[BIG UPDATE, +VIDEOS!] [3.25] LACERMAN 2 BUILD (Fast ClearSpeed + EZ to Play + All Content + Tanky)

3.15:

We have many changes in 3.15. Pob DPS of Required Gear is reduced from 3.81m to 2.22m and Meta Gear is reduced from 8.89m to 5.02m. %71-%71 Attack-Spell block is reduced to %63-%63. Also Physical Damage Reduction is reduced from %80 to %61 on Required Gear and %79 to %58 on Meta Gear. Pretty much RIP. Here are the changes:

Buffs to the Build:
■ Lacerate now deals 154% of Base Damage, and has 154% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 123%).
■ Vaal Ancestral Warchief now deals 154% of Base Damage, and has 154% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 123%).
■ Ancestral Warchief now deals 166% of Base Damage, and has 166% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 133%).
■ Leap Slam now deals 150% of Base Damage, and has 150% Effectiveness of Added Damage at gem level 20 (previously 120%).
■ The Forceful Skewering Notable on passive tree now has “Impale Damage dealt to Enemies Impaled by you Overwhelms 25% of Physical Damage Reduction" (previously 10%). The minor passive prior no longer has Impale Damage dealt to Enemies Impaled by you Overwhelm 5% of Physical Damage Reduction.
■ The Swift Skewering Notable now has “Impale Damage dealt to Enemies Impaled by you Overwhelms 15% of Physical Damage Reduction” (previously 10%).

Nerfs to the Build:
■ Brutality:
Supported Skills now deal 25-39% more Physical Damage (previously 40-59%).
■ Fortify:
Supported Skills now deal 10-19% more Melee Damage (previously 20-34%).
Supported Skills now deal 10-19% more Damage with Ailments caused by Melee Hits (previously 20-34%).
Quality on the Anomalous Fortify Support no longer grants “Supported Skills have 0-4% increased Fortify Effect. It now grants “Supported Skills have 0-10% increased Fortify Duration”.
■ Impale:
Supported Skills now have 60% chance to Impale (previously 40%).
Supported Skills now have 0-28% increased Impale Effect (previously 20-49%).
No longer has "Supported Skills deal 5-15% more Physical Damage".
No longer has “Impale Damage dealt to Enemies Impaled by Supported Skills Overwhelms 30% Physical Damage Reduction”.
■ Melee Physical Damage:
Now grants “Supported Skills have 10% less Attack Speed”.
■ Ruthless:
Now only supports melee strike and slam skills (previously supported non-channeling melee attack skills). This was in Even Further upgrades section and we will be changing this with Pulverize.
■ Maim on Vaal Ancestral:
Enemies Maimed by Supported Skills now take 10% increased Physical Damage (previously 10-14%).
■ Awakened Brutality:
Quality no longer grants "Supported Skills Overwhelm 0-10% Physical Damage Reduction".
■ Awakened Melee Physical Damage:
Quality no longer grants a chance to Intimidate Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit.
■ Awakened Multistrike:
Quality no longer grants "Supported Skills have 0-10% increased Attack Speed".
First Repeat of Supported Skills now deals 22% more Damage (previously 20%).
Second Repeat of Supported Skills now deals 44% more Damage (previously 40%).
Third Repeat of Supported Skills deals 66% more Damage (previously 60%).
Supported Skills now deal 25% less Attack Damage (previously 10%).
an now support melee totem skills.
■ The Rumi's Concoction unique flask now has 8-12% Chance to Block Attack Damage during Flask Effect (previously 14-20%), and 4-6% Chance to Block Spell Damage during Flask Effect (previously 6-10%). Existing versions can be updated to the new values with a Divine Orb.
■ The Lion's Roar unique flask now has 7-10% More Melee Physical Damage during effect (previously 20-25%). Existing versions can be updated to the new values with a Divine Orb.
■ The Blood of the Karui unique flask now has 50% increased Life Recovered (previously 100%). Existing versions can be updated to the new values with a Divine Orb.


3.14:

We have some buffs and some nerfs in 3.14. Vaal Ancestral Warchief will be ready to cast faster than two times while using it on bosses. We've lost %3.6 DPS and some Leap speed on Meta Gear. Also two small nerfs.

Buffs to the Build:
■ Damaging unique enemies now generates 6 Vaal souls (previously 3) per 2% life it loses, with a 1 second cooldown. This means Vaal Ancestral Warchief will be ready 2 times faster on bosses after using it. Bosses will go down faster than before!

Both buff and nerf:
■ Soul Gain Prevention time of Vaal Ancestral Warchief is reduced from 9 seconds to 6 seconds. This will make Vaal Ancestral Warchief available shorter than before. The only downside is we lost 3 seconds of buff from "Non-Vaal skills deal %60 increased damage during Soul Gain Prevention" mod on boots. This is more of a buff than a nerf to us.

Nerfs to the Build:
■ Explody mod on chest armors are nerfed down to % chance to explode and doesn't grant explosion all the time like they did before. This reduced DPS of Meta Gear by %3.6 by making us switch to Haemophilia. This also made us lose "Socketed Gems have %X More Attack and Cast Speed" mod we used on our Leap setup which slowed down Meta Gear's Leap Speed by a significant amount. But this mod was mostly there for reaching extreme speeds of Leap and made us lose only a little bit of clear speed. It was also considered unnecessary by some people on this thread before.
■ Flesh and Stone now requires 35% Mana reservation (previously 25%). We no longer have Herald of Purity on our setup if we're using Aul's Uprising in Even Further Upgrades section. For the people going to max-out on build, this is some DPS loss.
■ %20 increased Damage crafted mod(Syndicate) on our rings is nerfed down to %17. This caused an insignificant %0.4 DPS loss on Meta Gear.


3.13:

We have some tiny nerfs 3.13. Total DPS loss is %3.1 on Required Gear and %2.5 on Meta Gear. Build will keep on rocking!

