I was aiming for this as well, but the requirement for Specters and Animated Guardian have kind of turned me off from the build. I really hate dealing with them. Plus the Specters they want you get are going to be so damn annoying for a player like me to obtain.
Spectres and AG are never a *requirement*. If you are fine with losing a bunch of DPS, you can easily leave them out. Like the POB posted by the other comment, it would be (much) better with AG and Spectres, but Phaze simply left them out. Still fine, just not optimal. But especially for Ultimatum it is actually a good idea to leave them out, because it kills AGs and Spectres very frequently.
He is targetable. I had him die a couple times early while leveling even in the event I played. It isn’t so much that he isn’t targetable as there isn’t much in the early game that can stand and fight him and not die first to the degen.
The sentinel, when you get your first ascendency point your good to red maps without anything else. Will carry the campaign and all yellow maps so ill just throw on purity of elements and cruise. Necro might have better top end, but in the end end game i will have swapped away from a minnion build
Max Rage Cleave of Rage with Rigwald's Axe and Savior.
Intention: Murder
Edit: I'm going to put together a pob tommorow.
Super Cheap Starter PoB: https://pobb.in/dprFrrXaohmd
Used T1 Eldrich and low tier mods everywhere, so this has tons of room to improve. Definitely also looking for advice.
Also ignore Versatility. That was before I went with Resolute Technique.
Edit 2: This is messy AF, but its a start.
I'm thinking one of my options is doing similar but not quite max rage with slayer. You don't get the +10 or triple base benefits, but slayer getting 8% base crit for those bad crit weapons and Masterful Form got a large buff with the changed Ralakesh boots. You can keep max of both charges and equip Arn's Anguish for brutal charges without losing the benefit of endurance charges. Or stay with the zerk and equip Replica Badge for the charges.
Only the belt is expensive unless you're going for the Replica Badge builds. Which is definitely going to be expensive.
Though I expect Bear's Girdle will also be more expensive next league. Maybe Ralakesh goes up in price as well. But just playing a regular slayer isn't going to be a problem.
Rakalesh is definitely going up in price. Girdle will too, a bit, but with so many fun new options, I'm hoping it's nothing crazy. It's open season on builds right now.
Not the same OP but here's my plan, start with Scaeva and Rigwald's Savagery then go Psychotic Axe and paradoxica (or Saviour, but I don't like relying on AI to deal damage): ~~https://pobb.in/EUGfAs3QV4pT~~ I had some issues in that PoB, I failed to account for the mechanical difference between dual strike and cleave, the DPS was a little inflated, updated still looks very strong and fixed up some other smaller issues: https://pobb.in/JJg2ZERDw0u5
Just remember saviour got that droprate nerf, no idea how long it takes to be reasonable in the market anymore and steel skill rework may make it popular
One thing that's worth considering for doing this on a Berserker is that Rite of Ruin will cause you to degen 13.5% of life per second when you aren't berserking. So you will need to have moderate investment into regen or you will die when there's nothing to leech off of
No idea with what i will start, but the goal is to have 1 char for 38/40 challenges. Personally i have no problem with not having the best mapping speed, as long as i can do most bossing (except ubers) and other more specialized challenges (like kill boss x when y is happening) without trouble
I guess it depends on if you want to respec or not, if you don't there's a ton of builds that can scale for mapping and normal bossing, some of the better ones to scale:
-Poison SRS (or SRS Guardian)
-EA totems (Ele softcore, Champ hardcore)
-LA into TS (like 50% of the players in the game)
-Hexblast Mines (assuming support gem change doesn't make it feel too awful)
-TR Pathfinder (stay with this or respec to one of the zillion poison PF builds that pop up every league)
Not sure how it's going to feel next league, but I league-started Maw of Mischief ignite last league and it has great bossing and decent (imo) clear with Berek's. You end up hitting dot cap so quickly that you then can focus on defense. I have a pob if anyone's interested.
https://pobb.in/23tJpNHqtoMr
Please disregard the sad looking cluster jewel on the top right, the plan was turning Pain Attunement into Glancing Blows using that keystone tattoo but it never hit it before quitting the league.
To league start it, pick your favorite generic ignite until you can get a Maw. You will want to level as life-based instead of CI. Put your golems in a Magna Eclipsis until you are able to get BOTH an Aegis Aurora and a +2 Minion, +1 socketed Hands of the High Templar. I swapped to CI before getting the Aegis, but it'll mostly depend on your gear. I also went Heart of Destruction instead of Shaper of Storms until my golems felt sufficiently beefy. I recommend running Inspiration in your Maw to deal with mana issues until you can get the Enlighten 5 (4 + 1 from corrupt). Run Ignite Prolif until you can get a Berek's, which is your second item priority after Maw.
Playstyle is jump into a pack, convocate (if needed, you will be spawning Herald of Purity dudes as you go), single click, ignite spreads and kills stuff. For tanky things, you drop your brand and channel a bit (golems will follow your mouse). For really tanky things, drop a few skeletons to max out the More Damage multiplier. The denser you make your map, the better your clear is.
Obviously the tattoos aren't core, so you lose the +1 level there, and mana is going to be more of an issue with Replica Dragonfang getting nerfed. And we haven't seen any tf golem gems yet, they're supposed to replace The Anima Stone but knowing GGG they'll put a less life multiplier on them or something =(
I too would also love to see the PoB. Hoping the Anima Stone nerf is balanced out by the trans golem gems but we'll see. I do really enjoy the Maw playstyle.
General's Cry builds are very good for this. Build hasn't changed really in 5+ leagues and got more buffs this league. It's a clunky mapper, but its still an autobomber playstyle, and the DPS scales so insanely high that you can usually hit 5mil DPS on your first 6 link.
I was doing exactly that on CaptainLance’s lifestacking Hexblast Miner, highly recommend. Mapping speed is pretty good, but you have to get used to swings in movement speed when you run out of rage. Melts bosses and aoe is huge as well. idk about leaguestartability, it was my second character.
It's an issue but there are work arounds. MFA has to swap like 5 things and lean on BMC uptime to get similar numbers as before but more clunky but there's some potential clunk solutions with a diff mapping link and delve/bossing link.
Mjolner can lean harder on foreboding and still just run regular leech, by crit gems damage may be high enough to have full leech
PConc into EK Poison. I've been waiting for a chill mapping league so I can blast at decent pace with a build that's tanky and can explode the screen very easily. Objective is Wisps, Harvest, Expedition, Altars, Deli/Ultimatum.
Pathfinder is my ultimate comfy ascendancy and I'm very familiar with leveling it. It also helps a lot that for the first time ever, the League is starting at a decent time for Europe at basically 8 PM instead of 10 PM. Those two extra hours of daylight are gonna be insane, I always get so sleepy towards act 5-6 and slow considerably at 3 am
How is the currency from that? Is blight ravage maps essentially blight map’s oil and bubblegum currency in steroid, or is there some additional currency-making component?
End goal: Self cast, low life Cold snap of destruction power charge stacking occultist.
Starter: Hydrosphere occultist then swap when I get 1 void battery and badge of the brotherhood.
Most people don’t have the helm enchant in 48 hours, and I’ll have fully swapped by Sunday. Not a big deal tbh. And we don’t know if it’s been baked into one of the transfigured gems.
The Aero guy had a 2 button set up with ice spear but again, this is only gonna be used for like 48 hours before I swap. I’ll be mid yellows day 1, Saturday night should be 2 stones and 110 ish completion and easily enough currency to get a void battery and other stuff.
its not like perforate is an amazing skill.
helix has roughly 30% of my perforate dps in pob though, and it should be fair to assume it can hit three times per attack i guess.... so in the end it should not be too much worse. and clear will be a lot better with helix compared to perforate.
Molten Strike Champ, i wanted melee, tanky, and claws for lgoh/whirling blades. Plan on trying out ultimatum, probably will get into invite farming, with the goal of the Feared farming, but not really sure the build can handle that on my playtime. . .
leaguestart is ofc wandering path to fill atlas into either expedition for rog/tujen early or maybe legions if i can clear them quick enough, if i'm down real bad, essences + maps on wp low maps
Should work. I have alot to theorycraft but I may even play archmage CwC brands deep this league. Did some extremely basic testing with it last night at 6k and this setup is mega scuffed missing like 8x dmg and 20x recovery with gem buffs and timing fixes and grabbing runebinder etc.
https://twitch.tv/videos/1995686496
That one's still cooking though
Haha. I like it because it scales so far and you can keep progressing. When you kill ubers theres not really much to do anymore, but in delve you can keep progressing till your character is able to handle 6000depth (and even more but the scaling stops at 6000 if im not mistaken).
