First Impressions of Path of Exile 3.25 League

Zen's first impression of the 3.25 patch is positive, enjoying the league and finding early success in farming currency and completing maps.

### Path of Exile 3.25 First Impressions and League Start Overview
* 🛡️  Started the league with a Gladiator Spectral Shield Throw build, which performed **better than expected** in early leveling.
* 🏰  Found the new league mechanics in Expedition engaging, with a **good balance of risk and reward**.
* 💰  Made **significant currency gains** on the first day, including a profitable **Divine Orb flip**.
* 🛠️  Shared gear and build progress, highlighting the importance of **shield stats for damage scaling**.
* 🗺️  Focused on farming **Blight and Blight Ravaged maps for currency**, with plans to **tackle end-game content later**.
* 🎮  Enjoyed the league start and is optimistic about its **replayability**, while planning for a **second build**.
* 🔍  Noted some potential issues with the War Attrition buff mechanics, expressing **initial skepticism about its effectiveness**.
* 📊  Achieved **102% Atlas completion**, emphasizing the importance of **specific nodes for the Blight mechanic**.

hi Zen here with my first impressions of 3.25 and yeah I just woke up from a long long session. Um I think it went for 31 hours something that at Le start and it was an absolute blast. So I'm I'm a little tired um coming back online to manage my city and stuff like that but yeah I figured we would just go over everything I did day one and just how I felt about the patch. So first when I logged in I was met with just like a huge notification screen very cool um excited to see what kind of stuff uh I got actually I can just do that while we're doing the video I guess but um it started out with I played Gladiator spectral Shield throw and early leveling was fine it was just like you know Sunder stuff like that and it was a lot more damage than I thought I had done three 24 leveling rounds and I was like oh this is this is rough early but obviously it's getting buffed but uh yeah it was it was fine now o so nice so

easy, uh, and then I switched to Spectral Shield Throw, and I actually like changed the way I ascended from what I had planned because I thought I would need agate really early for it to feel good, but I was like I have so much damage, what if I just go block at Cru lab, uh, and obviously getting rurus violence on the normal up just felt like a delight, so that was nice, and then yeah, I was like I might as well take a Lucky Block as well because I just, I have more damage than I thought, so let's just focus on surviving, and I wasn't sure at this point if the Le mechanic was going to be um Rippy or not, obviously the tornadoes in the Le mechanic can be a little bit deadly, um, so that's something to keep in mind, let's see did any, wow, none of them died overnight, actually a lot of these had like 177% chance to survive, although they are actually not able to complete this m, so I do need better mappers, so they, they're, I mean it

says partially completed. I don't know, man. That sounds a lot like failed them up to me. That sounds a lot like failed them upap to me, and there's like so many of them like they. They must not have a good setup. Either way, I've seen a lot of people saying this is the best thing ever. I like to be a little bit more reserved than that. Um, I would say I have a very good first impression of the league, but I do like to wait and see what kind of L give long longevity the league has because sometimes like what, what if when we finish upgrading the city and stuff that it becomes just not that exciting. But either way, um, very good first impression for me. Really enjoying the league. Uh, I don't think I had enough. No, the wages are out. Um, I did not have wait Trey build to. Oh, yeah, they're, they're not being paid right now. So they might form a union and strike, but um, I think it was 7,000 an hour in wages for, for me. So I'm already quite

far into this and I will have a separate video talking about like tips and tricks for the city and stuff, but uh I'm at rank um nine so yeah really fun. It's um it's not too complicated like you do figure it out pretty fast um and you get like yeah a lot of stuff from it. I've already had like a few divines, the shipments have been pretty fun, the um the fights have been pretty sketchy. They were like very tunky. I don't know how Rippy they are, but um I I had very little damage for it. Obviously I'm playing a build with fairly low single tar damage. One thing I do want to reiterate for people that are following the guide, maybe I didn't make it clear enough in the build guide, but the armor and evation or armor or evation on your Shield is how you scale damage. Um so I've had a few people struggling CU they didn't have a high um defense Shield that your your weapon damage doesn't scale it. So my plan was

to rush up and do blight and blight ravish maps, and that is what I've been doing. Uh, I've already done two blight ravish Maps. I have not failed one so far, and honestly, it's it was quite good. It's been doing really well, and the currency auction house like things are selling, so that's going really well. And then yeah, we got to like go over things and and relist things, but um, pretty happy with how things have been going so far, getting a pretty pretty pretty penny, I guess you can call it good chunk of change, that's what I was going to say. First day I did get a Divine pretty early, and I had a whoop, obviously for this Quil, and um, I saw that there was one for sale for two divines, and I was like can't afford that. When I got a Divine, I messaged the guy, and I was like I'll offer you one, 'cause it's early, right? The economy is like o what's going up, what's going down, that was in my opinion.

crazy of him to say yes to but Ras is now up to seven. Now this is a good, no, this is a bad roll. Actually, it's worse than mine, so I got a really bad roll, one for one Divine um, and then Divine did once and hit this, so that is the uh, the huge W you can get by um buying things early. Now, obviously don't know what the price will end up up because it is fairly common and very farmable through the div card, but I just wanted to get one early because this build doesn't not have good damage, right? That was uh very nice. Other than that and go quickly over my gear, it is very at the moment. I found this pretty early from Blight. They just, you know, do give a decent amount of six things, and then I got pretty lucky with the one green. It cost me 40 Vol orb to get three. I was just going to settle for two, but it kept hitting a crazy amount of blue off colors um, but a usable chest, very bad boots, gloves, and helmet. It's so

