PoE Trickster, League Starter, Melee builds

Hi guys! I discovered this insane build 1y year ago thanks to u/Dreadmaker (link) and still looks criminally underused with only \~100 characters on PoE ninja. I figured I could share my Lighning Strike of Arcing version which carried me to 100 while farming T16 8000wisps maps this league. POB for 100-150div budget : Not a leaguestarter, requires \~20d and level 92-95 to come onlin

Gearing notes: - Tincture: Lightning Pen and Melee Strike range. They're not terribly expensive, and my perfect rolled on cost me 1 div. I like to prioritize the range over the pen, because I like hitting monsters from the other side of rivers. Might be able strike range out for splash, or rage on hit, and get more damage, but then you'd probably be running different tinctures for different content, and I just want to be lazy. - Helm: Anything ES here. Crown of Thorns is a nice starter. Get resistance, get something better than what I have. - Weapon

5.5 div or around 660c this build cost weapon 60c- 10c base 40c on shrieking wrath essence 10c for aps craft shield 50c helmet 25c amulet 150c - 100c base 50c annoit body 80c- 40c base 40c on chaos spaming gloves 40c boots 10c rings- 10c ea belt 40c abyss jewel 20c- 10c base 10c alt and regal spam gems- 60c ignore (just use regular anom ls) cataysts and eater/exarch 45c- self farmed most of it tattoos- self farmed but should be around 60c.

Hey guys, I just wanted to make sure with experts that I understood everything correctly : I'm playing Frost Blades Trickster in SSF (leaguestarted it... it went how you can guess). However I got to farming T16, still getting slapped by Essences because for some reasons i have 159 armor etc but that not what this post is about. As a fellow SSF enjoyer I spend quite a bit of time in Heist, and I got as usual \[\[The Admiral\]\] At first I thought "yeah... seems cool but wont use it" but then I thought about elemental equilibrium (that I can take right away, i'm pathing in front of it anyway

The idea is: freezing everything on screen is a defensive layer, probably very good in the Sanctum Frost Blades is getting a huge increase to added damage % so let's try to build around it. Ailments don't care about resistances on hit and whatnot, just base damage, so high added damage is good. Heatshiver gives up to 130% added cold damage as fire if we can freeze things. Hence Expedition's End for %as more damage freezes and Southbound + freeze duration stacking. This all means we can inflict 1 second freeze on Pinnacle bosses with attacks. Crit ailments medium cluster jewels also share an ai