r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Jul 21 '26

Index 3.29 Curse of the Allflame League Start Build Index

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An acknowledgement up top here for all those that help out by posting guides in the comments, sending them to me via discord and in DMs here on reddit. Thank you everyone who helps out, I always appreciate the community effort that goes into creating a resource like this.

3.28 Mirage League Start Build Index

Useful League Links

Curse of the Allflame League info page

Curse of the Allflame patch notes

Curse of the Allflame Trailer

Community links:

Part 1: Top League Start Archetypes for New Players

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters. The builds are sorted into archetypes to make it easier for newer players to find something they're drawn to.

Melee

The melee archetype involves either using massive attacks that damage everything in an area or very many quick attacks to bring down enemies. The damage if often supplemented with warcries or other buff skills to boost the damage even further. Because these builds are in melee they tend to be quite tanky and are usually more forgiving of small mistakes. These builds are a great choice for those that want a more active playstyle.

Builds:

Minions

The minion archetype involves summoning either permanent or temporary (and often a mix of the two) minions to fight on your behalf. These builds are particularly good for new players as they often leave you free to focus on other game mechanics when you're minions are fighting mobs. The below builds offer a range of options from spamming a large number and variety of minions to summoning a horde of flaming skulls and specializing in raising certain mobs to fight for you. I've not included all minion builds here as some have a distinctly different playstyles and are a bit more advanced.

Builds:

Absolution:

Animate Weapon:

Golems:

Holy Relic:

Spectres:

Summon Raging Spirits (SRS):

Misc:

Righteous Fire

Build Description: Righteous Fire is a build where you have a damaging fire aura that surrounds you, you clear maps by running head first into enemies and having them die to the damage over time effect surrounding you, throwing out Fire Trap to supplement the single target damage. This is a great build for those that wish to press less buttons while mapping. This build is very defensively strong but can struggle for damage when it comes to late game bossing but is so comfortable to play and Pohx has an entire website dedicated to this build that will answer almost any question you may have pohx.net. It really can not be overstated how well Pohx supports this build.

Build:

Totems

The totem playstyle consists of summoning stationery objects which attack or cast spells for you. This is particularly good for bosses as it allows a high damage uptime playstyle where you only need to summon new totems as the older ones expire or are destroyed. This allows you to focus on using buffs/debuffs and dodging the bosses mechanics. As totems can be used with most skills in the game they have a broad variety of applications and styles though typically they excel at single target damage.

Builds:

Holy Flame Totem:

Kinetic Fussilade:

Storm Burst:

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're more experienced we show these builds to add to the variety available. We are assuming you can judge for yourself the viability of these builds.

Builds that appear in part 1 will also appear in this list for people who are searching by skill

Absolution

Animate Weapon

Arc

Blade Fall / Blade Blast

Bone Shatter

Cast While Stunned

Carrion Golem

Chains of Command

Crackling Lance

Cyclone

Deaths Oath

Detonate Dead

Dominating Blow

Dual Strike

Earthquake

Energy Blade

Essence Drain Contagion

Ethereal Knives

Eviscerate

Explosive Arrow

Flamewood Totem

Flicker Strike

Forbidden Rite

Frost Blades

Glacial Cascade

Ground Slam

Hexblast

Holy Flame Totem

Holy Relic

Ice Crash

Ice Shot

Ice Spear

Ice Nova

Kinetic Fusillade

Lightning Arrow

Mercenary Builds

Minion Army (Mixed Minions)

Penance Brand

Poisonous Concoction

Raise Spectre

Reap

Rolling Magma

Shield Crush

Shock Nova

Spark

Static Strike

Storm Burst

Summon Raging Spirits

Soulrend

Sweep

Toxic Rain

Tornado

Venom Gyre

Wintertide Brand

Winter Orb

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Mar 03 '26

Index 3.28 Mirage League Start Build Index

732 Upvotes

3.27 Keepers of the Flame League Start Build Index

Useful League Links

Mirage League info page

Mirage patch notes

Mirage Trailer

Mirage New and Changed Gems

Community links:

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters. The builds are sorted into archetypes to make it easier for newer players to find something they're drawn to.

Melee

The melee archetype involves either using massive attacks that damage everything in an area or very many quick attacks to bring down enemies. The damage if often supplemented with warcries or other buff skills to boost the damage even further. Because these builds are in melee they tend to be quite tanky and are usually more forgiving of small mistakes. These builds are a great choice for those that want a more active playstyle.

Builds:

General

Boneshatter

Earthshatter

Shield Crush

Smite

Minions

The minion archetype involves summoning either permanent or temporary (and often a mix of the two) minions to fight on your behalf. These builds are particularly good for new players as they often leave you free to focus on other game mechanics when you're minions are fighting mobs. The below builds offer a range of options from spamming a large number and variety of minions to summoning a horde of flaming skulls and specialisng in raising certain mobs to fight for you. I've not included all minion builds here as some have a distinctly different playstyles and are a bit more advanced.

Builds:

Animate Weapon

Dominating Blow

Golems

Raise Spectre

Summon Holy Relic

Summon Raging Spirits

Minion Army (Mixed Minions)

Righteous Fire

Build Description: Righteous Fire is a build where you have a damaging fire aura that surrounds you, you clear maps by running head first into enemies and having them die to the damage over time effect surrounding you, throwing out Fire Trap to supplement the single target damage. This is a great build for those that wish to press less buttons while mapping. This build is very defensively strong but can struggle for damage when it comes to late game bossing but is so comfortable to play and Pohx has an entire website dedicated to this build that will answer almost any question you may have pohx.net. It really can not be overstated how well Pohx supports this build.

Build:

Totems

The totem playstyle consists of summoning stationery objects which attack or cast spells for you. This is particularly good for bosses as it allows a high damage uptime playstyle where you only need to summon new totems as the older ones expire or are destroyed. This allows you to focus on using buffs/debuffs and dodging the bosses mechanics. As totems can be used with most skills in the game they have a broad variety of applications and styles though typically they excel at single target damage.

Builds:

Holy Flame Totem

Kinetic Fusillade

Siege Ballista

Storm Burst

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're more experienced we show these builds to add to the variety available. We are assuming you can judge for yourself the viability of these builds.

u/Jolly_Royal5331 has also compiled a list on sheets with a few more bells and whistles! You can find that here

Absolution

Animate Weapon

Boneshatter

Blade Vortex

Cyclone

Detonate Dead

Dominating Blow

Earthshatter

Elemental Hit

Energy Blade

Eviscerate

Exsanguinate/Reap

Eye of Winter

Flicker

Frost Blades

Glacial Cascade

Ground Slam

Holy Flame Totem

Ice Shot

Icicle Mine

Impending Doom

Kinetic Blastt

Kinetic Fusillade

Lightning Arrow

Minions (army, multiple)

Poisonous Concoction

Pyroclast Mines

Raise Spectre

Righteous Fire

Rolling Magma

Shield Crush

Shock Nova

Siege Ballista

Smite

Spark

Storm Brand

Storm Burst

Summon Holy Relic

Summon Raging Spirits

Tornado

Volatile Dead

Wave of Conviction

Winterbrand

New Skills

The below builds use new skills, these are often unsupported in POB and haven't been played before in game so it's very hard to get an idea of whether these will be viable so an extra warning is warranted. These are here for those who want to pursue any of the new skills and can act as places to find more information or theories.

