Rage Vortex PoE Build

Rage Vortex consumes your Rage to unleash a whirling vortex that rapidly hits enemies within its range.

Spin with a sword or axe to deal damage in an area around you. Sacrifices some rage to send a ragestorm forward. While enemies are inside it, the ragestorm will slow its movement and repeatedly deal attack damage based on your attack speed.

Attack, AoE, Duration, Melee. Level: 1–20. Cost: 25–46 Life. Attack Speed: 70% of base. Attack Damage: 40–62% of base. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 40–62%. Requires Level 28.

Base duration is 3 seconds
Sacrifices 20% of Rage to create a Ragestorm, if you have at least 10 Rage
Ragestorm deals 5% more Damage per 1 Rage Sacrificed
Ragestorm has +1 to Radius per 2 Rage sacrificed
Ragestorm Hits 250% more Frequently
Maximum 1 Ragestorm

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Rage Vortex	(0–10)% increased Area of Effect	50

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Related Gems

Name	Additional Effects From Quality	Weight
Rage Vortex	(0–10)% increased Area of Effect	50
Anomalous Rage Vortex	Ragestorm moves with (0–40)% increased speed	50
Divergent Rage Vortex	(0–10)% increased Skill Effect Duration	50

Path of Exile Rage Vortex Build

Support Gems	Description	Requires Level	Tag	Popularity
Melee Physical Damage Support	Supports melee attack skills.	18	Melee, Physical, Support, Attack	96%
Pulverise Support	Supports melee attack skills.	31	AoE, Support, Melee, Attack	92%
Brutality Support	Supports any skill that deals damage.	38	Physical, Support	92%
Fortify Support	Supports melee attack skills that are not triggered.	31	Attack, Support, Melee	83%
Impale Support	Supports attack skills.	31	Attack, Physical, Support	54%
Rage Support	Supports melee attack skills. Minions cannot gain rage.	18	Support, Melee, Attack	45%

PoE Rage Vortex Berserker Build

There are about 0.5% of Path of Exile players use this gem as the main damage skill. Among those players, 99% of players are Berserker.

This is a Melee Attack skill. Therefore, recommend using these support gems: Melee Physical Damage Support, Pulverise Support, Brutality Support, Fortify Support, and Impale Support. For a Level 95 Berserker, the DPS is about 173K.

For the best use of this skill, these skills are also recommended: Intimidating Cry, Berserk, Enduring Cry, Leap Slam, Dread Banner, Blood and Sand, Ancestral Warchief, Herald of Purity, Pride.

For Berserker class, recommend using these passives: War Bringer, Crave the Slaughter, Aspect of Carnage, Rite of Ruin, Lead By Example, Resolute Technique, Mob Mentality.

For weapons, you can choose Axe / Shield, Sword / Shield, or Two Handed Axe. Personally, I prefer to choose Axe or Sword + Shield.

For attributes and defensive, the following is a Level 95 Berserker character example:

Name	Value
Strength	506
Dexterity	97
Intelligence	54
Life	7289
Mana	631
Energy shield	32
Armour	10734
Evasion rating	267

Rage Vortex & Sweep Remake Sound Design

Composer: Michael

We are always hesitant to change audio which has been in the game for a long time as there is a fine line between something nostalgic, and something that just hasn't aged very well. Sweep fell into the latter category so it made sense to update this while working on Rage Vortex, as it uses the base sweep animations. For the new sweep audio, I mostly wanted something that was heavy but allowed space for other skill audio to come through, so each ability still keeps its own identity. The first layer was simply the original sweep audio, as building on top of that would work in this case. Most of the additional pieces are what you would expect, with distorted metal scrapes and whooshes. A couple of stand out layers used would be the sound of a snake hiss and strike (which sounds like a whip), a torch whoosh and the sound of an industrial refrigerator. Altogether making a tight, but meaty weapon swing.

For any skill I work on, if possible I try to start with the core sound which in this case was a metal container being slammed shut. Passing that through a chain of light distortion with high feedback, into an exponential distortion with moderate feedback, it turns the impact into a tonal whoosh with a doppler-esque quality. I then added a couple of fresh whoosh layers, some metal scrapes for the high end and a small amount of reverb, bringing it all together as a rather pleasant dirty mess.

The thrown portion of skill consists of a loop of a stone grinder pitched an octave down, some geyser eruptions and ambience from a heavily distorted industrial cacao grinder. All sent through some pitched delays and a light tremolator to help convey a spinning motion.

Level Effect

Level	Requires Level	Strength	Cost	Base Damage	Experience
1	28	67	25	40%	199,345
2	31	73	26	41.2%	285,815
3	34	79	28	42.3%	401,344
4	37	85	30	43.5%	554,379
5	40	92	31	44.6%	477,437
6	42	96	32	45.8%	583,786
7	44	100	33	46.9%	710,359
8	46	104	34	48.1%	1,355,511
9	48	109	35	49.3%	1,138,877
10	50	113	36	50.4%	1,368,233
11	52	117	37	51.6%	1,638,338
12	54	121	38	52.7%	1,956,648
13	56	125	39	53.9%	3,655,184
14	58	130	40	55.1%	3,017,327
15	60	134	41	56.2%	7,759,995
16	62	138	42	57.4%	15,138,193
17	64	142	43	58.5%	26,083,825
18	66	146	44	59.7%	62,620,247
19	68	151	45	60.8%	211,708,088
20	70	155	46	62%
21	72		47	63.2%
22	74		48	64.3%
23	76		49	65.5%
24	78		50	66.6%
25	80		51	67.8%
26	82		52	68.9%
27	84		53	70.1%
28	86		54	71.3%
29	88		55	72.4%
30	90		56	73.6%
31	91		57	74.2%
32	92		58	74.7%
33	93		58	75.3%
34	94		58	75.9%
35	95		60	76.5%
36	96		60	77.1%
37	97		60	77.6%
38	98		60	78.2%
39	99		61	78.8%
40	99		61	79.4%

Rage Vortex is a melee attack skill that creates a ragestorm that continuously deals damage in an area for a short duration. If you have at least 10 rage, Rage Vortex sacrifices some rage to send a ragestorm forward. While enemies are inside it, the ragestorm will slow its movement and repeatedly deal attack damage based on your attack speed.

Rage Vortex can be used with a sword or axe.

Item acquisition

Rage Vortex can drop anywhere. Drop level: 28.

Recipes

Rage Vortex can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description
6	The Fox	Random level 20 gem
8	Dying Anguish	Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8	The Hook	Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3	Gemcutter's Promise	Random gem with 20% quality
1	Gemcutter's Incubator	Random gem with 1–20% quality
1	The Void	Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Sever the Right Hand Act 3	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class →	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
Quest ↓	Witch	Shadow	Ranger	Duelist	Marauder	Templar	Scion
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa	✓
Sever the Right Hand Act 3 Clarissa	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth	✓

Gem quality

Type	Stats (per 1% quality)	Weight
Superior	0.5% increased Area of Effect	50
Anomalous	Ragestorm moves with 2% increased speed	50
Divergent	0.5% increased Skill Effect Duration	50

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Rage Vortex.

Name	Level	Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Rage Vortex Area of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Rage Vortex Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Rage Vortex Area of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Rage Vortex Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Rage Vortex Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Rage Vortex Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Rage Vortex Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Rage Vortex Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Rage Vortex Rage Sacrificed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Rage Vortex Sacrifices +3% of Rage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Rage Vortex Rage Sacrificed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Rage Vortex Sacrifices +5% of Rage	helmet 100 default 0