Slam Meta Has Arrived

These changes to slams are pretty insane and got me rethinking everything to yolo slams and hit enemy real hard with no regrets.

Character Profile for manual checking character

#settlersofkalguur #PathofExile #PoE

[Lorenette]

Bait and copium detected people, cancel this man now! :)

[JM-cexu]

I would love to see you do this over chieftain rf. There are just too many multipliers not to do this. I think you are right, you probably can do sanctum on a slam build....crazy.

[meh]

Lance, your joy and energy always bring life back to my withered bones. Thanks for existing and doing what you do, mang.

[spaycen]

I took your tri stacker to max end game and it was so fun ! thank you for saying youre making a new guide for it as im prolly going for it again, as always thanks for the effort you put out for the community and Good luck with your league start

[Vulgaels]

Some things to consider:
-Pride and Flesh and stone now multiply each other. Madness since both are affected by aura effect
- Bleed slams can be insane now! Aggravation, if we can make sure we can keep it on Fist of War and Ruthless... Madness
- Chieftain and Jug can achieve 35%+ life regen per sec.
- Area of effect for slams can reach 250% easily (that is beyond screen wide for Vaal Ground Slam, Sunderland, Earthshaker transfigured version etc)

[WoWLoLSCWhatev]

I'm actually more interested in playing chieftain slams than berserker because i think that infinite warcry power without having to use redblade and being able to use a two handed weapon just seems absolutely crazy

[obeliisk]

Fire convert chieftain with a seven link and infinite power will be insane as well. Stacking war cry effect with infernal cry + herald of ash will give a stupid amount of phys as extra fire

[mariomcp]

Been trying to come up with a slam build and it is tough. I don't know if I wanna go berserker or chieftain. Berserker lets you focus on rage stacking, seems to deal more damage and has double exerted attacks for comfiness. Chieftain you get a 7L + Infinite power warcries and also pretty easy ~85% max elemental res (combined with a lightning coil). On both of them though, it seems crit is a no-go, at least until a lot of investment, and you're gonna be resolute techniques. Been also trying to decide if impale is worth it or not. In PoB it gives tons of damage (you can download a 3.25 beta tree), but takes a support gem + 7-8 points of investment to use it. Also thinking about using the Impaler Keystone along with it.

Lots of stuff to figure out and work with. It is really interesting. Haven't played a slam build since they were first added. I actually don't mind pianoing warcries, but that may change if you're not berserker and getting double exerted attacks. Chieftain also seems that it may be good to get some of the warcry buff effect on the tree since you're always at max. Gonna be interesting to see how all this turns out.

[Gildorify]

If not for aggravated bleed, I would play a slam build too. Gladiator rework looks

[A_C_.]

Ran RF in Necro league, had ideas for other builds for 3.25 but after watching your stream last night you sold me on a slam build. This video just solidifies it.

[miflofbierculles]

a good slambuild could already oneshot guardians, i did that in affliction. Also i think new warbringer is bait, if you automate exerts you only need 25% reduced cooldown on slams for exert on intimidating to never run out if you stick to the fist of war slam cycle. This quickly makes chieftain a better choice because 500% explosion and fist of war as a free 7th link is pretty darn good and on top of that you get pretty good defenses with the resist thing. Also full warcry power on chieftain is genuinly insane coupled with the 30% buffeffect, you can automate maybe two slams where you don't really need the buffs like seismic or intimidating, but with battlemage and infernal cry you can easily get +4% crit and around 45% of phys damage as extra fire. The buffs are actually huge now. And i know many people hate the piano gameplay but it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be, with some warcry speed it's near instant and you only attack every 2s anyways at most, most of the time even less because if you build correctyl nothing outside of big bosses should survive a hit from you while you clear the entire screen with a single hit. A lot of things changed though so we have to see, slam meta might be way diffrent from what we expect.

[LWarden]

The first thing i thought to start with this league is slams, super hyped for it, please keep updating.

[JjDBz]

glad i tried melee build this league now that i have more knowledge about melee, building in next league will be easier so more time in testing new stuff than learning basics and setups.

[eepopgames]

Thanks for this video. I was thinking about something like this after looking at the changes, but I started in affliction so I assumed I could be misinterpreting or missing something that made it not as good as I was thinking. Nice to hear I am not too far off the mark.

[Masao_ours]

Rallying cry only gives buff to allies not you like it already was. Still good to use for one more warcry exert for the new gem and the unique helmet, put it in automation.

i don't know how you find 60% more damage for war banner, for me it's 4% x (1+500%) = 24% more damage.

[stephenchirila]

After having so much fun with the Manaman in Necropolis, i will listen to you and try slams, i never go wrong with your builds and ideas . Also, last time i played slams was in Ultimatum league

[Makrillo]

Being able to make more than a few rage per second while attacking is huge, as someone who loved old rage-zerker this is going to be glorious.

[Cricket-Jam]

Battlemage's Cry still seems nice to use to automate some support spells on hit, on top of all the more% from Overexert and Echoes of Creation

[scire]

Chieftain slams with infinity power warcry is looking solid. You should easily sustain full rage with the rage mastery, sure you are gonna piano to get the full effect but it should be insane on top of getting chieftain defenses. I'm tempted to just cheiftain tectonic slam

[Rockliff]

bro Capn is selling a third build to me already, man, choices are gonna be tough 0_0 looks awesome tho, thanks a lot for sharing!