[Path of Exile] 3.28 Shield Crush Juggernaut Build Overview

If you want more damage just remove some life wheels or defense wheels. A damage wheel gives about 6% dmg per node Sword Craft: Crit Multi base sword T2/T1 fracture Crit Multi / Dexterity Make sure 1 open suffix Chaos Veiled Suffix -> dmg per endurance charge Block crit chance str/int Warcry Cluster - Alt roll Lead by Example/Mob mentality -> Regal (Exalt if you have plenty and prefix is free) -> Scour -> Loop Shield Cluster - Alts / Attack/Defense reforge (check odds). Gearing path: Get correct bases. Cap out block asap. Make sure immune to shock. Use brine king pantheon until you can reserve arctic armour and have chill avoidance on boots. Get at least 80% max res without flasks. Get divine shield (helps with sustaining ES), Take block chance wheel and mastery to cap spell dmg block Once you max suppress get ancestral vision to get 50% elemental ailment avoidance, 40% from elegant form and 20% from boot implicit, this allows us to drop tempest shield. Swap to versatile defender and drop the block wheel and take flesh and stone for extra defence/dmg. Swap to Lunaris/Solaris when needed. Late game defence: Improvements: Get dread essence body armour fractured or get lucky (unlikely) with T1/T1/T1 prefix using dread essence with fractured suppress If successful, you can drop the crit dmg reduction wheel and get more damage without trading off defences. Ideal Body chest would be T1/T1/T1 prefix (defences), Suffixes: Spell Supress(can be crafted) / PDR/ reduce crit dmg taken per endurance charge Ideally when dread essence is fractured, finish prefixes first then pref. cannot be changed reforge phys until t2/t1 then bench craft suppress. cap suppress, cap block (65%), 50k armour, at least 80% all res. 7k life (ideal) Endgame scaling: Swap to simplex and start stacking strength, swap eldritch implicits once you hit 2.2k str Swap to desiccated belt (resonating + 1 (if possible)), drop Unbreakable Ascendancy Node and swap to Nameless Node for +1 ring, can be str stacking ring or vermillion ring, Prefixes: T1 Max life Mana cost -8 If you have 4 rings with -8 Mana cost (-24 Mana cost total) +This should enable swapping lifetap imbued to damage on full life, endurance charge on melee stun, then swap support gems to increased crit chance/multi. ++But you will need to swap back to Cannibalistic Rite, and Exarch Implicit Reduced Mana cost on attacks. Another approach with desiccated belt is using a gull helmet. But you will need a lot of adjustments with other gear to make it work. Potentially changing the tree as well. You also need a total of 100% increased shrine buff effect if you want resonance to give +2 charges Clusters for general stats Armour/Evasion Bases -> Swap to Suppress slowly (Use magebane or clusters, low in jewel slots preferably use magebane)# Big Dps upgrade path: Seething Fury (for crit) <core part of the build> Vigilance -> Foulborn (+25%) Imbued Gem (anything that gives flat 20% more at level 1, damage on full life works with life mastery) Watcher's eye impale chance + impale additional hits (+25%ish) 60 + 25 = 85% impale chance, need two jewels with +7% impale chance to hit 99% chance for QoL Bosses -> Diamond Flask (inreased max charges), use like a normal tincture (burst windows) Maps -> Diamond Flask (Used when charges reach full) 4L General's Cry + Maim/Culling/Onslaught (Cluster) and Power Charge/Frenzy Charge sustain which allows us to run Vulnerability as a curse + Makes the build feel less clunky to play