Corrupting Cry Warbringer

Currently level 58 and breezing through the campaign with this build. It's one button, it's braindead, it's tanky, it's safe.

--- Synopsis:

The build revolves around stacking Corrupted Blood from Corrupting Cry, which scales off of strength. Your weapon is nearly useless unless it has strength on it.

Your initial tree framework should look like this: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/fp44a0z4

These are the priority nodes, we take all unconditional +Phys% Increase damage nodes, +Warcry% Damage nodes, and Warcry speed nodes.

After you've taken all of your priority nodes, you can fill in remaining passives like so until we can get Blood Magic online: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/oi49r0zd -- (You will get more passive points

At this point, you just aim to stack strength, wade through packs of enemies, spam warcry, chug mana pots. If you run out of mana pots, portal, hit the well, come back.

Against bosses, stack 10 corrupted blood as soon as possible, then proceed to just hold shield / maneuver around and warcry once every few seconds, fit other DPS in where appropriate, but the DOT will do most of the work. I've so far one-shot every boss since my second ascendancy because I can almost exclusively focus on mechanics and I have so much HP from strength stacking I can eat most hits.

--- When to transition?

You can transition into this build the moment you can get Seismic Cry at level 41.

Seismic Cry only goes on cooldown if an enemy that you hit with it is Heavily Stunned, meaning you can often get many casts off before it goes on cooldown. Keep your Warcry Cooldown passives for now with this, once you get your second ascendancy you can drop them for more Warcry Speed.

--- Gems:

Almost nothing matters besides Seismic Cry, I don't use any other abilities, none of them are that good and you don't scale anything to help them much.

Corrupting Cry + Brutality + Swift Affliction, in that order, are the most important supports.

--- Blood Magic:

Once you can get a 4th support gem, this is when you transition to Blood Magic. Your 4th support gem will be Inspiration, which reduces the cost of the gem by 40%--notably not "mana cost", just "cost". So it reduces the life cost of the gem. You almost certainly will have more HP than necessary to make warcrying free.

This, combined with the passive "Urgent Call", which heals you for 2% of your life every time you warcry, will make Seismic Cry free.

At this point your build framework should be this: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/4m4640zg

Now that warcrying is free, your DPS leans more towards Warcry speed, so picking up more of that will scale your DPS pretty well. I can warcry 4 times per second, so with the "8% increased damage per warcry recently" that's 24 warcries per "recently" or 192% increased damage.

--- Stat Priority:

Strength, Life, Armour and other defenses. You really just build as tanky as you can, the damage only comes from strength and the passive tree.

I think technically it'd be possible to get a caster weapon that might help, but, you'd waste so much strength to wear it I don't think its worth it. Find a high strength weapon, stack strength, get your resists, get life, that's all that matters.

Enjoy!

I'm having a lot of fun playing this build. Not sure what else to include in this, but if there's anything you feel I left out that I should include please let me know!