[2.0] Scion 2h Static Strike Meele Bulldozer - Beginners Friendly - No Uniques needed!

Hey guys,

welcome to my 2h build for scion in 2.0.

I started playing PoE a long time ago in 2013, had a long break, started again in summer 2014, had a long break and started now again for the expansion "The Awakening". While I usually searched for a build with my favorite offensive spells, i wanted to create my own build this time. Whereas i play in "Warbands League", my build isn't depending on any unique, because nearly everything of my stuff is self-found. This build is not finished or totally optimized yet, but with your help it will be soon. If you see anything to improve, do not hesitate and tell me! :)

Since i started playing this character, the build worked for me the whole time leveling. And now (i reached level 69), close to end game maps, i feel pretty comfortable with it in order to survive and deal damage (of course you wont deal as much damage as a crit bow ranger, but you have to face tank everything and that forces you to improve your defence a lot, especially in act4).


General Preliminary Considerations

Since started to play PoE, most of my characters had a melee build. I want to follow up this idea and create a strong melee class, which has enough durability to run endgame maps while dealing decent damage. I really like the "Static Strike" gem so i chooses, to theorycraft the build around this meele strength gem.

Since i played melee characters, they oftenly been crafted around "Facebreaker's". With this item i've been able to use a shield, which pushed my defensive stats very well. Since i want to create my build around a 2H weapon, i have to pay more attention to defensive nodes, skills, etc. than i did before.

I decided to go for a 2H Axe (or maybe sword, but as you'll see later, i don't need accuracy rating so this item affix is wasted, but the higher base attack speed fits well to the build.) I also want to create a build, which is quiet cheap thus you start with 0 currency in the new league and you wont get uniques easily.

The Build
















Current Stats And Miscellaneous

So, that's my build so far. Next i want to show you, how to calculate the damage correctly and how much damage i reached so far. Keep in mind that my gear (especially the weapon) is far away from being good and there is a lot of improvement to do!



You can see my defensive stats here:



That's it for me. Thanks to everyone who has made it here. I constantly try to improve things and try new gem setups, to make this an atziri viable build. If i find some, i will update this guide. Furthermore i want to apologize for any spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes thus i'm not a native speaker.


Cherio!

Grummble

A cookie cutter build with a standard passive tree, it should work well for beginners indeed.

However, starting as a Scion isn't really a good choice in this case, since you're not relying on jewels and you're not getting a lot of nodes on the other side of the tree.
Keep in mind, the starting nodes as a Scion are all pretty terrible, whereas you could start as a Marauder and either get a good amount of life or damage with the very efficient starting nodes.

Also, I would just like to point out that your DPS calculation is totally wrong. In NO way are you getting 20k real DPS with 6k tooltip DPS.
When you calculate the damage of the explosions, I see that you included your attack speed. Then, you should calculate as such : (attack speed) * (damage per hit) * 0.6
You're doing : (attack speed) * (DPS) * 0.6
That means you're counting your attack speed twice.

To get your real DPS with Static Strike, you just take your tooltip DPS and multiply it by 1.6.
That gives you 10,270 DPS.
But don't worry, you aren't very high level yet and don't have good gear, this should go higher to quite decent numbers.

Thanks for your feedback!

I've choosen a Scion, because i wanted to grab some attack speed nodes from the middle/right side of the tree.

I updated the damage calculation, thanks for pointing out my mistake.

The build is meant to be a solid beginners build, which doesn't depend on any in depth mechanics or rare uniques (altough it would greatly benefit from some of them).

Looking forward to get more feedback. Thanks.

Grummble

Hi, I'm going to run a Scion as my second Warbands character and this is looking like a solid build. My first character was an IR, RT, US 2H spectral thrower and the leftover gear will fit amazingly with this build.



Couple of questions:


How is your playstyle currently? It seems from the tooltip and character sheet that your resists are rather low and you use around 115 mana/second Static Striking with 341 mana. How is your sustained damage against bosses who don't spawn adds for you to flask up? I imagine you would cyclone more, is the dps from your cyclone setup good for single target or is it simply a cheap aoe to deal with white monsters?


Thanks for the build and tree, I'll try to update you as I get to a comparable level, hopefully within the week.

Hello unfocusedking,

thanks for your feedback! Normally i jump into a bunch of creep, use abyssal cry and then focus the stronges one (e.g. the rare one / one with most life).

You're right, this build is quite mana intensive thus i use my mana flask after almost every fight or in it. But if you get your mana flask the affixe "immune to freeze", like i did, you won't get freezed anymore.

For Bosses, which dont spawn any creeps, i use cyclone, which has a great single target damage (if you use concentrated area of effect). It even has a good splash damage to kill trash, if you use increased area of effect.

Hope you'll have a lot of fun with this build. Thanks. :)

Grummble

PS: I have updated my current defense stats and gear. Read the gear section to get information about the stats requiered for maps.