PoE Shield Crush builds without Starforge

So im coming back to path of exile (left just about when sirus got in the game) and this is my league start, taking inspiration from varius different versions of armor stackers. character is currently lvl 88 in crucible, i've defeated both eater of worlds and searing exarch without any previous knowledge of the fights with a budget version of it, going for maven and sirus next. its a armor stacker using replica dream feather and emperor vigil, and seething fury for crits. its already a well know interaction at this point. however this build includes (the fourth vow), that allows to scale ch

A double despair balance of terror would be best to be curse immune as well, might buy one eventually NOT ailment immune, has not been an issue es regen suffix on belt is important, only source of es recovery besides divine shield

I posted this build a week or two ago, but I have made some improvements. I tried to record some video this time which is something Ive never done, but geforce kept crashing PoE so still no vids. Sorry. I made a +2 plus amulet and warlord slammed it. Then reforged influence until i hit determination rmr or pride rmr. I hit determination rmr on first reforge. I bought an iron reflexes impossible escape and annointed sovereignty. This lets me keep panopticon and fit determination into build. I had to drop CWDT from molten shell to put determination in, but more control over when you need i

I wanted to see how much damage I could get out of resolute technique and shield crush. I totally forgot about invocations until last night and realized I could put precise technique on my shitty cold resistance relic. I swapped a bottle faith in and went from 30 mil to 45 mil. This pob has my old shield in it as well which is more reasonable to get. Synth colossal shield bases arent common. This drops dps to 38 mil with a 2600 def shield. Everything was completely self crafted except amulet. I bought a +2 plus and reforged chaos a couple time to cap my chaos resistance. I lost about 1

I haven't played since Ubers were a thing. I tried a Uber Eater on this build at level 93 with some different gear and got slapped. 6 portals gone immediately. Is this current version Uber/Sim wave 30 capable? Ive got 4.9k health, 47k armour with flasks, 79 all res/75 chaos res/ 50/42 block spell block and ailment immune.

Im tinkering with my PoB and noticing some inconsistencies. I have attack speed on 3 flasks but PoB only show one flask with attack speed in attack speed calculation. Can I only have one flask with attack speed? I also have 2% increased attack and cast speed with physical skills nodes on my clusters. PoB is not increasing my shield crush attack speed from these nodes. Shield has the physical tag. Am i misunderstanding something? PoB in question :

Hello and happy holidays! I've been spending some of my downtime this holiday season theorycrafting a super tanky pathfinder build, described in my initial post here. As a quick tl;dr, basically the build abuses Loreweave + Transcendence + the new Eternal Damnation unique as well as full phys taken as elemental to get nutty mitigation numbers. We leverage flask effectiveness and uptime to get perma sustain on Taste of Hate to achieve this. Without further ado, here are some POBs (all poison builds bc

Disclaimer The post is a guideline not a guide, feel free to experiment with your own ideas to fit into the build. I have been trying to form in a HC environment, I personally play HC trade outside of events like gauntlet. The guideline will not make you inherently love playing absolution style gameplay, some people hate it just like traps, totems and other minions. These guidelines will be for mostly experienced players, and will contain quite a bit of information. TLDR Absolution bossing Absolution requires you to apply many absolution casts on the boss for all the 3 absolution m

Hi All, Inspired by Phreak's spreadsheet breakdown today, I decided to look into a Shield Crush Glad. I looked at POB Ninja's first week of gladiator builds and put a few ideas together and optimized the tree a bit to get the following result: I'll probably be league starting this until I know what the best build is for Sanctum farming. This is a fairly standard Crit Glad build that should crush maps and have enough dps to get through t16s and the first set of bosses comfortably. Why Glad over Slayer? Glad has QOL(10% less damag

&x200B; Really trying to learn how to piece things together build wise just overall. Open to ALL criticism and any info on making this better. Thank you for your time and feedback as it's my second time going from scratch on something!

So this is not a build showcase, it's a work in progress, I'm looking for feedback on how to make the character more powerful without heavy investment - I'm a casual player so I can sink a few more divines in at most. Basically the idea is to do the Snakebite/Frenzy stacking thing, but go crit poison because Emperor's Vigilance, Seething Fury give a ton of extra crit multi, kind of like the Nightblade poison builds. I'm also getting a bunch of crit chance from self-blind with Second Sight Keystone, good synergy because you don't need a high dps weapon since your shield is doing all your damage

After Nemesis mods kicked my first build around to much I looked into a more defensive type of build. My idea was to build around the Transcendence keystone and stacking armour. What catched my eye was the 3.19 newly buffed Lightning Coil (50% phys to lightning). It is a perfect fit for the build since you want to convert 100% physical damage from hits to elemental. I found a single profile that went with the idea and had some interesting items: Replica Dreamfather, Formless Inferno and Emperor's Vigilance. The ascendancy was Pathfinder for permanent flask uptime. We stack armour and fire

Video of T16 Maps, Sirus, Eater, Drox, Harvest etc: &x200B; Im Sorry, i fucked up the aspect ratio or something, it doesnt show the whole screen lmao. I think its because I recorded in Window mode. I wanted to share this super cheap Build i am currently playing. It requires 3 key unique items. \[The Devouring Diadem\] + \[Emperor's Vigilance\] + \[Seething Fury\]. I am playing this build on SSF, but I advice to not start playing it on SSF as a League Starter. On Trade League though, this will work just fine, as the Uniq

In ARPGS, I've always enjoyed the "high mitigation, high recovery, low HP" style since I first played a Shillien knight in Lineage 2. In PoE however, it seems kind of hard to replicate since most life recovery is scaled off your total life (HP, most sources of regen). With the changes to Immortal Flesh, and a few things that make shield crush armorstacking a lot more interesting, I'm thinking of trying my luck with an archetype that I haven't played with yet, armorstacker jugg, leveraging high phys mitigation to trigger high HP and ES regen, and trying to abuse

Leveling I'm not great at rushing through the campaign but I used splitting steel. If you get the Titucius' Span shield, you can With mana reservation implicits, you can anoint disciple of the slaughter instead of charisma. Panopticon is still the best anoint for single target DPS with ancestral totems but I like the flexibility of not being force to always have the totems placed. For ailment immunity before grand spectrums, you need to bench craft the betrayal "chance to avoid elemental ailments" suffix onto your boots and body armour. I planned the bench craft into the build items sinc

Wanted to see how good the new emperors can be utilized converting it to cold with new hrimsorrow and scaling crit with inquisitor and seething fury. This is my take: Note: Definetely do not recommend using this as a starter, while you definetely not need much of the insane gear im using here the uniques it uses will definetely be insanely expensive early on in the league. Also if you have any feedback i would like to hear it, last time i played a shield build was in expedition so especially the tree is kinda jank

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WARNING!!! WARNING!!! TRICKSTER IS SCUFFED, Added in custom calcs! Trickster vs Champion We still have Fortify We also have overleech No Flesh and Flame yet Immunities to many negative effects Non-crit Good for more experienced players. VERY tanky! Can also use Death's Rush. Armor or Eva or Armor/Eva shield ---- Harvest reforge, dense fossil, or essences. You need more accuracy than your total life! Capping impale chance via jewels, can use impale support. ----- anomalous blood rage + Frenzies, good for mapping, absolutely NOT needed for the build! If you have issues with fortificatio

So with the new League coming i made a Shield Crush Poison Champion Theory craft. I havent compared it yet to Impale Shield Crush, but the Poison version looks good on paper. Especially with the changes to Obliteration and Mings(for Softcore), the build should have pretty good clear and some potentially good single target damage. The gear i used in the Pob should be pretty "cheap", or farmable in SSF. Its primarly Resist, Life and some Spell Suppress. The Idea was, since Seismic Trap is gone as a Budget Option, and Melee staying kinda untouched, that Shield Crush looks pretty good for easy P