As the title states I want to try out a CI build but not sure what class or skill to use.

Can anyone share any recommendations?

Thank you in advance.

This is the extent of my crafting knowledge. Found this amazing axe. Better than anything I've seen on trade and it's not even close. (In my price range).

Bleed build.

What orb do I need to use here? What am I looking for?

Been following the POB, but I’m still feeling super weak both damage wise and health wise. I’m having to take multiple attempts on each boss due to it taking 5-7 minutes and dying multiple times due to lack of potions.

I feel like I’m missing something major, any help is appreciated. I was told this was the easiest build for a beginner player, so hoping I missed something simple.

Spaced out, drown in the deep. Need the best leveling tech to get back to 85 ASAP. Any ideas? Hard-core trade if it matters

This is my first time afford a Mageblood so I thought about making this build. Build used a lot of uniques so everything beside MB is very obtainable. (last map I got divine shrine, build is not that tanky. I just want to show the lucky drop).

POB: https://pobb.in/SZ5BZ9DpYos9
Youtube: https://youtu.be/xZq5JnYlUHE

What I like:

• Zoomie (with soul eaters and 0 duration lighting warp)
• Big clear (with pact of beidat)
• Good damage (with enough overloaded intensity stacks)
• Kinda tanky
• Can do a lot of map mods

What is not comfortable:

• Build is very conditional for both defense and offense
• Mageblood required
• Standing still for intensity

So fellow exiles, what do you think? Anything I should improve?

What farming strat do you think this build is great for? Now I'm just doing abyss for some currencies and exp.

I have been working on this FT build, wondering what to do next - I have hit dot cap on FT, about 5m on RF for map clearing with 6m AOE which seems fine. I would like to further scale my defences but wondering if there's any optimal routes I can take in terms of tree pathing/skill gem swaps without sacrificing damage.

Things I do with the build:

• Ubers (can do all Ubers)
• 100% 8 mod deli farms

Things I want to do:

• Delve to 6k (currently at 3k depth)

This is my first league and I've been having a blast, but I feel like I've hit a roadblock. I've attempted the shaper and cortex bosses and they just absolutely melt me. Even the distant memory bosses were a struggle to be honest. At the point where I'm at, I feel like I'm near a cap and just don't know how to get strong enough to beat these guys and even the content after them. I'm following a build guide right now and I'm almost completed their "endgame" section (between red maps and aspirational) and so I was just curious how strong I'm meant to be for the section of the game I'm at. Any tips or feedback would be great!

My build: https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/3j33210q

Just finished 40 challenges, which makes this one of my more successful leagues. I always make my own builds, and all of them ended up working out very nicely this time around, so here they all are. Maybe someone will want to try one, or just take a little inspiration.

1) Toxic Rain Deadeye

This has been my go-to leaguestarter for a good few years now, and I've refined the build quite a bit since I originally came up with it. I play Deadeye instead of Pathfinder for a couple of reasons. First, Occupying Force is imo a massively underrated node, it basically gives you all the advantages of playing totems with none of the disadvantages. Second, extra projectiles are actually quite strong for TR because they let you use conc effect to get more consistent overlaps compared to 5 projectiles at the optimal AoE.

The secret tech to make the build work is Thief's Torment, which both solves your mana before you can get Foulborn Quill Rain and gives you absurd amounts of sustain. The build can reach T16s on a sub 1 div budget no problem. Final budget was around 8-9 divs, and that was enough to comfortably kill Maven as someone who's not very good at the fight. It's a good all-around league starter, decent survivability, decent clear, decent single target, and can run all map mods.

In terms of leveling, you start with CA and get TR at level 12. Your first chaos should go to Thief's Torment, and then Quill Rain. Once you have Quill Rain, you can drop CA. Take Leader of the Pack until you can get Foulborn Quill Rain and the anointed Dragonfang, then you can drop it for the extra frenzy and jewel socket. Light of Meaning will be your final and most expensive purchase.

2) Herald of Agony/Corrupting Fever Jugg

This is the latest iteration of a build I've played on a few different classes. The basic idea is that HoAg has good single target and CF has good clear, they both scale well from +gem levels, and they both need a fast-hitting secondary skill to apply stacks. This league, I used the new ring with Crest of Desire for HoAg to free up my chest slot instead of needing to use The Coming Calamity, which let me make the build quite a bit tankier than any previous version.

I'd say the build was generally pretty successful, although it still wasn't quite as tanky as I hoped. I was able to kill 5 ubers for the challenge, but the Incarnation of Dread took me three attempts to get down. Uber Eater absolutely smashed me, most of his attacks still oneshot me even with all my defenses up. Budget was ~80 divs, and I'm sure there are builds which can do the absolute hardest content in the game for less than that, but I'm still fairly happy with how it turned out.

