PoE Melee builds without Ancestral Protector, Ancestral Warchief

This is one of those "cautionary tales/let me know if I fucked this up because the build is actually cool as shit it just does zdps and its sadge" posts. But I wanted to try the new support gem Bloodthirst, but the numbers on it seemed really mediocre, so I made the best possible go of it by utilizing everyone's least favorite Uber Elder drop, Voidforge, and stacking a lot of hp to reach seemingly insane amounts of flat damage. In a theoretical sense, adding almost 200 flat physical to the sword with a 300% multiplier seemed like a recipe for success. Doing napkin math I realized I could t

So as a ongoing project, my STR stacking zerker is now with 9.8k life and 1770 STR, About 1.4m DMG per regular Ground Slam and about 4.1m with Vaal version. Max DMG should be around 20m with the last strike from Seimic+Intimidating Warcry+ Berserker. Though the build could hit way harder using critical since my current mult is 333% but at the moment i lack a reliable way to generate power charges even though i was messing around with CoC and assassins mark. 30% crit chance now, would go to 50% with 4 power charges Bottled faith AND charges would put me around 70% crit change but i dont ha

Hi guys, Made another build for one of the more obscure items in-game so far - Temptation Step. Since the boots only work with travel skills, that leaves us with few options; most are elemental and don't hit very frequently. So I made a self-poison approach with Maw of Conquest; I was wondering what would be the best synergy with those two items and a travel skill - so I chose Shield Charge. Since I'm already poisoning and am pretty fast from the boots, I thought of an unusual approach and mixed it up with self-chill (Winterweave+Icefang Orbit) and combined it with the recovery and proli

defense layers: 74% dodge (needs timeless jewel rolls with 2x aura effect) 77% block/spell block after being hit 100% avoid ele ailment (necessary because no utility flasks, needs 2x abyss jewels) enemy damage with hits unlucky enemies blind over-leech from petrified blood endurance charges from enduring cry utility layers: 100% reduced soul gain prevention for vaal grace (30+ 401.76 = 100) - when socketed into triumvirate authority frenzy charges from blood rage soul catcher uptime: duration= 6sec charges used: 24 every 5sec charge gained: every 5 sec = 16 1.47= 23 keybinds (perso