Hey folks!

A little while ago, I came here asking for a hand with my build, to see if anyone could find anything cool to add - I had some great suggestions, and talked with a bunch of people both here and in-game. I've just now hit level 100, and I want to present to you all the "finished" build guide. I'll be posting this to the official forums tomorrow, but reddit tends to be my preferred platform, so you guys get a preview :)

This is a really special one for me - I've always created my own builds in PoE, often to my own detriment - they definitely don't all turn out well! :D This, however, is not only my most successful build ever, it's also the first build I've ever gotten to 100, and easily, easily the best build I've ever personally created. It's also kinda hipster and off-meta, and the fact that I've hit 100 and farmed a ton of difficult stuff with this makes it all the better. I'm really happy to share this with you, and I hope that some of you can have as good a time with it as I have.

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Cut to the chase already, what's the build and how does it work?

This is a build centered around using the reworked Ephemeral Edge sword to give us tons of damage from scaling our defenses. By combining that with high armor from Iron reflexes and Aegis Aurora, plus the inherent excellent defenses from the trickster, we have a build that is very, very tanky, but also does respectable damage, both in mapping and single-target. The biggest win of this build for me is that tankiness - most flicker builds are glass cannons, but not this one. I'm honestly not an amazing mechanical player, and I stand in things all the time. This build is me-proof - very, very rarely do those 'things' I stand in actually kill me with this build, and the only real times I've died have been pushing limits in ways that are super dumb - like for example actively not dodging the phoenix's explosion when I had many stacks of negative max res, or just standing on top of a particularly juicy corpse explosion from a chest.

I often farm heavily delirious/juicy content with the build, and it's perfectly fine. I levelled through solo-farming pure chayula breachstones, simulacrums, mapping, and running syndicate.

But, why take my word for it? Here's some videos.

Conqueror map showcase - Not gonna lie, I basically never record myself playing PoE, and you can tell I was a little nervous for this - it was the first thing I recorded. I completely ignored altars, missed stuff trying to go fast, and generally looking sloppy. But, you get the general idea of a 98% quant delirious map here, and a particularly uncharitable one - 100+% extra damage as fire, 42% life as maximum ES for monsters, monsters gain endurance charges. Notice too that I stand in an explosion from a chest, and yes it hurt, but I instantly was topped back up and good to go. I picked this to show it can handle tougher content, not necessarily to show off "smooth".

Pure Uul-netol breachstone - because people will ask, I did this because I had it on hand, and I was out of Chayulas. The chayulas look pretty much identical - pure breachstones are _very_ easy. This is more how your average map looks in terms of 'smoothness'.

The Hidden - Turns out Tul kills totems with his vortex, which slowed down that last kill a bit. Otherwise, though a bit of a softball invitation at only 55% quant, this was smooth.

Sirus - Great fight except that I ate the "you go real slow now" beams at the end, and the final phase took a long time as a result.

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I've made a POB that you can see on Pobb.in here:

https://pobb.in/GckiFxzZ4Jm5

I've included 3 trees/skills/item layouts - budget, what I currently have, and the aspirational set. I've also included extremely detailed notes that covers all of the individual gear choices. Beyond that, for questions, feel free to ask here!

Additionally, you can see my current character on Poeninja right here.

Thank you for having a look, and I hope that for those of you looking for something interesting and off-meta, this can be a cool thing to try!