PoE PaleoclassicalPants builds

Gear 22% AS/15% Chaos Pen Paradoxica with Great Crucible Tree - 20 Div Redblade Banner with 4% Max Chaos Res for Divine Flesh + 50 Life on Block + 15% Explicit Life Modifiers - 1 Div Double Elevated Warlord/Hunter Royal Burgonet with Molten Strike Enchant - 15 Div 30% Quality + 120 Strength Roll Iron Fortress with Strength per quality Enchant and White Sockets for Clear Swap - 8 Div 55 Strength + 78 Life + Perfect rolled Essence Attack Speed Gloves with some elemental res, Eldritch Implicits, and damage during flask effect craft - 5 D

One of my all-time favorite builds is back baby! At face value SR totems seem like an absolute meme, but I've been playing the build every other league or so since 3.15, and have a mildly successful build series about it on my YT channel from 3.16. It caught a solid nerf in subsequent leagues due to various changes, but with the latest change to Hierophant's Arcane Blessing ascendancy notable, and the curse changes from last league, it's absolutely back. The general idea is to get 4 Scorching Ray totems and 9 Searing Bond totems through the use of Phantasmal Searing Bond, which grants an ad

A little bit back u/Inevitable_Spring928 made a [wonderful post] ( detailing the defensive power of Eternal Damnation + Loreweave, and especially the Juggernaut node 'Unbreakable' in conjunction with strong armour investment. Essentially what it boils down to is that your elemental damage reduction becomes absurdly high for rather cheap passive and gear investment, leaving you able to scale your DPS in any way you want. They went with EA ballistas, and since I had never actually ran a

Levelling 1-12 - mule Splitting Steel with a Duelist start, link with Onslaught and Chance to Bleed Early links Splitting Steel - Onslaught - Chance to Poison / Chance to Bleed Key Act 1 Vendor Gems - Precision - Whirling Blades - Smoke Mine - Spectral Helix - Withering Step - Steelskin 12-55 - Spectral Helix - Onslaught - Chance to Poison (swaps to Added Chaos after Normal Lab) ^

After finishing my first build and wracking my brain trying to figure out what to play next I re-read the patch notes looking for anything that popped out. The ignite changes are what prompted my first build, but the changes to Scorching Ray and Searing bond really caught my eye. Yes EE is effectively dead for these skills, and EO is literally dead (they can't hit therefore can't crit whatsoever), but their base damages were raised so enormously (exactly 58% more for both) that it doesn't even matter. In addition, no longer needing a 4l to proc both EE and EO and just straight getting almo