Buffs to the Build:
■ "Chance to Blind with Hits against Bleeding Enemies" on Blood in The Eyes ascendancy is increased from %10 to %25.

Both buff and nerf:
■ "15% increased Attack Physical Damage" is removed from Swift Skewering. "5% increased Impale Effect" is added in it's place.

Nerfs to the Build:
■ "30% increased Damage with Hits and Ailments against Bleeding Enemies" and also "%5 more bleed" is removed from Gratuitous Violence ascendancy skill. This reduced our DPS by a tiny amount.


3.12:

Build has almost no changes on 3.12 patch. Only Vulnerability is changed a little, but that doesn't affect us.

Buffs to the Build:
■ Vulnerability: Maim and dot is removed from Vulnerability. But that doesn't affect us as we perma-maim from ascendancy and have no dot. "Now causes ailments inflicted on cursed enemies to deal damage 20% faster." this part will buff bleed, but we have little bleed damage so this is a tiny improvement for us.

3.15:
Pob DPS of Required Gear is reduced from 3.81m to 2.22m and Meta Gear is reduced from 8.89m to 5.02m. %71-%71 Attack-Spell block is reduced to %63-%63. Also Physical Damage Reduction is reduced from %80 to %61 on Required Gear and %79 to %58 on Meta Gear. Pretty much RIP. Here are changes for this league:

2) Anomalous Ruthless in Even Further Upgrades section is changed with Pulverize support as Ruthless doesn't work with Lacerate anymore. [24.07.2021]
1) Lifetap on Blood Rage and Berserk is changed with Enhance. This is because Blood Rage works on life with this patch, and we mostly have mana to cast Berserk when needed. If not in some cases, it will take at most 1-2 seconds of waiting for mana to fill up. [24.07.2021]


3.14:

In total, this league DPS of Required Gear is reduced by %4.0 and DPS of Meta Gear is the same. Boss DPS is increased by up to %27 on Meta Gear with the addition of Frenzy charge generation on bosses. Also block chance is increased from %51-%51 to %71-%71 Attack-Spell Block. We're almost max block now!

13) Percentages of DPS increases are added to each item in Even Further Upgrades section. Aul's Uprising is removed as after Flesh and Stone's mana reservation increase, we can't use Herald of Purity along with it anymore. This lowered DPS increase to %2.7 and surely not worth it's price and stat managements needed. We can still hit 15m Shaper DPS.
12) On Meta Gear, Vulnerability on Hit is moved from left ring to Haemophilia gloves as implicit and it's effectiveness is increased from %32 to %48. This lowered cost of the ring and thanks to this it's now a Steel Ring instead of a Two-Stone. Also with the departure of Vulnerability, we have 1 free suffix on that ring which can be resist or attack speed. Attack speed is added there. DPS of Meta Gear is increased by %5.7 and life is increased from 6.9k to 7.0k, without an increase to total cost. [07.05.2021]
11) After drop in it's price, Anomalous Blood Rage is removed from Even Further Upgrades section and added to Meta Gear. This allows us to have Frenzy charges on bosses and benefit from Outmatch and Outlast ascendancy's damage bonus. Now we have up to %27 more DPS on bosses! This costed us %1.2 DPS loss when clearing because of switching from default quality. [04.05.2021]
10) Lifetap support is lowered to level 1. This allowed us to gain Lifetap for 7 seconds on Required Gear and 4 seconds on Meta Gear after casting Blood Rage and Berserk each time. This is a small update, but will be good especially on bosses. [02.05.2021]
9) Added a showcase/guide video including all Ultimatum types. [30.04.2021]
8) Rumi's Concoction is added to the build in place of Sulphur flask and optional flasks part is removed once again because we only have Basalt to swap now and we need it. After testing Rumi's Concoction for a long time, it turned out that increase from %51-%51 to %71-%71 block is huge, much better than earlier increases and completely worth the DPS loss(%3.6 on Required Gear and %3.4 on Meta Gear). [28.04.2021]
7) Crafting info on Meta Gear axe is updated. [28.04.2021]
6) Rumi's Concoction is added to Flasks part in Gear and Gems section. It is also added to League Specific Info section. It's good to use Rumi's in Ultimatum encounters. It increases our block to %71-%71 Attack-Spell block. [21.04.2021]
5) Optional flasks are added back. Anti-curse is moved to Sulphur flask and Anti-freeze is moved to Basalt flask. Sulphur flask is moved to the middle. This is because we will be changing Sulphur flask instead of Basalt from now on as we lost a little physical damage reduction in change number 27 in 3.13. [21.04.2021]
4) League Specific Info section is updated. [21.04.2021]
3) Levelling is updated. Dropped banner skills until Act 6. This is because mana reservation of Flesh and Stone is increased from %25 to %35 this league. Mana management is easier from Act 2 to Act 5 end now. Also levelling is slightly reworked and better now. [21.04.2021]
2) Blood Magic support(which is now Arrogance support) is changed with Lifetap support. [18.04.2021]
1) Recent Pob update reduced DPS of Required Gear by %2.0 and Meta Gear by %1.2. Couldn't figure out the reason. [18.04.2021]

3.13:

In total, this league DPS of Required Gear is increased by %22.3 and Meta Gear by %22.0. Block chance is increased from %29-%0 Attack-Spell Block to %51-%51! Also with the additions made to Even Further Upgrades section, it's now possible to hit 15m Shaper DPS!

