Hi people, Im not a guide maker but I came up with this Idea and made this meme about it you may have seen on the main subreddit: https://i.imgur.com/EJkBUEY.jpg , I really couldn't stop thinking about it: so here is a messy essay on how this build works.

OK here goes, im doing an absurd write up on meme build im league starting, Heres a fully thought out PoB https://pastebin.com/Lba86eTn , this is probably the closest to how this build will function as a league start character in end game and does NOT include any extreme high tier end game items like bottled faith or doppelganger. There actually a huge amount of customizability to this build by Lv 95 and can be fairly tanky as long as you pay attention to what you are doing. A few things to note:

This build IS perfectly league start able, even with out badge of brotherhood, void battery, and inner conviction, we still get around 1 mill DPS which is perfect for white map currency farming, the only moderately expensive items is in particularly badge of brotherhood which fluctuates between 50 and 200c and to a lesser degree polaric devastation, if last league was anything to go by, starts off expensive and then quickly falls off to below 50c after the first week (you better hope to dear god a popular streamer doesnt make a build with badge). I guess void battery can spike in priced depending on the flavor builds this league, but it hasn't been very sought after for a while now. I guess this whole thing relies on one item, the rework of Ralekesh's impatience, which is traditionally a 1 chaos item, i hope to dear god everyone doesn't latch on to it, why would they?, most builds like "moving" ... except this one of course.

This PoB, at base, is DPS and defenses before: flame wall, snipers mark, wave of conviction, assassin low/full life options (we have capped crit on those), frost shield, and guard skill. DPS when mapping is 2 million, DPS when bossing with all those buff and options ON is going to fluctuate between 4 million and up to 6 million ish depending on conditions.

YOU cannot move at all, your "movement" is exclusively lightning warp or frostblink or flame dash as these do not break your "stationary bonuses" (from wiki) on left or right click, this will take getting used to. you lose 90% of your damage and like 2/3rds+ of your defenses when you walk. And when you pick up loot everything on the screen better be dead. The only other 2 buttons you push is the occasional flame wall and frost shield, everything else is triggered. The quard skill is only useful for getting hit by mapping burst damage, it can be replaced with something else if you like.

Blazing salvo is Lv 22 to reflect the buffs to it in 3.19 should be very close to the new Lv 21 values, Anomalous blazing salvo gives a large amount of projectile speed which is needed for this play style and is a normally a very cheap alt quality gem.

The custom modifier box in configurations has some mods to reflect the arctic armour 3.19 buff and arctic armour chest eldritch implicit, glove fire life leech eldritch implicit (this mod or watchers eye vitality damage leech mod is REQUIRED), and glove unnerve chance eldritch implicit.

Gear choices: I made the 4 rare slots intentionally plain/bad just to illustrate the power and defenses of this build before specialized gear. A basic but not really required upgrade to shoot for is getting flat "# ES regenerated while a unique enemy is nearby" on your belt and chest, this makes your frost shield better and is extremely helpful for bosses. Even with this plain/bad rare gear we have at minimum 5.5k life and 2k ES. we are using a rotgut flask to start simply because it guarantees 100% onslaught uptime (the onslaught duration is based on the number of frenzy charge on flask use, not how many are consumed, (also our frenzies cant be consumed), idk if a silver flask with charge on crit prefix has a reasonable uptime or not on single encounters.

The watchers eye is absolutely not required, just shows examples of nice mods to have even just 1 of, notably the life leech one which free up the glove prefix.

Ok rapid fire build customizations GO: Flesh and stone, even with the 3.19 buffs is very debatable here as its effectiveness is almost always going to be in general mapping, and unlike arctic armour, it has the aura tag so its already questionableness can be reduced further by area mods. But no one can say im not giving it chance by having it be the first choice here. There is an alternative, a pretty good one, dropping flesh and stone for tempest shield (which also doesn't have an aura tag by the way so it also enables Sublime Vision for vitality for a powerful life recovery mod), which also frees up 6 passive points from safeguard, mystic bulwark, and reduced a shock effect point on Anointed flesh wheel, also frees a flask suffix. 6 passive points can do a lot here, you can get a large jewel socket and use Nature's patience to make this build absurd, however i am unsure how "interruptive" that will be. With 1 more level you could get the tireless life wheel, you could get the asylum wheel to sure up your chaos res and frees up your minor pantheon god so you can get soul of tukohama for more stationary defense, a flask cluster like Careful Conservationist could be good, if you get a curse on hit ring you can travel to whispers of doom for +1 curse. you COULD try to invest in the ES portion of the build taking away from our life investment, maybe try to make Wicked Ward work just for better ES sustain (I have never tried this kind of hybrid life ES build before). Just more damage passives, Heart of Flame.

uuhhh Annoints: The default is prismatic skin, but there are other nodes to consider that are good options, notably: Another Endurance charge, Heartseeker, Longshot, Carrion (reduced monster life regen is sleeper, especially on rares, and also gives you more regen when you need it) Hearty, Unfaltering, Hardened Scars (I'm scared of DOTs), Exceptional Performance ( we have some skills and buffs that benefit from duration)

If you want to, idk why you would, but if you want to make this a bit tankier, at the cost of half our mapping an bossing DPS, you can replace malachai's loop with Dawnbreaker, a 5c shield, which instantly puts all of our max ele and phys hits taken to 30k and give a large amount of attack block, it doesn't even matter if we lose attack block chance for fire damage taken, the conversion mods are just good, and with work you can cap attack block on top.

uhhh i dont know what else to talk about here, bye