PoE Shield Crush builds without Starforge

I've been playing General's Cry berserker this league, starting with Blade Flurry and transitioning into Shield Crush for extra defenses. I've noticed something funny about the PoB numbers - they all seem insane. Here's my current PoB, it says that I have about 15.8m Sirus dps when 2 waves from the Shield Crush overlap (which is likely), with a reasonable setup and no flasks. This build is in no way super-optimised or ready for The Feared, but it's in a solid state. Now, I have played builds with a shit ton of dps before and th

My iteration of the Shield Crush Gladiator. The inspiration for numerous parts of the build was taken by various theory-crafter builds in this subreddit and a few characters in the site, poe ninja. Im posting this just to inspire fellow theory crafters and show a build they might like playing. Feel free to ask any questions about the build and I would be happy to answer. PoB Link:

Hey guys, been putting together some thoughts around the new gems now PoB has been updated and ran into an interesting idea I'm trying to build out PoB: The basic idea I'm considering is using Chieftain to power a fully fire converted shield crush which then can trigger a number of different spells from the battlemage. Depending on what spells we might pick here (I've been messing with Reap/Discharge) I think the numbers could be there to make something fun out of this combination of skills although its not going to be a meta kill