THE Boneshatter Leaguestarter (PoE Trial of the Ancestors 3.22)

---------LEVELLING--------- 1-12: Ground Slam w/ any 2H weapon 12-28+: Sunder w/ any 2H weapon 28+: Boneshatter w/ 2H axe & allocate Inexorable, Tribal Fury (w/ +1 target mastery) & Call to Arms, as well as put Ancestral Cry on left-click! Boneshatter links: (4L) melee physical damage, ruthless, close combat (5L) + impale (6L) + brutality Your WEAPON is the most-important gear piece while leveling (best damage + attack speed 2H axe as possible.) For the rest of your gear, fill out the necessary socket colors & links FIRST... THEN get as much life & resistances as possible. For the PASSIVE TREE, path towards Inexorable, Tribal Fury & Call to Arms. Once you have all 3, you can drop Sunder for Boneshatter (and put Ancestral Cry on left-click.) Other than that, simply grab damage nodes if you need to kill better or defense nodes if you need to live better! ---------GEARING (maps)--------- WEAPON: any 2H axe >500 physical DPS (pDPS) & >1.4 attacks per second (APS). Despot Axe is ideal. (Boneshatter requires high trauma stacks for single target damage, so high base attack speed matters a LOT!) HELM, BOOTS & GLOVES: spell suppression > resistances > life > accuracy / attack speed > attributes. ****MUST BE ARMOR/EVASION or PURE EVASION base-type! NOT JUST ARMOR!**** BODY: armor > life > additional physical damage reduction > resistances. Glorious Plate is ideal. (Your Ascendancy node, Unbreakable, doubles the armor from your body, so get as much as possible!) RINGS & AMULET: resistances > accuracy / attack speed > life > attributes. Amethyst Rings & Turquoise Amulet are ideal. ****GET ONE ROLL OF "x% Physical Damage leeched as mana" IN ANY RING, AMULET, JEWEL OR GLOVE SLOT!**** BELT: resistances > life > attributes > armor. Stygian Vise (w/ Murderous Eye Jewel) is ideal. ---------ENDGAME WEAPON CRAFT (SSF/poor bois)--------- 1) spec into Betrayal, Essences & Harvest on Atlas Tree 2) farm Deafening Essence of Contempt (upgrade lower-tier Contempts) & T3 Aisling on Research *** if Aisling is NOT on Research, de-rank her [no stars] & try to hit Research encounters first. Once Aisling is on Research, execute her until T3 (3 stars.) She does NOT need to be Research leader - just 3 stars! *** 3) use Deafening Contempts on i83+ Despot Axe until ONE OPEN PREFIX & ONE OPEN SUFFIX (essence phys + another NON-CRAFTED, NON-%PHYS prefix [hybrid %phys/acc is fine!]) 4) bench-craft ANY suffix to fill final suffix 5) take 2 prefix, 3 suffix (one crafted) i83+ Despot Axe to T4 Research Aisling bench (she will be T4 automatically in the Mastermind Safehouse]) 6) pray & hope to hit a veiled prefix AND keep essence phys *7) repeat steps 1-6 if essence phys is removed OR veiled suffix is added 8) unveil & take ANY %PHYS mod - %phys/impale is ideal 9) bench-craft "prefixes cannot be changed" (suffix; 2ex cost) ***DO NOT FORGET OR SKIP THIS**** 10) harvest craft "reforge speed", pray & hope to hit decent attack speed (t3+) *11) repeat steps 9 & 10 if bad AS roll & open suffix (or yolo annul if you're a baller) 12) bench-craft "deal double damage while focused" if open suffix (yolo annul, again, if you ball) 13) if you somehow still have an open prefix (T4 Aisling removed it), yolo slam & pray for hybrid "%phys/acc" OR wait for a Warlord's Exalted Orb to drop, slam it & pray for %phys/AS (GL lol) 14) GG! you now have a 800-900pDPS axe w/ impale and 25% double damage