Path of Exile: Shield Crush Juggernaut Early Leveling Guide

This shield crush Juggernaut build focuses on scaling through multiple changes and unique items for significant damage output and tankiness.

### Comprehensive Guide to Leveling and Progressing with a Shield Crush Juggernaut Build
* 🛡️  The **Shield Crush Juggernaut build** is being prepared for the upcoming Path of Exile league, with potential **melee buffs** and changes to **auras** expected.
* 📈  The build relies on **unique scaling mechanics**, such as the Emperor's Vigilance shield, for **damage multipliers** and **armor scaling**.
* 💪  The build's damage output is not weapon-dependent, making it easier to **level up with basic gear** before transitioning to **endgame uniques**.
* 🌟  Key uniques for the build include **Seething Fury**, **Emperor's Vigilance**, **Replica Dreamfeather**, and **Fourthval**.
* ⚙️  The leveling tree is detailed from Act 1 to early mapping, with **specific skill gem setups** and **passive tree progression**.
* 💰  The build is designed to be league-start friendly, with most required uniques being **relatively affordable on the first day**.
* 📊  The endgame tree aims for around **15 million DPS**, with potential to scale even higher with **optimal gear and investment**.
* 🔮  The build is projected to be able to handle content **up to depth 500 in Delve**, with potential for **deeper delving with adjustments to defensive setup**.

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this build scales out so it has two particular nodes on the tree. Uh, one being on the shield Mastery here, which is 1% increase critical multiplier per 10 maximum energy shield on the shield. And in this case, we would have a multiplier of 38, which would be pretty good. Uh, and if that goes higher, which it will with the multiplicative changes, potentially, I don't suspect, uh, Emperor's vigilance will Copp a Nerf then basically this damage rating will go up. So crit multi will go up, uh, beyond that. Also, in the other Shield Mastery, we also get 2% increased attack damage per 75 armor on the shield itself, again will be affected by multiple LIC of changes. So that's really cool. Now some really cool things with this build, just as an overall like from a damage standpoint, it does not need to rely on your weapons. So we, you do use a replica dream feather in this build, uh, but you can level it up early, uh, in early mapping with a prismatic eclipse. And then we basically

just of roll uh green sockets onto it to get increased attack speed per green socket. So, in this case, that would be an increase of 24% per green socket, which is really good. Um, easy way to scale it up, obviously stacking up armor and using replica dream feathers where we want to go. And in the final variant of the tree that I'm working on, that I'll develop out in the league itself, I'm moving towards stacking a lot more armor. Now, one of the other things that have come out of the teasers is changes to determination, and most likely we can assume there'll be changes to Grace. I don't know what the impact of that is going to be at this stage, so that's like an open check. It could be really bad, it could be really good, but the best thing about this build is it's not highly reliant on stacking. Like, we do rely on stacking damage based on those auras, but potentially G is going to Nerf, like at a really high assumptive glance so far of.

what I've seen, and other creators have seen, it looks like Mely might be getting a buff. Fingers crossed. Even if it doesn't get buffed, it shouldn't really affect this build. This build will still output good damage. The endgame tree that I've got, all the mid-tier in-game tree right now that I'll put in the description below, is basically going to cover off on getting to I think about 15 million DPS. Some things I've had to make changes on in the build have obviously been the Nerf to mb1, which was last league in 3.24, and then the other thing was the Nerf that came out of that also affected our ability to apply focus on the gloves, which can still work like if you want to do that, but if you want to automate and that, it just means you would have to manually hit the button. And who wants to do that? We just want to play one or two-button builds. I definitely know I do. Beyond that, basically just adding in Tanahi or any

other new series gloves is going to buff up your damage or the new fortify gloves or something like that will experiment in the league and basically this build will be able to be pushed pretty far. The other thing too is like in the endgame variants I've played in the past, which have gotten close to roundabout 20 million, and some of these builds that I've seen for shield crush have actually went as high as like 60 million and were able to clap Ubers really easily. Generally use the magnate but I have never actually put a mage blood on this build and I'd say that it get pretty wild with a mage blood too so I'm feeling like we'll push it to that level so what I'm basically saying is this video is going to be a breakdown of basically the leveling act by act what you need to do basically to sort of draw the build together and we'll basically provide a a tree that will progress throughout that so I've done a leveling tree that covers off on act 1 to 10

