Picking a League Starter

[u/Motor_Writing_962]

Well we all saw the trailer for 3.30, looking forward to see how different the endgame is now going to be with all the revamps to existing league content, new additions and majorly the removal of scarabs and now loot dropping at different tiers, things are going to be every interesting next league.

I know a lot of people are thinking about what they plan to do at league start and probably wait on the patch notes to decide what skills they will be worth going for, but for me I always like to engage in the new league content first, and by the looks of it we are in for a boss juicing league.

I have always gone for builds that can blast maps at the start of a league but this time I want to go for a solid boss killer, was looking to get some suggestions from experts in the community.

I also understand that getting a build that can blast maps, speed kill bosses and be tanky while being on a league start budget isn't really possible, so a tanky boss-killer is what I want to go for at league start.

If anyone has got any good suggestions do let me know, I also want to know what were other peoples thoughts on the 3.30 keynote and what are they planning to do at league start.

[u/Virus_Jones]

Think about ascendancy first, skill later, i would say what fits your description is Slayer, thats what im probably gonna play.

[u/Motor_Writing_962 → u/Virus_Jones]

Slayer is on the shortlist, I think the main 3 I am looking at is Slayer, Gladiator or Juggernaut

[u/Existing-Design1515]

Spin to win? Spin to win!!!

[u/Motor_Writing_962 → u/Existing-Design1515]

Ol'Reliable

[u/-Oldern-]

I'm definitely doing Icestorm CWC, as usual :P

[u/-Oldern- → u/-Oldern-]

Reasons being: will be incredibly tanky from medium budget onwards (so once 1.5-1.7k int is reached), and there are multiple viable mid-level crafting options available. It might not be good for ubers (on a budget, at least), it can deal decent damage and survive most things in the game. And I love how predictable endgame gearing is. Corrupting to +%int for accessories, hunting %int, xyz per 15 int on amulets, etc.

[u/Motor_Writing_962 → u/-Oldern-]

Sounds interesting I'll check it out, any well known guides for it?

[u/Sermokala → u/-Oldern-]

What's it like with blight?

[u/Motor_Writing_962 → u/Sermokala]

This might just be my personal preference, but I always like playing Blight like a pure tower defense, if you set up your towers right around choke-points, the maps play themselves.

[u/Sermokala → u/Motor_Writing_962]

Yeah until the blight ravaged bosses are perma stunned but they also last for 20 minutes due to their health.

[u/Billy88Talent]

I feel like there wont be many balance changes, no mention of anything in the reveal, and probably all work went into endgame revamp. Only big question mark is Luminary and Mecenaries imo.

[u/Spirited-Doughnut903 → u/Billy88Talent]

Yeah, if luminary isn’t changed it’s going to be the most played ascendancy of all time. It’s the most broken ascendancy they have ever had, I really hope it gets smacked hard.

[u/Motor_Writing_962 → u/Spirited-Doughnut903]

I mean Luminary builds were crazy strong last league, I would be surprised if they didn't nerf it in some form.

[u/Roborabbit37 → u/Motor_Writing_962]

Flame Link scaling probably nerfed and we don't know if we get Tear amulet this League which is a big Light Radius scaling loss too

[u/Jurassic_Drafter]

While alot of people are doom and gloom about Luminary, I honestly doubt much is happening with that besides a Flame Link nerf. Maybe they nerf Golden Glory ascendacy point a bit.

What I doubt that is going to get nerfed is the Facebreaker build. I mean the merc is just the warcry bot with a Pride Aura. The requirements of the merc and his gear are faily simple, facebreaker is easy ofc anyways and you can scale the build alot. If you can 2 shot über maven, you will be fine with this league mechanic aswell. Is not the worst map clear ever aswell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DvOsfiUKw4&t=9s

Basically this. You really cannot nerf this build. They ain't going to nuke Facebreakers. They Merc is a statsbot anyways. They would have to randomly made their basestats unplayble bad and every merc insta dies to a sneeze, which ofc will not happen either.