This guide covers a pure rage build for Bragi Axe-Biter in Warhammer Chaosbane, optimized for Chaos 5 difficulty. This setup focuses on maximizing rage damage with high critical hit damage and survivability. You’ll find a complete breakdown of gear, skills, passives, blessings, and an effective gameplay rotation.
1. Gear Setup
Armor Set: Challenger Set
- Set Bonus:
- Increases rage damage bonus by 80% when rage is active (which is all the time with this build).
- Enhances the Last Bastion skill, which boosts health and energy.
- Reason: Provides a massive damage boost and survivability with continuous rage uptime.
Weapons:
- The Last Fight (Axe 1):
- Effect: +100% critical hit damage (at the cost of reducing health regeneration).
- Purpose: Maximize burst damage through critical hits.
- Victor’s Tribute (Axe 2):
- Effect: +50% damage while rage is active (at the cost of taking 10% more damage).
- Purpose: Synergizes with the rage-focused build for huge damage boosts.
Tip: Mixing these two axes gives better results than equipping two Last Fights due to the balanced boost to both base and critical damage.
Rings:
- Fiery Ring of Thoris:
- Effect: Chance to reduce cooldown on critical hit.
- Purpose: Keep key abilities off cooldown.
- Health Regen Ring:
- Effect: Restores health and energy on a critical hit.
- Purpose: Boost survivability.
Tip: If you can’t find a second Fiery Ring of Thoris with the right stats, use a ring with crit chance, crit damage, or flat damage.
Amulet: Mountain Pendant
- Effect: Hitting enemies may reduce cooldown and grant energy.
- Purpose: Maintain high uptime for key abilities.
2. Blessings Setup
Armor Blessings: Health and Armor
- Linked Slots:
- Green + Blue → Linked = Armor
- Unlinked Slots:
- Blue or Green = Health
- Purpose: Increase survivability for Chaos 4 and 5 difficulties.
Weapon Blessings: Critical Hit Chance and Flat Damage
- Linked Slots:
- Red + Green → Linked = Critical Hit Chance
- Unlinked Slots:
- Red or Yellow = Flat Damage
- Purpose: Maximize damage output with critical hits.
3. Skill Setup
Active Skills:
- Axe Throw (Superior):
- Effect: Causes bleed damage.
- Purpose: Consistent DPS and applies bleed for extra damage.
- Shred (Mastered):
- Effect: Heals on hit and causes bleed.
- Purpose: Sustain during fights and synergize with bleed passives.
- Last Bastion (Heroic):
- Effect: Boosts health and energy, grants rage stacks.
- Purpose: Maintain rage stacks for maximum damage and serve as a healing mechanism.
- Avenging Charge (Standard):
- Effect: Mobility skill.
- Purpose: Positioning and escape tool.
- Strike of the Anvil (Mastered):
- Effect: High burst damage on a short cooldown.
- Purpose: Main DPS ability for high burst damage.
- Ancestor’s Gift:
- Effect: Grants invulnerability briefly.
- Purpose: Emergency survival tool.
Passive Skills:
- Spite Smite (Superior):
- Effect: +20% damage to enemies below 40% health.
- Purpose: Finish off enemies faster.
- Eternal Grudge (Superior):
- Effect: Increases rage duration and effectiveness.
- Purpose: Maintain high rage uptime.
- Blood of the Dawi:
- Effect: Reduces damage taken at low health, extends rage duration.
- Purpose: Boost survivability and rage uptime.
- Trail of Blood:
- Effect: Increases damage to bleeding enemies.
- Purpose: Synergizes with Axe Throw and Shred.
- Relentless Carnage (Mastered):
- Effect: Swaps between energy-based and no-energy-cost skills for bonus damage.
- Purpose: Maximize damage output.
- Blessed Talisman:
- Effect: +5% critical hit chance.
- Purpose: More frequent crits for higher damage.
4. God Skill Tree Path:
Path to Take:
- Cooldown Reduction Path:
- Provides +8% cooldown reduction.
- Critical Damage Path:
- Provides +150% critical hit damage and +26% flat damage.
- Additional Key Nodes:
- Health nodes to counteract health penalties from gear.
- Ancestor’s Gift node for invulnerability.
Total Buffs:
- +13% cooldown reduction.
- +150% critical hit damage.
- +26% flat damage.
5. Ability Rotation
1. Pre-Fight Setup:
- Activate Last Bastion for rage and healing.
- Use Axe Throw to apply bleed and build energy.
2. Engage:
- Jump with Strike of the Anvil for burst damage.
- Follow up with Shred for healing and bleed application.
- Use Ancestor’s Gift when low on health.
3. Maintain Damage:
- Spam Strike of the Anvil off cooldown.
- Use Avenging Charge to reposition or escape.
- Keep rage up with Last Bastion.
4. Emergency:
- If overwhelmed, activate Ancestor’s Gift for invulnerability.
- Rebuild rage and continue rotation.
6. Recommended Content
- Best for:
- Expeditions and Relic Hunts on Chaos 5.
- Farming green gear efficiently.
- Not Ideal for:
- Boss fights: Due to lower crit chances on single targets.
- Bleed build might perform better for bosses.
7. Key Stats and Damage Output
- Critical Hit Chance: 30%+
- Critical Damage: 150%+
- Flat Damage: 26%+
- Cooldown Reduction: 13%
- Typical Damage Numbers:
- 1.6 million regular damage.
- 13 million crits on high rage.
Summary: Strengths and Weaknesses
✅ Strengths:
- High burst damage with crits up to 13 million.
- Sustainable rage uptime for consistent DPS.
- Decent survivability with Last Bastion and healing.
❌ Weaknesses:
- Single-target DPS can suffer during boss fights.
- Rage management is crucial; downtime reduces damage.
If you’re looking for a fast-paced, rage-fueled build to clear endgame content efficiently, this is the setup for you!💥🔥
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