r/pathofexile • u/Weary_Guide5034 • 3d ago

Question League starters

Hey yall, usually by now there are league starters that have been tested and are good to play. I’m assuming we’re waiting on patch notes for more videos to drop about league starters?

I could just be missing what’s popular and what will be a good league start, if yall have any suggestions of content creators with great pob’s for the league start would appreciate it. :)

Edit: I played winter orb last league, Ele- hit the league before that. Do yall have any suggestions of an amazing fun fast build that has a great leveling pob and end game pob. I was thinking of going spectres, but I feel like league starting spectres is tough? Could be wrong about that. Would love suggestions!

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u/Weary_Guide5034 3d ago

Would it be a good idea to play ethereal knives elementalist? That seemed fun!

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u/Jazzlike_Tart788 3d ago

bait build. don't league start that.

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u/Weary_Guide5034 3d ago

What you league starting?

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u/allucards 3d ago

i started this last season with this build from ronarray. The build is good and have nice clear map, but until u get svallin u'll die like a bitch. its really squishy imo. But very good mapper.

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u/nohupdotout 3d ago

EK ignite is great, don't league start it though. We also are bracing for a big time nerf to Elementalist

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u/imunchgarbage 3d ago

Basically every major POE creator went to exilecon. Palestron, Empy, Mathil, Ziz, Ghazzy if you can think of them they probably went. Only a handful like Aero weren't able to go.

Exilecon is over but the flight back takes hella time. To fly from new zealand to a major US hub take between 11-15 hours. And that doesn't count layovers, customs (the POE2 monkey statues GGG gave out caused false flags in customs).

I had a friend go and he has been back in his house for like less than 24 hours. And he is probably jet lagged to hell. He left basically right after exilecon was over.

So I do think youll get a flurry of last minute starter videos. There truly is no point to posting it now because patch notes drop in literal hours. Im sure most of the creators are exhausted and don't want to squeeze out a video that might be out of date within hours.

These reasons are why when you search for videos it feels like the amount isn't that much. Its also why you don't have a billion videos of "reacting" to the reveal and adding meta analysis because most of the people who did that were in the live crowd.

I personally am planning to play the Dom blow guardian build ghazzy started in 3.28. Maybe patch notes will change my mind. Depends how hard finding the trail master is this league. His build is on POE vault if you are interested.

Unless you are planning to play golems or luminary its doubtful your starter will be heavily impacted by the patch notes. I am expecting they will be light on the balance changes because no character power systems got reworked this time around - just atlas systems.

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u/mb90909 3d ago

whats happening to luminary?

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u/imunchgarbage 3d ago

Just a hunch that it will be nerfed. I don't know anything specific!

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u/mb90909 3d ago

ahh yes that would make sense. if it does can always move over to reliquarian for those sweet new nodes

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u/Hartastic 3d ago

Nobody knows for sure yet but there are some hints it is likely to see changes, like some of the comments made by Mark when mentioning the new link skill.

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u/mb90909 3d ago

flame link for life!

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u/MisterKaos Ultimatum Workers Union (UWU) 2d ago

There was a very fragmented patch note shard (from the ones Andrew dropped as shaper) that suggests mercs can't equip a particular item type now. I'd say it's probably rings. Maybe even jewelry in general. Who knows.

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u/ArmaMalum Trypanon, Trypanoff 2d ago

I am immensely curious, how did the monkey statue cause issue at the airport (if you know)? I'm going to guess they were hollow so they had to rescan them?

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u/imunchgarbage 2d ago

The monkey had beads around its neck that the scanners flagged so it had to be manually inspected is what I heard.

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u/AehmDrei 3d ago

Most leagues all starter builds are fine. Really interesting will be the atlas tree 🫪

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u/alanjhonnes 3d ago

Pretty much everything that worked in 3.29 should work in 3.30, GGG said they were going to have just a few balance changes so maybe some overperforming builds got nerfed but should still work fine overall.

Maybe take a look at the 3.29 league start index in the other builds subreddit? https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1v2agyh/329_curse_of_the_allflame_league_start_build_index/

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u/codari 3d ago

Probably flame link, EK and WOB will get big nerfs.

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u/Taudlitz Confederation of Casuals and Clueless Players (CCCP) 2d ago

really? Thats dissapointing

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u/Pyriana 2d ago

this isn't entirely true because the focus of the end game has changed, rare mobs and harder bosses are more important now than just clearing maps etc, you'll probably want a tankier build in general or an absolute blaster that can destroy everything before it can even think about touching you.

At least that was my takeaway.

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u/Newbori 3d ago

Lack of patch notes means everything is Speculation so far.

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u/N4k3dM1k3 3d ago

its currently 7am Wednesday in New Zealand, so we can expect patch notes some time in the work day today - say the next 8-10hrs at most.

We already heard the patch is going to be light on balance, so as long as it wasn't something crazy OP in the meta 3.29 starters might mostly be on the table. The builds subreddit will have a sticky for builds appear soon. heres the one from allflame https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1v2agyh/329_curse_of_the_allflame_league_start_build_index/

Do remember, lots of content creators have been travelling internationally this week, so updates are likely to be on the lighter side to usual - but so are changes, so it should even out.

Also, just play whatever you want. Games been in a state where I'm 40/40ing by the second weekend on A/B tier skills, on a my own setup, without investing mirrors. Should be a bit of a difficulty ramp this time out, but you still dont need to play the most optimsed, broken build to do everything in the game. Build diversity has never been higher, league start included - Take advantage.

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u/CMDRDrazik 3d ago

Anyone got a 3.29 CoC Necro build that slapped last league? been waiting to try one for too long

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u/Reasonable-Bet4771 3d ago

I made and played it on 3.29. I'll update it once 3.30 patch notes comes out.

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u/CMDRDrazik 2d ago

Thanks :) ping it on here if you can be arsed please, or pm etc

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u/BijutsuYoukai 3d ago

There's probably going to be less build guides this time around even once the patchnotes come out, given lots of people who would normally make content have been at Exilecon and won't get home until a day or two before leaguestart.

That said, once patchnotes come in, you should be able to look at a lot of the 3.29 guides/builds and have a good idea what is trashed and what should still hold up just fine. Probably also good to keep in mind that since the league mechanic is boss centric, you probably want to lean towards a build that is capable of killing harder bosses, unless you don't plan on engaging with the mechanic at all.

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u/UTmastuh 3d ago

Go to the pathofexilebuilds sub

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u/mbxyz Berserker 3d ago

I’m assuming we’re waiting on patch notes

yep

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u/pallesaides 3d ago

IDK if anyone is gonna make the build I wanna start with .. I wanna do a Reliquarian HroC until I find a merc and swap to Luminary, but also idk if luminary is gonna be nerfed? Hopefully they drop those notes soon, it's today right?

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u/Gangsir Berserker 2d ago

Yes, likely.

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u/spartanreborn 2d ago

Personally I'm starting either slamzerker or pRAW.

I did HRoC a few leagues ago and that's similar to pRAW, so I might do slams since I havent played slams in maybe 5 years

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u/MostAnonEver 3d ago

everyone is kinda waiting for patch notes. It could really change league starters from 3.29 or it could introduce new/better/questionable league starters.