then beyond that, I've also got a tree that you'll get to when you get to early mapping. I've also got a tree that you'll get to in relation to um, to your day one where you want to end out on day one, and the expected DPS sits around 200k. It scales very similarly to Bone Shatter, sort of. And then I've got a day four tree, which is back in 3.21. I put that together, I'm pretty sure, yes, 3.21, uh, league. And I've also got a, uh, a one-we tree. So if you need more about where you want to travel with the build and you start to see the damage scale up. And then beyond that, I've got the moderate endgame tree, which is like moving around and adjusting to fourth-foul configuration and things like that. Uh, this build ends up getting to about 150,000 effective hit pool on a pretty moderate level endgame setup, but it can go significantly higher. And in fact, the earlier trees that I've got get to about

258,000 effective hit pool as well, and I'll provide that all in the links below. But this video is going to cover off on basically the leveling from act 1 to 10, and then where you want to get to in the early end game. And then if you guys want a second video breaking down the end game a little more, I can do that. But I'll also provide links in the description to the end game build that I did a few leagues ago, which I've since been patching and updating. And I'll provide all the trees around that, so there'll be tons of information of what you need to do and what you need to look for with this build. And I'll be playing this build myself. At this stage, I'm pretty certain this is what I want to play for League start. It's going to have to take a lot for me need to change my mind 'cause I'm having a lot of fun with this build again. But, yeah, that's basically what this video is going to be.

about so we'll jump into it. Okay, so just a bit of a disclaimer with this build. So this is a slower build, so don't expect to be like super juice rushing through maps and stuff like that. It does get fast when you get it into the end game and start pushing into delve. Or even if you don't do that, it's not a bad build. It does hit hard and in the playthrough, it did progress pretty reasonably in the campaign. I did it in about 8 hours, which is not the fastest run. Usually it's between 5 to 8 hours is where you want to be. There's nothing wrong with that. It's a slower pace of gameplay, but it's much tankier. You're going to die a lot less than what you would with other various builds like lightning arrow, for example, on a league start scenario. Outside of that, if you were considering bone shatter or this and you wanted a build that was just

going to scale out inevitably bone Shad is probably still going to be a really good option. That being said, I don't know what they're going to do to melee, and I don't know what they're going to do with totems or anything like that. Like if they remove totems, which seems to be the speculation at the moment, who knows what's going to happen. It's just going to be bedum. Like anything could happen. This build could get super powerful, or it could get a bit of a Nerf. That being said, we can work around that and make the build work 'cause it's like a foundational build. It just works every single uh leag as you're leveling up with this build. One of the biggest things that you'll make mistakes in is not upgrading your Shield. So I've got a disclaimer here all the way through the guide. Make sure you're always upgrading your Shield. Your Shield armor is basically the most important part of this build. You want as much armor at any

one point in time as you can get on your Shield. If you notice your damage is dropping off in the campaign, it's because your Shield armor is not high enough. It works counterintuitive to how weapon damage works, so basically your weapon damage means nothing, and the thing that you're looking for on your weapon are going to be Global modifiers. So like Global crit, Global attack speed, Global physical damage, all that sort of stuff, uh Elemental conversion early on, which is going to mean nothing later on because we're going to switch to basically, you know, full physical damage and impale, but uh, yeah, you want Global modifiers, which is why the replica dream feathers really good. Other observations too, uh, the trees that I've got are not entirely res capped. Res capping is one of the best defenses you can have early on, so don't forget the res cap. The other thing that you want to do is want to do a bit of an arrogance setup for Mana. So one of the observations in the past with this particular build has just been

