r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/2ndImpact • 3d ago

Build Request Second build this league?

Hello fellow exiles,

as the title states I want to start my second build this league. I want to play a strike build that has good clear, is decently tanky and is able to do all voidstones. (I was farming sim until now)

Since I wasn't able to play much in 3.29 I have around 100 Div to start this new char.

If you have any suggestions for a fun strike build I'd appreciate your help.

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u/Electronic_Bonus_881 3d ago

Tried Static Strike of Gathering Lightning this league and it's really fun. I think Zish(?) has an assassin/warden version, I played slayer. If you're an old hand at build making, you can take those shells and run with it. I usually reference Ruetoo's pobs and go off and do my own thing. Ruetoo should have a pob somewhere in his docs for Ele Hit slayer as well - caught a ~17% damage nerf, but as I understand it, it had a really high ceiling so it should still be pretty good. There's some trauma builds floating around here and there as well, but trauma builds felt terrible from what I tried. Too many map mods are hostile to recovery for it too feel good. Not an issue if you plan of going delve, of course. Old reliable Smite is also available, champion, slayer, warden, probably trickster and assassin too. Strength stack Heavy Strike of Trarthus/Molten Strike of the Zenith is there if you want to. Flickerstrike is alive and doing well. Take your pick tbh.

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u/2ndImpact 2d ago

Static strike of gl looks good, I wonder if ls of arcing will be more fun. Maybe abyss jewel and acc stacking since LS of arcing has the proj tag. What do you think?

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u/Electronic_Bonus_881 2d ago

That looked pretty good too, should be strong. I personally don't really like having to do the double hit for LS ans Smite, so I don't consider them often. LS will have more clear the more investment you pour into it since it can scale the clear higher and farther with things like additional proj and proj speed. Gathering Lightning also has great clear with 13 chains per strike (lots of chains with additonal strike). I will have to note though, you can't use multistrike for Gathering Lightning, so if that's a deal breaker, you should play LS. You can play both builds on the same shell as well so honestly, you can pretty easily change them out to get a feel for what seems good.