Signal shot is best zero budget build.

started this season with flameblast totem
bought a white 5l for 4c and a random dagger for 5c, anything else is selffound during the first 3 days.
can solo farm uberlab and up to t15 maps with it. but it'll give you cancer after 3 days and you'll have to reroll

300e is budget friendly !

Earthquake Slayer or Juggernaut is a great starter build. Self Cast Flameblast is good too since you don't like totems. I'd recommend Elementalist for it the proliferations carry

Flambeblast has such a horrible play style though. Idk how people stand it (see what i did there? STAND it? get it??? )

Srs

Imo, before you start with something, ask yourself, what do you like, then next, tell us this.
Have you played poe before? Or have you any speciel kind of playstyle, from other ARPG games you like?

To be fair, the guy didnt ask what was fun to play. He asked what was good for farming with no funding.

And to be fair, the reason some people don't wanna play, is because they don't like the playstyle of whatever someone suggested

And to be fair, TheAngel is just trying to get a better idea of what the op wants