Path of Exile 3.25: League Starters Performance Overview

The speaker discusses various Path of Exile builds, addressing their performance, complaints, and recommendations for improvement, emphasizing the need for balanced defense and damage.

### Path of Exile: Echoes of the Atlas - Top Performing Builds Overview
* 📊  The analysis covers popular builds in the current Path of Exile league, including **Lightning Strike Slayer, Arc Mage, Power Siphon Mines**, and more.
* 🔝  Slayer ascendancy is dominant, with various builds like **Lightning Strike** and **Frost Blades** performing well.
* 🌩️  Lightning Strike Slayer is praised for its **clear speed**, but some players find it **squishy** due to its playstyle. Suggestions include adding more **physical damage reduction and armor** for better survivability.
* ⚡  Arc Mage is a strong league starter, but players need to focus on defenses like **suppression and physical damage reduction** to stay safe.
* 🩸  Bleed Gladiator is effective, but some players find Lacerate lacking in high-density maps. Suggestions include switching to **Spectral Shield Throw for better clear**.
* ❄️  Frost Blades Slayer is popular and comfortable to play, with **no major complaints reported**.
* 🏹  Elemental Hit Deadeye is a premier bow build, known for its **screen-clearing power** but requires good positioning and dodging due to its **low defenses**.
* 🔨  Molten Strike Zerker is powerful but slow to ramp up, recommended for players with **good gear and patience**.
* 💥  Power Siphon Mines are strong but some players dislike the playstyle of having to **position the mines manually**.

it's that time of the league where I get to make a free video talking about all the league stars that performed well. I'm not going to lie, it's pretty much almost nearly exactly what I expected. Maybe I would have tiered some builds having higher popularity than others, but it is about where I would expect every one of these to be. I'm just doing this so people can have like a nice idea of maybe another build they want to do or how they're fairing up, or people may be struggling on their build. I'll be giving, you know, a little bit of pointers for some of them, pointing out some common complaints that I've been reading on the Path of Exile build subreddit. I've been seeing in my chat and hearing from my community and just like seeing from, you know, the overall community at large. I've got some examples of all the builds here, right one for each of the ones I'm talking about. So we'll be going through lightning strike, Ark Mage, power siphon.

uh right like the Locust mines Gladiator bleed glad cross blade Slayer Ellie hit Dead Eye molten strike Zenith power siphon mines. I got a two of these just cuz I thought it was funny and then a Slammer. I'll just show my own that was one that I played and I feel like I did a pretty good job. Okay, uh first off though we see the ascendency breakdowns. Uh, pee ninja has like rare gear now. I don't know how much I like this. I guess it's kind of nice just for the options although it does feel kind of silly that like wow 86% of the player base is using R Rings like all of them are right there but yeah it is what it is better option more options are generally better so you know shout out to them. We got Slayer glad Arc Mage I hofen. I just I see hofen as Arc Mage fster jug Dead Eye right like all of this I pretty much expect Berserker is pretty low but that's just

uh compared to jug but when we go into slams Berserker has like a 50% play rate on both of those with jug being like the lowest. So this is mainly just going to be exclusively molten strike of the Zenith Gamers. Uh lots of those dudes or those people leveling that character getting ready for the Bolden strike Xena swap. Then of course we have like you know some of the stinkiest scies like sabure. Uh is in a weird really really weird spot where you don't even play Minds on Sabo anymore. Like you're just play him on trickster assassin assassin some people just like it. I don't know you get to CR and all that there. I I think you do assassin for viper strike of the Mamba builds ascendants always in a weird spot until we start getting into like the end game when you want all those extra passives and that easy access to Jewel sockets whatnot. And then Elementalist of course like being top side of the tree being an Elementalist.

like it's going to be quite the struggle to build some adequate defense on those but let's get into the actual builds. So number one is let lightning strike lightning strike Slayer. All the aseds seem to perform well. I'll just talk about Slayer. Warden seemed like it's going really well for a lot of people, right? You get all the access to all the fun little memes there. You get hor Frost for all the freezing and whatnot. You get a punch of damage. People are doing some tincture stuff, and tinctures are really, really good. I don't have an example up, except on the Gladiator. He's using a tincture. I thought that was really cute and a good idea for extra single target. But for Slayer, the only thing that I've heard is that some people following fb's setup were feeling a little bit squishy, and to them I'd say, like, no crap. And that's not like a slight against fub. That's just how he'll build the build.

and how he'll play the build right. Um, when you're like the Zumi player, you are like of this mindset, and you understand like, I'm playing fast and I'm playing loose. So when I'm in a hairy situation, I'm like spurring around. I'm, you know, like doing intermittent attacks and like bouncing around. Like, it's hard to describe, but uh, when you're playing like these Zumi builds, you have an understanding of what is dangerous, uh, what boss abilities that you need to get out of. A lot of the time, it's like, you know, you're going to attack, stutter, boom, Frost, bling, boom, whirling blade, right? Like, it's going to be a lot of stuff like this on like the map bosses for your progression or while you're clearing Legions. Like, you kind of understand how to move your character to dodge a lot of these deadly abilities, uh, and how to play a fast build like this. And a lot of people just don't have that prerequisite knowledge of just like being an absolute

like spurk on the screen of like constantly moving and constantly dodging, and constantly like, you know, like don't let the whatever hits you. Like, here comes whatever, you're going to have to uh bait the poison little droplet, right? Like, all this stuff like that. But this guy right here, uh, all of that is not to say that you have to play squishy Slayer. I feel like this guy right here did a pretty good job of finding a little bit of a balance. I'd maybe change some things around, um, but whereas a lot of people will just kind of like rely on endurance charge, uh, fortify, and evasion rating, a little bit of physical damage reduction, maybe some fiz shift, uh, goes a really long way. And so what this guy has here, obviously suppression, he's got the melee hit fortify implicit there, so he has fortification, which is really good, and then he's got some physical damage reduction and a little bit of PDR and some armor alongside your endurance charges goes a really, really long way.

right just endurance charges and fortify is probably going to feel lacking for a lot of people so getting that little bit of armor I think he's running to term that might be like a little bit uh a little bit too far. I don't know if I'd even run determ at this point but just like the granite uh getting increased armor somewhere having a granite flask having like good hybrid bases getting PDR on your uh physical damage reduction on your body armor and you could even get some physical damage reduction on a shield too right. He's running the shield here uh but he does have on the shield reduced extra damage from crits which is really nice because I don't think he's going to have any armor masteries for that 30% but he probably will have a crit Mastery and that crit Mastery let's see if he even took it I don't even know. No he has the yeah I mean you got to have the increased effect of not do gments uh I yeah you know if you wanted to be

whatever if he's doing some juicy stuff, making sure he doesn't get one shot. I mean he already hit level 100, so he's totally fine, right? But getting like some reduced extra damage from crits, getting some PDR, getting some Armor. All this goes a really long way, and you could even go as far as getting Fizz shift on your body armor and your helmet. Uh, if he can solve Mana without this reservation, then he can replace that with the eatmon. And if you can get Fortify from something like uh this little wheel here, ramp part, you know it is some extra points, but you know you just give up a little bit of damage, and now you can have another 10 Fizz shift here. Now that might be an area, obviously at 100, he's totally vibing, right? These are just things that you could take and you could add or you know modify onto your build too, but yeah, not like it just goes a really long way to layer it a little bit more, right? Um, but I thought this was a pretty good

example and lightning strike seems to be going real well. It's just like a comfy play style. You get returning projectiles and all of that. You get like a nice claw. You're zooming around, you know, you're just like whirling, blading around. And that's why the taming was so expensive. It's just because everybody's blasting on this. All right, next build, Ark Mage. Arc Mage is a fantastic leag starter and has been going well for a lot of people as soon as they got out of Merk Merk lab prison. Soon as they got out there, I've heard only good things. Some people are having problems with some of their defenses and whatnot, but that's really more of a caring about your gear and capping your suppression. Getting this Fizz shift on your body armor from eater like this is big, you know, this is one of the few sources of easy Fizz shift that you can obtain without having to do stuff like giving up a shield or having a rare.

helmet um getting that goes a long way getting submax res right this guy's he's got Gap suppression. He's got a lot of evasion rating, and he has a really big pool right 4K life, 4K es, and 8.9k Mana. He's got oros that's cool. He's got a light of meaningless right for Max Mana. He's got ailment avoidance. That's another really huge part of having a comfortable uh defense setup is not not getting shocked so you're not taking huge spikes of damage. Not getting ignited so that you have this dot ticking on you all the time. Uh not getting Frozen or chilled so you're not just like standing there, you know, eating extra spells or attacks or whatever it is that is a really big part of it. So uh one cute thing that this guy has aside from this amulet right this amulet is really kind of nuts right he he got suppressed High roll and five Max res High roll and like he just got he got is

crazy. Okay, he got very lucky. I imagine he got this from his own t17 Maps um, but aside from this, this helmet is crazy. I don't know why this is allowed to have the more damage that melee got. It feels a little bit unfair. I feel scammed as a melee man uh, when spellcasters also get to use all of the rage, and especially Arc Mage, as if it already didn't have enough damage. Arc Mage gets to use this helmet and get 30% more spell damage. And I've seen people corrupt these helmets to get lightning damage leeched his life, and so now you can get your leech and 30% more damage in this slot. You know what, it's got some strength on top as well just to make sure that you don't have any problems as a spellcaster equipping any of the gems that you may need, but yeah, the LDR Arc Mage is solid. Just give a little bit of a uh, a care about your gear, and your defenses should go go a really long way. All right.

the next build excuse me hex blast hex blast performing very well a lot of people do this as like a t17 rusher and a uh sanctum Runner. If you look at pee ninja you'll see a lot of people doing this silly little thing here. Uh this is literally just like I just want to go I am maximizing my divs power. I I need move speed and so they just get a bunch of move speed and in Kindle orbit to get even more they do stuff like Restless Ward because they get move speed per frenzy charge they get a lot of frenzy charges and whatnot they get those two Max frenzies off of trickster with all the duration and then they also do stuff like charged mines to get frenzy charge uh generation and then they just run around they're zooming really fast they have a lot of damage pretty easy play style. Uh this guy is doing the uh he's doing more memes right with an anime guardian and specters because he's

probably just blasting sanctum, and you know there's some, I'm sure there's some combo here, right? You're just adding some move speed stuff. There's a few things where it's like grants allies like 10 or 20, you know, they're just, they're just doing it because it's sanctum, and all you got to do is move to the next room quickly. Uh, if you want a more mapping setup, you know, definitely check out an actual build guide for it instead of just PE ninja profiles strictly built for sanctum. You see, he's got like no life, very low ES, he has some evasion rating, not cap suppression, but that's just sanctum, right? When your hex blast throw all your mines, they detonate only when a monster spawns, and so you can have your automation linked to detonate mines, which will just trigger your mines anytime a monster gets in their radius, uh, and so that's like just a really easy play style for sanctum. Uh, definitely would do a different setup, I think like life stacking, I think is what most other

hex blasters would do if you're going to do something like t17. I'm not entirely sure though. Just make sure you uh check out the guys and what not if you actually want to do something other than sanctum. But yeah, hex blast. Who would have thought it's a great build. Okay, bleed Gladiator. This is one that I've heard some complaints about, but mainly the complaints I've heard about are that lacerate of hemorrhage as a clear ability in maps and uh more specifically once you've cleared your Atlas and you're starting to do maps that have a lot of monsters in them, a lot of pack size. You're adding a lot of mechanics uh while you're clearing the atlas. It's probably not too much of a deal at all, right, but it's softcore trade. You're going to do that. You're going to start being able to like buy some scarabs after you do a whatever Strat to afford, you know, some mapping supplies and upgrades. You buy some scarabs. You start juicing stuff.

