OU Ariakas
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Man, I think the combination of the map tree and no more map regions/conquerors is going to pull me back in. It helps that the league mechanic is easily skippable.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Path of Exile
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They constantly nerfed golems but pretty sure Carrion and Stone golems are still a thing. Ele golems are kinda dead, they nerfed them a bunch and then they removed EE too. I think there's some unique chest you can use to ignore resists entirely which would make them ok but that has several issues, but phys golems are still fine. Ghazzy had a video last league for carrion
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Zog
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I've played skellies last like 4 leagues and I'm bored of it, it's such a great starter build though...
Cruises through the campaign and the items to get to red maps are like 1c at most even at launch.
I was never able to get skelly mages to do enough damage but that fleshcrafter chest is probably what i was lacking.
Tried for a while starting with fireball and it's just so bad... Those rhoas just absolutely destroy. Obviously if you get through the pain of the campaign it can scale but you'll have to play something else the whole way and even then it's forcing myself to use it.
Bow builds are looking to be meta as fuck though and everything will probably be super expensive.
Bleed glad lacks damage for a starter but ramps up quickly i just wasnt really feeling it. Rupture single target is really damn good though... Still undecided, will keep trying shit until something feels good.
Cruises through the campaign and the items to get to red maps are like 1c at most even at launch.
I was never able to get skelly mages to do enough damage but that fleshcrafter chest is probably what i was lacking.
Tried for a while starting with fireball and it's just so bad... Those rhoas just absolutely destroy. Obviously if you get through the pain of the campaign it can scale but you'll have to play something else the whole way and even then it's forcing myself to use it.
Bow builds are looking to be meta as fuck though and everything will probably be super expensive.
Bleed glad lacks damage for a starter but ramps up quickly i just wasnt really feeling it. Rupture single target is really damn good though... Still undecided, will keep trying shit until something feels good.
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Thought I'd share a couple PoB's I cooked up. I'm not promising anything special. I'm somewhat certain Arc will be initially popular(I have doubts about its endgame viability). But I'm not seeing anything for the best skill ever: Winter Orb. I try to make these as league start friendly as I can. No uniques over 5c after a couple days, except Tabula. No rares with influence affixes unless they make a big difference like hex on hit, in which case other affixes are sacrificed. Rares are 3 T3 affixes unless I needed to stretch to cover stats and resists, in which case, the player decides how to best juggle those.
Comments appreciated. Would especially love feedback on the WOrb PoB. It was really weird that I had to stretch filling in gem slots and I still didn't make it.
Arc Ignite Elementalist. Use this as an easy stepping stone for whatever Elementalist/Witch build you want to pursue. I intend to switch to Maw of Mischief Ignite. Inquisitor can league start this comparably with Rebuke of the Vaal.
Winter Orb Occultist. I thought this was worth sharing because almost all recent WOrb builds on poe.ninja(I haven't seen shit for build guides) have been been paper thin speed clearing. Which is a shame because it's a skill that dips heavily into the "damage the boss while you dodge his shit" aspect that dots take advantage of. Also, in the era of "free" defenses(determination, molten shell, defiance banner), it really seems criminal not to use them. There's a reason most people were expecting armor nerfs.
Winter Orb Occultist. I thought this was worth sharing because almost all recent WOrb builds on poe.ninja(I haven't seen shit for build guides) have been been paper thin speed clearing. Which is a shame because it's a skill that dips heavily into the "damage the boss while you dodge his shit" aspect that dots take advantage of. Also, in the era of "free" defenses(determination, molten shell, defiance banner), it really seems criminal not to use them. There's a reason most people were expecting armor nerfs.
Comments appreciated. Would especially love feedback on the WOrb PoB. It was really weird that I had to stretch filling in gem slots and I still didn't make it.
Xevy
Log Wizard
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I played a Trickster WORB and maybe an Occultist WORBer a few leagues ago after they fell out of fashion. Clears really well for sure, but single target fell off pretty badly. A common way to fix that if you need it (I see you just want a start that's cheap and can get some Atlas progression) but if you find yourself having single target problems, just throw in a CWC with Ice Spear for some extra oomph.
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I last played this 3.14 and my recollection was that it was squishy. But after that, yeah, the single target sucked. I'm not really sure how far I want to take it.
I'm not sure CWC Ice Spear is a damage boost anymore. It's a slight gain in my league starter PoB. Though, I guess I could drop all the AoE stacking. Paying for Ice Spear's mana will be a bitch.
ronne
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I think Winter Orb might actually work now? Projectile frequency while channeling might fix its single target without having to do CWC ice spear memes anymore.
Crackling lance is looking juice as fuck. It was pretty easy to hit 2-3m DPS on it before, and it got gigabuffed as well as benefiting heavily from the new cast speed affix numbers.
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Arbitrary
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Caeden
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Thregin
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Rage vortex is pretty popular i think. It was commonly mentioned for league starters last league and nothing has really changed with the skill since then...
What has changed is that it's unknown how hard red blade banner will be to get because lightous map is removed this league.
Borzak
Silver Baron of the Realm
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Was watching some videos and looking at the build. Might do a low health cyclone. I don't really do end game. Looked different and allowed 8 buffs at once. Something different for me anyway. The one time I played cyclone it wasn't bad but then they nerfed it later. Looking at the PoB, pretty detailed with various options. His videos I have to concentrate since he's Turkish.
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Rage Vortex is peak PoB. Theorycrafting and putting together all the pieces for a build that requires a ton of rage is quite fun. Playing that shitty fucking skill is the exact opposite. It came a few leagues too late as it's one of those builds that absolutely needs OG explodey chest.
ronne
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You can play raider trinity helix using claws and kill Sirus level content with SSF gear basically.
Maybe slightly more annoying to do now with the nerfs to the flat added damage gems so you'd have to put more effort in to rolling a claw
If you're not in SSF then you can buy a fledgling and some sirus gloves with attack crit and +frenzy and mega juice your damage for almost nothing.
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Xevy
Log Wizard
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Claw Spectral Helix has been solid+++ since it's release. The life gain on hit from claws makes you pretty tanky as long as you can take one hit. Clear can be somewhat shitty unless you get a good herald of ice popping going, but it's a very good build and definitely cheap. Can just essence spam some claws or harvest blast them and find some that will last you to endgame very easily until you want some 10ex+ upgrades.
OU Ariakas
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