Strength Stacking Juggernaut: League Start Strategy and Challenges

The content creator plans to start the new league with a strength stacking Juggernaut, sharing the journey and challenges in daily video updates.

### Planning a Strength Stacking Juggernaut for the 3.25 Settlers of Cur Expansion League Start
* 🛡️  The content creator outlines a detailed plan for a strength stacking Juggernaut build, emphasizing that it's **not recommended as a league starter** due to its **high item requirements** and **lack of testing**.
* 📈  The build aims to transition into a **wonder strength stacking berserker or chieftain**, requiring around **20-40 divines of investment**, making it **unsuitable for a typical league start**.
* 🎮  The creator plans to approach the league start differently, focusing on the challenge of **figuring things out as they progress** without prior experience with a **strength stacking build** in the early league stages.
* 🛠️  The build progression involves starting as a regular melee character, potentially using **Bone Shatter as a strong starter skill**, and later transitioning to strength stacking with the **Brutus' Lead Sprinkler and Crown of Eyes**.
* 💰  The first major goal is to acquire the **Replica Alberon's Warpath boots**, which are essential for strength stacking, but their price is uncertain at the league start, potentially ranging from **5 to 30 divines**.
* ⚔️  The build then plans to switch to **Infernal Blow as the main skill**, utilizing strength scaling and various unique items to **maximize damage output**.
* 🔮  The creator discusses potential gear upgrades, including the **Iron Fortress** and **Replica Frostbreath**, as well as the use of **Shockwave Support** for additional damage.
* 🏹  The final phase involves transitioning to a wand-based build using Kinetic Blast, which received **significant buffs** in the 3.25 patch, while continuing to **stack strength for damage scaling**.

[Music] Hey guys, and welcome to a new video. Today, I want to present to you guys my plans for the 3.25 Settlers of Cur expansion League start. And yeah, my decision felted on the strength stacking Juggernaut to begin with. And in today's video, I want to go over my plans, my decision-making on how do I want to approach this kind of thing because big, big disclaimer here, I do not recommend playing what I'm playing for league start. There has been no testing made. I cannot even test all of the things because if I would go ahead and put like a solo cell phone strategy, who says I'm going to find the items that I need early on that are like one or two chos on trade. The new rage system doesn't work. The buffed melee skills are not there. You're still forced to play with totems and stuff like that, which would give a complete wrong image because with the banners and stuff, I'm still going to have less damage than in the upcoming

league. So I said, you know what, we're going to do this different this time. Or at least, um, for myself, I'm just going to show you guys what I plan to do, how I'm going to approach things, how do I think, um, that this is going to work out. So that's why it's not like a normal league start of video where you have going to have like PS and those kind of things. As I say again, I do not recommend doing what I'm doing. Main reasons for that is pretty simple. I know it's a very bad thing to do as a content creator, especially as a PoE content creator, that you're making a league start a video and recommend or not recommending your build, which is actually super bad. But I just don't want to lie to you guys. I, I'm, I just, you know, I have transparency and and stuff keystones allocated in real life. I just cannot tell you guys to start this and have a good feeling about it. I think it's going to be great, but I don't want

to have anybody following my leak starter and then realizing it's actually and they going to have a bad experience on the leak start. I'm just going to get myself to endure the pain of early um stat stacking characters and you know you can follow along if you want to. All right you guys have been warned. How do I go at strength stacking as League starter because as we know you cannot stack uh you cannot leak start a strength stacker. There is items you need and without those items strength stacking is completely pointless. You don't get any damage whether flat nor increased damage or anything like that. So the plan is I just want to know what is the build that I want to play and what steps do I have to make to get to this point where I can play it. And realistically what I want to play is a Wonder strength stacking probably berser or chief Tain and this needs quite a bit of investment. I would assume about 20 30 maybe 40 divines so that is not really a

leak stop stter option. This is not something um you can expect out of a league starter right unless you find ways to play something before that to transition into the build that you want to play as soon and as fast as possible without the need of releveling a character. This is going to be my personal Zero to Hero kind of challenge for the upcoming League. I think I'm going to spend a lot of time um doing the league mechanic. At least I hope so because it seems like there's much more to do than just your kill monsters in a circle pick up Loot and that's about it. I think you can do some great stuff there. Maybe some delving. Maybe just do it a different kind of style of leak start that I'm usually doing and just to have like this um experience. Next point is um I feel a lot better for just not knowing what's going to happen. I personally I don't even want to do a leak start test. I want to get into this system um since I have never uh leak.

started a strength Decker. The only strength Deckers that I played in the past were like super high budget original sin one-shot Uber bosses and those kind of things. I've never tested something like this in the early League stages, so I don't have experience on that, but this is the interesting part for me. I want to figure things out once I go forward, once I get my first currency work to invested do the PS just trying to figure out things again, not just replay the same old builds over and over like EK or accuracy stacking or I don't know bleed bow and so on and so forth that I've done in the past. Yes, I did have played strength Decker in the past, but never on a low budget, never as a leak starter, never anything like that good. So what do I need to play my Wonder strength stcker? The easy answer is replica alberon's war path and these boots usually go for this. This could be from five Divine starting until 30 Divine starting price. I have no idea all.

I can do is go to Poe ninja and see okay. We go to Unique armors and we say, Hey, I'm searching for the replica Alberon's War Path. What did they cost last League? And they are about 13 divines or 1,700 chaos at this point. And here you can see the price history. They started like, I don't know, two, three divines, four divines, and like two, three days later, like 10 divines, 15 divines, 20 divines. I cannot um predict the market. I have no idea how much of demand there is going to be. Maybe there's going to be more because I say I'm going to make um strength stackers leak starter and maybe um there's 100 people following me now, right? For strength stacking, there's 100 people more trying to buy the same item early on. And this is a heist item. It's not going to be accessible early on. And if so, then it's a multiple Divine item. But I cannot say if it's five if it's 10.

if it's 15 or even more divines, right so but how do I get to this point, and basically what I plan to do is let me quickly open my Pub. So step number one is you're just going to pick the Marauder as your starting class. Like this what I'm going to do, and I guess I'm going to go with the Juggernaut just as a base defensive ler. Right, so that means the first thing that I'm going to do is just start as any regular melee character, whether it's going to be Sunder, can be bone shedder, can be infernal blow, can be, you know, Lasser, whatever you feel like is M character should be fun or should be fine, should be fine. I personally, I have never played bone shedder, I have no experience playing that. So you know it's going to be a new experience for me as well. I don't even know when it was the last time that I actually started the melee character, but I would go as follow.

if I like, if I'm playing M, which is most likely the case, I'm going to go for a two-handed x style. Probably it's going to be bone cheddar because it is known that it's going to be a strong starter. I think it even got a little bit nerfed or a little bit buffed, but main thing is it definitely didn't get the buffs that other M skills had. So the question is still, how is it going to compare, but as far as I've seen, it should be absolutely no problem. So for the first couple levels, I would go down here, probably pick up the kinetic impacts notes with the Mony for 40% increased damage, and then probably get some early leech. That would be level 12. These would be probably my first points. Then going forward, like we say, like Act Two, maybe Act Three, I'm going to branch out to the heart of the warrior B to fight and two points here. Diamond skin and all rest just because generic all rest is always nice to have especially.

early on when you don't have leveling items, you're going to be started to resistance. You're not going to have Essences or anything like that to craft your early gear. Means um two points for 20% all is very nice to have. Next up, I'm probably going to take Harvester of FO and then probably um get the rage gain on uh with X attacks. This is basically with a new rage changes now with a maximum of three rage uh rage total giving you percent more attack damage, which will be very very nice for this kind of like Melee play style. And then probably from that point, we're now level 22, probably at three or something, I don't know. Then I would probably just go out and and say like okay, I'm going to take a life wheel here and then go for the endurance charge when you're hit. We assume now that I'm either going to play Sunder or I'm either going to play bone shedder. If it's going to be bone shedder, then I definitely want to Branch out to

something like tribal Fury for the extra splash damage, take something like ancestral call for the additional strike target, and so on and so forth. So whether it's going to be um, obviously if I'm not going to pick um, bone shed, or if I'm sticking with thunder just because it feels good and it's nice to play. I mean, as I said, it can be any skill. It could also be lightning strike or anything that just scales of your weapon, then you just keep on crafting those weapons. So now we would be at level 34. This is now the point where I'm like, okay, can we get a Brutus let sprinkler? This is like the first thing, right? And based on the past um, if we take a look at the Brutus lit sprinkler here, it's an item that usually goes from like somewhere one to three chaos, somewhere at this range. I have no idea how massive this is going to be. There's always going to be the case somebody watched my video, somebody found the Brutus let spring plan is like, oh I

