Hey guys! I'm looking for recommendations on a melee build for SSF (not hardcore) that has fast leveling, great map clear speed, and good single target damage that doesn't require a huge investment to unlock it's full potential (e.g. tough to get uniques or things like +6 spell level). Ideally one that hasn't been nerfed into the ground.
A bit burnt out with my contagion lich which has plateaued due to investment reqs and is slow paced.
Any recommendations?
Shield wall wabringer would be quite easy to gear. All you base damage comes from your shield armor. Weapon is basically a stat stick for things like gain % as extra phys (easily obtained from essence). Warbringer breaks armor from all damage or you can swap titan later with a desecration of break armor equal to % of phys on your weapon.
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Rend wyvern,can play anything from ground,and can minmax by unic crown of eyes HH of course) Rend, devour,oil barrage,wing lash(or something) Oracle or shaman,or war,or monk)
Honestly there are a ton. Pick your weapon - mace, talisman, quarterstaff, and class, and go. There's ways to make anything work. I love it.
My favourite lately has been a titan that uses both 1h mace + shield and a 2hand mace and I use the weapon swap points in the tree strategically.
Focuses on stuns and AoE and armour, does a mix of fire + phys and has bonus dmg against burning and stunned enemies.
Nothing quite like laying a thicc ancestrally boosted sunder on top of an erupting abyss and watching everything melt from the shockwaves + herald of ash, leap in and stun any stragglers or tanky rares, then charged slam everything while they're down.
It works in Temple too because the charged slam basically covered the entire room lol. You leap in, Seismic Cry, Charged Slam. Sometimes there's stragglers but they're easy to clean up. Sometimes if the boss is super tanky you gotta finish them off. They rarely take more than 2 slams.
Currently doing it with +3 boss difficulty in a hc private league (it's basically ssf since none of us trade lol). Very strong build, and tanky.
All of the shapeshifter melee builds are fairly decent and easy to get going.
I got bored at this stage in the league and decided to spend many of my hard earned divines on a small project. Wouldn't it be funny to stack Energy shield for a min-level char? [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027) Tabula rasa has relevant jewel mods noted on it in POB so the math actually works out since it doesn't seem to work properly in POB. second screenshot is with a lvl 29 discipline aura with 36% increased aura magnitude - I didn't wanna spend another several thousand divines on a support character, I just wanted to see how well it would work theoretically >3000 ES without aurabot is possible, however, its basically impossible in practice. As of now, there are \*18\* 2 socket uncorrupted crown of thorns left on trade - on average it takes \~11 to hit a 30% and then another 1 in 3 to get a 3 socket one. Hitting a double corrupt on said 3 socket would be better then my current one, but that's not plausible sadly. Same for the boots. Hitting a better double corrupt on the gloves and focus would likely be plausible, but I couldn't buy more bases from Finn. Grip of Kulemak 59% ES \*should\* be possible, but it already took me over 40 attempts to hit 57% so I think I'll just leave it as is. Belt I didn't find any other way besides the 25% corrupt to get ES without a level requirement - if anyone has any idea tell me. Amulet could sanctify for 19/19 but again, would require silly amounts of currency (each try is \~30 div as is with annoint + sanctify + quality). I \*think\* patient barrier should be best annoint, but correct me if I'm wrong. Total investment into this character so far is about 3000 divines, probably a bit more. further thoughts \- maximum technically possible is 3112 ES at level 2 unless I'm missing something important. POB [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a) \- doubting this but: is it possible to get an ascendency at this low level by skipping straight to geonor with a helper? In which case it might be possible that xp penalties kicking it would allow me to ascend at lvl 2? This would allow +20% +20% (ascendency) +60% (jewel) ES, which would get me to 3218 ES (actual build) / 3732 ES (max technically possible) Did I miss anything?
I made an elemental crossbow varashta sorc this season as my starting build (goal was to exploit yoke of suffering's full potential, you can find poe ninja below, don't be fooled by the dmg tooltip, it kill ubers before they can move) and so since I was in the intel side of the tree I used my weapon swap to maximize exposure (with whispering ice) and curse magnitude. Here with some non-optimized gear I'm reaching a total of -338% res (that's -169% on bosses), meaning it's better than rakiata's. I use cursed ground support to apply the curse and icestorm (which comes with the staff) with prolonged duration and potent exposure to make the exposure last longer. This tech doesn't require much investment apart from your weapon swap and a few sockets at most so it can be plugged into many elemental builds. As it is now, it requires you to cast the spells with your weapon swap, so I use it mostly for bosses, but i might cast icestorm on bulky rares in juiced maps once in a while. If you have a skill dedicated for mapping, it'll propably better to use rakiata on it, and remove it or use another skill for bosses. Here's the poeninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala) I might make a build showcase if people are interested, it's a fun league starter build. With yoke and the electrocution node on the tree, enemies have 120% damage taken, more if they're cursed, on top of the giant res drop, plus you benefit from a lot of the "damage against enemies with ailments nodes" so that's why the tooltip is low (explosive grenades indicate 60k in game but they hit bosses for like 2M) at first I was playing with permafrost bolt with frost nexus + navira's fracture + fragmentation rounds, it was a fun combo and really strong for leveling but I couldn't scale navira's fracture damage in late game (I had command + minion nodes on my second weapon instead of the curse/exposure at the time) Hope this inspires some of you!
The Oracle Death Star is fully operational- only took 30 days of playtime. GGGs https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath