Meme Thorns Trickster - Advice needed

Hello friends. I am crap at making builds but reading the patch notes they seem to have made a Thorns build a real possibility.

Monsters by default can no longer evade any reflected damage.

Bramblejack now adds 1000% of melee damage taken reflected to enemy.

Crown of the Pale King now leeches 100% of reflected damage.

Thousand Teeth Teemu now reflects 1000-10000 damage "to attackers on block"

I was heavily leaning the new trickster for Polymath and Heartstopper. To make it a true afker add in Vengeance, Riposte and Reckoning on 6L-4L-4L and maybe some recoup as life supports.

So we have unmissable reflects, insanely strong reflects. The problem I'm looking at is will that potentially perfect 10000 roll shield and counterattacks be enough with capped spell block to take out the casters, and do all bosses in the game even do melee or would this just be a meme mapper?

Thanks for taking the time to read this mess and offer any ideas.
Last bumped on Aug 14, 2022, 12:32:47 PM
it is not a value it can roll on the shield. It is a "it can do between x and x" so you do not have to rely on a good roll. you have to rely on a good hit.

also I am not sure if trickster or glad is better. Since glad is a more block reliant it can give you more max block. though it is located longer away from spell block. but it is technically possible to reach block cap with it.

also also from looking at poe.ninja you can see there are some who run vengeance and riposte with 4 and then make it kind of a 2 5l.
but you also have to consider mana cost of those triggering skills but you could then allocate eldritch battery and then infinite mana almost.
Last edited by glagla00#2319 on Aug 12, 2022, 7:43:14 AM
Do any of the end game bosses melee at all?
I think all that strategy could work better with minions since you can use Necromantic Aegis to give Thousand Teeth Temu to ALL your minions,(Vaal Summon Skeletons can multiply the damage x36 just alone), and Animated Guardian could also use new Bramblejack since you want to be hit as hard as possible(with less/no mitigation) to reflect 1000% of damage taken, and he can easily reach 70k-100k life, more than any character you can build...
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Last edited by crazyjake#2300 on Aug 14, 2022, 1:26:28 PM

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