What's a fun build I should try for this league? I don't have a lot of currency and want to start one last build this league. I like having multiple button builds. I tried plants, wasn't really my thing, same thing for the other druid builds. Any suggestions are welcome, the builds don't need to be hyper efficient or anything. Thanks in advance
Since no one else said it, stormweaver.
You can run a minion witch. I made one this league with zero investment. Vaal guards have oil grenade and explosives grenade built in and with snipers you automate their command skill via Vaal guards. I basically picked up damn near every single minion %dmg node and I use living bomb arc and ember fusillade to stack up living lightning minions and SRS. I’m almost lvl 95 and I didn’t even intend to stick with this setup I was just leveling for something else but it just kept working so I kept doing it ha
Brought my permafrost back to the league and so far I'm not explicitly investing much with it (no div item yet) and I've been cruising on maps (about to reach t15 soon)
Spear build is another that I find not min-maxing yet but is delivering well (no hiccups and about to finish the interlude)
Planter is still doable as long as you're not aiming on min-maxing soon (or best reserving that gear build on t15s / juiced temple)
I have been trying a bleed Amazon and it's a fair few buttons that has been a change of pace for me. Rake, Spearfield, Blood Hunt, Disengage. Spear Throw, Blood Mark are all in the mix.
Permafrost I think the most expensive thing in the build is the endgame crossbow. And mine was only about 5 div and I’m doing t3 bosses and t15 maps. Campaign was a joke with it
I'm playing a bleed Ritualist if you like to press alot of buttons.
I'm using parry, rake, disengage, whirling lance, rapid assault,bloodhounds mark and sometimes thunderous leap. Pretty synergistic stuff.
tl;dr: Skip this post if you're good at the game; I'm a mediocre SSF player who just hit red maps yesterday.
Did you try Werewolf Oracle? I've been slowly playing SSF (not even level 90 yet) and rolling too many alts, but ww oracle is the best/smoothest build I've played all league. Obviously trash gear for me in SSF, but the damage scaling seems insane. In trade league you should be able to just buy a sick starter Talisman for basically zero currency. Defensively I'm pure glass cannon still, but it's easy to freeze and burst DPS bosses before they unfreeze, even in red maps. I took a break to play Helldivers 2 and way too many alts, but I just picked him back up and I think I'll farm some gear and try to make him into an Actual Build since he's already so op with no planning or gear to speak of. My Talisman has like a T2 attack speed roll, hybrid phys %, and no flat phys, to put his gear in perspective (currently using a Spiny Talisman for the high base crit, but I literally picked it up off the ground and slammed it a couple times, I still need to actually craft something now that I'm collecting currency and bases to craft on... actually I could probably gamble a better Talisman in no time, but I tweak my passive tree so much I like to try to save as much gold as possible for that).
Other than that I think my favorite alt is a cold Chronomancer in HC SSF, but I think I'm only in like act 3 so far. I hadn't used Ice Nova since v0.1 and it's a million times better now. I'm trying out Frost Darts mostly (love it so far!), but Ice Nova got my attention, so I'm using it for clear (the AoE is huge and I'm not even invested into it yet) and Frost Darts peppering mostly for single target. Gear should be cheap in trade league (you've got easy crit scaling with the high base crit on cold spells, and freezing everything screen wide means defense is frankly optional, but the obvious play is stacking a boatload of ES to avoid one-shots).
Oh also another oracle but a bear in HC SSF as well, mostly just kind of facetanking with Zealot's Oath and a bit of regen+recoup+leech for recovery (I might be cooked) and slapping things with Maul. It's surprisingly fun! Also I might have a druid addiction, I have another HC SSF bear but that one is a shaman scaling huge armour+ES paired with ultra fast ES recharge (dmg is... bad currently, but I'm thinking slam scaling? idk that's why I rolled the 2nd bear tbh). Those two are like level 50 and 60 but both still alive which is good (for me; I usually play softcore).
I've got about nine other alts but nothing else really jumps out at me as notable, other than the Wyvern's Flame Breath seems both busted and super easy to scale (like I'm assuming it's getting nuked from orbit next patch? it feels like more of a bug than an overpowered skill). Ditto on Oil Barrage (and Rend for that matter!). Mine is a Discipline of Varashta, but that's not like... that wasn't a great choice. I'd probably build it again as a Chronomancer instead. Either that or an Oracle or Pathfinder... maybe Titan? I haven't given it a lot of thought tbh, but I think it could work on a whole bunch of different ascendancies.