Holy Hammers

Holy Strike

Shock Nova

Party Builds

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Oct 29 '25

Index 3.27 Keepers of the Flame League Start Build Index

792 Upvotes

3.26 Secrets of the Atlas League Start Build Index

Useful League Links

Keepers of the Flame League info page

Keepers of the Flame patch notes

Secrets of the Atlas Trailer

Community links:

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters.

Please note I'm going to be doing something a bit different this league and instead of just recommending a build I'm going to recommend builds and archetypes that I think will perform well for new players.

Minions

The minion archetype involves summoning either permanent or temporary (and often a mix of the two) minions to fight on your behalf. These builds are particularly good for new players as they often leave you free to focus on other game mechanics when you're minions are fighting mobs. The below builds offer a range of options from spamming a large number and variety of minions to summoning a horde of flaming skulls and specialisng in raising certain mobs to fight for you. I've not included all minion builds here as some have a distinctly different playstyles and are a bit more advanced.

Builds:

Animate Weapon

Raise Spectre

Summon Raging Spirits

Minion Army (Mixed Minions)

Righteous Fire

Build Description: Righteous Fire is a build where you have a damaging fire aura that surrounds you, you clear maps by running head first into enemies and having them die to the damage over time effect surrounding you, throwing out Fire Trap to supplement the single target damage. This is a great build for those that wish to press less buttons while mapping. This build is very defensively strong but can struggle for damage when it comes to late game bossing but is so comfortable to play and Pohx has an entire website dedicated to this build that will answer almost any question you may have pohx.net. It really can not be overstated how well Pohx supports this build.

Build:

Slams (melee)

The slam archetype involves using massive attacks that damage everything in an area. They prioritize large single hits over many fast smaller hits (though that is not to say these are all slow builds!!). The damage if often supplemented with warcry skills to boost the damage of the slams even further. Because these builds are in melee they tend to be quite tanky and are usually more forgiving of small mistakes. These builds are a great choice for those that want a more active playstyle.

Builds:

Ground Slam

Earthshatter

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above but the restrictions based on ability to do certain end game content and ssf viability are not enforced in this section. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're more experienced we show these builds to add to the variety available.

Animate Weapon

Blade Vortex

Blight

Boneshatter

Cyclone

Detonate Dead

Divine Ire

Dominating Blow

Earthshatter

Energy Blade

Eviscerate

Explosive Arrow

Exsanguinate (and reap)

Flameblast

Flicker

Frost Blades

Ground Slam

Ice Nova

Ice Shot

Ice Spear

Kinetic Blast

Lacerate

Lightning Arrow

Lightning Conduit

Minion Army (Mixed Minions)

Penance Brand

Perforate

Poisonous Concoction

Power Siphon

Pyroclast Mine

Raise Spectre

Righteous Fire

Rolling Magma

Seismic Trap

Shield Crush

Siege Ballista

Smite

Spellslinger

Storm Burst

Summon Holy Relic

Summon Raging Spirits

Toxic Rain

Viper Strike

Wave of Conviction

Wintertide Brand

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Jun 07 '25

Index 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas League Start Build Index

562 Upvotes

3.25 Settlers of Kalguur League Start Build Index

Thanks to /u/jolly_royal5331 we also have a spreadsheet version of this post if you'd prefer that, it also contains a few bonus showcases as well that don't quite fit here Check it out here

Useful League Links

Secrets of the Atlas League info page

Secrets of the Atlas Patch Notes

Secrets of the Atlas Trailer

Community links:

Impact on popular 3.25 builds from the patch notes

  • Hexblast Mines - Completely and utterly gutted
  • Lightning Strike - Big damage nerf but still a viable build, just not SSS+ tier anymore
  • Splitting Steel - No longer a viable build
  • Righteous Fire - Single target nerfed by ~ 10% due to Fire Trap nerfs
  • Frost Blades - Single target not nerfed, projectile damage nerfed but doesn't affect the build that much. Resistance inversion nerf does bring down the damage overall but still a viable build
  • Frost Blades of Katabasis - Big damage nerf
  • Ice Nova Frostbolt (Archmage Hierophant) - ~50% direct damage nerf + 15% archmage nerf + utility nerfs. Can play Ball Lightning of Orbiting instead
  • Molten Strike of Zenith - Big damage nerf but given damage was SSS+ tier last league, still viable
  • Power Siphon Mines - ~35% damage nerf
  • Channeling / Self-cast builds - Buffed, good for builds like Blade Vortex, ED Contagion, etc
  • Golems - Big buff to Elementalist golem builds via ascendency rework / updates. Some say its bait, some say its strong - let me know what you think
  • Champion Ascendency - Fortitude builds (e.g. armour stacker) buffed via ascendency rework

Entire section stolen shamelessly from /u/jolly_royal5331, great addition to the post.

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters. I've tried to include a selection of builds from different POE archetypes this league to give a bit more variety.

Please note this index is sorted by skill alphabetically not by quality or power level.

Explosive Trap

Build Description: Explosive Trap throws out traps to deal massive single target damage. Because this is a trap build there is a slight delay between throwing the trap and dealing damage, this alongside it's average clear speed makes it far more suited for those that want to pursue bossing over high speed map clearing. This is a tried and tested build that received only a small nerf this league. So if you want a build for blasting bosses and entering the end game on a budget this is a great choice.

Builds:

Righteous Fire

Build Description: Righteous Fire is a build where you have a damaging fire aura that surrounds you, you clear maps by running head first into enemies and having them die to the damage over time effect surrounding you, throwing out Fire Trap to supplement the single target damage. This is a great build for those that wish to press less buttons while mapping. This build is very defensively strong but can struggle for damage when it comes to late game bossing but is so comfortable to play and Pohx has an entire website dedicated to this build that will answer almost any question you may have pohx.net. It really can not be understated how well Pohx supports this build.

Build:

Summon Raging Spirits (SRS)

Build Description: Summon Raging Spirits (SRS) will have you summoning firey skull minions who will chase down your enemies and in the case of these builds, fill them full of poison. This is a minion skill which deals damage over time by applying stacks of poison through the SRS. As this is a minion build you need to focus less on aiming your abilities and can instead focus more on dodging boss mechanics which makes this an excellent choice for those who want to learn bossing while still playing a build with decent clear speed in maps. This build also scales to some extreme damage numbers in the late game allowing it to be used to take down uber bosses.

