PoE SSF, Chaos builds without Hexblast

A few weeks ago, I had seen a wonderful build like this one, which cleverly used Olroth's Resolve to establish a permanent ward. Like some of my other experimental builds, I wanted to run with this to an extreme (how much permanent Ward can I get? and how much can I tank/kill with it?) and see what it was capable of. The build idea isn't really about Forbidden Rite—you can substitute other damaging skills or mechanics, such as Heartbound Loop, as I saw in a different post recently—but Forbidde

With a lot of content creators showing off their insane progress, it felt a bit weird that i was proud that i made it to maps on the first weekend, so i kinda got inspired by that to share and document my experience &x200B; A bit about myself I have played about 500 hours total in PoE, very sprinkled out over years and Leagues. I have about 2-3 hours of time to play on Weekdays, on Weekends it varies heavily (got lucky on launch wekkend woo), to me it seems a lot of time for someone who is working fulltime and wants to have a healthy balance in life, but in PoE terms it seems very

PoB: First time playing HC, so don't really know how to balance defence/offence. Defence layers: Acrobatics + Elusive (Nightblade/Withering Step) + Vaal Grace for Dodge Mistwall for Block Wind Dancer + Petrified Blood (Full Life) for 1-shot prevention Skitterbots for Chill Defiance Banner Fortify on Whirling Blades Permanent Topaz/Sapphire/Ruby Flasks (can be automated with Instilling Orbs) Positive Chaos Res Lvl 20 CwDT with Steelskin Near-permanent Life Flask restoring 2k Life/s Endurance charges from Sy

==================================================================================================================== GENERAL TIPS ==================================================================================================================== This guide is part of Zizaran's build guides for 3.15. This patch has a LOT of nerfs and changes to every build, but this build/build concept should be solid to start in 3.15. Bandits: Kill All You get FREE respec points as you progress through the campaign. Use these to respec your starting Projectile Damage nodes (see 92 Point Trees) The items i