PoE League Starter, SSF, Melee builds

Gems Needed A1 - Elemental Hit x2, Steelskin, Onslaught, Dash A2 - Trinity x2, Elemental Damage with Attacks x2, Summon Skitterbots, Power Charge on Crit A3 - Grace, Second Wind, Sniper's Mark, Inspiration (Library) x3, Hypothermia (Library) A4 - Chain, Barrage Support, Mark on Hit A6 - Hydrosphere, Elemental Weakness Rush Elemental Equilibirum and Point Blank

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

Gems Needed A1 - Elemental Hit x2, Steelskin, Onslaught, Dash A2 - Trinity x2, Elemental Damage with Attacks x2, Increased Critical Damage Support x2, Summon Skitterbots, Power Charge on Crit A3 - Grace, Second Wind, Sniper's Mark, Inspiration (Library) A4 - Chain, Barrage, Mark on Hit A6 - Hydrosphere, Elemental Weakness Flame Golem

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

----------------- BUILD CALC ----------------- Conditioal: - Brittle: While moving - Totem: Uptime - Trinity: Freeze but no perma freeze - Fortify: 7% chance - Onslaught - Armour and Evasion - Ailment effect: full chill and shock effect - Power Charges: 5% chance on hit Missing: - Ancestral Vaal Totem - Rage/Dmg per frenzy (glove implicit) - Flasks (good uptime with charge on crit chance) - Major pantheon - Ele Aegis on max hit calc (only gives EHP?) ----------------- TO FARM ----------------- League Mechanics: - Harvest: Crafting - Essence: Armour + Weapon crafting

Introduction Hello there, PinguinTorpedo here with my take on a melee ignite build in 3.20. There was a lot of discussion that melee builds in general are in really bad spot. Especially ignite builds with the removal of the Divine Inferno jewel. I came up with an Ice Crash Ignite Elementalist that should be pumping 5.1m to 26m in a mapping environment, 9m to 17m against standard bosses and arounnd 2.4m to 4.2m Uber dps with 4s ignite uptime. The damage range exisits because of the interaction of the key items. In the Damage Output section i will go in detaill about the dama