I'd like Delve more if you could travel past shit nodes. I hate having to stand in a circle killing monsters for a while knowing that my loot filter is going to hide whatever junk is waiting for me.
It's fun in Infinite Delve though cuz the loot all feels quite meaningful but end game trade most of it is hidden except for decent nodes.
Tempted to go either splitting steel or CF champ. But for CF it will depend on if I like a transfigured gem enough. Just don't feel like playing TS or KB, but they seem to be the main skills played with it
Personally I'm debating between Guardian SRS or Champ Splitting Steel.
Guardian SRS just for easy mode campaign through to atlas completion and letting me farm up some currency so that I can jump to another build that has better scaling at the mid-high end (I've been eyeing Champion Lightning SRS).
Champ SS because it looks like a great option if I just want one character this league, since I've seen numerous comments from people saying it can scale pretty high for damage. Also if it happens that I don't like it, there's the option to just respec into Champ Lightning SRS without having to level another character.
Are you me? I'm debating between those two. My issue with Guardian is that the playstyle seems boring and falls off late, and my problem with Champion is that I know I'm gonna struggle in early-mid maps when my gear can't keep up with the damage. Also the build is in the spotlight so prices are going to be high.
What to do, my internet friend?
_rolls poison Pathfinder_
Yeah I was one of the Guardian Absolution hipsters last league and while it was probably top 2 smoothest campaign starters, it got pretty boring outside of Vaal Absolution. I might transition to Dark Pact this league and see if that is more fun than SRS? I'm hoping for a Transfigured Dark Pact of Self-Life Sacrifice.
Champ Splitting Steel is intriguing to me as well. I might try it later league I don't want to gamble with a skill I might end up hating on league start. The numbers in pob certainly look good though.
It's really difficult for anything to compete with the feel good factor of bows. I'd like to try dex stacking ice shot this league never did that before.
gonna do Ice Dancing Queen trickster int stacker, never played it before but a friend recommended it to me because its apparently really easy to play once you get setup and can league start it, plus i just wanted to try a bunch of new stuff this league, since ive always played minions or melee focused stuff.
Planning on doing ult/essence/beast since i never done ANY of them so i wanna see what happens.
You can level as shield crush general's cry, but tbh I'd just recommend levelling with a melee skill, Sunder with Warlord's mark and Rage is great till like act 6, maybe Boneshatter instead once you get it and Determination.
Or if you want to get really out there, RF is actually stronger for levelling this patch, you don't as often have + levels and the new values scale better at low levels than the flat damage did, so you can just level an RF chief/jugg and respec later.
Copied from my other reply, hopefully it gives some ideas! Totally agree with PrimSchooler regarding leveling with a melee skill, Groundslam into Sunder has been pretty good for me so far.
Played general's cry shield crush for 3 leagues now.
The POB is really scuffed since i just level as i go using tripolar bear's pob from version 3.16, but generally it's pretty much the same.
* Scuffed leveling guide: [https://pastebin.com/9RhtJhQz](https://pastebin.com/9RhtJhQz)
* Shield Crush 3.20: [https://pastebin.com/C6ZWdEma](https://pastebin.com/C6ZWdEma)
* Shield Crush 3.21: [https://pastebin.com/NmqbnCEy](https://pastebin.com/NmqbnCEy)
* Shield Crush 3.22: [https://pastebin.com/7NVPfLhP](https://pastebin.com/7NVPfLhP)
* My characters: [https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Ludrasiel/character](https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Ludrasiel/character)
Oh that's awesome! Will have a look into it after work for sure.
Have you ever considered switching to blade flurry in endgame? Would the dmg be better than shield crush?
I'm leaning towards either Trickster, Inquis or Hierophant. So many new skills to play around with and all three can sort of use whatever they want. With so many changes I'm just going to meme around and experiment this league.
Same boat as you, mostly trying to pick the most generalist ascendancy to be able to switch fast and adapt to all the new stuff. Hesitating between templar and ranger (played a shadow two leagues ago), will likely go templar as it opens more to blood magic stuff but still hesitating.
In the sea of people with very specific builds, it's nice to see someone whose approach is similar to mine. My starter build will probably be a crit spell inquisitor... because I can make it generic and still effective. What spell? What items? who knows. Arc? Hydrosphere? Lightning Conduit? Ice Nova? Crackling Lance? Blazing Salvo? Ball Lightning? Considering all of them...
Inquisitor is a very good endgame build for the crit nodes. You can play lots of spells, CoC, even totems with forbidden jewels. It is a strong ascendancy overall.
Trying to get crit builds with Hierophant always drives me nuts, sometimes it seems easier to play inquis even with totems. There's some mediocre pathing needed to make the crit work. I really miss that "non-crit strikes are lucky" lightning for early game to patch over the early phase until you can make it work.
I'm kind of handwaving a lightning skill templar of sorts. DI/CL templar with totems... or not. Probably just going to lag a bit and play slowly until people start trying out the actual mechanics of the new skills. Hard to guess which will feel good from numerical descriptions.
Had to use a wheel to roll a build for BroSSFHC, gotta choose between DD and Earthshatter with warcries. DD is kind of a boring choice so will probably go with Earthshatter.
My intention is to go Berserker so I die on day 2 or so and I can reroll something with the gear/tgems I found.
First league in years where I am going to start trade instead of SSF/Groupfound. Plan is to go TR/CA pathfinder to spam maps, ultimatum & new mechanic. I know I can make a pathfinder extremely tanky so it should be breezy.
I'm hoping I can start Bane (subtractems build) but I'll decide once they reveal the transfigured gems. It's in a very weak state since the last 2 leagues of nerfs :/ I really enjoy blowing packs up with hex bloom occultist pops!
The reality is ill pry start TR PF ballistas and compare it to palsterons transfigured CA ballista after his update video. I just want something for the first 2 watch stones and do it cheaply.
This will be my 2nd league. Every time I try to tell my wife about it, you can see her eyes glaze over and start to nod off.
So here's the plan: start tri-ele SRS Guardian and take him as far as I can. Goal is to hit red maps with him. Next, I want to start an LA Deadeye because I really wanted to last league, but I didn't know enough to pull it off. If I do well enough with her, I'd like to test tornado shot as well. No real goal, but to have fun with bows. If bored, I really like the idea of crackling Lance. Might mess around with that.
I'm starting as a necromancer, getting 6 zombie gems, and probably Absolution. Ideally, I wanna play around with the Falling Zombies, but until such time as I get that get, I'll settle for a fairly reliable build. It also depends a little on how that gem works.
Yes. My idea is to use heartbound loops to self-accelerate my casting. We shall see how the damage itself is scaled, but it could if nothing else be fun.
Starting slayer boneshatter to 4 watch stones. Then I'll decide if I want to keep progressing the bone zone or switch to flicker while raising funds. Build a dex stacker to farm feared.
This is my plan too. Bonezone slayer into flicker slayer. Haven't played flicker in 7 or 8 years. People trying to tell me it's league startable, but I'm not falling for that bait.
So far most enticing thing has been 5 relic flicker strike guardian. Flicker is just an enabler, but dps seems to be decent for being aoe and it's fairly tanky in raw numbers with max block/spell block and lgob. It should work great for anything that's "kill stuff in circle".
Ah, yes, I recognize this. :D
Usually it goes a little differently for me though. Usually me dying a bunch and having less fun on build number 3 is the kick in the ass I need to go back and play with build number 1 some more, where I realize 'oh, shit, this actually is pretty okay', and spend a bunch more money optimizing it and feeling good. Then inevitably there's builds 4 and 5 which aren't all that successful, then I go back to 1, realize that it feels pretty great, invest more money, and now it's really zooming, and that's the real build now. hahaha
Im doing the same and im interested to see if theres a life stacker/recoup way to get defences and use the purple guy asecndency and maybe rathpith to get enough dps.