Oh yeah, I can't believe I forgot. I also rolled in Second Wind league for a change of pace as a Spark Oracle and that has serious potential, but I only played through the acts and went back to SSF (i mostly wanted to test the currency exchange and instant buyout tbh, since I heard so much good stuff about it). so i was only 3/4 asc and turbo crap gear (1ex per crap rare to lazily cap my resists; still using a +6 lightning staff I found with like T7 spell dmg as its second best mod). The amount of power in Entwined Realities is INSANE for that build. You can get like 7-10 keystones that are either things you want or neutral and hit so many sick, high-value notables for so few passive points. I didn't set up my weapon set passives but the flexibility there is nutty! I was looking into using mine for Elemental Archon to start with, but I'm guessing I'd have spare points for some curse stuff too since you don't need to spend so many travel points.
You could try the incinerate oil grenade stuff since its definitely a bug and its not gonna be there next league, its pretty fun and its strong with low investment, i like that you can fit in a ton of defense and still have pretty gnarly damage with very low investment
I run a permafrost build on a Witch Hunter and it is really fun , for alt I cureently try to do a spear bleed bloodmage but I believe that one Will cost a lot …
Permafrost was not that bad too build here is a link to it .
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Mackattack34552-8868/character/Trymemf
I got bored at this stage in the league and decided to spend many of my hard earned divines on a small project. Wouldn't it be funny to stack Energy shield for a min-level char? [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027) Tabula rasa has relevant jewel mods noted on it in POB so the math actually works out since it doesn't seem to work properly in POB. second screenshot is with a lvl 29 discipline aura with 36% increased aura magnitude - I didn't wanna spend another several thousand divines on a support character, I just wanted to see how well it would work theoretically >3000 ES without aurabot is possible, however, its basically impossible in practice. As of now, there are \*18\* 2 socket uncorrupted crown of thorns left on trade - on average it takes \~11 to hit a 30% and then another 1 in 3 to get a 3 socket one. Hitting a double corrupt on said 3 socket would be better then my current one, but that's not plausible sadly. Same for the boots. Hitting a better double corrupt on the gloves and focus would likely be plausible, but I couldn't buy more bases from Finn. Grip of Kulemak 59% ES \*should\* be possible, but it already took me over 40 attempts to hit 57% so I think I'll just leave it as is. Belt I didn't find any other way besides the 25% corrupt to get ES without a level requirement - if anyone has any idea tell me. Amulet could sanctify for 19/19 but again, would require silly amounts of currency (each try is \~30 div as is with annoint + sanctify + quality). I \*think\* patient barrier should be best annoint, but correct me if I'm wrong. Total investment into this character so far is about 3000 divines, probably a bit more. further thoughts \- maximum technically possible is 3112 ES at level 2 unless I'm missing something important. POB [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a) \- doubting this but: is it possible to get an ascendency at this low level by skipping straight to geonor with a helper? In which case it might be possible that xp penalties kicking it would allow me to ascend at lvl 2? This would allow +20% +20% (ascendency) +60% (jewel) ES, which would get me to 3218 ES (actual build) / 3732 ES (max technically possible) Did I miss anything?
I made an elemental crossbow varashta sorc this season as my starting build (goal was to exploit yoke of suffering's full potential, you can find poe ninja below, don't be fooled by the dmg tooltip, it kill ubers before they can move) and so since I was in the intel side of the tree I used my weapon swap to maximize exposure (with whispering ice) and curse magnitude. Here with some non-optimized gear I'm reaching a total of -338% res (that's -169% on bosses), meaning it's better than rakiata's. I use cursed ground support to apply the curse and icestorm (which comes with the staff) with prolonged duration and potent exposure to make the exposure last longer. This tech doesn't require much investment apart from your weapon swap and a few sockets at most so it can be plugged into many elemental builds. As it is now, it requires you to cast the spells with your weapon swap, so I use it mostly for bosses, but i might cast icestorm on bulky rares in juiced maps once in a while. If you have a skill dedicated for mapping, it'll propably better to use rakiata on it, and remove it or use another skill for bosses. Here's the poeninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala) I might make a build showcase if people are interested, it's a fun league starter build. With yoke and the electrocution node on the tree, enemies have 120% damage taken, more if they're cursed, on top of the giant res drop, plus you benefit from a lot of the "damage against enemies with ailments nodes" so that's why the tooltip is low (explosive grenades indicate 60k in game but they hit bosses for like 2M) at first I was playing with permafrost bolt with frost nexus + navira's fracture + fragmentation rounds, it was a fun combo and really strong for leveling but I couldn't scale navira's fracture damage in late game (I had command + minion nodes on my second weapon instead of the curse/exposure at the time) Hope this inspires some of you!
The Oracle Death Star is fully operational- only took 30 days of playtime. GGGs https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath