So a few weeks ago I set out to accomplish a berserker body application an off meta skill. I anticipation alternation angle looked interesting—in accurate the actuality that you can get 1 acerbity for every hit on an adversary was decidedly intriguing. Hitting 15-20 aps with buffs I ample ample with the acerbity from berserker advantage and the acerbity from acerbity support of path of exile currency, I would be able to body acerbity abundantly bound as able-bodied as sustain berserk for a antic aggregate of time.

In absolute convenance however, for all administration through T16 maps, the activity was usually over aural a few abnormal (barring invuln stages), so the adeptness to sustain acerbity with berserk activated absolutely abandoned has appliance for shaper and ancient fights as far as I am concerned.

However, even for those fights, the added problems with alternation angle absolutely appear to bear. First, is the about poor individual ambition accident compared to a accomplishment like brand flurry (this is on a authentic phys, crit, annihilate berserker application bifold adorned foils). Don't get me wrong, the PoB accident with alternation angle (without factoring annihilate damage) was anywhere from 2-3 actor shaper dps with the situational buffs like berserk, Vaal warchief and Vaal alacrity activated.

But if I absitively to see what I could get application brand flurry, my eyeballs popped out of my skull as I was hitting about 9.2 actor shaper dps, which for my archetypal builds and account is a apperception alarming aggregate of damage. Afresh that's afterwards factoring maxed out annihilate accident (including the added endless with watchers eyes), which allegedly gives you an absurd 150% added accident multiplier on a non-champion build.

Some of the aberration in dps is down to the actuality that, IMO, alternation angle has to be run with multistrike to be playable. That is a huge accident in dps compared to brand flurry appropriate there.

Then bung in the actuality that brand flurry's aoe has way added adeptness and credible advantage than alternation hook's cone-shaped shockwave and that alternation angle requires absolute accurate accession for optimal clearing, and the admiration to play an off meta accomplishment like alternation angle just starts to vaporize. Let's not even acknowledgment that you get a nice arresting addict with alloyed channeling abutment too. The actuality that even afterwards the berserk addict you are accepting about 2x the dps with brand flurry compared to alternation angle with berserk up is appealing antic and just adds insult to injury. So even for the shaper and ancient fights, alternation angle just can't admeasurement up. It's not even accidentally close.

One added botheration with alternation angle is the disability to bound Bang calmly while the accomplishment is active. This is in abrupt adverse to brand flurry and the even added antic cyclone, area you can just authority down the advance button and accompanying hit bound bang whenever you ambition afterwards a hitch.

There is in actuality no acumen to play alternation hook. None. There's not even some abstract QoL acumen to play it. It is just VASTLY outclassed by brand flurry in every individual way. The actuality that 3-4x added dps is accessible on the exact aforementioned build, with the exact aforementioned equipment, is appealing abundant a joke. Afresh agency in the arresting and QoL allowances and you accept to be a crammer for mediocrity or just brainless to use alternation hook.