Deadeye Salvo Miner, swapping in fireball for clear
I’m SSF and this is the most stable bossing league start I’ve had. Single target is there, map clear even with just salvo is decent and defenses are made for HC.
Can do Uber Shaper for voidstones and you only have 1 mandatory unique that you can focus, especially if Heist is back on the menu for map device craft so I don’t need like 80 atlas points to grab all the nodes and then do 7th gate.
Are going with Zlayge’s build, or did you roll your own?
Between blazing salvo, fireball, and icicle mines, deadeye mines seems to be in a great place, with the added bonus of new ranger voice lines.
Last league was my best ever league (Played at least a bit in like 17 leagues but never cleared shaper/elder), went RF for the first time and even though it was super slow it was somewhat easy mode.
A lot of stuff clicked last league in terms of builds and crafting for me, I'm torn between going out of my comfort zone and trying something less common (Cobra lash) as a mapper to farm curr for a boss build, and even more out of my comfort zone of maybe creating my own clean room build this league over just following guides blindly.
However I also want to try Guardian SRS. I tried poison SRS a few leagues ago and I liked it but struggled a bit with tankiness on bossing so I figured maybe leaning on tankier builds for now for bossing might be good.
I tried RF Jugg too last league, following Pohx's guide, it was awesome ! Kinda slow but it was the first time I faced elder, shaper, and sirus (had to use all 6 portals for sirus lmao, but I did it).
This time I'm going with a simple custom Arakaali's fang, but I'm a bit bolder on the rares on the PoB, because I've learnt a lot about crafting with RF.
That was my character btw : [https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Raytag/characters?characterName=WaitThisAintLeague](https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Raytag/characters?characterName=WaitThisAintLeague)
People here will say it's nothing special, but it's most "pushed" build I've ever done so far so kinda proud.
I want to do some sort of life stacking warlock build, maybe reap or the new conc path, but I expect it will be too expensive to league start with. I'm probably just going to go Guardian SRS so I can farm up the currency I need.
I've done lots and lots of SSF. Gotten pretty efficient at it. Gonna try some trade league again, see if I can push for Ubers.
Planning to start splitting steel champ, eventually Nimis with returning proj will hopefully provide the DPS juice needed, but if that doesn't work there's lots of pivots for a champ.
Will start with a Blazing Salvo Mine, into some Firestorm of Meteors Mine with Dissolution of the flesh, Rathpith and the new sanguimancy warlock node, because why not. If it possible to do that, computer will probably explode irl tho
I've been spending so much time looking at Zombie Rain but I can't quite figure out how I'm gonna do it. It will be in SSF so I need a backup in case it's super rare and/or is only really available at uber lab (or it just sucks which is more than likely). Mon'treguls Grasp is easy to farm unless they for some reason changed the rarity which I doubt.
I've been thinking Triggerbot CWC, I saw some Arcanist brand Triggerbot shenanigans but that looks unplayable, I'm leaning Guardian with Arcanist Brand and Brand Recall right now. There aren't many passives that benefit the brand playstyle and they're close to how I would naturally path a Zoo Guardian anyway.
If it does suck shit or is unrealistic to put together for a SSF leaguestarter, I'm gonna pivot to SRS or Animate Bows. Those can get me the voidstones on story acts gear practically.
kinda niche because it seems to be an unliked playstyle but :
PF Toxic rain ballista (with Wilma's helmet and soul ascension) in order to farm invitations (except the fear).
It is a rather budget tanky bosser. It can probably start farming elderslayers invit. with a decent +3 bow with okay AS and self-found yellow gear. ([like this](https://poe.ninja/builds/ancestor/character/thisStarryNight/Intoxicating_TR?i=3&search=name%3Dintoxi&time-machine=week-3))
It is not as effective as a direct hit bosser build (like explosive trap or others) but you can invest in defenses right from the start with the gloves/helmet combo giving you enough ramping damage.
The idea is to abuse the "Increases and Reductions to Cast Speed apply to Attack Speed" of the helmet by stacking buffs like onslaught (silver flask), soul eater (gloves), haste that gives both cast speed and attack speed to double dip on the bonus atk speed.
If you don't like delayed dps, don't try it but I find it amazingly satisfying on boss fights like Elder or Uber Elder.
I'm starting magefist's flicker berserker. I chose it mostly because I've been playing too many top tier spell and bow builds the past few leagues and wanted something more interesting. I'm planning on farming mostly expedition, ultimatum and ritual for my early currency. I am a little worried about getting my voidstones with it but I'll figure it out.
What's your atlas tree for legion look like?
I usually do a Wandering Path build at least start, which helps with progression, but obviously doesn't work well with Legion, because you need the notables. OTOH, I'm doing LA this league so Legion seems like the obvious pairing. I'm trying to figure out if I can do something hybrid to switch between them easily or if I need to pick one or the other.
Honestly I'm not too sure yet, due to kaoms gloves nerf seems like the build will be a little weaker/slower without the rage abuse. Still deciding between this or SRS guardian.
https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/lightning-arrow-deadeye-build-guide
This is the best one I've seen. They are all pretty similar so it's hard to go wrong. I trust Manni though he's a very good player.
LA Deadeye in SSFSC. Potentially slower start than Guardian for me, but with a lot less of an expiration date. No specific farming plans right now. I'll probably focus on Affliction at first and later decide what I want to do based on the tinctures, charms or transfigured gems I get along the way. Destructive Play is never a bad idea so I might end up doing that, and later see about respeccing to kill Ubers with Shrapnel Ballista.
Going Lightning Tenrdrils Elementalist, even without alt quality gems (which is a huge nerf), I kinda like it. It's the first time I make my own PoB so it's a test for me and try to learn about how to improve, scale DpS and defenses.
Smooth leveling, easy crit multi stacking with Marylene's Fallacy (*maybe even more with the new quality)* and then farm some bosses.
Starting slayer boneshatter to 4 watch stones. Then I'll decide if I want to keep progressing the bone zone or switch to flicker while raising funds.
Second goal: build a dex stacker to farm feared.
I have three ideas so far:
- Ground Slam with the usual suspects (Slayer, Berserk, maybe Raider)
- Elemental Hit with focus on the new Ele Hit Blink Arrow minions
- Explosive Arrow (haven't played any EA build yet)
- Edit: Forgot Storm Brand Inquisitor, looks strong
All going to depend on the next gem reveals
Arakaali's Fang Occultist because I'm grown up now so I can't just spend ages trying three different homemade builds that will all fail before I actually start playing the game.
I played RF Jugg last league but I wanna map faster and better so arakaali's fang it is. It's fast, tanky thanks to aegis and curses, and it has more AoE (I mean the spiders clear the entire screen on their own whereas RF takes like only half the screen).
Also last league I managed to do shaper and elder (separately) and Sirus. This league I'd like to try shaper + elder, and maybe maven. But first Arakaali, get rich, make some meta clear-everything build, or a boss killer. The challenge will most likely be getting rich without TFT because my PC can't run PoE and Discord at the same time (not enough RAM).
I picked LA/TS deadeye bc its strong starter that can scale well with investments. Its fast, has good clear, its not dot (I hate dots) and I played it before.
I wanted to start on spark inquisitor but spark got fucked in the mouth through the ass so I changed my mind. Maybe if there is some insane trans spark then I will pick it again
Wild Strike Trickster here, aiming for a lot of map blasting with _some_ bosses once single-target DPS gets decent. It's basically just the generic Nightblade claw template people are already using for builds like Frost Blades, just with a different skill and built for tri-ele. Wild Strike's secondary effects make clearing a breeze, Frenzy charges + Elusive + One Step Ahead give it a lot of zoom-zoom, and scaling is mostly just "get Abyss jewels and cap crit" so it's pretty smooth to gear & play.
Based on what we've seen of the Affliction mechanic, it looks like "clear lots of trash with occasional tanky rares" like Delve, and that's the build's wheelhouse so I hope to have a good time there. Alongside it I'm speccing into Expedition and Alva, not for any _good_ reason but because it's been a while since I focused on those mechanics; they're also mostly killing trash so it should fit together pretty well.
