PoE Chieftain, Melee builds

Hey all, This is the first build I've created in POB on my own. I'd love for someone to check it out and tell me any improvements or ideas that they have to expand upon this build. I am not sure about my links and if I should be pathing to Point Blank as I've never played a Molten Strike build before. Let me know if any of the rare items are unrealistic to craft as I am not super experienced in crafting. &x200B; This build stacks armor, evasion, fire resist, and aura effect to scale Formless Flame and damage. It gains lots of health regeneration from having +345 extra fire resistance ov

PoB: This is my first league playing a slam build, been reworking it as I go. Right now it's clearing T14 maps with ease, not nearly finished yet but wanted to share the progress anyways. Pros: Huge slams which vaporize normal mobs Can permastun rare/map bosses Tanks massive hits with Fortify and Molten Shell Easy to gear Cons: Chaos damage is dangerous Not as fast as other builds Not a one button build. One skill for clear, one skill for single target, plus casting totems/buffs/curses as needed.

Early Leveling for Totems: From Level 1: Start leveling from the start of Act 1 with Ground Slam + Chance to Bleed + Lifetap. Add Ancestral Protector Totem as soon as avaliable. From Level 8: Earthbreaker will become avaliable; switch out chance to bleed with Earthbreaker and run with Ground Slam and Lifetap until level 12. From Level 12: Switch Ground Slam with Volcanic Fissure for the rest of the game; from this point just following the gem setups as best as you can. Uniques to Prioritise in order 1. Brutus Lead Sprinkler 2. Crown of Eyes (With Ancestral Protector 18% speed uber lab en

Hey, wanted to give a detailed account of my first day with Exerted Volcanic fissure Chieftain, here my profile since I don't have access to pob right now. Leveling 1-12: Ground Slam - Chance to bleed - Ruthless / Intimidate - Blood and Sand - War banner: was fine a little bit on the slow side, nothing special. 12-38: Volcanic Fissure - Elemental damage with attacks - Added fire / Intimidate (for bosses) - Seismic Cry (for clear) / Herald of Purity - Herald of Ash - Blood Sand: I have seen that most people playing V

TLDR: Frozen Legion possibly (i.e. not confirmed or hinted at by anyone at GGG AFAIK) scales similarly to Shockwave, gaining CDR and EAD please please please remember to cross-check when gem information is dropped and do not take this as gospel - it is hypothetical although at least an educated guess It's a decent 6th link for average attack speed builds It might be mainable if your weapon is exceptionally slow, but Heatshiver is likely the most straightforward way to scale it for now. 4 sample builds to get your own theorycrafting started, although those

pob: AG Gear: Gruthkul's Pelt nearby enemies have -9 fire res helm Sap ground implicit boots with +35% fire and lightning res Southbound Gloves with ele weakness Kingmaker Specters: Xoph's Favoured x2 Kinda bad single target damage, but it's really fun for mapping. Has full ele avoid, 39k armour, and 77/76/76 max res - could probably get this close to 80 if you pick up the Prismatic Skin cluster (which i might do). Hits cannot be evaded + Second sight to get capped crit always without assmark or bottled faith,

this is my own build, but I feel def still need work despite having 90% fire res and almost 100% of all non chaos damage taken as fire damage but I don't know how to inc my def further! for the record, I can take 30 ish trauma stacks, 6630 damage (221 x 30) b4 I have to put the breaks it, but according to the pob I should be able to take 100's of stacks! &x200B; &x200B; ps: the pic is wro

I have thrown this together in the last hour or so as an quick idea to make best use of the new Cloak of Flame. Its still very rough around the Edges and needs to be fleshed out. Its meant for a Leaguestart SSF Enviroment. It includes Cloak of Flame and a Warlords Helmet though which may need a few days to obtain, longer if unlucky. But i am confident you could live off of Armour longer if needed. I am thankful for any ideas to improve it. I am sure i have some oversights i could easily include since i didnt spend very long on it and im unfamilar with Melee based scaling. None of the gear b

This build is attempting to maximize the buffs given by Her Embrace (from Oni Goroshi) by adding physical damage and "gain % Physical Damage as extra Fire Damage" modifiers and stacking increased Fire Damage/More Fire Damage modifiers. Two strategies for defenses: 1. Regular defenses, stacking Life, Strength, and resistances (problematic with Abyssus helm, Her Embrace degen) 2. Converting physical damage (mostly Hits, also degens) into elemental damage and then utilizing Transcendence to apply stacked Armour to elemental Hits on top of resistances. Ditching Strength stacking for more poin