Just wanted to share my personal favourite build of the league, and a pet project of mine: "Soulwrastler" - a high budget, all content viable Soulwrest Poison Necromancer (PoB: https://pobb.in/2hhtG3N-reQ1 Poe-Ninja: https://poe.ninja/builds/mercenaries/character/B_Boy_Crumps-3793/Soulwrastler).

Although Soulwrest is certainly not an unknown/unused unique item, it typically shines as a league-starter, then dwindles off due to lack of scaling. I've tried my best to push it to its (nearly) limits this league, investing ~800 Div in total into the character (breakdown of costs in PoB). With the 3.26 changes to Soulwrest, and the introduction of the new unique helmet, The Dark Monarch, I knew I had to bring an old favourite of mine back to life.

Overall it's extremely tanky with an EHP of ~625k (without molten shell up), and a reasonable 35M single target DPS, with Profane Bloom forbidden flesh/flame jewels helping further scale map clearing.

Would love any feedback/suggestions/criticisms to improve the build. Unfortunately I'm down to my last ~70 Div, and it seems as though many upgrades are now extremely expensive (I know an original Sin on my merc would massively increase dps, but don't have a spare mirror lying around....), but if anyone has any ideas that I could implement for cheaper (or to work towards) I'm all ears!

Also happy to upload more showcase videos if anyone is interested.

Cheers Exiles!