PoeVault's Boneshatter Juggernaut Build Guide (PoE Settlers of Kalguur 3.25)

Introduction

This guide will take you through the steps to Bonk everything and anything you come across. Boneshatter is not the fastest build, but it is sturdy and it smacks things with its big stick (well axe, but stick sounds funny)
It was the one true melee build for a very long time, and while it now has many friends, Boneshatter is still beloved by many.

3.25 changed pretty much everything. Higher budget is more up in the air atm, and I will revisit them *if*I can make them work.
As such, the 3.25 version of the build currently has limitations. It will get you through campaign, it will get you through maps and it will let you farm gear to transition into some more expensive marauder build. It likely will not scale into the highest endgame anymore, and you should be aware of that before proceeding.
The transfigured variant of the gem is also essentially mandatory now, as attack speed is more scarce the value of multistrike has gone up. Drastically. I will repeat this throughout the guide, but I need to hammer it home.

Build Assessment

Pros

• Very Sturdy
• Very Simple
• Genuinely difficult to mess up

Cons

• Plays at true melee range which can feel a bit clunky
• Actually has to do mechanics
• Can struggle a bit to get its damage going

Playstyle and Build Mechanics

Boneshatter has built-in near-infinite scaling of damage, provided we have enough attack speed. This does however comes at the cost of us hitting ourselves increasingly hard as we build more stacks of Trauma. We can sustain this punishment as we abuse the innate tankiness provided by our Ascendancy to out-regen the damage we are doing to ourselves through the Ascendancy node Untiring. The harder we hit ourselves, the more we regen.
Other than that, we stack some impale chance, grab a fair bit of armour, and go to town.
We further abuse the self-harm inflicted on ourselves through the node _ Inorexible _ to build endurance charges and keep them up permanently.

Passive Skill Tree

All our guides use Path of Building.
We have a simple guide for you that shows how to import the build into Path of Building, you can find the guide here(Path of Building Guide)”:https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/path-of-building

Path of Building

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We use the Path of Building Community Fork for all of our builds, which is highly recommended. If you are encountering errors importing the build, please ensure you are using the Community Fork.

Leveling

We cannot start out our Journey with Boneshatter due to its level requirement. So on our way there, we will instead bonk things with Ground Slam followed up by Sunder and then swapping to Boneshatter once we do our first Labyrinth for the Ascendancy point.
From than onwards we will be wacking things in the face with our big stick.

Ground Slam / Sunder

Ground Slam
Added Fire Damage Support
Chance to Bleed Support

Upon reaching Merveil’s Cavern you will swap Ground Slam for Sunder

Auras

War Banner
Vitality
Herald of Purity

You fill these in as they become available to you. Try to not over level Vitality too much early on

Mobility

Leap Slam
Faster Attacks Support