PoE Lab Runner builds without Ashes of the Stars

I was looking back at my first ever PoE character and found it hilarious so I wanted to share it. The year is 2018. I am playing Path of Exile for the first time. This expansion introduces Niko, a miner who will ask you to stop playing the game and go mine rocks for him instead. The words "loot filter" mean absolutely nothing to me. I play as a Witch, the spellcasting character. I want to primarily use fire spells or maybe lightning, not curses or minions, so I obviously choose the Elementalist ascendancy, once I've finally unlocked it. The Labyrinth is really hard because it makes you sta

With the changes to monsters HPs, our damage reduction and survivability, I think it's time to dust off my Bodyswap chieftain. I cannibalized this one from an obscure 3.1 and 3.9 builds, where the first one was truthful, the other had half the damage boosted in typical POB warrior, fashion and was crit based, and brought it to the modern age of 3.15. --- POB Settings: Shaper, no bullshit damage multipliers Flask off, (except MS-old one). Vaal auras off RF OFF (can be probably turned on). Vaal RF Off Hexproof (curse off) --- Skills: Wave of convict

Okay, I know there's been quite a few shield crush build theories and discussions recently on this sub. But I've put together a decently geared character on PoB using Shield Charge as an analog and it's actually looking really strong despite lacking the ability to use a strong MH weapon with the good bleed mods you'd find on "normal" bleed builds. &x200B; I made the shield 2500 armour, which I think is perfectly achievable via Deafening Dread essence crafting. And the tree is level 98, which to me is fine because its someth

PoB: Exsanguinate + Arcanist Brand From what I saw, Exsanguinate doesn't seem like an amazing spell to self-cast. Spell Totems seem like the obvious solution, but I think Arcanist Brands will provide the smoothest playstyle. Exsanguinate doesn't seem to suffer from its downsides (a lot). Question: Is the DoT debuff affected by the damage reduction from Arcanist Brand? I can see it going both ways depending on how one interprets the wording. If not, this could turn out godly. If it does, still not the biggest deal when