PoE 3.23 Affliction, 3.22 Ancestor, 3.25 Kalguur, 3.24 Necropolis, 3.20 Sanctum League Starter builds

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

So out of the gate, this is not the most optimized AF setup out there, however I think it may be the most automated (if not let me know please) I have played the build a few times and converted to it fully from RF (I was an RF enjoyer before it got cool, then decided to try AF once RF was what the cool kids did) The only expensive required item is either an Aegis for about 2 div, which I used to level to 95, or a squire which I swapped to at lvl 95. Squire is not needed, and I did everything except ubers on Aegis, you can probably do ubers with it but I have been in sanctum mode all league so

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