know nbx wants to play that let's put it up for five divines do not buy this for five divines okay the market is going to be flooded with those items very soon so you're going to get them very early on for one two maybe three chos and I think based on experience you know when you're like act four Act five you should probably have two three chaos laying around so this is the question the first big question mark when do you get the Brutus Le sprinkler which would be the first item to enable strength stacking based on the adds four to7 fire damage to attacks with this weapon per 10 strength if I don't have the currency for it then I just keep on playing bone shedder playing Sunder playing anything like that you know it's early leveling campaign what could possibly go wrong I don't think a lot right and at this point we're probably also going to the first lap and I think I'm just going to pick undeniable for the additional accuracy the attack speed uh and that

basically makes me not use uh precision or anything for additional accuracy, and I should be fine. Good, we assume now that I had the two, three, four, five chaos to buy the Brutus Le sprinkler. That also means that I need to Respec these two and notes because they are going to be useless since the Brut slet sprinkler is a one-handed Maze. And therefore the 200 noes do not work anymore. You're going to have passive uh regret points from uh playing side quest and stuff, but there is also gold to re your points, so I think recking shouldn't be a big issue early on. So I would would just go right ahead, um, remove all these like X nodes and anything that doesn't work anymore. And I think once Gathering uh, like once getting the Brutus Le sprinkler, I think I'm just going to go with infernal blow because it's a very nice attack skill. It is very good at clearing, and it should be super nice with ancestor call to move on forward. So the next points obviously

since we're now starting to strength stack, I would go for the utmost might, giving us flat strength percent strength with the Mastery with 5% increased strength. And then we basically start our strength stacking journey. There's also some notes somewhere. Um, if this is still a thing, there are clusters somewhere that gives you like fire penetration, increased fire damage with attack skills, uh, and the fire Mastery. So this is definitely something I would pick up as soon as I have the BR SL sprinkler. Just because we're getting a lot of flat fire damage based on our strength. And this is like one quality of life thing that people most likely forget. If you play anything that is like bone shedder or any other skill, you're always based on the weapon. Like in the best case scenario, every three levels, four levels, five levels, you have to craft a new weapon with a vendor recipe or find one or anything like that. As a strength Decker, we are going to get flat damage from our items just based off strength.

in the start, it's going to be like um, the Brutus Le sprinkler. Later on, it's going to be replica alurn war path. That means from that point on, um, I just can use my weapon as a stat stick. And there is multiple weapons that scale with strength, and so I don't have to worry about recreating my weapon over and over. But basically, you're then going to branch out to just take any life notes or maybe endurance charge notes. Um, some extra life here, branch out for, as I said, like these, these like damage, uh, things for fire damage, maybe even um, some maze notes over here, maybe a good maze mastery whatsoever. This is like kind of a question mark, but this is like early campaign stuff. Now we talk about we finished the campaign. We're now level 69, and we are starting to do our first maps. We probably gathered like 10-15 chos at this point. What is the next point, and I would assume that crown of ice is going to be your next purchase because of the

increase increases and reductions to spell damage also applied to attacks at 150% of the value. This is the one thing where strength stacking is very good at, and this is getting tons of spell damage. And now you might think, what do you need spell damage for in a tag-based build? And the reason for that is basically Crown of, and another Keystone here, which is the Iron W Keystone. So, strength damage bonus applies to spell damage as well. That means if you get strength, just core strength, I think it's just like 1% extra melee damage per five strength or something, right? But with Iron Will, you get the strength bonus to apply on spell damage as well. So, let's say instead of just getting 100% increased melee damage coming from your strength, you also get a 100% spell damage now. So, what do we do with that? With the Crown of I, this spell damage will then be converted into attack damage. And this is the big difference here, melee damage, spell damage, attack damage. So, now with attack damage, I can also use projectile skills or

anything like KB or anything, whatever um, there is like an attack, can be used with that before. It's only Mele attacks, right? So, this would also work for yeah, other sources of just attacks, right? But this is the big Point next um, once we have like um, allocated our um, Iron Will and stuff like that. The next purchase that I would do is the Iron Fortress. So, what Iron Fortress does is your strength damage bonus instead Grant 3% increased melee uh physical damage per 10 strength. I think the old one was 1% per five, and this one is 3% per 10 um, so making it like um a bit better, basically, but this also is going to be applying, and this mod also applies to Iron Grip and Iron Will support, basically, right? So, this is very, very nice, and then we also get a bunch of FL strength and as well as chance to block attack damage per 50 strength, giving us some nice layers of Defense because we can easily get block kept on a strength decking character and

