PoE General’s Cry Build 3.25 – Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur

The General’s Cry build in Path of Exile is a unique and powerful setup that focuses on summoning Mirage Warriors to perform devastating melee attacks. This build leverages the General’s Cry skill to animate corpses and have them execute linked melee attack skills, making it highly effective for clearing both single-target and group encounters. This guide will provide a comprehensive overview of how to optimize a General’s Cry build in the 3.25 patch, ensuring you maximize the damage output and effectiveness of your Mirage Warriors.

Key Features of General’s Cry

General’s Cry (Level 20):

• Warcry, AoE, Duration: General’s Cry is a Warcry skill that taunts nearby enemies to attack the user and summons Mirage Warriors from nearby corpses. The Mirage Warriors use a linked attack skill once before dissipating.
• Mana Cost: 19 mana.
• Cooldown Time: 3.00 seconds.
• Use Time: 0.80 seconds.
• Quality: +20%.
• Requirements: Requires Level 70, 155 Strength.
• Mirage Warrior and Warcry Mechanics:
  • Base duration is 4.90 seconds.
  • 38% increased Warcry Speed.
  • Maximum 6 Summoned Mirage Warriors.
  • Counts total Power of Enemies and Corpses in Range.
  • Summons Mirage Warriors from 2 corpses per 5 Power, minimum 1 corpse.

General’s Cry Support:

• Supports melee attack skills. Those skills will be used by Mirage Warriors summoned by General’s Cry. Supported skills cannot be supported by Multistrike.
• Supported Strike Skills cannot target additional Enemies.
• Attacks with Supported Skills count as Exerted.
• Supported Skills deal 51% less Damage.
• Supported Skills are used by Mirage Warriors Summoned by General’s Cry.
• Supported Skills count as Triggered.

Building Around General’s Cry

1. Weapon Choice:

• High Physical Damage Weapons: Prioritize weapons with high base physical damage and attack speed to maximize the damage output of the Mirage Warriors. Axes, Maces, and Swords are ideal choices.

2. Passive Skill Tree:

• Focus on nodes that enhance Warcry effectiveness, melee damage, attack speed, and area of effect. Specific clusters to prioritize include those near the Marauder, Duelist, and Templar start areas.
• Consider pathing to nodes that increase life, resistances, and defensive attributes to maintain survivability.

Ascendancy Choices

1. Chieftain:

• Ngamahu, Flame’s Advance: Provides increased physical damage conversion to fire, which can enhance damage output.
• Hinekora, Death’s Fury: Grants life leech and increased damage.
• Tawhoa, Forest’s Strength: Increases physical damage and enhances totem skills.
• Ramako, Sun’s Light: Provides increased elemental damage and life recovery.

2. Champion:

• Unstoppable Hero: Grants increased attack speed, damage, and immunity to stuns while you have fortify.
• Fortitude: Grants fortify, providing damage reduction and increased defenses.
• Inspirational: Increases the effect of non-curse auras from your skills.
• First to Strike, Last to Fall: Provides increased damage and survivability.

Support Gems

1. Main Skill Setup:

• General’s Cry: Primary Warcry skill.
• Support Gems: Brutality, Melee Physical Damage, Increased Area of Effect, Pulverise, and Impale.

2. Secondary Skill Setup:

• Ancestral Warchief: Totem skill to enhance melee damage.
• Support Gems: Multiple Totems, Melee Physical Damage, and Ruthless.

3. Utility Skills:

• Leap Slam / Shield Charge: For mobility.
• Support Gems: Faster Attacks, Fortify, and Endurance Charge on Melee Stun (if using Shield Charge).
• Blood and Sand: To switch between Blood and Sand stances.
• War Banner: For increased accuracy and physical damage.
• Pride: For increased physical damage to enemies.

Armor and Accessories

1. Armor:

• Body Armor: Prioritize armor with high life, resistances, and physical damage bonuses. Consider options like Belly of the Beast for increased life and resistances.
• Helmet, Gloves, and Boots: Look for items that boost life, resistances, and defensive attributes. Consider using items with increased armor and evasion.

2. Accessories:

• Amulet and Rings: Focus on items that enhance physical damage, life, resistances, and attack speed. Look for mods that increase melee damage and critical strike chance.
• Belt: A Stygian Vise with life, resistances, and increased physical damage is ideal.

Flask Setup

1. Life Flask:

• Instant Recovery: For emergency healing.

2. Utility Flasks:

• Granite Flask: For increased armor.
• Basalt Flask: For physical damage reduction.
• Quicksilver Flask: For increased movement speed.
• Diamond Flask: For increased critical strike chance.
• Silver Flask: For increased movement and attack speed.

Combat Strategy

1. Engaging Enemies:

• Use General’s Cry to summon Mirage Warriors from nearby corpses, which will perform powerful melee attacks. Maintain high uptime on your Warcry to maximize the damage output and efficiency of your Mirage Warriors.

2. Utilizing Ascendancy Passives:

• Leverage the Chieftain or Champion passives to enhance your defenses, damage, and Warcry effectiveness. Use Chieftain for increased life leech and elemental damage, and Champion for fortify and increased attack speed.

3. Managing Buffs and Debuffs:

• Maintain high uptime on Blood and Sand stances and leverage the increased damage and control provided by each stance.
• Use your flasks to boost damage, resistances, and survivability during combat.

Example Builds

1. Chieftain General’s Cry Build:

• Focus on physical to fire damage conversion and life leech.
• Utilize Ngamahu, Flame’s Advance and Hinekora, Death’s Fury to maximize damage and survivability.
• Use support gems that enhance melee damage and area of effect.

2. Champion General’s Cry Build:

• Focus on fortify and increased attack speed.
• Utilize Unstoppable Hero and Fortitude to maximize survivability and damage output.
• Use support gems that enhance physical damage and Warcry effectiveness.

Conclusion

The General’s Cry build for Path of Exile 3.25 offers a unique and powerful playstyle for players who enjoy summoning allies to perform devastating melee attacks. By focusing on maximizing physical damage, attack speed, and Warcry effectiveness, players can effectively dominate both single-target and group encounters. Proper gear selection, passive skill tree planning, and strategic use of ascendancy passives will ensure that you unleash the full potential of this powerful skill. Equip your weapons, prepare your flasks, and rally your Mirage Warriors to crush your enemies with the overwhelming might of General’s Cry.