all righty, so these ratings are based on like what I would imagine like an average player. I mean, everyone has a different idea of an average player, but so like doesn't play 18 hours a day. You're not a god gamer. You don't have 45,000 hours, and you know every little thing. So you're not going to be using giga gear on day three. You're going to just be using normal gear, pretty bad gear, honestly. Um, before I get into it, spoiler alert, there's no best overall build. Why? Because no League starter is perfect. They all have their upsides and downsides. Um, so what you should take in mind for the total score is like even if it's only two and a half out of five, that's like the amalgamation of all these stats. And you personally might have different preferences for what you want stats. So like, let's say you don't care about being a glass Cannon and dying 84 times by the time you get to act two, then that's

Fine, so pay more attention to the individual ratings you care about more, so than the overall, and then take them all with a grain of salt too because I'm pretty cooked, and then I'm only including builds that I've played or played very similar builds to that I'm confident in that they're not going to be bad to start with, and then couple of people have more than a couple of people have mentioned these three things as League starters. These are not League starters. You cannot League start these. It is literally not possible. These are all like day two and after stuff. Maybe you could force it on day one if you play for like literally the entire day, and then at the very end of the day you can get it. So yeah, not League starters. All right, starting off here with the safest pick, the all-rounder. It's not bad at anything. It's good at everything. Ark Mage, Harf, and Ice Nova. This just goes for Ark Mage in general if you're playing Ark mage build.

you're pretty set. Arc Mage is just really good. Um, damage: five out of five. I mean, it just gets a ton of damage for a pretty cheap gear. Defense: four out of five. Now, your defense and your damage are scaled by the same stat, so you just the build implicitly gets a ton of it 'cause you just stack Mana. That's it, that's all, all you care about. Clear speed: three out of five. It's okay, it's better than average. I mean, it's not like insane or anything, but it's definitely better than average, it's not slow. Bossing: five out of five. You get Arana's brand and you don't have to self-cast your uh, crossbolts anymore, or I mean you don't have to have use Kavas thst anyways, but Frostbolt Arana's brand makes bossing very nice. You get chill, you have a ton of damage, you have a ton of defense, it's a pretty passive play style, don't have to manage much, you just hold right click and occasionally pop a buffer.

to SF gear three out of five. Uh, Mana gear can be kind of tough to get. It's not really super hard but can be a little tough to get the much higher and stuff. Something like at Zer foyble you're probably not going to get for a while. You don't need it though. Long-term scalability is five out of five. This scales basically forever. Super high scaling. See how much Mana you can get. You got some really endgame options like Ivory Tower and stuff. Big big scalability here. Visual Clarity two out of five. Honestly if you're not using the celestial MTX, it's not too bad. You can. It's a lot of stuff happening but you can still see the ground through it in most effects so it's not too bad. E of use is four out to five. It's pretty easy. I mean you just drop your brand or whatever hold right click before you get thirst maybe it is a two button build if you don't use katava thirst so that could drop it down a point for you if you don't get a

katava thirst instant then total four out of five stars. This is really solid all around, but like I said, it's not perfect. Because if it was perfect, what this would need to be five out of five is like really good clear speed and really good visual clarity. Then it's five out of five, right? But it doesn't have those things. It's four out of five. Recommended Creator gtha Arc Mage hant ball lightning. I'm not even going to. I'm not going to go over every single stat here because this is basically the same build as this build. This is the same as ice NOA essentially, but you're just socketing into different skill and using some different support gems. The tree is like exactly the same. So basically, it's worse all around, to be honest, but it's a different skill, and maybe you think it looks cooler. That's about it. That's what it comes down to. There's no from like an efficiency perspective or like from a balance perspective or what. There is no reason to choose this over ice Nova.

unless I'm missing something, but yeah, there's no reason to, except for the fact that you want to play it, which is the should be the number one deciding for what build you want to play. Well, number one should be if it is playable, and then it should be how fun it looks to you. So it's like 3 point poo Stars. I don't know, it's pretty good. It's definitely good. I did a run with it the other day. I have a video on it. Um, yep, I'm going to release a guide for it. I guess by tomorrow since that's League start recommended. Creator is Dan, but I don't think Dan even made it, but it's a Dan build now. So, and then it'll be my video because I don't think anybody else made a video. Actually, waggle uploaded a video. I don't, it's not a guide though. So, Ark Mage DDF chaining Necromancer, it's kind of four stars all around. The damage is pretty good, four out to of five.

stars um, I think it'll be a little bit harder to manage your damage than Ice Nova um, pretty similar though. It's honestly pretty similar, I think. I don't know, I haven't done an Arc Mage DD run. I've just done regular DD, but I watch Jungs running it. It's pretty solid defense early. It's going to be kind of Suess, not bad by any means, but you get mana and you get some lock early. You're not going to have endurance charges or anything really, so yeah, not bad though. Clear speed, four stars. You can slap in Flesh Offering, then I guess your defense takes a little bit hit CU. Then you're not getting the block, but slap in Slash Offering, go zoom zoom. Bossing, five out of five. It's similar to um, similar to Hof Ice Nova. You're going to be chilling, you're going to be having your Des crate on an Arcanist brand, and you're going to be just popping it constantly. SF gear, same deal. I mean it's at its gear, it's still an Arc Mage build.

um why it's higher than this one you know honestly I don't know um I'm gonna take that down. I don't know why it's higher. It's like pretty pretty similar gear you know you know like I said give or take a star on a lot of these. It's hard to be consistent. I've made this over the course of like two days or something. It's hard to be consistent the whole time long-term scale abilities uh four stars why it's not five I don't know cuz that's what I feel like okay visual Clarity it's a one star. I mean it's DD you basically you really want the void DD effect default DD is a clustered eye pain deletion easy of use three out of five it's I mean it's kind of hard harder than ice Nova more stuff to manage or might be the same I don't know that's about four stars total it's good okay recommended Creator [Music] Jung hack blast mine trickster damage is five stars honestly it might be even six

stars out of five cuz it gets a ton of damage. Um, this is one of those builds where you just like go and one-shot things very quickly. Defense though is very iffy early. You're probably, I wouldn't, I would not League start this in hardcore. Let's just put it that way. It's okay, it's not bad. You're not going to be using six portals at but it's not great either. You just have, you've got some energy shield and Ghost Dance and whatever. So it's not like it's passable but it's a little bit under par. Clear speed about three and a half out of five. I mean it's not crazy. When I played it, I remember there was like I left stragglers pretty often. Not like super, like not like a deal-break amount but I mean it's pretty fast. It's definitely above average. I mean you just run, boom, pop pack, move to the next one. Bossing, I only have it three out to five because if you remember what the uh initial ratings are.

based off of right so be like oh but this build's going to oneshot the bosses what do you mean it's only three well yeah think about this day one through three you're not going to be doing that okay and whoa how did I do that and then if basically you're not taking much in bossing so if you're not if you're not comfortable with bosses you're going to be dying SF gear you can't start this an SF but you can go like I don't know something else explosive trap maybe and then after you get a curse on hit item that's when you can start it and after that it'd be like three stars you got like Sandstorm Vis which is I think going to be rare this league or whatever so that's going to be kind of rough um there's a few other uniques luckily you want to say in sanctum on this build anyways is a good sanctum Runner so a lot of the uniques are from sanctum like the good balance of Terror whatever it's

called balance within. I know what it is. I think it's of Terror and then Sandstorm scalability five stars. I mean like I said this can be a one-shot bossing build. Visual Clarity three out of five. It's okay. Ease of use three out of five. You kind of you have to think about your positioning but it's not really mechanically complex other than that and you just like chuck your minds boom. Okay maybe throw a bear trap or something total three stars. Recommend Ventra Guardian SRS. We got three stars of damage. Now the caveat to that is if you're doing something like a boss that has AOE attack or summons ads or something your damage is going to go down real far. CU your SS's are going to be dying. Um they're going to be targeting the wrong thing. I guess you could use predator to nullify that but on something like Exar and eater it's it's good on something like Maven it's bad. Defense three out of five. It's okay. You get your your Sentinel of Radiance.

guy that gives you some damage reduction. It's like 10%. And then you also get attack and spell block from the ascendency. And then you have your minions also kind of acting as like a they pull the aggro off you. Um, it's okay, it's pretty good. You're not going to be face tanking anything by any means. Clear speed three out of five. I mean you just drop your SRS and go. Um, early on might be a little bit more of an issue once your SRS get a lot of damage. It could probably be bumped up a star honestly because you just drop it and go. Early on it might struggle a little bit. Bossing three out of five. Like I said, I mean damage isn't great. Defense isn't great. The upside is you can just drop your your minions and then you can focus on dodging. But besides that actually like on paper stats wise it's not incredible. SF gear, uh, perfect SF build incredible. Couldn't get much better long-term.