28) Unnatural Instinct is removed from Even Further Upgrades section as we used to refund Soul of Steel and 2 more nodes for it. We don't have Soul of Steel anymore and don't have points worth spending for it. [14.04.2021]
27) Refunded Soul of Steel and strength node leading to it in place of 3 life nodes and 2 nodes for %20 bleed chance. This bleed chance was needed for the explosions on Haemophilia. Life is increased from 5.7k to 5.9k on Required Gear and 6.7k to 6.9k on Meta Gear. Physical Damage Reduction is reduced from %86 to %80 on Required Gear and %84 to %79 on Meta Gear. Also today's changes reduced DPS of Meta Gear by %3.6 and reduced cost of Meta Gear a lot. [14.04.2021]
26) Changed chest armor on Meta Gear with Belly of The Beast as we will be having our explosions from Haemophilia. [14.04.2021]
25) After the nerf of explody mod on chests, changed Meta Gear gloves with Heamophilia. This will be our source of explosion from now on. This made us lose "Socketed Gems have %X More Attack and Cast Speed" mod we used our Leap setup. This slowed down Leap speed by a significant amount. But this mod was mostly there for reaching extreme speeds of Leap and made us lose only a little bit of clear speed. It was also considered unnecessary by some people on this thread before. [14.04.2021]
24) Crafted mods on helms on both Required and Meta Gears are changed with "+1 to Level of Socketed AoE Gems" + "%10 increased Area of Effect". Today's changes increased DPS of Required Gear by %2.7 and Meta Gear by %5.6. AoE is increased as well. We also hit 4m Shaper DPS on Required Gear and 9m Shaper DPS on Meta Gear(Berserk disabled) [31.03.2021]
23) Rare jewels in both Required and Meta Gears are changed with ones having two attack speed mods. [31.03.2021]
22) On Meta Gear, regular Ancestral Protector is changed with Phantasmal Ancestral Protector. [31.03.2021]
21) A new video named Elder Guardians in Maven Arena is added to Videos From You section. Thanks Horken007! [31.03.2021]
20) A new video named Sirus A9 Deathless is added to Videos From You section. Thanks Horken007! [27.03.2021]
19) Divergent Multistrike is added to Meta Gear. Looks like I missed this in Heist league. This increased DPS of Meta Gear by %1.7. [18.03.2021]
18) Levelling is overally improved and adapted to Multiple Totems update. Especially earlier acts and all bosses are much easier now. [15.03.2021]
17) Soul Catcher is removed from optional flasks as now we use Vaal Ancestral Warchief more for buffing ourself than damaging coupled with Ancestral Protector. Both of these totems still damage good, just not worth using a Soul Catcher. [13.03.2021]
16) Enhance on Blood Rage is changed with Blood Magic. This granted us free cast of Blood Rage and Berserk without waiting for mana to fill up. This lowered DPS of Required Gear by %1.1 and Meta Gear by %1.5. [13.03.2021]
15) Vaal Ancestral Warchief setup is changed. Instead of supports Brutality and Melee Physical Damage, we now have Multiple Totems and Ancestral Protector. This increased DPS of both Required and Meta Gear by %28! Running The Build section is updated accordingly. Don't forget to check it out! [13.03.2021]
14) A Maven fight video is added to Videos From You section. Thanks WalrusA! [09.03.2021]
13) All passive trees in Passive Trees section are improved for recent block change, also with minor improvements. [08.03.2021]
12) Recent Pob update with Culling Strike calculation increased Meta Gear DPS by %11.1. [05.03.2021]
11) Added Rage Trick to Running The Build section. Bosses will be faster from now on. [03.03.2021]
10) Recent Pob update reduced DPS of Meta Gear by %1.8 for dunno what reason. [22.02.2021]

~~ECHOES OF THE ATLAS UPDATE~~ [08.02.2021]
With Echoes of The Atlas update, block chance is increased from %29-%0 Attack-Spell Block to %51-%51. This is a huge increase in terms of survivability! This costed us %8.2 DPS and 0.3k life on Meta Gear, %6.3 DPS and 0.3k life on Required Gear. DPS losses won't be much of a problem since we already increased DPS by %21.6 on Required Gear and %26.8 on Meta Gear last league. Overally, build will perform much better in Echoes of The Atlas expansion. Required Gear cost stays same, while Meta Gear cost is slightly increased.

9) Chaos resist is added to both gears. -%30 on Required Gear, +%5 on Meta Gear.
8) A Watcher's Eye having "12% chance to deal Double Damage while using Pride" is added to Required Gear to deal with reduced DPS and also to use remaining currencies from Haemophilia change.
7) An Belly of The beast is changed with an explody chest on Meta Gear and rare gloves are changed with Haemophilia on Required Gear to grant explosion back.
6) Red Storm is changed with Swagger on passive tree.
5) Blood in The Eyes and Gratuitous Violence ascendancies are changed with Painforged and Versatile Combatant.
4) Alternate support gems Anomalous Lacerate, Divergent Fortify support, Divergent Rage Support and Anomalous CWDT are added to the build on Meta Gear.
~~ECHOES OF THE ATLAS UPDATE~~ [08.02.2021]

3) A new video named Sirus A8 Deathless is added to Videos From You section. Thanks Erik_Morkai! [31.01.2021]
2) There's a new option in Configurations in Pob, "Do you have Soul Gain Prevention?". This is enabled on both gears. This increased Required Gear DPS by %5.5 and Meta Gear DPS by %5.1. [13.01.2021]
1) Pob links and passive tree links are updated. [13.01.2021]

3.12:

13) A new video named Catarina mlv.83 on Xbox is added to newly created Videos From You section. Thanks demonardvarks! Also 16th League Lab Ladder Run video is moved there.[09.01.2021]
12) Martial Prowess is removed from Meta Gear cluster jewel. This is because that cluster with 3-mods was getting rarer to find on trade each league, started being more expensive than it was before and also crafting it is hard. This reduced Meta Gear's cost by an important amount, losing only %2.5 DPS. Also old 3-mod cluster is moved to Even Further Upgrades section. [30.12.2020]
11) Added a new video named "Al-Hezmin Kill(T16 Aw.8) [24.12.2020]
10) Levelling trees 40, 50, and 60 are changed for maximizing bleed chance earlier for bleed explosions, matching recently changed levelling. [30.11.2020]
9) Levelling of the build is completely changed. Now we're levelling with Frost Blades, changing to Bladestorm at Act 3 and finally changing to Lacerate at Act 9. Now it's a lot faster, easier and safer to level. This is improved and adapted version of Tytykiller's melee levelling guide. [30.11.2020]
8) Added a new video named "Simulacrum on Heavy Mods (A Safe Playing Guide)". [23.11.2020]

~~META GEAR UPDATE~~ [02.11.2020]
With Meta Gear update, DPS of Meta Gear is increased by %7.1, and life is increased from 6.6k to 7.0k with overall cost reduced and it's also easier to obtain now!

