League Starter (Vaal Volcanic Fissure)

Build set up for general map clearing, on low budget gear (mostly crafted Dexterity and Intelligence for attribute requirements, and essence crafted Strength).The weapon might be mid-tier, depending on how prices look when getting to this point in progression. Though I'll be running ROG THE POG on EXPEDITION to craft a weapon, so it shouldn't be too difficult / pricey to obtain a 550+ pdps 2h axe. Molten Strike is the temporary place-holder for Vaal Volcanic Fissure. Mostly calculating ball damage as that's probably where most of the damage will be coming from. Punishment hex set to a lower level to emulate new (lower) damage values it offers. This is kind of really important due to low-life damage scaling we have (60% increased from Executioner node, 10% MORE from axe mastery). While on the subject of our single target, we pick up 40% increased damage to rare and unique enemies from the 2h mastery. Molten Shell & Infernal Cry set up for manual use to be most effective when I need them. CWDT - Frost Bomb - Wave of Conviction Set up on level 1 for frequent application while clearing (Low evasion, it'll trigger more than often enough from past experiences). These are to cut enemy regen and keep up fire exposure while clearing. Final Notes: This build is a low-investment early-map clear setup. The damage numbers are a bit hard to tell in PoB alone, have to feel how good ball overlap ends up being. I've chosen to have no totem in the build as it's clunky and I hate it. I'd rather just manual cast Infernal Cry + Punishment. With investment into some reservation jewels/grabbing reservation on tree, reservation on helm/body from essences, could slap in Anger and maybe Flesh and Stone or something. I'll play that by ear when I get to that point. Eventually the build will have a decent sanctified relic to push it further, and of course eldritch implicits / influenced items. My flask set-up seems a bit "PoB" warrior, but flasks are usually my very first thing I work on getting set up. I've gotten so used to using "fakeblood" flasks that it's priority number 1 for me in a league. From my experience, the flask setup is quite reasonable to obtain week 1. During general clearing these should be up 100% of time (especially with our belt giving 50% flask charges gained). Ideally I'd go for more flask charges gained per hit, but even 1 gained per hit is good enough in general. Atziri's Promise was something I added kind of last minute into the build, mostly to patch up chaos resistance. Though the build being a phys conversion build means that it gets some nice extra burst and leech. Enkindling for +charges will guarantee 3 uses during boss fight (assuming you start the fight with full charges)