Path of Exile 3.23: Conquer Affliction with the Best League Starter Builds

There is no doubt that the most eye-catching ARPG in recent times is Path of Exile 2, which was launched at the end of 2024. Although it is still in the early access stage and has not yet shown its full version charm to you, POE 2 is better than the recent performance of another strong competitor Diablo 4 - after all, the latter’s Season 7 has not yet arrived. But perhaps you have a question, since Path of Exile 2 is in full swing, is it still necessary to experience the first game in the same series in the new 2025? Based on this, we will make a comprehensive comparison of the recent performance of POE 1, POE 2 and Diablo 4 to provide you with some reference. Path Of Exile 1 Performance Review In the past year, from 3.24 Necropolis to 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur, even though it has been more than ten years since its official release, POE 1 has always been committed to maintaining its freshness by constantly updating the league, which is one of the main reasons for its enduring popularity. POE 3.24 The league was officially launched on March 29, 2024, and added a lot of new content based on the past leagues, such as the league mechanism that allows you to configure the difficulty of monsters and POE Currency rewards, and Embers of the Allflame items that allow you to encounter abnormal monsters with special rewards. POE 3.25 As the most recent Path of Exile 1 league released to you, POE 3.25 can be said to have made many special updates to the game. In terms of combat, version 3.25 has completely changed your melee mode and introduced Warden class to replace Raider. But besides these, the most eye-catching is the challenge league mechanism that allows you to build and manage your own town. It is worth noting that it is this league mechanism that allows you to experience a new and more complete trade system in POE 1, allowing you to obtain more necessary materials by hiring workers and port trade besides obtaining POE Divine Orbs through battle. Compared To Path Of Exile 2 As a sequel, POE 2 must innovate in many aspects to ensure that it will not be overshadowed by the brilliance of the previous work, and based on the current performance, it has completely done this. First of all, it is worth mentioning that it responds to the response and expectations of fans in the past, and launched the couch co-op that POE 1 did not have, as well as cross-platform games and cross-platform progress. In view of the continuous evolution of current game devices, it is imperative for a large-scale ARPG to keep you and provide you with more convenience in playing. In the specific game content, POE 2 allows you to provide more unique mechanisms for game characters through support gems based on skill and class differences. This undoubtedly gives you more control and customization, giving you more personality than Path of Exile 1 for any class and weapon you want to experience. If you like the boss battles of POE series, then POE 2 will never let you down. It brings more than 100 unique bosses to fight. Besides the improved boss battles in the endgame content, you also have the opportunity to get a brand new combat experience through dedicated maps for each boss. And the bosses in POE 2 are more challenging, requiring you to use critical thinking to deploy strategies and make the battles more interesting. Based on the above changes, there is no doubt that Path of Exile 2 is better than the first game in these aspects, especially the narrative method of the second part is also better. In addition, all the playing threshold of the first and second parts are actually not low. So if you are an old player of the series, you can experience an upgraded version of Path of Exile through POE 2 in the new year. But if you haven’t come into contact with POE yet, then I think you can also consider playing POE 1. Because compared to the second part, it still has some unique mechanisms, such as the fun league and trade system in 3.25. And the first game has been running for ten years, so it may be more stable. And if you plan to play POE 1 in the near future, you still can solve the possible POE Currency shortage through the giveaway information and activities in iGMeet Discord, avoiding worries. Compared To Diablo 4 In the past year, Diablo 4 has always been popular and discussed, especially after October, with the launch of DLC Vessel of Hatred and Season 6, it quickly attracted a group of new players. Although Diablo 4 was launched in 2023, the development history of the entire Diablo series is much longer than Path of Exile. So although POE 1 also has its own characteristics, Diablo 4 is better than Path of Exile 1 in terms of the smoothness of the game and the exquisiteness of the picture, and the experience will be better. Although in the face of 2025, except for Season 7 which will be launched soon, Diablo 4 has not yet revealed whether it will launch new DLC or other major activities, but there is no doubt that Diablo 4 is the current core of Diablo series, so any updates will basically be launched in Diablo 4, and the development focus of POE series in 2025 is undoubtedly the second part. So from this perspective, in 2025, Diablo 4 may bring you more surprises than POE 1. Based on the above review and comparison, if you are only interested in POE series, then in the next year you can choose to play the first or second part according to your own preferences; but if you have to choose between Diablo 4 and POE 1, the former will be better. I hope you can continue to enjoy the fun of ARPG in the new year! Thank you for reading!

