POE 3.7 Slayer - Crit Cleave, Perfect All Rounder League Start Budget

This build is based around the Melee AOE skill Cleave and is played using the Slayer ascendancy for Duelist. While Slayer is strong this build has quite a few growing pains while going through Act 10 and Early Maps. If you are experiencing you can probably pull this off SSF however in my experience I found the Uniques I bought (very common ones) were a savior in transitioning to maps.


POE 3.7 Slayer Builds

Using Winter Spirit we convert 40% of our Physical Damage to Cold Damage so that we can shatter and freeze enemies easier. Alongside Herald of Ice, this will give us huge clear speed which is the premise of the build. On the tree we stack fat attack speed, fat dual wields mods and fat critical strike chance, giving us the ideal Cleave machine. Not only that but we go with ridiculous AoE cause why not. I chose Slayer as thanks to 3.7 almost every one of his Ascendancy points is insane, and we have easy access to quality of life things such as big crit chance, life leech and up to 50% Increased Area of Effect.

Pros & Cons:
+ Cheap
+ Boosted AoE Clear thanks to Herald of Ice shatters
+ Attack speed and Crit Multi is wilding thanks to 3.7 Duelist Area
+ Fun way to play a melee skill that, not Cyclone (Cyclone next build though Pog)
+ Can level from right after Hillock with Cleave
- Not a Jugg, you can't tank the world (I just meme and dream)
- Elemental Reflect is doable, but very awkward due to huge Cold Conversion
- Cleave itself can't compete with top tier Melee skills (It's fun though)
- A lot of traveling on the tree can be awkward while leveling

Ascendancy:
- Overwhelm 
- Impact
- Headsman
- Bane of Legends

Bandits: Kill all.

Pantheons:
Major God - Soul of Lunaris or Soul of Solaris
Minor God - Soul of Garukhan or Soul of Shakari

Gems Setup:
Cleave - Multistrike - Pulverise - Faster Attacks - Concentrated Effect - Hypothermia
Vaal Double Strike - Melee Physical Damage - Vaal Ancestral Warchief - Ruthless
Whirling Blades - Faster Attacks - Blood Magic
Summon Ice Golem - Blood Rage - Dash
Herald of Ice - Curse on Hit - Punishment - Hatred
Flesh & Stone - Cast When Damage Taken Lvl 10 - Molten Shell Lvl 15 - Increased Duration

PoB Link: https://pastebin.com/UifdxaYd
Skill Tree: https://tinyurl.com/yxuf9na

Example Link: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2515157

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