PoE Chaos Inoculation, Ephemeral Edge, Melee builds

not sure who cares besides other alt-o-holics or people particularly interested in these build archtypes but here 'ya go! --- league starter: eph edge blade trap trickster - lvl 95 started as a sabo then switched to trickster a bit slow of a league starter overall but it worked in my favor that the overall idea of eph edge and es stacking wasn't super popular until capt lance started doing it - if that had been more popular earlier I probably wouldn't have been able to get some of the nicer helm/boots and gloves that really helped me get some pretty decent atlas progression within the firs

Gearing notes: - Tincture: Lightning Pen and Melee Strike range. They're not terribly expensive, and my perfect rolled on cost me 1 div. I like to prioritize the range over the pen, because I like hitting monsters from the other side of rivers. Might be able strike range out for splash, or rage on hit, and get more damage, but then you'd probably be running different tinctures for different content, and I just want to be lazy. - Helm: Anything ES here. Crown of Thorns is a nice starter. Get resistance, get something better than what I have. - Weapon

Ever since the Timeless Jewel Chainbreaker Keystone rework last league (Grants 1 Rage regenerated for every 25 Mana Regeneration per second) I've wanted to make a mana-regen stacking character that takes advantage of nearly permanent berserk. This seems too challenging with available sources of flat mana per second, so mana stacking was the way I chose. Berserk favors attacks so Mind of the Council was a no brainer. However, not being able to regenerate mana because of Chainbreaker makes it hard to sustain typical Mind over Matter defenses, so I instead decided to make use of the Hiero

A few people have been talking about the potential of ephemeral edge, trying to work around the low attack speed. One way to not care about attack speed is to do ignite build. This has several big more multipliers, a decently fun playstyle if you don't mind slow slamming, big aoe from elementalist and huge tanky potential from a fat ES pool. It also scales very well with gear. Warning: super slow attacking melee build, certainly not for everyone (it might even just be unplayable). PoB: This pob is a fairly realistic day 3-4 version with 9k energy shield, 1.8mi