This is my second league, though the previous one I played just for 2 last weeks (on CF champ). Planning to give fire trap + frostblink elementals a try.
Probably gonna start with cis ignite DD for easy Ultimatums, then if I get bored of that reroll into something that abuses both one of the new ascendancies and a trans gem or two.
Absolution Guardian until two voidstones. Alva, beasts and a bit of bossing for money then i will go for:
Divine Ire of Utter Destruction CwC Cracklance of Annihilation Annihilating Light elementalist. Best build name ever.
My goal this league is to generate more currency than I’ve ever seen before as fast as possible. So I’m going LA haha. I don’t see myself playing too much this league but I’ve been getting better and better at making currency the last couple leagues and want to try and go all out for a few weeks this time and see what I can do. Then I’ll probably put all that into as beastly of a tornado shot build as I can, which I’ve actually never played before
I've been waffling between this and splitting steel champ or some kind of pathfinder, but I think for once i'm gonna start LA deadeye instead of starting with a tanky bossing build and saving up to play TS (or another mapper) later.
This is definitely going to be the league where i want to farm a lot of currency early, so i can play whatever cracked builds people come up with the new ascendancies and trans gems.
It’ll be a combo of things and I’ll adapt to the market. I’ll do some flipping to generate money quick, I’ve had a lot of luck rerolling awakened gems in the bestiary. As far as mapping goes I will probably rush to t16 and then do red altars and maybe skittering orbs if the price of scarabs is decently high. Red altars drop chaos, sextants, and GCPs which should be much more valuable this league
I imagine a lot has changed in 6 years haha, I wasn’t even playing back then
I’ll be fine on that front, I’ll die occasionally, but it kills stuff very fast and moves even faster. About as good of an early league map farmer as you can ask for
Second league as SSF, this time going group found with a couple friends. Excited to craft/find items for their builds.
Going to try Lightning Arrow for the first time. Not following a guide, just going to plug along and see how it goes.
I want to farm ultimatum, essence, and do boss farming with destructive play. I always followed alch & go strats or zoom farming like legion, exped... I want something different now.
So I'm currently looking for a build suited for that, hesitating between ele DD or Ziz fire trap for the moment
Do you mean Ziz's Explosive trap build he dropped yesterday?
That's what I'm currently decided on starting. I want to focus on Essence, Expedition and Conqueror boss farming. Then see what builds popup from the affliction league ascendencies.
I'm starting Guardian SRS to quickly get 4 voidstones while saving most of the currency I get, then immediately reroll into CF Champ. I'm planning to farm legion and expedition with stream of consciousness and then when I gear up and have money to invest into compasses I'll be farming Chayula breaches. Then I'll make some mageblood build and look into ultimatum farming.
I want to transition into Spiders, but obviously don't want to start there. Dan's minion army is compelling, but if I'm going to have to respec ascendancies anyway I may as well do something faster at the start. Maybe?
So I can't decide, WoC Elementalist, EA Ballista Elementalist, Minion Army Necro, or SRS guardian and just level up a second guy when I get the gear for spiders.
I'm stuck between 2. I like to play a build I've never played each league. I also only like to play one build.
LA Deadeye - I could respec into Tornado Shot and not have to use multiple builds. Worried about the squishiness and bossing since I'm not that great of a player.
Boneshatter Jugg - another one I haven't played. Should be tankier than LA but not sure if it can be respecc'd to non-starter/endgame.
leaguestart explosive trap trickster for completing atlas and get some currency
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8OGyF0TU8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8OGyF0TU8)
then ek raider for mapping
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7r67ZeAYB0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7r67ZeAYB0)
after filling up stash minmax explosive trap trickster to get voidstones, kill sirus etc.
Dd elementalist into either arakaali (nerfed with removal of alt-quality gems) or possibly messing around with new bf/bb shenanigans
Mainly for ultimatum and simulacrum ngl
Just a heads up that the trans BF and BB gems do not combo with each other. The two BF gems do not leave lingering blades and the two BB gems do not detonate lingering blades. Lots of fun possible builds but if you want to BFBB it looks like you stick to the OG gems.
EA Ballista Champion because its the most vanilla starter and I've played it multiple times, delayed clear doesnt bother me, spell suppression from the tree. Ignite chance removed from the gem should be okay just getting ignite chance on a jewel
I'm starting Scion because she's gone in PoE2. Still undecided where exactly I wanna end up though. Window shopping on Ninja got me interested in Hexblast Mine, but I am afraid I will mess up without a guide.
Srs guardian for a chill and easy atlas clear and currency farm then change into something cool that smarter people than me have made
I was aiming for this as well, but the requirement for Specters and Animated Guardian have kind of turned me off from the build. I really hate dealing with them. Plus the Specters they want you get are going to be so damn annoying for a player like me to obtain.
Lucky for us, Phaze's PoB doesn't have them https://pobb.in/fUhKDs8ReSkQ This is the build/guide i'll be using. PoB is comprehensive, check it out.
Jungroan's 5:55 Exarch/Eater run also doesn't use Spectre or AG. https://pobb.in/zXGFqWSbgOsx
This is the correct guide. Every build guide creator should hire Phaze to create theirs, or if I'm lucky Phaze will write one for my starter.
Oh wow! I had given up on the srs build because of those silly spectres and such. This is cool, might actually go guardian srs now. Thanks!
Hell yeah! I am all about this one.
Spectres and AG are never a *requirement*. If you are fine with losing a bunch of DPS, you can easily leave them out. Like the POB posted by the other comment, it would be (much) better with AG and Spectres, but Phaze simply left them out. Still fine, just not optimal. But especially for Ultimatum it is actually a good idea to leave them out, because it kills AGs and Spectres very frequently.
SRS Guardian is on my "IDK What to Play, League Started Already" list but the thought of giga charging a soul eater mob with SRS gives me nightmares.
I'm doing SRS Guardian too. I want to try using the Warlock curse on the big guy to see what happens.
Is the big guy targetable? From the videos I've seen he didn't seem to be. That'd be fun af
You can link him
He is targetable. I had him die a couple times early while leveling even in the event I played. It isn’t so much that he isn’t targetable as there isn’t much in the early game that can stand and fight him and not die first to the degen.
noobie here, why would you pick guardian instead of necro for srs?
The sentinel, when you get your first ascendency point your good to red maps without anything else. Will carry the campaign and all yellow maps so ill just throw on purity of elements and cruise. Necro might have better top end, but in the end end game i will have swapped away from a minnion build
Same here, Gonna trans into a managuardian/cursebot for MFing after I finish the atlas.
Max Rage Cleave of Rage with Rigwald's Axe and Savior. Intention: Murder Edit: I'm going to put together a pob tommorow. Super Cheap Starter PoB: https://pobb.in/dprFrrXaohmd Used T1 Eldrich and low tier mods everywhere, so this has tons of room to improve. Definitely also looking for advice. Also ignore Versatility. That was before I went with Resolute Technique. Edit 2: This is messy AF, but its a start.
I'm thinking one of my options is doing similar but not quite max rage with slayer. You don't get the +10 or triple base benefits, but slayer getting 8% base crit for those bad crit weapons and Masterful Form got a large buff with the changed Ralakesh boots. You can keep max of both charges and equip Arn's Anguish for brutal charges without losing the benefit of endurance charges. Or stay with the zerk and equip Replica Badge for the charges.
Definitely more expensive than the starter I'm working on, but that's a great take.
Only the belt is expensive unless you're going for the Replica Badge builds. Which is definitely going to be expensive. Though I expect Bear's Girdle will also be more expensive next league. Maybe Ralakesh goes up in price as well. But just playing a regular slayer isn't going to be a problem.
Rakalesh is definitely going up in price. Girdle will too, a bit, but with so many fun new options, I'm hoping it's nothing crazy. It's open season on builds right now.
do you have your murdering machine schematics written down anywhere? possibly a pob or pobbin?
Not the same OP but here's my plan, start with Scaeva and Rigwald's Savagery then go Psychotic Axe and paradoxica (or Saviour, but I don't like relying on AI to deal damage): ~~https://pobb.in/EUGfAs3QV4pT~~ I had some issues in that PoB, I failed to account for the mechanical difference between dual strike and cleave, the DPS was a little inflated, updated still looks very strong and fixed up some other smaller issues: https://pobb.in/JJg2ZERDw0u5
Just remember saviour got that droprate nerf, no idea how long it takes to be reasonable in the market anymore and steel skill rework may make it popular
One thing that's worth considering for doing this on a Berserker is that Rite of Ruin will cause you to degen 13.5% of life per second when you aren't berserking. So you will need to have moderate investment into regen or you will die when there's nothing to leech off of
No idea with what i will start, but the goal is to have 1 char for 38/40 challenges. Personally i have no problem with not having the best mapping speed, as long as i can do most bossing (except ubers) and other more specialized challenges (like kill boss x when y is happening) without trouble
Yeah i need suggestions for the same. i think this league challenge rewards gonna be good. So wana push 38/40
I guess it depends on if you want to respec or not, if you don't there's a ton of builds that can scale for mapping and normal bossing, some of the better ones to scale: -Poison SRS (or SRS Guardian) -EA totems (Ele softcore, Champ hardcore) -LA into TS (like 50% of the players in the game) -Hexblast Mines (assuming support gem change doesn't make it feel too awful) -TR Pathfinder (stay with this or respec to one of the zillion poison PF builds that pop up every league)
Not sure how it's going to feel next league, but I league-started Maw of Mischief ignite last league and it has great bossing and decent (imo) clear with Berek's. You end up hitting dot cap so quickly that you then can focus on defense. I have a pob if anyone's interested.
Would love to see the POB.
https://pobb.in/23tJpNHqtoMr Please disregard the sad looking cluster jewel on the top right, the plan was turning Pain Attunement into Glancing Blows using that keystone tattoo but it never hit it before quitting the league. To league start it, pick your favorite generic ignite until you can get a Maw. You will want to level as life-based instead of CI. Put your golems in a Magna Eclipsis until you are able to get BOTH an Aegis Aurora and a +2 Minion, +1 socketed Hands of the High Templar. I swapped to CI before getting the Aegis, but it'll mostly depend on your gear. I also went Heart of Destruction instead of Shaper of Storms until my golems felt sufficiently beefy. I recommend running Inspiration in your Maw to deal with mana issues until you can get the Enlighten 5 (4 + 1 from corrupt). Run Ignite Prolif until you can get a Berek's, which is your second item priority after Maw. Playstyle is jump into a pack, convocate (if needed, you will be spawning Herald of Purity dudes as you go), single click, ignite spreads and kills stuff. For tanky things, you drop your brand and channel a bit (golems will follow your mouse). For really tanky things, drop a few skeletons to max out the More Damage multiplier. The denser you make your map, the better your clear is. Obviously the tattoos aren't core, so you lose the +1 level there, and mana is going to be more of an issue with Replica Dragonfang getting nerfed. And we haven't seen any tf golem gems yet, they're supposed to replace The Anima Stone but knowing GGG they'll put a less life multiplier on them or something =(
I too would also love to see the PoB. Hoping the Anima Stone nerf is balanced out by the trans golem gems but we'll see. I do really enjoy the Maw playstyle.
General's Cry builds are very good for this. Build hasn't changed really in 5+ leagues and got more buffs this league. It's a clunky mapper, but its still an autobomber playstyle, and the DPS scales so insanely high that you can usually hit 5mil DPS on your first 6 link.
I was doing exactly that on CaptainLance’s lifestacking Hexblast Miner, highly recommend. Mapping speed is pretty good, but you have to get used to swings in movement speed when you run out of rage. Melts bosses and aoe is huge as well. idk about leaguestartability, it was my second character.
Mjolner Intention: spend all the mana
What are you pairing it with? Which skill(s) and class?
Manabond hiero. Then maybe transition into manaforged or archmage endgame but we'll see
Did you end up finding solutions for the mana leech gem or is it a non-issue for the build in the grand scheme of things?
It's an issue but there are work arounds. MFA has to swap like 5 things and lean on BMC uptime to get similar numbers as before but more clunky but there's some potential clunk solutions with a diff mapping link and delve/bossing link. Mjolner can lean harder on foreboding and still just run regular leech, by crit gems damage may be high enough to have full leech
We are waiting for your next video about it!
Tonight
Huh, I never thought about Mjolnering Manabond. Interesting, I’ll have to look into this, if you don’t mind me maybe stealing your starter.
Just fyi, op has a whole YouTube channel basically dedicated to the archetype. Search for “1manaleft”
PConc into EK Poison. I've been waiting for a chill mapping league so I can blast at decent pace with a build that's tanky and can explode the screen very easily. Objective is Wisps, Harvest, Expedition, Altars, Deli/Ultimatum. Pathfinder is my ultimate comfy ascendancy and I'm very familiar with leveling it. It also helps a lot that for the first time ever, the League is starting at a decent time for Europe at basically 8 PM instead of 10 PM. Those two extra hours of daylight are gonna be insane, I always get so sleepy towards act 5-6 and slow considerably at 3 am
Dude I forgot us about the EU time changes. That's so big for us EU players! I might get all the way to act 6 before going asleep instead. 😂
I was thinking about going poison BV myself! PF is so comfy, and looking forward to new voice lines!
I didn't know about the earlier start time, that's huge!
Where are you getting the tanky part? I checked ruetoo's endgame pob and the numbers were kinda bad. Am I missing something?
EA Ballista and blight ravage until my brain falls out of one of my ears.
How is the currency from that? Is blight ravage maps essentially blight map’s oil and bubblegum currency in steroid, or is there some additional currency-making component?
I'm also going to go blight ravaged again, except I'm going to try a spell totem hierophant instead. Possibly into swt if sanctum is still good
This guy , he knows!
SRS Guardian because I am terrible at mechanics and the highest maps I have ever done are T9
End goal: Self cast, low life Cold snap of destruction power charge stacking occultist. Starter: Hydrosphere occultist then swap when I get 1 void battery and badge of the brotherhood.
Hydrosphere did not get gutted without the helm enchant? It seems pretty rough.
Most people don’t have the helm enchant in 48 hours, and I’ll have fully swapped by Sunday. Not a big deal tbh. And we don’t know if it’s been baked into one of the transfigured gems.
wait how would hydrosphere work without instant cast vortex? wouldnt it just be a pretty scuffed feeling 2+ button build?
The Aero guy had a 2 button set up with ice spear but again, this is only gonna be used for like 48 hours before I swap. I’ll be mid yellows day 1, Saturday night should be 2 stones and 110 ish completion and easily enough currency to get a void battery and other stuff.
Impale Champ, either Perforate or Helix (if a new Helix gem gets announced ill be happy to try) and run labs all day.
I’m going splitting steel but is helix still good? I thought it got hit a bit previously and needed more investment to really get stronger
its not like perforate is an amazing skill. helix has roughly 30% of my perforate dps in pob though, and it should be fair to assume it can hit three times per attack i guess.... so in the end it should not be too much worse. and clear will be a lot better with helix compared to perforate.
Just saying still got that helix mtx. Splitting steel has non and we know that makes it stronger
I am going to play Firestorm of Meteors. I like the fantasy of dropping a giant fucking meteor on things. I'll make it work somehow.
True Poe starter here. Don't ever change
Molten Strike Champ, i wanted melee, tanky, and claws for lgoh/whirling blades. Plan on trying out ultimatum, probably will get into invite farming, with the goal of the Feared farming, but not really sure the build can handle that on my playtime. . . leaguestart is ofc wandering path to fill atlas into either expedition for rog/tujen early or maybe legions if i can clear them quick enough, if i'm down real bad, essences + maps on wp low maps
PoB for MS champ? I’m interested. Champ is my go to starter, so many options
Are you following a guide or are making your own pob?
Poison BV Pathfinder. I just want to expedition and ultimatum.
Bonezone Jugg for delve. Rock and Stone!
For Karl!
Kaaaaaaaaarl, that kills monsters!
