30% of life of frozen monsters
High to insane damage depending on the weapon. Can scale to 10 million Shaper DPS
~7.5k life

Build Cons

No passive regen due to Vaal Pact
Can't do elemental reflect and no leech maps

Passive tree(s) and Path of Building

[3.11] Full build

Bandits

Bandits Quest Choice

Kill all bandits

Ascendancy skill points

Labyrinths	Skill point choice
Labyrinth 1	Warbringer
Labyrinth 2	Pain Reaver
Labyrinth 3	Flawless Savagery
Endgame Labyrinth	Blitz

Skill gem setup

Helm

Hatred

Herald of Ice

Ancestral Protector

Frost Bomb

Body Armor

Gloves

Leap Slam

Faster Attacks Support

Physical to Lightning Support

Blood Rage

Boots

Cast When Damage Taken Support

Immortal Call

Enduring/Rallying Cry

Precision (5 lvl)

2h Weapon

Glacial Hammer

Elemental Damage with Attacks Support

Multistrike Support

Melee Physical Damage Support

Fortify Support

Damage on Full Life Support

1h Weapon

None

Offhand weapon / shield

None

Build uniques / Example rare gear

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Helmet

Rare Helm

Rare helm with lots of life and elemental resistances. As a best in slot item you can fossil craft helmet using frigid fossil (-cold resistance for nearby monsters).

Body Armour

Kaom's Heart

Great item to boost effective health pool. Alternative is rare chest with high life and elemental resistances or Belly of the Beast. Gives you option for second 6-link or additional utility gems. Completely up to you.

Gloves

Rare Gloves

Rare gloves with high life, elemental resistances and crafted mod ”25% of physical damage converted to cold damage”. This mod paired with Winter burial unique jewel gives us 100% physical to cold conversion. Mod is obtainable to craft by unveiling rare items.

Boots

Rare Boots

Generic rare boots with life, movement speed and elemental resistances.

Left Ring

Rare Ring

High accuracy, life and elemental resistances.

Right Ring

Rare Ring

Amulet

The Pandemonius

Insanely strong offensive amulet which can blind enemies as well. Use rare amulet with life and elemental resistances/states till you can afford Pandemonius.

Belt

Soul Tether

We pick Soul Tether becasue of overleech (leech not removed at full life) combined with Warcry it can recover 6K life/s.

2Hand Weapon

Hegemony's Era

Super cool item. High DPS/crit chance + lets us passively generate power charges on critical strikes.

Jewel

Tempered Flesh

Strong jewel to socket in jewel slot between ”Barbarism” and ”Juggernaut” notables.

Jewel

Winter Burial

Winter Burial jewel gives you 2 valuable things:

-built-in melee splash that with the help of Herald of Ice and Ancestral Call support gem will blow up packs with one tap. Splash from this jewel will deal 100% of your hit cold damage, while Melee Splash support gem deals 40% less splash damage.

25% phys to cold conversion which can only be found on Watcher’s eye jewels otherwise. With this 25% and conversion from the gloves, we will make full physical to cold conversion on Glacial Hammer.