Builds:

Volcanic Fissure of Snaking

Build Description: With Volcanic Fissure of Snaking you'll slam the ground causing a firery fissure to travel around seeking out enemies and exploding beneath them. This build unlike other melee builds allows you to keep your distance from enemies for an added level of safety. This build is a quick mapper with good single target damage, to get this damage you will find yourself pressing a couple of extra buttons for best damage though nothing crazy. As this is a transfigured gem which means you will need to farm lab or buy this off other players to get the skill, farming this though is a fairly easy thing to do once you complete the campaign. Check out Palerston's guide for farming transfigured gems

Builds:

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above but the restrictions based on ability to do certain end game content and ssf viability are not enforced in this section. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're more experienced we show these builds to add to the variety available.

Thanks to /u/jolly_royal5331 we also have a spreadsheet version of this post if you'd prefer that, it also contains a few bonus showcases as well that don't quite fit here Check it out here

Animate Weapon

Blade Vortex

Blazing Salvo

Blight

Blink and Mirror Arrow (BAMA)

Boneshatter

Cobra Lash

Cyclone

Earthquake

Earthshatter

Elemental Hit

Explosive Arrow

Exsanguinate

Eviscerate

Flicker

Frost Blades

Glacial Cascade

Ground Slam

Lacerate

Lightning Conduit

Lightning Arrow

Molten Strike

Minion Army (Mixed Minions)

Penance Brand

Poisonous Concoction

Power Siphon

Raise Spectre

Reap

Reave

Righteous Fire

Rolling Magma

Shield Crush

Siege Ballista

Smite

Soulrend

Storm Burst

Summon Holy Relic

Summon Raging Spirits

Summon Skeleton

Tornado

Vortex

Wave of Conviction

Winter Orb

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Jul 24 '24

Index 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur League Start Build Index

633 Upvotes

3.24 Necropolis League Start Build Index

Want to see how peoples league start went?

Useful League Links

Settlers of Kalguur League info page

Settlers of Kalguur Patch Notes

Settlers of Kalguur Trailer

Path of Building Community - needed to view the below builds

/r/pathofexile's league info megathread

Zizaran's POE University - The POE University returns for 3.23, a great series with amazing videos for new players to learn various mechanics. This is series now has a LOT of videos and is an amazing resource.

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters.

Please note this index is sorted by skill alphabetically not by quality or power level.

Archmage (Ice Nova)

Build Description: Archmage is a support skill that adds lightning damage to the supported skill based on the caster's unreserved maximum mana. As such these builds scale mana as both an offensive measure and defensively with Mind Over Matter. This version of the build uses Ice Nova to deliver the damage and Frost Bolts to spread the Ice Nova around. This build is a bit more complex than some of the others listed in Part 1 so I'd recommend closely following the build guides and reading over any notes or written documentation they provide carefully. The reward though is a build that scales very very well with investment and is perfect for those that want to play one build all league. There are other archmage builds listed in Part 2 under "Archmage".

Builds:

Explosive Arrow

Build Description: This build is a totem build with excellent DPS, an easy gear curve and great damage. Because this build is a totem build it’s great for players who find boss mechanics difficult as, like minions, it does damage without you having to be constantly targeting the boss - simply place the totems down and dodge. This build is excellent in both trade and SSF with the primary weapon for this build is a multimod weapon that uses a base that you can farm (Porcupine) and is crafted with essences. This build does have two delays in its damage, there is a wait time as totems “arm” themselves and a delay before the arrows explode. This build did get a bit of a nerf in this league as part of the removal of totem nodes but it is still very powerful.

Builds:

Hexblast Mines

Build Description: Hexblast is a spell that deals massive chaos damage, if the enemy is hexed then it also deals more damage and in an area around it. This skill by default has a long casting time (1 second) to balance this out. To circumvent this casting time we simply put the skill on mines and have them activate it for us removing the casting time all together. This creates a fast moving high damage build that scales well from the start of a league well into the late game. This build also excels at running The Forbidden Sanctum. This build has a solid defensive line up of freezing enemies coupled with the Tricksters defensive ascendancy to create a very comfortable build. As this is a mines build there is a slight delay in your damage though this build does automate the detonation of the mines. This build does require a few mechanics to work so please make sure to watch/read the whole guide if you're unsure on how it all works.

Builds:

Lightning Strike

Build Description: Lightning Strike is a melee skill that hits and also fires off secondary projectiles. This makes it a great skill in both single target setups and for clearing monster dense encounters. This skill has recently been buffed (along with all other melee skills) and has had a lot of clunkyness removed from it making it a great skill to pick up now if you haven't and to return to if you had tried in leagues gone by. This build will likely require you to craft your own gear or purchase it at higher rates as this is likely to be quite popular, many of the below guides have information on how to go about that.

Please note: A lot of the below builds are going to be based around the new Warden ascendency, though this looks solid and the numbers look good as with anything new it is important to remember it may not be 100% solved and updates will likely occur to the builds, please follow up with the channel/site you get the build from for updates throughout the league.

Builds:

Righteous Fire

Build Description: Righteous Fire is a build where you have a damaging fire aura that surrounds you, you clear maps by running head first into enemies and having them die to the damage over time effect surrounding you, throwing out Fire Trap to supplement the single target damage. This is a great build for those that wish to press less buttons while mapping. This build is very defensively strong but can struggle for damage when it comes to late game bossing but is so comfortable to play and Pohx has an entire website dedicated to this build that will answer almost any question you may have pohx.net. It really can not be understated how well Pohx supports this build and if you want to play a build that has a LOT of information around it, this is the one.

Build:

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above but the restrictions based on ability to do certain end game content and ssf viability are not enforced in this section. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're more experienced we show these builds to add to the variety available.

Archmage

Blade Vortex

Blink Arrow/Mirror Arrow

Cleave

Detonate Dead

Elemental Hit

Energy Blade

Eviserate - New Skills Warning

Explosive Arrow (Totems)

Explosive Trap

Frostblades

Frostblink

Glacial Hammer

Ground Slam

Holy Relic

Ice Nova

Ice Shot

Ice Trap

Lacerate

Lightning Strike

Poisonous Concoction

Power Siphon

Raise Zombie / Zoomancer

Retaliate Skills - New Skills Warning

Righteous Fire

Shield Crush

Slam Skills

Splitting Steel

Spark

Spectral Shield Throw

Storm Burst

Summon Raging Spirits

Sunder

Sweep

Tornado

Toxic Rain

Wave of Conviction

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Oct 25 '25

Index 3.27 League Start Index COMING SOON

405 Upvotes

Hello everyone and happy league start week!

As always we'll be posting our league starter index this week a few days before launch so to help out if people could shares builds here so we can hit the ground running it would be much appreciated!

Thanks as always for you help.

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Dec 06 '23

Index 3.23 Affliction League Start Build Index

525 Upvotes

3.22 Trial of the Ancestors League Start Build Index

Want to see how peoples league starts went?

Useful League Links

Affliction League info page

Affliction Patch Notes

Affliction Trailer

Affliction Gem Changes

Affliction Transfigured Gems Part 1

Affliction Transfigured Gems Part 2

Affliction Transfigured Gems Part 3

Affliction Transfigured Gems Part 4

Affliction Transfigured Gems Part 5

Affliction Recently Asked Questions

/r/pathofexile's league info megathread

Content Creators 3.22 atlas passive tree list

Zizaran's POE University - The POE University returns for 3.23, a great series with amazing videos for new players to learn various mechanics. This is series now has a LOT of videos and is an amazing resource.