around Mana sustain and how you do it. I usually achieve this by basically doing an arrogance configuration with Clarity, which reserves a little bit of HP. This is going to hit 100K plus armor pretty easily, and I don't know what that's going to look like in the changes potentially that we've seen to the armor skill Gem and all the way that defense is going to work or offense is going to work moving forwards. But basically you want to stack up armor, and then you're going to use unbreakable on the Juggernaut ascendancy, which is going to apply that to Elemental damage on hit, and also fourth valour, which will then apply armor to chaos damage taken. But what that means is you can run with a lower HP pool and not have too many issues running a um a LIF reserved arrogance setup on Clarity. It also means that, and this is my level character, you have no issues sustaining Mana. Okay, so you guys know what we'll be looking at when we get to the end of the

video this is the current po that I've got for the early mapping setup. So one of the things that you'll be able to see is number one, it will have all the manag trees within the PO as well. So this will have from act one at the end of act one all the way through to early mapping. So act 10 n all the rest of that in between. Uh, I haven't adjusted the skill configurations, and I haven't adjusted the items, but you'll also notice that the items that I got in here are pretty basic and Ratchet. So we'll talk about this when we talk about the PO as well. Uh, from a leveling standpoint, when we get to the very end, mainly we'll focus on the early game POV. Um, but we look at things like Prismatic Eclipse, Line eyes remorse, Devoto's tahi, and Dawn Striders. And then there's no other gear in here that's very high level outside of that skill configurations level 16 skills like um, you know 16 we can drop.

this down. We'll take this down to 16. Drop that down. Take that down to 16. So it's assuming you're on a five-link setup. It's assuming that basically you're on the most basic gear. It's assuming that you're not capped on your reses yet. You still got to work on certain things. Like this is a really mean and lean early League starter tree. And then basically we just build on top of this. So this is like trying to come up with as many assumptions that you're not going to get any drops in the uh in the uh campaign leveling process. You're not going to get basically anything. And all the items that are unique on here are extremely cheap except for the Lioneye's Remorse. That's the only expensive unique on leag which I think was about 70 or 60 to 70 chaos. That being said you could get Magna Eclipse which is another different shield that you can get for this build and use that early on until you get an Emperor's Vigilance or if you can get an

Emperor's vigilance early for dirt cheap. Then use that outside of that. Dawn sters. The Devoto devotion and Prismatic Clips are really cheap to get. You'll also notice that I don't even have a seeding Fury in this setup yet. So seeding fur is a huge source of damage. If you're concerned about that, it's really easy to get. But we'll talk about the target unique that you need to get after we work through the leveling Ling breakdown act by act. The other thing that you'll also notice with this tree just in configurations so we do assume we get frenzy charges. We do, but we'll talk about this tree in a bit of detail on how this is set up. LIF tap Onslaught. So Onslaught and adrenaline come from the tanahi and this is why bone shatter tends to do really well with that particular item. Fortified. We have that built into the setup. So that's where we're getting fortification on initially but we would change that going.

into late game, and that's something that I'll cover off as I talk through the build. Uh, and then the other thing, there's nothing else really ticked in here. I like to keep my builds in blood stance generally, unless I need the AOE, but this build sort of does okay with the AOE. There's nothing else ticked in here, and this is Guardian and Pinnacle boss damage, so you know it's going to be the endgame damage stat. So, 140k is pretty good. Uh, if we have a look at the other trees that are in here, the day one target, we get to about 200k at the very sort of end of the last day. And I'll also note in here will be an extremely robust notes section, so there'll be plenty of information for you to pull on in, you know, how you calibrate your AAS and whatnot. But that's this is what we're going to talk through this, uh, talk through in this video. You have also got Keynotes multiplicative changes, uh, and

then we talk through basically the early skills you want to take. There's two options level us up, but we'll talk about that in the moment, and then basically configuring your AAS. By about Act five, you want to clean up your AAS, which you should be able to do because you'll get um books of regret or regret points as you level up, and then when you ascend, what you need to ascend with, and then sources of power final ascendancies. T3 mapping up to which will be the um early mapping tree, and then the sequence to which you want to go for these certain unique items in this build to be able to power up and level up quicker, and progress through the end game to get to that nice and juicy big tanky position that you want to end up on. Anyway, let's get into the leveling guide, and let's talk about this build in a bit more detail. Okay, so when approaching act one from level one, go and grab a Smite gem from the first vendor. Ideally equip a two-handed axe, but if you do need