scalability: three out of five stars. Um, your options with this build is like go poison, I guess, and then hit dot cap, which I mean, don't get me wrong, that's good, but it doesn't like hold a candle to hex blast, right? It's going to take you a lot longer to get there, and your damage cap's going to be lower. Visual clarity about as good as it gets. Use of use: three and a half. Uh, do like you have to manage, you have to self-cast your offering, you have to resummon your Sentinel of Radiance when he dies or do summons after 30 seconds or whatever it is. So there's some things you have to keep track of. Got to use your curses or whatever. Um, some of that can be automated, it, some, some of it can't. Total: three out of five stars. Recommended Creator: gazzy or someone. I don't know if I actually have. I haven't seen a guide on this this week. I don't know who has one, but he probably does. All right, Berserker girth shatter.

with non-Auto war cries now. This doesn't mean there's none Auto, it's just not all Autos, so you can sell. I think it's like you have three Auto and three not Auto, but the difference between the all-auto Po I saw and the non-auto was pretty huge. So, damage five out of five. I mean it's Berserker, I mean you get a ton of damage. Slams are buffed, it's a recipe for success. Defense two and a half Stars. I mean it's honestly not super terrible, but like you get some Max three some armor whatever from prize, but you are getting that ascendancy node that's going to make you take more damage early on. You're probably going to die a couple times unless you've been clear. Speed three out of five stars. I mean you're going to have to be managing your CRI and stuff. I mean it's not really that much of a hinder on clear speed. Honestly, it could be better than this because the Seism cry has been changed.

to 50% more AOE, and I might be underestimating how good that's going to be. So, if the AOE could be like gigantic now, but this might be even higher, but you do kind, you lose like some movement speed from the berserk Buffs. So, it might balance out honestly too bossing three out of five stars. It's melee, it's not that tanky, but you have a lot of damage SF gear 4 to five. It's pretty good, not terrible. I mean getting a Fizz weapon weapon is not too hard, getting the slam helmet is not too hard. I think it has a pretty high drop rate from Uber shaper um yep long-term scalability three out of five honestly might be four might be four. You can you can get it pretty good good pretty good although it might take you more effort to get there than some other builds visual Clarity four to five it's pretty good. I mean there's some stuff happening, but you can easily see through it ease of use two stars honestly maybe.

even one. I mean you have to. I mean I wouldn't really call it hard to use, but more tedious using your war cries all the time. Uh, 3.3 total Stars. I'm going to say that's a three right there. I don't know. Uh, Lance or Ben. Um, all auto war cries, the damage drops to like three and a half. Everything else is pretty much the same. It's a lot easier to use Juggernaut girth shatter non-Auto. I think if you want to Auto your war cries, you only go Berserker. I don't think you do that on other scies. I don't. I think at that point, you might as well be playing something else. Damage three and a half Stars. It's pretty good. Pretty good. It obviously doesn't hold a candle to Berserker. Well, it kind of does if it's on all auto. And then defense, I mean it's jug five out of five. Clear speed like two and a half. I mean it's not bad. Like it'll be pretty

good but certainly nothing crazy. I'd say probably about average bossing four to five. I mean you're good, good tanky. You can face tank a lot of stuff, maybe not like instantly, but eventually when you're really in the groove of bossing, you'll be taking a lot as Zev gear four to five. I mean it's pretty much the same gear as or as Berserker. Long-term scalability, I give it an extra star just for the point that it's a juggernaut and you can. You'll be able to get it to be like basically Immortal. Ease of use, still got to. You got to juggle those war cries ALK for that one. Total four stars. This is. I'm heavily considered starting this lightning strike Warden. Five stars. It just does Giga Dam. This Warden is like the glass Cannon ascendency. Yeah, it has bark skin. This doesn't take it. I don't think the bark skin noes very good. So five out of five for damage, but you're getting six portal.