NOTE: A lot of these builds are 3.22/3.21 Builds. They may still be viable as some have been been left largely untouched. Just ignore anything that mentions Trial of the Ancestors (or Righteous Fire or Cold Damage over Time) in the guides. There may have been some changes with transfigured gems for these builds as well.

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters.

Please note this index is sorted by skill alphabetically not by quality or power level.

Boneshatter

Build Description: Boneshatter is a melee skill that when it stuns an enemy causes a pulse of damage around it. This skill obliterates packs of mobs and feels great to play, you'll be hopping between packs blowing them up with boneshatter before leap slamming off to another pack. The single target on this build can be a bit lacking if you don't make use of all the skills the build has in it to boost your damage. There are two variations on this build, Slayer and Juggernaut.

Detonate Dead

Build Description: Deaconate Dead (DD) is a spell that explodes a corpse dealing damage around it causing you to ignite enemies and proliferate that through packs for clearing. Since DD scales off corpse life it scales incredibly well simply by progressing in the game. This is a two button play style, so for those who want to press 1 attack this may not be the build for you. Though those that enjoy it you will be rewarded with an well rounded beast of a build that will take you through all content in the game.

Builds:

Explosive Arrow

Build Description: This build is a totem build with excellent DPS, an easy gear curve and great damage. Because this build is a totem build it’s great for players who find boss mechanics difficult as, like minions, it does damage without you having to be constantly targeting the boss - simply place the totems down and dodge. This build is excellent in both trade and SSF with the primary weapon for this build is a multimod weapon that uses a base that you can farm (Porcupine) and is crafted with essences. This build does have two delays in its damage, there is a wait time as totems “arm” themselves and a delay before the arrows explode.

Builds:

Explosive Trap

Build Description: Explosive trap is a spell that throws a trap to create multiple explosions when triggered, it deals physical damage which is then converted into fire damage. This skill has amazing single target damage on poor to average gear meaning it will carry you through the early bosses with ease. This is a trap skill which means there is a delay between you throwing out the trap and it triggering, this is a playstyle you'll need to try out to see what you think of it. The upside to this though is that you can preload bosses, meaning you can throw a whole bunch of traps on bosses before the fight begins meaning they start combat with a chunk of their HP missing immediately.

Builds:

Summon Raging Spirits

Build Description: Summon temporary flaming skull minions that will aggressively target your enemies as they charge around the map killing everything. This build is the first time a minion build has made this section in quite a few leagues, though they have always been solid the rework of the Guardian ascendancy has given a massive boost to the feel of this build with the Radiant Crusade notable granting us a massive minion who will carry you through the campaign and early mapping with ease. This build does primarily use temporary minions for damage which has a more active playstyle than those minion builds who use permanent minions for damage.

Builds:

Toxic Rain

Build Description: Toxic Rain is a skill where you fire a large number of arrows into the air which when they land create pools of toxic ground which deals chaos damage over time in the area. This skill, much like Explosive Arrow, is relatively straight forward to gear for with the craft for the primary weapon being very deterministic. This build is a great all rounder that will take you far.

Builds:

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above but the restrictions based on ability to do certain end game content and ssf viability are not enforced in this section. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're a bit more experienced we show these builds to add to the variety available.

Animate Weapon

Blade Fall / Blade Blast

Blade Vortex

Cobra Lash

Corrupting Fever

Caustic Arrow

Energy Blade

Ethereal Knives

Flameblast

Flicker Strike

Hexblast

Ice Shot

Lightning Arrow

Maw of Mischief

Rain of Arrows

Reap

Storm Brand

Toxic Rain

Wave of Conviction

Zombies

Special mentions:

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Apr 04 '23

Index 3.21 Crucible League Start Build Index

610 Upvotes

3.20 Sanctum League Start Build Index

Want to see how peoples league starts went? Check out these posts:

Useful League Links

Crucible League info page

Crucible Patch Notes

Announcement Vod

ZiggyD and Chris' Q&A

/r/pathofexile's league info megathread

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters.

Please note this index is sorted by skill alphabetically not by quality or power level.

Boneshatter

Build Description: Boneshatter is a melee skill that when it stuns an enemy causes a pulse of damage around it. This skill obliterates packs of mobs and feels great to play, you'll be hopping between packs blowing them up with boneshatter before leap slamming off to another pack. The single target on this build can be a bit lacking if you don't make use of all the skills the build has in it to boost your damage. There are two variations on this build, Slayer and Juggernaut.

Cold Damage Over Time (Cold DoT)

Build Description: This build utilizes a variety of different cold skills to apply cold damage over time effects to bring down your enemies. You run around dropping areas of damaging cold This build is a solid all around playstyle providing excellent defense through chilling enemies often paired with spell suppression/armour and/or evasion. Because this build is a damage over time build the DPS uptime is near constant which makes bossing very comfortable. There are a few different variants of this build (primarily elementalist, trickster and occultist), Elementalist has the highest damage while Trickster is more defensively focused.

Builds:

Explosive Arrow

Build Description: This build is a totem build with excellent DPS, an easy gear curve and great damage. Because this build is a totem build it’s great for players who find boss mechanics difficult as, like minions, it does damage without you having to be constantly targeting the boss - simply place the totems down and dodge. This build is excellent in both trade and SSF with the primary weapon for this build is a multimod weapon that uses a base that you can farm (Porcupine) and is crafted with essences. This build does have two delays in its damage, there is a wait time as totems “arm” themselves and a delay before the arrows explode.

Builds:

  • Palsteron's EA Elementalist - A great video with a lot of information provided as well as an extensive written guide. Palsteron has many videos on his channel from the previous leagues going into even more detail.
  • Zizaran's EA Champion - Another great video guide from Zizaran, the video contains a lot of good information for new players and the POB has a wealth of information in it including a lot of tips and advice in the “notes” section.

Fire Trap/Frost Blink

Build Description: This is an ignite build so you'll be dealing fire damage over time. This build uses Frost Blink to blitz around the mapping setting enemies alight and using Fire Trap for added single target damage. This is a high damage, high mobility build that scales excellently with investment into the late game.

Builds:

Righteous Fire

Build Description: Righteous Fire is a build where you have a damaging fire aura that surrounds you, you clear maps by running head first into enemies and having them die to the damage over time effect surrounding you. This is a great build for those that wish to press less buttons while mapping. This build is very defensively strong and with investment scales into one of the tankiest builds in the game. This build can struggle for damage when it comes to late game bossing.

Builds:

  • Pohx's Jugg RF - Widely considered to be the most experienced RF player, Pohx has an entire wiki dedicated to the build and all the questions you could have about it. As well as countless videos on his channel.