7) Awakened Melee Physical Damage Support is added to the build. This increased DPS a lot, also slightly increased Meta Gear cost.
6) "Overwhelm %15 Physical Damage Reduction" mod on Stygian Vise is changed with %12 Increased Maximum Life mod. This increased life and reduced cost of Meta Gear, also Life mod is easier to obtain than Overwhelm mod. A new belt is added to Even Further Upgrades section.
5) Soul Taker having physical damage implicit is removed and changed with a Soul Taker not having a corrupted implicit. This made obtaining Meta Gear items easier and reduced Meta Gear cost. Soul Taker with corrupted implicit is moved to Even Further Upgrades section.
4) T3 Talisman is removed from Meta Gear and changed with a rare amulet. This made amulet on Meta Gear much easier to obtain and reduced cost because of needing several same amulets to hit the needed %Increased Damage mod on talisman. Talisman is moved to Even Further Upgrades section.
~~META GEAR UPDATE~~ [02.11.2020]

3) Added a new section named "Even Further Upgrades" under Meta Gear for the people who wants to drive the build further than Meta Gear. Added many items there. Also some of the items(Soul Taker with implicit and talisman) are moved there to make Meta Gear obtainable easier. This section will not have a Pob link, just ideas to improve the build further. And they add a ton of DPS! [02.11.2020]
2) Thread of Hope is added to the build and necessary adjustments to passive trees are done. Amulet anointment is changed with Discipline and Training. DPS of Required Gear is increased by %21.6, Meta Gear by %19.7 with 0.1k life loss on each! [30.10.2020]
1) Pob links and Poeurl.com links are updated. [16.09.2020]


3.11:

16) Awakened Brutality Support is added to Meta Gear in place of Brutality support. DPS is increased by %2.4, but more importantly it grants %10 more Overwhelm Physical Damage Reduction at a low cost difference. Now we have %63 Overwhelm in total that can go up to %67 with a T1 belt mod. [04.08.2020]
15) New version of Community Pob added new calculation for Pride. Now there is Initial Effect and Maximum Effect for it in configurations. Default was Initial after the update, changed it to maximum. This increased DPS of both gears by %16.8. Pob links are updated. [16.07.2020]
14) Added a video showcasing Required Gear on a T16 Defiled Cathedral map. [14.07.2020]
13) Added Berserk to Meta Gear which gives huge damage boost and very useful on bosses. It replaced Increased Duration on Blood Rage. This inflated DPS heavily and created unqeuality between 2 gears. For this reason, I disabled Berserk on Meta Gear Pob. When you're comparing DPS, don't forget to do this yourself. [14.07.2020]
12) Changed Required Gear cluster jewel with a new cheap one having Feed The Fury and Martial Prowess. From now on, Required Gear cluster won't have Bloodscent, because it turned out to be so expensive for Required Gear even after 3.11.1 patch. This made Required Gear lose %6.5 DPS. Also, Required Gear(no cluster) version is removed from Pob links since it's not needed anymore. [14.07.2020]
11) Switched Oak with 2 passives. Got Inexorable to be able to generate endurance charges on bosses, more armor and also to replace life regeneration on Oak, at the cost of 1 more life node after 2 passives change. Changed major god from Lunaris to Solaris for better bossing. Best outcome of these changes is now we get endurance charges on bosses which gives %12 additional physical damage reduction(becomes %18 with Solaris change), and also Required Gear's Physical Damage Reduction is increased from %85 to %87, Meta Gear's is increased from %84 to %86. DPS of Required Gear is reduced by %3.6 and Meta Gear by %1.6. Life is reduced a little as well, but it was more than intended and is exactly where I want now. In short, we'll do better on bosses now. [11.07.2020]
10) Bloodlust support on Vaal Ancestral Warchief is changed with Brutality. This increased Vaal Ancestral Warchief DPS by %17.3 on Required Gear and %13.7 on Meta Gear. Bossing will be better from now on. [05.07.2020]
9) Ruthless support on Lacerate is changed with Brutality and Taste of Hate flask is changed with a Basalt flask, having anti-curse. Unholy Might is removed from Meta Gear abyssal jewel. Also, Meta Gear talisman is changed with one having "27% Increased Damage" instead of "Gain 10% of Physical Damage as Extra Damage of a random Element" implicit as before. These changes are because with Brutality, we can't deal elemental damage. They also reduced cost. Required Gear DPS is increased by %8.8 and Physical Damage Reduction is increased from %75 to %85. On Meta Gear, DPS is increased by %4.9 and Physical Damage Reduction is increased from %75 to %84. Now I can say that build is adapted from Sunder to Lacerate completely. [04.07.2020]
8) Intimidating Cry is removed as it created problems for some players. Call to Arms keystone is removed as well. This reduced DPS of Required Gear by %4.3 and Meta Gear by %6.1, but build is easier to play now. [02.07.2020]
7) Removed Cold Resistance from Required Gear belt. This made it a 2-resist belt and reduced it's cost. [30.06.2020]
6) Removed Intelligence from Required Gear amulet. This reduced it's cost. [30.06.2020]
5)"Gain %X of Physical Damage As Chaos Damage" mod is removed from Required Gear weapon. Also moved Dexterity from weapon to right ring as we don't need that much intelligence after the removal of Concentrated Effect gem. These reduced weapon cost. [30.06.2020]
4) Changed Concentrated Effect with Ruthless on Lacerate. This made our Area of Effect much better which resulted in faster clear speed at the cost of some dps. Also, since Concentrated Effect had high Intellligence cost which we had to get on items, now cost of both gears lowered, especially Required Gear. DPS of Required Gear is lowered by %4.5 and DPS of Meta Gear is lowered by %5.2. [30.06.2020]
3) Changed a Strength node with a Dexterity node connected to the jewel socket next to Golem's Blood on Passive Tree. This is a small change, but every bit of Dexterity is important for us to be able to reduce them more on our gear.[29.06.2020]
2) On Passive Tree, area of effect nodes on Splitting Strikes is changed with Call to Arms to make Intimidating Cry instant. [27.06.2020]
1) Intimidating Cry is added to the build. This increased DPS of Required Gear by %4.3 and Meta Gear by %6.1 only with Intimidate. We're also getting good Overwhelm Physical Damage Reduction and 2 exerted attacks. It replaced Increased Duration on Blood Rage, which lowered it's duration from 19 seconds to 11 seconds. This is not a problem, 11 seconds is enough on clear and we need to keep on replacing it on bosses that take long. [27.06.2020]

On main hand we need an axe that has 400+ physical dps and also having high attacks per second(at least 1.60). Global Critical Strike Multiplier mod is not needed here.


We need Soul Taker on off-hand to be able to use Leap and Lacerate indefinitely thanks to "Insufficient mana doesn't prevent your melee attacks" mod, also to fill mana reserve with Blood and Sand, Pride, Arctic Armor and Dread Banner.


We’re gonna use a rare helm having life and then required resists. Our enchant needs to be "Blood Rage grants additional %12 Increased Attack Speed". Easiest way to obtain a helm like this is to buy a Royal Burgonet, Eternal Burgonet, Lion's Pelt or Sinner Tricorne having the helm enchant, then craft on it. If going for a pure lab build we need Devoto's Devotion here for even more attack speed to Leap.


We need a 6-link Belly of the Beast and run Lacerate on it. We need Belly because we basically need all the affixes it has, but mostly for high life. We can use a 5-link until we get a 6-link and don't use Fortify gem until we get a 6-link.


Here we need Haemophilia gloves for explosions. Don't forget to cap levels of your gems in your CWDT setup here like this: Cast While Damage Taken(lv3) - Immortal Call(lv5) - Vulnerability(lv7) - Increased Duration(lv20).


For boots we need needed 2 resist mods, movement speed and life. We also need the enchant "Increased Attack and Cast Speed If You've Killed Recently" because we'll be constantly leaping and killing. As for the crafted mod, we need "Non-Vaal Skills Deal %60 Increased Damage During Soul Gain prevention"(Syndicate mod) so this way we have %60 more damage when our Vaal Ancestral Warchief is active, 6 seconds in total), which is a good improvement for Lacerate when killing bosses.


Here we need to have life, needed resists and then craft %Increased Damage on it.


For rings we need physical damage and life on both rings, and then needed resists. And then craft %Increased Damage on at least one of them. You can also craft attack speed for the second if you don't have a place for a prefix. Don't forget to use Abrasive Catalysts on your rings to increase damage. Here, %Increased Mana Regeneration Rate on first ring is not needed.


On neck we need a rare amulet having physical damage, life with "%Increased Global Physical Damage" or "%Increased Melee Damage" as crafted mod depending on the situation of prefixes and suffixes. Anointment needs to be Discipline and Training. Fire Damage to Attacks mod is not needed. Here we can also get a Carnage Heart for cheap until we can get a rare amulet like this one.


We need double attack speed mods and life on jewels. Here we can also get one with Increased Attack Speed While Dual Wielding. It's best to have one with "Corrupted Blood Cannot Be Inflicted On You" implicit for Sirus fight. And a Watcher's Eye having "12% chance to deal Double Damage while using Pride" mod. For cluster jewel, we need an 8 passive one having Feed The Fury, Martial Prowess and 2 jewel sockets. Also we need a Thread of Hope with Large radius and -10 or -11 to All Elemental Resistances. Please check Passive Tree in Required Gear's Path of Building link up above to see how this cluster jewel and Thread of Hope here are applied.

A main hand weapon here with higher physical damage(500pDPS or higher) and Culling Strike as Elder mod. Here we put CWDT setup to main hand weapon because Vulnerability goes to gloves as "on hit", meaning it will be applied permanently instead of when being hit so we remove Vulnerability gem. Also we move leap to gloves. Soul Taker on off-hand is the same. Here we also change Increased Duration on Blood Rage with Berserk. We generate our Rage through Bloodscent on cluster jewel and also from Divergent Rage support on Leap.

Here is how to craft this weapon:


Same helm as Required Gear, only having "Nearby Enemies Take %9 Increased Physical Damage" elder mod as extra. This mod is important since our damage is pure physical. We'll be needing an Elder influenced Royal Burgonet, Eternal Burgonet, Lion's Pelt or Sinner Tricorne being ilvl85+. Please ignore "+2 to Level of Socketed Aura Gems" mod as it only increases DPS by %1 and needs essence crafting. I also removed it from Path of Building. Also, %Increased Stun and Block Recovery mod is not needed.


Same. Please check Even Further Upgrades section for a rare chest we need to make to be able to use some DPS boosting items there.


Same with Vulnerability on Hit implicit. Here Vulnerability goes to "on hit" from CWDT setup, which gives permanent Vulnerability. If you somehow can't find a Haemophilia with this implicit like let's say at the end of a league, you can also get it on rings, like this one.


Here we have Two-Toned boots to be able to get some resists from the implicit, then pick two needed resists, life and movement speed and craft "Non-Vaal skills deal %60 increased damage during soul gain prevention" mod on it.


