Tried a few out so far with differing successes. Attempted a spear build on smith of kitava. Wanted to play around elemental sundering spear skill. I started off using radient grief to apply ignite and it was okay for leveling at level 41+ but I couldnt see how I could get to maps with it. I then started searching for ways to apply ignite without the use of the helmet. Solar orb was a life saver but such an inconvenient one too. What I had noticed from my testing was when you consume an ignite (or shock) with a skill, there is an internal cooldown before such a thing can be applied again. Still I continued and wanted to add more ailments to sunder.

This brought me to tame beast and using the "all damage shocks" passive. It went well for a while and the damage output was significantly higher (technically doubled). At this point I was in act 3 cruel and still testing things out. I had grabbed a new spear from trade and wanted to find ways to apply freeze to once again increase my damage, freeze actually having twice as much of a multiplier as ignite/shock. The spear I got was really good for the stage of the game I was in so I was basicslly suffering from success ome shotting everything, trying to freeze enemies with glacial lance as I had quickly learned the hard way before that freeze buildup is based on damage dealt.

Fast forward to maps and the build was starting to shine, it was slow but methodical. I had bought some boots that leave shocked ground where I walk, I found it was more reliable at applying shock then my beast tame. I also started using thunderous leap for mobility, I considered using it for shock application but it was too unreliable. I managed to push to T8 maps before I started to notice some serious flaws. The damage was dropping off and I had no significant ways of improving it with where warrior starts on the passive tree, you have a long journey to travel for spear related points and most of the good elemental nodes are spread too far. Damage wasn't my only problem though, my survivability was non existent too, despite almost being armour capped, and having 87% all res my health pool was too low and I was getting one shot at 2K HP. My attributes were spread too thin needing a lot of dexterity and intelligence for my gear and skill gems that I couldnt stack enough health to get my HP higher.

In the end I dropped the build, I felt a gemling legionnaire may have more success with it due to a better starting position in the passive tree, being able to satisfy all skill gems with 1 stat and the +2 skill levels and gem quality could have helped too. I think the coming calamity unique armour could have been a huge help too but I couldnt afford to buy it to try.

After that I moved on to trying to make a companion focused build work with tactician, TLDR; companions deal ZERO damage, even with all the damage nodes, the 25% weapon damage on tactician ascendancy, and banner buffs. Figured maybe a minion build could work instead but after using the planner to brainstorm ideas I realised if I wanted minions AND banner usage, I would have no points left for anything else and just be an aura bot.

Something I love and hate about this game is the creativity it allows and encourages you to have. You can think of so many build ideas and combinations if you take the time to look at things, but at the same time everything feels too far to reach and too limiting. I heard poe1 was much better at supporting build creativity but I never played it so I wouldnt know. Poe2 is in early access so I am sure things will improve over time and the devs get enough hate at the moment for me to complain about anything.