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Berserker Rehan Anger Leveling Guide

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Last Updated:October 25, 2024|Changelog

Welcome to the Berserker Rehan Anger Leveling Guide. Berserker Rehan's Anger Trait uses attacks to generate Rage, then triggers Burst to damage enemies. If you're looking for an attack build then Rehan's Anger Trait is a great choice. He's easy to play and very fast. Once Rehan starts Berserk you know things have gotten serious! Like many Berserker or Warrior archetypes in other games, Rehan is loud, large, and in charge.

Frozen Canvas Updates

Frozen Canvas massively changed Hero Traits and levelling for all characters. For Rehan, this means you can no longer sustain Rage until you reach a threshold of Cooldown Recovery Speed. Whilst possible to reach this threshold in the endgame it makes the character much less suitable for a season starter.

There was also a large nerf to Movement Speed which directly impacts Savage Charge and makes the build much weaker until reaching higher levels of gear.

The leveling guide is intended to take your character to Timemark 7.
You can respec your character for free until Level 90.

Be sure to check the final section of the guide for recommendations on how to transition into the Endgame!

Berserker Rehan Anger Leveling Gear Preview
Level 80 Hero Overview
Pros
  • Easy to build
  • Easy Campaign Levelling
  • Very simple class design
Cons
  • Low Damage Scaling
  • Clunky until reaching 50% CDR
  • Slow Leap Attack during Chapters

Check out the Complete Story Walkthrough for tips on how to complete the Campaign.

Treasure Troves

Treasure Troves are a way to super-charge your leveling experience. They give vastly more experience than regular zones and yield exclusive Legendary items. You need to complete each of them once for a Talent Point. For an easier leveling experience, you repeat the Treasure Trove until you're 8-10 levels above the zone, then rush through the next few areas. Follow your side quest to find the Treasure Trove locations.

Keep an eye out for the following Legendary items as you clear Treasure Troves.

  • New Ear Hills (L7): Look out for Pentagram Astrolabe, Lonesome, and Rock Lizard's Skull. These items can drop in all troves and offer a significant boost to your levelling.
  • Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Born in Fire.
  • Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Boor's Iron Crown.
  • Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Varagon's Attack.
  • Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Here you should farm to level 60 to reach your next Hero Trait before completing the campaign.

Leveling Tips and Tricks

  • Your first active skill slot (top left in the Skills menu) is your "Main Skill," this matters because many items and Hero Traits have effects that only apply to the Main Skill.
  • If you're ever in doubt of where to go, click the campaign quest on the left of your screen and a golden path shows you the way.
  • This guide assumes you get most of your levels through Treasure Troves and rush to the objectives in other zones for maximum efficiency.
  • When allocating Pact Points, prioritize Elemental Resistance first, then select Damage nodes until you fill the section. If you have leftover points, put them into Drop nodes as you begin farming the Netherrealm.
  • Claim your rewards from the Path of Progression to gain additional Talent Points whilst levelling.
  • All support gems become available from the Skill Shop at level 55. At this stage cross reference with the embeds to make sure you're set up for the Netherrealm.
  • In Chapter 3 gear you find comes with varying amounts of Energy, after changing your gear, be sure to go to the Energy Menu under Skills to reassign missing Energy.

Equipment & Stat Priorities

Main stats to be looking for while progressing the campaign

Look for these Offensive stats on weapons:

  • Physical Damage added to Gear
  • % Physical Damage
  • Strength / Dexterity
  • Attack Speed
  • Critical Strike Chance
  • Critical Strike Damage
  • Melee/Physical Skill Level

Look for these Defensive stats on armor:

  • Maximum Life
  • Armor Bases (while leveling)
  • Elemental Resistance
  • Erosion Resistance
  • -% additional Physical damage taken

Core Skill

  • Berserking Blade deals a good amount of Physical Damage, but more importantly it has a 360 degree area of effect which makes it great early for triggering your burst on more enemies.
  • Use Compound Source to quickly regenerate Life and Mana whenever needed.
  • Use Vulnerability on Rare Monsters and Bosses until you unlock Terrain of Malice, then use it on cooldown.
  • Burst of Anger grants an attack speed bonus as well as additional damage. The attack speed allows your to build Rage faster and spent more time Berserk.
  • Use Leap Attack to get between packs of enemies.
  • Burst is the main source of damage in all Anger Rehan builds, it scales with your Main Hand Weapon Damage as well as any bonuses to Melee, Physical or Triggered Skills. The proc frequency can be scaled with Cooldown Reduction and as such this is one of the most valuable stats on the build.
  • Savage Charge is the best skill to trigger burst once reaching endgame. Simply charge through enemies deleting everything in your path.

