[1.0.0 UPDATED] 2H Melee dominating blow build - Fun and effective (also with facebreakers)

First of all : The game will be much harder than ranged at the beginning of your maps (which I don't think is a bad thing , game is supposed to be hard , imo ranged is too easy why melee is great ;) ) until you get hold of some good tanking gear , the good part about this build is you only need attack speed on your gloves and then you can take 100% pure tanking gear (no damage required) so it's not THAT hard to gear yourself, the most annoying part is getting a 5L , but you can grab a cheap one and it'll do the trick just fine. There , just setting your expectations here , don't expect to rape like I do when you start off ;).

Here is a video of my build in a map , where I clear a sewer in less than 6 minutes (this is before 1.0.0) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=api_dJDJtks&feature=youtu.be

Just level as a cleaver, physical or elemental W/E you go near the same nodes , respec to dominating blow when you get a good 2H weapon at around level 50 (I recommand Kaom's Primacy to start up). It's pretty straight-forward to level , and I'm sure there is a billion Cleave guides out there ;)

This is the final tree you wanna aim for : http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAdwB5wJxBLMFLRLhFCAUTRZvFy8Y2xkuGYUaOBv6HRQhYCSqJd8n7SmlLdIyCTboNuk62ECgR35KfU4qUEdQUFRJVcZV1lcNWGNYr1nzW69fP2BLYSFk52VNZp5noGxGbmlybHKpdO108XgNeu98u3zZgKSE2YTvh3aMz49GkAqQVZHOmSueuZ7NogCkGacwp4SpaKluq8Wsqrndu-29gb6KvqfAGsWKxtjPZdDQ0iHUj9lh3Q3i6uNq51LsOO8O8B_yL_Pd9kj3vvrS_MU=

If you only have a 4-link , expect your damage to be bad

Normal : Help Oak (Health)
Cruel : Help Kraitryn (Attack speed)
Merciless : Help Oak (Endurance charge)

Here is my current gear for reference :

To gear yourself : Get attack speed on your gloves , then stack HP and resist and get a good 2H weapon. I highly recommand getting a Kaom's Primacy (http://en.pathofexilewiki.com/wiki/Kaom%27s_Primacy) because it's very effective and cheap (I saw one go for 2 chaos on Onslaught) , and allows you to get minions out quicker when you dps is lower because of the culling. Also you'll keep it after to make a weapon swap with rarity/quantity :).

4-link : Dominating blow + Blood magic + Melee splash + Melee physical damage
5-link : Add Multristrike

Run Grace + Determination + purity on your mana. As curses use vulnerability for damage and enfeeble or temp chain for defense.

So for facebreakers , most of the build is pretty much the same except this time you're going to add something to the build : Immortal call , and you're going to use the Abyssus unique helmet ( That =>
) to increase your damage substantially. In order for facebreaker to work , you need to have Flat +phys damage on your jewelry aswell (like this : ) and two unique : Facebreaker(obviously) and Meginord girdle belt (those : )


How to play it :


Gear required :


The skill tree :




So yeah there you go, hopefully this will prove that melee is more than viable , fun to play and viable at competitive play :)

If I forgot anything or you think I should add up something , please leave a comment here ;) Thanks for looking and have a good day