[3.11] SUNDERMAN BUILD (Fast ClearSpeed + Labber + Super EZ + Endgame) (Gladiator)

SUNDER IS NERFED, SO IS THE BUILD. PLEASE CHECK VIDEOS SECTION BELOW FOR IT, I ADDED A VIDEO SHOWING THE NERF. FROM NOW ON I WON'T BE SUPPORTING THIS BUILD, INSTEAD, OUR NEW BUILD IS LACERMAN BUILD! IT'S THE SAME BUILD USING LACERATE AS MAIN SKILL AND IT'S MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE! HERE;

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2875553

REST OF THE THREAD IS LEFT AS IS FOR MEMORY:


Sunderboi has grown a lot.. Ready yourselves for, SUNDERMAN BUILD!


CHANGES SINCE RELEASE:

Patch Changes:

Changes to Build:


ABOUT THE BUILD:

Sunderman build is a combination of easiness to play and being able to do all endgame stuff at a high efficiency thanks to it's fast clearspeed and bossing capability. It’s an all-round build designed to do your daily stuff like mapping, delving, simulacrum, uber labs, endgame bosses, etc. efficiently. It's also super easy to manage, a complete noob friendly build. Even if you haven’t played Path of Exile before, you’ll have no problems managing this build.

Build is mainly based on clearing huge packs of monsters both as fast and easy as possible, using Leap and Sunder. Attack speed on everywhere possible makes us travel fast with Leap and turn Sunder to a machinegun, then blast the whole screen with Sunder’s huge aoe and Gladiator’s bleed explosion combined. Our bleed explosions come from Gladiator’s Gratuitous Violence ascendancy. Our Sunder auto-aims as well with Multistrike, so no need to even target! Then Soul Taker on offhand makes attack skills don’t spend any mana, which allows us to completely forget about what mana is and also allows us to fill up our mana reserve with buffs. As well we use Vaal Ancestral Warchief for bosses/single targets.

League Notes: Build did pretty good job in Delirium. I will share my Harvest experiences here.


VIDEOS:

[3.11] Old Sunder vs. New Sunder (Heavy Nerf)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ljr1pnYCU

[3.10] Both Gears Tested (T16, Aw. 8, Minotaur):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My8xGuYMZ2Q

[3.10] Simulacrum (Wave 20):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FsaS2hl6E

Outdated Videos:


PROS AND CONS:

Pros:
■ Fast Clearspeed (Crazy leap speed!)
■ Super EZ to run (Even for first timers)
■ Can do all content (Check below for AUL kill screenshot*)
■ Cheap to get it up and running, not too expensive to meta
■ Ranked Uber Lab runner (Check below for ladder score**)
■ Fast league starter
■ Fun to play (Packs explode all at once!)
■ SSF Friendly

* AUL Kill (League), with much lower DPS than now: https://i.lensdump.com/i/iSSdYm.jpg

**26th in League (EasyKun097, 11/01/2020):
Lab Ladder Score Link: https://www.pathofexile.com/ladder/labyrinth/Metamorph/4/1578700800
His Post In This Thread: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2507153/page/11#p22771267

Cons:
■ More oriented to fast clearspeed than boss killing
■ Going for easiness and simplicity had its drawbacks
■ Not recommended for Hardcore
■ Can’t run Physical Reflect maps

Some additional info: For Players Cannot Regenerate Life and Mana map mod, just don’t activate Blood Rage and it’ll run fine. We also need to be a little more careful about health pots with Elemental Reflect.


PATH OF BUILDING:

Required Gear Version (lv92): https://pastebin.com/aiQsVNED (2.3m Shaper DPS, 6.0k life)
Meta Gear Version (lv98): https://pastebin.com/kt7UasRF (4.1m Shaper DPS, 6.7k life)
Gear in Delirium League (lv100): https://pastebin.com/Uip16fQK (As another example)

Notes:
• Please follow Required and Meta Gear versions here. League version is put as another example on how build can be pushed even further than Meta Gear and includes different stuff.
• Pob still calculates Multistrike wrong and doesn't calculate Impale DPS. Use LocalIdentity's Pob for correct numbers about Multistrike and full Impale support:

https://github.com/LocalIdentity/PathOfBuilding/wiki/Installing-this-Fork


PASSIVE SKILL TREE:

Bandit: Oak
Ascendancies(in order to get): Blood in the Eyes, Gratuitous Violence, Arena Challenger, Outmatch and Outlast

Passive Trees:
Level 40: www.poeurl.com/cTx1
Level 50: www.poeurl.com/cTx2
Level 60: www.poeurl.com/cTx3
Level 75: www.poeurl.com/cTx4
Level 90: www.poeurl.com/cTx6
Level 94: www.poeurl.com/cTx8
Level 98: www.poeurl.com/cTx9

Notes:
• Until we get a Soul Taker, we need to use Life and Mana Leech node and respec it after we get it.
• If in need of Intelligence or Dexterity, pick +30 to Intelligence or Dexterity nodes.
• When adding a Cluster Jewel, please refer to passive trees in Path of Buildings of Required Gear or Meta Gear up above.


