PoE Cleave builds

I've been trying to work on a Cleave melee build to use for my league start on ps4 in a couple days but I'm pretty much a complete noob and I'm not sure how bad my build is right now, I don't really like crafting in games so I was trying to do a build with some cheap uniques instead of rares as much as possible. I played a Cleave build from the forum called Hank the Tank a few years ago, hence why I'm using Cleave, however it has since been deleted and so I pulled some inspiration from it as best as I could remember. The skill doesn't have to be Cleave, I also liked cyclone for example wh

So, I was looking at the new vaal cleave, and thinking to myself. "Hmmm, it looks like it would be REALLY good with the replica wings of entropy now. In theory it works wonderfully, considering you get to dip into the 2h passives, axe passives, and dual wielding passives. But I suck at PoB and usually its hard to meet the build that I made, so please guys/gals, I need some help lmao, Tell me what I can do to make this better. \Edit: I have taken some feedback and boosted my defenses a little bit, gave myself more life, took

So just with uniques equipped it seems I can reliably reach 300k dps with poacher's mark, but that's NOT including periodic Impaler procs (extremely cheap way to add damage), Phase Run for the vaal skill, ancestral totem buffs, corrosion removing enemy dodge/armor... and the 20 second 60% more damage buff you get from culling a rare/unique. Looks good to me for a noob league start build idk. I've done Cleave in the past with stuff like Actum and Blitz charges and it was decent. Seems like an acceptable mapping build now, I'll probably try focusing Blight.

Switched to Purity of Elements from Determination for the ailment immunity and getting into red maps pretty easily. Trying to get Elemental Weakness on hit on gloves, but that's crazy expensive; might try to get it on rings now that my resists are overcapped. Any uniques that would bring some layer of defense in here? Cleaves got some decent clear with Area of effect and Shrines really help.

Problems: - --- Cleave <--- - Reservation issues; Makes Passive Tree a bit awkward - Skyforth is expected to be EXPENSIVE League Start - What damage scaling?? - Physical; Brutality - Tight on skill gems Possible Solutions: - Switch off Slayer - Cluster Setup (Probably expensive league start; opt out) - Unset Ring(s) - Transition to edps somehow; ~ Conversion - Precision Misc: - if Arctic Armour - Purity of Fire, immune to Freeze, Shock, Ignite ~Alpha's Howl, Tempest Shield, Purity of Fire - Can do 1 Passive point to get Impale from a mastery (20% chance) - On

&amp;x200B; I just wanted to make a Berserker that wasn't a slam build, so I decided on Cleave as it has a reasonable base damage, added phys, no bleed scaling, and no crit scaling to make the passive tree and gearing more straightforward. Free Fortify through Overwhelming Odds. Axes for high base DPS. Mainly looking for feedback on the passive tree/defenses. My main worry is that it's just gonna be too squishy since I have Aspect of Carnage, but Warbringer is 100% useless in this build. Could go crit and take Flawless Savagery