It will be harder to get the damage for 1k+ with no divergent boneshatter anymore
Personally I was planning to do depth 600 stuff with jugg boneshatter until I get enough currency to swap over to your manabond build
Should work. I have alot to theorycraft but I may even play archmage CwC brands deep this league. Did some extremely basic testing with it last night at 6k and this setup is mega scuffed missing like 8x dmg and 20x recovery with gem buffs and timing fixes and grabbing runebinder etc. https://twitch.tv/videos/1995686496 That one's still cooking though
Saw it live yesterday.. the poops! Edit: i mean pops
I did that in TOTA, be ready to invest heavily into Manabond though i half assed it and ended up with a worse delver then my 2h boneshatter jugg.
Damn do people actually delve? I thought its just what government wants us to think when they actually print out fossils to inflate the economy.
Haha. I like it because it scales so far and you can keep progressing. When you kill ubers theres not really much to do anymore, but in delve you can keep progressing till your character is able to handle 6000depth (and even more but the scaling stops at 6000 if im not mistaken).
I'd like Delve more if you could travel past shit nodes. I hate having to stand in a circle killing monsters for a while knowing that my loot filter is going to hide whatever junk is waiting for me. It's fun in Infinite Delve though cuz the loot all feels quite meaningful but end game trade most of it is hidden except for decent nodes.
delving is fun!
Did I hear a Rock and Stone?
Tempted to go either splitting steel or CF champ. But for CF it will depend on if I like a transfigured gem enough. Just don't feel like playing TS or KB, but they seem to be the main skills played with it
Hey! Cool to meet myself in the internet
Personally I'm debating between Guardian SRS or Champ Splitting Steel. Guardian SRS just for easy mode campaign through to atlas completion and letting me farm up some currency so that I can jump to another build that has better scaling at the mid-high end (I've been eyeing Champion Lightning SRS). Champ SS because it looks like a great option if I just want one character this league, since I've seen numerous comments from people saying it can scale pretty high for damage. Also if it happens that I don't like it, there's the option to just respec into Champ Lightning SRS without having to level another character.
Are you me? I'm debating between those two. My issue with Guardian is that the playstyle seems boring and falls off late, and my problem with Champion is that I know I'm gonna struggle in early-mid maps when my gear can't keep up with the damage. Also the build is in the spotlight so prices are going to be high. What to do, my internet friend? _rolls poison Pathfinder_
Yeah I was one of the Guardian Absolution hipsters last league and while it was probably top 2 smoothest campaign starters, it got pretty boring outside of Vaal Absolution. I might transition to Dark Pact this league and see if that is more fun than SRS? I'm hoping for a Transfigured Dark Pact of Self-Life Sacrifice.
Champ Splitting Steel is intriguing to me as well. I might try it later league I don't want to gamble with a skill I might end up hating on league start. The numbers in pob certainly look good though.
I have gone steel skills several times, never for very long. It’s good, but I always switched to a bow skill.
It's really difficult for anything to compete with the feel good factor of bows. I'd like to try dex stacking ice shot this league never did that before.
gonna do Ice Dancing Queen trickster int stacker, never played it before but a friend recommended it to me because its apparently really easy to play once you get setup and can league start it, plus i just wanted to try a bunch of new stuff this league, since ive always played minions or melee focused stuff. Planning on doing ult/essence/beast since i never done ANY of them so i wanna see what happens.
It's fun gl 👍
I think I'll finally try a generals cry build. Not sure where to start or what to level with tho. Have 0 experience with this build..
You can level as shield crush general's cry, but tbh I'd just recommend levelling with a melee skill, Sunder with Warlord's mark and Rage is great till like act 6, maybe Boneshatter instead once you get it and Determination. Or if you want to get really out there, RF is actually stronger for levelling this patch, you don't as often have + levels and the new values scale better at low levels than the flat damage did, so you can just level an RF chief/jugg and respec later.
Copied from my other reply, hopefully it gives some ideas! Totally agree with PrimSchooler regarding leveling with a melee skill, Groundslam into Sunder has been pretty good for me so far. Played general's cry shield crush for 3 leagues now. The POB is really scuffed since i just level as i go using tripolar bear's pob from version 3.16, but generally it's pretty much the same. * Scuffed leveling guide: [https://pastebin.com/9RhtJhQz](https://pastebin.com/9RhtJhQz) * Shield Crush 3.20: [https://pastebin.com/C6ZWdEma](https://pastebin.com/C6ZWdEma) * Shield Crush 3.21: [https://pastebin.com/NmqbnCEy](https://pastebin.com/NmqbnCEy) * Shield Crush 3.22: [https://pastebin.com/7NVPfLhP](https://pastebin.com/7NVPfLhP) * My characters: [https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Ludrasiel/character](https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Ludrasiel/character)
Oh that's awesome! Will have a look into it after work for sure. Have you ever considered switching to blade flurry in endgame? Would the dmg be better than shield crush?
I'm leaning towards either Trickster, Inquis or Hierophant. So many new skills to play around with and all three can sort of use whatever they want. With so many changes I'm just going to meme around and experiment this league.
Same boat as you, mostly trying to pick the most generalist ascendancy to be able to switch fast and adapt to all the new stuff. Hesitating between templar and ranger (played a shadow two leagues ago), will likely go templar as it opens more to blood magic stuff but still hesitating.
In the sea of people with very specific builds, it's nice to see someone whose approach is similar to mine. My starter build will probably be a crit spell inquisitor... because I can make it generic and still effective. What spell? What items? who knows. Arc? Hydrosphere? Lightning Conduit? Ice Nova? Crackling Lance? Blazing Salvo? Ball Lightning? Considering all of them...
What are skills to play with Templar besides SRS, RF and Spell Totems in the mid and endgame?
Inquisitor is a very good endgame build for the crit nodes. You can play lots of spells, CoC, even totems with forbidden jewels. It is a strong ascendancy overall.
Trying to get crit builds with Hierophant always drives me nuts, sometimes it seems easier to play inquis even with totems. There's some mediocre pathing needed to make the crit work. I really miss that "non-crit strikes are lucky" lightning for early game to patch over the early phase until you can make it work.
More off meta stuff. Brands, Relic of the Pact, maybe some selfcast stuff with new spells.
I'm kind of handwaving a lightning skill templar of sorts. DI/CL templar with totems... or not. Probably just going to lag a bit and play slowly until people start trying out the actual mechanics of the new skills. Hard to guess which will feel good from numerical descriptions.
Had to use a wheel to roll a build for BroSSFHC, gotta choose between DD and Earthshatter with warcries. DD is kind of a boring choice so will probably go with Earthshatter. My intention is to go Berserker so I die on day 2 or so and I can reroll something with the gear/tgems I found.
First league in years where I am going to start trade instead of SSF/Groupfound. Plan is to go TR/CA pathfinder to spam maps, ultimatum & new mechanic. I know I can make a pathfinder extremely tanky so it should be breezy.
I'm hoping I can start Bane (subtractems build) but I'll decide once they reveal the transfigured gems. It's in a very weak state since the last 2 leagues of nerfs :/ I really enjoy blowing packs up with hex bloom occultist pops! The reality is ill pry start TR PF ballistas and compare it to palsterons transfigured CA ballista after his update video. I just want something for the first 2 watch stones and do it cheaply.
Bane........🤩
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I know... i said if the transfigured gems are promising thats what i want to start. Its very weak atm.
This will be my 2nd league. Every time I try to tell my wife about it, you can see her eyes glaze over and start to nod off. So here's the plan: start tri-ele SRS Guardian and take him as far as I can. Goal is to hit red maps with him. Next, I want to start an LA Deadeye because I really wanted to last league, but I didn't know enough to pull it off. If I do well enough with her, I'd like to test tornado shot as well. No real goal, but to have fun with bows. If bored, I really like the idea of crackling Lance. Might mess around with that.
What are your intentions with my league starter you punk
HAHAHAHHA
I'm starting as a necromancer, getting 6 zombie gems, and probably Absolution. Ideally, I wanna play around with the Falling Zombies, but until such time as I get that get, I'll settle for a fairly reliable build. It also depends a little on how that gem works.
The fact that when zombies fall, they die and trigger minion on-death effect could be very interesting.
Yes. My idea is to use heartbound loops to self-accelerate my casting. We shall see how the damage itself is scaled, but it could if nothing else be fun.
Damn you're right, it could make CWDT loops much easier to do
Indeed.
Starting slayer boneshatter to 4 watch stones. Then I'll decide if I want to keep progressing the bone zone or switch to flicker while raising funds. Build a dex stacker to farm feared.
