[2.1] Oro's Sacrifice Melee Sweep Build (Cheap & Balanced)

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Oro's Sacrifice. A beast of a sword for the price of an Alc.. Many players already have incorporated this nice weapon into some of their builds. Mostly it is used in Flicker Strike builds, as the Frenzy charge generation helps a lot in sustaining your Flicker Strike attacks. Some builds even use it in a general, fire based Cyclone build, but ever since the Elemental proliferation nerf, it doesn’t seem like a good fit and maybe a pure Phys based build is a lot easier to play.
This time though, this time... We use Sweep.
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About Sweep

Sweep. You know, that skill that got nerfed somehow in the latest major patch (where AoE’s of melee skills got nerfed), no one knows why... And you’ll be going on a nice quest here on the forums to find yourself a nice, affordable Sweep build. Hint: There aren’t any. Until now.
I have created a viable, cheap Sweep build, that not only deals enough (Fire) damage to melt though packs, it is very tanky in the process.
There is nothing more satisfying than jumping into a large pack of monsters and Sweep away.

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Quick Overview

Let’s give you a quick character overview, so you can see if this tingles your interest:

- Fortify will be up for most of the time.
- You’ll have up to max 6 Endurance charges (automatically generated)
- You’ll have up to max 5 Frenzy charges (automatically generated)
- Automatic applied Double curse: Warlocks Mark & Flammability.
- 2% Life and Mana leech.
- Up to 8.4 % life regenerated per second.
- 3 free Gem slots to use as you will.
- Culling Strike on 90% of mobs!
- Resolute Technique.
- Huge AoE modifiers to Sweep, so you are not limited to be in melee range 100% of the time.

So yes, other than activating your Auras and summoning your Golem, you are Leap slamming and right-clicking yourself through maps. You could say it is a perfect build for the more, eh. "lazy" folk like me. (or old.. same thing :P)

Looks good? Not falling over from laughing yet? Ok, let's go more into details then.

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Before you dive in head first:

First things first. You do not need a 6 link (5 link is fine). You do not need a belt, rings and amulet with 45+ Elemental damage on it.

Secondly, I am still leveling this build (only level 81 at the moment of writing), so there is still a lot of improvement to do. Basically, Helm, Rings, Amulet, Armor and Gloves all can be upgraded.
My Gems are around lvl 17/18, with no quality on them so there is still a lot of room for improvement there as well.
Still running around as well with 2x 5 links, instead of a 6 link Oro and a Koam's...

I started this build from scratch in Talisman (SC) and slowly but surely build my way up, so bear with me while I update this build over the next couple of weeks with my progress.

Character in question is _The_Firelord_ here:
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/xchokeholdx/characters


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The Build


Unique items required:

Oro’s Sacrifice.
Any roll will do. But since they are so cheap, get the highest attack speed and fire damage roll available.
Don't get a Legacy one. those have an extra 10% Fire & Phys damage taken!. be careful!

Windscream boots.
Any roll will do. These boots are nice for us since we want the extra curse, the extra elemental damage, and we don't care for movement speed, since we will use Leap slam. A corrupted rare Amulet with +1 curse on it will be a good replacement, in which you are free to use other boots (Rare or unique).

Fireborn Unique Jewel.
We use this to easily boost our Fire damage we get from the Duelist area, taking 2-handed weapon Phys damage nodes there and convert them all into Fire damage within the Fireborn jewel Radius.

Optional unique: Kaom’s Heart Glorious plate. The huge life and extra fire damage will improve this build, but it is not needed, but it will provide you with internet points and huge nerd boner, so why not?

Other items:
Helm.
Your Standard Armor based helm with Life and resists is enough
Gloves:
Your standard Armor based Gloves with life, attack speed and resists is enough
Rings and Amulet:
Life, resists and wherever possible Weapon elemental damage. Attack speed is a nice bonus as well.
Belt:
Armor based life belt with resists and as a bonus Weapon elemental damage.
Armor:
Kaom's heart is the one we should use, but a Carcass Jack or Belly of the beast will do just fine as well. If nothing else, a Rare with life, Armor and resists is ok.

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Skills

Main skill:
4 link: Sweep, multi strike, WED, IAoE.
5 link: sweep, multi strike, WED, IAoE, Faster attacks.
6 link: Sweep, Multi strike, WED, IAoE, Faster attacks, Fire Penetration.

We will swap the IAoE gem with Concetrated effect for bosses whenever possible.
Link this in a 5 or 6 link Oro or 5-6 link armor.

Movement skill:
For our movement skill, we use leap slam, linked with Curse on hit, fortify and Flamability. If you have this in your armor, you might want to use a 5 link with added Fasters attacks. If you use Koam’s Armor, I would use Leap slam, curse on hit, fortify and Flammability in a 4-link boots, helm or gloves.

Auras:
For our Auras, we use Anger and Blasphemy+Warlock’s mark. This leaves us just enough Mana to use Sweep on mana (Warlock's mark will make sure we never run out of mana).

Curses:
You could swap out Flammability with Warlock’s mark, and thus run Flammability on Blasphemy, but I prefer the extra life leech/mana leech over a bit more DPS (if you fail a leap slap or walked into a pack of monsters, and thus not had the effect from leap slam+curse on hit.

Defensive skills:
For defensive purposes, we use the never failing Cwdt+Immortal call+Molten shell+Increased duration. All on lvl 20.
Also, with Fortify on Leapslam, you will have a good uptime on your fortify if you Leapslam enough. Lastly, your sweep Gem has a good % of Knocking back a monster, so you'll get hit less often because a monster is "stuck" in the Knockback animation.