start getting big juicy packs your maps have a lot of monsters in the last rate from what I've heard some people say uh fell off a little bit more than they would have wanted uh and so for them I would recommend doing the spectral Shield throw setup that seems to have gone really well um just for clear your damage is going to be a lot a lot worse but you get to leverage the new retaliation skill gems to try and fix your damage a little bit and you can go even one step further and this is really just for like tanky rares you know the the one odd tanky rare or the map boss that you just want to kill um but doing a tincture like this seems kind of crazy so you have 144 increased damage with bleeding from weapons that alone is already just pretty nuts uh and then on top of that you have 43 dot multi with melee weapon attacks okay and 35 effect like this is really bananas so this is actually like what is that going to be

this is going to be like 190 increased damage with bleeding, and then another like 50 some OD right, like almost 60 dot multi, like this is insane for a button press. Okay, this is better than War Banner, this is better than like this is better than so many buttons that other people are pressing, and it's temporary because of the mana burn stuff. Actually isn't this guy blood BL magic oh no no no he's not he's not blood magic. I was going to say I don't know how that works with blood magic. I feel like you need the the tinure Mastery, which I I looked and he didn't have one. I scratch that yeah no this is just a great damage button, and combined with like something like crushing Fist and some of the retaliation nodes, you got fist of War, you've got MIM, you know he's using it to MIM as well um and because he doesn't have the bleeding you inflict is aggravated, he's taken the attack hits aggravate any bleeding on target older than 4 seconds, and so he's also got the

he's got another Mastery retaliation. Increased duration of ailment inflicted by retaliation skills so he gets a long bleed. It takes a little bit. 4 seconds is a little bit long. I'll be real, but you know, 4 seconds. If the boss dies pretty much right after you do that, that's totally worth it. I've seen some people use the boots as well for treating enemies as moving if they have an elemental ailment on them. There's some cute little memes you can do with that and Venom puncture someone led me that pob, you know, Jack the ax is just a nice little upgrade, a budget weapon. And then of course he's got like suppress and Fizz shift here combined with some armor, a decent amount of Life. You know, more surprised he could get some fizz shift here as well or he could he could get PDR on his shield and his body armor if he felt like he needed it. He's got more on his helmet there. This guy's probably feeling.

pretty comfortable with some Max res whatever endurance charges he's got, and some big old block and suppress. He's probably feeling real comfy, and I think so, you know, he's level 97. It's probably going to blast on to 100, and it won't be too hard. It's got, you know, ailment immunity too, uh, so it seems like, you know, with stuff like this, all you've really got to do is try to solve your damage now. I, he might be doing the gatha retaliate meme 'cause he's actually got a lot of retaliate skills here, and that is a cute little thing to check out, right? Go check out gatha's retaliation build. He's got like some cute set up on YouTube, and it sounds kind of fun, you know, some retaliation. It's, uh, maybe a little bit more brainon than some people would prefer, but it's got a lot of damage, and it seems like it's pretty comfortable, so go ahead and check that out if you want a little bit different play style but don't want to have to

like you know relevel an entire character. All right, here we've got Frost Blade Slayer. Frost Blade Slayer is the Catman, so you know, I would expect it to be pretty good, and it seems like it is. He's having a blast, a lot of people are having a blast on this. I haven't heard too like any bad things about this. Right, like you know, you get Fortify, you got endurance charges, you got a body armor with some PDR open there, you're going to get suppressed. His shield has Max res. He could have opted for a Hybrid base or an armor base and got some PDR there or get some reduced extra damage from crits, right? Like rare Shields actually do provide a lot of damage mitigation now, so take advantage of that, right? Don't use your rare Shield, you know, don't think of it like a Caster where it's like, I get spell damage and plus one. No, man, you can get Max res, reduced extra damage from crits, and physical damage reduction.