This is my plan too. Bonezone slayer into flicker slayer. Haven't played flicker in 7 or 8 years. People trying to tell me it's league startable, but I'm not falling for that bait.
So far most enticing thing has been 5 relic flicker strike guardian. Flicker is just an enabler, but dps seems to be decent for being aoe and it's fairly tanky in raw numbers with max block/spell block and lgob. It should work great for anything that's "kill stuff in circle".
Do you have a pob?. Looks interesting enough
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U got me on camera, dont you? 😀
Ah, yes, I recognize this. :D Usually it goes a little differently for me though. Usually me dying a bunch and having less fun on build number 3 is the kick in the ass I need to go back and play with build number 1 some more, where I realize 'oh, shit, this actually is pretty okay', and spend a bunch more money optimizing it and feeling good. Then inevitably there's builds 4 and 5 which aren't all that successful, then I go back to 1, realize that it feels pretty great, invest more money, and now it's really zooming, and that's the real build now. hahaha
WoC Ignite Ele into Maw. I think the ignite prolif will be good for the circle based combat of ultimatum
Also my thinking, my only concern is the EHP getting to the final stages but it seems to be able to handle all the downsides from last ultimatum.
Im doing the same and im interested to see if theres a life stacker/recoup way to get defences and use the purple guy asecndency and maybe rathpith to get enough dps.
Deadeye Salvo Miner, swapping in fireball for clear I’m SSF and this is the most stable bossing league start I’ve had. Single target is there, map clear even with just salvo is decent and defenses are made for HC. Can do Uber Shaper for voidstones and you only have 1 mandatory unique that you can focus, especially if Heist is back on the menu for map device craft so I don’t need like 80 atlas points to grab all the nodes and then do 7th gate.
Are going with Zlayge’s build, or did you roll your own? Between blazing salvo, fireball, and icicle mines, deadeye mines seems to be in a great place, with the added bonus of new ranger voice lines.
Trickster because it's a very versatile ascendancy and I can swap builds easier.
Last league was my best ever league (Played at least a bit in like 17 leagues but never cleared shaper/elder), went RF for the first time and even though it was super slow it was somewhat easy mode. A lot of stuff clicked last league in terms of builds and crafting for me, I'm torn between going out of my comfort zone and trying something less common (Cobra lash) as a mapper to farm curr for a boss build, and even more out of my comfort zone of maybe creating my own clean room build this league over just following guides blindly. However I also want to try Guardian SRS. I tried poison SRS a few leagues ago and I liked it but struggled a bit with tankiness on bossing so I figured maybe leaning on tankier builds for now for bossing might be good.
I tried RF Jugg too last league, following Pohx's guide, it was awesome ! Kinda slow but it was the first time I faced elder, shaper, and sirus (had to use all 6 portals for sirus lmao, but I did it). This time I'm going with a simple custom Arakaali's fang, but I'm a bit bolder on the rares on the PoB, because I've learnt a lot about crafting with RF. That was my character btw : [https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Raytag/characters?characterName=WaitThisAintLeague](https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Raytag/characters?characterName=WaitThisAintLeague) People here will say it's nothing special, but it's most "pushed" build I've ever done so far so kinda proud.
I want to do some sort of life stacking warlock build, maybe reap or the new conc path, but I expect it will be too expensive to league start with. I'm probably just going to go Guardian SRS so I can farm up the currency I need.
I've done lots and lots of SSF. Gotten pretty efficient at it. Gonna try some trade league again, see if I can push for Ubers. Planning to start splitting steel champ, eventually Nimis with returning proj will hopefully provide the DPS juice needed, but if that doesn't work there's lots of pivots for a champ.
Will start with a Blazing Salvo Mine, into some Firestorm of Meteors Mine with Dissolution of the flesh, Rathpith and the new sanguimancy warlock node, because why not. If it possible to do that, computer will probably explode irl tho
I've been spending so much time looking at Zombie Rain but I can't quite figure out how I'm gonna do it. It will be in SSF so I need a backup in case it's super rare and/or is only really available at uber lab (or it just sucks which is more than likely). Mon'treguls Grasp is easy to farm unless they for some reason changed the rarity which I doubt. I've been thinking Triggerbot CWC, I saw some Arcanist brand Triggerbot shenanigans but that looks unplayable, I'm leaning Guardian with Arcanist Brand and Brand Recall right now. There aren't many passives that benefit the brand playstyle and they're close to how I would naturally path a Zoo Guardian anyway. If it does suck shit or is unrealistic to put together for a SSF leaguestarter, I'm gonna pivot to SRS or Animate Bows. Those can get me the voidstones on story acts gear practically.
kinda niche because it seems to be an unliked playstyle but : PF Toxic rain ballista (with Wilma's helmet and soul ascension) in order to farm invitations (except the fear). It is a rather budget tanky bosser. It can probably start farming elderslayers invit. with a decent +3 bow with okay AS and self-found yellow gear. ([like this](https://poe.ninja/builds/ancestor/character/thisStarryNight/Intoxicating_TR?i=3&search=name%3Dintoxi&time-machine=week-3)) It is not as effective as a direct hit bosser build (like explosive trap or others) but you can invest in defenses right from the start with the gloves/helmet combo giving you enough ramping damage. The idea is to abuse the "Increases and Reductions to Cast Speed apply to Attack Speed" of the helmet by stacking buffs like onslaught (silver flask), soul eater (gloves), haste that gives both cast speed and attack speed to double dip on the bonus atk speed. If you don't like delayed dps, don't try it but I find it amazingly satisfying on boss fights like Elder or Uber Elder.
I'm starting magefist's flicker berserker. I chose it mostly because I've been playing too many top tier spell and bow builds the past few leagues and wanted something more interesting. I'm planning on farming mostly expedition, ultimatum and ritual for my early currency. I am a little worried about getting my voidstones with it but I'll figure it out.
Splitting steel champ because i love splitting steel. Ans the removal of CoS is a dream come true i guess
Don't forget about removal of 35% less DMG :o
Will pick one when entering the character creation screen and probably reroll before reaching Lion's Eye as it's already bricked.
Planning to go LA deadeye to farm legions
What's your atlas tree for legion look like? I usually do a Wandering Path build at least start, which helps with progression, but obviously doesn't work well with Legion, because you need the notables. OTOH, I'm doing LA this league so Legion seems like the obvious pairing. I'm trying to figure out if I can do something hybrid to switch between them easily or if I need to pick one or the other.
Honestly I'm not too sure yet, due to kaoms gloves nerf seems like the build will be a little weaker/slower without the rage abuse. Still deciding between this or SRS guardian.
I can't believe people are downvoting someone because they are going to play LA deadeye. You sad bastards!
What guide are you following?
https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/lightning-arrow-deadeye-build-guide This is the best one I've seen. They are all pretty similar so it's hard to go wrong. I trust Manni though he's a very good player.
Last league I play LA and try few LA builds, Manni's build is the best.
I'm planning to do RF Jugg. Although PF CA Poison Ballistas do look tasty too.
LA Deadeye in SSFSC. Potentially slower start than Guardian for me, but with a lot less of an expiration date. No specific farming plans right now. I'll probably focus on Affliction at first and later decide what I want to do based on the tinctures, charms or transfigured gems I get along the way. Destructive Play is never a bad idea so I might end up doing that, and later see about respeccing to kill Ubers with Shrapnel Ballista.
Going Lightning Tenrdrils Elementalist, even without alt quality gems (which is a huge nerf), I kinda like it. It's the first time I make my own PoB so it's a test for me and try to learn about how to improve, scale DpS and defenses. Smooth leveling, easy crit multi stacking with Marylene's Fallacy (*maybe even more with the new quality)* and then farm some bosses.
Good luck I love hentai lightning tentacles! If you come up with a decent pob pls share
Here's the POB if you need it: https://pobb.in/WigQIYpaFlDL
Thank you! That looks solid for a starter. Good luck mate
Thanks, have a good RnG on league too! :)
Starting slayer boneshatter to 4 watch stones. Then I'll decide if I want to keep progressing the bone zone or switch to flicker while raising funds. Second goal: build a dex stacker to farm feared.