more defense. A Siege Axe and any Shield will be fine. Essentially, once you complete Tidal Island, you want to also add Ancestral Call to the build so that you can clear a lot more enemies. You'll also want to equip Ancestral Protector to buff up your attack speed. Though we're not sure what's going to happen to totems and 3.25, equip the Precision Aura once you can. This will be after you take down Brutus. Also, Blood and Sand, War Banner, Vitality, and add an Enduring Cry gem so that you can self-trigger that for the time being until you can get Call to Arms a little bit later in the run. By the end of Act One, you can also switch to Shield Crush plus Attack Speed Support plus Life Tap. Alternatively, you can also just continue using Smite until you get to Act Four when you're going to get a Multistrike gem, which will definitely speed up the attack damage rate of Shield Crush. But since the changes to the initial leveling where the Attack Support gem became available on Act One, it should be fine.

to just switch to shield crush by the end of act one. That's what I did in my run through that you can see on screen here, and I didn't really encounter any major issues. For act two, no major change to the setup. Just look to scale up to a full link and add in pale support to your shield crush setup if you're using shield crush, which is what I ended up doing. The progression speed of Act 2 is usually pretty standard. You'll start to sort of top off by the end of act two, and the act two boss shouldn't be too difficult for you as you start to build up your power. Okay, so for act three, this is where we're going to get a whole heap of other gems that we need to flesh out our build and get certain mechanics working. So you're going to go to the library where you're going to meet Siosa and complete the quest in the library. This is going to give you access to all additional other gems that you'll need to be able to set up your character.

so from there, you'll need Call to Arms to add to your enduring cry. To set it up on an auto trigger, you'll add Automation and molten shell so you can have automated molten shell. Arrogance and Clarity so you can reserve a little bit of Health but take Clarity out of your Mana pooling. This will also give you an increased amount of Mana regeneration rate. You'll also add flesh and stone as you should be able to fit this R setup into your configuration at this point as well. So, on act four, this is where you're going to do your first ascendency. Take deniable as this is going to give you a significant speed increase on The Jug. It's going to mean that you don't really need to run any accuracy stacking on the build whatsoever. You should be capped out at 100% on hit. You can now drop War Banner as well from your setup and you could switch to dread Banner if you so chose to. It's not necessary but you can once you get

access to the gem switch out your attack speed support gem on your Shield crash configuration to multi-strike. You can now also switch to shield crush if you weren't using shield crush previously, and you were going down the leveling with Smite path as well. Your shield crush setup should be shield crush plus impale plus merely physical damage plus multi-strike. You can now add Clarity and Reserve Life instead of Mana with arrogance to sustain Mana. Also, if you didn't do that in act three from the social Quest, so in Act five, we want to add assassin's Mark. Now this will be assassin's mark plus mark on hit. Now you could also run life tap on this if you so chose to, but if you've got a Clarity arrogance setup, you should be able to sustain the Assassin's Mark without running life tap at this point. And this is so you can start marking enemies and increasing the amount of damage to those enemies, and this synergizes with moving into The Marked for Death node on the

tree as well, which is going to allow us to add cull and allow us to add frenzy charge generation into the build. We also want to rebalance all of our auras to the following auras: blood and Sand, flesh and stone, determination, vitality, and Clarity, plus arrogance. If you are having issues with balancing these auras, though for now leave out flesh and stone until you get the nodes on the tree around the champion of the cause node for Mana reservation efficiency. So in act 6, there's no real major changes to the build. Now if you had had some initial early currency i.e. chaos drop, this would be a great time in the try League to go and pick up some tahi gloves. This is going to give you easy access to Onslaught, a heap of leech, and adrenaline. Our main focus is going to be ascending again, and this will be moving into untiring, which is going to give us a huge boost to defense. As far as a progression speed sort of situation goes, this build will now start.

