Wanting to try warrior best mace warrior build this league?
Budget 2.5k divs hope that’s decent enough for something fun and strong. Thanks!
Budget 2.5k divs hope that’s decent enough for something fun and strong. Thanks!
I dabbled in shockwave totems with warbringer in 0.3. I didn’t get it fully juiced up but it was entertaining seeing the entire screen shake violently. I homebrewed it but I’m sure there’s coherent builds out there.
Maces are still the red headed step-child of melee builds in poe2 rn...
The only legit good slam build I've seen going around is the "Hammerstorm" build, which triggers hammer of the gods all the time.
Other than that, Mjölner is pretty damn strong, and can be played on warriors. But the damage there comes from the triggered spells, not from the maces themselves.
Wouldn't recommend playing a "normal" mace build rn. They're just not good. If you want melee, go Quarterstaves, Spears, Shapeshifting...anything but maces.
Im running a reduced skill duration earthquake build with mjolnir to lightning warp me for clear speed. Very fun and reasonably tanky. Can still die to red attacks from bosses but other than that very comfy. Someone commented your damage comes from spells primarily which is not accurate. I just use arc to get things into culling range for warp. For bossing I swap to 2h mace as you can easily get a hammer with aftershocks to hit for millions of dmg.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/dpm0618-7283/character/MjolnirToMeat_
Would you count holding a mace while using shield wall a mace build? lol. Because shield wall is crazy good
I'd say shield wall warbringer. There's some funky stuff you can experiment with to make it not so cookie cutter (atziri spear / chernobog /etc.) It's so simple you can kind of tack stuff onto the build that you like because it's mind numbingly simple at its core.
Another one could be zero duration Titan with earthquake. I think the preference is trench timbre for that build but I didn't feel it was necessary. You can have some freedom with weapon choice I'm sure.
My next warrior might be based on kitava, maybe fire spell on hit.
Does it have to be Warrior? Or just something that's a mace build? My Oracle mace build probably would work as Warrior too
Oracle as armor+ES with mace/shield is quite strong. On less than 1/10th your budget, mine ended up with like 14k ES on Chaos Inoculation, 12k armor, some block, ES recharge delay was around 1.1 seconds, and ES recharge rate was around 6750. Can use Berserk to mega juice effect of Rage without worry of life loss because CI. It used Volcanic Fissures and Forge Hammer and Earthquake to basically create an ever growing network of fissures. From there, a few Shockwave Totems just slam-spam the fissures to cause them to trigger a bunch of times per second. It was my league starter I homebrewed because I wanted something somewhat Templary, was able to clear the game with it on a small budget. Hadn't revisited it with more optimization/currency yet
It would probably work as a type of Warrior and be slightly different, though I hadn't tried that
I'm running a super fun mace build with giants blood, palm of the dreamer, 0 duration earthquake as main spam, and then adding in HotG every 3 earthquake strikes by slotting the Zerphi's infamy support gem. Runs every content super fast, and I've killed every pinnacle boss. Defence is ES - I have 15k total with full res cap, zero duration time of need for full life bar regen every second and no curse or ailment effects. Really fun.
Made a post a while ago. Check it out to see if that fits your style
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile2builds/s/B2gKtEF5WM
Not exactly warrior but mace build with oracle. One button build for mapping, two buttons for bossess. Stempede while mapping, rolling slam + leap slam on bosses. Very fun to play. I need more testing on abyss overrun map with difficulty on closed pit (i did it once and almost cleared whole map idk what killed me). You can drop all heralds to not stack up spirit so hard. 4kk dmg per leap slam on xshesht. https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/fil0sofen-7545/character/OmohonTrzeci

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