"Triple Rage" Build

[high ore]

Everything in this build guide is written as if all gear is at exaltation +14 or higher. Unlike my previous build, this one only really comes online at higher exaltation levels, and is a little difficult to make work at max difficulty unless certain items are near or at max exaltation.

The triple rage build does exactly what it sounds like: It stacks all three variations of the "Rage" augment currently in the game as of 0.4.1. Combined with some other key gear & augments that boost survivability, and you'll wind up with a build that can quite literally ignore the dodge and parry mechanics entirely in favor of constant attacking. It deals damage, it makes you nigh unkillable, and it's so braindead you can just mash the attack button.

Strength builds just can't stop winning.

The must-have core items:

Barbarian Blade or Red Steel Broadsword or Howling Reavers
// Rage (Barbarian Blade)
// Burning Rage (Red Steel Broadsword)
// Deafening Rage (Howling Reavers)

• Crit Chance
• Execution
• Head Hunting
  (I use Barbarian Blade, but it's up to you.)

Vampiric Heart
// Blood Rapture (Intrinsic)
// Regenerating Crystal (Emerald Heart)
// Roiling Power or Reignite (Obsidian Heart & Phoenix Heart)

• Crit Chance
• Crit Power
• Execution or Physical Damage
  (If there's a single item in this build that I recommend getting to exaltation +16 ASAP, it's the Vampiric Heart. The "Blood Rapture" augment at +18 means that the cooldown for healing a full heart upon landing a crit is only one second. Combined with "Regenerating Crystal", and you'll see why I said dodging/parrying is optional.)

Ring of Murder
// Weak Link (Intrinsic)
// Amplify Blood (Bloody Ring)
// Up to you! (I use "Forceful Cleanse" from the Ring of Purging Shock)

• Crit Chance
• Crit Power
• Execution or Physical Damage

Emerald Key
// Power Within (Intrinsic)
// Up to you!
// Up to you!

• Crit Chance
• Crit Power
• Execution or Physical Damage

So here's the step-by-step process. It's pretty complicated so bear with me here:

1: Walk up to a group of enemies.
2: Draw weapon.
3: Mash the light attack button.
3a: Do not dodge or parry, we commit in this house.
4: Keep mashing for a couple seconds after everything is dead because you weren't paying attention.
5: Repeat at next encounter.

Okay but more seriously: What's happening?

Your Vampiric Heart and the additional "Regenerating Crystal" augments are making you nigh unkillable. Combined with a Ring of Murder--which also has "Amplified Blood"--and you're pretty much healing faster than you can take damage.

This is possible because you have a certain amount of i-frames immediately after getting hit that prevent you from being rapidly combo'd into oblivion by groups, and those i-frames last long enough that you can heal the damage you took back with these synergies, so long as you're spamming light attacks. This tomfoolery is increased even further if you equip the "Soulfruit of the Stolen Moment", which buffs these i-frames.

While this is happening, all three "Rage" augments are activating/deactivating over and over, buffing your damage in various ways and notably increasing your attack speed up to 86% (if you're using the Barbarian Blade, not sure if it's different if using another) while all three are active. As you hit more enemies, you gain stacks of Weakened, which are actually increasing your damage output due to the Emerald Key. The longer an encounter lasts, the stronger your crits will get, especially if you have "Crit Power" secondary augments.

Additional Items that make this build more powerful, but aren't needed to bring it "online":
Necklace // Screeching Necklet + Conjure Inferno (Dragonhead)
Runes // Runes of Chaotic Elements

Adding these will buff the psychic damage dealt by "Deafening Rage", give you the occasional meteor while "Burning Rage" is active, and debuff enemies as you hit them.