Path of Exile 3.26 | Slayer Earthshatter Slams and Warcries

Lots of good leveling guides out there, use any preferred Slam Skill. Check out more qualified leveling guides if you want to speed run campaign. I'm not a min maxer so I just use Earthshatter the whole way. Sunder is better though. Leveling in Act 1 is especially rough as melee, I like using Splitting Steel though. Act 1 Splitting steel - Chance to Bleed - Lesser Projectiles or Volley or Momentum Leap Slam - Faster Attacks - Momentum Frostblink. End of Act 1 - Earthshatter (or Sunder) Chance to Bleed / Ruthless Intimidating Cry Act 2 I'm different than a lot of people, opting for an Earthshatter / Warcry leveling setup. FIt in Herald of Ash if able, Get Melee Physical Damage / Close Combat Act 3 Fit in Vulnerability. Buy Haste and Pride, swapping them (bossing) if you want or just using one. At Level 24, All warcries needed are available. When you get to lvl 28, Earthshatter (or Sunder) Melee Physical / Ruthless / Close Combat Frostblink Warcry Autoexerts - with limited sockets / links, I usually just end up using Autoexertion with Rallying Cry or General's Cry I self cast Intimidating, Enduring and Seismic for their juicy buffs. Leap Slam with supporting links Act 4 More cool links, I like using Fist of War when we get a four link. From here onto Act 5 and 6 you'll get access to everythinga and can start referencing the proper support gems in my guide as you level appropiately and get the gems Obviously the most important upgrade is your weapon. Can use belt vendor recipe for weapon but in all honesty I have never had to use it since I've played since breach league. I just pick up any portential rares and ID them, craft from there. You will find a decent weapon by the time you get to maps. By decent I mean any 2 mod combination of phys / acc - phys - flat phys - atk speed. For early mapping, drop an Aura to solve mana issues. I normally drop Pride as Pride just ins't needed until later bosses/rares due to ramp requirement. Cluster Jewel - Cry Wolf / Mob Mentality / Warning Call / Lead by Example. Lead by Example outpaces the other prefix options IMO. I normally just craft onslaught on chest but onslaught for bosses just feels really good, try to get it one way or another. Savage Intensity - another way to help Mana Issues, gives you access to another Rage Mastery - good option notable. I don't think Berserk is worth using anymore, I rather just stay at high rage. Leveling Tree - It is normally a good idea to go Precise Techniques earlier than I have in the tree. The reason why I don't path that way initially is because for newer or more casual palyers, they'll have trouble maintaining it while leveling. If you're a better player than me (you probably are), then go for it! MANA!!!! Mana has become more an issue in 3.25, while leveling and into maps drop an aura, prob Pride to ease mana issues. Late game mana issues, still there...warcries to second wind massively increase mana cost. With triple elreon craft on two rings and ammy...17 mana is crazy. In trade, 100% get echoes of creation asap. SSF like me, I'm gonna put warcries in body armor 5 link lifetap. I've been testing having our normal warcry setup put into chest linked with lifetap to bypass mana issues...this becomes a problem when we get Echoes of Creation but early on, this is probably the play. Crafting an Endgame Axe - Common method (especially for SSF like me) farm Essence of Contempt (Deafining) until you can a either hybrid / phys - acc with high local attack speed, or pref a combination of both. Hopefully open prefix so you can craft %phys which can give you 750 - 850 pdps which can clear the game. With quality changes, it should be higher but I don't know if POB has the new weapon changes yet. Pref weapon base? Vaal Axe or Karui Chopper - I prefer Vaal since the attack speed on Karui is painful. In Trade? Just buy, historically two handed axes aren't expensive. I don't think even with melee buffs that it'll be super popular but who knows, I haven't played trade in years.