I think once you have this kind of setup, and this is like also a neat thing. Once you have the Crown of Ice, this is basically your merely enabling thing for um spell damage, basically because later on you're going to have other options. But once you acquire the Crown of Ice, then you can basically take something like the Dedis Tenure, which is like some super low-level gloves, and you have 100% increased spell damage. But thanks to the Kronovi, it's going to be 150% increased attack damage coming from your gloves. The reduced cast speed doesn't bother you at all because you're in an attack-based build. What do you care about cast speed? Maybe you can cast your Portal Gem slow or anything. Who cares about that, good? I think once I have like this kind of setup where I have strength stacking, I get increased damage from um my Crown of Ice. The increased damage and the flat damage from the weapon, this should be a very solid starting point to farm up until like t16.

maps. And the point is, I think now is the time to actually go and farm up currency for the Replica Alberon's Warpath. As I said, they could cost 15 divines, 20 divines. I don't know. It's going to take maybe take a day or two to farm those up. But once you have these items, you're going to elevate your strength stacker. Now you're actually becoming a strength stacker. But keep in mind, these boots have cannot deal non-chaos damage. It means every other source of damage that is not chaos is not going to work. Therefore, you cannot use Replica Alberon with a Brutus' Lead Sprinkler unless you have an original Sy ring. But this is a completely different budget option for very, very late in the game. We're not going to talk about that. But basically, once you have Replica Alberon, you stop using the Brutus' Lead Sprinkler, which is fine because in the first place, the Brutus' Lead Sprinkler gave us the flat fire

damage. Now we're changing that to replica Alurn Warpath, and we can use a stat stick weapon instead. I think this would be the one um point where I would go start wanding because um if we take a look at the patch notes, Kinetic Blast, this is the one that I'm interested in Kinetic Blast. So this skill now has a baked-in Crown of Eyes/old Battle Mage's Cry, increasing reduction to spell damage also applies to Tech damage from this skill at 200% value. Okay, so this is even stronger than the Crown of Ice while opening up um my Helm slot. So this is going to be very very nice. So I guess once the Alons are achieved, I'm going to start wanding around. There is the potential to actually go um wanding from level 28 with, for example, the um what is it the the gloves that I said before because this would now give it 200% increase attack damage for your Kinetic Blast. The problem is you don't really get flat damage um from your uh from your gear.

because you don't, you cannot wear a freaking scepter while wanding. You need a wand, basically, right? But it also means you need to recraft your weapon, the same process as with a regular melee build, to have somewhat damage. I think this is too risky. I'd rather just, um, try to get a Brutus' Lead Sprinkler, into Crown of Eyes, into an Iron Fortress, and then just have like a stable character to farm currency, and then going to purchase the Replica Alberon, and then start wanding. Maybe it feels good, maybe it feels bad. There is always the option to just reequip my Crown of Eyes and go further with the Replica Alberon as a melee character if I really like the play style, if the damage is insane and what not. I plan to do a wand, but who knows. So once you have like your Replica Alberon, what would be the next thing what you would do with your weapon? So there are several ways. If you could actually just play like some kind of caster because the Dune Kirani is

also um an item gives you a lot of strength, cast speed, and increased damage per eight strength when in main hand. This is like a global damage. This could be used for casting things, but honestly I want to play an attack-based build. So, a replica Frostbreath is pretty nice as well, which says attacks with this weapon deal double damage to chill enemies. So, the next question would be how do you chill enemies if you can only do chaos damage based on your replica Alurn Warpath. But the replica Frostbreath has this very nice line: your chaos damage can chill. So, this is where we get our chills from. So, basically, equipping this weapon gives you a ton of um, what do you say, um, damage because of the double damage, since we get all the flat damage from our boots. And keep in mind, this is a maze, same as the Brutus' Lead Sprinkler. So, any form of like Shockwave support does also work. And this is probably what I'll try to do early on. Maybe it's Static Strike Shockwave, maybe Cyclone Shockwave, maybe I stick

with Infernal Blow, there are just many options that you could go with. Another one would be the Paradoxica, which could technically be your second best endgame weapon for a single target. But this is a V-Rapier. It's a one-handed sword. So, I guess a good Paradoxica could be your single target option, while the Frostbreath, the Mace, could be a good valid mapping option because of a potential shockwave support. And obviously, the Omega Giga best-in-slot would be a synthesized weapon with a fire damage mod per strength. But therefore, you need Original Sin. This is just to think about, right? But yeah, this is basically my plan of going at it. And based on a skill tree, as I said, there are just some rough guidelines. I'm going to develop the build as I'm going. I have no idea if it's going to have good damage, bad damage, how the survivability looks like, if it's even necessary to go jug. Maybe we're going to branch out.