to pick up a bit before getting to act 10, which will be okay. So for ACT 8, there's no major changes to the build, pretty much just keep progressing your Shields. Always consistently keep updating your Shield as you're progressing through the campaign. If you start to notice your damage dropping off, it's because you don't have enough armor on your Shield. So go to the vendor Al and go do whatever you need to get a better Shield constantly as you're ranking up and leveling this build. Brack n again, no major adjustments, just keep looking for better Shields, keep basically scaling up the build where you can, and keep focusing on capping out your Elemental resistances. So the other thing to note here, if you're not level 16 by the end of act 9, I'd recommend you go back to blad Aqueduct and farm until you reach level 65, as you will be under level for Act 10 and you will have some issues in the last act and as you progress into early mapping without being at that

point. Finally, you also want to do your third ascendancy, which is going to be unstoppable. This is so you can no longer be stunned, and you get a 10% additional movement speed buff, as well as chill and things like that no longer have an effect on your character. This is a huge quality of life bonus for this build, is going to make your run way cleaner and easier as you move into early mapping for Act 10. Focus on um maxing out your resistances. This is going to be a priority, so better gear, max out resistances, even if you need to do this somehow with flasking and whatnot temporarily. You also want to progress through the uh the early mapping tree from this point. So basically, you want to go through early mapping into that day one tree. So start progressing and implementing improvements to the build, and ideally where possible, look to get the key uniques initially in this build to start juicing up your power. Okay, so from a leveling trees perspective, so if we just talk through

uh everything up until endgame mapping or early mapping. Sorry, uh. So this is the PO that's up in the description currently, which Maps out where you basically need to progress. And so if we zoom in, initially you're going to start from basically moving into the end of act one. You're going to go to Born to Fight, we take these initial damage nodes. Now, if you need more defense, you could come down this route as well. Then we want to grab Heart of the Warrior pretty much pretty quickly. We want to grab Verstile Combatant as well. Once we go down to Warrior's Blood, we double back. Alternatively, if you want more damage early on, go down, take this accuracy node, double back up into Heart of the Warrior. Then we'll grab, uh, Golem. Oh, Warrior's Blood, and then basically cap it off there. Now, moving into act two, you'll then take one elemental resist resistance node, move down to AR of the Gladiator, pick up Defiance, and then we want to rush into our Merciless Gearing. This is going to start leveling up in

pale then when we go to act three we're going to go down through the Golem's blood node. This is going to give us a good amount of life and regeneration, and we want to travel all the way to the end here 'cause the focus is to get to Mark to death and initially precise technique very early on. Then in act four we're going to go straight up to precise technique. Now this is going to eliminate your ability to do critical stroke damage, but it's going to significantly boost your offense early on in the game, and that's going to make it a hell of a lot easier to progress through the rest of the campaign, and especially when you get undeniable. We also want to start progressing down these Shield nodes here. Act five we're going to complete retaliation, and if we just zoom out you can see that we've started to progress through. We pick up Hard Knocks, we want to pick up champion of the cause, and Mana reservation efficiency down here. Act six we're going to bre flesh this.

out even more so we'll grab cloth and chain. We'll grab grab grab rry and the Mana reservation efficiency so we don't want Mana reduced cost. We want Mana reservation efficiency. And so we don't have any other nodes on this side. We're going to start branching out. And we're going to move up into bloodless. And we're going to start branching out up through this side of the tree upon act seven. We're going to move up and grab aggressive Bastion. This is going to increase the number of Shield nodes that we have doing offense with Shield skills. And that's basically all we're going to get at that point at by the end of act 8. We'll grab Juggernaut. By the end of act nine. We're going to Branch out and grab our Elemental overcapping resistance nodes here from what I can see here too we grab savagery as well because we now have our marked Mastery down here which is our um our uh Mark for death sorry we need to pick this up too this is going to

give us culling strike early on, and this is also going to allow us to generate frenzy charges when we're attacking marked enemies and or bosses and whatnot. Now we don't want to get this later on based on the leveling pathing that I gave in the first the last part of this video. Basically, there's no point taking Mark for death until you have a mark on hit skill moving forward. So that's assassin's Mark, and there's a bit of redundancy here or relevancy here with using precise technique, which eventually we're going to scale out as we go into our endgame configuration or our early mapping. We're then going to switch to crit strike, and we'll see that pretty much in the next Tree in Act 10. So in Act 10, we're going to go to dismembering. We're also going to look to start progressing up into disemboweling. And so with dismembering, there's not a lot of purpose having precise technique, but we're in that.

