Pretty sure I know the answer already but wanted to ask just in case.
I’m only able to play maybe 5-6 hours per week and just trying to see if there is a class that I could build up and get to a point where I could say “this week let’s focus on more in your face action” and then the next week “let’s just explode the whole screen from a distance” as an example.
Thanks
There are oracle builds that do everything I think. I played a plant oracle through endgame. There are oracle poison bow builds, oracle bear, wolf, melee builds.
Druid is the most versatile right now probably.
I think that the most versatile will be pathfinder for the having generic movement speed buffs and qol and being able to start from other points of the tree.
Even though I play HC, from having played multiple builds on same classes I would say the 3 best are low life lich, pathfinder, and titan. Low life lich gets major damage buffs from ascendency, tree, and mostly support gems, as well as ES and huge defensive buffs. I played the strongest warrior as lich (full screen clears and 1 shot bosses and couple hit ubers) Wolf/wyvern boss killer And minion build
Pathfinder can play almost everything really well also and Titan can range from your standard warrior builds, to bleed builds, to even strong burning minion and cast builds all benefitting from hulking form ascendency node
I switched from poison pf to spark coc pf mid season to do temples.
Each attribute pillar sorta has one. Pathfinder can start multiple places on a tree, have travel nodes be whatever they want, etc. Acolyte of Chatula can scale damage and recovery very high and be good with spells, melee, or bow type. Titan can make small nodes way better and just scale any play style they want. Oracle can do anything while also having a super flexible passive tree available to them, etc. Pathfinder is pretty low-friction though considering you can start at 3 different points in the tree, one of the easiest to flex
Probably Druid, while all classes have the possibility of doing and building however you want, Druid is like the most versatile while still keeping high scaling, good with attacks good with spells.
You can technically build almost anything on Abyssal Lich due to being able to swap minion bonuses.
Agree with people saying druid but I would also say ritualist is really good for this, extra ring slot and effect do a lot of heavy lifting for budget gear/build swaps.
Gold is common, so respeccing it's easy. I've played only 2 characters this league but both went through massive respecs or small tweaks at least a dozen of times each.
If I had to pick one I'd say Titan with Hulking Form is very versatile: there's lots of interesting things you can try by boosting the small nodes: zero duration, long duration, max area, max curse magnitude, max shock effectiveness, minion nodes, max ES...
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