Skill Gems & Passive Tree

Skill Gems

Skill Breakdown

Boneshatter Support Gems

• Divergent Boneshatter - Your primary skill, gives Trauma stacks on hit which cause successive hits to inflict more damage to your enemy and yourself. Stunning a monster causes a pulse to be released, with longer stuns giving more AOE.
• Ruthless Support - Gives a major damage boost, and provides a base Stun Duration that can be scaled.
• Impale Support - Provides a huge amount of Impale Chance and Impale Effect, which provides a large amount of additional damage.
• Fortify Support - Gives you a boost in damage and Fortification which provides up to 20% less damage taken
• Awakened Brutality Support - Gives your damage a major boost, but you cannot deal any Elemental or Chaos damage with Supported Skills.
• Close Combat Support - Gives you a major damage boost based on proximity to enemy, and provides 20% more Attack and Cast Speed to non-Supported Skills.

Utility

Totems

• Ancestral Warchief - Provides a major boost to your Melee Damage.
• Ancestral Protector - Provides a major boost to your Attack Speed.
• Multiple Totems Support - Is Required to use multiple Ancestor Totems.

Other Utility

• Ancestral Cry - Grants you Strike Range, Armour, and causes your Strike Skills to target additional enemies.
• Berserk - Provides you a massive damage boost by giving Attack Damage and Attack Speed. Berserk also provides 20% less Damage taken while active.
• Blood Rage - Is a temporary buff that grants you Attack Speed, Frenzy Charge on Kill, and Attack damage Leeched, but deals 4% of your health per second as a Physical DoT.

Auras

Core Auras

• Pride - Provides you with a massive amount of damage against enemies who remain within its range for extended periods of time.
• Determination - Scales your Physical Damage reduction and Molten Shell shield value.
• War Banner - Causes nearby enemies to take increased Physical Damage, and increases your Accuracy to help enable Precise Technique.
• Divergent Arctic Armour - Gives you a reduction to Physical and Fire Damage taken from Hits while standing still (such as when you Attack).

Curses

• Warlord's Mark - Provides Rage Generation when you stun enemies, allowing you to use Berserk.
• Anomalous Vulnerability - Should be swapped into the Cast when Damage Taken Support setup in place of Warlord's Mark.

Defense

• Cast when Damage Taken Support - Automatically triggers the primary skill gem when taking a hit. Lower levels of Cast When Damage Taken require less damage to trigger (Use Level 20 for this build).
• Molten Shell - provides an immense absorption shield based on your armour for a short duration. Molten Shell will trigger when taking damage to grant you mitigation when you need it most (Use level 20 for this build).

Movement

• Leap Slam - Is a movement skill that scales off your Weapon's Attack Speed.

Passive Tree Progression

Jewel Locations

Large Cluster Jewel

The Cluster Jewel Socket on the edge of the passive tree Near Marauders starting location should be eventually Socketed with your Large Cluster Jewel.

Glorious Vanity

The Jewel Socket in the middle of the Passive Tree by the Elemental Equilibrium Keystone should be Socketed with Glorious Vanity.

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Watcher's Eye

The Jewel Socket on the left of the Passive Tree near Marauder start should be Socketed with your Watcher's Eye.

Stormshroud

The Jewel Socket next to Unwavering Stance should be Socketed with your Stormshroud.

Natural Affinity

The Cluster Jewel on the edge of the passive tree Near Marauders starting location should be eventually Socketed with Natural Affinity.

Impossible Escape

IMPORTANT You cannot socket Impossible Escape into a Cluster Jewel because it will not work in there. Choose a different socket instead and then allocat the following: Soul of Steel, Prismatic Skin, Kinetic Impacts, Goliath and Eagle Eye.

Tattoos