A Little Build Help, If You Please
I’ve been contemplating a similar change. I’ve also been using the Yojack build, but I want to do more damage in some situations so I’m trying out an Axe/Warhorn build in Berserker’s gear.
When it comes to traits, I did things a little differently than you though:
I did 20 in Strength, with the majors of Berserker’s Power and Axe Mastery.
I did 10 in Arms, but went with Rending Strikes instead of Deep Cuts (since I won’t be applying any bleeds with an axe).
I did 10 in Defense, but I’m thinking of using Turtle’s Defense instead of Embrace The Pain — it really depends on how much adrenelaine Embrace The Pain gives. If its huge, I’ll use that. If its minimal, I’d probably prefer being tougher when loaded with conditions.
Instead of 30 in Tactics, I went with 20. I don’t care much about Reviver’s Might or Vigorous Shouts due to the total lack of healing on my gear and the minimal healing you get out of the shouts. I can make up the lost 10% swiftness duration either through gear, or I can live without it in this configuration. I find that having swiftness constantly is nice, but not necessarily essential. I need to try it out and see how well I can keep swiftness up.
I put my last 10 points into Discipline, choosing Heightened Focus as the major so that I could get a boost to crit-chance.
I’m stuck on mobility though. I really miss the leap with the sword because I’m so SLOW moving. I don’t want to give up a utility to add a charge, but seriously… I really need a charge ability of some sort because this is driving me crazy.
(edited by Deria.9158)
It won’t let me edit my post for some reason, but I thought I’d add a note that I did a quick test and with 20 points in Tactics and a +15% Swiftness Duration rune it is still very easy to stack swiftness to the point where you essentially have it permanently (at 4 minutes of banked swiftness I stopped spamming the buttons).
I do love that sword leap. Embrace the Pain is definitely there on a trial basis. There are so many traits that get improved by adrenaline that I wanted something to keep it up, but if that ends up not being as much of an issue I’m heading back to TD.
Seems like your choices are a bit better suited to being more offensive, so I’ll give them a try.
I ran around a little last night murdering everything I came across and my damage was way, way, way up. I didn’t particularly feel any lack of Swiftness when I wanted it, but the lack of a charge is a real problem for me.
I might try Bull’s Charge instead of On My Mark. I like the vulnerability from On My Mark, but having a leap (especially a leap that knocks down my enemy and either makes him burn a skill to get back up or take damage while waiting it out) seems necessary to me. The refresh on Bull’s Charge is like 40 seconds, though, so it might not be worth it. We don’t have any other leap abilities, do we?
The only other alternative would be to use a weapon with a leap as my backup weapon set but then I’d a) have to switch and b) lose my range option so that is something of a non-starter.
I don’t know of any, unfortunately. We may just have to rely on that swiftness and a cripple for runners and be SOL or switch to Bulls’s Charge to close ground.