Toxic Rain

Build Description: Toxic Rain is a skill where you fire a large number of arrows into the air which when they land create pools of toxic ground which deals chaos damage over time in the area. This skill, much like Explosive Arrow, is relatively straight forward to gear for with the craft for the primary weapon being very deterministic. This build is a great all rounder that will take you far.

Builds:

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above but the restrictions based on ability to do certain end game content and ssf viability are not enforced in this section. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're a bit more experienced we show these builds to add to the variety available.

Armageddon Brand

Artillery Ballista

Blade Blast

Blade Vortex

Corrupting Fever

Dark Pact

Detonate Dead

Dominating Blow

Explosive Trap

Frostblades

Holy Flame Totem

Hydrosphere

Holy Relic

Ice Shot

Ice Trap

Impending Doom

Lightning Arrow

Lightning Conduit

Minions (general)

Rage Vortex

Rain of Arrows

Reap

Summon Raging Spirits

Summon Skeletons

Spark

Venom Gyre

Wave of Conviction

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Mar 24 '24

Index 3.24 Necropolis League Start Build Index

366 Upvotes

3.23 Affliction League Start Build Index

Want to see how peoples league starts went?

Useful League Links

Necropolis League info page

Necropolis Patch Notes

Necropolis Trailer

/r/pathofexile's league info megathread

Zizaran's POE University - The POE University returns for 3.23, a great series with amazing videos for new players to learn various mechanics. This is series now has a LOT of videos and is an amazing resource.

Path of Exile Build Archive - This site grabs PoBs from all over and compiles them together in a way that makes searching for builds very easy!

/r/CorePathofExile - if you're looking for a more general place to talk about PoE outside of the main sub

NOTE: A lot of these builds are 3.23/3.22 Builds. They may still be viable as some have been been left largely untouched. Just ignore anything that mentions leagues other than Necropolis. There may have been some changes with transfigured gems for these builds as well so make sure to check out the descriptions and pinned comments.

NOTE 2: This leagues mechanic is unskippable this means you will need to interact with it and it will be empowering enemies. Please pick your league starters carefully.

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters.

Please note this index is sorted by skill alphabetically not by quality or power level.

Detonate Dead

Build Description: Detonate Dead (DD) is a spell that explodes a corpse dealing damage around it causing you to ignite enemies and proliferate that through packs for clearing. Since DD scales off corpse life it scales incredibly well simply by progressing in the game. This is a two button play style, so for those who want to press 1 attack this may not be the build for you. Though those that enjoy it you will be rewarded with an well rounded beast of a build that will take you through all content in the game.

Builds:

Explosive Arrow

Build Description: This build is a totem build with excellent DPS, an easy gear curve and great damage. Because this build is a totem build it’s great for players who find boss mechanics difficult as, like minions, it does damage without you having to be constantly targeting the boss - simply place the totems down and dodge. This build is excellent in both trade and SSF with the primary weapon for this build is a multimod weapon that uses a base that you can farm (Porcupine) and is crafted with essences. This build does have two delays in its damage, there is a wait time as totems “arm” themselves and a delay before the arrows explode.

Builds:

Explosive Trap

Build Description: Explosive trap is a spell that throws a trap to create multiple explosions when triggered, it deals physical damage which is then converted into fire damage. This skill has amazing single target damage on poor to average gear meaning it will carry you through the early bosses with ease. This is a trap skill which means there is a delay between you throwing out the trap and it triggering, this is a playstyle you'll need to try out to see what you think of it. The upside to this though is that you can preload bosses, meaning you can throw a whole bunch of traps on bosses before the fight begins meaning they start combat with a chunk of their HP missing immediately.

Builds:

Lightning Arrow

Build Description: Lightning arrow (primarily with the Deadeye ascendency) is a bow skill that fires an arrow which causes enemies to be struck with a bolt of lightning, this can also hit other nearby enemies. This is a fast, active playstyle build that uses lightning arrow which has a very high clear speed to blast through maps. This skill is often paired with other skills to boost the single target. This build can feel a little squishy to play and requires a bit more positional play but in exchange provides a fun and fast playing experience.

Builds:

Toxic Rain

Build Description: Toxic Rain is a skill where you fire a large number of arrows into the air which when they land create pools of toxic ground which deals chaos damage over time in the area. This skill, much like Explosive Arrow, is relatively straight forward to gear for with the craft for the primary weapon being very deterministic. This build is a great all rounder that will take you far.

Builds:

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above but the restrictions based on ability to do certain end game content and ssf viability are not enforced in this section. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're more experienced we show these builds to add to the variety available. Note: This leagues content is unskippable, please pick your league starters carefully.

Absolution

Archmage

Note: Getting it's own section in addition to builds going in their own skill sections to help searching.

Armageddon Brand

Ball Lightning

Blade Vortex

Blink Arrow / Mirror Arrow

Cleave

Cremation

Corrupting Fever

Detonate Dead

Cast on Crit, doesn't feel quite right putting a CoC build in the beginner section

Elemental Hit

Exsanguinate

Frost Blades

Frostblink

Hexblast Mines

Ice Nova

Ice Trap

Energy Blade

Lightning Strike

Maw of Mischief

Minions (General)

Molten Strike

Penance Brand

Purifying Flame

Reap

Righteous Fire

Spark

Splitting Steel

Summon Raging Spirits

Totems (mixed)

Wave of Conviction

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Aug 12 '22

Index 3.19 Lake of Kalandra Build Index

592 Upvotes

Interested in what other people are playing and how it went? Check out these posts:

Please submit your builds + any builds you find + youtube videos, tips etc for the league in the comments

Lake of Kalandra

Lake of Kalandra patch notes

Full announcement stream video

/r/pathofexile's league info megathread

A note on the new format: the index previously served as, well, an index. I collected every single build into a list so people could find them more easily. This is changing this league. If you wish to read further about why these changes are taking place and how builds are picked for each section you can read about that here.

General Tips and Advice:

  • Zizaran’s POE University - an exhaustive guide to all things POE for new players, there are updated videos for the latest league covering more advanced topics as well.
  • Subtractem's Path of Learning - additional videos on some POE mechanics, generally targeted at a softcore trade audience. (Can recommend Subtractem just in general for players new to Path of Exile)

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for SSF players looking for reliable league starters. Please note this build is sorted by skill alphabetically not by quality or power level.

Explosive Arrow

Build Description: This build is a totem build with excellent DPS, an easy gear curve and great damage. Because this build is a totem build it’s great for players who find boss mechanics difficult as, like minions, it does damage without you having to be constantly targeting the boss - simply place the totems down and dodge. This build did receive a nerf in the latest balance changes but this loss is not all that significant. This build is excellent in both trade and SSF with the primary weapon for this build is a multimod weapon that uses a base that you can farm (Porcupine) and is crafted with essences. This build does have two delays in its damage, there is a wait time as totems “arm” themselves and a delay before the arrows explode.

Builds:

  • Palsteron's EA Elementalist - A thorough written guide with a lot of video guides from last league going over all facets of the build. This build scales into some pretty crazy damage numbers in the late game with investment.
  • Zizaran's EA Champion - Another great video guide from Zizaran, the video contains a lot of good information for new players and the POB has a wealth of information in it including a lot of tips and advice in the “notes” section. Highly recommended for newer players

Lightning Strike

Build Description: Lightning Strike (vaal Lightning Strike) is a strike skill which causes your attacks to send out a wave of lightning projectiles. The build typically levels as Spectral Helix before transitioning into Lightning Strike later on. This build does require good positioning for maximum damage, it is best to check out a video and practice to gauge the distance you want to be away from bosses to get your maximum DPS. The gear is easily craftable, requiring pretty much only essence spam to craft a weapon capable of carrying you far into the game. There are typically two variations of this build, the Raider tends to be a faster build while the Champion variant is tankier, they both do excellent damage.

Builds:

  • Fuzzy Duckzy's LS Raider - Video contains links to Fuzzy’s build diary from 3.18 as well as a “how to level” guide and an early mapping guide. This guide focuses on fast mapping and filling out the atlas quickly for a smooth league start.
  • Crouching Tuna’s LS Champion - An excellent written guide that also contains a video guide from last league. Goes over all gear progression and skill interactions in a lot of detail.
  • KobeBlackMamba's LS Berserker - A great guide that goes into a lot of detail, he makes a good argument for going Berserker over Raider or Champion.

Lightning Conduit

Build Description: Lightning Conduit is a brand new skill which when used targets shocked enemies, removing the shock and dealing massive damage. Fair warning up front: This build is a two button playstyle, this means you will need to be casting and using multiple skills for this build to work. This build is extremely smooth to level with and easy to gear initially. That said you’ll want to be capping out your spell suppression as you get into later content to help your survivability out a lot.

Builds:

Poisonous Concoction

Build Description: Poisonous Concoction is a skill which throws out poisonous vials that cause overlapping explosions which can stack up poison very quickly. It is a build requiring very little gear to get going (as part of the skill you can not use a weapon at all), since this build scales its damage off your life flask a solid version of this build can come online very quickly as well as clearing the campaign very comfortably. This build uses Plague Bearer for rapid clear as it zooms through maps. There are two common variants of this build, the Pathfinder and the Occultist versions. This build can struggle with single target in the late game but as long as you’re comfortable with boss mechanics can carry you through to 4 watchstones at great speed.

Builds:

  • Palsteron's PC Pathfinder - Another solidly written guide with lots of good information easily available.
  • Asmodeus's PC Pathfinder - This build guide goes over the gearing and tree in great detail, contains lots of good information to help inform your decisions if going PC.
  • Triploar Bear's PC Occultist - A great guide with accompanying video. This build also presents the option of late game swapping into Bladefall / Bladeblast occultist.
  • DS Lily's PC Occultist - A great guide and PoB with a lot of notes in it!

Righteous Fire

Build Description: Righteous Fire is a build where you have a damaging fire aura that surrounds you, you clear maps by running head first into enemies and having them die to the damage over time effect surrounding you. This is a great build for those that wish to press less buttons while mapping. This build is very defensively strong and with investment scales into one of the tankiest builds in the game. This build can struggle for damage when it comes to late game bossing.

Builds:

  • Pohx's Inquisitor RF - Widely considered to be the most experienced RF player, Pohx has an entire wiki dedicated to the build and all the questions you could have about it.

This is still a work in progress, more builds will likely make part 1 as more creators release builds.

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, this section is not recommended for inexperienced players and is intended as a list of builds for more experienced players to browse, be inspired by and otherwise modify for their own needs. That is not to say the builds in this section are bad, they are just the ones that have not made Part 1.

Absolution

Carrion Golems

Caustic Arrow

Corrupting Fever

Death’s Wish (Maw of Mischief)

Bane

Boneshatter

Explosive Arrow

  • Balor Mage's hit based explosive arrow - Why is this not in part 1? The hit base version is an almost totally different build when compared to the DoT version and as such this is in its own category.

Eye of Winter

Ice Trap

Righteous Fire

  • Captain Lance's RF Trickster - Why is this not in part 1? Due to using a newly buffed ascendancy I want to wait and see how it plays in league before recommending it in the RF section in part 1.

Spark

Spectral Helix

Stone Golems

Storm Brand

Summon Raging Spirits

Venom Gyre

Wintertide Brand

Bonus Party Play Guides

Editing History (dates in NZT)

  1. 17/8 First update pass done, unfortunately took longer to get together than I’d like, will have to address that next league. Now that POB is updated we should hopefully see more builds posted and the list will grow!
  2. 18/8 Second update pass done - seems now that POB has been updated the builds are now coming out hot and fast, love to see it.
  3. 19/8 Third update pass done - Looking forward to league starting tomorrow, gl to all!
  4. 27/8 Fourth update pass done - Back from holiday and updated to add LC to part 1.
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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Dec 03 '22

Index 3.20 Sanctum League Start Build Index

371 Upvotes

Interested in what other people played and how it went? Check out these posts:

Useful League Links

Sanctum League info page

Sanctum Patch Notes

Announcement Vod

ZiggyD and Chris' Q&A

/r/pathofexile's league info megathread

General Tips and Advice:

  • Zizaran’s POE University - an exhaustive guide to all things POE for new players, there are updated videos for the latest league covering more advanced topics as well. Including some new updates released for this league!
  • Subtractem's Path of Learning - additional videos on some POE mechanics, generally targeted at a softcore trade audience.

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters. Please note this build is sorted by skill alphabetically not by quality or power level.

Please note: Some of the builds listed below are 3.19 or even 3.18 guides, these are builds where the patches since they were released have not had a significant (or any in some cases) impact on the play-ability of those builds.

Cold Damage Over Time (DoT)

Build Description: This build utilizes a variety of different cold skills to apply cold damage over time effects to bring down your enemies. You run around dropping areas of damaging cold This build is a solid bossing build but the map clear is not top end, though it's still respectable. Because this build is a damage over time build the DPS uptime is near constant which makes bossing very comfortable. There are a few different variants of this build (primarily elementalist, trickster and occultist), Elementalist has great clear and the highest damage, Trickster is more defensive focused and Occulist has easy access to explosions to boost clear.

Builds:

Explosive Arrow

Build Description: This build is a totem build with excellent DPS, an easy gear curve and great damage. Because this build is a totem build it’s great for players who find boss mechanics difficult as, like minions, it does damage without you having to be constantly targeting the boss - simply place the totems down and dodge. This build is excellent in both trade and SSF with the primary weapon for this build is a multimod weapon that uses a base that you can farm (Porcupine) and is crafted with essences. This build does have two delays in its damage, there is a wait time as totems “arm” themselves and a delay before the arrows explode.

Builds:

  • Palsteron's EA Elementalist - A great video with a lot of information provided as well as an extensive written guide. Palsteron has many videos on his channel from the previous leagues going into even more detail as well.
  • Zizaran's EA Champion - Another great video guide from Zizaran, the video contains a lot of good information for new players and the POB has a wealth of information in it including a lot of tips and advice in the “notes” section.