big suppression like Shields are huge now if you care and that's all you need to do to get some defense. You just have to care about your gear. And then uh the only other cute thing right reles whatever um you know expensive plus ARS anguish um you know it's just like a lot of damage but one cute cheap thing uh aside from the Corruptions here is these gloves that give you a chance when you hit to gain ra uh CH well when you gain rage on hit uh to instead gain up to your max rage. This is probably necessary for builds that don't have good rage gen which would be things that aren't using war cries or that don't invest heavily into rage uh loss and all of that stuff or like staving that off the extra second and all that because as soon as you don't hit something for a few seconds your rage depletes at 10 per second which is really fast and if you only have a very small amount of Rage generation then it's going to take you a

really long time to get back to 30 so instead you can get a pair of gloves like this. Eventually corrupted with Max frenzy which pairs perfectly with Slayer for that frenzy and endurance charge node. Uh, it's perfect. And then you know you do like five attacks and you're at Max rage instead of having to do many many many more to reach all the way back up to 30. It's just an instant ramp, you know. It's not a PO option. It's a real life option. Uh, one last thing is this build probably feels a lot tankier than you may expect just because of the plus six M to melee strike range. This can hit from so far away that you are just like striking everything. You don't have to be in any danger. You're just boom boom boom. You're just shooting things. Uh, with all that strike rate and that probably makes this also feel a lot more comfortable alongside all of the other, you know, nice and easy options there. Uh, I forgot to grab a righteous Fire Po and I'm not going to try to.

scrunch through po ninja quick. I just noticed that now uh but righteous Fire. This suffice to say it's a classic. What is there to say? There's not really too many big changes here. It's just been a solid build. It's comfy when my arms break. You know my hands are shot. I've got arthritis and the whole n yards righteous Fire will be there for me to walk through the game with a single button. Maybe one more to play this with my brain. You know it's easy neuralink. I'm just going to move and click to loot. I don't have to do anything else. There's no popping anything. There's no dodging big things. Uh you know it's kind of just scoot scoot scooting through the entire game once it's set up. You know check out pox for of course or is fire uh Ellie hit this is the Premier bow build dis patch. Gosh this was supposed to be a quick video. How is it how am I 20 minutes already Ellie hit Premier bow.

skill of the league shoot stuff it dies if it doesn't die you probably will you know there's good info here okay so don't don't even complain once set up you're just shooting the screen right everything's getting Frozen uh you're blasting stuff this is one another one of those builds uh like how I described before where it's very zoom zoom zoom uh you need to get out of the way of abilities uh even more so on this because deedi doesn't really have good defense options you can cope on a lot of stuff but you're not ever really hitting that point where you're vibing right especially if you're doing some mechanics uh so if you're doing Farms where things are tanky or have big spikes of damage it's going to be pretty rough right um you know if you're doing like a ghosted rogue Exile Farm uh you know one of those guys might have a that shoots like one p at you and it might crit you and then you die uh

especially right like you got only a little bit of evasion rating. If it gets through, you got 3.6k life and a steel skin. Uh, you know you're really just betting on things being frozen. Your evade, it's keeping you alive or them being dead. Uh, I don't know there's not much else to say here. You know it's a bow build. You know it's kill or be killed. Molon strike Zenith see is seeing a lot of play, rape and uh, understandably so. Very powerful build. They got the returning projectile enchant. Those lucky little BW on their sword. Uh, it is a bit of a slow roll though, and that is a complaint that I've been seeing frequently and hearing. Uh, on my stream and on the build Reddit, um, there's some people who will see a build like this here that it's very powerful and then want to swap to it early. That is definitely not the play. You want to make sure that you have like decent gear set up. You know that you're ready for

the swap that you have enough strength for the swap that you have the proper gear, and you're not just like, Well, this sword's good enough, and I can do this, and you know, right? If you're smart about it, you probably could swap, you know, on a budget. Um, but a lot of people are just trying to, like, brute force it because they just want to, you know, be on that build and start making upgrades and whatnot. Um, and that's where you're going to see a little bit of a struggle, but even then, it's not really going to be that bad. You're probably just going to be slow, not as tanky as you want, and all that means is you just have to do some lower level strategies to get some currency and to buy some upgrades. Um, but if you wait, get the proper gear. U, this seems like a great option for those one build a league folks. This is one of those builds that's going to scale really hard, right? It's going to scale slower than your other league starters.

but it's a ramp. It's going to scale really, really hard. It's going to be an absolute monster. And if you keep throwing divines at it, it will just keep getting better. And like I said, yeah, the returning projectile enchant is pretty nuts. That stuff is pretty nuts. But this guy's got a nice little setup. He's probably big chilling right now. Triple L flask. He might be doing some like T17 memes, probably just running through them all. But yeah, Power siphon mines. The only complaint I heard about this build was people just not vibing with the play style. So with this build, the thing is you have to throw your mines a little bit away from yourself, but not so far away from the monster, right? So you got to like line it up a little bit. It didn't sound too bad in my head. It didn't sound too bad from when I was looking at the gameplay, but some people may just want a lot more of a brain-off play style.

something more akin to hex blast, where you put the mine down and it explodes right. Put the mine down and it targets the monster for you, whereas this, you have to position a little bit. And it didn't sound too bad, but it might just not vibe with some people. And you know, it seems like it has, 'cause that's the big complaint. But uh, this build is very powerful. You get a lot of damage, you get a lot of easy access to defenses just being Trickster, being uh Ghost Shroud. You get a ton of evasion rating, you get a bunch of ES, you get a bunch of life. And then you just get some Fizz shift where you can right, this guy's got in THS charges too, you know, Fizz taking his chaos, that's pretty baller. Uh, you know, as long as he's got his chaos for his cat, which he does, right, he just settled on that. Uh, and then you just have the whole game open to you. Um, there's two ways to get ailment immunity, by the way. I just

wanted to point this out. This guy did torment Essence, so avoid shock on his belt. Plus, the abyss Jewel to get avoid shock. And then he did stormr. And the second guy just got 100% chance to suppress. And then just bought an ancestral Vision. Uh, some leagues, these Jewels are much more expensive, right? Ancestral Vision sometimes is like way more expensive than storm shroud. And then other league, storm shroud's way more expensive. So, you know, depending on how cheap these are, you can kind of just choose which one to do. Uh, you can do the torment Essence on boots as well for that shav void, maybe even other slots, but I always just do boter belt, plus an abysal or the implicits. Uh, but yeah, those are two different ways to get ailment immunity. And again, just like you know, Fizz shift endurance charge cap suppression, big HP pools, big evasion rating, and you're probably big chilling as well. Uh, and then last but not least, slams, uh, slams Brown slam and Earth.

shatter saw a 5% play rate combined uh which is pretty DEC you know. It puts it up there with everything else. I don't know where I I think like it was ahead of power siphon below molten strike something like that in the 5% um jug. I would recommend for people so I get a question a lot. You know zerker jugg Orna Slayer uh. I honestly recommend jug or Berserker. Uh jug just to be tanky and because you can always have that option to go to Berserker later if you would like. Uh but Juggernaut seems like it' be a great choice for those who don't mind being on the low end of the damage but being very high on their defense right. And then Berserker is the exact opposite so Berserker gets a lot of its damage and its attack speed for free but then you have to work on your defense with your gear right. So your upgrades are just Shoring the weakness of whichever other one that you chose and I think

zerker is probably the best choice. I'm going to stop saying probably. It is okay. Zerker is the best choice for SE trade because you can get comfortable enough with your defenses as you upgrade your character. You can get a ton of attack speed from your rage, and you also get double exert, which means you're not instantly chugging through your intimidating cries, and then being left with none of that double damage, and then all your other exerts too get chugged through really quickly. And I feel like they almost should an SE trade because you don't want to be playing like a low attack rate slam, and it's suboptimal on your damage, right, 'cause you're going to chug through some exerts or whatever if you are just sitting there boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, right. Um, but man, it just feels so much better to have a lot of attack speed on your leap slam, on your whatever, and so a lot of what I did on the character was shoring up the weaknesses and trying to

make it feel a lot more comfortable and so one of the ways that I did that was getting things uh we'll start with the attack speed um getting some attack speed nodes. Now I dropped these at this point of the build cuz I was feeling fine enough with my new axe base uh but these attack speed nodes feel really really nice uh these leech nodes feel pretty good and you can get some like 25 uh Max recovery. You could get 25 recoup here. This is what I did to solve early Echoes uh you know just not feeling too good uh you get like that recoup when your leech is filled and then you get some attack speed there uh these ax nodes are really nice for more attack speed and then just like making sure that you have the rage Mastery uh that gives you rage instantly so if you are using berserk on automate or anything like that then your rage comes back very very quickly because of all of your auto exerts. Another thing for comfy is charge duration endurance charge on.

kill and one last thing for your links is close combat to give you that 20% more attack speed for leaf slam and not using melee physical and pulverize. Pulverize gives 15 less melee physical gives 10 less. If you use these, it does make you very slow, but I mean come on, I you know, a pulverize. I was comfortable enough using it. It has a bunch of AOE, you know, it feels really, really good. And then you, you definitely, you shouldn't be using fist of War. I was doing that for a little bit just 'cause I like seeing the guy and then I get a huge slam or whatever. But you are attacking so much and so quickly that fist of war is like not really giving you too much damage. It is kind of nice like when you get it on the boss or whatever, you just boom. Um, but once you're in the map blasting setup, you know, you definitely probably don't need to do that. One more thing, you know, physical mitigation. I picked up a light of the meaning.

this was May you know this was probably a little bit excessive, but I kind of just wanted to be a lot more comfortable. So, I scooped this up. Here, let me get rid of the notepad here so we can see everything. Uh, I scooped this up so I'm at like 46k armor. Uh, boom, I'm at 62, you know, with my granite up, which I rolled with gain three Chargers. So, if I'm getting hit, I've got my armor, and I've got a lot of it. So, 60k Armor Plus my endurance charges plus some physical damage reduction and Fizz shift on my body armor, this is where I felt very, very nice and comfy, especially even with the echo damage. And then I have like some new armor bases too, right, obviously getting a lot of armor there. And so, we have a lot of physical mitigation, we've got some Max res. And if I'm doing like juicy content, I do, I do like a triple Ellie flask setup, and I'll Respec over to extra Max res and all.

that as well. I'll swap like one of my rare jewels that has Max res out. Um, so you get a lot of Max res if you need it. You get a lot of armor and physical damage mitigation if you need it. Uh, we need avoidance, so a little bit of evasion rating here on a jade flask, right? Going from zero evade raid, uh, rating to or evade chance to 27 is huge. That's ginormous, okay? Taking every hit to taking one in four hits is a very large difference. Uh, so something like that is very good. But more than that, we need extra recovery. And so that's where stuff like taking this life regen and so that I have 800 life regen 'cause this is going to Deen me, right? So this is already taking away like 400 life regen. So getting 800 life regen here feels really, really nice. And more than that, getting some over Leach from an immortal ambition here. Uh, and if you're going to put this in this socket, make sure you

get like armor and PDR on this here and you still would take this for the chance to ignore physical damage reduction right. You still want that Mastery because we don't have access to double cluster, so you know you get it from your large cluster, you get it from the Mastery. If you don't have this or if you don't have the large cluster, then you just like take it right. You got this and this is how you ignore all physical damage reduction on Monsters. And then I get over Leach, and then I get another 70% extra leech right here. And so I've got a ton, a ton, a ton of leech, and that feels really nice, 'cause then I have 2,200 of my life and 800 life regen. So I've got around 3K total life recovery per second, right. So more than half of my entire HP pool per second recovering. This is where I felt very comfortable doing a lot of stuff, and I was vibing. I was just chilling.

really nice. I definitely recommend getting some over Leech. Uh, I don't know if I do petrified blood, you know, for the over Leech. It feels like I'd have to give up, you know, rally and cry, herald the Purity stuff, or, you know, do whatever. And now I'm even weaker to dots, which is something that you're already going to struggle against. Uh, and so just getting this stuff and not having to deal with any of that, that was easy enough for me, and it wasn't too many points, and it sure as hell made the build feel a lot more comfortable. Anyways, hopefully this helps you kind of run through some random builds, other league starters, and whatnot you might want to play or swap into, or maybe give you some ideas on how to fix some of the problems that you have. Anyways, I'm playing a new build, Eternal Apple Slammer, on stream, doing some Anarchy stuff with some ghosted Bros, and killing some goats. I'll see you guys there, all right. Like, Subs. I'll see

Were They Any Good? - 3.25 Meta League Starters Tips + Overview

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Performance Review of Path of Exile Builds

Many popular builds were performing as expected, with some minor variations in gear and play rates.

The Lightning Strike Slayer build received positive feedback for its performance, but some players experienced squishiness when following certain setups, highlighting the need for a deep understanding of the build's playstyle.

The Path of Exile community showed diverse preferences in build choices, with specific focus on play rates and performance of different ascendencies.

Tips for Balancing Defense and Offense in a Game Build

Finding a balance between squishy and strong is important in this game.

The key is to not rely solely on endurance charges and fortify, but to also incorporate physical damage reduction and armor.

Additionally, obtaining Fizz shift, reduced extra damage from crits, and fortify can greatly improve your defense.

A comfortable defense setup should also include ailment avoidance to prevent shock, ignition, freezing, and chilling, in order to avoid sudden spikes of damage.

Controversial Helmet and Popular Builds in Path of Exile

A powerful helmet in Path of Exile is causing controversy due to its impact on melee damage, while benefiting spellcasters like the Arc Mage.

The Hex Blast build is gaining popularity for its fast-paced and high-damage playstyle, especially for Sanctum running, but may require adjustments for other types of mapping.

The Bleed Gladiator build has faced criticism for its lacerate ability falling short in high-density maps, leading some players to switch to the Spectral Shield Throw for better clear, and leveraging retaliation skill gems for improved damage.

Analysis of a Powerful Damage-Inflicting Build in the Game

A player discusses a powerful button press skill that inflicts high damage, especially when combined with other nodes and skills for increased duration of ailments.

The player also mentions the use of specific gear and defensive strategies to ensure comfort and survivability, highlighting the importance of certain unique gloves for rage generation.

A Frost Blade Slayer build is recommended for its effectiveness in providing fortification, endurance charges, and high damage mitigation through strategic gear choices, with a special emphasis on the importance of rare shields for defense.

The use of specific gloves for rage generation is also advised for builds lacking in rage generation.

Efficient Bow Build for Quick and Powerful Attacks

This bow build offers a quick ramp-up to Max rage, allowing for instant powerful attacks.

With a significant increase in melee strike range, the build provides a comfortable and safe striking distance.

The build's powerful abilities make it effective for shooting and freezing enemies, but it lacks strong defense options, requiring reliance on evasion and freezing enemies for survival.

The Power Siphon Mines Build in Path of Exile

The Power Siphon Mines build is highly effective, offering a lot of damage and easy access to defenses as a Trickster with high evasion rating, ES, and life.

The build requires a specific play style of positioning the mines, which some players may not enjoy, preferring a more straightforward approach like Hex Blast.

There are two different ways to achieve ailment immunity in the build, depending on the availability and cost of specific jewels in the league.

Additionally, in terms of character recommendations, Juggernaut is suggested for players who prioritize defense, while Berserker is recommended for those focusing on damage and attack speed.

The Benefits of Choosing Zerker for SE Trade

Zerker offers comfortable defenses while upgrading, provides high attack speed and double exert, and allows for comfortable leap slam and attack speed with specific nodes and rage mastery.

Using close combat, pulverize, and avoiding fist of war can enhance the attack speed, while prioritizing physical mitigation with armor and endurance charges for a comfortable gameplay experience.

Tips for Improving Character Resilience in Path of Exile

Maximize your defense by balancing resists, armor, and evasion, while also focusing on life regeneration and leech.

Consider prioritizing physical damage reduction and over leech to enhance your survivability.

Don't underestimate the importance of defense mechanisms, as they can significantly improve your overall comfort and success in the game.