Top 5 League Start Builds for Path of Exile 3.25

The top League start builds include Lightning Strike Warden, Ark Mage Ice Nova Hierophant, Hex Blast Mines Trickster, and Bow Dead Eye by Havoc.

### Top 5 Path of Exile 3.25 League Start Builds
* 🏹 " "Havoc's Bow Build" - A versatile build that transitions well into other builds, using **Storm Rain** as the main skill and focusing on **speed and clear speed**.
* ⚡ " Lightning Strike Warden" - A new ascendancy build that is expected to be a **strong league starter**, offering **fast mapping** and **decent bossing capabilities**.
* ❄️ " Ark Mage Ice Nova Hierophant" - A carryover from the previous league, this build remains **powerful and effective**, especially for **bossing and mapping later on**.
* 💣 " Hex Blast Mines Trickster" - A specialized build that excels at bossing and is **immune to many map mods**, making it great for **high-tier content and sanctum farming**.
* 🗡️ " Frost Blades of Catabasis" - A unique and potentially strong build utilizing the new skill **Frost Blades of Catabasis**, with a creative playstyle and **good clear speed**.

all right boys, so as you know, we like to do around here when it comes to League start time. I like to get what I think are about the top five best League start bills. Now, these are not going to be in any kind of particular order. These are just the five that if you had to ask me what I think that you should probably start this league, it'd be one of these five builds. 3.25 is looking to be one of the most cracked leagues that we have seen in a very long time, with all kinds of new stuff. We've got the auction house, we've got a huge massive melee rework, a new ascendancy, and a whole bunch more. There should be something for pretty much any Path of Exile player to do this league. There's more content in this one patch than I think exists than Diablo 4 as a whole. So strap in and let's start talking about these top five League St builds. And if this video does end up helping you out, make sure to give it a

like, and if you want more content like this, be sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel. I'll be making a bunch more videos as we go through the league. Without further ado, let's talk about these top five league start builds. So as I said previously, these are going to be in no particular order whatsoever. They are mostly build archetypes. A couple of them will have multiple build guides available, but we'll probably be focusing on one particular build and going into it. This time, I did want to base things off of the average player experience. So if you're an experienced player, I still think these are some of the builds that you should be choosing from. I think that they're very good in general, and I'll explain why. But most of what I've written here in this document pertains to somebody who just wants a good build that can do four void stones or clear some really good maps and maybe progress towards a second build or a super high-end version of one of these builds. And I have some very sad news.

know a lot of people like righteous Fire pox is a great guy. I can't, I can't suggest righteous Fire anymore. I looked at some of the information about it, and pox seems kind of sad about the state of righteous Fire on League start. Everybody seems kind of sad about the state of righteous Fire on League start. It's going to be one of the first times that I really heavily cannot recommend righteous Fire, even with poxes guide available. So with all that out of the way, let's talk about our first build. So the first build here is going to be the lightning strike Warden by palon. This is a new ascendency, so please do keep that in mind. There is some debate on how good this is going to be in comparison to some of the other ascendancies that you could use here. Notably, I have included an additional guide in case that the warden is bad. You can go with the Dead eye version of it by tuna. However, the warden on paper and like conceptually in

my mind looks to be a very strong ascendency for this, and lightning strike got massively buffed in comparison to a lot of other skills. So, in my opinion, it is going to be probably the league starter this league. I think it's lightning strike. If I had to be honest with you, it's going to be a super zoomy build. You'll be able to get through Maps extremely quickly, clear most of the screen extremely fast. It will be okay at bossing. It's not going to be amazing at bossing, but it will be okay. Now talking about cost for this build, this build should be relatively cheap. There are very few uniques used in the early game version of this build. It's basically just perseverance and inertia. Perseverance was like 14 chaos day one in necropolis, and then it tanked extremely fast after that. There's a couple builds that are going to be using this, but it's a tier four rarity unique. I could see somewhat expensive day one, day two, but it's just going to keep

tanking after that, I don't see any reason for the tier of this to be adjusted this league, so you should be fine. As for inertia, it is a corrupted Jewel, so there is like some small chance that if literally everyone is using this day one for some reason, that it might be expensive, but very, very unlikely. And then lastly, Palon version is not using the transfigured version of lightning strike. I do think that tuna is, however, Palon is using V lightning strike, which is easier to get than transfigured lightning strike, but you still do need 20% quality here, so that's slightly rough. You might be uh slugging it out in lab for a tiny bit to get the most ideal situation, but honestly not too bad. Now, is the cost of this build going to be inflated in the new league like with all the extraneous circumstances that I can think of? Probably not. Most of this gear is really easily craftable by rag or through Essences. Claws are pretty easy to make.

Well, claws out of you. You can use Essences, you can use Rog, you can use a bunch of different stuff, and the rest of this gear is just like life, maybe some accuracy, evasion, and armor, and some stats, resistances, that kind of stuff. There's nothing super crazy here, nothing like insanely expensive in this early version of the PO should be mostly fine. Now, talking about play style, initially let's talk about how difficult it is to play. So there's six total abilities. We've got lightning strike, which is going to be your main ability. This is a simple just right click and hit some enemies. As long as you follow what palon says, you shouldn't really have to worry too much about how this ability plays. Just do what he says to do and you should be okay. It does have one interesting and potentially annoying ability, and that is going to be a Guardians blessing with dark marionettes. If you don't know, dark marionettes are a returning Spectre that will be available again this league, that essentially just respawn every time they die. You will

have to activate your Guardian's blessing whenever they do happen to die, so that could be slightly annoying. It does use Whirling Blades as its movement ability. Notably, it doesn't have a gap closer in the early game version of the PO. I'm not sure if this is solved later, but you could just use like Flame Dash or something like that, perfectly fine, just slotted in anywhere. It uses Blood Rage as its buff, and then it has Lightning Strike as one of its main cooldowns, and Unbound Avatar from the new Warden Ascendancy as one of its other cooldowns. These should make bossing pretty simple. As for how fun the build is to actually play, I would say that Lightning Strike is a very fast build. It's a very zoomy build. You're going to be moving around Maps extremely quickly. You're going to be able to hit from very far. You are still playing melee. You do want to get up front and hit enemies whenever you're doing single target, so you can kind of have the best of both worlds.

here super fast build. It should be relatively tanky, but it's not going to be super tanky. My personal rating for it: it should be a very fun build. I'm talking about what this build is designed for. I would say mapping speed and ease of play. It's not really a bossing build. You can do some bossing, but it's not really designed for that, and it's not like a highly specialized build like Sanctum Farm or anything like that. When it comes to map farming, this is probably going to be one of the bigger map farmers. I know that like FB gun is playing this, Palon is playing this, Tuna is playing this, all the big boys are probably going to be playing this build. And as I said, should be able to handle bosses with some investment and is extremely fast. As for damage, when it comes to bosses, I do think that it won't be as good at bossing, but it should still be perfectly fine. Unbound Avatar is a new ability.

that is going to be from the warden here. It just gives you like 80% more Elemental damage. You should have it up extremely frequently. That plus fall lightning strike should be enough. And as I said, excellent clear build screen wide coverage. Absolutely amazing when it comes to defenses. The build does have armor and evasion, so it is going to have avoidance and physical damage reduction. It doesn't have any extra Elemental damage reduction, but this isn't super common. It doesn't have any extra chaos damage reduction besides just resistances or anything to really deal with damage over time, but it does have good recovery. It does have a lot of leak. Um, it does have evasion, so it has a way to deal with attacks, and it does have spell suppression, so it has a way to deal with spells. Overall, should be relatively safe. It's not a face tank build, but you shouldn't be dying super frequently. Think like any normal right side of the tree build, like a dead eye or something that you had played in previous leagues.

about that tanky maybe slightly more. Now, talking about the guide that is associated with this build, there is a good section of notes in the PO palon. Does have video guides and this is probably the build that he is going to be playing so he will put out updates as the build goes through. There's path of buildings, there's leveling progression, gear progression, and palon Community is pretty helpful. Um, I know he does answer quite a few questions and such and he works with Max roll to try to get that kind of stuff handled. If you can't find enough help here, there is another version by tuna that might be able to answer some questions as well, but palon guys are typically pretty high quality and all of the information should be there. This is probably like the build if I had to choose one of them that's going to be really good and somewhat new or different this league. It uses the new ascendency. It's technically melee. It's a fun ability. It can do most things and it should just be a lot of fun. Next build.

on the list is going to be Ark Mage ice Nova hierophant by zizin. This build was probably the biggest takeaway from 3.24. It was the build if I had to choose one of them. It got insanely popular. It was good for most things. Um, this was probably the biggest buffed ability from that patch, and everybody kind of realized it even to this point now at the very end of necropolis League. This was one of the most popular builds. So absolutely excellent build, and it only caught a few very slight Nerfs to Mana cost, essentially because of one of the support gems, and that's pretty much it. Now there are one or two kind of slight issues with the build in that very early on. It can feel slightly clunky because it is a two-button build, but this is fixed as you gear up and you move into katava thirst and other things, so I wouldn't worry too much about it as long as you can make it through the first probably couple of days, and you don't

mind a two-button playstyle that much should be more than fine. So when it comes to cost for this build, it should be relatively cheap early. However, there is kind of one sticking point, and that's going to be at the middle tier of the gear. It's going to be a Zerphi's Heart. This item in the last league, Necropolis, did get up to about 180-200ish chaos, and I could see it getting similarly expensive now. This is technically not a complete required unique. You could get a rare with a bunch of mana and other stuff on it, but it is extremely powerful. It is included in the middle tier, and it can get quite expensive, so be aware that this is probably the most expensive piece of gear that you're going to be buying early on. But in my personal opinion, still, of course, follow the guide, but you should probably do this later if this is more expensive. Other than that, the main skill is a Transfigured Gem, and it is a Transfigured Gem that has multiple different versions, meaning that

will make it more expensive, so I don't think this is going to be absurdly expensive, but it will be more expensive than just some random transfigured gym. Absolutely now, as for this being inflated in the new league, this was already one of the most, if not the most popular League star build in 3.24, so I don't think the cost is going to go up exponentially, but it could go up some because this was so powerful and because it received very few Nerfs. I could see more people playing it than they did before, but at the same time, that could be offset by people not wanting to play this same thing again. I don't think it will be like an egregious amount of increase when it comes to the cost. Now talking about play style, um, I would say that early on, it's a little difficult. It's a two-button build after all, and there are a couple other like Buffs and things that you have to use as you're fighting more difficult enemies, but

later on it's a one-button play style, and the Buffs aren't that big of a deal. You kind of just ignore most things besides like Pinnacle bosses and things like that. So early on a little rough, later on not so rough. As for how fun is it to play, um, it kind of syncs up perfectly with what I said before. Early on, I think this is a less fun build. Um, I don't personally think that two-button play styles such as this one are that enjoyable, but later on when you turn it into a one-button play style, it is a significantly more enjoyable experience. You're zipping and zooming around the map, you're relatively tanky, you have good recovery, which is the most feel-good layer of defense that exists, and you're doing good damage to basically everything. So feels pretty good later, kind of eh early on. Zizzer and mirrors this in his video. He says a very similar thing. And when it comes to the power of the build, um, the build is good at bossing. It is good at

mapping early on it is not super fast, but it does scale in speed as you get more cast speed because of Frostblink or Winter's Blast. So as you scale your gear and as you get more cast speed and such, the speed does increase a pretty decent amount. And the ease of play, it is easy to play, but I do note here that it is only once you have Kataba's Thirst. As I said previously, this also isn't like a heist build or a sanctum build or anything like that, so it's not made for specific content, but it should be able to do most things comfortably in the game. Talking about damage for bossing, you do have to swap to Archmage's Brand, but you should still be able to do all four Conqueror of the Atlas if you are a relatively decent player. When it comes to clearing early on, the clear may not be as good as some other builds, but it is still very good clear. And later, once you have Kava's Thirst and everything, it's a very excellent clear build. Very excellent.

overall build now looking at the defensive layers here. This may be slightly misleading simply because of the way that this build does its defenses. It doesn't really have avoidance or any real chaos reduction, damage over time reduction, or anything really to deal with attacks or spells specifically. However, it does have a very large effective Health pool, excellent recovery because it has like a ton of leech and a ton of Mana regeneration, and a lot of your health is based on your mana. And then on top of that, the changes to endurance charges do make it that there is some extra built-in Elemental damage reduction in the ascendancy, since you do get four endurance charges just base. And then it always had some physical damage reduction because of the same reason. While it doesn't have a lot of specific layers, it still is just very tanky in the sense of very high effective Health pool and very high recovery. In general, when it comes to the guide itself, um, this is a zorin guide. They are known for being relatively in-depth. Um, there's good written guide.

in notes, there is a video guide. Of course, there's a full path of building leveling progression gear progression, and Zizor Community is very helpful. There's tons of places that you can get support for this. I have down here linked both the video from Zarin, as well as the video from Gatha, which is a kind of more defensive setup. Gartha is the person that Zarin collabed with last league on this build and was kind of the originator of the ice Nova of frostbolts version. However, Paleron was the one that popularized the Kataba thirst helmet, and that's kind of similar to the version that Zizin is running now. I have linked both of these just because it's worth at least looking at the other one, but I do think for softcore specifically, the Zizor inversion is going to be better. Now, every League, I typically go and at least take a look at what the cat is doing, what Ru is doing, because most of the times the builds that he plays are

just ruthlessly efficient and extremely powerful for what they are. And this isn't really any different than what it's been this entire time: a good build that uses a bunch of weird or unused uniques and very little gear to end up with a very powerful end result. And of all the skills to choose, it's Frost Blades of catabasis. Now, I myself and basically everyone else, when we looked at the skill, was like a damage over time based Frost blade skill. And we were kind of wrong in looking at it that way. I guess maybe it was intended to do damage over time, but Rue here has essentially completely ignored the damage over time. Now, this video that you see in the background, Rue does not make YouTube videos. He only streams. He does not make any content like that whatsoever ever. So, this is a fan channel that has kind of put stuff together for what he shows on stream. But if you watch this video here and you see that when Ru is attacking, Frost Blades of catabasis has this kind

of effect to it, where it Cleaves all the enemies that it hits. He's scaling just the normal damage, not actually the ground effect, so keep that in mind. Otherwise, this kind of just works like a normal melee skill that you can attack from essentially any range. You can hit up close, you can hit pretty much all the way on the other side of the screen. It's a very weird ability, but um, it does seem pretty good in general. Now, one other thing to quickly note about Rue is that he does make a build sheet every single League of all of the different builds and povs that he's worked on. I've included that linked here, um, and we're going to mainly talk about the frost Blades of catabasis here. Now, talking about the cost of the build, if you look at this, if we jump down to the eer xrk version, which is probably reasonably what most people are going to be doing, we're using things like white wind and southbound perseverance, dark ray vectors. These are all insanely cheap uniques.

right, there's nothing super special here. So it's using like two or three mod items and a bunch of like who asked tier of uniques. Like this is like tier five uniques, tier four uniques, one C, all bound right, and they can't realistically get that expensive. White wind will probably be 5 to 10 Chaos on day one, and it should go down from there. It is a completely like who cares unique, right? Same goes with basically everything here. Now, this does use a transfigured gem. Keep that in mind. It does use Frost Blades of catabasis. However, Frost Blades of catabasis is the only transfigured version of Frost Blades, meaning that it is easier to get because of how the alter works. So this should be slightly more available. But depending on how insanely popular this particular build does get, it could be more or less expensive. I can't really tell. I don't have a great way of telling here, but I don't think it's going to be

that bad is the build cost going to be inflated this league out of all of the people that can inflate a build cost very easily R probably at the top of that list. He's one of the best build makers in the entirety of the game, and unfortunately that does mean a lot of price fixers tend to watch what he is doing. That said, he very much goes out of his way to make things super efficient and use like the cheapest stuff that he possibly can. There should not be a ton of problems here. I will note this is not as strong as Caston crit DD was last League. It is not anywhere close to that. That build was one of the most broken things that's basically ever been made in Path of Exile. This build is still really good, and I think it'll still be really effective and really strong and really fun, but don't expect like DD level of power here, okay? Going into that, it would not be fair to the build. So let's talk about play style, um, difficulty the build. It's extremely easy.

to play it's got one ability you can attack from whatever range that you like. It's essentially a range skill. Use whirling blades to move around, Frost blink to jump over stuff, and enduring cry to give yourself some endurance charges and some buffs early on. That's pretty much it. As for how fun it's going to be to play, um, the build is very fast. It should have really good attack speed, and there are, as you move into the later versions of this PO, some really cool and interesting defensive layers, especially towards the endgame, that scale up extremely well with the new way that endurance charges work. And because it's a Slayer, you're going to be able to scale frenzies and endurance charges at the same time. It really is a pretty powerful build, and it gets up to some pretty crazy numbers all around once you really get up there. Ru's done a great job once again, um, and his povs are always quite good, and I think this one is quite good as well. Now, as for what the build is designed for, um, it should

be able to do bossing. It should be able to do mapping. It should be able to move around pretty quickly, and it's pretty easy to play. It's not made for any specific kind of content like this isn't a sanctum build, this isn't a heist build, this isn't anything like that. It's just an allrounder type build. Now there is one thing to note here, uh, people might be seeing southbound gloves and thinking like, but you're going to only kill Frozen enemies. Remember that this doesn't really matter. The hits will bring them to one Health, and then Frost Blades of catabasis does have a ground dot effect that is not a hit that will finish off any enemy. So just clever use of mechanics once again from Rue. This is like almost an entire additional skill gem, and it's got like percentage life and everything, just all around clever mechanics here. I already kind of talked about the damage, but it should be a good bosser. You should be able to do four void Stones. It's a strong clear.

build. It's not going to be like screen-wide clear, like you're not going to attack once and just clear three screens in front of you, but it is still quite good. It is still a pretty decent all-rounder, and it moves pretty fast, so it should be fine when it comes to defenses. However, this is one of the builds that ticks the most things on this list for me. It has avoidance from evasion. It's got Elemental damage reduction and physical damage reduction coming from endurance charges. It doesn't have a ton of chaos reduction later on, it does because it does get some Max resistances and such, so does actually tick this box much later. But because it has so many endurance charges and it has so much raw mitigation, it actually has a good amount of damage over time reduction, which is relatively rare in most builds. This, in particular, is going to feel very good. Typically, you can only get this by having high consistent recovery, but this actually just reduces the damage in the first place. This isn't unique to just this build; this is just a

new Slayer thing so look forward to this on a lot of Slayer builds. But once again, it has good recovery. It's a Slayer, and then it's got evasion like I said before, and it does have spell suppression later on, so it covers basically all bases. Now as for the guide, do keep in mind Rue does not make video guides. The written guide is pretty good. It does have limited notes, but the PO is of very high quality, and the leveling is done by TI Tai killer. So the written guide is okay, it's short but high quality. There is no video guide. I have linked some videos of root talking about it, but once again, it is just from a fan-made Channel. There is a full path of building, it's got leveling progression done by Tai Tai, so it should be really good. It does have good gear and progression. When it comes to community or a place to find help, um, this is the biggest downside, is that you will find almost nothing here community and help wise when it comes from Rue. He typically doesn't do like one-on-one.

build help. He doesn't answer questions super frequently, and you can get banned sometimes if you, like, ask dumb questions, so do be aware of that. The build is extremely powerful, so I do want to include it here. Next, let's talk about a little bit of a weird build, and that's going to be hex blast mines. This is a trickster by Venta. This is what I would probably call like the premier sanctum farmer early game, as well as early boss rushing in tier 17s. You can see in the video here on day two gear, he was doing tier 17 maps. The reason why this build is so good at this is because it is mostly immune to many map mods. There are very, very few map mods, if any, map mods that really do make this build function significantly worse. It can pretty much do everything. That's one of the main reasons it's so good. It also has auto-targeting and very, very high damage. However, it is a mine build, so do keep that in mind.

little bit about the cost of the build. It is somewhat cheap, however, there is potential for this to be absurdly expensive later, and we have no way of being able to tell. He has done some work to mitigate this, so it's not that big of a deal, but we'll talk about that in a moment. So, this is using like a bunch of one chaos uniques: Dread Arc, The Restless Ward, Do's tenure. These are all super, super cheap. Notably, a unique chest piece does mean that it's going to be difficult to get a six-link, so do keep that in mind. And this build in the early game version of it does use cluster Jewels. So, if you don't like getting cluster Jewels early, this is where a decent amount of the damage comes from because you do need these particular mediums. They are quite important as well as the small cluster for auras. So, do keep that in mind. If is part of the build, you will need clusters. If you're playing on like solo self-found

something. This is probably not a build that you realistically want to follow. This is a trade League build, and once again, this does not use a t gem for its main ability. It's just a normal gem, so you don't have to worry about that. However, let's talk about the one thing that could cause problems for this build, and this is going to be the sandstorm vage. GGG said that they're increasing the Rarity of this because they didn't want to Nerf the power of it because they are buffing w. So, technically, this build is stronger than it was before in some ways because of the Buffs to Sandstorm vassage. However, you do have to be aware that this might be significantly more expensive in 3.24. This item was 3.5 divines on day one. It went down to like two divines by the end of week one. But if it's getting more expensive because it's going to be rarer, there's a chance that this is very expensive early on. However, there are

versions of the PO that do not use Sandstorm that still will be able to do plenty of damage, and be perfectly fine, so keep that in mind. That's why I've included it here, but I did want to at least mention that. Now talking about the play style, this is probably one of the more difficult builds to play overall, simply because it does have so many buttons. We do have hex blast as our main ability. We are using this with a mine, meaning you need to place the mine. It is automatically detonated through an automation, detonate mines here. However, that does pose some weirdness with how often these detonates go off. You have two movement abilities, which is going to be Shield charge for getting around, flame dash for covering gaps. You'll use Battle magees Cry early, and I think enduring cry later, but then you have three bossing debuffs that you have to keep in mind. This is mainly to keep up wither stacks, and then you will be using bear trap. So because of all of these.

things together. I do think that this is one of the more difficult builds to Pilot on the list, but it is still extremely strong, and it is one of the best early-like sanctum and bossing and tier 17 type builds that exists. It is very, very powerful. Now, as I said, what is the build designed for? It's made for bossing, and it's made for specialized content. Can you map on it? Yeah, but should you play this particular build to map if you're wanting to be as effective as you possibly can? No. If you are fine with mapping being a little bit slower and you really want those juicy boss kills or you want to do some sanctum farming early on, absolutely an excellent build. But as I said previously, in the like difficulty of play, it's not the easiest build to pull off, but it's not like it's a square fingers build. This isn't like, you know, some weird Konami Code type build that Jung would potentially make or something like that. It's not that bad.

when it comes to damage, extremely high damage on bosses. The damage on clear is good as well, but it's not like super screen-wide clearing multiple screens with a single click type clear that some builds do get. When it comes to defenses, it does have good avoidance. It is a tricker, so it's going to have avoidance and Recovery. It does have spell suppression, and it does have, of course, a way to deal with attacks: evasion. However, it doesn't really have very many sources of reducing damage raw. Now, it will get some endurance charges later on with enduring cry, and of course, you do have the Restless Ward, which is quite nice for like recovery and other things like that. It'll make it so that those endurance charges and frenzy charges and such should stay up with this, plus the ascendancy that gives it, so once you've got those charges, you basically never have to get them back. However, it's not something that can just stand in front of an enemy and take a whole bunch of hits and survive. You can take a hit.

you could probably take two or three hits, and you'll be able to recover quite well, but it's not like stand in the face of the enemy and survive at all. As for the guide, there is a written guide with notes. It does have a decent amount of notes. There is also a video guide from Venta, a Path of Building. Now, there is leveling progression. It is a very limited skill tree progression. If we look here on the skill tree, there's basically like 1 to 28. It doesn't really tell you where to go at all. And then it's like 28 to endgame, essentially. So, you kind of have to know what you're doing when it comes to the skill tree. I probably wouldn't recommend this for a very new player. Anyways, but in the notes, it does have very good gem progression. So, it does have at least that. But the skill tree is a little lacking when it comes to leveling up. Your progression is still very good. As for Community or places to find help, um, it does say in

the PO here specifically that if you have more questions or something isn't working just watch the guide and it should be there. Um you'll probably be able to get answers maybe from stream and such, but I'm not 100% certain that that's the best idea. But I have of course linked the video here down at the bottom. So this is going to be a little bit different than the other options here in that this isn't particularly like meant to be followed as a build guide. Now note that Havoc does not have the PO out as of the recording of this particular video that you're watching, but this always happens. He releases like the day of the league most of the time. I will have the notes updated with everything in particular whenever you're watching this video. If you're going down below and grabbing the notes. However, this is essentially what I do every single League. I go see whatever Havoc is doing. I loosely follow his build and particular whatever bow based deedi that he's playing, and then I transition it.