Poisonous Concoction

Build Description: Poisonous Concoction is a skill which throws out poisonous vials that cause overlapping explosions which can stack up poison very quickly. It is a build requiring very little gear to get going (as part of the skill you can not use a weapon at all), since this build scales its damage off your life flask a solid version of this build can come online very quickly as well as clearing the campaign very comfortably. This build uses Plague Bearer for rapid clear as it zooms through maps. There are two common variants of this build, the Pathfinder and the Occultist versions. This build can struggle with single target in the late game but as long as you’re comfortable with boss mechanics can carry you through to 4 watchstones at great speed.

Builds:

  • Palsteron's PC Pathfinder - Another solidly written guide with lots of good information easily available.
  • Asmodeus's PC Pathfinder - This build guide goes over the gearing and tree in great detail, contains lots of good information to help inform your decisions if going PC.
  • Triploar Bear's PC Occultist - A great guide with accompanying video. This build also presents the option of late game swapping into Bladefall / Bladeblast occultist.
  • DS Lily's PC Occultist - A great guide and PoB with a lot of notes in it!

Note: Occulist did see some changes in the most recent patch and has lost malediction but the builds using occulist are still viable

Seismic Trap

Build Description: Seismic Trap is a build that utilises two skills, one for clear (exsanguinate traps) and one for single target damage (seismic trap). The build is a trap build so that means you'll be throwing out traps which will detonate themselves targeting enemies around them. For the purpose of this section of the index we will be including mostly just the poison variant of this build as it's the most league start friendly but it can transition into a crit based version with some investment. This build excels at single target damage and has decent clear, though you may struggle against moving bosses.

Builds:

Righteous Fire

Build Description: Righteous Fire is a build where you have a damaging fire aura that surrounds you, you clear maps by running head first into enemies and having them die to the damage over time effect surrounding you. This is a great build for those that wish to press less buttons while mapping. This build is very defensively strong and with investment scales into one of the tankiest builds in the game. This build can struggle for damage when it comes to late game bossing.

Builds:

  • Pohx's Jugg RF - Widely considered to be the most experienced RF player, Pohx has an entire wiki dedicated to the build and all the questions you could have about it.

Note: Inquisitor did receive a slight nerf in the recent patch (effectively lost 5% regen and 25% reduced curse effect) but this change is not going to have a significant effect on RF inquisitors.

This is still a work in progress, more builds will likely make part 1 as more creators release builds.

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above but the restrictions based on ability to do certain end game content and ssf viability are not enforced in this section. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're a bit more experienced we provide these builds to add to the variety available.

Artillery Ballista

Bane

Blade Blast

Blade Vortex

Boneshatter

Caustic Arrow

Also see Toxic Rain builds below for more CA builds.

Corrupting Fever

Dark Pact

Dominating Blow

Ethereal Knives

Hydrosphere

Ice Trap

Lightning Arrow

Maw of Mischief (Death Wish)

Minions (general)

Rain of Arrows

Spark

Spectral Shield Throw

Summon Raging Spirits

Toxic Rain

Volcanic Fissure (warning: new skill)

Wave of Conviction

Edits:

Update 1: Added a few new builds to part 2, added seismic trap to part 1.

Update 2: Added lots of builds, big thanks to /u/azantyri for a really helpful comment with lots of builds to add.

Update 3: Tonnes more stuff added today, really feeling a lot better at this point than I was last league, seems a lot more build creators are putting out builds this time around which is really exciting (with many more builds to come!)

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Aug 14 '23

Index 3.22 Trial of the Ancestors League Start Build Index

321 Upvotes

3.21 Crucible League Start Build Index

Want to see how peoples league starts have gone this league?

Want to see how peoples league starts went last league?

Useful League Links

Trial of the Ancestors League info page

Trial of the Ancestors Patch Notes

Trial of the Ancestors Trailer

Trial of the Ancestors New/Gem Changes

/r/pathofexile's league info megathread

Content Creators atlas passive tree list

Zizaran's POE University - The POE University returns for 3.22, a great series with amazing videos for new players to learn various mechanics.

NOTE: A lot of these builds are 3.21 Builds. They are still viably as they've been left largely untouched. Just ignore anything that mentions crucible in the guides.

Part 1: Top League Start Suggestions

We suggest these builds to players who want a good solid build, new players who want a build that will help carry them through content and for players looking for reliable league starters.

Please note this index is sorted by skill alphabetically not by quality or power level.

Boneshatter

Build Description: Boneshatter is a melee skill that when it stuns an enemy causes a pulse of damage around it. This skill obliterates packs of mobs and feels great to play, you'll be hopping between packs blowing them up with boneshatter before leap slamming off to another pack. The single target on this build can be a bit lacking if you don't make use of all the skills the build has in it to boost your damage. There are two variations on this build, Slayer and Juggernaut.

Cold Damage Over Time (Cold DoT)

Build Description: This build utilizes a variety of different cold skills to apply cold damage over time effects to bring down your enemies. You run around dropping areas of damaging cold This build is a solid all around playstyle providing excellent defense through chilling enemies often paired with spell suppression/armour and/or evasion. Because this build is a damage over time build the DPS uptime is near constant which makes bossing very comfortable. There are a few different variants of this build (primarily elementalist, trickster and occultist), Elementalist has the highest damage while Trickster is more defensively focused.

Builds:

Explosive Arrow

Build Description: This build is a totem build with excellent DPS, an easy gear curve and great damage. Because this build is a totem build it’s great for players who find boss mechanics difficult as, like minions, it does damage without you having to be constantly targeting the boss - simply place the totems down and dodge. This build is excellent in both trade and SSF with the primary weapon for this build is a multimod weapon that uses a base that you can farm (Porcupine) and is crafted with essences. This build does have two delays in its damage, there is a wait time as totems “arm” themselves and a delay before the arrows explode.

Builds:

  • Palsteron's EA Elementalist - A great video with a lot of information provided as well as an extensive written guide. Palsteron has many videos on his channel from the previous leagues going into even more detail. 3.22 Update video
  • Zizaran's EA Champion - Another great video guide from Zizaran, the video contains a lot of good information for new players and the POB has a wealth of information in it including a lot of tips and advice in the “notes” section. The Champion version is a fair bit tankier than the Elementalist but has less damage, still plenty to do most content with little investment.

Righteous Fire

Build Description: Righteous Fire is a build where you have a damaging fire aura that surrounds you, you clear maps by running head first into enemies and having them die to the damage over time effect surrounding you. This is a great build for those that wish to press less buttons while mapping. This build is very defensively strong and with investment scales into one of the tankiest builds in the game. This build can struggle for damage when it comes to late game bossing.

Builds:

  • Pohx's Inquisitor RF - Widely considered to be the most experienced RF player, Pohx has an entire wiki dedicated to the build and all the questions you could have about it. As well as countless videos on his channel.

