I’ve been busy with RL, but I finally have some spare time and would like to check out the new league.

Can anyone recommend a build that works well with such a late start? I was thinking about Kinetic Fusillade Ballista Hiero or CoC FRoSS Occultist, but I’m also open to other builds that are fun to play this league and can still do reasonably well in the endgame.

I thought since we've all pretty much finished our builds and started drifting toward other games, it’d be fun to do a league build retrospective.

I played way more builds than I normally do this league, but 3.28 Mirage was such a banger that I just kept going.

Thought we could use a format like this so people can easily copy/paste it:

Build Name

(Mention whether it was your league starter)

PoE Ninja Link:
(Optional mention which week the snapshot is from)

Summary

Short overview of the build and your experience with it.

Good

• What the build excels at
• Fun mechanics
• Strong content matchups
• Scaling potential
• Etc.

Bad

• Weaknesses
• Annoying mechanics
• Expensive progression points
• Pain points
• Etc.

Ratings

• Rate anything you want:
  • Fun
  • League start
  • Bossing
  • Mapping
  • Farming
  • Progression
  • Overall enjoyment
  • Etc.

Repeat for additional builds.

Final Thoughts on 3.28 Mirage

(Optional closing thoughts on the league itself.)

I’ll go first in the comments. Curious to see what everyone ended up playing, and maybe steal some ideas for next league too.

Hi guys, coming back to the league after taking like a month of a break from it. Looking to make another build to blast maps really quickly any recommendations are much appreciated.

I played my own spin of BV minion pact occultist for most of the league, 90 max res Aegis setup, tons of explode, massive aoe. To no ones suprise, pretty awesome, 8 days played 5.6m kills on that character, had a blast. Now I'm looking to play something else to change it up.

Looking to spend something like maybe 200-500 div on it, but 1k+ would be fine too. Is it just charlatan at that point?

Other than that I'm pretty much down for any recommendation, attack, spell, walking simulator, idc. Ideally something that doesn't fall over like paper and deal with beyond without backtracking too much, huge bonus point for ignoring prox bubbles but not too big if it can't. Other than that just fast and insane clear, don't even need that much single target, just enough to kill map bosses without being slowed down.

Happy for any recommendations!

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My context:

My guild is 7 close friends, they are all talented at and passionate about PoE. I'm the "baby" of the group and they are happy to give me currency. Normally around the end of league start weekend, the guild stash is full of currency and I grab 20-30 div and go "shopping" for everything that PoB tells me to get. It's been like this since Exalts were the tink drops.

 

I've never questioned it, the guys are happy to see me happy, and I'm happy to have a really strong character. It's fun to be blasting and doing content. ( And most leagues I do repay what I borrow ... eventually. )

 

My problem:

I think I've been robbing myself of the enjoyment of build progression. Chris Wilson's vision of working to improve one's character. I think it'll be cool to fight for upgrades, to earn them, to have to choose which one to get. I wouldn't even know where to start though.

 

My question:

( This part will be vague as I want to fundamentally understand progression across general builds rather than optimized choices for specific builds )

What gets priority? If you stumble onto a bit of currency after campign, how do you choose what to spend your currency on first? Is it always a 6-link first? Do you buy the Intuitive Leap first for more stuff on the tree or the Empower first for the extra Aura? Do people wait for ilvl86 flasks to drop before rolling them or just settle for unoptimal flasks? If I had limited currency I wouldn't waste it rolling flasks that aren't ilvl86. I wouldn't waste oil anointing my amulet if it wasn't my END-GAME amulet. I suppose there's not point wasting Ichors and Embers either until I've got my END GAME gloves. Does everyone get their main skill to level 20 before buying a level 21 or is it normal to just skip to level 21?

 

Questions questions questions. There are 101 ways to improve your character at any point in the game and despite being a PoE veteran, I have no idea which upgrades are standard and which upgrades are luxury. So what am I supposed to do?

Hey guys, I'm back after doing the Quad tab of Incandescent Invitations

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1tgjrr2/i_ran_a_quad_tab_of_incandescent_invitations/

Build: Dex stacking Spectral Throw Warden.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Val_Ko-2241/Pearl_ELEzaBUZZ

Drops:

Did not loot any uniques for this boss.

All Melding of the Flesh were identified and sold, tracked for however much they were sold.

All League Specifc Astrolabes were re-rolled in Harvest to Sacred Grove. It is worth re-rolling them.

Cost:

Alch'd and Exalted to 6 mods. Re-rolled if had reflect.

Time:

Took closer to 27 seconds on average to do full cycle (Warp to seller HO, buy invitation, warp back to HO, Alch+Exalt/Re-roll, run invitation). But I still put 30 seconds per run for the calculations just to be on the conservative side.

Profit:

TL;DR:

50.53 Divines/hour (not including perfect melding)

53.23 Divines/hour (including perfect melding)

Last full inventory and a half went dry and no Forbidden Flesh dropped which really dropped the profit here. Drop rate was running at 12% before that dry spell.

Dropped a perfect Melding of the Flesh which sold for 13 Div.

If I stayed on course running 12% drop rate for Forbidden Flesh, would have been closer to 70 Divines/hour.

Closing Remarks:

Worth. Will be doing Incandescent Invitations again, but this time I will only be tracking the ones that go 8 mod. Might take a while.

https://preview.redd.it/4y9trr7z4c2h1.png?width=1161&format=png&auto=webp&s=448117445700391788a4d39c59e453b2558c1098

Edit: Looks like I forgot to upload the pic. Woops. Here it is.

I've been curious about this. Have any of the devs given a reason for changing Brutus' location? The patch notes are pretty thin on it:

3.15 > Brutus has taken the time to renovate his arena.

He doesn't even have an arena anymore!

I never thought this was a good change for new players myself, the mid act boss being at the end of a looooong winding hallway, when previously you entered his chambers in a controlled way. Both gameplay and narratively I just find it pretty weak, he's seemingly just hanging out outside his chambers (when he's too large to fit through the door), when a perfectly good room that's his is sitting right there.

*edit - something I just remembered too - he used to summon skeletons from the ceiling that would give flask charges back. Now you can fight him and completely run out without that "add phase" for replenishment. It really makes Brutus' change feel reversed: the current version feels like the beta, and the old version feels more like a Path of Exile encounter.