Thorns Witchhunter

At its heart, this build revolves around thorns damage, a source of damage that is neither Attack nor Spell, but still counts as a hit. Whenever you’re struck, you retaliate, automatically dealing your thorns damage back to the attacker. Normally, Thorns only retaliates against melee hits — but with your thorns retaliation triggers against all types of hits.

Above the Thorns mechanic, the build stacks multiple defensive layers. Since we actually want to get hit to deal damage, we lean heavily on armour and block, both of which were significantly buffed in patch 0.3. The build also takes advantage of the newly introduced Deflect mechanic — but instead of evasion, we scale it directly through our high armour rating.

Guide on Mobalytics: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/54473dde-642f-40f7-9269-1606850ee9e4/builds/832aaf48-9ad5-4a94-93a4-094a0cbafcea

Note: this is a work in progress (both the build and the guide), suggestions and questions are all welcome!