[0.4] Detonate Dead ON HIT | Tanky Shield Wall Smith

UPDATE: Bear skills for early on are apparently SIGNIFICANTLY better than warrior skills. Try leveling with those until you get to Shield Wall

NOTE: This will be a living guide as I am league starting this myself and will update the endgame variants as I progress. Favorite this page and check back for updates / look for new videos. The current guide will get you to yellow/red maps and roughly lvl 85.

Your main goals while leveling are as follows and in this order of importance:

1. Have fun, if something isn't fun why are you playing the game. If you don't like a particular skill try other ones!
2. Update your defenses such as resists and armor. Try to be at capped resistances ASAP.
3. Update your shield if your damage feels low.
4. Update your skills and gems if your damage still feels low with a new weapon/shield.

Use asynchronous trade for upgrades instead of attempting to craft them yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Transmutes/augments/regals are fine to use for everyone, but save exalts and ESPECIALLY chaos/divines for later items.

Use gold to respec points as you see fit early on, it is very cheap.

A very useful craft while leveling this build will be to find a shield with +armor and use a normal essence to upgrade it to 55% inc armor rare. You can either find these essences or buy them from trade.