into my second build idea this league. It's going to be either some kind of wand build or a Cast on crit ice spear dead eye type build. I take whatever Havoc's doing and I kind of just transition into whatever I want to do later this league. In particular, respeccing the tree should be significantly easier because of gold. But if you are a newer player and you want to play a bow build or you are worried about not having like an in-depth guide, I have linked the max roll guide from Tuna Down Below in the notes, so you will be able to at least follow that if need be. So once again, this a very basic Po from Havoc. The full Po when it is available will be linked here instead, but this is pretty stock standard. Havoc is using Storm Rain now instead of Lightning Arrow because Lightning Arrow did catch some nerfs early on. Lightning Arrow is still fine. There's nothing wrong with it. It just scales more off of your bow and less off.

of Base damage, whereas storm rain is still going to scale pretty well just off of whatever you've got. So the idea here is that he's now using storm rain as a main skill, as well as storm rain as a Mana Forge skill, and he managed to get four watch zones in 10 hours, which is insane when it comes to how expensive this build is. This is one of the most tried and true tested builds that exists in softcore trade. It's the bow Dead Eye. It has changed super significantly, and there will be a ton of leftover gear from people upgrading their gear available from this build. Essentially, from day one, it uses a bunch of random rares, Rog crafted gear, and almost no uniques early on. And it can push very far into the atlas, and this is one of the premier ways to either get a good early clear build. And if you don't like this concept, you don't like this build, you can transition into any other Dead Eye build that you want. The lightning strike Dead Eye or the lightning strike.

Warden should be a really fun build if you start with this, and you decide, Eh, those builds look like they turned out pretty good. Like Paleron really cooked here, you can swap over into the warden and have a great time with very minimal gear change. Just swap to a claw and a shield or something like that, and it's almost all the same. There were very slight Nerfs to projectile dead eyes; however, they might actually be a buff at the end of the day, depending on how you think about it because the new Dead Eye ascendancy, the like far shot node, is now just 30% more projectile damage, and it scales with the far shot tag that's on things like the helmet. So, I mean, you know, it could just simply be better. And when it comes to play style, this is probably the easiest build on the list. You've got one main ability and a movement skill ability. You basically use nothing else. You just move around, you cast your main ability, and everything else procs automatically, either through a bunch of Mana forged Arrow setups or

through like cast one damage taken or mark on hit. You basically don't have to do a thing when it comes to fun. This is subjective, but I think this is the most fun early build like in the game that exists. It's insanely fast, does crazy damage, you do good single-target damage, good bossing damage, good single-target damage early, not when you hit like late Maps, but you can just kind of zoom through the entire campaign, zoom through maps, and make a whole bunch of currency, and then do whatever you want. Second, it's why I always do it as for what the build is designed for. It's made for mapping. It's made for speed, and it's pretty easy to play. I've kind of already explained all of this at this point, but um excellent map farmer for things like Legion. Um should be able to handle like the early bosses eer and xar extremely well if you're very good at the game, and you can push pretty hard like someone like Havoc. You can kill the other two watch zones, but you're going

to need to improve your gear pretty decently, and that pretty much covers damage. As I said here, when it comes to defenses, this isn't the tankiest build. This is like Dead Eye, right side of the tree defenses. You've got avoidance through evasion, you've got some good recovery, and once again, you've got evasion, and you've got spell suppression. It doesn't fall over like it's not going to get one-shot constantly, but you cannot tank stuff with this. You can't just stand in a whole bunch of bad damage and stand in the enemy's face and expect to survive. This is as close to Six portal defenses as you can realistically get while still not just dying at a stiff breeze. Okay, it's Dead Eye, it's super zoomy, it's super fast, but you're probably going to die occasionally. Now, as I said, um, this section here will be updated as Havoc does release his guide. Absolute worst case, there is a backup Max roll guide here by Tuna that does use Lightning Arrow, Dead Eye, and it was

updated today the day that I'm recording this video for July 25th. With all the new information and such, he's using the fledgling like I said before that has the far shot tag alongside the new unique far shot. Not that the deadeye has. So you could follow this if Havoc doesn't get it in time or if you just want to really particularly focus on a super endgame bow build and not do a transition. And that's going to be it for the video. All of the notes that you saw on this video are linked down in the description. It's just where I'm putting everything that I do with my content nowadays. So if you have any questions or anything, I do suggest that you go to the communities of these build guide makers as I am not officially hosting any of these builds or doing any help for them. I'm just trying to promote the people that I think made good builds and hopefully preventing you from making a mistake and choosing the wrong build. I know a lot of people are going to want

