PoE Impale, Ruthless, Melee builds

FAQ: Can I leaguestart as this build? I wouldn't recommend it. Why not? Flicker strike is notoriously not an easy build to leaguestart, and this specific variant has even steeper requirements. It absolutely sucks for single target because of frenzy charge problem, making Farrul's Fur and Enhance support mandatory. Better try this as your 2nd character. What kind of build is this? This build is a speedmapper. It's meant to clear maps as fast as possible. It's can also be used for light magic finding in T16 juiced content (altars + sextants + mirror of delirium). What content is it good fo

LEVELING -------------------------------------------------------- Marauder leveling is pain. Clear is fine before the boneshatter swap, single target sucks. After you make the swap to boneshatter it's smooth. 1-12 main links: ground slam - ruthless. There isn't really a good third link. You can consider muling momentum from ranger but if you're going to mule you might as well mule splitting steel because it's better. Alternatively - mule splitting steel - chance to bleed from duelist and level with splitting steel - chance to bleed - maim. This is mo

PLEASE READ ALL NOTES AND WATCH THE FULL VIDEO BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS. I will be more than happy to help either on twitch or discord. PSA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also since so many people ask, you CAN take the Axe Mastery that gives 30% increased damage while in Blood Stance even you if you do not use a stance skill. Characters are in Blood Stance by default! Brass Dome is not Mandatory, but it is probably Best in Slot for the build. Max Resistances and Crit Immnuty, as well as a lot of armour, which gets doubled thanks to our ascenda

- Config, currently need a way to get intimidate (awakened gems) - Berserk is not ticked (adds about 30% more dmg) - Single cluster uses ruthless and mastery to proc intimidate - Molten shell is not ticked, but will be active most of the time

Have been getting a few whispers about this so sharing my current attempt to push PotCG BS as far as it can go. Currently at lvl 95 with 9+k life, 1.6+k str, and around 7-9M conservative dps. The clear is great and I've been doing some Tropical Island Zana Delirium farming quite smoothly with it. Bossing is mediocre as it's still a melee strike skill but at least the tankiness allows for some mistakes if you are a bad mechanic player like me. Boneshatter really needs some investment in stun duration to feel good so fra

STEP BY STEP LEVELLING: Act 1: Buy Frost Blades from Nessa after you kill Hillock. We're going to use Frost Blades for clear and Double Strike for single targets. Buy a Paua Amulet for mana regeneration(we will need this until we get Life and Mana Leech on passive tree) and also craft movement speed boots as soon as you can. Pick up 3-colored items and sell them for chromatic orbs for first 2-3 acts. We will need them since we change skills through levelling. Keep on upgrading mana flasks especially until Act 6, we will be using them frequently. Also Magic weapon with added Physical Damage

-------------------------------------------------------- FOREWORD AND NOTES: This build has been adjusted for the great nerfening of builds from the 3.15 patch notes. The bad news is that this build lost a lot of damage, but the good news is that we get multistrike with Shield Charge and it should make this skill good enough. I am currently assuming that Shield Crush will have the same bonus damages apply as Shield Charge, in which it got changed to 4 to 6 from 3 to 4. It is also possible that Shield Crush will have the same bonus damages as Spectral Shield Throw, in which that got changed

STEP BY STEP LEVELLING: Act 1: Buy Frost Blades from Nessa after you kill Hillock. We?re going to use Frost Blades for clear and Double Strike for single targets. Buy a Paua Amulet for mana regeneration(we will need this until we get Life and Mana Leech on passive tree) and also craft movement speed boots as soon as you can. Pick up 3-colored items and sell them for chromatic orbs for first 2-3 acts. We will need them since we change skills through levelling. Keep on upgrading mana flasks especially until Act 6, we will be using them frequently. Also Magic weapon with added Physical Damage