Greeting Exiles! This guide will show you a low investment beast farming strategy on the White Maps in the Path of Exile 3.24 Necropolis League. Our focus will be on farming a specific beast known as Craicic Chimeral, valued at approximately 1.5 divines currently. After completing 10 or 25 maps, we can gather up the Craicic Chimerals and sell them off. Pros & Cons Beast farming is a strategy I have adopted recently, and it has been working to the advantage. The introduction of new Scarabs, such as the Bestiary Scarab of the Herd, marks a significant change. This scarab offers 5 additional beasts, effectively doubling the amount of Red Beasts encountered per map compared to the previous Gilded Scarab. Moreover, there's a new scarab called the Bestiary Scarab of the Shadowed Crow, which guarantees a beast spawn in every map. Although slightly more expensive, it provides double the currency every time it sells, ensuring stable profitability per map. These changes have not only made beast farming more accessible, but also increased its profitability and efficiency. The first notable drawback of this farming strategy is its heavy reliance on the Craicic Chimeral for significant profits. These valuable drops occur randomly, often from 1 in 10 maps, or even 1 in 20 maps. While each Craicic Chimeral sells for 1.5 Divines, it can be frustrating if you go a long time without encountering one. Additionally, sticking to Tier 1 through Tier 4 maps limits our flexibility by limiting our ability to take advantage of certain features such as Atlas bonuses, influence, boss drops, essences, or higher level maps. To maximize beast encounters and income, it's crucial to run maps efficiently. Therefore, focusing on maps like Strand and Fields, which offer quick clear times, is recommended for this strategy. Bestiary Scarabs Next, I will explain what Scarabs to get with low budget. In each map, we’re going to use 2 Bestiary Scarab of the Herd to add 10 more Red Beasts in our maps and 1 Bestiary Scarab of Duplicating to make an additional copy of the beast that we are capturing. If you have the fifth slot, you can buy the Bestiary Scarab of the Shadowed Crow as well, which we can use it for crafts or making 6-links items to sell for POE Currency. The Craicic Chimeral beasts are small frogs, which you will encounter like every 7 to 10 maps. Just search for them and capture those and go out of the map. If you find one, you can also invite other people to come and join your party so that they can get 3 divines for free. Just need the Tier 3 maps and the Cobalt Jewel to collect and sell them in bulk. Altas Tree Setup Let's take a look at the Atlas tree with 86 passive nodes. Pairing this with 1 Shaping the Mountains and 1 Shaping the World is effective. We avoid excessive Shaping nodes on higher maps to prevent an imbalance of Tier 4 over Tier 3. While Strand is superior to Fields, Fields being the second best map and Adjacent allows us to alternate between them, utilizing Singular Focus to potentially obtain Chaos Orbs intermittently. We exclusively opt for the Hunt for Craiceann, which increases the chance for the Craicic Chimeral, resulting in more Craicic Chimerals overall. This choice is based on how the game determines which beast to spawn. We then pick the Two-Hearted Hunt, as it provides a 10 to 40% chance to avoid consumption, which is a valuable addition to our strategy. Then, pick up the Shrines. They serve 2 purposes. Firstly, they can spawn enemies, which can drop maps. Secondly, they can grant us an Echoing Shrine, a movement speed Shrine, or a Covetous Shrine. A Covetous Shrine means potentially more maps, while movement speed and Echoing Shrine lead to faster clears and mapping times. Overall, Shrines are the most helpful among all the league mechanics without consuming extra time. Farming Tips Let me give you some more tips. The Craicic Chimeral is the only beast, and it's from The Deep family. About what map to run, but choose it from Tier 3 to Tier 1 maps. The Dunes is a Tier 2 map but has a much better layout and also has the Fortunate card in the end. But I recommend Tier 3 maps the most as Craicic Chimeral spawn more frequently.

Dear Exiles, today I will bring you one of the most satisfying tank builds I have ever played in POE 3.24, which is Detonate Dead of Chain Reaction Pathfinder. Its damage, tankiness, and recovery capabilities are all staggering. In this guide, you’ll learn how builds work, and how to upgrade and craft them. Without further ado, let’s get started! Main Skill Our skill of choice is Detonate Dead of Chain Reaction. It targets a corpse and causes it to explode, which deals a percentage of the corpse’s health as fire damage. This will then continue to target other corpses in the area until either it runs out of corpses or 8 corpses are destroyed. Therefore, we will use very high life specters in our Desecrate corpse pool. Specters In the new Tier 17 map, we get new spectrums with a very high life percentage. Now Disruptor I’m using has 440% more life, Molten Soul has 420% more life, and Senior Scientist has 420% more life. You will use these 3 specters, but by default you can only have 2. So we will use Voideye unique ring and socket a level 20 Raise Specter gem. To target corpses, you need to hold “A” on your keyboard. This will bring up the corpse life bar and search for the specters I mentioned before, and use Raise Specter until you have 3. You can then remove the gems as the game will remember the specters you saved in the pool. That’s why we need high-life corpses, because we add poison to the mix. The higher the life of specters, the higher the base damage. It’s that simple. How To Convert Fire Damage? By default, fire damage does not cause poison. But there is a unique glove that allows us to deal poison damage with fire damage, and that’s Volkuur’s Guidance. Sadly, you need to get a corrupted one with Temporal Chains on hit. Otherwise, the build will be very clunky and your damage will be much worse than what you see here. Detonate Dead & Desecrate Although we cannot cast these two spells, Detonate Dead and Desecrate, at the same time, we will use Arcanist Brand and link to Desecrate. This way your Desecrate will be triggered often and you just need to hold Detonate Dead and wait for the boss’s health to disappear. You’ll build up a lot of cast speed because the faster you cast, the more Desecrate you have and the more Detonate Dead you have. This is why we chose Pathfinder, because of its ability to maintain cast speed with Silver Flask. How To Achieve 100% Chance Of Poisoning? Since this is a poison build, we need to achieve a 100% poison chance. First, we did 20% with Herald of Agony, another 20% with the glove itself, 25% from the node on the passive tree, Toxic Strikes, and the rest from the tattoo. With all this, we have a 100% chance of being poisoned. However, our biggest and best multiplier actually comes from the second source. We're going to inflict Wither on the boss, which will increase Chaos damage by 90% by default. In addition, we also get an Ascendancy node, which will increase the Wither effect and give us the opportunity to cause a Wither. Defense On the defensive side, we can convert 100% of physical damage into elemental damage. Of that, 50% comes from using Lightning Coil alone, 27% comes from Taste of Hate, 14% comes from our helmet, and we also use Watcher’s Eye so that 10% of physical damage is treated as lightning damage. Finally, I could use the newest unique belt added to the game, Tides of Time. Thanks to this belt we have 4.2k health regen, so when we take damage we can replenish ourselves immediately. If you don’t have enough POE Currency budget to buy this unique, we can also easily use Petrified Blood, which allows us to restore more than 50% of life without Life Flasks. Clear Setup If all you want is mapping, this build will be a pain to play with. So I need to come up with a suitable solution that’s easy to do but does enough damage to clear. So its clear setup is Cast while Channelling Support, Detonate Dead and Desecrate, and its trigger skill is Cyclone. This setup is very nice and comfortable to run. Not only that, but this build also has enough damage to deal with map bosses and elite monsters. Even the garbage monsters on T17 map are not a problem. You just need to rotate until you complete the map. Items Next, let’s give a brief overview of some items needed for this build. Scepter: Woe Roar Helmet: Oblivion Veil Shield: Spirit Bulwark Body Armor: Lightning Coil Talisman: Sorrow Torc Rings: Maelstrom Spiral & Bramble Circle Boots: Hate Road Belt: Tides of Time Gloves: Volkuur’s Guidance Passive Tree Finally, let’s highlight some things needed to build on a passive tree. We took Pathfinder as Ascendancy and adopted Nature’s Reprisal, a node that was a game changer in the early going. Additionally, we have Nature’s Adrenaline to generate more Flask Charges. And Master Toxicist is a pretty big multiplier for this poison build. Finally, there is Master Surgeon. With this, you can activate your Life Flask even if your life is full. Anyway, that’s the end of this guide. I hope you enjoyed this guide on Detonate Dead of Chain Reaction Pathfinder. See you next time.

In the realm of Path of Exile (PoE), anticipation is mounting as players gear up for the exhilarating challenges presented by the Path of Exile 3.22: Trial of the Ancestors League. As players prepare to navigate this uncharted terrain, the Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build emerges as a formidable contender, promising an intriguing journey through its mechanics and capabilities. In this comprehensive guide, we delve into the intricacies of the Path of Exile 3.22 start build, providing insights into its mechanics, skill tree, and recommended gear. Armed with this knowledge, you'll be poised to triumph over the trials of the Trial of the Ancestors League. Overview of POE 3.22 Hexblast Ignite Starter Build: A Glimpse into the Pros and Cons Pros: - Exceptional clearing speed - Offers a thrilling gameplay experience - Encompasses comprehensive utility Cons: - Single-target damage reduction - Increased currency requirement in later stages At the core of the Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build lies the Hexblast spell, which triggers the detonation of linked curses on enemies, dealing substantial damage contingent on the number of curses inflicted. Although Hexblast underwent a slight nerf, it remains a potent choice for League starters. This build eliminates the need for specialized weapons to amplify your DPS, making it well-suited for beginners. The majority of required items can be found on the ground, with only two items demanding a minor investment. Thanks to its ignite mechanics, the Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build showcases impressive potential with ignite proliferation – a particularly advantageous feature in the Heist league. While it may not be the fastest build available, its flexibility empowers players to tackle various content with ease. Optimal Gears for Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build 3.22 - Weapon 1: Rebuke of the Vaal, Vaal Blade - Weapon 2: Aegis Aurora, Champion Kite Shield - Amulet: Jacle Amulet - Ring: Doedre’s Damning, Paua Ring - Belt: Pyroshock Clasp, Leather Belt - Flasks: Granite Flask of the Tortoise, Masochist’s Silver Flask of the Ibex, Physician’s Quartz Flask of the Petrel, Abundant Quicksilver Flask of the Catfish, Effervescent Divine Life Flask of Sealing Skill Gems that Enhance the Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build: - Tempest Shield, Vitality, Determination, Infernal Cry, Malevolence - Lifetap, Faster Casting, Flammability, Flame Dash - Flame Surge, Arcanist Brand, Wave of Conviction, Lifetap - Molten Shell, Lifetap, Cast when Damage Taken - Temporal Chains, Blasphemy, Vaal Smite - Hexblast, Burning Damage, Combustion, Deadly Ailments, Inspiration, Ignite Proliferation Mastering the Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build: The Art of Progression and Pantheons Ascending through the ranks with the Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build requires a thoughtful approach to progression. Starting with Holy Flame Totem and Magma Orb, players can transition to Armageddon Brand as they level up. The true power of Hexblast becomes accessible at level 28, allowing players to unleash its potential to devastating effect. The ascendancy choices of Instruments of Virtue and Sanctuary are pivotal in bolstering your build's prowess. Why Opt for the Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build in POE 3.22? - Harnessing Hexblast's Strength: Hexblast is the cornerstone of this build, igniting enemies with its curse-based explosions. Inquisitor's elemental damage synergies complement this mechanic seamlessly. - Calculated Chaos: Hexblast releases beams that ricochet between foes, inflicting curses and damage over time. Inquisitor's bonuses amplify hex-based ignites, making this build highly effective. - Scaling for Success: This build thrives on gem levels and gear enhancements, embracing increased elemental damage, spell damage, and area of effect. The synergy between Hexblast and Inquisitor's attributes ensures a potent combination. - Versatility in Combat: The Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build excels in both clearing speed and boss damage, thanks to ignite proliferation from Hexblast chains. Choosing the Ideal POE 3.22 Starter Build: Your Path to Triumph - Field Testing: Before committing to a League starter, thoroughly test your build in actual gameplay. Relying solely on Path of Building (PoB) theorycrafting or adopting endgame builds without considering early mapping and leveling capabilities may lead to setbacks. - Harmonizing with League Mechanics: Familiarize yourself with the upcoming league mechanic to determine if your chosen build aligns with its demands. - Synergy with Content: Select a build that complements your preferred playstyle and suits the content you intend to tackle during the league. Whether your focus is on mapping, boss encounters, or specific league mechanics, your build's compatibility is paramount. - Avoiding Uncharted Territory: Refrain from untested abilities, classes, or unique items lacking community feedback. - Leveraging POE Ninja: Analyze successful builds from previous league starts to gauge their popularity and effectiveness. Top 3 Recommended POE 3.22 League Starter Builds: Rising to the Challenge of the Trial of the Ancestors League As the Path of Exile 3.22: Trial of the Ancestors League beckons, consider these potent builds to embark on your journey: 1. Venom Gyre Deadeye 2. Ignite Ethereal Knives 3. Tornado Shot Berserker As the Trial of the Ancestors League unfolds, the Hexblast Ignite Inquisitor Build stands as a beacon of versatility and power. With a strategic approach to gear, skill gems, and leveling, this build promises a rewarding experience in PoE 3.22. As you weigh your options among the top recommended builds, remember that your path to triumph awaits, and the choice is yours to make.