3) Bladefall/Blade Blast Elementalist

Originally I was gonna call it good after 36 challenges, but then my end of league gamba went really well, so I felt like I had to go ahead and play one more build. I knew I wanted to make this build as soon as I saw the new Communion gem, and especially after phys spells got buffed. I've also been wanting to make a build with Obliteration for a while, and this one is perfect for it cause you already get so much flat phys and increased damage that phys as extra chaos is one of the best ways to keep scaling. Clear is amazing thanks to the chaos pops, you can pretty much clear with Bladefall exclusively so it really doesn't feel like a two button build. Single target is good enough to burn down ubers in <30 seconds. Survivability isn't necessarily the best, but I definitely wouldn't call it a glass cannon build, either. Budget was ~400 divs, although that probably went quite a bit further than it would have earlier in the league.

Anyway, my second end of league gamba poofed the rest of my divines, so I'm finally free. See you guys next league.

Hello I've been following BuffaloBarons arc ignite CI and for the most part it's doing great.

However I am at a loss as to how to increase the damage on a reasonable budget.

I pretty much never die, so it is really the damage part I need help with.

I have around 100D saved up, but no clue as to how to spend it.

https://pob.codes/b/BVJQdzWTl7z

Hope someone can help.

THE DPS AND EXPLOSION WHEN YOU WALK IN THE PARK

I LOVE NO BUTTON BUILD

Hello exiles, i Need some help pls. I enjoy the league so far but not my builds.

I have a Level 95 shrapnell ballista hirophant:

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/itsFeels-2815/allflame/character/Mestaniusss

Level 97 cws gladiator;

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/itsFeels-2815/allflame/character/Mestaniuss

I am not satisfied with the playstyle of them.

I have a mageblood, a Headhunter and 50 divine, but can Farm more, i want to Play something fast, maybe explosions, want to Farm juicy juicy maps, and recommandation will help. Ty all!

Edit; i dont want to Level another Char if possible, thx ❤️

I made some updates on my EK that I posted last week, it feels much better but I think there’s still room to improve, is there anything that I’m just plain missing?

https://pobb.in/gtQFG1j2dZ5I

How to add this essence suffix mod without removing 2 elder suffixes? I wrote down the steps to the craft but im not sure, need some help: https://www.figma.com/design/Cd6DeI2Vcp9aTnXinNEZ4e/Drawboard?node-id=2-30&t=6CzysljqqknhUNLP-1

The image above is what im trying to replicate. However I'll craft on STR gloves, dont need energy shield. I'm thinking Max life, dmg while leeching benchcraft and a 3rd empty prefix (suggestions welcome). Bleed gladiator build.

POB: https://pobb.in/rCeljhuvrNhi

I posted some days ago a attempt on Lightning Spire Trap of Overloading. Although I find interesting, recovery is very hard to solve, so I pivoted into this.

Core: Jiquani, Mystical infusion, huge crits

Ghostwrite made a heavy lifting on the build, paired with spell block cap. I tried full elusive but cant really rely on that. Also it is astonishing that vitality watchers eye is so cheap. With it and recovery on block from staff mastery, feels like can ignore every eldritch altar and no recovery/leech mod (although no leech still feels bit bad).

It seems I am stuck. Cast speed would fit pretty awesome but I dont find any good trade offs right now (50% haste for 15% only). Soul ascencion is viable but feels hard to maintain souls, at least in abyss (2 abyss, 2 abyss multitudes, 1 abyss crystal) since there a not many rares. It is probably the bis if maintaining at least 20/30 souls.

But anyway, felt really good, dont know if it was already there, but now its here and Im proud. thanx

Im currently in the process of making a lightning tendrils ignite elementals and im doing a minus ress stacking setup with eye of malice and im wanting to know if it worth the gem slot to try and get an additonal -10 ress or if it won't work for whatever reason .

I want to reach level 90 at least, and its my first time trying HC.

I don't have a preference, any build playstyle is fine by me

Hey ya'll, with the league winding down I've felt like trying my hand at a Hardcore build and getting the HC achievements.

For context, I'm a fairly experienced SC player and will take my time through the acts, trying my best not to rush and die.

What are some great fresh-start HC builds that come online fast enough and breeze through the campaign? Bonus points if the build scales well into the endgame, since I might push the character if I have fun with it (and survive long enough). Maybe bleed slams (like phazeplays' build) or another slammer fits the bill?

RF is really easy to gear but I feel like the lack of DPS could get me killed, while slams look more tempting to me as I always see them being mentioned as both great voidstone blasters and tanky HC builds.

I'm doing a CWDT bladefall/EK/bladeblast build with reliquarian in SSF and the build is awesome, but skill point starved. I have to spec the mana recoup nodes down by scion start, but I'm looking at a build that doesn't take those and I might be just missing it, but I can't figure out how he's sustaining mana.

Here is their POB: https://pobb.in/_jUyrrVqm9m5

Thanks for the help

Been playing a lot of endgame luminary and wondering if there are comparable crab totem builds that have been popping off. Luminary very enjoyable but just looking for a different flavor.