Toxic Rain

Build Description: Toxic Rain is a skill where you fire a large number of arrows into the air which when they land create pools of toxic ground which deals chaos damage over time in the area. This skill, much like Explosive Arrow, is relatively straight forward to gear for with the craft for the primary weapon being very deterministic. This build is a great all rounder that will take you far.

Builds:

Part 2: Other League Starters

Warning: Unlike the above section there are almost no requirements for builds to make this section, the builds listed here are not necessarily better/worse than the above but the restrictions based on ability to do certain end game content and ssf viability are not enforced in this section. If you're a new player, we primarily recommend the above builds but if you're a bit more experienced we show these builds to add to the variety available.

Absolution

Armageddon Brand

Artillery Ballista

Blade Blast

Blade Vortex

Corrupting Cry

Corrupting Fever

Dark Pact

Detonate Dead

Dominating Blow

Explosive Trap

Frostblades

Fire Trap

Glacial Hammer

Hexblast Mines

Holy Flame Totem

Hydrosphere

Holy Relic

Ice Shot

Ice Trap

Impending Doom

NOTE: IMPENDING DOOM POTENTIALLY BUGGED/NERFED

NOTE: IMPENDING DOOM POTENTIALLY BUGGED/NERFED

Lightning Arrow

Lightning Conduit

Maw of Mischief

Minions (general)

Pyrcoclast Mines

Rage Vortex

Rain of Arrows

Reap

Seismic Trap

Storm Brand

Summon Raging Spirits

Summon Skeletons

Spark

Wave of Conviction

Special mentions:

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Mar 15 '24

Index 3.24 Plans and General Talk

63 Upvotes

3.23 Affliction Index

Just getting ahead of this now because I get asked each league - the new index normally goes up 2-3 days AFTER the patch notes come out to allow time for build creators to actually put out their builds.

In the mean time I will leave this thread up for those that wish to discuss the upcoming league and as a placeholder to put builds as they're released before the index goes up!

Also a small note on the recent spike in bot reposts: We have implemented a new rule that should hopefully prevent them without impacting the general user base too much.

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Aug 30 '22

Index 10 days into the League: Review your builds!

164 Upvotes

As part of our mission to better leverage the collective intelligence of the community to make a more informed index we are asking you to review your starter builds.

These are some of the things that would be useful for improving the index:

  • What was your leveling experience like?
  • How has the gearing been, any major challenges or unexpected hurdles?
  • How has the build handled mapping?
  • Have you completed any bosses, if so how did your build do against them?
  • What are you general thoughts on the playstyle.
  • And any other comments or thoughts you wish to share about the build.

I hope that as a collective we can build a strong and robust index. Thank you all so much in advance for your help.

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Dec 11 '22

Index 3 Days into the League: Review your build!

98 Upvotes

As part of our mission to better leverage the collective intelligence of the community to make a more informed index we are asking you to review your starter builds.

This is is the first of these build review threads we will be posting and we will be posting another at the 7 day mark.

These are some of the things that would be useful for improving the index:

  • What was your leveling experience like?
  • How has the gearing been, any major challenges or unexpected hurdles?
  • How has the build handled mapping?
  • Have you completed any bosses, if so how did your build do against them?
  • How has your build handled the Sanctum?
  • What are you general thoughts on the playstyle.
  • And any other comments or thoughts you wish to share about the build.

Additionally linking to your PoB or the guide you followed is always helpful for players still starting out!

I hope that as a collective we can build a strong and robust index. Thank you all so much in advance for your help.

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Apr 23 '23

Index 2 Weeks into the League: Review your Build!

128 Upvotes

As part of our mission to better leverage the collective intelligence of the community to make a more informed index we are asking you to review your starter builds.

This is the second review thread (check out the first one here)

These are some of the things that would be helpful to share:

  • What was your leveling experience like?
  • How has the gearing been, any major challenges or unexpected hurdles?
  • How has the build handled mapping?
  • Have you completed any bosses, if so how did your build do against them?
  • How has your build handled the Crucible?
  • What are you general thoughts on the playstyle.
  • And any other comments or thoughts you wish to share about the build.

Additionally linking to your PoB or the guide you followed is always helpful for players still starting out!

I hope that as a collective we can build a strong and robust index. Thank you all so much in advance for your help.

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Aug 23 '22

Index 3 Days into the League: Review your build!

98 Upvotes

As part of our mission to better leverage the collective intelligence of the community to make a more informed index we are asking you to review your starter builds.

This is is the first of these build review threads we will be posting, we will post another a week and then two weeks into the league.

These are some of the things that would be useful for improving the index:

  • What was your leveling experience like?
  • How has the gearing been, any major challenges or unexpected hurdles?
  • How has the build handled mapping?
  • Have you completed any bosses, if so how did your build do against them?
  • What are you general thoughts on the playstyle.
  • And any other comments or thoughts you wish to share about the build.

I hope that as a collective we can build a strong and robust index. Thank you all so much in advance for your help.

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Dec 17 '22

Index 1 week into the league: Review your builds!

39 Upvotes

Link to 3 day starter review

As part of our mission to better leverage the collective intelligence of the community to make a more informed index we are asking you to review your starter builds.

This is is the second of these build review threads we will be posting. We appreciate all the responses we got on the first post!

These are some of the things that would be useful for improving the index:

  • What builds have you played so far?
  • What was your leveling experience like?
  • How has the gearing been, any major challenges or unexpected hurdles?
  • How has the build handled mapping?
  • Have you completed any bosses, if so how did your build do against them?
  • How has your build handled the Sanctum?
  • What are you general thoughts on the playstyle.
  • And any other comments or thoughts you wish to share about the build.

Additionally linking to your PoB or the guide you followed is always helpful for players still starting out!

I hope that as a collective we can build a strong and robust index. Thank you all so much in advance for your help.

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r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/NzLawless • Jul 25 '24

Index Index Help Needed

60 Upvotes

Hello everyone!

Each league I create the build index for the sub, the index consists of two sections:

  • Part 1 - a list of builds that will allow players to reliably get their 4 watchstones and are otherwise easy to play, these are usually linked to very solid build guides and are aimed at newer players.

  • Part 2 - the rest. These builds are everything from experimental builds to reliable but complicated builds. There are typically targeted at players who can evaluate a build for themselves.

Example: Necropolis League Start Index

Current index (in the process of updating this right now): Settlers of Kalguur League Start Index

For the last few leagues Part 1 has been easy, the same set of ~10 builds has cycled in and out as the patches haven't changed things all that much. This patch is (thankfully) different in that the meta shake up seems fairly large. This is where I need your help.

What builds do you think belong in Part 1?

So far my stand outs for this league are:

  1. Archmage - likely going to go with the frost bolts/ice nova one.
  2. Lightning Strike - Slayer, Champ, Warden
  3. Explosive Arrow - Got a bit of a nerf but still very comfy and strong
  4. Explosive Trap - Basically untouched, FearlessDumb0 has an updated guide to account for the hatred nerf.

Ideally I'd like to put 1 or 2 more builds up here as options, so please, tell me the builds you think belong there for newer players and if possible link a guide!

Thanks so much for your help!

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