PoE Shield Charge, Melee builds

My iteration of the Shield Crush Gladiator. The inspiration for numerous parts of the build was taken by various theory-crafter builds in this subreddit and a few characters in the site, poe ninja. Im posting this just to inspire fellow theory crafters and show a build they might like playing. Feel free to ask any questions about the build and I would be happy to answer. PoB Link:

Hey guys, been putting together some thoughts around the new gems now PoB has been updated and ran into an interesting idea I'm trying to build out PoB: The basic idea I'm considering is using Chieftain to power a fully fire converted shield crush which then can trigger a number of different spells from the battlemage. Depending on what spells we might pick here (I've been messing with Reap/Discharge) I think the numbers could be there to make something fun out of this combination of skills although its not going to be a meta kill

-------------------------------------------------------- FOREWORD AND NOTES: This build has been adjusted for the great nerfening of builds from the 3.15 patch notes. The bad news is that this build lost a lot of damage, but the good news is that we get multistrike with Shield Charge and it should make this skill good enough. I am currently assuming that Shield Crush will have the same bonus damages apply as Shield Charge, in which it got changed to 4 to 6 from 3 to 4. It is also possible that Shield Crush will have the same bonus damages as Spectral Shield Throw, in which that got changed

Heyo, So i've been working on a shield charge/shield crush Glad making use of bleed and challenger charge nodes for league start. I got to work on this after reading a few other posts regarding this skill and thought I would throw my pob in to the mix for some optimization from the community! &x200B; After seeing " While reviewing this skill, we've made changes to all skills that deal damage based on Shield Defences, greatly boosting their damage. " I am hopeful these buffs were enough to offset the nerfs to melee phys and brutality(both of which this build uses) The build is pretty

Okay, I know there's been quite a few shield crush build theories and discussions recently on this sub. But I've put together a decently geared character on PoB using Shield Charge as an analog and it's actually looking really strong despite lacking the ability to use a strong MH weapon with the good bleed mods you'd find on "normal" bleed builds. &x200B; I made the shield 2500 armour, which I think is perfectly achievable via Deafening Dread essence crafting. And the tree is level 98, which to me is fine because its someth

-------------------------------------------------------- FOREWORD AND NOTES: This is a tweaked build from u/Spandauer2129 because I got bored and wanted to see if it was league start viable. Barring Patch Notes nerfing everything to the ground, I think this is a decent starter. This build was made on 7/17 BEFORE Patch notes. If this is popular enough, I will make better versions and see how far I can push it. I plan on making adjustments to the build once patch notes hit and we get the 3.15 passive tree. This build is intended for easy to get gear that doesn't require a lot of resources or

Hi guys, Made another build for one of the more obscure items in-game so far - Temptation Step. Since the boots only work with travel skills, that leaves us with few options; most are elemental and don't hit very frequently. So I made a self-poison approach with Maw of Conquest; I was wondering what would be the best synergy with those two items and a travel skill - so I chose Shield Charge. Since I'm already poisoning and am pretty fast from the boots, I thought of an unusual approach and mixed it up with self-chill (Winterweave+Icefang Orbit) and combined it with the recovery and proli

Pob fork: Disclaimer: I only play solo/with IRL friends, so this is technically SSF. I don't give a fuck about meta, I play to have fun. I league started with this build in mind and created it as I went. So, this is honestly my very first self-made build. So far so good, both the clear and single target feel good. I stumbled upon the combination of Sniper's Mark (spellslinger) + Pierce. You never have to think about what target is marked due to the fact that Marks are no longer a namelock skill. It also works beautifully because of how Subprojectiles work now: