0.5 Shield Wall + Avatar of Fire Warbringer Build

• Warbringer + Avatar of Fire Shield Warrior: Act 2 Overview
• Overall things are similar to Act 1 when it comes to clearing; we're now priming things for stun using Resonating Shield, and slapping them with our dual-wielded Boneshatter. This still feels great for clearing, and depending on how high of an armour value Shield you have, you can prime groups for stun in 1-2 Resonating Shield taps (especially now that we have access to the Stun I support gem). Though as I mentioned before, Raise Shield's Shield Bash might be a strong contender for priming things for stun quickly once 0.5 hits.
• Aside from that, we eventually do get access to Shield Wall in this Act, but we only really have on reliable "detonator" for it: Infernal Cry. It's not worth trying to nuke bosses down with this combo until you get Warcaller's Bellow, when you can use this back-to-back... but even then, I think it makes sense to lean into your Mace Strike DPS since it still does so much work. If you find an extraordinarily good, high-armour Shield, yes go for the Shield Wall + Infernal Cry spam, but you'll have to solve mana issues likely with Lifetap in Infernal Cry.
• That said, you'll likely want to socket Infernal Cry with Lifetap anyway since it can assist with clearing a bit from that Ascendancy node, and you'll be able to Empower every attack you throw out without any worry of the cooldown. Definitely worth it, even to just empower your Boneshatters while clearing.

• Warbringer + Avatar of Fire Shield Warrior: Act 3 Overview
• We get access to Fortifying Cry here, which is now what we want to detonate our Shield Walls with; we still use Infernal Cry but to empower our Shield Walls before we detonate them now, if you were doing so in Act 2. Fortifying Cry is nerfed, but in my opinion is still the ideal detonator for Shield Wall because it just, adds more damage and an extra empowered attack on top of everything.
• Clearing, honestly, still looks the same with priming things for stun with Resonating Shield or Mace Strike and then chaining Boneshatters. This means we should be keeping our Maces up-to-date frequently, as always.
• That said, don't neglect your Shield quite as much anymore; we want to use Infernal Cry + Shield Wall + Fortifying Cry to delete bosses once you get a high-roll armour Shield, and even Fortifying Cry can do some strong deleting on its own when clearing.
• Run the Chaos Trial when you feel comfortable to do so, so that we may take advantage of Imploding Impacts, which will benefit us greatly because now our entire empowered hit will benefit from Fully Broken Armour targets, whereas only the physical damage portions were benefitting before.

• Warbringer + Avatar of Fire Shield Warrior: Act 4 Overview
• This is the Act where we finally start transitioning into Avatar of Fire. I would not recommend taking this until you've allocated The Molten One's Gift on the Passive Skill Tree, which we've been pathing to since the previous Act. Once you get this, your Fully Broken Armour effects will apply to your Fire Damage, which is a 20% increased damage bonus at minimum. This helps offset the 25% damage that goes "missing" once you take Avatar of Fire, and makes that downside feel less terrible.
• We're still using Boneshatter to clear quite a bit, however it's sometime during this act that I toss the dual-wielded Maces portion of this build so that I can lock-in a strong, high-armour Shield for Weapon Set 2 points, which will start cranking up our Ignite damage on bosses. Make sure Boneshatter is no longer set to Weapon Set 2, and you should still be hitting hard enough for it to feel good clearing in the latter part of this Act, especially when each one is empowered by Infernal Cry.
• Gearing and Support Gems take a bit of a turn as well since we can now benefit from various increased Fire Damage and Elemental Damage rolls.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

• Warbringer + Avatar of Fire Shield Warrior: Act 2 Overview
• Overall things are similar to Act 1 when it comes to clearing; we're now priming things for stun using Resonating Shield, and slapping them with our dual-wielded Boneshatter. This still feels great for clearing, and depending on how high of an armour value Shield you have, you can prime groups for stun in 1-2 Resonating Shield taps (especially now that we have access to the Stun I support gem). Though as I mentioned before, Raise Shield's Shield Bash might be a strong contender for priming things for stun quickly once 0.5 hits.
• Aside from that, we eventually do get access to Shield Wall in this Act, but we only really have on reliable "detonator" for it: Infernal Cry. It's not worth trying to nuke bosses down with this combo until you get Warcaller's Bellow, when you can use this back-to-back... but even then, I think it makes sense to lean into your Mace Strike DPS since it still does so much work. If you find an extraordinarily good, high-armour Shield, yes go for the Shield Wall + Infernal Cry spam, but you'll have to solve mana issues likely with Lifetap in Infernal Cry.
• That said, you'll likely want to socket Infernal Cry with Lifetap anyway since it can assist with clearing a bit from that Ascendancy node, and you'll be able to Empower every attack you throw out without any worry of the cooldown. Definitely worth it, even to just empower your Boneshatters while clearing.

• Warbringer + Avatar of Fire Shield Warrior: Act 3 Overview
• We get access to Fortifying Cry here, which is now what we want to detonate our Shield Walls with; we still use Infernal Cry but to empower our Shield Walls before we detonate them now, if you were doing so in Act 2. Fortifying Cry is nerfed, but in my opinion is still the ideal detonator for Shield Wall because it just, adds more damage and an extra empowered attack on top of everything.
• Clearing, honestly, still looks the same with priming things for stun with Resonating Shield or Mace Strike and then chaining Boneshatters. This means we should be keeping our Maces up-to-date frequently, as always.
• That said, don't neglect your Shield quite as much anymore; we want to use Infernal Cry + Shield Wall + Fortifying Cry to delete bosses once you get a high-roll armour Shield, and even Fortifying Cry can do some strong deleting on its own when clearing.
• Run the Chaos Trial when you feel comfortable to do so, so that we may take advantage of Imploding Impacts, which will benefit us greatly because now our entire empowered hit will benefit from Fully Broken Armour targets, whereas only the physical damage portions were benefitting before.

• Warbringer + Avatar of Fire Shield Warrior: Act 4 Overview
• This is the Act where we finally start transitioning into Avatar of Fire. I would not recommend taking this until you've allocated The Molten One's Gift on the Passive Skill Tree, which we've been pathing to since the previous Act. Once you get this, your Fully Broken Armour effects will apply to your Fire Damage, which is a 20% increased damage bonus at minimum. This helps offset the 25% damage that goes "missing" once you take Avatar of Fire, and makes that downside feel less terrible.
• We're still using Boneshatter to clear quite a bit, however it's sometime during this act that I toss the dual-wielded Maces portion of this build so that I can lock-in a strong, high-armour Shield for Weapon Set 2 points, which will start cranking up our Ignite damage on bosses. Make sure Boneshatter is no longer set to Weapon Set 2, and you should still be hitting hard enough for it to feel good clearing in the latter part of this Act, especially when each one is empowered by Infernal Cry.
• Gearing and Support Gems take a bit of a turn as well since we can now benefit from various increased Fire Damage and Elemental Damage rolls.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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