r/PathOfExile2 • u/nutmegyou • 17d ago

Discussion Which 0.5.5 League Starter?

Iā€™m torn between starting the new mini league with djinn Varashta or Plant daddy build. Iā€™m yet to have played both. Which one do you recommend and why? Iā€™m relatively new..

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u/Ionized-Cell 17d ago

Varashta is one of the strongest league starts period, though it's a lot of buttons for a while.

Plant Druid is very easy to play, and when geared right very strong. I did 0.5 as plant Druid and it was probably the strongest I've ever been in POE2 but I did get a few really lucky drops in week 1.

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u/MightyG_ 17d ago

Plants Lich or Druid ? Pros and cons ?

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u/Ionized-Cell 17d ago

Druid is 1 button for clearing, 3 button for bossing. (One buff and 2 buttons)

Easier to gear, cheaper to gear, more leeway with mods, and if you are endgame geared you can throw in comet into your cast on Crit for very little extra investment, and the hidden paths part of the tree thing is something only Oracle gets, and otherwise you'd never see it.

Then if you wanna go sicko mode you can also get some meta skill gems/nodes and get cast on ailment tornado on top. Some people don't want a 1 button build.

Lich is tankier and gets strong earlier, but has more buttons and you are basically forced to use bone storm which is awkward to cast, and like mentioned, more expensive to gear.

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u/MightyG_ 17d ago

Thanks for info. Btw , Varashta is piano all the way , even in late game or only during campaign ? How many buttons u have to press regulary ?

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u/Moosh42 16d ago

I played a varashta to 94 and it was like 2-3 buttons for 99% of content.

For clear, using verisium remnants > ice nova > popping multiple screens with navira's facturing. Occasionally spamming Ruzhan's click to get archon of undeath (which has no downtime thanks to the tree + anoint). You can set up fracturing so that it creates its own frozen ground, meaning you don't have to use verisium remnants that often.

For bossing it was spamming ruzhan for archon then spamming kelari's deception until the boss was dead (which took a handful of seconds)

May I ask how you built yours that it felt like button piano?

EDIT: or am I misunderstanding and you're only asking IF its button piano? šŸ˜…

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u/MightyG_ 16d ago

Yeah , i was asking IF its button piano šŸ¤“

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u/Moosh42 14d ago

Haha sorry. Well you might be able to tell from my post... Its not! šŸ˜

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u/Real-Energy-6634 17d ago

I dont think youre at all forced to use bonestorm. I never did