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This build guide is designed to help you blast through the campaign as quick as possible. With this current setup I was able to complete the campaign in under 4 hours. This included all the islands on act 4 and the interludes! My current best time is 3 hours 33minutes.
In patch 0.5 I tested doing this leveling method with no ascendancy to see just how strong it was with all the changes in the game and I was shocked at how well it did!
Note this guide should be able to be done on all classes but this will heavily excel on characters that start on the right side of the tree!
But lets get into it!
BEFORE YOU BEGIN LETS GET A COUPLE OF ITEMS TO MAKE OUR LIVES EASY!
Body Armor - 
Tabula Rasa and 6 
Emerald to go with it. The emeralds all need INCREASED ATTACK SPEED and INCREASED ATTACK SPEED WITH SPEARS. This will be a huge damage boost for us throughout the entire campaign
Helmet - 
Wings of Caelyn
Gloves - 
Northpaw into 
Hand of Wisdom and Action
Belt - 
Meginord's Girdle
Boots - 
Wanderlust -> 
Wake of Destruction
Amulet - 
Carnage Heart -> 
Yoke of Suffering
Rings - 
Blackheartx2 -> 
The Taming + Ring with Damage to Attacks (as many as possible) you can also do The Taming + Blackheart but a real ring with damage to attacks will do better
Weapon - You will want to have a spear for level 1/10/16/26/36/46 see the video attached for examples of the spears and how to buy them! Ideally you want the highest dps spear for every few levels (dont spend more then a couple of exalts for a spear). You will also need a 
Skysliver as your main hand weapon set 1 spear for movement speed!
KEEP YOUR 
Whirling Slash LEVEL 1 YOU DO NOT NEED TO LEVEL IT!!!!
At level 1 once you get into town you will want to gamble or create a RARE SPEAR
We will be using Whirling Slash so that our 
Twister is empowered. This will be the setup we use until level 16. So your rotation from level 1 to 16 will be Whirling Slashx3 -> Twister. This will empower the twister and do an absurd amount of damage to everything around you.
One you get to the executioner in Act 1 and kill him and save the guy on the torture device. Go to town, grab your level 5 skill gem and cut 
Barrage. We will be tossing Barrage into the mix now so that we get insane boss dps and clear. So now your rotation goes Whirling Slashx3 -> Barrage -> Twister .
This new variant is designed with the idea of NOT using spirit just so you can focus on blasting but if you want to take a spirit gem in Act 1 
Herald of Thunder will be your goto with adding in 
Herald of Ice later on once we get the 
Resonance keystone
Once you hit level 16 you will be able to equip 
Wake of Destruction and 
Skysliver this will make everything a 1000x better. Your Whirling Slash can now be used as a movement skill and damage booster. Since we are now able to use our Whirling Slash as our movement skill we in theory will always have empowered Twister unless you do something awkward.
From level 16 until you get to maps your entire rotation will be Barrage -> Whirling Slashx3 -> Twister you will have to do nothing else and everything will die. Like I mentioned about since Whirling Slash is our movement skill in theory all you have to do is press Barrage -> Twister and you will notice screen clear.
One thing to mention if you are able to cut all the support gems that Twister will do more damage if you cast it when the support gem Salvo has 3 stacks. I showcase this in the attached video! Make sure you check it out!
Once you get more spirit I would allocate 
Combat Frenzy and try to make sure you are electrocuting or freezing cause Frenzy charges just scale your damage to the moon!
For a second weapon I would grab either a really high elemental damage rare spear for ~level 40+ or I would grab a 
Tangletongue. Note if you go Tangletongue your going to want to get the critical strike nodes earlier and Tangletongue really shines with rings that have Flat Elemental Damage.
I have received a handful of questions about gear changes throughout the campaign. As mentioned in the video the only pieces of gear changed were my rings at ~level 50. If your noticing your damage start to fall off there is a couple of things you can do.
1) Upgrade the runes in your weapon to the next tier of flat damage
2) Upgrade your rings to make sure they have flat damage, this includes things like
-Fire Damage to Attacks
-Cold Damage to Attacks
-Lightning Damage to Attacks
Any combination of these 3 or 2 will give you an amazing boost. You can find really cheap rings with double damage for super cheap usually.
Outside of that I mentioned above about changing the weapon to high tier of damage. Thats all you really need.
You will also notice down below there are weapon skill sets. Setting up the weapon skill sets will make your life A LOT easier!
But for now friends, happy campaign blasting! And if you get stuck or need help you can stop by my discord or live stream and ask questions in our POE Channels!
