HCSSF with Shield Bash ONLY: Pt. 1 | Warrior Build Challenge Run | Path of Exile 2

Listen... the ultimate compliment I can give a game is when I spend so much time in it that I start doing stupid challenge runs like this. Path of Exile 2's Abyssal League has easily been the best so far and I very much enjoyed my time with it, but I'm so familiar with how shield Warriors play at this point I wanted to make it feel "difficult" again. Raise Shield was buffed a few updates ago to include a Shield Bash attack after a successful active block, and with the most recent league update they actually allowed almost ALL attacks to be active blocked. The only attacks excluded from this list are "red animation" boss attacks... but from what I encountered during this playthrough, that may not be true. Rules are simple: 1. I cannot use another skill except for Raise Shield (no Skill Gems, no Spirit Gems, no skills granted from weapons, no skills granted by Ascendancies, etc.) 2. No trading. This is obvious from the league I chose but if I had NOT gone SSF, it would be easy to get a strong shield to hit harder with Raise Shield's Shield Bash and I wanted this to be a more unique challenge. Those are the restrictions. Overall the run has definitely felt challenging... torturous at times, but I've also learned a lot about stun threshold and stun buildup from monsters, especially from bosses. It was also tough working around normal mobs and rares getting stunned over and over, at some point I picked up on the Pin 1 support gem and started running that to save time because it was taking FOREVER waiting on mobs to stand back up from being heavy stunned so frequently. Anyways, this run is a pure meme, if this gains enough traction I may start including fully-fledged build links to the run as my character develops but for now I hope you enjoy! 0:00 Intro 2:01 Act 1 Progression & Clearing 8:27 Boss Fights Explanation 9:18 The Bloated Miller 10:52 Beira of the Rotten Pack 11:26 The Devourer 12:32 The Brambleghast 13:28 The Rust King 14:30 The Rotten Druid 15:16 Asinia, The Praetor's Consort 17:04 Draven, The Eternal Praetor 17:56 Lachlann of Endless Lament 19:16 The Crowbell 21:12 The King in the Mist 23:37 The Executioner 25:06 Candlemass, The Living Rite 26:47 Count Geonor & Geonor, The Putrid Wolf 29:00 Outro Twitch:   / lexdtv   Discord:   / discord   Subscribe: https://bit.ly/3vYq3y7 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/heyitslexd.b... Donate if you wanna: https://streamelements.com/lexdtv/tip #pathofexile2 #poe2 #poe2hcssf #pathofexile2playthrough #poe2challenge #pathofexile2challenge #poe2challengerun #pathofexile2builds #pathofexile2guide #pathofexile2gameplay #pathofexile2warrior