defense clear speed's really good. Bossing, I mean, you're going to have to just not get hit, really. If you're getting hit, you're losing. If you're not confident in your bossing mechanics and you want to do bosses, not recommended. Can definitely get your four stones or whatever, but you're going to be getting farmed by exarch balls or something. You're going to be taking like one, maybe one at best. You're taking like one, and then you have 10% HP. Long-term scalability, five stars. I mean, this will just go crazy. Lightning strike scales really well, clears well. Visual clarity, three stars, and endgame versions of this will make it go down, but at the beginning, it shouldn't be too bad. Use of, use three, pretty good. Total, three stars. FB gun or loal if you want the glass cannon versions. Ellie hit of spectrum deadi ey, it's the same thing here, honestly. It's pretty similar to lightning strike builds. Damage is pretty good, but your

your defense is just six portals again clear speed's good um bossing same scenario SF gear is a little worse on this build. You're going to need to get like uh interrogation delirium Jewel. You're going to want like yoke of suffering or whatever. There's a few other things long-term scalability well you know five stars obviously the bow build visual Clarity 3 to five is okay ease of use three to five pretty okay you got to think about your positioning total two and a half Stars FB gun for that one Locust power mine trickster honestly I really like this build um it's got a ton of damage it's again it's the trickster thing it's um pretty squishy early on clear speed three out of five honestly I might be under selling that when okay when I played this build I did not do anything to modify the clear if you do something to modify the to clear like I don't know Fury valve or get some chain stuff or

whatever Fork, I don't know something. It might be really good actually, so I might be underselling this. Bossing three out of five. It's the same. It's the defense. You're not a mechanical God. Good luck ssf gear, uh, fortify. It's pretty good honestly. It's not too bad. I mean, I don't know if I'd started in SF like. Might be so the piece of gear you really want for the nonin stacker version, which because the inacker is not a league starter. Um, so the non-inacker version, the key unique is Marilyn's FY. It's playable without it, but you really want it. And you're obviously not guaranteed that in SF. So that might be a little bit of a problem. Long-term scalability is five out of five. It's, I mean, it is. You can turn it into an inst stacker or just stay with the base version and get crazy damage, whatever, get crazy defense. Eventually it'll pop off. Visual Clarity three out of five. It's, it's okay. I mean

you got some projectiles flying everywhere, but they're relatively small and not super flashy. Ease of use three to five. The only thing about the ease of use, the only that makes it like not four or five, is you have to get used to Locus mines. You cannot be near the mines. So if your character is here, you have to throw your mines like at least out to here. If it's too close to you, they will just sit there and not explode, and they will just reserve your Mana. So you cannot throw anything in melee range. It all has to be a certain distance out from you, or it will just not work. Like it will just not shoot your enemies. All right, Jung run for that one lightning strike Slayer soft Court only version. We got five stars here for the damage. I mean it's a glass Cannon build. You're going to be shredding things and getting shredded defense pretty bad. You got like 1.3. So in this PO, the softcore version I saw, basically if you are not hitting

something actively your fortify drops off you're going to evaporate in a dust near instantly clear speed five out of five you're going to zoom Slayer you got extra move speed and stuff extra speed um going like dark ray vectors and you're stacking frenzy charges zoom zoom bossing you're going to evaporate SF gear three out of five it's not bad it's doable it's not great but it's doable long longterm scalability five out of five visual Clarity uh [Music] um two out of five could be a three I guess depends how much attack speed you're going to have ease of views three out of five pretty easy it's just the positioning thing uh actually maybe it should be two I don't know so lightning strike there's kind of you have to think about I'm taking that off so on this one you're gonna have to think about your positioning like twice as hard because one lightning strike you need to stand a certain distance away from the enemy so

it does its double hit thing. Otherwise, you're going to be losing half your damage. Um, so you really got to consider that. If you don't know what I'm talking about, find a guide that explains it. So it'll explain it better than I will. Total three out of five stars. Fub gun lightning strike Slayer four to five stars. This is, this is like an all-rounder version. I don't want to say hardcore version 'cause it's, I mean I guess it is, but all-rounder version. Um, you got four to five stars of damage. Take a little hit. Uh, might even be three and a half. I'm not sure, but it is considerably less damage than softcore. Maybe it should be this is a six and this is a four. I'm not sure sure, but damage is still good. Don't get me wrong. You have a lot more defense. You're going to have actual defensive layers. So you're going to have proper Fizz mitigation and proper other mitigations. Um, you're going to have the Slayer. What's that? What's that?