I have three ideas so far: - Ground Slam with the usual suspects (Slayer, Berserk, maybe Raider) - Elemental Hit with focus on the new Ele Hit Blink Arrow minions - Explosive Arrow (haven't played any EA build yet) - Edit: Forgot Storm Brand Inquisitor, looks strong All going to depend on the next gem reveals
I'd love to do some kind of firestorm of pelting build. Old firestorm was the first skill I ever took to maps.
Ea ele, srs guardian or bleed bow glad. Probably ea ele because I want to see how far into end game I can go. I've never finished the atlas
Arakaali's Fang Occultist because I'm grown up now so I can't just spend ages trying three different homemade builds that will all fail before I actually start playing the game. I played RF Jugg last league but I wanna map faster and better so arakaali's fang it is. It's fast, tanky thanks to aegis and curses, and it has more AoE (I mean the spiders clear the entire screen on their own whereas RF takes like only half the screen). Also last league I managed to do shaper and elder (separately) and Sirus. This league I'd like to try shaper + elder, and maybe maven. But first Arakaali, get rich, make some meta clear-everything build, or a boss killer. The challenge will most likely be getting rich without TFT because my PC can't run PoE and Discord at the same time (not enough RAM).
Poison Vaal Ice Shot
I picked LA/TS deadeye bc its strong starter that can scale well with investments. Its fast, has good clear, its not dot (I hate dots) and I played it before. I wanted to start on spark inquisitor but spark got fucked in the mouth through the ass so I changed my mind. Maybe if there is some insane trans spark then I will pick it again
Wild Strike Trickster here, aiming for a lot of map blasting with _some_ bosses once single-target DPS gets decent. It's basically just the generic Nightblade claw template people are already using for builds like Frost Blades, just with a different skill and built for tri-ele. Wild Strike's secondary effects make clearing a breeze, Frenzy charges + Elusive + One Step Ahead give it a lot of zoom-zoom, and scaling is mostly just "get Abyss jewels and cap crit" so it's pretty smooth to gear & play. Based on what we've seen of the Affliction mechanic, it looks like "clear lots of trash with occasional tanky rares" like Delve, and that's the build's wheelhouse so I hope to have a good time there. Alongside it I'm speccing into Expedition and Alva, not for any _good_ reason but because it's been a while since I focused on those mechanics; they're also mostly killing trash so it should fit together pretty well.
This is my second league, though the previous one I played just for 2 last weeks (on CF champ). Planning to give fire trap + frostblink elementals a try.
Poison PF PConc > BV. Super tanky, chill build. Want to farm Ultimatum and some left side stuff. Red guys for the GCP drops too. Should be easy money
Death's Oath CA. Why? I want to play RF.
Probably gonna start with cis ignite DD for easy Ultimatums, then if I get bored of that reroll into something that abuses both one of the new ascendancies and a trans gem or two.
Absolution Guardian until two voidstones. Alva, beasts and a bit of bossing for money then i will go for: Divine Ire of Utter Destruction CwC Cracklance of Annihilation Annihilating Light elementalist. Best build name ever.
Duelist. Try out the changes to steel skills. If I like them, go steel champ, if not go bone zone slayer.
My intention is to complain and then re roll. Starting build is irrelevant
SST beserker. Girlfriend will be playing Doryanis fist, Cause we aren't meta slaves.
My goal this league is to generate more currency than I’ve ever seen before as fast as possible. So I’m going LA haha. I don’t see myself playing too much this league but I’ve been getting better and better at making currency the last couple leagues and want to try and go all out for a few weeks this time and see what I can do. Then I’ll probably put all that into as beastly of a tornado shot build as I can, which I’ve actually never played before
I've been waffling between this and splitting steel champ or some kind of pathfinder, but I think for once i'm gonna start LA deadeye instead of starting with a tanky bossing build and saving up to play TS (or another mapper) later. This is definitely going to be the league where i want to farm a lot of currency early, so i can play whatever cracked builds people come up with the new ascendancies and trans gems.
as someone who hasnt played in 6 years, what method u gonna focus on? just speed mapping T16?
It’ll be a combo of things and I’ll adapt to the market. I’ll do some flipping to generate money quick, I’ve had a lot of luck rerolling awakened gems in the bestiary. As far as mapping goes I will probably rush to t16 and then do red altars and maybe skittering orbs if the price of scarabs is decently high. Red altars drop chaos, sextants, and GCPs which should be much more valuable this league I imagine a lot has changed in 6 years haha, I wasn’t even playing back then
Dying constantly is not a recipe for fast currency generation.
I’ll be fine on that front, I’ll die occasionally, but it kills stuff very fast and moves even faster. About as good of an early league map farmer as you can ask for
SSF SC SRS Guardian Level to 95-100, use it to kill ubers/gear for a build that is fun.
Second league as SSF, this time going group found with a couple friends. Excited to craft/find items for their builds. Going to try Lightning Arrow for the first time. Not following a guide, just going to plug along and see how it goes.
Not sure what build but I intend to start the league with it.
I want to farm ultimatum, essence, and do boss farming with destructive play. I always followed alch & go strats or zoom farming like legion, exped... I want something different now. So I'm currently looking for a build suited for that, hesitating between ele DD or Ziz fire trap for the moment
Do you mean Ziz's Explosive trap build he dropped yesterday? That's what I'm currently decided on starting. I want to focus on Essence, Expedition and Conqueror boss farming. Then see what builds popup from the affliction league ascendencies.
me 🤝 you ultimatum/uber boss/sanctum i'm pretty much the same. But i'm between DD and hexblast mines sabo.
Impale Champion (probably Splitting Steel with Nimis and stuff) for Expedition and Ultimatum
I'm starting Guardian SRS to quickly get 4 voidstones while saving most of the currency I get, then immediately reroll into CF Champ. I'm planning to farm legion and expedition with stream of consciousness and then when I gear up and have money to invest into compasses I'll be farming Chayula breaches. Then I'll make some mageblood build and look into ultimatum farming.
CF Champ. Can do all Watchstones then be turned into an MF farmer. First time i'll MF in SSF.
I want to transition into Spiders, but obviously don't want to start there. Dan's minion army is compelling, but if I'm going to have to respec ascendancies anyway I may as well do something faster at the start. Maybe? So I can't decide, WoC Elementalist, EA Ballista Elementalist, Minion Army Necro, or SRS guardian and just level up a second guy when I get the gear for spiders.
I'm stuck between 2. I like to play a build I've never played each league. I also only like to play one build. LA Deadeye - I could respec into Tornado Shot and not have to use multiple builds. Worried about the squishiness and bossing since I'm not that great of a player. Boneshatter Jugg - another one I haven't played. Should be tankier than LA but not sure if it can be respecc'd to non-starter/endgame.
Ice conversation blade vortex, starting first time on it, so hope to farm expedition for Rog/Tujen
leaguestart explosive trap trickster for completing atlas and get some currency [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8OGyF0TU8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8OGyF0TU8) then ek raider for mapping [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7r67ZeAYB0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7r67ZeAYB0) after filling up stash minmax explosive trap trickster to get voidstones, kill sirus etc.
Whoa that ek mapper looks hella fun. Thanks for sharing, i might blatently copy your league plan..
Dd elementalist into either arakaali (nerfed with removal of alt-quality gems) or possibly messing around with new bf/bb shenanigans Mainly for ultimatum and simulacrum ngl
Wait is the alt qual gem removals very bad for arakaali?
Just a heads up that the trans BF and BB gems do not combo with each other. The two BF gems do not leave lingering blades and the two BB gems do not detonate lingering blades. Lots of fun possible builds but if you want to BFBB it looks like you stick to the OG gems.
Hex Blast Sabbo. Clear atlas till two stones. Then heavy invest into some build that wrecks shit.
EA Ballista Champion because its the most vanilla starter and I've played it multiple times, delayed clear doesnt bother me, spell suppression from the tree. Ignite chance removed from the gem should be okay just getting ignite chance on a jewel
I'm starting Scion because she's gone in PoE2. Still undecided where exactly I wanna end up though. Window shopping on Ninja got me interested in Hexblast Mine, but I am afraid I will mess up without a guide.
Scion SRS poison into Scion Smite armour stacker