[3.27] Champion Double Strike Impale 2h - Theorycrafting

Hey all!

I have wanted to use an impale build, but the cyclone builds are boring for me. So I did some theorycrafting in PoB and came up with this build. I will link the PoB. I used just absolutely busted gear for it, so in reality I doubt I would be able to attain these numbers.

But I wanted advice. What does the community think? What could I change? It is pretty weak against DoTs and phys. Will this work okay?

PoB: https://pobb.in/jW70Pk1svBaj

Certainly not a PoB- or Buildmaking-Pro, but this seems very lackluster and all over the place.

1. First of all, you building crit on top of impale which ends up costing a lot of points on the tree which could be spent otherwise more productively. I would go eigher or and since this is an impale build, drop crit. This would also make crafting gear easier, in your weapon you could now, instead of needing double crit modifiers, go essence with increased impale effect. Same with grafts and maybe clusters.

2. speaking of defenses: Double Vermillion rings + Kaoms Heart is just to drive the HP-Number as high as humanly possible. Its a bandaid-fix for lackluster-defenses, and not even working - you are still only at 9k max phys hit and 6k max chaos hit which is pretty poor for a melee character, especially on champion. And this is not even adressing the dmg-fix abyssus that gets u killed even faster. Freeing up points would enable you to increase the very bad 67 % inc. life on tree and weave in spell suppression or more max res.

3. as a 4th ascendancy u also run with unstoppable hero which I have yet not seen any investment into max fortification. That is totally lost then. I´d rather go with inspirational or first to strike with a reliable way of dropping to low life to proc adrenaline. Both options would suit u far better.

4. While u use a mirror-worthy watchers eye u compliment that with just 2 shitty Grand Spectrums. No utlization of normal jewels or clusters, ending up with no ailment defense and a pretty lackluster recovery in general.

5. I dont understand at all why u are using normal Double Strike instead of Double Strike of Impaling?

6. The Semi-Strengh-Stacking to further increase life and the attribute-modifier from the amulet are all additional routes you walk in but not fully commit, ending up with bad overall results. If you go strengh-stack, you need to go there fully. You cant expect proper returns from 1 modifier on the amulet with 500 strengh - thats just not how you scale builds.

So yeah, sorry... this needs a lot of work I guess.

Something like this could be a starting-point - still lackluster in dmg but the rest looks better imo: https://pobb.in/9dJlWM3ieqJT

Well, I am certainly not any where near a pro theorycrafter, so thanks for the input. That is exactly what I am looking for. I've played this game a long time, but I have never made my own build, and that should be apparent. That is my goal now, and thanks for the extra information.