for Chief Tain to get the um war cries have infinite power. I think with the gold changes there should be no big issues um of getting those resps in. And I'm just really looking forward to this project because I have no experience with a strength Decker as a league starter. I have no idea if it's going to be good bad ugly or whatever um. But if you want to hop in, feel free to do so uh. Leave a follow, I like if you want to check out my daily updates to the build every day another Pub. The way I make currency, the way I spend the currency uh, things that I figure out uh as we go with the strength stacker, the big purchases, my farming strategies and so on and so forth every single day there's going to be another video with an update uh for you to enjoy and uh yeah we're going to see how this project is going to turn out. I'm looking forward to it all right guys thanks for tuning in thanks for watching and see you on video.

[PATH OF EXILE | 3.25] – MY LEAGUE START PLANS FOR THE SETTLERS OF KALGUUR EXPANSION!

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25 Settlers of Cur Expansion League Start

The content creator discusses their decision to play a strength stacking Juggernaut for the league start but does not recommend it to the audience.

They emphasize the challenges of this approach and the significant investment required for the planned build, advising caution to potential followers.

The creator prioritizes transparency and honesty, opting to endure the potential struggles themselves rather than suggesting the build to others.

Planning a Unique Path for the Upcoming League

Transitioning into the desired build quickly is the personal challenge for the upcoming league, focusing on exploring the diverse league mechanics and trying a different style of league start.

The lack of experience in starting a strength Decker on a low budget brings an exciting and unpredictable element, especially in terms of acquiring the necessary items.

The uncertainty of the market and the potential high demand for specific items adds a layer of complexity to the planning process.

Building a Strong Marauder Character in Path of Exile

Start with the Marauder class and focus on a defensive playstyle.

Consider using a two-handed axe, such as the bone cheddar, for increased damage.

Prioritize picking up kinetic impact nodes and early leech, then branch out to the heart of the warrior for additional points.

Take advantage of the rage gain on critical strikes and focus on life and endurance charges for survivability.

Optimizing Early Game Strategy for Strength Stacking Build in Path of Exile

Focus on acquiring the Brutus' Lead Sprinkler early in the game for 1-3 chaos to enable strength stacking.

Consider respeccing certain nodes once you have the currency for the sprinkler, and prioritize using Infernal Blow with Ancestral Call for efficient clearing and progression.

Building a Strength Stacking Character in the Game

Focus on increasing strength through the Mastery for a flat percentage boost and look for clusters that provide fire penetration and increased fire damage with attack skills.

Utilize weapons that scale with strength to avoid the need for frequent weapon changes and prioritize life and damage nodes as you progress.

At higher levels and in the map stage, consider investing in Crown of Eyes to benefit from increased spell damage applying to attacks, especially when combined with the Iron Will keystone for additional spell damage.

The Importance of Iron Fortress in Strength Stacking Builds

Iron Fortress offers 3% increased melee physical damage per 10 strength, improving the previous bonus.

This modifier also applies to Iron Grip and Iron Will support, while providing additional strength and chance to block attack damage.

The setup, including Crown of Eyes and Doryani's Touch gloves, serves as a solid foundation for farming up to t16 maps, before focusing on acquiring the Replica Alberon's Warpath for further strength stacking.

Strategy for Transitioning to Replica Alurn Warpath and Wanding

The updated Kinetic Blast skill now provides a stronger damage boost, allowing for the transition to wanding.

Acquiring a Brutus' Lead Sprinkler, Crown of Eyes, and Iron Fortress first can provide a stable character for farming currency before transitioning to the Replica Alurn Warpath and wanding.

The replica Frostbreath can be used to chill enemies with chaos damage, allowing for the application of double damage, while Shockwave support can be effective in the early stages.

Options for Infernal Blow Build in Path of Exile

Paradoxica is recommended as the second best endgame weapon for single target damage, while Frostbreath, the Mace, is a good option for mapping due to its potential shockwave support.

The best-in-slot would be an Omega Giga synthesized weapon with a fire damage mod per strength, requiring Original Sin.

The plan also involves daily updates on the build's progress, including currency making, spending strategies, and farming techniques.