lethal pride thing called strength of blood. Keystone for lethal Pride like gives you even more Fizz reduction and it PA pairs really well with the new V packed um. Going to have a ton of endurance charges. It's going to be layered properly for defense um. It's going to be much nicer in terms of not [Music] dying. You it will sense it won't be as crazy glass Cannon zoom zoom man. It will have a little bit less clear speed overall bossing does go up though three stars um. You're not going to do as much damage but you're going to be able to tank way more. You're not going to evaporate um but it is still melee build and on top of that it's a melee build that you kind of have to think about your positioning. I mean I guess it's kind of not a melee build cuz lightning strikes but for your optimal damage you want to be within a sort of melee range SF gear 4 to it's pretty good um.

definitely doable. Uh, these should probably be equal in SF gear. Honestly, I don't know. I'll give this another star, a short one though. Long-term scalability, five stars. I mean, it's still lightning strike. Still gets really high-end stuff. If you wanted to visual clarity, two and a half. Same deal. Ease of use, you can think a little bit less about moving 'cause you're going to know be able to tank a lot more. Three and a half stars. Ben K, any other hardcore person playing it, their PU is probably be pretty solid. Lacerate of hemorrhage bleed Gladiator, three out of five stars. Now, the actual damage on it is pretty low, but you got to keep in mind that you only have to hit once every few seconds and it's a DOT build. So, over time, it should be pretty good damage because while you're dodging, you're still doing damage, right? It's not like lightning strike Slayer where if you're dodging, you're doing no damage. On this one, your damage keeps

ticking defense four to five stars. Also, damage could get better if retaliate skills are really good. That could be a five-star build defense four to five star. You get like 90% block with the lucky hit node. You get endurance charges too. In maps, you are going to be immortal. In bosses, not so much. It'll still be reasonable, perfectly good for bossing, but in maps, if you look at the effect of hipol, you are like literally immortal. Now you're not actually immortal if something hits you that surpasses your max hit, you'll still die. Like if something one-shots you, you're dead, but that shouldn't be too much of an issue unless you're doing really crazy maps that you shouldn't be doing. Le speed three out of five, pretty good honestly, might be higher, but I'm a little wary of this build because its attack speed is pretty bad, but it might be saved by doing like you shield charger to pack and the bleed pops clear it maybe. I don't think it's definitely not.

lower than three out of five but I'm I'm wey you put it higher bossing three out of five like the damage is not insane it's okay the defense for bossing is not insane it's okay that's Z gear four to five it's pretty standard stuff pretty easy long-term scale ability is only a two um seems pretty hard to scale the damage up very high quickly you need a lot of gear to uh Skillet and comparatively you're going to be getting less out of it and if you do eventually get really good gear you're going to be stuck at thought cap as opposed to something like lightning strike visual Clarity well that's about as good as it gets five stars use of use five stars just let block carry you total three stars um ziz graa [ __ ] for the creators [ __ ] dead a dead Inquisitor yeah that's right you thought it was dead I thought it was dead but it's not dead so instead of using corpse damage

now you just get a bunch of flat damage for it, and it's still really good because DD of chaining is just mechanically super good so yet another DD build has dodged the Nerfs four to five stars for damage. It is not as good as it used to be, but it's still plenty passable. I'm not sure how much damage it actually lost, but in the PO, it's still plenty of damage. Um defense three out of five, it's pretty good, it's not super good, um definitely can be one shot by some stuff pretty easily, uh eventually it'll be very defensive, but early on got to kind of watch yourself. Clear speed four out to five, you I mean just throw your Lancing steel things go boom boom very good. Bossing three and a half, uh like the damage isn't crazy, the defense isn't crazy, it's pretty good though, um mechanic is pretty good for bossing you right click and it kind of Auto targets, uh it's pretty good. SF gear for out of five stars, it's all pretty easy.

