Path of Exile: Strength Stacking and Accuracy Stacking Builds

Strength stacking and accuracy stacking builds will be insanely strong in the upcoming 3.25 Settlers of Alor expansion due to significant skill changes.

### Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Alor: Strength Stacking vs. Accuracy Stacking Builds
* 🛡️  The upcoming Path of Exile 3.25 expansion, Settlers of Alor, is expected to bring significant changes to melee skills, with some skills receiving **double, triple, or even quadruple damage effectiveness buffs**.
* 💪  Two standout builds for the new expansion are **strength stacking** and **accuracy stacking builds**, leveraging the **increased damage effectiveness of melee skills**.
* ⚔️  Strength stacking builds benefit from items like **Replica Alberon's Warpath**, providing **flat damage per strength** and a **high damage effectiveness multiplier**.
* ⚡  Accuracy stacking builds rely on items like **Storm Rider boots**, which can provide **over 100,000 accuracy in the endgame** and **significant lightning damage**.
* 🛡️  Changes in the new patch will require a shift in defensive strategies, with **100% physical damage taken as an element no longer achievable**.
* 🔰  Tanky builds in the new patch are expected to focus on a **trifecta of defenses**: **spell suppression**, **maximum resistance**, and **endurance charges**.
* 💰  Both builds can be league-start viable with relatively low investment, but require specific items to truly shine, such as **Storm Rider boots for accuracy stacking** and **Replica Alberon's Warpath for strength stacking**.
* 🌟  The speaker leans towards starting with a strength stacking build due to the accessibility of **Brutus' Lead Sprinkler** early on, but believes the Wonder-type strength stacker will be one of the **strongest characters in the game**.

[Music] Hey guys, and welcome to a new video. Today, I want to talk about two builds that I think are going to massively shine in the upcoming 3.25 Settlers of Alor expansion. I used to say leak, but this patch is going to be so freaking massive, and I cannot wait until Friday to, um, yeah, get my hand on a lot of loot from ships and boats and stuff like that. Anyway, so what am I talking today is two builds that I think are going to be insanely strong this patch, even stronger than before. And it is either the strength stacking. I leave the ascendency out for now, reasons for that a bit later, and accuracy stacking. So as you guys know, there have been a lot of changes to all the melee skills. They lose their flat damage, but they got buffed like double, triple in some cases, even quadra, the damage effectiveness of those. And that's why I think that those two builds like strength stacking NE reses stacking will

be insanely strong. Um, to have like this one build for the entire kind of League because both of those builds are known to be insanely expensive in the yeah end game. I would say you can spend 15, 20, 30 mirrors in those talking about one passive voices original sin like crazy stuff, right? But the thing though is I want to talk about the leak start um perspective of those right and I think both of them are viable to leak start but they will have like a pretty insane uh gearing and scaling curve going into the end game. If we take a look at the Bare Bones, let's talk about patch notes wise with all these like M skill changes and the Damage Effectiveness and so on and so forth before we take a look at the potential gear for leak start with those two characters as well as going over the defensive mechanics as well. So let's take any freaking meley skill whatever it is, let's take ice shot, yeah ice shot doesn't really matter so oh wait is

a bad example. Damn, um, what about this one here? Ground Slam, or Earth shaking, or Ground Slam in general. So basically, they all got like insanely buffed with um, the damage effectiveness coming from like a um, in the level 20 gems, 356. Uh, a gem level 20 previously 188. So that's actually like a a bad example, but it's like double the damage, right? And there is other skills going up to like 400, 500% damage effectiveness. But the thing though is, what does that actually mean? So basically in PoE, if you add any form of like flat flat damage, uh, to your skills, whether it's coming from a weapon, from like an abyss jewel, or in the strength stacker, W, for example, replica alberon, or the Storm Rider boots, if you add flat damage, then skills will um, scale differently with this damage. So both of these characters will get insane amounts of flat damage coming from these like stat stacking attributes, whether it's accuracy or strength, or a combination of both, um, which means they

basically, if you add like 10 to 20 damage, um, coming from an abyss jewel, for example, right, and a skill has like 49% damage effectiveness, you basically quad the damage for the skill. So, instead of like doing 10 damage with a default attack, it will do like 40 damage using the frost blade skills, for example. I don't want to do the exact math or anything. I just want to give you guys an understanding of what does damage effectiveness means for these skills. And if we take a look at both of the build-enabling items for the accuracy stacker, it's going to be the Storm Rider boots or the lower version, which is like Windbreak usable at level 20 here with the Cloud Whisper boots and stuff. Um, they basically give you an insane amount of lightning damage. In the endgame versions, you reach over 100,000 accuracy and stuff like that. So, the damage of those things will be ridiculous. Same as, for example, Replica Alberon's giving you flat damage per

strength and then with a multiplier of like 400% damage. Effectiveness, this is going to be absolutely ridiculous. But it's not only about the damage, what about the defensive layers, right? So the problem with the upcoming patch, they or at least let's say the strongest version of making a tanky character used to be physical damage taking his element or or chaos going CI going block going all these like kind of like damage shifting things. And if you're able in some cases like armor stacker or some Chief TS with the purity of fire kind of thingy, they convert 100% of the incoming physical damage to element so they can ignore any form of armor or damage mitigation in the physical part. If they go CI, they are immune to chaos as well. So the only thing left is Elemental damage. And then if they go just stack 90% Max rest, you're going to be insanely tanky. With the upcoming patch, this is no longer be the case just because um Mark already told us that it is it should not be.

possible to get 100% physical damage taking as element. A lot of these sources got removed. The Taste of Hate, for example, lost the physical damage taken as cold damage. The Watcher's Eye modifiers, and so on and so forth, are all completely gone, same as like Temple modifiers on gear, and so on. There is still going to be a few sources of this and is still very strong and potent, but you're not going to reach 100% anymore. So all this like completely ignoring physical damage will be kind of a thing from the past. So how to make a tanky character in the new way, right? I think it's going to be like a trifactor of tankiness, which is going to be a part of like spell suppression cap for it still being like 50% damage reduction against spells. It's going to be maximum resistance. There are going to be more wheels and more access to maximum resistance now, even on rare Jewels or the base Jewels that can roll one to maximum resistance and new.

war cry is giving Max resistance, but also endurance charges. And endurance charges um have been changed um in the upcoming league, and will also Grant you now um instead of the 4% all rest per Jewel. It will give you 4% additional damage reduction. And if you take a look, for example, at my charge stacking Slayer from last League um, the Slayer didn't have a lot of armor or anything, but it was still very very tanky. Obviously, I ran like 13 or 14 endurance charges from all the charge stacking, giving me passively like 60 to 70% physical damage mitigation. And this will now also apply to um the the endurance charge for the elemental um defensive layer, right? And both of these builds, both the strength stacker and the accuracy stacker, are going to be a Marauder starting area. Um, I left the ascendency out in a start because both of them will start as a juggernaut, but once you get like the undeniable uh forbidden flame flash combo, which can cost you like over a 100

divis at some point of the league, right? Uh, but it definitely means that you can branch out to be a burd or even a chief Tain to get very easy access to the 90% maximum resistance. But as a Marauder, you will have access to all the endurance charges. You can branch out to the right side of the tree, um, going for all the spell suppression nodes. So, we're going to have maximum resistance stacking. We're going to have access to the endurance charges, and we also going to have access to spell suppression, giving us a very, very beefy and tanky layer, um, from the Baseline. As an example, if you would start as a witch, you're not going to have access to endurance charges. You barely have access to spell suppression. You don't have access to armor. You don't have access a few a little bit of access to maximum resistant, but that's about it. That's why I think like the bottom side of the tree looks much stronger, um, the upcoming League just because of

these uh changes uh, and then obviously something like block will also be very dominant coming with the Gladiator changes, and so on and so forth, and I think there's also going to be a bunch of blocking notes added to the tree, uh, once updated. Good, so let's talk about the gearing uh portion, or at least like how would you um set this one up, right? I actually leak started an accuracy stacker back in 317. It's a while ago, but things didn't change, um, at all. It's still like the complete same gearing process, and I think with about, I'd say, like 50 to 100 Kos investment, uh, you should have a very uh decent starter as, um, for access decking should should not have any problems doing any tier 60 Maps, as shown in this video footage, which is like day four or day five of The League. It's very fast, it's very strong, and now with the upcoming changes to, um, melee skills, in this, um, case, like for example, lightning strike, Frost blades, molten strike, something like that, any strike skills.

with projectiles is going to be insanely strong. Uh, just as a default with getting all these extra added um damage. The only downside here is, and this will um be based on both of these builds, they need specific items to even work. For the accuracy stacker, it's going to be as I mentioned before, um, the Storm Rider boots or the earlier versions, which is Wind Break or Cloud Whisper boots. Cloud Whisper boots are usable at level 20, um, and they usually come on the first day, but it's just meta depending. Sometimes you get them for 1 K or sometimes it costs like 10 K or anything like that, but they are definitely available on day one of the league. So instead, you would just go as, I don't know, like Thunder Juggernaut or Lightning Strike Juggernaut or anything like that, and to get going and on, you just have those in life search and and you're always going to have a couple of chaos while doing the campaign or finding your first Divine and convert that into chaos.

you just going to buy a pair of these boots, but until then, I would just go ahead, and I don't Place Thunder or anything, you know Mele skills are buffed, so you just have a typical, uh, just based on your physical damage, right, but you should have very early access to these boots, uh, maybe a couple hours after leak for the guys that are rushing, um, The Campaign and stuff like that, but they are a ritual base, so you need people to actually complete ritual and sell those bases, you will not be able to drop those anywhere else in the game, basically right, same with the strength ster, um, which kind of needs the replica alberon's war path to get this chaos damage going, I personally, uh, would say I would probably just do the same thing, just starting as a thunder character or something like that, any melee skill on Juggernaut should be super fine, could be bone shedder, anything like that, but I would most likely Branch out and get myself a Brutus Le sprinkler early on because of the 4 to7 fire damage attacks

with this weapon per 10 strength Brutus Le sprinkler is um usable at level 28, and they are uh Global drop, basically so they should pop up very very early. I don't think many people will have a high demand on the Brutus Le sprinkler early on in the campaign, so I see this item going like one, oh sorry, one to five chaos or something, um, and then you could basically already start strength decking. You could infernal blow, you could go there's so many different skills that would work with that, but you have a generic way of getting something out of your strength because later on you will have to uh take something like a crown of ice to get this increase in reductions to spell damage to also apply to attacks at 150% of their value, and then going with the Iron Will Keystone to get the extra damage, but this is all like later stuff. This would be like early mapping or something like that, but the way I would do it I would actually be more interested in a Wonder setup for

kinetic blast. Because kinetic Blast has now um a baked-in Battle Mage's Crime, basically increasing Rupes of spell damage also applied to Tech damage for the skill for 200% of the value, which means it's even stronger in the in the skill gem than actually a Crown of Ice with only having 150. And Battle Mes Cry used to have 150 as well with maximum power but scaled by Buff effect. So that also means you don't need a Red Blade Banner, you don't need the infinite power anymore, you don't need to run the Crown of Ice with a Wonder setup. And I think that is going to be very, very strong. And you would get access to that at level 28, I think when you get the skill Gem. And I think um then you can use something like what is it dadis uh gloves po Wiki maybe I find it grus m Valance which are now wait this is the um the higher version I think drop disabled. I don't know like there was like tenure yeah these ones.

right, uh, yeah. So these are actually some early-level gloves. They are like level 12. I actually thought it was like 60% spell damage, but there might have been changes. Maybe this is like outdated. Doesn't really matter, but just thinking about you get a 100% increased spell damage for your, um, for your strength stacker early on and then use KB and get two times the value of that and then converting it back into attack damage from the Iron W Keystone. Here, this would be insanely powerful thinking about, hey, my gloves give me 200% increased attack damage, for example, and those kind of things either you find them yourself or, uh, I don't know. Buy on trade for like an Alchemy early on should be quite easy as well as getting something like an ASR Mentis, which is a very strong, um, stat stacking item early on to get you going, same as like something like the Iron Fortress giving you basically a block cap for, um, strength stackers and, uh, as well as like increased, uh, damage from the strength.

scaling. On the other hand, if we take a look at the early gearing for something like an accuracy stacker, it is a very, very generic scaling here, right? So basically, if we take a look at the items that I used here on this character, and I don't think this is going to be expensive at all, that's why I say like probably 50 chaos and you should have probably the exact same setup besides like the six-link breastplate that I was wearing in this kind of setup, right? We're having something like the Obscurantis helmet, us one or two chaos or something like that, giving you a ton of accuracy as well as increased projectile damage per 200 accuracy. So that's why I said before, you want to use skills with projectiles, Lightning Strike, or Molten Strike, or Frost Blades, or anything like that. Then the Arsonist gloves, giving you attack R strike chance and Assassin's Mark and spell suppression, stuff like that, and Global accuracy rating usually goes for a chaos or two.

early on then you have the hinor site a very very cheap um item as well. With giving you up to a th000 accurac you have the replica Last Resort um. So you want to go like low life at this point even if you only run like a 1500 life after being low life with petrified blood you're going to be still um somewhat tanky. Especially now with endurance charges giving you a ton of accuracy and attack speed once you go on low life. And all this kind of like this entire setup here should cost you like 50 Kos or something. And then if you go further if you say hey I'm sitting on like two three divines early on you could then Branch out. I'm investing into your uh passive skill tree with the transcended spirit setup over here um in the middle on the cion wheel. But as I said you can definitely check out the povs from the older videos because nothing really has changed a stigen vice or at least the the unique one um.

shouldn't be too expensive. You don't need to go for like a 100% roll because these are obviously going to be more expensive, but you know the the Darkness and Throne shouldn't be expensive, and then some Abyss Jewels with like some accuracy multiplier life, something like that auto search probably one or two chaos, uh, and you should be fairly fairly strong in the early game setup with the potential then to be able to farm all the currency to get those kind of characters into the next level and upgrading step by step to try to reach like uh insane amounts of like um scaling. But yeah, these are the two builds that I personally kind like thinking of leak starting even though um it's going to be rough in the start right cuz you don't you're not going to have access to those at level one, uh, sometimes you don't even have the skills, uh, whatsoever so you need to trade for them, um, but still I think if you just sit through the early stuff, uh, I think you're going to have a very very good.

experience. Once you start mapping and grinding your currency because like a 50 Kos accuracy stacker should be able without any problems doing all the regular content, your Void stones and those kind of things. Not talking about Uber bosses of course but you know which leak started does Uber bosses on a budget anyways unless unless it's like some Trapper or Miner but they usually suck at mapping anyways. All right guys these are my two personal recommendations for being like insane Zero to Hero characters. I'm most likely going to start strength stacking because I really like the idea with the brus lit sprinkler. First I was thinking about going accuracy stacking first and then spend like one two three divines on it or maybe 10 in the early stages and then Farm out for replica alberon and then swap to a strength stacker but I think with the Brutus Le sprinkl should work just fine and I also think the strength stacker the Wonder type that I plan to play in my mid league and

stuff like that and end League should be one of the strongest characters this game has seen and most likely going to be stronger uh than ever before. All right guys, thanks for tuning in, thanks for watching. What are you League starting? Let me know in the comments below and see you on the next video. [Music]

[PATH OF EXILE | 3.25] – 2 INSANELY STRONG BUILDS FOR SETTLERS OF KALGUUR LEAGUE!

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The upcoming expansion is expected to significantly boost the strength stacking and accuracy stacking builds in the game.

Changes to melee skills, with a substantial increase in damage effectiveness, will make these builds even more powerful than before.

Both builds are known for being expensive in the end game, but they are also viable for league start, with a challenging gearing and scaling curve.

Changes in Tanky Character Building in the Upcoming Patch

The upcoming patch will no longer allow for 100% conversion of physical damage to elemental damage, impacting the tankiness of certain character builds.

Instead, a new approach to tankiness will focus on spell suppression, maximum resistance, and the revised mechanics of endurance charges for damage reduction.

The Marauder starting area will become popular for both strength stacker and accuracy stacker builds, starting as a juggernaut and later transitioning with the undeniable forbidden flame flash combo.

Optimizing the Marauder Build for Maximum Resistance and Tankiness

The Marauder build allows for maximum resistance stacking, access to endurance charges, and spell suppression for a strong and tanky character.

Starting as a witch is not recommended due to limited access to these important defensive capabilities.

The build requires specific items, such as Storm Rider boots, to work effectively, but with the right investment, it can be a strong starter for the league.

Early Game Strategy for Acquiring and Using Brutus' Lead Sprinkler in Path of Exile

Players can obtain Brutus' Lead Sprinkler early on by completing rituals and selling the bases, as it is a ritual base item.

The item is expected to have low demand in the early campaign, making it available for a low price of one to five chaos, and can be used for strength stacking and various skills, such as Infernal Blow.

A Wonder setup for Kinetic Blast is also recommended, offering a strong alternative at level 28 with the skill gem.

Early-Level Gloves for Spell and Accuracy Stackers in Path of Exile

Early-level gloves offer a powerful 100% increased spell damage for strength stackers, and increased attack damage through the Iron W Keystone.

For accuracy stackers, affordable items like Obscurantis helmet and Arsonist gloves provide a ton of accuracy and projectile damage.

This entire setup can cost around 50 chaos, making it accessible for early gearing.

Further investment with divines allows branching out into the passive skill tree with the Transcendent Spirit setup.

Recommended Path of Exile Builds for Starting Strong

Starting with a 50 Chaos accuracy stacker build can provide a strong early game experience and the ability to handle regular content easily.

The strength stacking build, particularly with the Brutus' Lead Sprinkler, is expected to be one of the game's strongest characters, offering a powerful end-game experience.

These builds offer the potential to progress from a "Zero to Hero" status, providing a rewarding gameplay experience.