PANTHEON:

Major God: Lunaris
Minor God: Ryslatha


GEAR AND GEMS:

1) Required Gear(cheap, can do almost all content) and it’s Gem Setup:

Please read this one first before reading next one(Meta Gear version).


2) Meta Gear(more expensive, where it gets crazy. can do all content) and it’s Gem Setup:

It's mostly same with the cheap version having higher dps, more life, better and different items, better min/maxing, Vulnerability on Hit and faster Leap gem setup, Watcher's Eye and some more differences. So I'll just tell the differences other than telling the setup right from the beginning.


3) Flasks:



RUNNING THE BUILD:

On my setup, flasks buttons 345 are changed with buttons WER, Blood Rage is on T, Leap is on Q, and life flask buttons(1-2) are right on top of them. For utility flasks, default 345 buttons here stay far a little and makes us lose time because we activate all utility flasks approximately each 5 seconds continuously. Blood and Sand is on button 3 for stance change. Pride, Arctic Armour and Dread Banner is on second skill set so we just press Ctrl+WER to activate these 3 buffs fast after dying. For Dread Banner, we just carry it as a buff, no placement.

When running the build, we start with activating Blood Rage(T), then forget it. Then we start leaping and when we find a pack we press buttons WER(or 345 if you didn't change) in a row before sundering them so our utility flasks will be activated. We can press WER right before each big pack one time without counting or checking our buffs, because our flasks will fill up right after we kill them. Then we keep on Leaping and Sundering until we find the next pack. We need to be in Sand Stance for Blood and Sand when clearing for Challenger charges.

For bosses, we’ll be using Vaal Ancestral Warchief right before we start sundering bosses. For single-phase bosses we’ll just activate 2 totems at once and start sundering. For 2-phase bosses we’ll activate only 1 at first phase, fire until first phase ends, then at the 2nd phase, activate our 2nd ancestral totem and kill the boss. If there’s 3rd phase or more we need to wait for the souls to fill up again. Some bosses spawn monsters so our souls fill up easily but some bosses don’t so it fills up slower. Or some stages have monsters, some stages there’s only the boss, like the Elder. As well before fighting some bosses like Elder, Shaper, Izaro; our vaal souls reset when we enter their domain so we have to wait for souls to fill up again to be able to use Vaal Ancestral Warchief. So you can make up your own strategy different for each boss. When Vaal Ancestral is down, be sure to have regular Ancestral Warchief up for long bosses until you activate Vaal ones. When we activate 2 Vaal ones, normal one disappears. We need to be in Blood Stance for Blood and Sand when doing bosses for Challenger charges.

For Uber Labs, we need Silver Flask in the middle. Just leap and don't Sunder anything. Our leap kills will be enough to keep Challenger Charges at maximum all the time when running at a fast pace. Don't forget to activate Blood Rage each room as it resets. Traps will be painless most of the time because of our high physical damage reduction and fast Leap when passing them. If out of potions, find a safe place and Rhyslatha will fill them up. We can also get Bloodgrip amulet to make traps less painful and for better recovery from flasks.

For Legion encounters, we need to activate 1 Vaal Ancestral Warchief totem right after mobs appear in frozen state and start Leaping and Sundering them. Totem will follow us around while damaging frozen mobs and activating them for 6 seconds. After 6 seconds, we need to activate our 2nd totem. This way, Vaal Ancestral Warchief totems will keep activating frozen mobs and give us %32 more melee damage for 12 seconds in a Legion encounter, which is 15 seconds in total.

For Blight Encounters and Blighted Maps, assuming you already have ring anointments; we need to put chilling towers close to spawn points and lots of fireball towers where they meet each other on the way. Chilling towers will slow them at spawn points a little where we can just blast them when we're close to a spawn point before they even start running. Also don't upgrade fireball towers more than level 3 if you have "Fireball Towers Fire an Additional 8 Projectiles", which is on Meta Gear. Put empowering tower in between many fireball towers to make them even stronger. We also need to keep on activating Vaal Ancestral Warchief as most as we can, since it fills up in seconds after soul gain prevention duration ends.


LEVELLING:

