PoE Shield Crush builds

Hello and happy holidays! I've been spending some of my downtime this holiday season theorycrafting a super tanky pathfinder build, described in my initial post here. As a quick tl;dr, basically the build abuses Loreweave + Transcendence + the new Eternal Damnation unique as well as full phys taken as elemental to get nutty mitigation numbers. We leverage flask effectiveness and uptime to get perma sustain on Taste of Hate to achieve this. Without further ado, here are some POBs (all poison builds bc

Hi All, Inspired by Phreak's spreadsheet breakdown today, I decided to look into a Shield Crush Glad. I looked at POB Ninja's first week of gladiator builds and put a few ideas together and optimized the tree a bit to get the following result: I'll probably be league starting this until I know what the best build is for Sanctum farming. This is a fairly standard Crit Glad build that should crush maps and have enough dps to get through t16s and the first set of bosses comfortably. Why Glad over Slayer? Glad has QOL(10% less damag

So this is not a build showcase, it's a work in progress, I'm looking for feedback on how to make the character more powerful without heavy investment - I'm a casual player so I can sink a few more divines in at most. Basically the idea is to do the Snakebite/Frenzy stacking thing, but go crit poison because Emperor's Vigilance, Seething Fury give a ton of extra crit multi, kind of like the Nightblade poison builds. I'm also getting a bunch of crit chance from self-blind with Second Sight Keystone, good synergy because you don't need a high dps weapon since your shield is doing all your damage

After Nemesis mods kicked my first build around to much I looked into a more defensive type of build. My idea was to build around the Transcendence keystone and stacking armour. What catched my eye was the 3.19 newly buffed Lightning Coil (50% phys to lightning). It is a perfect fit for the build since you want to convert 100% physical damage from hits to elemental. I found a single profile that went with the idea and had some interesting items: Replica Dreamfather, Formless Inferno and Emperor's Vigilance. The ascendancy was Pathfinder for permanent flask uptime. We stack armour and fire

Video of T16 Maps, Sirus, Eater, Drox, Harvest etc: &x200B; Im Sorry, i fucked up the aspect ratio or something, it doesnt show the whole screen lmao. I think its because I recorded in Window mode. I wanted to share this super cheap Build i am currently playing. It requires 3 key unique items. \[The Devouring Diadem\] + \[Emperor's Vigilance\] + \[Seething Fury\]. I am playing this build on SSF, but I advice to not start playing it on SSF as a League Starter. On Trade League though, this will work just fine, as the Uniq

In ARPGS, I've always enjoyed the "high mitigation, high recovery, low HP" style since I first played a Shillien knight in Lineage 2. In PoE however, it seems kind of hard to replicate since most life recovery is scaled off your total life (HP, most sources of regen). With the changes to Immortal Flesh, and a few things that make shield crush armorstacking a lot more interesting, I'm thinking of trying my luck with an archetype that I haven't played with yet, armorstacker jugg, leveraging high phys mitigation to trigger high HP and ES regen, and trying to abuse

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

Wanted to see how good the new emperors can be utilized converting it to cold with new hrimsorrow and scaling crit with inquisitor and seething fury. This is my take: Note: Definetely do not recommend using this as a starter, while you definetely not need much of the insane gear im using here the uniques it uses will definetely be insanely expensive early on in the league. Also if you have any feedback i would like to hear it, last time i played a shield build was in expedition so especially the tree is kinda jank

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WARNING!!! WARNING!!! TRICKSTER IS SCUFFED, Added in custom calcs! Trickster vs Champion We still have Fortify We also have overleech No Flesh and Flame yet Immunities to many negative effects Non-crit Good for more experienced players. VERY tanky! Can also use Death's Rush. Armor or Eva or Armor/Eva shield ---- Harvest reforge, dense fossil, or essences. You need more accuracy than your total life! Capping impale chance via jewels, can use impale support. ----- anomalous blood rage + Frenzies, good for mapping, absolutely NOT needed for the build! If you have issues with fortificatio

So with the new League coming i made a Shield Crush Poison Champion Theory craft. I havent compared it yet to Impale Shield Crush, but the Poison version looks good on paper. Especially with the changes to Obliteration and Mings(for Softcore), the build should have pretty good clear and some potentially good single target damage. The gear i used in the Pob should be pretty "cheap", or farmable in SSF. Its primarly Resist, Life and some Spell Suppress. The Idea was, since Seismic Trap is gone as a Budget Option, and Melee staying kinda untouched, that Shield Crush looks pretty good for easy P

I started building a new league starter (hopefully no balance changes to SC) and think that I have a pretty refined idea for budget Shield Crush utilizing some cheap uniques. Watchers Eye (Single Mod) is really the only item that may be expensive to work towards as a goal in the first week, but impale is pretty non-meta right now. Overall nothing too crazy or innovative but think its worthy of a league start. POB has no cluster, gem quality, flasks, Eldritch mods, or berserk buff. Amazing shields are pretty cheap or easy to craft with Rog Should be able to hit 5 Mil DPS by end of week 1 or

Firstly, the PoB - About the PoB - When initially brought up, the PoB will show a basic level 90 tree and have some fairly budgeted gear to emulate an early-mid range red map setup. The only truly expensive piece will be a Ryslatha's Coil, everything else is generic rare gear with a few needed stats as well as a mid range Crown of the Inward Eye, which might cost a bit in the first few days but will quickly fall in price as the league goes into next week. Also, the damage shown does not include both Warchief and Protector totems

Hey, been building a GC SC Zerker, just wondering whether or not POB actually calculates this skill DPS correctly Happy for any other feedback too. Trying to be pretty tanky and use shield charge impale with COS to help with clear

------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------CHEAT SHEET--------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHIELDS: Shields are shown with specific values to show damage at those armor levels. Uniques are shown with mid-roll modifiers unless the uniques are very cheap (max attributes Carnage Heart). LEVELLING: Levelling trees are general recommendations. If you feel squishy or feel like your damage sucks, pick up damage/life nodes as needed. Make sure to keep upgrading your weapon with t