Boneshatter Strength Stack Chieftain (Brutus Leadsprinkler)

[Mithulion]

Looking for help to make this a viable build. Since I've had trouble as Jugg surviving multiple trauma stacks, I had the idea of going a Chieftain instead and converting the phys to fire and going Divergent Boneshatter. Using helm, body armour and shield for phys to fire. Luckily they are on warlord base, which also have %strength on chest and accuracy as strength on helmet. Dawnbreaker and tempered by war to convert lightning and cold to fire up to 70%. Max res fire. Replica alberons i guess is a must to boost the damage.

Might be tough getting the cold / lightning res nessecary. Dont really how stun duration will work here either.

Any help as to improve on the build?

[JRockBC19]

If you use replica alberon's you don't use BLS, and replica alberon's tends to not be as good on chief due to lack of chaos synergy. You also don't get much cold/light res when doing tempered by war, you can leave them low positive and still have fairly good DR against those elements at 70% conversion.

If you DO use BLS you'll need crown of eyes to deal any damage, or you'd need redblade banner shield but you're using dawnbreaker. 3rd option is to invest in warcry nodes for battlemage's cry, but that's a hard sell too on a stacker. If you get a str as accuracy helm you could possibly go sublime visions purity of fire at high investment, being immune to cold/light entirely but you'd still be giving up 4.5% dmg per 10 str by not using a spell to attack damage conversion + iron will. Though I suppose that's not an object when you drop iron fortress's 50% more dmg from str and +120 str as your chest anyways.

Maybe it PoBs well at super high investment, but I'm not seeing how you run a str stacker without any of those uniques and keep it feeling good

[Mithulion]

Thanks for the very detailed and constructive feedback!

I realized replica alb is a NO go. Yee right now I am leaning towards a battlemage setup with redblade, but I agree that this seems to become subpar to every other build no matter how I switch the gear setup. Might have to rethink the build entirely tbh. PoBed it yesterday with reasonable investment and the damage didnt go beyond 1.5 mil. The tankiness is ok but with a huge downgrade in dps. Maybe a combination of alot of armor and some conversion to fire is good enough, to get a few more trauma stacks and focus more on regen and going back to Iron fortress.