We need to get Perforate from Tarkleight at start and use it until level 12 where we can get Sunder after The Siren's Cadence quest. Before Leap Slam, we will use Dash we get after Breaking Some Eggs quest with Quicksilver Flask until level 10, where we can get Leap Slam after The Caged Brute quest. Get movement Speed on boots(also to more item slots if possible) and use Quicksilver flask coupled with Leap Slam. We need to add Faster Attacks support to Leap Slam in Act 2 after Sharp and Cruel quest. For single targets, we’ll use Double Strike until around level 30, then switch to Vaal Ancestral Warchief. For buffs, we need to start using War Banner and Blood and Sand at level 4, after Breaking Some Eggs quest in Act 1 and stay in Sand Stance until we get Vaal Ancestral Warchief. Then get Herald of Ash at level 16 in Act 2. We can change Herald of Ash with Pride at level 24, after Lost in Love quest in Act 3, but it's better if we wait until Act 6 instead for better/easier mana management. We also need to replace War Banner with Dread Banner at level 24 by buying it from vendor after same quest. Use Blood and Sand, Pride and Dread Banner until level 59. From that point until we get our mighty Soul Taker, Life and Mana Leech node on passive tree will help with replenishing mana. At level 59, we can get Soul Taker and add Arctic Armor to buffs. We don't have to get Soul Taker as soon as we hit level 59, build will run fine with Blood and Sand, Pride and Dread Banner buffs for enough that we'll be able to buy a Soul Taker easily. Support gems for Sunder on 4-link should be Melee Physical Damage Support, Multistrike and Faster Attacks Support. For 5-link, assuming your attack speed will be fast enough and you have Arena Challenger ascendancy, you can use Melee Phys., Multistrike, Impale and Fortify support gems. If your attack speed is still not fast enough, use Faster Attacks support instead of Impale until it gets fast enough. Don't forget to overcap your resists to at least 109 for Elemental Weakness map mod.


Gem Links When Levelling:


That’s all about levelling this build, because Sunder is one of the easiest skills to level with. As well, many melee builds use Sunder for levelling, so we don’t need to do anything special here. Build doesn't need any specific items for levelling, but here are some to make it even faster:



HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT ME?:

This summer I’ll be really busy in real life so I’ll only be able to play casually this league and probably the next. I will keep on supporting and updating/improving the build, but in these times I need you fellow Sundermen more than before. This includes sharing ideas here to improve the build, helping other Sundermen asking for help in thread, and also making videos! Yes, this means I will publish videos you created and uploaded to your youtube channel in this build guide. Criterias are;

1) Your character is need to be built as suggested in build guide. Minimal changes will be accepted.
2) Your health and DPS needs to be either close to Required or Meta Gear stats.
3) Your video needs to be appealing. It needs good playing, good representation of the aim of the video, not too long boss kills, etc.

Just post your video here with a Pob link of your char you played in the video. If criterias are met, I will publish. Thanks!


LAST WORDS:

That’s all about Sunderman build. I hope you liked it and will enjoy playing it. I’ll keep on improving the build and will be updating the build guide page as the game evolves with new patches and items, so you can keep checking it to see possible future changes to the build.

If you see any misinformation or a way to improve the build, please don’t hesitate to post them here. As well if you have any questions about the build, just ask here, I’ll reply.

Special thanks to DiggerNix and Taraeos for their ideas and support that helped a lot in the making and improvement of this build. And also to everybody who helped with their ideas on this thread and in game!

GL HF, and Happy Sundering!

why didn't you take bloodletting?

Because it gives less dps compared to any other damage node in the tree(lv96 tree), when damage nodes are calculated with their small nodes added. That's because the build doesn't do much bleed damage in total(33k bleed dps compared to 414k total dps), so doesn't benefit much from %115 increased bleeding damage(improves 4.5k). Bleed is mostly there for the explosions. %40 Increased Attack Damage against bleeding enemies is much better here, which gives 14.4k more dps in total. But ofc you can sacrifice some life nodes or 2 aoe nods to get Bloodletting and deal more damage, like this for example:

Lv 96 Passive Tree: www.poeurl.com/coej

Also you can pick Blade Barrier instead of Bloodletting to have 3.5k less total dps, 3.3k less bleed dps and %7 more block chance(%26 in total) to be a little more defensive. I added this instead of Bloodletting in lv100 tree too. All numbers here are for meta gear version btw.


Update: Added Pob links for better info.

will u update the build as soon as we get the patch notes

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WAiiNz escreveu:

will u update the build as soon as we get the patch notes

I'll update the build a day later at most after patch notes are announced. Just added current known changes regarding the build too. No changes required until now.

there was a new ascent :)

Now has an attack speed multiplier of 75% (previously had 15% less attack speed).
Here I do not understand the above information, the speed of the attack with a sunder will be higher?

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ArhangelSkrDM escreveu:

Now has an attack speed multiplier of 75% (previously had 15% less attack speed).
Here I do not understand the above information, the speed of the attack with a sunder will be higher?

Gonna be slower, 15% less attack speed means speed multiplier was (100% default -15% = 85%), now it is 10% less than that = 75%.
But you got more damage % to compensate.
They are changing all "less attack speed" into stadarized speed multiplier, so wording is same on all skills.

Sunder is very good for clear, that combination of overlaping novas, and triggering bleed explosions on top of it, works like charm, you can do this with gladiator or other melee class with haemophilia gloves. It clears and feels good, screens explode, more density = more damage, because there is more novas coming from sunder.

How does this build do as a league starter assuming you can't get a Soul Taker right away? Does it clear okay without reserving 100% mana? Could you just remove arctic armor until you get one?

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Xeneron escreveu:

How does this build do as a league starter assuming you can't get a Soul Taker right away? Does it clear okay without reserving 100% mana? Could you just remove arctic armor until you get one?

Until you get the Soul Taker, you shouldn't be reserving your whole mana. Go for the a mana leech node near Vaal Pact until you farm or trade the axe.