PoE Hardcore, League Starter, SSF builds

----------------- BUILD CALC ----------------- Conditioal: - Brittle: While moving - Totem: Uptime - Trinity: Freeze but no perma freeze - Fortify: 7% chance - Onslaught - Armour and Evasion - Ailment effect: full chill and shock effect - Power Charges: 5% chance on hit Missing: - Ancestral Vaal Totem - Rage/Dmg per frenzy (glove implicit) - Flasks (good uptime with charge on crit chance) - Major pantheon - Ele Aegis on max hit calc (only gives EHP?) ----------------- TO FARM ----------------- League Mechanics: - Harvest: Crafting - Essence: Armour + Weapon crafting

I've been PoB warrior'ing for awhile and I think I've settled on my league starter. Main criteria was melee, strong overall build (mapping + bossing), and tanky as possible. Was thinking boneshatter slayer, but I avoided it for a couple of reasons; Vaal Pact annoys me and Slayer needs it to be acceptably tanky, and Slayer is kind of bad at bossing without very high investment. That being said, I love the Boneshatter Playstyle, and as a long time HC player I have a special place in my heart for Juggernaut. Juggernaut also deals with trauma stacks very very well. After review, Jugg has very

PoB containing two alternate trees for an Absolution Guardian starter, for SSFHC. (Can be adopted to your league) (Two different trees) Burden of Truth can be switched until obtained. Might make a comphrensive minions ( Absolution and others) guide on here later.

Guide written and maintained by Donkster5. You can find the forum post with links to other material here: I DO NOT ADD SUFFIXES, except very important ones, onto most of the gear. I do this because, depending on your gear, different suffixes will be necessary at different stages. As a result, there are plenty of suffix positions open to get all the resistances or attributes that you need. See the conf