Need help picking a build. Starting league very late.

Hey yall. I've been MIA on Poe2 news and meta for this league so I have no idea whats good or not (I dont trust youtube vids nowadays).

Any suggestions would be great. I would like the following build:

cheap and easy campaign
End game is just either 1 button or just move and everything dies. I want a super lazy stress free build. I dont care about 1 shots on uber bosses.
I love mega AOE screen clears and auto bombers. I am not a fan of using more than 2 buttons.

Some builds I have done in previous leagues that I do not want to do again.

Spark ( i dont wanna do plants )
Galv shards Lament Lich
360 Explv grenade spam (eye sore simulator)
arc ball light warp auto bomber
Thor 0 button auto bomber
ED Contagion

Thanks!

Comments

dylanthegreat12•5 months ago•2

Some flavor of whirling assault? Titan or smith of katava

Uk-ODB•5 months ago•2

If you level a bloodmage, I’ll give you all my gear. I stopped playing a few weeks ago. There’s probably more than a mirrors worth of gear

Message me on here if you like and I’ll log on tomorrow or something

Slashz22•5 months ago•2

Are you okay with minions? If so helm breaker on maxroll has great guides for them. Easy to follow, stress free. Cheap to get through the campaign.

redredbeard•5 months ago•2

Rampage bear, gear is cheap, and all you do is rampage. Little tedious in campaign but doable.

GorbertJefferson•5 months ago•1

Try out Mathilification's Atziri's Spear build. It's mostly single button with Spearfield and it was a ton of fun.

ammenz•5 months ago•1

Zero Duration Titan with Time of Need and Ember Fusillade. It's not a mega AoE screen clear but everything pops thanks to Palm of the Dreamer.

PolishedBalls1984•5 months ago•1

I can only comment on one build as it's what I started late with and have stuck with up to this point, it's walking calamity shaman. It was super easy through campaign with druid and I've put maybe 100-150 div into it as I've found currency/upgrades and I'm running t15/16s no problem, bosses haven't been an issue either and the clear seems pretty good from what I can tell. Though it was honestly running just fine without any investment and upgrades seem to be super cheap for the most part. There also seem to be a couple variations, I'm using one that utilizes defiance of destiny and amanamu jewel for tankiness. Here's my PoB if you're interested. https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1993b

WaterCoolerIceBox•5 months ago•1

You can make anything work. People literally give away mirror builds everyday.

daddydoright•5 months ago•1

Titan has to be the zero duration embers variation imo. Its a bit more than 50 divs though. You could keep it under 100 but its crazy fun 1 button for sure

achedsphinxx•5 months ago•1

Pathfinder glacial Lance. You get the smoovement of Pathfinder with a skill that deletes the screen and is decently tanky.

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