PoE Hardcore, SSF builds

Welcome exiles, There's been a lot of interest in this sub for divine ire ignite thanks to the recent elementalist rework. I've spent way too much time theorycrafting and absorbing everything people discussed here (slurp), so I thought I would share my version. (already posted it in response to another thread but I thought it deserved its own thread, and I tidied up a few things since then). So here the focus is on survivability, because I'm really not convinced the other versions posted here are reasonable on that aspect (sorry creator of the "tankyer version", we still love you <3 ), an

Concepts Smite + Wrath scaling efficiently through Supreme Ego and Aura Clusters RT + Supercharge for Can't Miss and free Lucky Damage, exploiting the huge lightning roll range Frostbreath for Double Damage Tribal Fury (Ancestral Call overlap trick) for doubled damage again Berserker Rage scaling for free damage Perma Berserk Near 100% Ancestral Cry upkeep for insane clear Glancing with max block (+ eventual life on block shield) Vaal Molten Shell possible with a bit more Armour investment. 200%+ Life Blood Magic Notes Aspect of Carnage

Budget is max 5ex on hardcore heist, where dagger is 1/2 of build price, so if you have the dagger you rest of gear can be ssf. POB 89 lvl bellow:

Important notes Mana regen % anywhere you can get it from is really really good - start with clarity and replace it with herald of thunder once you get enough mana regen Gloves w/ spell damage leeched as ES are a huge survivability boost. Surgeons prefix on flasks is stupidly OP (we have 100% crit chance and fast cast speed so this is insanely good for us and gives the flasks massive uptime on bossfights)