Intro & build description
If you don’t know what to play in upcoming leagues, look no further, this build will carry you till endgame and you will find yourself farming currency with ease without any huge investment. Build offers great damage due to how powerful sunder is while remaining extremely tanky using block and huge health pool (8k-9k life).
Build Pros
- Cheap
- HC viable
- Extremely tanky
- Great damage
- Fast gameplay
Build Cons
- Clearspeed isn't top tier
- Melee
Passive tree(s) and Path of Building
[3.4] Full BuildBandits
Bandits Quest Choice |
Help Oak |
Ascendancy skill points
Labyrinths | Skill point choice |
---|---|
Labyrinth 1 | Blood in the Eyes |
Labyrinth 2 | Gratuitous Violence |
Labyrinth 3 | Painforged |
Endgame Labyrinth | Versatile Combatant |

Skill gem setup
Helm
Whirling Blades
Faster Attacks Support
Fortify Support
Blood Magic Support
Body Armor
Sunder
Melee Physical Damage Support
Added Fire Damage Support
Multistrike Support
Melee Physical Damage on Full Life Support
Concentrated Effect Support
Gloves
Hatred
Herald of Ash
Arctic Armor
Enlighten (3 lvl)
Boots
2h Weapon
None
1h Weapon
Cast When Damage Taken Support (1 lvl)
Enfeeble (5 lvl)
Enduring Cry (20 lvl)
Offhand weapon / shield
Vaal Grace
Increased Duration Support
Ancestral Warchief
Build uniques / Example rare gear
Tip: Click on the item to view it on PoE Wiki or to view similar rare items in poe.tradeHelmet
Eternal BurgonetGeneric helmet with life, resistances or intelligence. Depends on your jewelry.
Body Armour
Belly of the BeastKaom’s Roots and Belly of the Beast combo provides huge life pool to this build, use rare chest with armor, resistances and life till you can afford belly.
Gloves
Spiked GlovesLife, resistances, attack speed or flat physical damage. If possible, get all of these mods.
Boots
Kaom's RootsMakes us unable to be slowed below base movement speed, great for temporal chains curse and chilled ground. + makes us immune to stuns and knockbacks.
Left Ring
Steel RingStack as much flat physical damage as possible paired with life and elemental resistances.
Right Ring
Steel RingStack as much flat physical damage as possible paired with life and elemental resistances. If resistances are capped, stats like intelligence goes a long way.
Amulet
Lapis AmuletLapis Amulet will help you with intelligence stat requirement for support gems and gear.
Belt
Belt of the DeceiverVery solid belt all around, You take 30% reduced Extra Damage from Critical Strikes, it has resistances, physical damage, life and mod ”Nearby Enemies are Intimidated” which makes mobs take 10% more damage from your attacks.
Offhand
The Tempestuous SteelStat stick, gives us huge amounts of extra elemental damage scaled from our physical damage. Prismatic Eclipse works great in offhand as well.
Jewel
Crimson Jewel% life, % physical damage and 3rd stats is whatever you need. Either resistances or block, damage.
Jewel
Crimson Jewel% life, % physical damage and 3rd stats is whatever you need. Either resistances or block, damage.
Jewel
Crimson Jewel% life, % physical damage and 3rd stats is whatever you need. Either resistances or block, damage.
Flask
Seething Divine Flask of StaunchingInstant life recovery flask which removes bleeding. Must have.
Flask
Experimenter's Basalt Flask of WardingReduces physical damage taken and makes you immune to curses during flask effect. Solid choice all around.
Flask
Lion's RoarThis would be first flask you would want to buy. Given how powerful flasks are in PoE, this is your best upgrade for flasks.
Flask
Atziri's Promise3rd strongest flask you can get. It is very cheap and provides huge damage boost to your attacks while leeching some of it back to you as life.
Can you post a skill tree
Skill tree is under Passive Tree(s) but here you go http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/3.0.0/AAAABAQCAABeAdwDhwUtBosILgomDHMNjQ3NDkMR1RNMFCAV7BfhGY4brRzOIOMj0yP2JJ0m-CgqK1AuUzB3MZ41kjrhPfxDMUd-Sn1M_02STeNOKk4yUEdXl1hjWf5aGluvXz9f2mBBYlpjcGRSZU1ngGegaGVs2G20bydvO3Gwcql07Xasd-N4DXloeu982X11hNmFUod2ivCLT4zPjX2PYJAKlWaXeZpqm2qjiqZXqAepbq2Nr6exs7XyuR29Nr54vqfAGsEEwaPDM8SCxPbI8MqQzV_PftNv037Yvdlh2sHiYeOf5FHpRuoY7YPuDu8O8kXz3fZI9zL46_zF_gr-VP6P_ro=
Which skill is used for moving around the map? Sorry Im new to the game
For this build it’s Whirling Blades.
Why do you choose to go for Savagery (+1 to frenzy charges) and also the first ascendancy choice which gives 25% chance to gain frenzy charge on kill etc. if you have no frenzy charge generating skills?
Outmatch and Outlast literally generates frenzy charges on kill (25% chance), sure, you will lose charges on prolonged boss fights without adds, but they provide more damage while you clear rest of the map. Builds are just templates, you can squeeze in Blood Rage gem to generate charges as well if you feel like.
In the build you don’t talk about gods powers which ones are recommended to use for this build?
They are all situational, hence you can swap them in and out in hideout or city, it depends on what kind of encounter you are facing. Soul of the Brine King is always good pick, but as I said before, they are all situational. As for Minor Gods, Soul of Yugul in reflect maps, Soul of Tukohama and Soul of Gruthkul are great for physical mitigation. Pick them based on content you are about to face. 🙂 Thank you.
Hi , how do manage multitrike and its multitarget with bosses such as izarro, atziri ? Not being able to focus make the fight harder…do you replace multistrike by something else ? FA?
I’m curious why aren’t you able to focus on target? In these boss fights it’s actually much easier to focus single target than in maps.
Hi, thanks for replaying.
In fact, multistrike effect is systematically switching target betzeen izarro and all the adds appearing. During mapping is not important since everything is quickly clean; but with some bosses I’d prefer to keep my focus and “forget” about adds.
About atziri…I have not tried yet but I’d imagine that it will easily touch mirrors, that’s not cool 🙂
Well if Multistrike is the issue try switching it up for example to Ruthless Support, gives some more raw damage and will not switch targets.
what about pantheon system???
Pick the ones you need the most..
Enduring cry does not proc with cast when damage is taken.
Sockets are limited, it is there not for CwDT setup, it its there to self cast it. 🙂
Hi
I have Kaom’s roots with implicit mod “+1 to max frenzy charge”
Can I do not take Savagery for Weapon Artistry ?
How do we generate frenzy charges in 3.2?
How do we generate frenzy charges in 3.2?
We don’t, since with 3.2 we take Gratuitous Violence instead of Outmatch and Outlast. I overlooked ”Savagery” node and didn’t remove it. Thanks for pointing it out.
thanks!
How about adding bloodlust to the mix? I’m using it now without arctic armor, and it seems to do the trick.
what about mana problems??
Life and Mana leech node near Vitality Void notable should be enough to solve the mana problems for the build. Until you get that skill point, use mana flask.