Leveling Progression

Skill Progression
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Passive Skill Progression
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Use the Embed to the left to follow along with Support Skill progression!

  • Level 1: Support Berserking Blade with Raging Slash after defeating the first Stage Boss.

Equip the following as you obtain them:

  • Level 3: Use Leap Attack as your mobility skill.
    • You can use Spiral Strike as a faster option if you have 2 good One-Handed Swords.
  • Level 7: Support Berserking Blade with Hardened for a large amount of damage and conditional 25% Damage Reduction that lasts for 4 seconds.
  • Level 11: Unlock your 4th Skill Slot, equip Resurrection Warcry until you unlock Empower Skills.
  • Level 14: Replace Resurrection Warcry with Burst of Anger.
  • Level 20: You unlock access to the 5th Active Skill Slot. Equip Vulnerability.
  • Level 24: Support Berserking Blade with Added Physical Damage.
  • Level 26-54: Continue filling out supports on your utility skills. Now, the goal is to slowly add on Supports and Auras as you gain Energy and levels.

Level 55: At this point you have access to every skill in the game, continue to follow the embed shown as you gain more Energy.

To learn more check out the Skills and Passives Guide.

Talents

Berserker Rehan Anger Leveling Talent Tree
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God of War

This tree grants access to a huge amount of flat Physical damage for the early game. Combined with the Brutality major talent you should have no issues progressing the chapters. Endless Fervor provides Fervor rating which grants a large amount of Critical Strike Chance which is vital to sustain Rage later in progression.

Shadowdancer

This tree grants access to cooldown recovery speed, and a lot of Life Regain. The 2 Major Talents, Blunt and Hair-trigger provide a large amount of additional damage.

Warlock

Warlock is essential as it grants 16% Cooldown Recovery Speed, further improving your ability to sustain Rage. It also grants +3 Levels to All Skills through Indifference and a Legendary Medium Talent. These Levels directly boost the damage of your Burst as it gains 8% additional damage per level.

Dirty Tricks is the highest damage option in Warlock but requires a few things;

  • Acuteness Imbue for Base Trauma Damage
  • Added Erosion Damage for Base Wilt Damage
  • Added Fire Damage for Base Ignite Damage
  • A source of Lightning and Cold Damage to Attacks, or Physical as Extra Elemental Damage.

There are tons of different Talent Trees to explore, if you want to learn more about this robust system check out our Talent Tree Guide.

Traits and Memories

Hero Traits

How To Unlock Traits

To Unlock your Traits you must reach the corresponding level and then place a Hero Memory in the available socket. The first 2 Memories are guaranteed to drop from the following Stage Bosses;

  • Level 47 - King Lionheart - Lions Pass
  • Level 57 - Ordrek - Rusted Abyss
Berserker Rehan Anger Leveling Hero Traits, Relics & Memories

Level 45: Frenzy Furious grants a large amount of Critical Strike Rating, more importantly it causes Burst to generate 3 Rage on Critical Strike. Your Hero Trait has a 0.3s Cooldown for triggering Burst and you lose 15 Rage per second whilst Berserking. This means you need to reach 100% Critical Strike Chance and 50% Cooldown Recovery Speed to always Berserk.

Level 60: Tunnel Vision further scales the damage of your Burst but massively reduces the damage of your Active Attack Skills. This is the only Trait available at Level 60 which forces you to play a Burst centred build.

Level 75: Rampaging provides Burst with 2 Support Slots, massively increasing it's damage. Use Critical Strike Damage Increase and Steamroll.

To learn more, check out our Hero Memory Guide.

Divinity Slates

Slate Talents are a huge source of power, also providing access to Utility Legendary Talent Nodes that your chosen Talent Tree's do not provide. Divinity Slates can be farmed from many different forms of content, but primarily drop from the Cube of Rapacity. Look to brand Divinity Slates with the following nodes;

Micro and Medium TalentsLegendary Talents
Strength / Dexterity+10% Cooldown Recovery Speed / +1 Max Charges
Maximum LifeAdditional Damage dealt to enemies in proximity
Critical Strike RatingMovement Speed per Fervor Rating
Critical Strike Damage0.4% Crit Damage per Fervor Rating
Cooldown Recovery Speed+1 Physical Skill Level (2)

Pacts

To learn more, check out our Pacts and Pets Guide.

The Netherrealm

Racing through your Netherrealm quests as quickly as possible results in you becoming under-leveled for the required zones to progress further, stay within 3 levels of the zones you're completing to avoid a harsh experience penalty. Check out our How to Progress the Netherrealm if you're unsure of anything.

Here's a list of things to do while progressing the early stages of the Netherrealm;

  • Level 60, The Trade House is unlocked. Be sure to read and understand our Trade House for Beginners Guide before making any big purchases.
  • Higher item levels of gear come with higher quantities of Energy. Look to improve your current gear with items that have increased energy so that you can use more Support Skills.
  • Utilize Crafting to greatly increase the power of gear you come across. It costs very low amounts of Flame Sand and Fine Embers to significantly improve your gear.

Transitioning to Endgame

Savage Charge Respec

Swap to Savage Charge after completing the campaign, continue to use Leap Attack as your mobility skill until you get 30%+ Movement Speed on your boots.

Weapon

A Two-Handed Axe or Hammer with high DPS is the primary source of all your damage.

  • All of the damage for this build comes from your Hero Trait, Burst. Which multiplies your weapon damage by 325%. Therefore a Weapon with high Gear Physical Damage is essential and the biggest multiplier to you output.
  • Search Beacons or the Trade House for items with any of the following modifier on a Two-Handed Hammer or Axe
    • Physical Damage added to Gear
    • Gear Physical Damage
    • Strength / Dexterity
    • Melee Skill Level
  • Craft using prototype crafting until you have a 400 DPS weapon. This is more than enough to take you into Timemark 7.
  • Enchant the item to finish it.

Cooldown Reduction

  • Much like a conventional Cast on Crit build, this build scales very well with Cooldown Reduction, as it increases the rate at which you can trigger your main source of damage, Burst.
  • It also reduces the interval between gaining Rage from Burst Critical Strikes.
  • 50% is needed to permanently Berserk which can come from the following sources
    • Warlock Talent Tree - 16%
    • Shadowdancer Talent Tree - 9%
    • Legendary Medium Talent on a Divinty Slate - 10%
    • This leaves 15% which can be acquired from
      • An Ultimate Affix on your Boots / Belt.
      • Soul Candle
      • Sage's Shackle, if you use this you must corrode off the Cannot Restore Life modifier.
  • IMPORTANT: Cooldown Reduction does not work when socketed in your Burst, as the cooldown is on your Hero Trait not the Skill itself.

Remaining Gear

Focus on crafting the remainder of your Armor and Jewellery with the following goals in mind;

  • Cap all of your Resistances at the 60% maximum.
  • Have a high Life pool. 4000 is a good target.
  • +10 total Levels to any Physical/Melee/All Skills
  • 500+ Strength/Dexterity (Combined)

Legendary Items

Midgame

  • Vortex Heart grants a massive 40% additional damage multiplier.
  • Praise for Injury increase your clear speed by granting a source of explode.
  • Heavyware provides an additional damage bonus to nearby enemies.
  • Hekate's Vision is a good all purpose helmet that provides additional damage, defence and extends the duration of your curses.

Endgame

  • Ghost Slaughter you can scale a large amount of Fervor effect from slates and your rings making a corroded pair of Ghost Slaughters extremely valuable. The degen can be offset with a regen roll on your gear as well as the "regen whilst moving" modifier on boots.
  • Fool's Crown adds a large amount of flat damage to your main hand weapon which is then scaled by any percentage Gear Physical modifier present on the weapon. Due to how Burst calculates it's damage this is a significant damage increase.

Continue the Journey

Congratulations on completing the Berserker Rehan Anger leveling guide! To continue your Endgame journey check our Build Database!

Credits

Written by: Milkybk_
Reviewed by: Tenkiei, Xtra37

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