Stygian instead of Rustic Sash here and an Abyssal Jewel inside it. Same life and needed resists with better rolls. Also %10 life(%12 with Fertile Catalysts) as a further improvement.


Rings having attack speed, better rolls and increased damage crafted on both or attack speed on one depending on availability of a prefix or suffixes. Here we can get/craft Essence of Contempt crafted rings to be able to have 11-17 Physical Damage to attacks instead of regular 9-15 max roll. Don't forget to use Abrasive Catalysts on your rings to increase damage.


Same rare amulet with better rolls/mods, this time with All Attributes. Global Critical Strike Multiplier is not needed here.


Here we'll use 4-mod jewels with a damage mod added compared to Required Gear's jewels. It can be Increased Melee Damage or Increased Area Damage as both give same increase. It can also be Increased Damage, it gives a little lower increase. Also, one of the attack speed mods can be "Increased Attack Speed While Dual Wielding". It's best to have one with "Corrupted Blood Cannot Be Inflicted On You" implicit for Sirus fight. For the Stygian Vise, we need an Abyss Jewel like this(Stun mod is not needed). We also need to change Watcher's Eye to one having "Impales You Inflict Lasts 2 Additional Hits While Using Pride" mod. For cluster jewel, we need to upgrade to one having Bloodscent and Feed the Fury on an 8 passive jewel. And we need Thread of Hope again here with Large Radius and -10 or -11 to Maximum Elemental Resistances. Please check Passive Tree in Meta Gear's Path of Building link up above to see how this cluster jewel and Thread of Hope here are applied.

We will be needing a rare chest like this to be able to maintain resists while using Ryslatha's Coil in this section. To craft this chest, first we need to buy a base with Guatelitzi mod(Temple item), which is "+(110-119) to maximum Life" and
"(8-10)% increased maximum Life". Don't forget to set Item Rarity to Magic under Type Filters. Then we need to turn it to rare by regaling and then annul to remove that mod and hope for Guatelitzi to stay. Imprint beast can be done before this depending on the price of Astral Plate bases having Guatelitzi mod and cost of imprinting. After that aug defense and then remove/add defense in Harvest until you get the hybrid life mod. After that we need to do Keep Prefixes, Reroll Suffixes in Harvest until we get good resists, obviously higher rolls than here. Lastly, we can fine tune resists by remove/add of that specific element in Harvest. Here if you can't find an Astral Plate with Guatelitzi mod(let's say at the end of a league), you can go for a high armor base too.


Soul Taker with "% Chance to Fortify on Melee Hit" corrupted implicit. This way we can switch Fortify with Pulverise on Lacerate while still having perma-Fortify. Brings around %6 more DPS to Meta Gear.


A belt with both "%Increased Maximum Life" and "+X to Maximum Life" mods, also with "Overwhelm %x Physical Damage Reduction(up to %15)" mod. We also support this with Splitting Strike passive tree node, Awakened Brutality Support and Impale Support reaching up to a total of "Overwhelm %67 Physical Damage Reduction(with %15 roll on the belt mod). Here we can also get Ryslatha's Coil for huge dps boost at the cost of %life and resists. Make sure you have at least 5.9k life with it. Also it's best to use Fertile catalysts to get the most out of life. This will make managing resists hard, but won't be a problem with rare chest in this section. Brings around %14 DPS increase to Meta Gear with max roll at the cost of 0.3k life.


A 3-mod cluster jewel with Martial Prowess added. It brings around %2 more DPS to Meta Gear. I'd only get this if I found one for cheap.


A Watcher's Eye with double Pride mod. Here for an even better double mod, get "12% chance to deal Double Damage while using Pride" along with "Impales you inflict last 2 additional Hits while using Pride". I suggest buying this as your last upgrade because of prices. Double Damage ones are even more expensive. One here brings around %5 DPS increase to Meta Gear while Double Damage one brings around %12 DPS increase.


Awakened Multistrike support. Brings around %2 more DPS to Meta Gear.

Use of life flasks: When we need instant low amount life recovery we use first flask, when we get a heavy damage and life goes too low we use Blood of the Karui as a panic button. This strategy is especially efficient on tough endgame bosses. Here our Divine life flask needs to have "Bubbling" mod to be able to do the instant recovery part.

Here’s a spreadsheet about trial locations and quests to skip before we go. Keep this and first levelling tree(0 to 40) open before starting:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CfPlAO8Q6LR6Z2lhURi_j683WdnbhU6S79mGpWAscWI/edit#gid=0

Act 1: Buy Frost Blades from Nessa after you kill Hillock. We’re going to use Frost Blades for clear and Double Strike for single targets. Buy a Paua Amulet for mana regeneration(we will need this until we get Life and Mana Leech on passive tree) and also craft movement speed boots as soon as you can. Pick up 3-colored items and sell them for chromatic orbs for first 2-3 acts. We will need them since we change skills through levelling. Keep on upgrading mana flasks especially until Act 6, we will be using them frequently. Also Magic weapon with added Physical Damage mod recipe will be handy(1 axe, 1 magic or rare Rustic Sash, 1 Blacksmith's Whetstone). Explore every Vaal side area in search of Vaal Ancestral Warchief, also use Vaal orbs that drop on Ancestral Warchief gems to get it. Get Quicksilver Flask and Onslaught Support after Mercy Mission quest, also buy Ruthless and Ancestral Call from Nessa. Link Onslaught and Ancestral Call with Frost Blades, also Ruthless with Double Strike. Get Dash, War Banner and Ancestral Protector after Breaking Some Eggs quest. We will be using Ancestral Protector on bosses. Also get Blood and Sand and start levelling it in second weapon set(or somewhere on gear). Use Dash coupled with Quicksilver flask for movement. Get Leap Slam and Maim after The Caged Brute quest. Link Maim with with Double Strike. Change Leap Slam with Dash and keep on using Quicksilver Flask as a support. Get Lacerate after Siren’s Cadence quest and start levelling it in second weapon set(or somewhere on gear). Make sure your level is 13 and life is 250 or higher before killing act boss.