Golem:
A Flame golem goes into a free slot, together with a Conc effect which we switch out with IAoE on bosses.
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Play Style

How do we generate our 5-6 Frenzy and 6-7 Endurance charges?

Oro's Sacrifice will give you a Frenzy charge if your attack Ignites an enemy. With 5 attacks per second and a 39% chance to Ignite (20% from Oro, 5% from Skiltree, 14% from Flammability curse), you will be with max frenzy charges in no time.

Warlock's Mark will make sure that dead monsters provide you with enough Endurance charges to fuel your Regen (0,2 per charge), your defense (4% Phys reduction and 4% increased resists) and your Cast when Damage taken+Immortal Call setup for Seconds worth of immortality multiple times per map, without any manual input at all!

It will take you some getting used to, using leap slam and Sweep+Multistrike together. The triple Sweep animation must be completed for you to be able to use Leap Slam. This takes some practice and could lead to tricky situations where you would want to leap slam away while you are still Sweeping. Stahp! get me out!. Practice makes perfect.

Basically, all you do is jump from pack to pack (try to aim for the middle of the pack to maximize you Sweep AoE, and Sweep until all is dead.

Sweep, together with Curse on hit+Leap slam and Blasphemy+Flammability somehow works very well together. You usually kill whole packs of monsters in one go if you land in the middle.

Sweep, with the inherent Knock back (wont knock monsters back out of range!) also provides you with just enough time and defense to indeed jump right into the middle of packs and wreck havoc!
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Bandits

+40 life in Normal.
+8% Attack speed in Cruel.
+1 Frenzy charge (or Endurance charge if you prefer to be a bit more tanky (HC) in Merciless.

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Flasks

Section to be updated.
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Skilltree and Leveling


I used a double Lifesprig + Bladefall setup on my marauder, simply because it is soo easy to run. You could use double Flame totems, or if you prefer to go Sweep all the way up, run the Tiers of unique swords up to lvl 67, where you can finally equip Oro’s Sacrifice.
While leveling, make a straight run to Resolute Technique (if melee, else leave it for now), and then up into the Templar area, leaving the extra Endurance charges for later on.

I went after that straight to Blood Magic, so I did not ever needed to worry about mana again until I made the switch to Oro’s at lvl 67.

After that into the duelist area, leaving the Fire and elemental damage nodes for later, after the Oro switch.

After the Oro switch, just start filling out your tree wherever you feel your build needs help. Either extra Jewel sockets, extra life or Elemental damage.
Current tree @ level 81:



End tree at level 99:



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DPS, Life and Mana

DPS:
Even though it is very hard to tell you exactly how much DPS this build does with Flammability and Fire Pen gems, here are some screens from my current lvl 81 Marauder.

Sweep with just Anger and Fire golem up:


Sweep with 5 Frenzy charges:


Sweep with 5 Frenzy charges and using Conc effect instead of IAoE.:


Life:
My current Life with normal Rare items with Life rolls.


Mana:
I have 105 Mana left, after Blasphemy & Anger. This is just enough for my 28 Mana cost Sweep to use it 5 time (times 3 Multistrike). Enough to leech the Mana back indefinably.
(to be updated)
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Videos
Sample Gorge run. Not great, but ok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGWqrw7wg8&feature=youtu.be

(Continued in next post)
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Mapping

Map mods that suck for us:

Elemental Reflect (instant death, not even popping Ruby flasks will help you)
Cannot be cursed (that means less DPS for us, and no leaching of mana/life.). You could swap out Fire pen for Blood Magic, but I would just re-roll the map and dont run it.
No life/mana regen (You could run Blood Magic gem instead of Fire pen, but your kill speed will go down a lot)

Currently easily doing Tier 6 and 7 maps, while leveling up to 90.

Individual Map and Tier info. (will be updated with each map I run over time)

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FAQ

Why Marauder?

You can either play this build as a Templar (more DPS), Marauder (more life) or as a Duelist (Balanced between life and DPS). There are not many differences in the starting areas, and only if you play a Templar, you win about 1-2 points. Personal choice, up to you.
I chose a Marauder since I felt that is the only rightful wielder for that awesome sword.

Why do you have Iron Reflexes?

Update: Not Anymore. Just switched to 90% Armor based items (only gloves are hybrid Evasion). Basically, because I do not have yet found/traded up to All Armor gear. So once I finally get there, you'll win back 2 points to go wherever you please. (life, extra armor, or some Attack speed in the Duelist starting area.)
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Changelog


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Thanks for checking out my guide! Please leave questions or concerns in comments.

Reserved for more Beer and Bears!

Hello,

I have been experimenting with Oro's Melee builds this whole league, so maybe I can add to the discussion here.

I have been trying to make the build hardcore viable, and I believe with a scion, you can do that.

My build picks up Vaal Pact, Unwavering Stance and Iron Reflexes. My auras are Grace + Blasphemy Flammability. With this build I get 7 jewel slots but I do not run Fireborn. 174% max life from the tree and 42% from Jewels.

Traveling to the Wrecking Ball notable and also spending 2 point to socket a Fireborn Gem makes the "per node" efficiency even out with other damage nodes on the tree.



+1 Fire resistance from Barbarism, +4 from Purity of fire, and +10 from Ruby Flask, means that as long as you have a flask up, reflect won't bother you. I tested this on Seawitches/Fracture maps.

Grace + IR means that with a Granite of Ironskin and a Jade Flask of Reflexes, you get about 50k armour and scary boss physical damage (double boss kole) can be survivable.

For boss killing I run Vaal Lightning Strike/Multi/Fire Pen/WED. 3 stacks of this (applied in 2 seconds) will kill any boss.

Edit: I run Vitality Void until I got a 6th link. Then I socketed LL and put those points into Celestial punishment.