PoE Impact, League Starter builds

So after a bit of messing around, I might have come up with a phys Flicker Strike Slayer that looks like it's SSF viable for a league start. Parameters: 900k+ boss DPS assuming maximum Rage, Pride effect and totems, but no Berserk or Vaal Haste (goes up to 1.5m burst DPS if so). Not that you'd be doing pinnacles on this, but it's a good indication of single target potential. Clear DPS drops to 533k without totems, Vaal Haste, Berserk, or Intimidate, and setting Pride to minimum effect, but is helped along by Tribal Fury's new mel

So just with uniques equipped it seems I can reliably reach 300k dps with poacher's mark, but that's NOT including periodic Impaler procs (extremely cheap way to add damage), Phase Run for the vaal skill, ancestral totem buffs, corrosion removing enemy dodge/armor... and the 20 second 60% more damage buff you get from culling a rare/unique. Looks good to me for a noob league start build idk. I've done Cleave in the past with stuff like Actum and Blitz charges and it was decent. Seems like an acceptable mapping build now, I'll probably try focusing Blight.

Fellow Meme Mallet Enjoyers! I farmed myself a Mageblood on this build in AN Softcore trade. This is my character as-is on standard and I'm posting it in case anyone wants to hijack it for 3.19. I scaled this from league starter to 36/40 and it includes some pretty volatile items so I'm not going to bother assigning some sort of budget. Mallet adjustments: Bigger Damage, No built-in Pulverise (cheaper mana!), more friendly for Double Corrupting, less Attack Speed so we can pay for Cyclone less often. Damage is almost the same in my PoB after making only gem cha

Leveling I'm not great at rushing through the campaign but I used splitting steel. If you get the Titucius' Span shield, you can With mana reservation implicits, you can anoint disciple of the slaughter instead of charisma. Panopticon is still the best anoint for single target DPS with ancestral totems but I like the flexibility of not being force to always have the totems placed. For ailment immunity before grand spectrums, you need to bench craft the betrayal "chance to avoid elemental ailments" suffix onto your boots and body armour. I planned the bench craft into the build items sinc

Problems: - --- Cleave <--- - Reservation issues; Makes Passive Tree a bit awkward - Skyforth is expected to be EXPENSIVE League Start - What damage scaling?? - Physical; Brutality - Tight on skill gems Possible Solutions: - Switch off Slayer - Cluster Setup (Probably expensive league start; opt out) - Unset Ring(s) - Transition to edps somehow; ~ Conversion - Precision Misc: - if Arctic Armour - Purity of Fire, immune to Freeze, Shock, Ignite ~Alpha's Howl, Tempest Shield, Purity of Fire - Can do 1 Passive point to get Impale from a mastery (20% chance) - On

All gears are core only and have no influences. Only 3 uniques are Hiltless, Abyssus and Arn's Anguish. 6L is unnecessary, but having on hiltless is OK if affordable. You should be able to purchase all 3 with less than 30C ~day2. What stats to aim for in each gear is already stated on gear name. Other explicits you can just look for resistances to fill and physical damage when possible. I placed T1 resists on all the gears and let them overrun the 75% mark so you can tell for yourself the minimum tier for each (eg:33% overkill for fire res etc). Build highly flexible, can also do SSF day1: -