Act 2: Try to get Life and Mana Leech first on passive tree here. Start by going right to Old Fields to do Intruders in Black quest. Get Blood Rage, Herald of Purity and Flesh and Stone after Intruders in Black quest. Keep Flesh and Stone in Sand Stance while clearing and Blood Stance while bossing. Drop War Banner. Get Faster Attacks, and Melee Physical Damage after Sharp and Cruel quest. Link Faster Attacks with Leap Slam and change Melee Physical Damage with Maim on Double Strike. Keep levelling Maim in second weapon set(or somewhere on gear). Here, also get another Melee Physical Damage and Close Combat and level these in second weapon set(or somewhere on gear). Make sure your level is 19 or 20 and life is 500 or higher before killing act boss.

Act 3: Get Dread Banner and Pride and start levelling them in second weapon set(or somewhere on gear) after Lost in Love quest. Here get a Praxis unique ring if having mana issues, which you normally shouldn’t. Get Bladestorm after Sever The Right Hand quest. At level 28, switch from Frost Blades to Bladestorm with adding Close Combat and Melee Physical Damage support that were levelling in second weapon set(or somewhere on gear) and also Onslaught as 4th link. From now on, playstyle will have to change a little from shooting enemies at short distance to firing while being at the center of everything. But no worries, Bladestorm is even easier than Frost Blades. Buy Arctic Armour from Act 2 and start levelling it in second weapon set(or somewhere on gear). Make sure your level is 29 or 30 and life is 700 or higher before killing act boss.

Act 4: Get your second 4-socketed item, put Double Strike there and add Maim you were levelling in second weapon set(or somewhere on gear). Get Multistrike, Brutality and Multiple Totems after The Eternal Nightmare quest and level them in second weapon set(or somewhere on gear). Do normal lab before killing final boss. Also make sure your level is 35 or 36 and life is 1.0k or higher before killing act boss.

Act 5: At level 38, buy Vaal Ancestral Warchief from trade site and change it with Double Strike. If you checked every Vaal side area and used Vaal orbs that drop on Ancestral Warchief gems, you might have it until now. Link it with Multiple Totems, Ancestral Protector and Maim. From now on, we'll be using both Vaal Ancestral Warchief and Ancestral Protector on bosses and then Bladestorm them. If you don't have or can't buy Vaal Ancestral Warchief yet, get regular Ancestral Warchief instead and link it with Multiple Totems. You can buy Vaal Ancestral Warchief later. Get Silver Flask after The Key to Freedom quest and replace it with Quicksilver flask(we won’t need this anymore as leap speed is fast enough), also replace Onslaught with Brutality on Bladestorm. Once you get Slaughter node from passive tree, change Silver Flask. Make sure your level is 40 or 41 and life is 1.4k or higher before killing act boss.

Act 6: Change Pride and Blood and Sand you were levelling with Herald of Purity and Flesh and Stone, also add Dread Banner you were levelling in second weapon set. Stay in Sand Stance while clearing and Blood Stance while bossing. Buy Increased Duration and link it with Blood Rage. Don't forget to have %50 or more fire resistance as we'll mostly get fire damage this act. Prepare to Leap Slam the whole act as not much levelling is needed here. Change minor god in Pantheon to Ryslatha after beating Puppet Mistress. Make sure your level is 44 or 45 and life is 1.6k or higher before killing act boss.

Act 7-8: Try to buy Haemophilia gloves if you can before getting to level 50. This is the first unique item we need. You can buy it later on if short on currency, no problem. Make sure your level is 49 or 50 and life is 1.8k or more before killing Act 7 final boss. Before starting Act 8, make sure you have 2 good rare axes or craft them. Make sure your level is 54 or 55 and life is 1.8k or more before killing Act 8 boss. Pick Solaris as major god after beating Act 8 boss.

Act 9: Do Cruel Lab. Change Bladestorm with Lacerate you were levelling. Change Close Combat with Multistrike you were levelling. From now on, it’s time to Lacerate! Our play style is going to change a little. From now on, we'll be shooting at things from distance instead of being in the middle of everything and firing. I suggest watching Defiled Cathedral video one time before switching to Lacerate if you haven't used it before. Make sure your level is 58 or 59 and life is 2.4k or higher before killing act boss.

Act 10 and after: Get Sulphur Flask after Safe Passage quest. Make sure your life is at least 2.6k or higher before killing it. After killing Kitava, get gems for CWDT setup from Act 6 and start levelling them to specific levels CWDT(3)+Immortal Call(5)+Vulnerability(7)+Increased Duration(max) and stop levelling at those levels. Also leave Lifetap support at level 1 to be able to gain Lifetap. Also get Endurance Charge on Melee Stun support for Leap Slam. Add Impale as 5th gem to Lacerate and Fortify as 6th gem. Don't forget to overcap your resists to 109 for Elemental Weakness map mod. Also make chaos resist at least %0. Better if around %30.

Act1 End:
GGR: Frost Blades + Onslaught + Ancestral Call
GRR: Double Strike + Maim + Ruthless
Others: War Banner, Ancestral Protector, Leap Slam(Dash)

Act 2 End:
GGR: Frost Blades + Onslaught + Ancestral Call
GRR: Double Strike + Melee Physical Damage + Ruthless
RG: Leap Slam + Faster Attacks
Others: Blood Rage, Flesh and Stone, Herald of Purity, Ancestral Protector

Act 3 End:
RRGG: Bladestorm + Melee Physical Damage + Onslaught + Close Combat
GRR: Double Strike + Melee Physical Damage + Ruthless
RG: Leap Slam + Faster Attacks
Others: Blood Rage, Flesh and Stone, Herald of Purity, Ancestal Protector

Act 4 End:
RRGG: Bladestorm + Melee Physical Damage + Onslaught + Close Combat
GRRR: Double Strike + Melee Physical Damage + Ruthless + Maim
RG: Leap Slam + Faster Attacks
Others: Blood Rage, Flesh and Stone, Herald of Purity, Ancestral Protector

Act 5 End:
RRRG: Bladestorm + Melee Physical Damage + Brutality + Close Combat (Onslaught moves to Silver Flask here until we get Slaughter node on Passive Tree)
RRRR: Multiple Totems + Vaal Ancestral Warchief + Ancestral Protector + Maim
RG: Leap Slam + Faster Attacks
Others: Blood Rage, Flesh and Stone, Herald of Purity

Act 6 End:
RRRG: Bladestorm + Melee Physical Damage + Brutality + Close Combat
RRRR: Multiple Totems + Vaal Ancestral Warchief + Ancestral Protector + Maim
RG: Leap Slam + Faster Attacks
GR: Blood Rage + Increased Duration
Others: Blood and Sand, Pride, Dread Banner

Act 9 Start:
GRRR: Switch to Lacerate with links Melee Physial Damage + Brutality + Multistrike(colors are same).

Here are some tips for fast levelling:

Economy (What To Get):
Act 1: Scroll of Wisdoms(sell Blacksmith Whetstones and Armourer's Scraps / Orb of Transmutation(sell items unidentified)
Act 2: Scroll of Wisdoms(sell Blacksmith Whetstones and Armourer's Scraps / Orb of Alteration(sell items identified)
Act 3+: Scroll of Wisdoms(sell Blacksmith Whetstones and Armourer's Scraps / Orb of Alteration(sell items identified) and after item level 60 do Chaos recipe.

Zone Levels:
Level 1-16: Stay at zone level
Level 16-31: Stay 3-4 levels under zone level
Level 32-47: Stay 4-5 levels under zone level
Level 48-60: Stay 5-6 levels under zone level
Stay at these levels in zones for fastest experience gain and thus fastest levelling. Whenever you reach required level difference, keep skipping monsters by leaping.
Level 54-62: Blood Aqueducts is a good place to fast level and do chaos recipe
Level 90+: Do Beachhead rotas until level 94-95, then do Pure Breachstone rotas until level 100.

Note: Only use Praxis ring if you still have mana issues until Act 6, then change it with a rare ring.

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Horken007 wrote:

Maven is doable with ease. As long as you don't get confused with Memory Game it can be done deathless.

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Erik_Morkai wrote:

Solid build all in all. Killed Sirus on A5 yesterday on a 5 Link belly with very beginner gear.

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x_Alpine_x wrote:

I used this build as my league starter for Ritual. It was a smooth leveling process and was clearing red maps on a 5 link easily on day 2. Very fun and easy to play build.

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fugggz wrote:

Hello. I've been running this build as my starter and it is very fun, definitely my favorite build yet.

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Metacalcius wrote:

As usual i´m enjoying the build like a kid, the only build that i continue to play after 1 month of league in all my history of PoE.

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Ardul wrote:

I'm fucking enjoying this build. Fun to play, pretty good DPS and good survivality, cheap and cool AF.

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Nevzat wrote:

I respecced over from Bleed bow gladiator and tbh glad I did..

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Thonyzuka wrote:

Your Build as mostly saved my league season XD
After loosing time in 3 previous build that needed much pricey gears this one lets me have oportunity to find sellable harvest craft!

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PrimusLightNova wrote:

Easiest and fastest clears I've ever gotten.

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Xitomzz wrote:

Anyone can kill Sirus with this build :D

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Phiro wrote:

I killed sirus 5, elder and shaper until now.

With 1.22m DPS and 6.0k life. Almost 1/3 of Required gear DPS, which means very cheap gear.

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PwetPwet wrote:

Thank you for your build ! I played it last month, lvl 95 in 3 or 4 days and it was very fun :)
Can do all content easy for the first time !

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demonardvarks wrote:

Wanted to post a review/ thank you for this guide. The build works incredibly well and does exactly what it says it does.

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akeith15 wrote:

Loving this build so far, even with a 300 pdps weapon it still owns. I'm in very budget gear atm (5L and Soul Taker) but still having a blast.

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Kasimpoe wrote:

Thanks for the Build, it is a fantastic league starter.

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Lanceabbott wrote:

Insane build! My 1st "melee" build and love it.

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Enterem wrote:

Hey Thanks for the build. I played like 8 days with this build and what i can say great fast clear, Can do anything like uber elder, deathless Sirius. I was having so much fun playing this build.

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Goshik0425 wrote:

btw sirus 7 possible,0 death

Done on 8th day of the league with 1.9m DPS and 4.9k life(much lower than Required Gear stats which is pretty cheap).

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Manavor wrote:

Hello, I really enjoy your build, I have more than 3M Dps now and for mapping T16, 20quality, Corrupt, Its more than enough. For bossing, today I did my first A8 Sirus and it was almost deathless i just did a big mistake at the end.

With close to Required Gear stats(2.7m DPS, 6.1k life).

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UselessUniform wrote:

Just got my 36 challenges. This build is really strong with a fast clear and solid damage. Thanks to @PegasusRideR for the build. Got a lot of fun.

Done with lower than Required Gear stats(2.6m DPS, 6.0k life).

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Bawalbaba wrote:

Oh my lord, I just switched from Vaal Double Strike to this.

Even with the basic starter gear, I comfortably pushed into high yellow-base red maps. What a beautiful build.

Thank you for this, I don't have to play Cyclone all the time anymore.

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SmokedDoubt wrote:

Hi. New player here. Started Poe late last season. I went with your build for this season and I gotta tell you, amazing man. Thank you so much.

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kakalinne wrote:

Thank you for build so great i play on ps4 and have alot fun :)

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livefastdiewhenever wrote:

Amazing build, fell in love w this!
Thanks for great job!