Super Budget Mapping Build - Crimson Dance Perfect Agony Gladiator

One day, when I was messing around in standard, I asked myself "What would happen if I were to optimize a build around bleeding damage? After all, poison based builds exist, so why not bleeding?" After fucking around for a bit in Path of Building and respeccing an old character in standard, I got... a surprisingly powerful end result. The build mostly stacks ailment damage, and while it does require some investment to start pushing red maps, but I was able to effortlessly get it to yellow maps in the first week of incursion softcore.

Pros:
-VERY cheap (I spent maybe 15c getting to mapping, and 5 of that was a decent jewel)
-Good single target damage
-Reasonable clear thanks to bleedsplosions
-High Mobility makes kiting easy
-Low hit damage makes reflect maps doable

Cons:
-Impervious maps (Chance to avoid poison/blind/bleed) are a huge drop to your bossing and clear
-Blade Flurry's charging mechanic requires a second to get maximum damage bleed stacks
-A bit on the squishier side
-Requires more serious investment to hit red mapping viable damage

Skill Trees
31 Point starting tree


46 Point Tree


65 Point Tree


93 Point Mapping Tree


Level 91 Path of Building


Level 100 Path of Building


Gear
Pretty much every unique the build uses is dirt cheap. Some of them may be a tad expensive at league start, but they drop very quickly.

Rive

In addition to being a high-DPS weapon, Rive's 2% physical DOT per 10 dexterity means that each one of these will be providing between 70-80% bleeding damage, giving 140-160% bleeding damage when dual wielded.

Kintsugi

Kitsugi is an all-around good choice, though another unique or rare evasion body can easily suffice. The biggest benefit to Kintsugi is the "less damage taken if you haven't been hit recently" mod, which meshes well with the hit-and-run playstyle of the build. This biggest problem with using it (and in fact any pure evasion chest) is that the 6L setup requires 4 red sockets, so colouring can be a bit of a pain

Atziri's Step

Like Kintsugi, Atziri's Step is not pivotal for the build, but provides some nice bonuses in the form of life, evasion, and spell dodge. The only downside to using it and Kitsugi is that they don't synergize as well with the next item...

Blasphemer's Grasp

The major tool to doing endgame mapping with this build, a Vulnerability on hit Blasphemer's Grasp is BiS for this build. A level 12 Vulnerability provides 35% increased physical damage taken and 30% increased Physical DOT taken, combined for a whopping 65% increased Bleeding damage taken. The big difficulty with using these is that in order to stack the ailment damage from the gloves, you'll need to use elder items for as many rare slots as possible, which is not cheap to do while capping resistances. Thankfully, essence crafting makes this much more doable

This is probably the most expensive part of the build, and even then, I only spent around 17c on it.

Miscellaneous rares
These are just here to stack life, damage, and resistances.


Gems
Main Skill:
Blade Flurry/Double Strike-Melee Physical Damage-Chance to Bleed-Maim-Deadly Ailments-Brutality
Double Strike does more damage and has less buildup, but Blade Flurry has better range and coverage. Change between them as needed.

Whirling Blades-Faster Attacks-Culling Strike-Fortify
You get an extreme amount of mobility from this setup, which is very enabling to the high-mobility playstyle.

Vaal Double Strike-Melee Physical Damage-Brutality-Bloodlust
THE BOYS are a great addition to any build

Cast When Damage Taken-Immortal Call-Increased Duration
No reason not to run one of these besides socket colours.

Summon Ice Golem-Minion Life-Minion and Totem Elemental Resistance

Videos
Apex of Sacrifice:
https://youtu.be/kaE2ouimOmQ