PoE Duelist, Hardcore, SSF builds

==================================================================================================================== LIGHTEE'S NOTES ==================================================================================================================== When doing the early game leveling, make sure to use the rare rustic sash + whetstone + weapon vendor recipe to create a 40-59% increased physical damage weapon at various staged. I typically do this on a poleaxe at level 18 right before fighting the Weaver boss. Do the recipe again at level 23 with a vaal axe and this will take you all the way

So I just rolled a glad bleed and decided to try out shield crush, since I just played SST through the entirety of 3.15, and I didnt really feel the skill. The dps felt a bit lackluster and the ability didnt always properly overlap, the aoe was really bad, etc. So what I did is I swapped to an SST gem I was leveling and I went to check PoB, I am doing more dps on the same 4l at lvl 82 that I was doing on 2overlaps shield crush! I was a bit confused since it was supposed to be nerfed, but apparently if you spec into the proper bleed nodes, the skill is still really strong, even on a budget. Th