stuff. Um, you need like a two-handed sword to really get started. Um, pretty easy, maybe even one mod. You just need the crit chance on the sword. Attack speed's nice but not necessary. SF gear. Oh, never mind. Long-term scalability. Five stars. It's a cast-on-crit build. A lot of scaling there. Lot of things you can do with it. Lot of defense options. Lots of things. Visual clarity. Yeah, that's probably the worst one on the list. Um, Good Luck. Ease of views. Three out to five stars. Uh, that should be higher. I don't even. Oh no, no. So the reason that's not higher because remember how I said you get flat. You're going to have to be using Smite. Smite gives you like, I think it's an extra 20% DPS. You're going to have to be clicking Smite on things for more damage. Now you not have to. I guess you don't have to if you don't want to lose 20% I mean 20% damage. You're going to have to click it every couple.

seconds total three and a half. Stars route two build Obama Guardian, which is Blink Arrow. Mir Arrow of bombardment damage pretty good. Honestly, I think if you are like a new player and you don't know what to start, I think this is probably what you do. It's really good for leveling. It's really smooth clearing the maps. It's decently tanky. It's got good damage. It scales up really fast. It's good all four out of five for damage. Like I said, it's good. You just get so much damage right out of the gate. Honestly, like if you farm lab, obviously you have to want to do lab, but if you farm lab leveling with this feels like cheating. Thanks Dia. You're welcome, DIA. Defense though, it's okay. It's got Block. It's got some minions. Clear speed three and a half. Honestly, if you use the Blink Arrow, most people offer Miror Arrow because gives you more control. But if you use Blink Arrow, clear speed goes up to like maybe four, four and a half. You just blink.

Arrow your minions kill everything with their Big R of arrows and just keep zooming bossing. Four out of five stars minion build. They do the work. Um, you hit things boom defense, but no, I'm thinking about food now. SF gear five out of five, very good SF build. Long-term scalability five out of five. You can do some crazy stuff with this, get really big damage. Visual clarity, uh, three to five stars, is okay. Got, I mean, you got a bunch of arrows running everywhere. Eing views two and a half. I mean, you think that was like higher, right, but you have to manage a few things. Did I already mention this is Obama Guardian somewhere else or did I mention this on the stream and not on this video? I don't know. Well, anyways, I'm GNA say it again if I already did. You, um, you have to manage your offerings and you're gonna have to manage your Sentinel of Radiance. So you're going to have to be paying attention to when those drop or you lose.

a considerable amount of damage plus defense so you have to be paying attention on this. It's not a true minion go AFK build, but it is probably the best minion Starter by far. Total three and a half Stars recommended. I don't know if he has an updated version for this league, but righteous Fire Chieftain damage, no um defense, four and a half Stars. It's pretty good. It's not really like you still can't face tank things super early. You're going to have to build up your defense still, so it's not really a great trade-off for having no damage. Clear speed three and a half. It's okay. It would be really good if rare monsters didn't exist, but every so often you're going to hit a rare monster, and it's just going to take you like five minutes to kill it. Exaggeration, but it's going to be noticeable. Bossing one star for the solely for the fact that um you got good defense. SF gear five stars. Super easy gear and SF.

long-term scalability. Uh, um, yeah. I mean, you can get it to do pretty good damage, honestly, but at what cost? And I don't mean literal cost, I mean like cost to your brain. Visual Clarity: five stars. I mean, okay, I've said it doesn't get much better than this. One. I've said that for a few builds, but this one really, it doesn't get much better. Ease of use, that's a lot of stars. I'm not counting. Total: two stars. Pox recommended for that, obviously. I mean, who else would you expect? All right, this one's a little different just because I don't know, I felt like it sparked. Any ascendancy doesn't matter. Damage: no. Defense: no. Clear speed: also no. Bossing: yeah, don't even think about it. At Seth gear, no long-term scalability, though. Yes, you have a lot of that, a lot of long-term scalability, but you're not going to make the currency to get there. Visual Clarity: yep, it's bad here too. Ease of use: those is pretty good.

five stars. I don't know. I think it might be like four actually. There's some, there is some things you have to press and then um total, uh, yeah. I've released a stronger build IRL into the toilet. That's actually true, all well. Okay, I don't know if the last week part is true because it might have been two weeks at this point but let me tell you that was like an intro, okay, it was crazy. I didn't know it was humanly possible. Yeah, that's um, that is it.

Some of the BEST League Start Builds for PoE 3.25 Ratings & Explanations | Path of Exile Guide

Some of the BEST League Start Builds for PoE 3.25 Ratings & Explanations | Path of Exile Guide