How many builds do you all try a season

Wondering how many builds you all try a season, I presume I've got issues, these are what I've tried this season:

Levelling:

ED/C - Witch/Sorc

Thorns - Warrior

Storm wave - Monk

Thunderstorm/Coursing current - Druid

LA/LR - Amazon/Pathfinder

Endgame:

Elemental weakness - Kept

Plants - Kept

Spark - Kept

Poison arrow - Kept

Ice shot - Kept

Atziri spear bleed - Kept

Reverse chill - Sold

Wyvern Oil - Sold

Warewolf - Sold

Whirling assault - Sold

Thorns - Sold

Ice Nova - Sold

Adiona Ego - Sold

Glacial lance - Sold

Flicker strike - Sold

Lightning Spear - Sold

Lightning warp/spark/minions - Sold

Comments

Professor_Jun4 months ago2

I. Bringer of rain / Dual-wield hammer of faith molten strike converted to cold damage, later switched to lightning: only good until a certain point. Definitely not uber worthy. Just wanted to look cool. Tried it on Amazon or ritualist, can't remember. 

II. Shield Wall warbringer: great starter, pretty much stays consistent all the way through end game. Super formulaic progression and overall, really reliable. Later grabbed atziri spear and chernobog shield to make gameplay a little more exciting. 

III. Zero duration His scattering calamity: my strongest build all season. Handled all content, lasers basically kill everything off screen. CoC wasn't mandatory but made it even crazier. 

IV. Zero duration earthquake: didn't use the trench timber strat. Just a straight big bonker and palm of the dreamer. Massive screen clear, gigachad. Made me feel like I could deadlift a car in real life. 

V. Spear field atziri spear Amazon: easy to the point of being boring. Like. Not bad at all. Really strong. But. Too simple and brainless. 

VI. Fire bear shaman - wild visuals, cool as fuck with croc mtx. Keeps buffs on and explode everything. Did all content pretty well. 

VII. Ritualist Caltrops Dodge build: stupid but oddly not bad. Wouldn't recommend but still funny as fuck. 

VIII. Shankgonne instant Grenade detonation: funny and niche but honestly really strong for clearing the whole screen or piling hella grenades on a boss then dodging to blow them up all at the same time. Really fun as long as you get movement speed in another way(no sprint) 

IX. Infernalist EW Doedre CoC max life recoup: no wonder everyone is playing EW CoC. Even on demon instead of BM, it's too OP. On demon I can get to nearly 200 stacks and the comets just just flood the whole screen with how fast I'm casting and how much spell damage I have. 

There are more but they either suck to the point of being embarrassing or are still being leveled. 

Poopthunder4 months ago1

LA Deadeye->Poison Pathfinder->Ice shot Pathfinder

LS Ritualist->Ice shot Ritualist->sold

LS Tactitian

BM CoC 

Oracle Mjölner

All fully geared and pretty much done. Ritualist sitting without anything since I haven’t figured out anything interesting for it. Open for suggestions!

referee-superfan4 months ago1

I usually level 3 different characters to 90+ and retool each characters kit like 2-3 times per season

Donny_Dont_184 months ago1

1+

Liquid-Steak4 months ago1

One character a league, if the build i start with isn't good and it's easy to transition into something else i might give it a go, if not i'll just see how far i get and then give up for the league

-mors-4 months agoOP1

I wish there was some way to 'trial' endgame build for an hour or something, as I've spent wayyyy toooo much time and divs building things that are absolutely rubbish/difficult/complicated to play, damage in videos is misleading. I'd love to trial an endgame build and think it was something I wanted to work towards, kinda stops you playing other skills and classes due to the time sink.

tooncake4 months ago1

Eah per class, but now I almost have all of the ascendancies.

fuckyou_redditmods4 months ago1

I presume I've got issues

You can say that again!

I usually play 2 builds per league. One a cheap starter and one a high investment blaster.

Skhemattos4 months ago1

A lot. I'm not going to list them all but probably 30 total builds. I've made so many characters I've had to delete characters.

Kamzyhd4 months ago1

Jeez, thats a lot of builds and I thought i do many.

This season I levelled a druid, huntress and ranger. I tried:

Ice Wolf Oracle - Woolie & Moxsy Ice Shot Ritualist - PoeNinja inspirations Poison Arrow PF - Fubgun Lightning Spear Deadeye - PoeNinja

I was curious about reverse chill tech and wyvern build. Don't think I will do them though.

So what's your findings? Which is most fun, which is most op, which best bang for your buck?

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I decided to try stacking energy shield - at minimum level.

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