transition phase as we move into early endgame, and then early mapping, we're going to drop off precise technique altogether. We're going to have dismembering. We're also going to come up, and we are going to grab the crit nodes for disabling and critical Mastery up here, which is going to shift us into crit. We get to about 140,000 DPS by this sort of stage of the game, and this is also based on this automization, which is Prismatic Eclipse, Lioneye's Remorse, Devoto's Devotion, Tahi, and Doryani's Strider are the key uniques that you'll need, and all of these items are relatively affordable on the market within the first day. You'll have plenty of chaos drop initially, and I'll also do a leveling guide or a League start early League start delving guide if you want to start making easy currency early on, which will help you get these items initially as well. So you should be able to push a bit of delve, even from act 8 if you need to.

and just cycle between D delve pick up a few chaos, and then basically just acquire these items as they drop up into the market on the first day. Now as far as skills that you want, basically by the end of your campaign run, you're going to want Shield charge, flesh and Stone, determination, blood, and Sand. You're going to want Assassin's Mark, Mark on hit with life tap. You're going to ideally go for a five-link set up with shield crush, and we're going to be using shield crush, fortify, or melee added melee damage depends on how you're feeling, and if you want more defense versus offense. You want to have impale, brutality, and multistrike, and all these are set to level 16, assuming that you haven't leveled them up anywhere near to level 20, and then you'll progress that as you go. Then we also want during Cy Call to Arms and vitality. We also want our Clarity and arrogance set up with mol shell and automation. Make sure that Clarity and arrogance are not linked to

anything but this should be fine with molten shell and Automation, and with Clarity arrogance, we should have enough Mana regeneration to be able to sustain this, uh, and then ancestral Warchief. Now, we're not sure what's happening with ancestral protector and Warchief, but you want to break the link between multiple totems and these, so you want two of two the multiple totems and Warchief linked, and you want protector not linked so that you can have three two different totems essentially, um, and so the mana mana that you should have sitting in the pool is about 87, and that should be ample to run the build, and we're looking at about 29 Mana cost with 13.1 life cost per cast for shield crush, so it's sustainable. Assassin's Mark should be okay to run, uh, enduring cry, it should be okay to run as well, you've got enough of a pool and a 37.3, uh, regeneration rate on your Mana regeneration, so it should be sustainable. Now, the other thing to keep in mind I

don't have Vitality fully leveled up. I only have it leveled up to level 10, and this is so we can sustain the Mana pool. And that's basically the go with the build as it is from a skill setup, as well from skill geming setup, and item setup, and whatnot. So not too complicated, pretty much is what it is. And configuration-wise, uh, it's as I went through at the start of the video. So frenzy charges are ticked on. This is because of this Mark for death node essentially. So 10% chance to gain frenzy charges on hit when you hit the marked enemy. And then basically endurance charges we get from our enduring cry popping off, life tap we have Onslaught, and uh, adrenaline we have from Atziri's Promise. We have Fortified because we have Fortify gem setup. Usually there's plenty of enemies nearby because that's just the nature of this build. Blood stance, I was just keeping in blood stance. Nothing else is ticked on here. And this is Guardian and Pinnacle boss damage, okay. So just some last final

points around uh getting power into this build, so your target needs to be seething Fury. It is going to be a pretty significant buff to power early on, so the sooner you can get this, the better. One way that you can get this is by corrupting vidiian Jewels. They added this into the game in the last few leagues, so if you're playing ssf with this build, then that's definitely a path you can take. Your next one want to try and get Emperor's vigilance as soon as you can. Again, this is going to be a huge buff, and this is going to synergize with two particular nodes, which is going to be Shield Mastery crit multi per one per 10 es on your shield, and also Shield Mastery 2% increased attack damage per 75 armor on the shield. So, this is another thing to look at on the build. Replica dream feather is going to be another major enhancement to the build as well, mainly because of the global modifiers around attack speed and whatnot. Now with this, you also want to

look to get a corrupted variant of this, which has fortify on hit, which is basically free fortify. This won't be able to be achieved at league start unless you do farm them yourself out of heist. This is pretty accessible, and usually they're around 12 to 15 C on League start because they're fully accessible. So have that, see how you go with that fourth B. I switched this from brass Dome. Fourth V is a significantly better piece of chest armor on this build and is going to be the thing that allows us to go into deep delve eventually. Finally, you want to also get unbreakable on the build. This is going to make you super tanky, and I've also got a target of other um quick you leveling uniques that you can get into the build at end game to just based on the sequence or priority level. So, uh, Ceiling Fury is about fourth on the list. It may be more expensive on day one unless you determine that you want to try and chance yourself and crop ridian Jews.

into it otherwise Emperor vigilance number one Dawn Strider 2 Devoto 3 seething Fury replica dream feather and finally fourth Val is going to be a little more expensive on day one and you probably find you have to buy it as a four link and then five link it yourself and then take it into a six link to get it cheaper. Otherwise if you get some early currency and drops like that as you get a five link then just outright buy Six length it'll most likely it just really depends on how the Market's going to be and some of the changes that they've made to the game as well for 3.25. Justus in the teaser sort of indicates that we're going to have a bit of a shake up to the trade mark market and trade league so that's going to be pretty significant but those are going to be your other targets as well. Now as far as the um the final leveling trees and all the final trees I'll leave all those in the description this is uh

leveling guide, and I have tons of videos around how to progress this build. So I'll basically put links to all of those videos. They're still relevant; this build hasn't really changed that much in all the leagues, but I will be taking its endgame to a different level. I'll also be doing new leveling guides as well, so all these trees will be provided, and I'll also give you the raw run trees that I did from act 1 to 10 so you can see just what gear I was progressing as I was doing my playthrough. So there should be no absence of information, and I think I've covered off on pretty much everything. But yeah, all the links will be in the description, and all the video links to the previous guides as well will all be in the description where I've explained every bit of the mechanic in great gratuitous levels of detail with every single progress update. So there should be plenty of information of how to progress, progress, progress this build. And as I'll be playing it myself, you'll be getting this serviced as you.

go as well anyway from League start so I'll be doing guides as we go too. Okay, so fingers crossed I've covered off on enough things in this early leveling guide to give you plenty to chew on. Now, this is pre-patch notes so things will change inevitably, and we're just going to have to work with that. But I thought I'd do this video because a lot of people are asking me to release the PS and release the information around how to level this in case you want to do a leveling run yourself and see how the build feels. It's not a build that's for absolutely everyone. I am aware that it's a melee build. You've got to be, you know, within the proclivity to want to play melee to really want to play this build. But that being said, I really enjoy this build. It's consistent, it's tanky. It's not the fastest build. It doesn't give you instant gratification, but you see the wind up and its end game does reach a pretty good level and state as well.

where it can do absolutely everything in the end game. I'm not sure yet about t77 Maps. Don't ask me about it. I don't know. We'll see how that goes in the league. Uh, in the patch notes now as far as a delving build, I built this to take down Crystal Kings at depth 500 approximately. If it's scaled up, it should have no issues taking them down anywhere up to like 8 or 900, as long as we move it into a fourth fou defensive setup and really add on the uh, the stoniness into the build. It should be pretty powerful, and it should be able to do the job. That being said, there are just going to be Crystal King things that it can't take down. It's sort of a mid-tier Dela build. It's good for a League start because of that, and you could use it to basically Farm a ton of currency for like your ultimate Optimum build, or you could take this build as far as you want. It's just a really fun build, and the

other side of it is it's an interesting build too. It's not the same old bone shatter build or anything like that. Is bone shatter better? Yeah, probably in the initial scaling in the end game. I'd say bone shatter gets some pretty high DPS numbers, but this build could contend with it with about a similar level of investment. This is just sort of a build that people don't really focus on versus bone Shadow being the predominant melee build currently, but we'll see how that looks after the patch notes come out on Thursday in American time and Friday for Australian time. Anyway, if you like this video, don't forget to like and sub to the channel. Don't forget to follow the twitch. Don't forget to follow the Twitter or X and I will see you guys on stream later tonight and definitely Friday morning for the league announcement. Anyway, have a good one and uh, stay safe and I'll see you guys later.

SHIELD CRUSH! League Starter Act 1 to 10 Leveling Guide | PoE 3.25 (Pre-Patch Notes)

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Planning for a Shield Crush Juggernaut Build in the Next League

The build relies on potential melee buffs and multiplicative changes, especially for the Emperor's Vigilance.

It does not depend on weapon damage and focuses on stacking armor and using replica dream feathers.

The build is expected to have high DPS, even with the potential nerfs to certain abilities, and the video will provide a leveling tree for act 1 to 10.

Build Guide for a Slow but Tanky Character

The build offers a slower pace of gameplay but with high tankiness, making it suitable for a league start scenario.

One of the key focuses of the build is constantly upgrading the Shield armor for maximum effectiveness.

Global modifiers on the weapon are essential, with a later shift to full physical damage and impale.

Res capping and setting up Mana arrogance are also crucial for the build's success.

Sustaining Mana with an Arrogance Configuration in Path of Exile

Using an Arrogance configuration with Clarity allows for easily achieving over 100K armor and sustaining Mana.

The early mapping setup focuses on basic gear and skill configurations, assuming a low-level character.

The build incorporates unique items like Prismatic Eclipse and Lioneye's Remorse, while also emphasizing the importance of Seismic Cry for damage.

Path of Exile Leveling Guide: Key Steps for Powering Up

Early skills and AAS configuration are crucial for leveling up in Path of Exile.

Cleaning up AAS by Act Five, using sources of power for final ascendancies, and following a specific sequence for unique items are essential for a quick power-up and progression through the end game.

Path of Exile: Leveling and Progression Guide

Focus on rebalancing auras and picking up Tahi gloves for Onslaught and leech when you have early currency.

Prioritize ascending to untiring for a defense boost and keep updating your shield for better armor.

If under level 65 by the end of act 9, go back to farm in Blad Aqueduct.

Prioritize maxing out resistances and progressing through the early mapping tree, while looking to acquire key uniques for the build's improvement.

Follow a specific path for leveling and progression, prioritizing damage nodes, defense, and offense boosts along the way.

Focus on grabbing Mana reservation efficiency and branching out to Bloodless and Aggressive Bastion.

Prioritize picking up Juggernaut and Elemental resistance nodes.

Utilize a specific leveling path to optimize the build and easily acquire necessary items.

Set up a skill combination including Shield Charge, Assassin's Mark, and a linked Ancestral Warchief, while ensuring sustainable Mana and life costs.

Tips for Leveling Up the Vitality Build in Path of Exile

Level up Vitality to sustain the Mana pool, and prioritize the skill, gem, and item setup accordingly.

Frenzy charges are obtained through the Mark for Death node, while endurance charges come from Enduring Cry.

Look to acquire Seething Fury and Emperor's Vigilance early on for significant buffs, and consider getting a corrupted variant of Replica Dream Feather for free fortify.

Prioritize Fourth B over Brass Dome for better chest armor, and aim to get Unbreakable for increased tankiness.

Consider the sequence and priority level for acquiring other leveling uniques based on their effectiveness.

Keep an eye on the market changes for a potential shake-up in the trade league.

Comprehensive Leveling Guide for a Melee Build

This video provides a thorough leveling guide for a consistent and tanky melee build, with links to relevant progression videos.

The build is designed to reach a strong endgame state, capable of handling a variety of content, including Crystal Kings at significant depths.

While not the fastest build, it is reliable and can be scaled for optimal performance, serving as a solid option for a League start.

The guide also compares the build to the more common bone shatter build and mentions the upcoming patch notes that may impact the build's effectiveness.