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[0.2] Will Smith - Smith of Kitava Leap Slam Tank

0.2 DotH

Starter

End Game

Creator

Warrior

Smith of Kitava

By Carnarius

Updated on Apr 16, 2025

Apr 16, 2025

Build Overview

Will_Smith is a very tanky character, very good for a league start but at the same time scaling nicely into end game.

It's very easy to get 75% (and 90% later) resistances as early as act 3 with this character, which will grant as smooth sailing early.

That automatically means that Will Smith is also not that gear reliant, so if you are unlucky with your drops it's not going to make or break your gameplay.

On top of that we can acquire mini Cloak of Flame due to our ascedancy passives, allowing us to get very decent physical damage protection as well.

At this point all we need to do is get some armour, capped chaos resistance and we have a very, very tanky character in front of us.

Offensively, in the end game we want to be using 2 2-handed weapons, which will provide massive amount of damage.

Additionally, we don't really need to spend that many passive points on the tree to increase defenses, which means that a lot of our passive points will be allocated to increase damage. It should be enough to comfortably fight pinnacle bosses.

Build Variants

BEFORE GIANT'S BLOOD

GIANT'S BLOOD

EARLY END GAME

END GAME

You are supposed to switch to Giant's Blood and 2 2-handed weapons whenever you have enough strength to carry your weapons, i recommend level 70+

Equipment

BEFORE GIANT'S BLOOD

GIANT'S BLOOD

EARLY END GAME

END GAME

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Helmet

Warmonger Greathelm

Main Hand

Flanged Mace

Off Hand

Flanged Mace

Left Ring

Amethyst Ring

Right Ring

Ruby Ring

Amulet

Solar Amulet

Gloves

Bolstered Mitts

Belt

Infernoclasp

Boots

Lionheart Greaves

1. Weapons - + to level of all melee skills and as high flat damage as possible (can be physical or elemental)
Weapons after Avatar of Fire - + to level of melee skills, increased elemental damage with attacks and as high flat damage as possible

2. Helmet - High armour, life, strength, fire and/or chaos resistances

3. Gloves - High armour, life, strength, attack speed. Luxury stat is + to level of melee skills

4. Boots - Movement speed, life, strength, fire and/or chaos resistances

5. Belt - Infernoclasp is a great choice, otherwise a rare belt with life, strength and fire and/or chaos resistances

6. Rings - Life, strength, flat damage (preferably flat fire), fire and/or chaos resistances

7. Amulet - Xoph's blood after you swap to Avatar of Fire, before that a rare amulet with life, strength and fire and/or chaos resistances

8. Jewels - Maximum fire resistance, fire penetration and other useful stats that you can find (armour, damage with maces, fire damage)

Skill Gems

BEFORE GIANT'S BLOOD

GIANT'S BLOOD

EARLY END GAME

END GAME

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 55

Dex 10

Int 10

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Mace Strike

Infernal Cry

Perfect Strike

Boneshatter

Overwhelming Presence

Berserk

Leap Slam

Gem Priority

+15

Passive Tree

BEFORE GIANT'S BLOOD

GIANT'S BLOOD

EARLY END GAME

END GAME

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

The order of spending ascendancy points that i recommend:
1. Coal Stoker
2. 75% fire resistance and 25% of physical damage from hits taken as fire damage
3. Forged in Flame
4. 15% increased life and 20% increased strength

How it Plays

Screen wide explosions using 1 or 2 buttons is the name of the game.

Very decent tankiness due to how defensive our ascendancy is, later on with better gear you should be able to easily clear t15+ maps without having to worry about dying.

How it Works

You support Leap Slam with Brink support, which prevents it from ever stunning the enemy, the stun buildup will still rise. That guarantees that you don't have to ever worry about not having Boneshatter ready to explode the pack (unless the monster dies from leap slam, but that shouldn't be an issue, you can even reduce it's damage with supports if that happens)

Later in the game (level 70+) after you swap spec into Avatar of Fire, Giant's Blood and 2 2-handed weapons, i recommend fully dropping Boneshatter and fully supporting Leap Slam. The damage and area we are going to have with Leap Slam will be enough to comfortably clear end game maps.

Changelog

07.04.2025
Released
08.04.2025
Added few sections
08.04.2025
Imported the newest PoB, Leap Slam tech added, the build has 2 versions now (before giant's blood and after)
10.04.2025
Added early end game version
13.04.2025
Added end game version
16.04.2025
Added Jewels