Hey I want to ask for some suggestions for fun and strong budget builds for campaign content and early endgame. Please with a guide (moba, yt,...). I'd love guides which include tipps for the campaign as well because I struggle a lot if there are no act 1-4 tipps but just the endgame build. I'm ok with some buttons rather than none or too many. Thanks for your ideas!
The most budget of budget builds that can clear anything is Incinerate Oil Grenade. Played it last week and it’s hilarious. You’ll need to play grenades or twink until you get - I think - level 9 skill gems to do the combo. But after that it’s a heap of fun. Here’s a link to my ninja: https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/Mullac-2277/Flameboyant?i=0&search=name%3DFlameboyant
Jungroan made a video a while back explaining the concept of the build that you can look up. From memory he also mentions levelling gear.
This interaction will also be patched for next league so worth trying it now before it’s gone forever.
Rax’s Plant Druid (sounds boring, but is actually fun) has been what switched to. https://youtu.be/7ZOVMnM_3UA?si=hUQCu_pwsdhB9om6 2 button trash, 3 button bosses. Throw some plants, water some plants. Screen goes dead.
Zero Duration Titan with Ember Fusillade + Time of Need. You don't need a guide: buy any affordable Dusk Vigil with the max level of fusillade available for your current level. In the passive tree just rush all the reduced duration nodes. Grab the increased duration nodes on your weapon swap and use it for curse or Thunderstorm or Flame Wall. Get your second ascendancy as soon as possible grabbing Hulking Form. With the rest of the tree you can experiment whatever works best for you (crit, non-crit, exposure, penetration, infusions, % damage, cast on ailment with high flammability...).
Once you reach the endgame you can use a level 19 fusillade Dusk Vigil or swap to wand + focus. If you save enough you can buy a Palm of the Dreamer with enough reduced duration to make your fusillade's hover delay shorter than your cast time without the need of support gems. At that stage Time of Need with compressed duration will make you immune to 99% of the degens in the game. You can google zero duration titan and you'll definitely find a guide.
Be quick because it's not going to survive the nerf hammer when 0.5 drops.
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