I would like to play a new twink character that is thorn based from the get go to spice things up and continue to play the league. What sort of route, build, and uniques are suggested for a fun quick run? Money is no object as I got multiple 98s in the same server, thanks.

Idk if this strays too far from the vision, but iron ward can be very very strong and has natural synergy with a build that wants to be hit a lot. Could maybe use that to inflict bleed with herald of blood or something

Thorns are just no good right now. I've tried multiple builds and it's no good. Idk what has been tweaked, but it's just not a very successful build even with investment.

Even with crown of the pale king (must have) and briarpatch (hard to go without). I'm just not killing things. Tried warbringer. Tried oracle. Tried thornskin support.

I don't know what ggg did but they killed it

Getting hit using Wind Dancer while having no evasion plus Herald of Blood and Herald of Plague would be another way to kind of keep theme and up your damage. I did this in 0.3 on a Titan as a ‘zero button’ build and it was surprisingly fun. I used other buttons too but didn’t actually need to.

Lvl 93 Thorns Warbringer from start of league. Crown of the pale king is a must. I also use bramble glove or whatever. Early on you can smash nearly everything pretty quickly once you get Rake and rapid attack. You need Brass Dome and ideally 3 sockets on all armor so you can socket the greater rune if tithing which gives you 1-100 lightning thorns damage. That is where a large portion of your damage will come from early.

Interesting!

So, does thorns only wait to get slapped or do you also do other damage and its supplemental?

There's only regional servers guy, this isn't wow