melee, but realistically, I wasn't super impressed by a lot of the melee builds that came out. Um, lightning strike is the only melee build that I'm just like, yeah, obviously, it looks pretty good. I'll be live here on YouTube as well as Twitch for the live release of the league. I'll be playing bow build by Havoc that transitions into wands or something like that. So, if you're interested in that, keep up and make sure to subscribe to the channel. And remember, boys, if you enjoy this content, make sure to give it a like, subscribe to YouTube channel, hit that notification bell to stay up to date with all the latest videos, and stay safe out there in Ray class. And I'll see you guys in the next video. [Music]

TOP 5 League Start Build Guides for Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers League

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Top 5 League Start Builds for Path of Exile 3.

25 league in Path of Exile is anticipated to be highly impactful, with new features like the auction house, a massive melee rework, and a new ascendancy, offering a wealth of content for all types of players.

The Lightning Strike Warden by Palon, and a Dead Eye version by Tuna, is expected to be a strong league starter due to the significant buff to the skill and the new ascendency, offering fast map clearing and decent bossing capabilities at a relatively low cost.

The build's required uniques are expected to be affordable, with the potential for some slight inflation in the early days of the league, but overall, the gear is easily craftable, making it a solid choice for a league start.

Lightning Strike Build Guide for Path of Exile

This build uses Lightning Strike as its main ability and is relatively easy to play if you follow the instructions.

It offers fast mapping speed and is designed for map farming, although it can handle bosses with some investment.

The build provides good defenses with armor, evasion, and spell suppression, making it relatively safe to play.

Palon provides video guides and updates for this build, and the community is generally helpful for any questions.

The Popularity and Cost of the Ark Mage Ice Nova Hierophant Build

This build became incredibly popular in the 3.

24 patch and is highly effective for most activities, despite receiving only minor nerfs.

The gear for this build is relatively inexpensive at the beginning, but the Zerphi's Heart and the Transfigured Gem can be quite costly in the middle to later stages.

The build offers a slightly clunky two-button playstyle at first, but becomes more enjoyable and efficient as it progresses, providing good bossing ability and excellent clear potential.

Analysis of a Tanky Zizaran Frost Blades Build

This Zizaran Frost Blades build focuses on a high effective health pool and excellent recovery, rather than specific defensive layers.

The guide is known for its in-depth coverage, including written and video guides, as well as strong community support.

The build is cost-effective, utilizing mostly cheap and easily accessible uniques, making it a practical choice for many players.

R's Powerful and Efficient Path of Exile Build

R is known for inflating build costs, but he focuses on efficiency and affordability.

The build offers easy gameplay with fast attack speed and strong defensive layers, designed for bossing and mapping.

It provides good all-around performance, strong defenses, and unique damage reduction, making it a versatile choice.

The written guide is of high quality, with a focus on the Path of Building and limited notes, but the community support from R is lacking.

A Powerful and Versatile Hex Blast Mine Build

This build is designed for early game sanctum farming and boss rushing in tier 17s, with high damage and auto-targeting.

It uses mostly cheap unique items but may become expensive later on.

The build requires the use of cluster Jewels for damage, has a complex play style with multiple buttons to manage, and is specifically designed for bossing and specialized content rather than efficient mapping.

Analysis of a Dead Eye Build in Path of Exile

This Dead Eye build excels in dealing extremely high damage to bosses but has less effective clear speed.

It offers good avoidance and recovery for defense but lacks in reducing raw damage.

The build provides a written guide with a decent amount of notes, a video guide, and good gem progression, but the skill tree progression is limited, making it less suitable for new players.

The build, based on Storm Rain as the main skill, is known for its cost-effectiveness, using mostly random rares and Rog crafted gear, making it a reliable option for early game clearing in the Path of Exile.

The Versatile and Fun Warden Build for Path of Exile

The Warden build offers a smooth transition from other successful builds with minimal gear changes.

It features slight nerfs to projectile Dead Eyes, which may actually work as a buff in the end.

The build is designed for speed, excellent map farming, and good single-target damage, making it ideal for zooming through the campaign and accumulating currency.

However, it prioritizes speed over defense, relying on evasion and avoidance rather than tanking abilities.