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Speed Thorns Titan - Leveling & End Game Build

0.3 TTE

Speed Leveling

End Game

Titan

Warrior

Verified

By KallTorak

Updated on Nov 20, 2025

Nov 20, 2025

Build Overview

Hey guys, KallTorak here! I'm an Off-Meta creator with an affinity for silly goose time builds! This is my Speed Thorns Titan build for leveling through the campaign & end game.

Watch This Before League Starting Thorns!!!!

For years now monsters in ARPGs have gotten too used to the idea of hitting us with no repercussion. Thorns is a really fun playstyle where you take damage to deal damage! However that isn't the only way we deal damage. Thorns is a very diverse playstyle that can be used to enhance many different skills in the game. Crown of the Pale King makes it to where all hits we take deal thorns damage and proc us Barbs and Quill Burst. This helmet is required to play thorns, so if you are SSF do not play this build until you have it. Thorns builds play no different than your standard melee skill builds, we just take advantage of the fact that melee characters are always getting pummeled with lots of blows!

Videos
An Introduction To Thorns
Speed Thorns Titan Guide
POE NINJA

Streams

Leveling Stream #1
End Game Stream #1

Strengths and Weaknesses

Thorns is cool. Take damage to deal damage!
Fun and Fast Leveling
Titans Hulking Form enables us to push thorns to the absolute limit. Via armour stacking we are an unkillable god! We can also heavily scale our skill speed that lets us move around the map quickly with Boneshatter.

Not SSF / League Start Friendly. Crown of the Pale King is REQUIRED for thorns.
Gotta take damage to deal damage. Always risky in a game with so many one shots. This requires us to invest heavily into defenses.
Not the cheapest thorns leveling build. Requires lots of Greater Rune of Tithing ,. spirit gems, and uniques. Good for 2nd characters.

Build Variants

Leveling

End Game

Do not start your thorns leveling journey without Quill Burst and Barbs I / Barbs II. Leveling without these support gems makes thorns horribly slow. They are unfortunately gated behind Uncut Level 3 Support Gems right now. If you are league starting you can trade for these.

Do not start your Speed Titan thorns leveling journey without

Perm Buffs

Act 2 - Charm Duration

Act 3 - Stun Threshold

Act 4 - Tattoos take res

Equipment

Leveling

End Game

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Helmet

Crown of the Pale King

Body

Titanrot Cataphract

Boots

Briarpatch

Left Ring

Whisper of the Brotherhood

Main Hand

Trenchtimbre

Belt

Ornate Belt

Required Leveling Gear

Crown of the Pale King. You can't play thorns without it. Try and get one with 3 sockets.
allows us to stack many spirit gems for Thornskin II. You will use this forever. Get one with 3 sockets.
Briarpatch 25% FLAT critical hit chance is insane. You will use this forever once you put it on so invest into this early. Try and get one with 3 sockets.
Greater Rune of Tithing are required for leveling with this style. They carry a lot of your campaign damage since we aren't focusing on scavenged plating stacks and just speed leveling with Boneshatter.
Titanrot Cataphract carried me until I got to end game. This is a massive amount of armour for the campaign. It let me use a lot of silly other uniques and ignore resistances until maps.
Trenchtimbre is a very fast low level mace. We do not care about weapon damage at this point. It'll help carry your movement speed for the entire campaign. Otherwise get a rare mace with as much attack speed as possible. This will be cheap and easy though.
Whisper of the Brotherhood not required but cheap and easy skill speed.

In your other slots focus on your res and max life during the campaign. Put Tithings into any slot you can. If you are wanting to speed through the campaign as fast as possible load up on tithings in your leveling gear. Greater Rune of Tithing

Important Stats For Leveling

Cap Elemental Resistances
Maximum Life
Armour
Chaos Resistance
% of Armour Applied To Elemental Damage
Skill Speed
Thorns Damage
% Thorns Damage Increase

Jewels

Heart of the Well - Look for % increased thorns damage based off armour on body armour and % increased armour for body armour. Can also get % increased thorns crit chance. Lots of good stats to get here but these are the best ones to look for.
From Nothing Dance with Death.
Sapphire having 1 with recover mana on kill is nice but not needed.
Ruby % increased thorns damage, % increased armour

Skill Gems

Leveling

End Game

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 40

Dex 10

Int 0

Expand all

Boneshatter

Scavenged Plating

Voltaic Mark

Mace Strike

Charge Regulation

Gem Priority

Boneshatter DO NOT LEVEL UP BONESHATER. Keep it at the lowest level! Its damage does not matter and it will save you mana. The only thing that matters for boneshatter is QUALITY. Make sure you get 23% quality so the skill speed is faster!