PoE Heart of Thunder, Melee builds

-----------------------Build Stats---------------- Damage: 5/5 Defense: 4/5 Mapping: 5/5 Bossing: 5/5 -----------------------Pros----------------------- 1. Fantastic All-Rounder (Excellent Mapper, Excellent Bosser) 2. Dot-Capped DPS, 90% Effective Block Chance 3. Chaos Damage Immunity, Critical Damage Immunity 4. 2500+ Primal Aegis -----------------------Cons----------------------- 1. Needs to get hit before being able to deal damage 2. Weak against DoT Damage -----------------------Note----------------------- 1. The

not sure who cares besides other alt-o-holics or people particularly interested in these build archtypes but here 'ya go! --- league starter: eph edge blade trap trickster - lvl 95 started as a sabo then switched to trickster a bit slow of a league starter overall but it worked in my favor that the overall idea of eph edge and es stacking wasn't super popular until capt lance started doing it - if that had been more popular earlier I probably wouldn't have been able to get some of the nicer helm/boots and gloves that really helped me get some pretty decent atlas progression within the firs

Ever since the Timeless Jewel Chainbreaker Keystone rework last league (Grants 1 Rage regenerated for every 25 Mana Regeneration per second) I've wanted to make a mana-regen stacking character that takes advantage of nearly permanent berserk. This seems too challenging with available sources of flat mana per second, so mana stacking was the way I chose. Berserk favors attacks so Mind of the Council was a no brainer. However, not being able to regenerate mana because of Chainbreaker makes it hard to sustain typical Mind over Matter defenses, so I instead decided to make use of the Hiero

Like the title says I want to try some new things this league so I put together a quick inexpensive POB for my plans. I'm sure the tree could be optimized, I'm open to suggestions.

Class: Hierophant Non-boss dps: 1.4M Boss dps: 900k Qualities: 72% phys. dmg reduction (before flasks) 6k ES Close to 4k mana + Ivory Tower + 19% chaos res. (no CI) Dependent on buffs &x200B; Here's the pob: Haven't tested it, just made the pob (which is why I added "Theory" as flair) &x200B; EDIT: After reading the comments, I realized my build wasn't as good as I thought it was. But because this is my first EB build that seems to have some potential, I made some changes in an attempt to address the issue