weird for me not playing with Essence, and honestly, I'm really regretting it. There's nothing better than having Essence early on. I just the future note to myself, just always have Essence. It's just so good, just so incredibly good, gets me way better gear. Um, my shield is good and not good, 'cause ideally you don't want the life roll there, you do want just armor innovation, but at least those rolls are pretty nice. My amulet is pretty bad, it's actually very bad. I really do need a better ulet. Um, I have a CL sign, haven't got a corruption, and then yeah, just a very mediocre amethyst ring. I can't fit two come signs yet, I haven't got my cluster yet. Whatever glove, pretty decent Runing Hatchet, because I hit the resist, and the resist is quite nice, so very happy with that. Uh, Jewels, I don't have any good ones. I have damage in life, double damage, so I should upgrade that. I do want to Cluster here, um, and yeah, we are a little bit over rest capped. Not

chaos resca um. And when I calculate my damage, at the moment I have 1.1 million. So buses are going pretty slow. I have done eer. I'm going to do exarc today, uh, but obviously the main thing want to farm is blight and bl rubish Maps make a lot of currency. Um, I've been buying Divine orbs. They were 40c when I was buying them. Not quite sure what they are now, uh. I want, let's see, let's say, let's see, as if I was putting up a buy order. Um, they're like 51 at the moment. So not too bad. Um, I'll be putting up some buy orders for that. Can do that now while you're watching. I want Divine orb. I have 52 KS. I have no gold rip. Rip, but either way, I'm very happy with the league. I would say to start with, uh, I hope the replayability is good. Um, very good day one. Everybody seems happy. No crazy bugs, nothing crazy. Rippy. I haven't tried the new boss as much. I did try one.

I was in there for like 2 minutes, but I was like this is stages, and it's going to take a while. And I only 1.1 million. Actually, I think I had 500k when I went in. I did try War attrition. Now I used it on eater, and I'm currently paranoid that I was there for let's say 60 seconds, and I did not feel that I was ending the fight with 60% more damage. So I'm currently paranoid that while it says ever being in your presence that it does reset somehow. That's what it felt like. I could be tinfoil. I could be wrong, but it felt L it was resetting. I just, I have a good idea of what 60% more damage is, right? And it I it did not feel like it, um, other than that. I'm just going to continue farming currency. I have a good second build idea. So I, I don't want to play this for a very long time. I have a good Duo build idea with embu. That's why.

I'm saving up currency, and we're going to make that and a few things, so that'll be secret build. But yeah, I'm excited for that. Um, I did find some crazy things too. I did get a, uh, omen of connection, so I may be using that on this. This is the second best base Hybrid Base. The reason I'm not looking at the best is because, um, that has even more strength than X requirement, and it's quite hard to get the X requirement, and I already have a DEX node, so, and it kind of sucks. I'm definitely tempted to just use full dragon scale if I find one, but I do have okay roll on this already, so we'll, we'll see. I haven't fully decided yet, but um, that might be something. It would be nice to have like a proper test and start going toward suppression, 'cause suppression is going to be quite hard. Um, obviously need these notes, so I'm looking to get a cluster, get rid of this, get this, get the cluster, get higher level, uh, and and make more.

money and then start doing uers with u with a new build. We might start earlier than we thought with other stuff. We have another plan, but um, just really enjoying the start of leite, to be honest. At 102 completion, Atlas-wise, this is what I went for. I have a lot of blight. Blight is so good. What is the node that is so good? It's um, that 20 CH to be openable again. So good, I love it. Yeah, I should probably. I don't know if I would take that, only by blight bosses kind of sketch 'cause like obviously my explosion doesn't work on bosses, but yeah, this is what I've got so far. Um, yeah, I'm enjoying it. I'm having a blast. I'm uh, I'm just going to get back to farming, trying to get a new Shield. Been just, I did, I do have an item level 86 Shield. So obviously I need um, dense fossil, but yeah, I don't. It's been hard to get 6.5. Either way, I hope you guys

enjoyed the video. Thank you guys so much for watching. Let me know your first impressions of the league as well, but sub if you like the video. More importantly, try to die less than I do.

This League is EVEN BETTER THAN EXPECTED! - First Impressions

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The player had a 31-hour session with the new patch and found the early leveling to be surprisingly smooth with more damage than expected.

They made a significant change to their planned ascension path based on the high damage output, focusing on survival and expressing initial concern about the new in-game mechanic.

The player has a very positive first impression of the new league but remains reserved about its long-term appeal and is already enjoying the game.

Discussion of a Video Game and In-Game Progress

The speaker is currently at rank nine in the game and finds it enjoyable and not too complicated.

They emphasize the importance of armor and evasion on the shield for scaling damage in the game.

The speaker has been successful in their in-game activities, such as completing maps and making currency through the auction house.

Regretting the Absence of Essence in Gameplay

The speaker regrets not using Essence in the game, emphasizing its significant impact on acquiring better gear.

They express dissatisfaction with their current amulet and the lack of good jewels, highlighting the need for upgrades.

The speaker is generally happy with the game and its replayability, expressing contentment with the absence of major bugs and the overall positive experience on day one.

Paranoia About Damage Reset and Future Plans

The speaker is concerned that a game mechanic may be resetting, causing them to feel paranoid about their damage output.

They plan to continue farming currency and have ideas for a second build with a secret plan.

They are also considering using a specific item and are tempted to make some changes to their current equipment for better performance.

The Excitement of Starting a New Build in Atlas

The speaker is enjoying the early stages of a new build in Path of Exile, particularly appreciating the power of blight.

They are focused on farming and trying to obtain a new shield, facing challenges in the process.

The speaker encourages viewers to share their first impressions of the league and to subscribe to the video.