[NEMESIS] CRAZYMAN NINJA = Frenzy + Melee Splash + Claw + Blood Dance (((VIDEOS)))

This is a full manmode build using 1h weapon and shiled, and single target attack with melee splash. What this build achives is high damage, high life leech, high life regen, which all translates into an extremely tanky build that hits like a truck.
The build is centered around using a gimp 6Linked unique chest called Tabula Rasa alongside The Blood Dance unique boots.
When it's all said and done you will have 8K+ armor, around 6K HP, 12K+ DPS with melee splash, 550+ life regen per sec and 15% life leech.

Build Guide video

Demonstration videos:

lvl68 Museum Map - det exalt :D. First time doing Museum with this character.

lvl69 Spider Forest - Double Boss face tanked - first time (ever) doing this map

lvl70 Cemetery - Double Mervail

Merci Dominus face tank

1.0.3 The Blacksmith 66 - regen vs chaos dmg

When I planned this build, I planned it to be a level 81 build.
So here is an initial level ~81 build: HERE

This is a full 117 point build (aka lvl 100), I'm just throwing it in here so that you guys can see what options there are for you to take, you may chose to switch things around. I don't really expect anybody to hit level 100 so it's stupid to plan up to that level.
LEVEL 100 BUILD

For skilltree progression, see the leveling section or the build guide video.

Normal Help Oak, absolutely.
Cruel - Help Oak OR Help Kreytin. I actually don't even remember whom I helped lol.
Merciless - Help Kreyting for frenzy charge

Personally I leveled using a combination of split arrow and double strike.

I used Silverbranch unique bow with split arrow up to level 10, at level 10 I used Storm Cloud unique bow with split arrow until level 24. At level 24 I got an OK bone bow and used that until 35. At 35 you really want to get a solid Grove Bow, will make your life super easy. I used Grove Bow until level 44. At level 44...things got exponentially easier :).

For split arrow:
Split Arrow + Fork + Faster Attacks + Life Gain On Hit

For singe target I just used fenzy with faster attacks + life leech and some random gems that I don't recall.

At level 44 I could use the blood dance boots, so I equipped that. With blood dance had enough regen to support blood magic gem in a 6link. So I equipped Tabula Rasa, ditched Clarity and started running hatred and grace. I also have Rigvald's unique 2h sword, so I used that with double strike.

With this setup you want to use
Double Strike + Melee Splash + Multistrike + Faster Attacks + Blood Magic + Life Leech

From that point on, I pretty much didn't change my setup at all until level 62 when I got my hands on a decent claw. That's also the point when I had 7 frenzy charges, so it was the right time to start using frenzy. Frenzy underperformed in comparison to double strike until you get 6+ charges and the life leech nodes so that u can remove the life leech gem.

Passive tree progression:
24 points

32 points

42 points

63 points

79 points

87 points

99 points

FRENZY - 20% HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Your frenzy has to have quality, I wouldn't bother with this build if u can't get more than like 15%+ frenzy. You are better off going with a double stirke/dual strike build in that case.

You support Fenzy with these:

Blood Magic
Melee Splash - quality recommended, but not really required.
Multistrike
Melee Physical Damage
Added Fire/Faster Attacks/ 20% Added Cold Damage/ Blind

If you have only a 4 link, don't do this build.

If you decide to use a 5LINK instead of Tabula Rasa, then do Frenzy + Blood Magic + Melee Splash + Multistrike + Melee Physical

WHIRLING BLADES
Keep it at level 1. If you can use it with faster attacks that's awesome, for now I just use it by itself and run it only on the remaining mana.

This skill...learn it, love it, worship it. When things get out of hand, it can save your life. It basically comes with built-in quartz flask. You will learn about it's desync problems and can avoid desync problems most of the time.


AURAS
Grace + Hatred

For obvious reasons. To give you some perspective, Hatred adds 3K+ DPS.

Purty of Elements. You should level one of these as high as your intelligence allows you to. You will want to use this instead of hatred on elemental weakness maps.

CULLING
You want to have a ranged culling skill, ESPECIALLY if you are on Nemesis, it will save you life when you are trying to kill a nasty volatile blood rare, you don't want to get pwned like GGG_Neon :D

Personally (for now) I use Bear Trap + Culling + Blood Magic + Item Rarity

Bear trap has some issues with dealing with mobs that move a lot, so alternative option is to use spectral throw. If u use spectral you might even be able to remove blood magic gem and use faster projectiles, should give you pretty good utility. I've been too busy/lazy to test it out, bear trap works ok for now.

Cast When Damage Taken
This is being experiment with right now. I have 2 items, both 4linked dedicated to CWDT. So far what REALLY shines is summon skeletons :P. lol. As I level my Immortal call and other stuff I'll update this part to report my findings on what works well with this build.


CURSES
Vulnerability + Enfeeble. Pretty straightforward. Most of the time you'll do so much damage that you wont have to curse anything but some rares and bosses. Do note that both of our curses require fairly HIGH INTELLIGENCE, which we lack severely, so you will likely be limited to using these curses under level 10.

Alternatively, u can also use Warlord's Mark, and that's for the endurance charges, especially if u r running immortal call with CWDT. I don't use it, but I'll try it.

My current gear as I write this, at level 76 on Nemesis (well I started writing at 76, but I'm 79 now hahah)


REQUIRED GEAR

AND FRENZY 15%+

I mention frenzy again, because it's really important to understand that w/out high quality frenzy, the build is gonna be a lot gimpier.

The Blood Dance: Amazing boots. With these boots we have 9.5% life regen.
The penalty on the boots doesn't actually make your attacks slower per frenzy charge, it just makes you get 2% attack speed increase instead of 5% as you normally would per frenzy charge.

Tabula Rasa: 6L op. Iron Reflexes OP. 'nuff said.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR ON GEAR
In order Of importance:
+HP, Resists, Strength, Damage, Intelligence.

Since we use 2 unique items that have no HP or resists, we have to prioritize those above and beyond other other stats. You also want to get as much strength as possible on your gear, because strength = flat life, to help us compensate for the 2 uniques.

You want to get Intelligence if you can as well, because claws require intelligence to use. Most good claws will require 95 or 117 int, some even 131, and if you are really lucky you'll get one like me that requires only 73 int (don't count on it).

With charges:


Without:


Defense:


Current passive tree:
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQAAdwFLQW1DI0M8g1JD6sV8BrbG8gb-iP2Jd8mlSmlMZ4yCTWSNj064T1lPs9AVUMxR35KfU3jTipRR1PfVUtW-ljbWhpaSFuvXhNgS2HiZU1noGqVbEZtbG17b1dybHTteA1674TZhO-HdojxijiMNo19jb-QCpkrm4OkGaXLplepbqp_qrirxaxZtMW1SLXytkG9gb3mvordDedj53TuDu_w8kX5Y_zF_gr-jw==

Current gears: