PoE League Starter builds without Mageblood, Necromancer, Occultist, Power Siphon

EO on chest bcs I have it on relic. :)

Hi Exiles This build has gone from volc. fissure totems leaguestart > conc. path totems to now this. Totems were fun for both builds, but now I want something that can speed run bosses/sanctums/harbingers and decided to go out of my comfort zone and try something unusual. I failed, like, every single sanctum on this melee build (I was the player making fun of people for failing sanctums when on my totems) but now with enough DPS Sanctums are easier now than they were on totems. The build is fun. I've never played a build where the defenses were to just kill everything before it kills yo

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

I've posted about this setup a couple of times in comments in other build threads and people seemed interested enough that I figured I'd make a quick little guide for this setup, as it's treated me extremely well from league start all the way to clearing the atlas and all bosses. The basic shell is aura scaling for giant armor and replica dreamfeather for big attack damage, while utilizing doryanis prototype to skip enemy resists. I league started this as just a basic 2h trinity attack build, using this tree here: It was able to clear in to red maps on basically

Ever since the Timeless Jewel Chainbreaker Keystone rework last league (Grants 1 Rage regenerated for every 25 Mana Regeneration per second) I've wanted to make a mana-regen stacking character that takes advantage of nearly permanent berserk. This seems too challenging with available sources of flat mana per second, so mana stacking was the way I chose. Berserk favors attacks so Mind of the Council was a no brainer. However, not being able to regenerate mana because of Chainbreaker makes it hard to sustain typical Mind over Matter defenses, so I instead decided to make use of the Hiero