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Best Melee League Starter In POE 3.21 - Frost Blades

Mar 22, 2023

The new league is just over two weeks away. I guess at this point you want a cool league starter. Here, I am with a new one! It's melee and really insane good. And this build is Frost Blades.

T16 Strand & Build Variations

With my Frost Blades build, you can start the league with no investment and play to the end. 

I made three build versions in passive building for less than 3 Divines (for white maps) with around 3 million DPS and for 10 to 15 Divines with around 15 million DPS.

Also, for those rich guys, who want to play this build and spend tons of POE Currency, I made an expensive version with more than 50 million DPS without clusters. But actually 15 Divine Orbs will be enough for all content except Ubers.

POE 3.21 Frost Blades

Pros 

Now, let's start with pros and cons of this build. 

For advantages, this build has a good clear speed, awesome DPS and and it's melee. Try to remember how many melee builds you can actually play now not for mirrors and they're still good. Not many right?

Frost Blades is one of them. It's fantastic for maps, bosses, Expedition, Legion and almost for everything in this game. It's just a funny looking shrunk melee skill. And when you play, your enemies are frozen and you just enjoy it.

Cons

About disadvantages, it may be defense, but actually not really. Because with some investment, you have a big attack speed and monsters can hit you. Also, you have 100% suppress and a good evasion.

So, it's almost perfect melee build and if I would start league with a melee skill now, it will be the Frost Blades.

Passive Tree

Now, let's have a look at passive tree, skill gems and items.

Here is my passive tree. I choose Shadow Trickster as an ascendancy and we take One Step Ahead for Action Speed, Swift Killer for Frenzy ChargesPolymath for recovery and a Heartstopper for defense.

On the passive tree in this build, I have no cluster jewels, because it's much easier to understand for new players. 

As for passives, we take Elemental DamageCritical Strike Chance and Critical MultiplierMaximum Life and Surprise. This passive tree is for 96 level. If you have higher level, just open Jewel sockets and purchase Divine Orbs for life and damage.

Skill Gems

Now, let's speak about skill gems.

In my passive building, I created 5 skill gem sets: three for leveling from level 1 to 67 and the remaining two are is "endgame" and "endgame expensive". 

Now, let's have a look at endgame. So, the first group is Froze Blades. We use it with Trinity, NightbladeIce BiteElemental Damage with Attacks and Multistrike. These support gems give us increased cold damage elemental damage and Multistrike gives us more strikes.

Next is Totem. We have two Totems is Ancestral Warchief and Ancestral Protector and also they are supported by multiplied items. We use it when we're fighting a boss. It gives us increased attack speed and damage.

Next one is Iris. We have HatredHerald of Ice for cold damage, also Grace for evasion and Enlighten saves our Mana.

Next one is Mark. We have Assassin's Mark for critical with Mark on Hit and Lifetab.

Next one is Precision. We use it without links. We have maximum level Precision. It gives us accuracy and Critical Strike Chance.

Next one is Frostblink with Bonechill gives us nice cold damage. We use it against big pack of monsters. Also, Berserk and Blood Rage gives us attack speed and Life Leech.

The last one is building blades with faster attacks. This is our main movement skill and still skill is our defense. So, Whirling BladesFaster Attacks and Steelskin are all about endgame gems.

About Items

Now, let's talk about items. 

When you just start the league, you don't need any unique item for your Frost Blades build. Just look for cold damage, life, resistance and suppression.

As for Endgame version for 10 to 15 Divines, you should purchase some unique items and other rare items. You can craft by yourself or purchase on trade. I recommend you to craft at least the Claw by yourself and now I will show you how.

Endgame Claw Craft

If you play like a league starter, then purchase something on trade for 50 Chaos Orbs with attack speed, crit chance and maybe with crit multi. But if you have at least 4 Divine investments, you can try to grab this method:

POE Imperial Claw

*First, you need to purchase an Imperial Claw (84 level) plus with fractured Cold Damage. It can be Tier 1, 2 or 3.

*Then, make its rare with Regal Orb and then use Essences of Zeal for attack speed and we use these Essences until we get one crit modifier. It can be crit chance, crit multi and a free suffix. So, we should have attack speed, free suffix and crit modifier.

You can check how much a totally spent on the right side of your screen and we got tier one Critical Strike Chance. It's insane actually.

*Next, you should craft "Suffixes Cannot be Changed" and harvest "Reforge Crit" for 100% crit multi.

*Finally, if you have a free prefix, you should go bench crafting and craft "Attacks with this Weapon Penetrate #% Elemental Resistances".

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